p. 22 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1912

News and Miscellany

— The Swedish government is planning to introduce a bill admitting women both to universal suffrage and to membership in parliament.

— Telephone communication was recently established between Denver and Boston, a distance of 2,400 miles. This is said to be the greatest distance ever traversed by the human voice.

— The old battle-ship “Maine,” which was recently raised from Havana harbor, where it was destroyed fourteen years ago, was towed out to sea and sunk, on March 16, in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

— It is estimated that there are 4,000 evangelists, men and women, who give their time to rescue mission work in the United States. They come in contact annually with as many as 300,000 persons of all degrees of wretchedness.

— The first railway to adopt electricity instead of steam for traction purposes in the Rocky Mountain region is the Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific Railroad. Heavy grades and the high cost of coal are given as reasons for the change.

— The Swedish government, following the example of Germany, has expelled all Mormon missionaries from within its borders. Lind, the great authority on Mormon history, affirms that one fifth of all Mormons are of Scandinavian extraction.

— A Vienna despatch to the New York Times of March 18 says that apprehension is expressed in political circles in Vienna, owing to the concentration of Russian troops in the Caucasus, and of Turkish troops on the Persian frontier. These movements seem to foreshadow serious complications between St. Petersburg and Constantinople on account of the Persian question.

— Recognizing in Mexico the existence of conditions of domestic violence promoted by use of arms and munitions of war procured from the United States, President Taft, by authority of Congress, has issued a proclamation putting into force the revised neutrality law, and forbidding all exportations of arms and ammunition to Mexican territory. This action is greatly appreciated by the Mexican government.

— Four passengers and several sailors are believed to have been drowned on March 16, as a result of a collision between the Peninsular and Oriental liner “Oceana” and the German bark “Pisagua” off Beachy Head in the English Channel. The “Oceana” sank, carrying to the bottom $5,000,000 in bullion, part of the loan advanced by English bankers to the Chinese government.

— Church women in Chicago have demonstrated by experiment that for fifteen cents it is possible to provide a dinner consisting of a soup, a roast, with potatoes, a vegetable course, a dessert, and coffee, and make a profit on the meal. Thus a dinner for 150 persons was furnished at a total cost of $17.48. The World says the dinner thus described would have cost three dollars a plate at a fashionable café. In a good restaurant it could have been had for 75 cents, and for 50 cents in a boarding-house.