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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 35.

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—Victoria, B. C., had a $100,000 fire on the 2d inst.

—A few cases of yellow fever are reported from Biloxi, Miss.

—China has seized Corea professedly to prevent Russia from occupying it.

—The people of the United States consumed 19,642,870 barrels of beer in 1885.

—The damage caused by the recent earthquakes at Philiatra, Greece, amounts to about $2,000,000.

—Of the 670 members of the British Parliament, England elects 465, Wales 30, Scotland 72, and Ireland 103.

—Sept. 4, nine men were killed in the Cascade Mountains by the caving of a tunnel on the North Pacific Railroad.

—No rain has fallen in Taylor County, Texas, for fourteen months, and many of the people are in destitute circumstances.

—Apostle Cannon, the fugitive Mormon, who some months since forfeited $25,000 bail, has reimbursed his bondsmen.

—In a railway collision at Modling, eight miles from Vienna, Austria, August 30, seven persons were killed and twenty-two wounded.

—A mill fire at Zilwaukee, Mich., on the 3d inst. destroyed twenty acres of buildings, and nine million feet of lumber of different grades.

—The Apache Indians, to the number of 400 men, have been removed from the San Carlos Reservation, in Arizona, to Fort Union, New Mexico.

—August 30, a terrible explosion occurred in the Fairlawn, Pa., colliery, which resulted in the death of five men, two others being seriously injured.

—A company of English capitalists propose to build a railroad from Tuxpan to the city of Mexico, the estimated cost of which will be $25,000,000.

—A number of the men engaged in the recent riots in Belfast have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to nineteen months.

—A general lock-out of union men has been inaugurated by the New York clothing manufacturers. About 10,000 people have been thrown out of employment.

—The Missouri River bridge at Leavenworth, Kan., was burned September 1. Being an iron structure the destruction was not total but the loss was $400,000.

—A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Antequera, near Malaga, Spain, on the 31st ult. The inhabitants fled panic-stricken from the town. There was no loss of life.

—The Mexican Government has issued a circular requesting the governors of the several States to at once advise the General Government of the full particulars of the arrest of foreigners.

—Geronimo and his band of about twenty hostiles have at last surrendered unconditionally to Captain Lawton. These Indians were on the war path 476 days, and committed over 400 murders.

—The Philadelphia Ledger states that electric motors are now successfully used on street railways in Philadelphia, Baltimore, South Bend, Montgomery, Ala., Minneapolis, and in Windsor, Canada.

—Queen Margherita, it is said, hopes to bring about a reconciliation between the Italian Government and the Papacy, from which the latter would receive a large amount as arrears of endowment.

—The American schooner, Highland Light, has been seized for fishing within the three-mile limit, off the east point of Prince Edward Island. This is the first actual seizure made for fishing within the limit.

—Out of some 300 Scandinavian Mormon immigrants who arrived recently at Castle Garden, fifty were detained for examination. About forty, it is thought, will be sent back. Those detained left wives and husbands behind.

—A Sophia dispatch of Sept. 4, says that Prince Alexander has publicly announced his intention of abdicating. He says he cannot remain in Bulgaria on account of the objections of the Czar. Before leaving he will establish a regency.

—Extraordinary precautions are being taken by the authorities of Quebec to prevent the spread of the cattle disease. It is probable that the authorities will have to buy and destroy all the cattle owned around the quarantine grounds.

—The Berlin North German Gazette says, "Every French newspaper proves that France is making rapid preparations to fight and that financial sacrifices are being made to raise the efficiency of the army. Germany must always keep her eyes fixed upon France."

—The Treasury Department has recently decided that holders of light gold pieces must lose the amount of the abrasion. It is thought that this order will bring paper money into favor on the Pacific Coast where it has never yet been used to any considerable extent.

—In speaking of the present unsettled condition of things in Europe, the San Francisco Chronicle, of August 29, says: "Nothing is more anomalous in European politics than the fact that everything is off again the moment every one thinks a permanent peace has been arranged."

—A late London dispatch says: "A tremendous scare prevails in naval circles arising from a startling discovery in the Shoeburyness official gun trials. Among the shells experimented with and used against a heavy target, representing sections of armored ships-of-war, was one recently adopted by the French Government for the army and navy. For the purpose of testing it, a target of 18-inch plate was used, with nine feet of backing, and a 10-inch plate beyond. The shells penetrated the entire mass, and when found were so little affected as to be almost fit for use again. The most powerful shells of the regulation patterns, trained against similar targets, have utterly failed to accomplish anything like the same execution. The shell revolutionizes naval warfare. English naval experts declare there is not an ironclad afloat capable of withstanding guns firing such shells.

—Cholera returns for the whole of Italy, September 3, showed 109 new cases of cholera and 41 deaths. On the same date a violent outbreak of cholera was reported at Torre del Annunziata, near Naples, in consequence of which the religious festival has been prohibited by the town authorities.

—It is stated that the war spirit in Russian military circles runs high, and feeling in favor of a campaign of conquest in European Turkey is spreading with amazing rapidity. Military measures have suddenly been ordered that point to a decision to make a fresh attempt to secure a Russian outlet on the Mediterranean.

—Letters recently received at New York state that on August 19, Jamaica was visited by a terrific cyclone and windstorm. Entire plantations in the interior of the island were laid waste. Buildings were unroofed, vessels in the harbors were driven ashore, and an immense amount of property in all parts of the island was destroyed.

—A Chicago dispatch of August 29 says: "About 9:30 o'clock this morning a cyclone burst over this city the like of which has never before been known here. Not a spot in the city or suburbs escaped unharmed, but the fury of the storm burst on the west side of the city, where there is scarcely a house but was damaged." In the midst of the storm a large powder magazine, only a short distance from the city, was struck by lightning, and the explosion which followed destroyed $75,000 worth of property, besides killing one person, injuring three fatally, and twenty-five more or less seriously. The magazine contained 100,000 pounds of common powder and about half as much dynamite. The storm was the most disastrous ever experienced in Chicago.