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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1883

News and Notes.

By Editor

Twenty-two persons were drowned on the 22d ult., by the wrecking of a steamer on the Bosporus.

A bill has been introduced into the Montana Legislature providing for the punishment of bigamy and polygamy.

A dispatch from Hongkong, dated Feb. 21, says that the United States steamer Ashuelot is lost. Eleven of the crew were drowned.

An explosion of giant powder occurred at the railroad works near East Portland, Or., on the 23d ult., by which ten Chinamen were killed.

Thirty-five packages of opium, valued at $15,000, were discovered by the San Francisco Custom-house officers, on board the City of Tokio.

Large quantities of mineral specimens from Utah, Idaho, and Montana Mines, have been shipped to the International Exposition at Amsterdam.

It is stated that letters have been received by the authorities, containing threats to blow up the Kremlin at Moscow, where the Czar is to be crowned.

A boat containing a funeral party of eight persons, who were crossing the Mississippi near Clinton, Ky., was capsized, and the whole party were drowned, last week.

The Erie road is building a locomotive to practically test an invention for at once consuming smoke, and heating air from the waste steam for use in warming cars.

Governor Butler proclaims April 5th as a fast day, and especially exhorts ministers to feed their flocks with the divine word, and not discourse upon political or other social topics.

Last year, the New York Exchange sold 32,700,000 bales of cotton, of which 600,000 were delivered. The 32,100,000 not delivered represents the gambling in cotton alone on "margins."

Six new names are added to the list of those killed in the Diamond Mine disaster, at Braidwood, Ill., making eighty in all. The water is yet so deep in the mine that no bodies can be found.

Thos. W. Palmer, of Detroit, has just received a letter from Sweden relative to lands in Michigan for a colony of 1,500 or more families of Swedes who desire to settle in that State.

Seventy persons were fatally poisoned in a lumber camp near Saginaw, Mich., last week. The cook was a new hand, and had mixed strychnine with the biscuits, thinking it was saleratus.

The president of the Empire Mining Company, of Summit County, U. T., having been given the agency of a large estate in New York, has proved to be a defaulter to the amount of $800,000.

A bill has been introduced into the Kansas Legislature making public drunkenness a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $10.00 or imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days, or both.

The Ohio River is falling, and no more danger is apprehended, but the Mississippi is rising, and the outlook is anything but pleasant. The river at Cairo, Ill., is higher than was ever known before.

The frequency of the raids made upon the Chinese gambling dens of San Francisco, as reported by the daily papers, leads us to wonder if none but Chinese are engaged in the unlawful business of gambling in that city.

The daily papers are full to overflowing with the details of horrible crimes. Even if we were willing to publish such things, we could not do it, as we would have no room left for other news. The land is defiled with blood.

Forty students at St. Petersburg have been imprisoned for expressing doubts as to the administrative ability of the Minister of Public Instruction. It is hardly to be wondered at that nihilism flourishes under such treatment.

A dispatch from Denver, Col., Feb. 24, says: "At Leadville and surrounding towns the small-pox is raging. All efforts to retard the spread of the disease failed. The schools are closed, and the situation is becoming alarming."

Reredell, one of the defendants in the star-route case, has turned States' evidence. He pleaded "guilty as charged in the indictment," and threw himself on the mercy of the Court. His testimony makes the prospect look dark for his fellow conspirators. It is thought certain that his evidence will convict them all.

Eighteen children were crushed to death during a panic caused by an alarm of fire in a school attached to a Catholic Church in New York, Feb. 20. The fire was insignificant, but the children rushed out, and were precipitated to the floor below by the breaking of the stair railing. By a system of drill this might have been avoided. All the victims were girls.

Eight convicts in the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City, rebelled on the 23d ult., and, setting fire to the buildings, attempted to escape. They were captured, but the fire damaged the State buildings to the amount of $300,000. As a consequence of this offense, the Governor has sent a message to the State Legislature, recommending the passage of a law making such offenses punishable with death.

Rumors of war with China still continue rife, and point to the possibility of a war at no distant date. Of the 7,000,000 yen which is expected to be realized by the recently imposed extra taxation, 3,000,000 is to be devoted to the navy, 1,500,000 to the army, and the remaining 2,500,000 is to be kept as a reserve. It is here stated that two iron-clads, originally commenced in Germany for the Chilean Government, are to be at once acquired. Native journals state that all the factories, etc., remaining in Government hands are to be disposed of to raise money for war-like purposes. The Jiji Shinpo, a native paper, referring to the apprehended hostility of China towards Japan, says that the patriots of the Celestial Empire are advocating war in order to punish the Japanese and prevent them from heaping any further insults upon China.