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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 20, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 27.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

-The debt of New York is $97,952,052.

-There have been several deaths from heat in New York City.

-The great iron strike in Chicago is ended, the strikers coming out victorious.

-A gas explosion at a fire in Paris, recently, destroyed twelve houses, and killed twenty persons.

-Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is dangerously ill from a stroke of paralysis, and is not expected to recover.

-The signal service records show that 600 tornadoes have occurred in this country in the past eighty-seven years.

-During the year ending June 30, the distillers of Peoria, Ill., used 4,831,568 bushels of grain, and produced 18,563,156 gallons of spirits.

-Mexican advices state that the black small-pox is raging with great violence at Mazatlan. It is said that there have been fifty deaths there.

-July 14, the entire business part of Colfax, W. T., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $500,000. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.

-A train, with 217 persons on board, ran off the track on a railroad in Russia, July 13. One hundred and seventy-eight persons were killed, and the rest were more or less injured.

-We do not pollute our pages with accounts of murders, but we note the fact that the daily papers of the past week have recorded no less than twenty-two murders in the United States. As a rule, the causes of the murders are of the most trivial character.

-During a storm at Texarkana, Ark., July 12, lightning struck a three-story brick building, which fell in a mass on a saloon, burying it and about forty men in the ruins. A fire was started by the lamps, and two other buildings were burned. Several persons were killed.

-The Island of Vau Vau, one of the Friendly Islands, was recently visited by a hurricane and tidal wave. The hurricane is said to have been the worst ever experienced in that group. The destruction was complete. All the houses and trees were leveled, and nearly all swept away.

-At a recent meeting of the Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Anti-Chinese Association, of San Francisco, a wholesale dealer said that to suddenly cut off trade with Chinese-made goods, would destroy the trade of nearly every dealer in the city, as there were but few who had not such goods in stock.

-On the Erie Railway, last week, a locomotive fired entirely by hydrogen gas, produced by chemical decomposition of water under the action of ignited naphtha, was successfully run from Paterson to Jersey City, making the trip one minute ahead of time, and coming into the depot with a pressure of 140 pounds of steam—nearly three times as much as the ordinary locomotives at the end of such a trip. It is claimed that when engineers get more used to the new engine, only half the naphtha used on this trip will be necessary. The amount of naphtha used for nineteen and three-quarters miles, was eighty-four gallons, costing $2.80, or about one-third the cost of the coal usually used for the same distance.