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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 22, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 44.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—The trial of 111 anti-Jewish rioters is soon to begin in Hungary.

—Extensive silver discoveries are reported in the Sierra Esmeralda, Bolivia.

—A number of the Pittsburg iron mills have closed down, owing to a depression in trade.

—One thousand cigar-box makers in New York are on a strike against working over time.

—In a railroad accident near Bradford, Tenn., three persons were killed and a number injured.

—Twenty thousand volunteers will be raised at Hankow, China, in the event of a war with France.

—"The forty thieves," robbed a passenger train on the Mexican National Railroad, last week, and secured $8,000.

—The wharves of the American Steamship Company at Philadelphia were burned last Saturday night; loss, $100,000.

—The Christian at Work says, "Chinamen are marrying young Irish girls in California." We have heard of one instance.

—The treatment of leprosy is becoming a hard problem in India. In Bombay Presidency 9,483 cases are under treatment.

—Germany will send a special envoy to Peking to exert his influence in behalf of a pacific solution of the Tonquin question.

—The New York trunk line railroads have discontinued the sale of through tickets to points west of Chicago and St Louis.

—A furious wind-storm on Chesapeake Bay, last week, did considerable damage to shipping, and the loss of several lives is reported.

—Sofia Woskrepensy, a female Nihilist, was hanged at St. Petersburg on the 15th inst., and a female accomplice committed suicide.

—The City Attorney of Salt Lake City, a Mormon, says he will resist the surrender of his office to an appointee of the Governor.

—A heavy gale visited the northern part of Maine on the 15th inst., and it is said damaged the forests to the amount of $1,000,000.

—A fire in the railroad house at New York, on the 15th inst., destroyed property to the value of $500,000,—mostly cotton, lumber, and cars.

—R. F. Palmer's family at Akron, O., were all taken violently ill, it is supposed from trichinosis, from eating head-cheese. Two will probably die.

—A row between two parties of Chinese gamblers in Sacramento, last week, resulted in the death of two participants and the wounding of several others.

—Silk culture is becoming an important industry all along the Gulf of Mexico coast, from New Orleans to Mobile; it is thus a near neighbor to the cotton-fields.

—Gen. Grant has presented the Viceroy of China and the Mikado of Japan, each, with a new machine gun having a Government record of 505 shots a minute.

—Judge Ferris, the Second Auditor of the Treasury, says nine out of ten of the applicants for arrears and bounties are fraudulent and concocted by fraudulent pension agents.

—More than fifty cattle have died recently in Scott Valley, Siskiyou County, of black leg. Bleeding the healthy ones to the extent of a gallon or less prevented their being attacked.

—The uneasiness in Europe over the strained relations of France and China continues, and the result of the visit of the German Crown Prince to Spain is eagerly watched by diplomats.

—General Wallace, United States Minister to Turkey, supported by the British Ambassador, has energetically pressed the Porte for punishment of the men who recently attacked two American missionaries in Asia Minor.

—An extensive gale in the latitude of the great lakes occurred on Sunday and Monday of last week. It extended from Michigan to New England, resulting in the destruction of much property and the loss of several lives.

—The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe road is establishing hospitals for employes at four points, and has given $2,500 to the widow of engineer Hilton, killed in the train-robbery at Coolidge.

—In Truckee a gang of fifteen tramps attacked the jail, where three of their comrades were incarcerated, broke the locks and doors and set at liberty the prisoners. Truckee is infested by the ruffians.

—In Russia last year it is declared that, from cold snow-storms and disease, 5,500 camels, 32,000 horses, 14,000 cattle, and 130,000 sheep perished; and that 70,000 cattle were killed by the wolves.

—A syndicate of banks, represented by the Anglo-Egyptian Banking Company, has offered to provide the capital necessary for the construction of another Suez canal, if the Government will undertake to build it.

—The London doctors are threatening to commence a campaign against canned goods, as several cases of sickness have recently been reported as having been caused by the eating of food which has been put in cans.

—The officers of the Union Pacific Railroad admit that the gross earnings for September and October were $20,000,000 less than for the same period of last year. So much for the opposition of the Denver and Southern Pacific roads.

—A fire at Shenandoah, Pa., on the 12th inst., destroyed buildings covering five acres of ground. Loss, about $500,000, with small insurance. It is said that 500 families are homeless, and contributions are being raised for their assistance.

—Five hundred of 1,000 men hired by the Canadian Pacific road at $2 a day to work on the road north of Lake Superior, have arrived in Montreal absolutely destitute, and have entered 300 actions against the company for wages and damages.

—A Chinese Sunday-school teacher in New York, aged 25, who has been over five years in the country, was recently denied naturalization papers by the U. S. Commissioner. It was decided that he could not under the law become a naturalized citizen.

—The stock of window-glass in the Pittsburg warehouses has become very low, owing to the continued two months' strike of operatives. Manufacturers are importing French glass to fill orders, rather than to submit to the demands of the strikers.

—Secretary Folger has written to the Collector at San Francisco that, if there is any reason to suspect fraud or imposition in landing Chinese, he must make a rigid investigation and refuse permission to passengers to land until satisfactory evidence is produced.

—Swarms of locusts have appeared in the Amu Darya region of Central Asia. Heretofore the Russians have destroyed millions of these insects, and they have now requested the Bokharan Ameer to assist them in the work, as it is believed that the locusts come from Bokhara.

—Judge Lynch's idea of reform is still progressing. Two notoriously bad characters were taken from the jail at Camanche, Texas, last week, and hanged in a grave-yard. And a mob mostly women, at Greensburg, Pa., attempted to hang a murderer with a clothes-line, but the officers succeeded in rescuing him.

—A fire in a clothing factory at Charleston, S. C., on the 12th inst., resulted in the death of four persons. Two women were burned in the building. Eight others jumped from a third-story window; two of them were killed, and all the rest, except a boy who was caught before reaching the ground, were seriously injured.

—The Salt Lake Tribune says: There is a report in circulation to the effect that all good saints have been ordered by the priesthood to refrain from entering into business anywhere on Second South Street, the object being to crowd the Mormon merchants to one part of the town and let the Gentiles have a street to themselves.

—The railroad bridge over the Missouri River at Blair, Neb., which cost $1,000,000, was tested on the 27th ult., with six locomotives, the maximum deflection being two inches. The permanent iron structure is 1,270 feet long, and fifty feet above high water, with trestle-work approaches of nearly two miles at either end.

—Dr. Jackson, an English surgeon living in India, was stung to death by hornets recently when hunting tigers. He received over 200 stings and died from the erysipelas that followed. His companion in the hunt was saved from a like fate by the forethought of his servant, who dragged him into a jungle soon after the hornets attacked him.

—The Central Pacific Railroad Company has paid the $300,000 compromise bonds over to San Joaquin County, and that amount less $75,000 paid to the lawyers, is now in the county treasury. The Stockton Independent says it will pay off all outstanding debts of the county, and leave $65,000, or nearly enough to build a new Court House.

—"Black Bart," the hero of twenty-three single-handed stage robberies in California, has at last been arrested. The aggregate rewards that have from time to time been offered for him amount to over $18,000. His real name is said to be Charles E. Bolton, and he was known in San Francisco as a "mining man." His career in California dates back to 1877. He was a soldier in the War of Rebellion, and is over fifty years old.