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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 14.

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—An alarming freshet is reported from Lawrence, Mass., a large proportion of the mills being stopped.

—D. H. Baily, ex-consul at Hongkong, is charged with misappropriating moneys to the amount of $38,411.

—Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria, died at Cannes, France, on the 28th ult.

—The U. S. Senate has passed the bill offering $25,000 reward for the discovery of the Greely Arctic party.

—Denver, Col., had a terrible windstorm, March 27, which unroofed about fifty buildings, besides doing other damage.

—A prairie fire near Casketown, Kansas, on the 28th ult., destroyed houses, barns, stock, grain, etc., over a radius of ten miles.

—The Chico Record states upon the authority of a gentleman of that place that there are no less than fifty tramps camped in that vicinity.

—Immigrants are arriving at Portland over the Nothern Pacific at the rate of about three hundred per day. They are principally farmers.

—The Woman Suffrage Committee of the U. S. Senate has reported in favor of a Constitutional amendment granting the right of suffrage to women.

—Three large devilfish, two of them measuring eight feet between the tips of the tentacles, were taken at Anacortes, W. T., last week, by some Indians.

—The five Bisbee murderers were hanged at Tombstone, A. T., March 28. As the sixth was hanged by a mob, Feb. 22, this puts an end to the whole gang.

—Secretary Teller has directed the District Attorney of California to enter a criminal suit against Silas Ruth for cutting 300,000 feet of lumber from Government land.

—An ice-gorge at St. Paul, Minn., it is reported, is changing the river channel to the opposite side of the island, and if not soon dislodged will cause great damage to the city.

—The Paris Gaulois reports serious outbreaks in Senegal. The Morens have broken their treaty alliance and are pillaging the villages. Several persons have been murdered.

—The managers of the Central and Southern Pacific combination claim that the late floods and freshets have caused damages to their roads to the extent of four million dollars.

—Gov. Murray has declined to approve the $50,000 appropriation of the Utah Legislature for the completion of the Deseret University building, which he claims is a sectarian institution.

—By recent arrangement of the C. P. Railroad the delay of the fast mail train at Ogden is avoided, and the time between New York and San Francisco has been shortened forty-eight hours.

—The nitro-glycerine house of the chemical works at Thompson's Point, N. J., exploded on the 29th ult., and killed six men, including the vice-president, superintendent, and the compounder of dynamite.

—At Bismarck, D. T. there is said to be an ice-gorge fifteen miles in length in the river, inclosing nine steamers. One steamer had been sunk, and the others were in imminent danger at last accounts.

—Twelve thousand names are on the books of the Overseers of the Poor as receiving alms in the city of Newark, N. J. The average family is four, so that the number of persons assisted is forty-eight thousand.

—It is asserted that the Central Pacific has secured control of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, and that it has secured nearly all the ex-Villard corporations. It is also said that Flood and Mackay are in with the Central Pacific in these new acquisitions.

—The battlefield of Pittsburg Landing is a regular placer mine of lead and iron for the Tennesseans, who find a source of wealth in junk. One dealer shipped over 3,000 pounds of old bullets last year. A shell was found the other day and exploded, after being buried twenty-one years.