The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-13
General


of several important border towns,
the $500 Constitutionalist troops are
In arms. while instructions among
Federal garrisons strengthened mate
rally the rebel forces. No word has
come from Nacozari, south of Doug
las, Ariz, where a fierce battle was
fought, and it is not known what the
result Of the encounter has been.
Open revolt and scenes of disorder
among Federal forces is reported all
over Mexico.
Franklin MacVeagh, former secre-
tary of the treasury, has Issued
statement in which he defends his
ruling in the oleomargerine prosecu-
tons which resulted in the govern
ment's acceptance of $4,000 in set
tlement of alleged frauds through
which the government, it is claimed,
was defrauded of over million dol
lars.
A rigid censorship has been install
ed at Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, by
the Sonora state government, which
has waved the banner of states
rights in the face of the Huerta gov
eminent. Officials of the new regime
seized the railway station and tele-
graph Offices of the Southern Pacific
of Mexico and placed all outgoing
news under the ban.
The Turkish fortress of Janina, the
key to the possession of Epirus prov
ince, with it's garrison of $4,000 men,
has surrendered to the Greek army
after a defense which stands out as
one of the most brilliant episodes of
the Balkan war There is much re-
joicing in Athens, Greece, as the re-
suit of the surrender.
Sixty-six men of the crew Of the
German torpedo boat IS 1872 were
drowned when the little vessel was
rammed by the cruiser Yorck in the
North sea at Helgoland, Germany.
The commander of the torpedo boat
is among the dead. Only seventeen
survivors were picked up.
Disaster overlook two youthful
hold-up men in Brooklyn, one having
his back pierced by knife thrown by
a Chinaman they had robbed, the 9TH
er being fatally wounded by his own
revolver The latter fell on the pave
ment when policeman struck at him,
discharging the gun he carried. The
bullet entered his brain.
The cause of woman suffrage re-
ceived a setback in two New England
legislatures. A committee in the
Massachusetts legislature voted to re-
port leave to withdraw on bill pro-
viding for a referendum on a consti-
tutional amendment which would elm
mate the word male from the pro-
vision defining the qualifications of a
voter A similar bill was killed in the
Maine house by a vote of 80 to 53
after it had been passed by the SEN
ate
The diamonds belonging to Mrs. R.
e. Smith that were stolen from the
home of Mayor Smith of Huntsville,
Ala. several nights ago have been
recovered from a crack in the cell
of Bob Barrett, one OF the suspected
thieves in the city prison. Barrett
had refused to tell where he hid the
jewels. He was removed from the
cell and a close search was made.
All the diamonds, valued at about ST.
900, were found.
John Guy Fitzpatrick, the youngest
aviator in the world holds the pas
senger-carrying altitude record In
his DePerdusin monoplane, and carry
ing with him Miss Margaret Stapel
of Jersey City, N. j., he assembled s.
O09 above Los Angeles, Cal.
One is never too old to love, ac-
ccrding to Thomas Middleton, 80 years
of age, an authority on real estate,
who married his housekeeper, Miss
Cornelia M. Del Whitney, GA years of
age. at Philadelphia, Pa.
Ten per cent. of London's supply of
milk, says the board of health, is
'4ainted