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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 3, 1881

ITEMS OF NEWS.

There is a "whisper" in London that the Government intends to sell Gibraltar to Spain.

Baron James Rothschild, one of the noted family of millionaires, died in Paris, October 25.

Eleven lives were lost—seven men and four women—by the sinking of a steamer at Rock Island, Ill.

Mayor Grace of New York, has given peremptory orders to the police to protect the Chinese in that city.

Thomas L. James has been confirmed as Postmaster General, and Frank Hatton of Iowa as First Assistant.

The total estimated yield of wheat in Michigan is 16,200,000 bushels, which is a little over half of what it was last year.

Ex-Governor Morgan having declined the office of Secretary of the Treasury, Judge Folger of New York has received it.

A Fresno, Cal., report says: The trial of the first of the 100 Sunday law cases resulted to-day in a disagreement of the jury.

An explosion occurred a few days ago in the Bald-win Gas Works, San Francisco. Several persons were quite severely injured.

It is reported that President Arthur has taken steps to procure impartial and complete information concerning polygamy in Utah.

Parnell has been imprisoned, and the Land League is evidently weakening. The Land Act is growing into favor, and the Land Court is busy.

The steamer Calcutta, bound from Melbourne to Sydney, Australia, foundered in a gale at sea, recently, and all on board, twenty-two persons, perished.

Henry Ward Beecher has retired from the editorial management of the Christian Union. Mr. Abbott, who has been associate editor, now succeeds him.

Menke, Grimm & Co.'s Planing Mill was destroyed by fire in Quincy, Ill., Oct. 30, together with a two-story brick block on the east of it. Loss $20,000.

The danger of fire from contact with uninsulated electric light wires, is beginning to excite fear on the part of the New York insurance companies and police.

The ship Maritime Union of St. Johns, N. B., with a cargo of 2,270 tons of coal for a firm in San Francisco, was burned at sea on the 6th ult. The crew were all rescued.

The eleventh annual session of the American Women's Suffrage Association, met recently in Louisville, Ky. Eleven States were represented by forty-four delegates.

A boiler explosion in a hub and spoke factory at Dayton, Ohio, October 25, resulted in the death of three men. The dwellings for several blocks around were demolished.

The greatest flood ever known at this season of the year now prevails in the Mississippi river. The levee at Hannibal, Mo., has given way, and the loss to farmers is very great.

It is predicted that the Republic of Columbo will be united to the United States. Blaine's letter on the Isthmus Canal question, against foreign influence, is favorably received in Columbo.

Dan Carey, postal clerk on the Union Pacific Road, has been arrested for stealing from the mail a registered package containing $2,000, between Kearney and Sidney, Neb. He confessed his guilt and turned over $1,600.

A Chinese college is to be established in Shanghai. There will also be branch institutions or academies in the French concession, and in Hongkong. The college is to be under the control of the Southern Methodist Mission.

Nine Governors were present at the opening of the Cotton Exhibition at Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27. Two suits of clothes were made that day for Governors Colquitt and Bigelow, from seed cotton picked at 7 o'clock that morning.

At Salt Lake a Gentile has been convicted of bigamy, because of his unorthodox condition. If he had been a Mormon and had sealed the second wife, he would have been all right. His plea was that he was drunk on the second marital occasion.

James Hope, one of the most notorious bank robbers living, and who was engaged in the robbery of the Manhattan Bank, New York, in 1878, has just been sentenced to seven and one half years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, for an attempted bank robbery in San Francisco.

Henry Villard is the "Railroad King" of the Northwest. He, or the Company for which he acts, is pushing the North Pacific, and other enterprises of interest to Oregon and Washington. Freight rates have been reduced, and wheat is now selling at Walla Walla at 65 cents, against 45 cents last year.

The financial statement of the Spanish Minister of Finance in the Cortes completes a plan for the conversion of all Treasury and redeemable issues into £60,000,000 of 4 per cent. stock, redeemable in forty years. The equalization of the revenue and the expenditures is not expected until the year 1882-3.

Rain has fallen in a large part of California during the past week. It is unusual to have as much so early in the season as has fallen this year. Some damage has been done, but wheat and grass have commenced growing, the farmers are plowing, and all seem content. The frost of Oct. 14, injured grapes in some places.

A frightful catastrophe took place last month at a dance held at a small hotel in the neighborhood of Meiningen, Germany. A petroleum lamp fell from the ceiling and set fire to the room and several of the dancers' dresses. During the rush to escape, the staircase gave way, and about fifty persons were thrown into a deep cellar. Six girls and two boys were killed, and about thirty other persons more or less seriously injured.

The Governor of California has pardoned George McClintock, aged 12 years, and sentenced from Placer county to the State Prison for breaking into a car. The pardon was granted because of the extreme youth of the boy, and because James Routier, a reputable citizen, has been by Court appointed his guardian, and proposes to take him on his farm, and endeavor to bring him up to useful manhood. Several boy hoodlums are yet in the penitentiary, whom the Governor will pardon out if homes are found for them.

The recent earthquake in the Abruzzi far exceeds in destructiveness anything that was indicated by the first news. The Archbishop of Chieti writes that more than one thousand houses are uninhabitable, and the remainder are badly damaged. The churches left standing are in a tottering condition, and religious services have to be celebrated in the open air. At another town, Orzogna, the ruin is still more complete. Of 1,340 houses, 618 were destroyed, and 79 others are tottering. Four-fifths of the population are without shelter, but fortunately the loss of life has been comparatively small. The army has forwarded a number of tents, and appeals for assistance are made with good success in Italy.