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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
6
A quirky window into a 19th or early 20th century page with notes on cures like eurythmy, banana abundance after a ruined orange crop, a New York man's nose graft, a suicide box inventor, odd household and social observations, and hints of local and national commentary on culture, crime, and technology.
Militant suffragettes launch a campaign of window smashing and mail box attacks from Westminster to Dublin Castle in protest over the Franchise bill. Twenty one women arrested near Parliament. Mrs Drummond Sylv ia Pankhurst and others held. In Dublin three women arrested as suffragettes smash windows at Dublin Castle.
Dispatches from Washington say Captain Patrick McNally of the Philippine scouts was killed as United States forces destroyed a marauding band six miles from Jolo. Between forty and fifty Moros were killed in the assault on their stronghold.
Mutiny among Turkish troops at Tchatalja leads to 42 officers killed and 170 wounded as factions clash in Constantinople. Reports say 15,000 Circassians mutinied and fighting spreads toward the Dardanelles while transport animals suffer and roads deteriorate. Greeks renew attacks near Janina as Bulgaria calls for renewed victories.
In Newark New Jersey a 12 year old girl testified her mother Meddelena Ciccone planned to kill her husband with rat poison. The court found Ciccone guilty of first degree murder after the daughter's testimony.
Washington bill passed by the Senate aims to educate women to be good wives. It substitutes the Lever measure and provides 12,000,000 for distribution among agricultural and vocational schools in states receiving federal aid to teach young women to undertake household duties.
In early reports from Trenton and Miami, William Jennings Bryan is named as the likely Secretary of State for President-elect Wilson. Wilson notes Bryan as the sole preferred candidate among several considered, while Col. E. M. House travels to Miami to discuss the possibility.
Secretary Charles Nagel refused Cipriano Castro entry as a visitor, deporting the former Venezuelan president after Castro refused to answer if he participated in the murder of General Paredez. Officials cited immigration law barring entry for crimes of moral turpitude unless political in nature.
The Duchess of Connaught and the Duke will return to England in the spring and likely will not come back to Canada. A new Governor General is expected in the summer with Sir Charles Fitzpatrick named to handle Dominion affairs until a successor to the Duke is chosen. The Duchess is recovering steadily.
A Putnam county jury acquitted Myrtle Barnes wife of a wealthy man of killing Della Judd. The defense claimed the unwritten law justified the act after Barnes alleged her husband’s alleged intimacy with Judd. The shooting occurred last May when Barnes confronted Judd aboard a train near her home.
The Kansas Senate unseated its only Socialist member Fred Stanton of Crawford County by 28 to 10 for RE Porter Republican. Evidence showed men crossed from Missouri to vote for Stanton and that aliens voted amid election irregularities in Topeka.
Washington reports a sharp decline in express stock values since the parcel post service began. Four leading firms Adams American United States and Wells Fargo show combined losses of about 7.75 million since January 1 and 24.64 million from their 1912 highs. Individual drops include American Express from 205 in 1912 to about 145 now, United States Express from 67 to 52, and Wells Fargo from 151 to 110 with substantial declines since January 1 and from peak 1912 values.
West Virginia Legislature votes unanimously to ratify the Federal income tax amendment. Governor Glasscock supports the measure as Delaware prepares to ratify and make the amendment effective. At least one more state approval is needed.
The State Board of Pardons and Governor Deneen commute 24 murder sentences with 17 remaining inmates having time reduced while George Gill Roberts is freed for the 1905 murder of County Commissioner John V. Kopf during a political riot. The action, long contemplated, comes on the eve of Deneen’s retirement.
In Trenton Judge Gnitchel of Mercer County Court sentenced Jonathan Strouse to two to six years in state prison for driving an automobile without the owner's consent while intoxicated. On January 18 he struck a telegraph pole, and seven year old May Totten was thrown from the car and seriously injured.
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