News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1914

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— On December 2 the German Reichstag voted a new war credit of 5,000,000,-000 marks ($1,250,000,000).

— One hundred and eleven dead and 162 injured is the hunting toll in seventeen States for the season which has just ended, which compared with 135 dead and 125 injured a year ago. Last year's statistics came from twenty-one States.

— President Wilson has appointed as a permanent arbitration commission for disputes between operators and miners in the Colorado mountains Seth Low, of New York; Charles W. Mills, of Philadelphia; and Patrick Gilday, of Clearfield, Pa.

— Although Juan I. Jiminez has been elected president of the Dominican Republic by a majority of both the popular and the electoral vote, he is unable to take the oath of office before congress. The opposition, controlling congress, refuses to hold a session. This was the situation on December 1.

— The law regarding foreigners has been passed by the Panama National Assembly. The law gives free entrance to Chinese, Syrians, and Turks, but forbids foreigners of any nationality to mix in politics, and allows the chief executive to expel naturalized foreigners who attack public authorities or institutions through the press or by other means.

— A report of the United States Census Bureau shows steady and considerable increase in the number of Negroes. In 1900 they numbered 8,833,994. In 1910, the count shows, they had increased to 9,827,753, or an average increase of nearly 100,000 a year during the ten-year period covered by the report. In 1900 they formed 11.6 per cent of the entire population.