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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1913
Page
6
A collage of quips and local color from the High Point Review itemizing asides about hats women, alchemy of war taxes, and oddities. The notes reference a Pennsylvania smallpox case on banknotes, aluminum hats for women, a wolfish list of clever one-liners, and a light jab at various public figures from Boston to New York.
Francisco I Madero and Jose Pino Suarez have died during a midnight transfer from the National Palace to a penitentiary. Official accounts differ on who fired the fatal shots amid a melee. An investigation was ordered and promises were made to punish the guilty. Senora Madero sought details and access to the bodies but was denied. Turkey signals readiness to negotiate Balkan peace with open talks urged by London for mediation.
Ex president Cipriano Castro of Venezuela sailed from New York to Cuba on the Ward Liner Saratoga. He claimed the trip was for pleasure and planned to return to New York in March. He expressed confidence in defeating the government’s appeal to the supreme court regarding his entry.
London notes the cabinet has settled the question of who shall succeed Asquith when he steps down. The choice is strongly favored for Sir Edward Grey as the next premier.
Secretary Nagel reports to President Taft on Daniel J. Keefe Detroit commissioner general of immigration. He recommends demanding Keefe's resignation after alleging accepted free transportation for himself and his family from railroads and steamships.
El Paso reports Governor Abra ham Gonzales remains effectively imprisoned in Chihuahua City. Regular troops block his exit from the state capital as factions loyal to Madero clash. About 2,000 federal troops, mainly rurales, are stationed there and Gonzales has not resigned.
President Patterson of the National Cash Register Co and 27 associates were sentenced to one year in Troy Ohio jail and $5000 fines for anti-competitive acts in restraint of trade. Judge Hollister spared W M Cummins due to illness and released George Edgeter. Additional defendants including BH A Leeds and Robert Patterson faced similar jail terms and costs. nine months jail were imposed on several others.
Mary Garden idolized by Helen Newby 19 daughter of John Newby a wealth iron man of Heckton Mills Pa. Newby killed herself with a pistol unable to meet the opera star whom she worshipped for two years after reading about Garden and buying pictures and burning candles before them.
The House voted 213 to 114 against overriding President Taft's veto of the Dillingham Burnett immigration bill. Eighteen Senators backed Taft in the Senate. Spectators filled the Senate galleries for a three hour debate with Lodge and Dillingham arguing the bill would curb dangerous aliens.
In Laredo Texas Colonel Pascual Orozco and Colonel Andres Garza Galan vow to oppose Huerta after the overthrow of the Madero government. They say northern revolutionaries will not approve the Usurper as provisional president.
Mrs. R. W. Winston a Raleigh North Carolina socialite with a yearlong nervous disorder vanished from a nurse and plunged from a seventh floor hospital window in Philadelphia. She was instantly killed. Her home was in Raleigh.
Gustavo Madero brother of the deposed president was executed at the arsenal by order of General Diaz. Huerta is provisional president after a rapid succession that produced three presidents in one day. The country faces chaos with banditry, arrests, and revolts against Madero appointees as Diaz and Huerta consolidate power.
The Senate passed a resolution by Senator Mark Smith of Arizona to appropriate 71000 to reimburse citizens of El Paso Texas and Douglass Arizona for property damages from the Mexican insurrection. The government will reimburse the Texas and Arizona citizens and then file its claim against Mexico.
Two women were captured as vandals applauded their act after hurling books at a magistrate during arraignment. The incident underscores the widespread fear and turmoil gripping the country as militants announce plans against the king.
Miss Cristobal Pankhurst in Paris warns that blood will flow in the suffrage struggle. She says women have destroyed property so far, but a greater revolution is coming with drastic measures inspired by Balkan and Mexican street violence.
Militant suffragettes set fire to the restaurant pavilion at Kew Gardens in London and damaged other garden buildings. Lillian Lenton and Joyce Locke were captured and later arraigned in Richmond Court where they resisted bail. They threaten hunger strikes if jailed. The movement's violence sparks mixed public reaction and scrutiny of non militant leaders.
Philadelphia slot machine makers and telephone companies argued the new Buffalo nickel would not fit slots. They feared the coin’s increased size would jam devices. The discovery showed the new five cent piece works in existing machines as the old nickel did.
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