p. 515 | News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 15, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 43.

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News and Notes.

—The present interest bearing debt of the United States is $1,312,446,050.

—The probabilities of a rupture between Russia and Austria is the latest war talk.

—The three ostrich chicks hatched at Anaheim, Los Angeles County, last week, are dead.

—A plot to tar and feather the Lord Mayor of Dublin was discovered last week and frustrated.

—The British steamer Iris was recently sunk off the Spanish coast, and thirty-five men drowned.

—The French force in Tonquin is said to be 8,650 soldiers, 4,500 sailors and marines, and 32 vessels.

—There is another political agitation in Jamaica; the cry is, " No taxation without representation."

—H. Clay McGee killed his wife and daughter, and then committed suicide, near Kansas City, on the 8th inst.

—The Pennsylvania Co.'s Railroad stock-yards at Pittsburg, were burned last Saturday night. Loss, $250,000.

—On the 7th inst., sixty-three miners were killed as the result of an explosion in the Moorsfield colliery, Lancashire, England.

—A shock of earthquake was felt at Cove Creek, southern Utah, Saturday, severe enough to break dishes and alarm the inhabitants.

—A colored murderer was lynched at Moss Landing, Texas, on the 6th inst., and another one, on the 10th inst., at Mount Mourne, N. C.

—Lord Lansdowne, the new Governor-General of Canada, is already receiving anonymous letters containing threats against his life.

—Before the war but little rice was cultivated in Louisiana; now 50,000 people are engaged in growing this cereal in the Pelican State.

—A gale blew down a large building in process of construction at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 9th inst., and five men were killed and seven injured.

—The criminal classes of London are considered so dangerous as to warrant the arming of the police with revolvers.

—At New York, last Saturday, a tugboat was blown into fragments by the explosion of her boilers. Six persons were killed and one badly mangled.

—A portion of the new Wisconsin State House, an elegant structure not yet completed, fell, on the 8th inst., killing several workmen and causing considerable financial loss.

—Samuel Markey is on trial in Stockton, charged with the murder of Patrick Breen, who had been placed upon land claimed by the railroad company in lieu of ejected settlers.

—The Dominion Government has been requested by the United States authorities to furnish further information in relation to the operation of the postal savings bank system in Canada.

—At Lyons, France, last week, the Anarchists exploded an infernal machine in front of the mansion of a wealthy merchant. Much damage was done the building, but no one was hurt.

—General Longstreet, fearing the rescue of the Georgia Kuklux prisoners, requires authority to appoint additional guards to accompany them from Atlanta to the Albany, N. Y., penitentiary.

—The Crown Prince of Germany will return the visit of King Alfonso of Spain. The Emperor would do so in person, but excuses himself on account of advanced age. It is not expected that the Crown Prince will go by way of Paris.

—Lopez, the Mexican murderer, who last week at Laredo was given ninety-nine years in the Penitentiary, has had the finding set aside on account of the verdict failing to state that the accused was guilty of murder in the first degree.

—Dispatches from Turin report that Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is dying. He is 81 years old, and has been giving way physically for some time. For over twenty years he has lived in strict privacy, devoting himself to scientific studies.

—A San Francisco letter-carrier was, last week, fined $50 and dismissed from the service for throwing away letters to save the labor of delivering them. It was a penitentiary offense, but he was let off with a fine and dismissed on account of his family.

—The Bulgarian Cabinet has decided to dismiss all Russians in the army, including Colonel Roadiger, Acting Minister of War, and recall all Bulgarians in the Russian service. Roadiger refused to resign, and was ordered to quit Sofia in twenty-four hours.

—It is rumored that Princess Amelia, eldest daughter of Count de Paris, will shortly be married to Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. The Czar's advisers favor the union, thinking it will facilitate the restoration of the Orleanists and an alliance between France and Russia.

