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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1882

News of the Week.

SUNDAY, MARCH 5.—Colonel Corkhill, assisted by Dr. Gray, spent the day in examining that portion of the bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case which refers to the medical testimony. Mr. Scoville says that as soon as the document is off his hands, he intends to withdraw from the case. He thinks some other lawyer can easily be found to argue the case before the court in banc.

—A Vienna dispatch states that 40 persons have been killed by the falling of a shaft in a mine near Toplitz.

—In Cincinnati, Ohio, the Provincial Council of the Catholic churches of that diocese is now in private session. The proceedings and the records are in the Latin language. None but the members of the Council are permitted to have access to them, and upon them the most solemn obligation of secrecy is imposed. It is believed that the subject of education will receive important consideration. The ceremonies to-day were very imposing. The procession in the morning was witnessed by multitudes of people.

—A dispatch from Ain-Sefra, in Algeria, states that 800 French troops were surprised and defeated, and afterward 1500 of the insurgents were completely routed, leaving behind 100 killed and wounded.

MONDAY, MARCH 6.—General Skobeleff was heartily cheered by large crowds in St. Petersburg.

—An attempt to cross the English Channel in a balloon terminated to-day by the balloon falling into the sea off Dover. The aeronauts perished.

—To-day Prince Milan of Servia accepted royal dignity. He will hereafter be known as King Milan.

—The widow and 6 children of the recently deceased Chinese professor of Harvard have started for their native land.

—Ex-Senator Conkling has declined the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

—Paris is to have a new bank with a capital of 50,000,000 francs, to represent the Union Generale, which went down in the recent panic.

—A resolution looking to the friendly intervention of the United States in behalf of the Russian Jews has been referred by the House of Representatives to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

—In the interests of law and order, the authorities of Chicago have been making a raid on the gambling dens of that city. Quite a number of gamblers have been indicted to appear before the Grand Jury at the February term of court. It is said that Emery A. Storrs has been retained as their counsel.

—An explosion occurred in a packing-house belonging to the Lake Superior Powder Company, Marquette, Mich., which contained at the time about a ton and a half of powder. The four men employed in the building, were literally blown to atoms, and the dispatch states that, “two pailfuls of the victims’ remains have been found, up to this time.” Nothing remains to show where the building stood.

TUESDAY, MARCH 7.—It is believed that at least 40,000 persons have been rendered destitute by floods in the Western rivers; and the cotton crop will be lessened by 1,000,000 bales.

—Charles A. Sweet & Co., a banking firm of Boston, have suspended payment, and liabilities between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. It is believed, however, that they will soon be able to pay in full.

—Three young men entered the house of Mr. Wm. Sour of Chicago this morning, and after binding Mrs. Sour, stole a watch, several pictures, and what money they could find.

—The emigration from Germany to America this year promises to be greater than ever before. During January and February, 12,655 persons left the port of Hamburg alone for the United States.

—Earl Rosedale has introduced a bill into the House of Lords, excluding all atheists from both houses of Parliament.

—Important arrests of Nihilists have been made at Odessa. A secret press was discovered.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8.—The total earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad for the past year were $24,258,817,—an increase of nearly $7,000,000 over the previous years’ receipts,—and the net earnings were $11,778,474.

—The gross revenue of the Western Union Telegraph Company is reported as $16,868,399; the net profits, $7,379,127.

—A very interesting case is on trial in the Superior Court of Chicago. The suit is brought by a lady against a saloonist, for making a confirmed inebriate of her husband, thereby depriving the family of his support.

—The College of Cardinals is soon to convene at Rome, when the pope will appoint 7 new Cardinals. One of these is Archbishop McCabe of Dublin, and his promotion is an expression of the pope’s approval of his efforts in behalf of the cause of law and order in Ireland.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9.—There is a strike at the Union Rolling Mills in Chicago, with little hope of a compromise.

—President Arthur recommends increasing the United States navy by the addition of 500 enlisted men.

—The German government is negotiating the purchase of six additional railroads.

—A delegation of health officers is in Washington, urging Congress to take measures to prevent the importation of small-pox into this country.

—The striking railroad employes at Omaha, Neb., have been joined by the hands in the principal manufactories. Demonstrations of a serious nature are feared, and Governor Nance has telegraphed to President Arthur, asking for government troops to protect men who are willing to work.

—Owing to recent severe storms, the water in the flooded Western rivers is still rising, and the destruction of life and property goes on. The present overflow is said to be the most disastrous and widespread that has ever occurred.

—Dispatches received via London state that in official circles war between Austria and Russia is considered inevitable. As a consequence, there has been a sudden, and what promises to be an alarming, fall in the price of nearly all the securities dealt in at the London stock exchange.

—Mr. R. H. Cornwall of Plainfield, N. J., a clerk of the Fourth National Bank of New York, has confessed to having swindled that institution out of $70,000. He is 65 years of age, has been employed in the bank over 11 years, and was considered every way trustworthy. Another case of ruin from speculation.

—A German supposed to be an officer in the Prussian army, has been arrested near Lyons, France, for making plans of the fortifications of that city.

—An American company is seeking from the Sultan of Turkey the right to build a railroad in the Province of Bagdad.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10.—Plainfield, N. J., has another sensation this week. Mr. Nelson W. Gardner of that place died very suddenly Sunday evening, of an apoplectic stroke, his family said. It now appears that it is a case of suicide, he having embezzled funds belonging to the First Baptist church of Plainfield. A case of speculation again.

—MacLean, Queen Victoria’s assailant, has been indicted on a charge of high treason.

—On receiving General Skobeleff, the Czar censured him for his recent inflammatory speeches, which have resulted in putting Russia in an unenviable position before Europe.

—Near Wheeling, W. Va., the steamer Sidney burst her main steam-pipe this morning, instantly killing two persons, and scalding a number of others, at least two of them fatally.

—It is stated that in England 1,000 persons are annually killed from causes directly resulting from industrial occupations.

—At Lima, Ohio, Mrs. Vanatta sued a saloonist for $5,000 damages for selling liquor to her son, which intoxicated him, and caused him to engage in a quarrel, during which he received injuries which ended his life. She was awarded $500.