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Following the second revolt of the year in Portugal (TIME, July 27), Premier Antonio da Silva presented his resignation to President Gomes, whom he advised to dissolve Parliament...
...Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico. He fixed his eyes on a church edifice in Mexico City, La Soledad. With the permission of the Government,* according to some reports−without, according to others−the Knights forcibly entered this church, forcibly ejected the Roman Catholic pastor, Father Silva, proclaimed Joaquín Patriarch...
Married. Prince Henry XV of Pless, 63, Hohenzollern, to intimate friend Sefiorita of Wilhelm Clothilde Silva y Candamo, 26. Prince Henry was Secretary to the German Embassy in London before the War. Two years ago, he appealed to the Pope for a dissolution of his first marriage on the ground that his wife's father, Colonel William Cornwallis-West, had forced him, in 1891, to marry her at the point of a revolver...
...welcome in the gay capital of Rio de Janeiro. This plan was mutilated, however, by the recent Sao Paulo revolt (TIME, July 14 et seq.), and the chances of the Prince's being assassinated if he landed were thought to 'be so great that President A. da Silva Bernardes requested him to remain upon his warship, where President and Government are to pay him homage...
...situation leading up to the present revolt is similar. President Artur da Silva Bernardes is a reformer. To improve the nation's finances, he cut the Army appropriations, and, unheard-of thing, he introduced the income tax to Brazil. A section of the Army became peeved at the cut in their appropriations, and the rich planters, who suffered most from the hated income tax, became the President's intractable enemies, the more so since he was also a vigorous opponent of peonage (system of quasi-feudalism) which they were anxious to have recognized...