p. 21 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 29, 1911

News and Miscellany

— June 22, two cases of cholera were discovered at New York, on board a steamship which had just arrived from Italy.

— The largest steamship afloat, the “Olympic,” arrived in New York harbor on June 20, on her maiden voyage from England. This vessel is 882½ feet long, and her gross weight is registered at 45,000 tons.

— It is reported that 10,000 Spanish soldiers have been concentrated at Tangier, in readiness to invade Morocco.

— A disastrous hurricane swept over the Adriatic on June 15, doing great damage to property, and resulting in the loss of about 100 lives.

— June 12, by a vote of sixty-four to twenty-four, the United States Senate adopted a resolution submitting to the States for ratification a Constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States senators by the people direct.

— The new Mexican government has expressed its purpose to restrict the operation of many foreign monopolies that now exist in Mexico. It is felt that this action will seriously hamper the operations of many wealthy American investors.

— A report from Mexico City, dated June 17, states that Rodolfo Espinoza, former president of Nicaragua, is fomenting another revolution in that country, having enlisted many officers and men from the army of the insurrection in Mexico.

— The American Telephone and Telegraph Company issued stock recently to the amount of $50,000,000. The proceeds of this issue will be used for construction and extensions outside the State of New York, and to maintain cash balances.

— Three aviators met death, June 18, on the aviation field at Vincennes, France, while they were attempting to cover the first stage of the European circuit race. The contest called for a flight to London and return, with stops at various places going and returning.

— Over 100 delegates from various parts of the United States and Persia gathered at the public library in Washington, D. C., on June 16, to attend the first annual conference of the Persian-American Educational Society. The purpose of the association is to bring these two countries into closer union commercially and educationally.

— The international sailors’ strike which was recently inaugurated in England, has now spread to the United States. On June 17 four large coasting-steamers were deserted by their crews, and were unable to leave their docks. Some of the English firms have submitted to the demands of the strikers, and others are still holding out against these demands.

— The twenty-fifth anniversary of the wedding of President and Mrs. Taft was celebrated at the White House and on the White House lawn in Washington, during the day and evening of June 19. The celebration is reported to have been a very brilliant affair, and a large number of very costly presents were received from organizations and from representatives of foreign countries. The White House and White House lawn and trees were decorated with not fewer than six thousand colored electric lights; the evening following the celebration the grounds were thrown open to the general public, and about twenty thousand persons took advantage of the invitation to view the decorations and illuminations, which remained the same as on the previous evening.

— The investigation by the Committee of the House of Representatives into the business of the sugar trust, brings to light the fact that a considerable portion of the stock of that trust is in the hands of the Mormon Church.

— Seven submarine torpedo-boats of the United States Navy made a trip from Newport to Gloucester, Mass., recently, a distance of 150 miles, in safety, traveling almost the entire distance under water and entering and leaving harbors undetected by harbor officials.

— The Democratic wool revision bill was passed by the House of Representatives on June 20, by a vote of 221 to 100. Twenty-four Republicans, chiefly insurgents, voted for the bill, and one Democrat voted against it. This bill proposes to reduce the duty on raw wool to twenty per cent ad valorem. It was formerly forty-four per cent. By its provisions the duty on woolen goods is reduced to about forty-two per cent ad valorem.

— President Taft has been asked to intercede for the Baptists in Russia. A resolution incorporating this request was adopted by the Northern Baptist Convention at Philadelphia, June 16. The President is requested to assure the Russian government of the peacefulness and loyalty to civil institutions of the five million Baptists in this country, in an effort to secure greater freedom for the members of that faith in Russia. Persecutions of members of that faith in Russia were the occasion for making this request of the President.