—The state of the Cuban treasury is so embarrassed that the Council of Ministers has authorized the Captain-General to borrow $500,000 in gold until the home treasury can advance more, early in January. There has been a heavy fall in Cuban bonds and bank shares.

—General elections were held in ten States on the 6th inst., resulting as follows: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Minnesota, and Nebraska have been carried by the Republicans; while the Democrats secured Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Mississippi.

—Senator Miller has written a letter to the Secretary of State complaining of the fraudulent practices of Chinese officials. He says that hundreds of Chinese laborers are being landed in America as teachers, students, merchants, or those desiring to travel in the United States.

—The British Cabinet has issued explicit instructions to all the Departments in the event of war between France and China. The British fleet in Chinese waters will be reinforced, and it is said any attempt by France to blockade ports where British interests exist will be resisted.

—John S. Gray, the embezzling ex-Secretary of the State Harbor Commission, has been sent to San Quentin penitentiary for a term of ten years, on one charge. There are yet forty-three charges against him, which it is said will not be prosecuted unless the Supreme Court interferes with the present sentence.

—A prominent statesman of Russia says that Vera Philipera, the woman recently arrested, was the actual head of the Nihilist Executive Committee, and that the Nihilists are broken into widely scattered groups, each more or less independent of the rest. They are driven to murder and robbery in order to obtain funds.

—A Madrid dispatch says the Minister of War has acquired proof of fresh intrigues between political exiles and their friends in Spain, with a view of preparing for another military disturbance. The Government has discovered that these intrigues are connected with tiny speculators at home and abroad. The Governments of the provinces have been ordered to exercise the greatest vigilance.

—On the 5th inst., a heavy cyclone made a dash of about fifty miles through Missouri, taking the city of Springfield in its course, where thirty buildings were destroyed and about 200 damaged. In the country east and west several farm buildings were blown down. Seven persons are reported killed, and several severely injured. The storm current was only a few yards in width, but traveled with fearful velocity.

—The late election in Virginia has, in the minds of politicians, re-established the old " Mason and Dixon's line," assuring a " solid south " for what is called the " Bourbon Democracy " in the next Presidential election.

—It was stated in last week's paper that a Mr. Cockrell had been ejected from his home in the Mussel Slough country, San Joaquin Valley, and two men placed in possession on behalf of a purchaser from the railroad company. The result is as might have been expected in that vicinity, where feeling between settlers and the railroad managers has in the past ran so high. Edward H. McAuliffe, one of the parties placed in possession, was shot and killed while out gunning, Nov. 5, by some unknown person. Mr. Cockrell is able to prove that he was at Hanford during the time the murder was committed. The other party in possession has decided to leave the place, fearing a like fate.

—The Edmunds law is on all hands now acknowledged to be a total failure so far as the suppression of polygamy in Utah is concerned, which is really the only thing that either justifies the law or gives it any importance. Such we thought would be the fact when the law was passed; and hence we are not disappointed in the result.—Independent. The fact is, no law will prohibit polygamy in Utah or anywhere else unless it be enforced; and this has been the trouble with all the laws that have been enacted in regard to it. Money and influence will defeat any law. The Mormon Church can always raise plenty of money, and the " institution " itself has an influence upon imported politicians somewhat similar to that of the women of Moab.

—The Chicago police have arrested twelve members of a thoroughly organized gang of shop-lifters. They include the leader, a woman known to the police as " Mother Wier," and her two sons and two daughters. Over $2,000 worth of stolen goods was recovered. It is estimated that the peculations of this band, nearly all of whom are women, have amounted to from $10,000 to $15,000 within the past few months. All are fine-looking women, elegantly dressed. Their method of operations was for a couple of women to enter a carriage, with one of " Mother Wier's " sons as coachman, and go " shopping " among the larger stores till the carriage was filled with plunder, when it would be taken to a place of deposit. One of " Mother Wier's " daughters was lately returned from New York, having served a term on Blackwell's Island.