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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 40.

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—Earthquake shocks were felt in the Shetland Islands, Oct. 5.

—Slight shocks of earthquake are still felt occasionally in South Carolina.

—The peace of Europe is still threatened by the attitude of Russia toward Bulgaria.

—It is stated that the war feeling in France against Germany is growing rapidly.

—The Government printing office, at Washington, D. C., employs 2,500 men and women.

—Yellow fever is said to be raging at Biloxi, Miss., eighty miles from New Orleans.

—A child aged only thirteen years recently murdered three younger children in Central America.

—Delhi, India, has recently been the scene of religious rioting between Hindoos and Mohammedans.

—Captain James P. Arthur, the man who raised the first American flag in California, died recently near Boston.

—The cholera is still making the most fearful ravages in Corea. In the Seoul district hundreds are dying daily.

—The appeal of Ex-alderman Jaehne, of New York, has been decided against him and he must remain in prison.

—A new colony has been formed east of the Jordan River in Palestine. The colonists are all citizens of Jerusalem.

—A fire in Eastport, Me., last week, destroyed $800,000 worth of property, and 100 families are reported as homeless.

—The sentence of the leaders of the late revolt in Madrid, has been commuted to life imprisonment in military prisons in Africa.

—On the 8th inst., 8,000 employés in the Chicago packing houses went out on a strike against a return to the ten hour system.

—A disastrous hurricane along the coast of Great Britain, last week, wrecked several vessels, and the reports sum up a loss of over seventy lives.

—All the schools of Hanover, Germany—a city of about 150,000 inhabitants—have been closed because of an epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria.

—A disastrous fire occurred at Salisbury, Md., on the night of the 17th inst. It nearly destroyed the town, the loss being roughly estimated at $1,000,000.

—An American schooner, trading in a Russian port without the proper permit, was seized recently by a Russian man-of-war. The vessel and cargo were confiscated.

—At Deadwood, D. T., Oct. 5, a spark from a tobacco pipe caused an explosion of giant powder by which four men were killed and some five or six others were injured.

—An Anarchist plot to burn Vienna was recently discovered. The plot was directed from America and London, and was to have been executed by Viennese Anarchists.

—Prosecutions are being pushed against the New York aldermen of 1884, and it is probable that several of them may be sent to Sing Sing. Even Jacob Sharp, who bribed them, may share the same fate.

—The astonishing intelligence has been telegraphed from Europe to New York, and thence all over the United States, that “leading scientists” “all agree that at present earthquakes cannot be predicted!”

—The “first rain” of the season visited the Pacific Coast on the morning of the 16th inst. It extended from Washington Territory to Monterey, Cal., the fall varying at different points from one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch.

—An earthquake has destroyed every village on the island of Niapu in the South Pacific. The inhabitants escaped. The island is covered twenty feet deep with volcanic dust, and a new hill two hundred feet high has been formed.

—Judge Gray, of Chicago, has overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of the eight convicted Anarchists. There is now little doubt that seven of them will be executed, while the eighth will go to prison for a term of twenty years.

—A father and his three sons were suffocated in a coal mine in England some days since. One of the sons entered first, and failing to come out, another went in and did not return. Then the remaining son and finally the father ventured into the fatal mine.

—Another Mormon bishop, William E. Bassett, has been arrested at Salt Lake City for “unlawful cohabitation,” and held in $1,500 bail. Bassett is the successor of Bishop Sharp, who was deposed because, when convicted on a similar charge, he pledged himself to obey the law.

—On the 6th inst. the steamer La Mascotte exploded her boilers off Neely’s Landing, Mo. Eleven men were fearfully scalded; six of them fatally. The vessel took fire and burned to the water’s edge and a number of passengers were lost. The total number of lives lost was about twenty.

—The last reports from the great storm along the gulf shore, which destroyed the village of Sabine Pass, Texas, and flooded the entire region known as Johnson’s Bayou and Taylor’s Bayou, estimate the loss of life at 250 persons, and the loss of property total, including live-stock, of which there were probably 10,000 head.

—Several of the men concerned in the murder of Rev. Geo. C. Haddock, in Sioux City, Iowa, on the 30th of last August, have been arrested. One of them has made a confession stating that a party of men had arranged to give Haddock a whipping. They met him, and a brewer, by the name of Armsdorff, who attempted to thrash the preacher, was opposed, whereupon he drew a revolver and shot him.

—The Democratic Federation of London has issued a manifesto in which it says: “The unemployed are certain to experience distress still more severe than that experienced in 1885. Honest workmen and their families are doomed to a hopeless struggle with starvation during the coming winter. The wealthy classes are responsible for the awful neglect of the poor. Our rulers could not but fear for themselves if they could see the misery which their selfish apathy inflicts upon the producers of wealth.”