Secular News | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 22.

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Secular News.

—A $200,000 fire recently occurred at the Dalles, Oregon.

—Russia is about to add a number of swift cruisers to her fleet.

—Arizona is receiving a large number of emigrants from Texas.

—The Longfellow Copper Mine, Clifton, Arizona, yielded $3,000,000 last year.

—Preparations for the Mexican International Exposition are in rapid progress.

—A fire has recently occurred in Buffalo, resulting in considerable loss of property.

—The Warner Silver bill with its amendments has passed the House by about 20 majority.

—Two prisoners confined in Kern County jail for murder, were lynched May 28, by a masked mob.

—A committee of nine has been appointed by Congress to give the subject of temperance special attention.

—The President has nominated J. W. Craycroft of West Virginia to be United States Attorney for Idaho.

—A correspondent at Berlin reports that Germany and France are co-operating heartily on the Greek question.

—Another Chinese laden vessel has just arrived at Astoria, Oregon, making five shiploads in less than a week.

—United States troops are stationed on the Indian Territory lines, to prevent emigrants from settling in the Territory.

—A dispatch from Berlin states that negotiations are proceeding there for a commercial treaty with Japan on the model of the Japanese treaty with the United States.

—The British India Steam Navigation Company's steamer, Ava, was sunk May 26, in a collision with another vessel, and sixty-five of her crew and four passengers drowned.

—A dispatch from Simla, May 30, says that the treaty of peace between Great Britain and Afghanistan was ratified to-day, and a salute of thirty-one guns was fired in honor of the event.

—May 31, the first passenger train of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad reached the Kenosha Summit, 10,140 feet above the sea level. The highest yet reached by any railroad in North America.

—A dispatch, lately from Athens, announces an engagement between Turkish troops and insurgents at Perlasia, Thessaly. The Turks lost 450 killed and wounded, and the insurgents 70, including their leaders.

—Twenty-seven children have suddenly died near Island Pond, Vt., as the result of drinking from a brook into which were thrown carcasses of animals, poisoned by eating potato tops, upon which had been sprinkled Paris green.

—An expedition by the American Colonization Society will leave New York on June 14, when the bark Monrovia will sail direct for Liberia. The Society has applications from 500,000 persons for passage and homes in the Liberian Republic.

—Bismarck's note inviting the cities of Hamburg and Bremen to surrender their privileges as free ports, and to associate themselves with the Imperial fiscal system, is couched in such terms as to leave no choice between submission and the certainty of compulsion.

—The Daily News says that the Chinese Envoys have been favorably received by the king of Spain. Negotiations for a treaty relative to the importation of coolies has been effected. According to the treaty, Chinamen in Spanish colonies will enjoy the same treatment as that of citizens of the most favored nations. The commercial relations of Spain and China will be placed on a similar footing.

—The eruption of Mount Etna increases in force. The quantity of ashes thrown out is somewhat less, but the volume of vapor has greatly increased in density. The night of May 28, brilliant balls of fire were thrown to a great height and burst aloft like rockets, emitting a fiery shower. A stream of lava is flowing apparently in the direction of Randazzo, but the exact line has not yet been verified, and loud reports like the rolling of artillery were heard. From later accounts, craters have formed on two slopes of Mount Etna, and a double eruption is proceeding.

—A terrible rain and wind storm passed over northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska last week. The town of Irving was nearly destroyed. Many persons were killed and wounded. At this point, the storm took the character of a cyclone, and leveled everything before it. It passed into Missouri, struck the earth four miles from Lee's Summit, and tore a furrow through the country about 100 yards wide and ten miles long. The storm was said to be extremely violent in Ottawa County. Fifteen dead bodies were brought in from two square miles of territory.