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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 34.

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—Cholera is still causing a good many deaths in Italy, daily.

—Editor Cutting has been released by the Mexican Government.

—It is said that muskrats damage the Erie Canal $50,000 worth every year.

—A large number of seamen are now on a strike in San Francisco and Oakland.

—A branch of the Salvation Army has been organized in Chinatown in San Francisco.

—Some cattle from England, in quarantine at Quebec, are afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia.

—It is stated that forty-nine tons of snails are consumed daily in Paris during their season.

—Bishop John Sharp has been deposed as a Mormon Bishop. He renounced polygamy before the courts some time since.

—Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, has been deposed, it is supposed through Russian influence. The country is almost in a state of civil war, and all Europe is greatly agitated.

—August 27, another American fishing vessel was seized in Canadian waters for alleged violation of the custom regulations.

—The mob at Belfast, August 23, routed the police with stones and wrecked the barracks, which was defended by twenty policemen.

—August 27, the Republican convention at Los Angeles, Cal., nominated John F. Swift, of San Francisco, for Governor of the State.

—The strike of the car drivers on the Broadway, New York, street car lines has been compromised, and the men have all resumed work.

—August 27, another submarine torpedo-boat was exhibited at New York. It worked successfully, making one dive of nearly two miles.

—The twenty-five gypsies recently landed at Castle Garden, New York, were sent back to Europe on the same steamer by which they came.

—On the 23d inst. revolutionists sacked the town of Villaldama, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Seven men are reported to have been killed and several wounded.

—Nearly three-fourths of all the imitation butter made in this country hails from Chicago, where last year about twenty-five million pounds were made.

—The Bulgarian revolutionists have been overthrown by the friends of Alexander, and the Prince has been asked to return and resume his authority.

—Now that Rhode Island has adopted prohibition, it is said that saloon men are putting up buildings, to be devoted to their traffic, close to the line, in all the large towns which border on that State.

—A certain sort of tobacco blindness is on the increase. The Lowell (Mass.) Citizen says that the victim is so affected that he can't see that he is puffing smoke right into the face of the person nearest him.

—August 24, Mayor Gardner of Cleveland, Ohio, refused to grant the Anarchists of that city the use of the public square for a meeting. He told the committee that he would prevent such a meeting if he could.

—A man in Pittsburgh, Pa., recently committed suicide because of intense suffering from a disease of the stomach, which, it is said, was due to the use of an anti-fat compound, by which he reduced his weight twenty pounds in six weeks.

—A new oil field has been discovered in Pennsylvania only sixteen miles from Pittsburgh. One well commenced flowing at the rate of 500 barrels per day and the flow rapidly increased until it reached over 2,500, or more than 100 barrels per hour.

—It is stated that the death sentence in Kansas does not by any means doom a murderer to death. The warrant must be signed by the Governor, and as yet no Kansas Governor has ever signed a death warrant. As a consequence, there are now thirty death-sentenced prisoners in the penitentiary.

—A few days since, as a couple were about to be married in a Chicago church, the lady discovered that the man whom she was about to marry had been drinking. Quietly leaving his side she took the license from the minister, and tossing it in her intended husband's face, walked from the room.

—August 23, all the employés on the Broadway, New York, car lines struck against a change in the time table. The change increased the number of trips per day from five to six, but made no increase in the pay of the men. On the 24th 1,100 men were paid off by order of the superintendent, who says that he will have nothing more to do with them.

—Affairs in Ireland are in a very unsettled condition. It seems that the Government is preparing for coercion on a large scale. This will of course result in fresh agrarian outrages. Five hundred policemen and troops have left Birr to assist in evictions on the estates of the Marquis of Glanricard in Galway. The Birr branch of the National Land League has given notice to tradesmen not to supply the eviction agents with provisions or means of conveyance.

—At Mandalay, Burmah, August 24, one of the embankments of the river Irrawaddy burst and in a few moments a large district was flooded to a depth of from four to ten feet. Quite a number of persons were drowned, and many thousands were rendered homeless. The flooded district had within its territory many food-supplying stores and all of these were swept away. The result will be an approach to famine among the homeless people. The river will not fall sufficiently to permit any attempts at reconstruction of the broken embankment until November.