p. 21 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1911

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Statistics show that the cost of our military occupation of the Philippines since Dec. 8, 1898, the date of the signing of the peace treaty with Spain, has reached the enormous figure of $167,486,403.

— More than a score of passengers of Illinois Central passenger-train No. 101 were injured, several perhaps fatally, when spreading rails threw it into a ditch 28 miles east of Paducah, Ky., on the afternoon of December 1. Nine coaches were thrown into the ditch.

— It is estimated that 10,000 persons crowded the Hall of Beatifications in the Vatican on November 30, when Pope Pius X bestowed the red hats on the newly elevated cardinals. The elaborate ceremony is said to have been very imposing, and the Pope’s physician was constantly at hand to be of service in case the strain proved too much for him.

— Conditions are still unsettled in Mexico. It is said that the United States officers have proof that at least 5,000 rifles and 300,000 rounds of ammunition have been carried across the boundary in the last six weeks. Our government has given orders that every effort be made to enforce the neutrality laws on the border. The cost of the movement of our troops to the border has been about $2,500,000, and our trade with Mexico has already suffered a loss of nearly $10,000,000 during the revolution.

— Beneath the entwined flags of the republics of the western hemisphere, President Taft, members of his Cabinet, justices of the United States Supreme Court, and members of the diplomatic corps attended the third annual Pan-American Thanksgiving mass at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Washington, D. C., on Thanksgiving day. The twenty nations of Latin America joined with the United States in the service. This is the third Thanksgiving service of this character which has been held by representatives of the American republics.

— The McNamara brothers, who have been held for several months by the authorities of Los Angeles, Cal., in connection with dynamiting outrages committed under the guise of organized labor, on Dec. 1, 1911, acknowledged their guilt and pleaded “Guilty” before the courts. James B. McNamara was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder committed in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building, when twenty-one persons were killed, and his brother to fifteen years in the penitentiary for blowing up the Llewellyn Iron Works.