p. 191 | News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 19, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 16.

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—Several prominent officers in the Russian army are to be tried for nihilism.

—Eight men were buried by the caving in of a mine at Quinnesec, Mich., April 11.

—Several quite severe shocks of earthquake were felt at Cairo, Ill., one day last week.

—Ten persons were drowned by the sinking of a steamer on the Ohio River on the 11th inst.

—Two ladies in Florida, with no market for their oranges, canned them, and found the plan to be a success.

—Many of the towns in Massachusetts which voted in favor of license a year ago are voting "No" this year.

—One hundred and ninety-four Mormon missionaries were appointed at the recent Mormon Conference at Salt Lake.

—A farmer near Urbana, O., discovered gold on his farm last fall, but kept the matter quiet, and is now prepared to begin mining.

—An incendiary fire at Westminster, Md., on the 10th, burned twenty houses, and caused the death of two men and thirty horses.

—Fifty square miles of territory in Nebraska were burned over last week. Houses and barns and farming implements were destroyed.

—On the 11th inst., a fire at Mandalay, Burmah, destroyed one thousand houses, including the residences of several Cabinet Ministers.

—The Pacific Nail Works, located in this city, commenced operations the 11th. The capacity of the mills is 5,000 kegs of nails each week.

—Later reports from the Arkansas cyclone show that the destruction to property was very great. Twelve persons were killed, and many more injured.

—A jury at Salinas, Cal., has awarded $15,000 to Albert Williams, whose foot was crushed last summer by an engine on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

—A new sleeping-car has been invented, having seats extending across the entire width of the car, and which can be changed into private state-rooms at night.

—Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, makes the suggestion that Decoration Day be made a day for yearly tree-planting. The suggestion is a good one.

—One hundred and thirty villages within a radius of seventy-five miles from Cincinnati, are within speaking distance of that city, by means of the telephone.

—Arkansas was visited by another terrible tornado on the 13th inst. This one was in the vicinity of Ozark. Everything in its track was destroyed, and there are reports of loss of life.

—On the 10th inst., Minnesota was visited by one of the heaviest snow-storms of the winter. For the first time during the winter, street-car travel was suspended at Minneapolis.

—The port laborers of Belgium have expressed their determination to prevent the operation of the improved system of unloading grain, which is in contemplation by the municipal authorities.

—Brady, one of the men charged with the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke, at Phœnix Park, Dublin, a year ago, has been convicted, and sentenced to be executed on the 14th of May.

—It has been discovered that peculations have been going on in the Finance Department of New York City since 1879. Deputy Controller Storrs says that the defalcations may reach $10,000,000.

—Arrangements have been made by Boston capitalists to start a tannery, shoe factory, and oleomargarine works in Atlanta, Ga. Other factories are being started in the South, by Northern capital.

—A man was found dead in a San Francisco lodging-house last week, and a chemical examination of his stomach revealed the fact that his death was caused by eating mince pie containing partially decomposed meat.

—The chief of the Bodie Piutes punishes drunken Indians by lowering them into a deserted shaft and keeping them there forty-eight hours on bread and water. Unfortunately he has no control over those who sell the liquor to them.

—A serious affray took place on the 13th between two classes of the Normal School at Bloomington, Ill., in which several students had their skulls fractured, and many received injuries of a less serious nature. It was only a little "college fun."

—The Delaware Legislature has passed a bill concerning murderers, providing that if they are found insane they shall be confined in a jail or an asylum. If their sanity is regained, instead of being set at liberty, they are liable to trial or sentence.

—Sonora (Mexico) advices state that ninety-three have been killed in that State since the Apache outbreak, of whom twenty-seven were Americans. General Crook is making arrangements with the Mexican authorities for a combined resistance.

—A delegation waited on the Canadian Government, pleading for the restriction of Chinese immigration into British Columbia, but the answer was made that no measures would be taken to restrict such immigration until the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

—A ukase has been issued by the Government, ordering that increased vigilance be observed on the frontier to prevent suspicious persons from entering the country. It is supposed this precaution is taken owing to the approach of the time fixed for the coronation of the Czar.

—The Chinese Government has lately given large orders to the Berlin manufacturers for arms, ammunition, and vessels of war. It is said that China has begun in earnest to prepare for a war with Japan. The latter country has very largely increased its army and navy.

—Very many of the saloon and tavern licenses in New York are void, owing to a legal defect, and no more licenses can be granted till September. Thirty-seven cases of violation of the excise law were on the calendar one day last week; twenty-five pleaded guilty, and were fined or imprisoned.

—It was thought worthy of being telegraphed all the way from Florida that the President gave an Indian papoose a quarter. It could hardly have been done because of the amount of the gift, but news must be scarce in that locality. The spirit of toadyism is gaining rapidly in this country.

—A Texas negro obstructed the Missouri Pacific track last week, in order to wreck a passenger train. He pleaded guilty, and has been sentenced to thirty-nine years in the penitentiary. We can't help wondering, when we see men trying to cause wholesale destruction, why they do not take out a license. If they would do that, the Government would protect them in their nefarious practices. Whisky men have the wisdom of the serpent.