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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 37.

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—Heavy rains have done much damage in Spain.

—It will now cost a circus $1,000 a day license, to show in Los Angeles.

—The raisin crop of Los Angeles County, Cal., this season will be 125,000 boxes.

—Gold in large quantities has lately been discovered in China on the Amoor River.

—Four men were drowned in Snake River, Oregon, Sept. 25, by the capsizing of a skiff.

—A Nevada man is going into the business of canning rabbits for shipment to the East.

—There is a prospect that the Oregon and California Railroad will be finished in about a year.

—The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been swindled out of over $500,000 by contractors and engineers.

—The big elephant Jumbo was killed by the cars Sept. 15, while trying to save a baby elephant from being run over.

—August 15, the town of Canta, in Peru, was desolated, and most of its inhabitants massacred by revolutionary forces.

—A gang of ruffians near New Orleans recently assaulted, tied, and unmercifully beat several inoffensive colored citizens. The desperadoes belong to the Anti-prohibition Party, and the colored people had been supporting the temperance movement. A reward is offered for the apprehension of the ruffians.

—It is announced that the Canadian Pacific Railway will be opened for the carrying of freight and passengers to British Columbia on October 5.

—The Indian agent of the Umatilla Reservation has given all trespassers upon those lands ten days' time in which to leave or be ejected by force.

—Tonquin advices are that the Black Flags are preparing for active guerrilla war on the French troops, and will soon begin aggressive operations unless terms are made with them.

—Under permission from the Government, the Oakland ferry boats have been arranged for burning petroleum instead of coal. By this change, a saving of from 17 to 44 per cent. in fuel is effected.

—At Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 26, a party of non-union mill men were attacked by a party of armed men, and 200 shots were exchanged. No one was killed, but several persons were seriously injured.

—Smuggling by cabin passengers on the ocean steamers plying between New York and European ports has grown to such dimensions that it has recently been the subject of a special order from the Treasury Department.

—The Russian Admiralty has ordered two fast cruisers to be built at Copenhagen, and the police of St. Petersburg have been ordered to renew the measures of increased strategy introduced during the darkest days of nihilism.

—At Celina, Ohio, lately, three or four youths, not yet of age, were placed under bonds for burglaries committed in that town. One of them is the son of the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and another is a son of the county clerk.

—The Director-General of the North, Central, and South American Exposition at New Orleans, states that the buildings, grounds, etc., are now ready in every particular for the reception of exhibits, and exhibitors are requested to forward articles at once.

—A dispatch from Rome, dated Sept. 13, says: "Baron Von Schoezen is going to Rome, bearing an autograph letter from Emperor William to the pope, looking to a settlement of the religious disputes that have been pending between Germany and the Vatican."

—A Scotch colony of eighty-two persons are on their way to locate at Lancaster, Los Angeles County, Cal. As there is not sufficient hotel accommodations, their three sleeping cars have been side-tracked to accommodate the settlers until they can build their houses.

—The night of Sept. 12, a terrible storm swept over the island of Malokai, Hawaiian Islands. A church, dedicated only a few days before, was lifted from its foundation, and so badly wrecked that it had to be pulled down. Trees two feet or more in diameter were torn from the roots, or snapped like pipe stems.

—In Harney Valley, Or., is a tract of land which was taken up as swamp, but upon which the owner is sinking an artesian well for irrigating purposes. An ex-State official is said to hold a large block of these "swamp" lands, which he informed some possible purchasers was "capable of cultivation if thoroughly irrigated."

—Rebecca Jarrett, of the Salvation Army; Thomas William Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette; Sampson Jacques, one of the staff of that paper; Mrs. Combe, Bromwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, and Louise Mowrey, defendants in the abduction case of Eliza Armstrong, have been held for trial. In connection with the examination Mr. Stead made additional damaging charges against the king of the Belgians, princes, dukes, and members of parliament.

—September 13, in Marin County, Cal., Frank Marshalls shot his son, eighteen years of age, while hunting, by mistaking him for a deer. It is frightful to contemplate the number of such deaths this year in California. It is absolutely dangerous to go into the woods. Another case is reported near Red Bluff, where one man shot another, whom he mistook for a bear. We believe that a law should be passed that would inflict a severe penalty for such careless shooting.

—The French Radicals demand among other things the expulsion of the Bonapartist and Orleanist princes, and the confiscation of the property of the latter; the reduction of the military service; a special tax on foreigners residing in France; the maintenance by the nation of the sick and indigent and aged among the working classes; the separation of Church and State and the confiscation of clerical property; the abolition of the national debt. Some of these demands savor strongly of socialism.