THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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Mr. John G. Peoli, chief engineer of 

 the Province of Santa Clara, Cuba, died 

 Feb. 27 at Asheville, N. C. He was 

 graduated from Union College in 1882, 

 and as an engineer aided in constructing 

 the first cable street railroad in this city. 

 He was employed for some years by the 

 Metropolitan Street Railroad Company, 

 and at the beginning of the Spanish- 

 American War he enlisted as a contract 

 engineer under Brigadier-General Roy 

 Stone. Later he went to Cuba and 

 settled in the city of Santa Clara. He 

 left a widow. 



Dr. Carlos de la Torre, a well-known 

 naturalist, has found some valuable fos- 

 sils while on a scientific excursion up to 

 the Jatibonica Sierras. The specimens 

 belong to the Myomorphus Cubenses, 

 which are exact duplicates of fossils 

 found in the Andes, supporting the prob- 

 ability of the theory that the island of 

 Cuba formed in the past ages a part of 

 the American continent. — N. Y. Herald. 



The United States Government has 

 sent Richard Parr, New York's deputy 

 customs collector, to obtain information 

 relative to the shipment, packing and 

 transportation of sugar from Cuba. 



The yacht race to Havana will start 

 from Atlantic City. New Jersey, about 

 the middle of May. On arriving at Ha- 

 vana, the yachtsmen will be the guests 

 of the Havana Yacht Club for a week or 

 ten days. At the end of that time there 

 will be a race from Havana to New 

 York. The races are under the auspices 

 of the Philadelphia Yachtsmen's Club. 



Col. Orencio Nodarse, late Director of 

 Posts and Telegraphs, Vv'ho was recently 

 sentenced to three years eight months 

 and four days imprisonment for shooting 

 another citizen, was fully pardoned Feb. 

 11 by the President after he had served 

 five hours of his sentence. On Feb. 12 he 

 was reinstated in his old office of Post- 

 master-General. 



Five hundred cigarmakers in one of the 

 factories protested vigorously against the 

 action of the President. 



On ]\Iarch i President Gomez, Vice- 

 President Zayas and members of the 

 Cabinet began a long promised trip 

 through the island, visiting the principal 

 cities, and interior towns. 



New postoffices have been opened at 

 San Juan, Province of Havana; Punta 

 Alegre, Camaguey Province, and Palma- 

 rito de Canto in Oriente Province. 



On ]\Iarch 1 a money order department 

 was added to the postoffice at Santo, 

 Santa Clara Province. 



Jacob Sleeper," of Massachusetts, was 

 nominated, February 14, by President 

 Taft to be secretarj^ of the legation at 

 Havana. 



H. B. Snider, for five years the super- 

 intendent of the Cuba Railroad, resigned 

 early in February. His successor is H. 

 H. McGinty, formerly assistant super- 

 intendent. 



That Havana is to have a new ice fac- 

 tory with a capacity of 100 tons daily is 

 practically a certainty. American capi- 

 tal is to be interested. 



Rosano mill, at Aguacate, Havana Province. American ownership. Output in 1909, 159,600 bags. 



