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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



COURT RULING ON LIBEL 



Nicholas Rivero, editor of Diario de la 

 Marina, of Havana, was found guilty by 

 the court of the audiencia and sentenced to 

 pay a fine of $100 and one-half of the costs 

 for libelling Jose Maria Villaverde, the 

 president of the Cuba Newspaper Company. 

 He is also ordered to print the sentence in 

 his own newspaper. 



The case against Sr. Rivero has been in the 

 courts for about a year. It gi-ew from an 

 article appearing in Diario de la Marina 

 which Villaverde considered injurious to his 

 reputation. He sued Rivero as the editor. 



Rivero answered the chai-ge by asserting 

 that he did not write the articles in question 

 and declared that the real author was a 

 congressman. He produced the manuscript 

 written in the hand of a congressman in 

 question and the congressman declared in 

 court that he was the author. The indicting 

 court, however, held the spotlessness of the 

 manuscript indicated that it had been written 

 after it had been published in the newspaper, 

 because it had none of the earmarks of 

 "copy" that had passed through the hands 

 of the printers. For that reason the court 

 refused to hold the congressman but did hold 

 Rivero. — Fourth Estate, New York. 



BUBONIC PLAGUE NOTES 



Two cases of the plague appeared in New 

 Orleans in the week of July 4th, and steps 

 were immediately taken by the United States 

 officials to isolate the infected zone. A 

 warfare against rats was also started. It was 

 believed that the disease was imported from 

 Cuba, although Dr. Guiteras, the Cuban 

 health expert, says it was not carried from 

 Cuba. He thinks it came from a case in New 

 Orleans two years ago and that the germs 

 have been lying dormant ever since among 

 the rats. 



New Orleans has maintained a strict 

 quarantine against Cuba, demanding that 

 all ships be fumigated and cleared of rats 

 before leaving Cuban ports. Dr. Guiteras 

 says it is well known that human beings do 

 not carry the plague. 



Jamaica, on June 30th, quarantined against 

 all of Cuba owing to the appearance of the 

 bubonic plague at Santiago. 



The lands formerly occupied by the 

 Espada Cemetery in Havana, just behind 

 the San Lazaro Hospital, will be turned into 

 an amusement park for the coming winter, 

 according to a plan filed with Mayor Freyre 

 de Andrade recentlv. 



CHINESE BUILD AN ASYLUM 



The Chinese colony of Havana, which for 

 years has maintained a hospital for the poor 

 and indigent Chinamen residing in Cuba, laid 

 the corner stone on June 22d for a new asylum 

 and hospital which is to be erected at the cost 

 of $35,000 at the grounds of Jacomino farm, 

 near Guanabacoa, near Havana. 



The asylum is to be erected by the Chinese 

 Casino, which will have control of the affairs 

 of the institution. The club is also a mutual 

 aid society, to which a large percentage of the 

 Chinese colony belong or support. 



REILLY DEFEATS FRIAS 



In the New York Court Justice Newburger 

 decided, on June 23d, that Hugh J. Reilly 

 had sole right to the contract between him. 

 and the Cienfuegos, Pamira and Cruces 

 Electric Light and Power Company, and en- 

 joined Jose Antonio Frias and the Latin- 

 American Contracting and Improvement 

 Company from collecting money or taking 

 property from Reilly in Cuba or elsewhere. 



Frias, who is a former Cuban Senator, had 

 contended that he and Reilly were partners, 

 whereas Reilly contended that Frias were 

 merely his employee. 



The water supply in San Luis, Oriente 

 Province is very bad, and the leading men of 

 the town recently sent a committee to 

 acquaint President Menocal with the fact. 

 The water is not only bad, but scarce, and 

 there is fear of an epidemic of disease. 



Two officers of the Cuban army have been 

 designated to visit France, Spain and Eng- 

 land, to study the military organizations of 

 those countries. 



The Rev. Albion Williamson Knight, 

 formerly Episcopal Bishop of Cuba, was, on 

 June 16th, made vice-chancellor of the 

 LIniversity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. 



A beautiful silk Cuban flag, which flutters 

 from the mast of the Cuban cruiser Cuba, 

 was a present of the National Association 

 of Public School Children, which made up 

 a fund among the scholars and bought the 

 beautiful banner. 



The quarantine established by Cuba 

 against Honduras and Guatemala was sus- 

 pended on June 16th. 



