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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 38.

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—The public debt was decreased about $12,000,000 during September.

—It is estimated that the corn crop this year will be 1,979,636,000 bushels.

—The miners and cattlemen of Arizona are offering fifty dollars apiece for Apache scalps.

—The death of the Earl of Shaftsbury a few days since will be lamented by all true-hearted people.

—A fire broke out in the principal square at Iquique, Peru, and destroyed about $2,000,000 of property.

—The flood recently at False Point, near Calcutta, wrecked many vessels and destroyed about 300 persons.

—A battery of boilers in Clark & Co's. Solar Iron Works exploded October 2, injuring seventeen persons, three fatally.

—Turkish brigands have captured the niece of Archbishop Verias, and another lady. They demand the sum of £3,000 for the ransom of the prisoners.

—A mass of lead in an elevated furnace in Paris was completely dissipated recently by a stroke of lightning, no traces of metal being found afterward.

—Another instance where one of two parties out hunting mistakes the other for an animal and shoots him, happened near Santa Rosa, Cal., the other day.

—Notices have been posted about the streets of Seattle, Washington Territory, warning the firemen not to interfere should fires break out in Chinatown.

—At a mass-meeting recently held in Chicago in the interest of the Irish under Parnell, 10,000 people were present and subscribed $5,000 for the object.

—A flood, said to be a tidal wave, recently swept over False Point in British India, near Calcutta, destroying much property and killing about three hundred persons.

—At Montreal, where the small-pox has been doing its deadly work for some time past, a riot of Sept. 28, caused by compulsory vaccination, resulted in a good deal of damage to property.

—George H. Procter, a noted criminal, who is serving a sentence of ten years in the Eastern penitentiary, Pa., has confessed to having participated in robbing the Erie Railroad office at Susquehanna of $40,000.

—The N. Y. Tribune has printed an interview with Ben Butler in which he says, "I have grandchildren who will live to see the Vanderbilts and Goulds taken out to the nearest lamp-post and hanged." Perhaps.

—An attempt was recently made to wreck the southern bound train near Delta, Shasta Co., Cal. The would-be wrecker was arrested and sentenced within twenty-four hours thereafter, to four years in the State's prison.

—A serious collision occurred Sept. 11, between the British bark Gulnare and the American ship Paramatta, while in a storm on the high seas. The captain of the Gulnare narrowly escaped being killed, but fortunately no lives were lost.

—It is reported that the postmaster-general decided, September 30, to discontinue sending the U. S. mail for China, Japan, and Australia, by the way of Europe and the Suez Canal and restore it to the route via San Francisco and Australia.

—At the reception given Mme. Nilsson at Stockholm recently, 40,000 people assembled. In moving away down the street, where there was a rough place in the sidewalk a panic occurred, some tumbled down and the crowd trampled them to death. Eighteen were killed and many more wounded.

—Frank M. Dwight, of San Francisco, was taken sick on the 18th and died on the 19th ult. The doctors were unable to diagnose the case. After death an autopsy was held on the body, revealing the fact that death was caused by a jagged lemon seed lodged in the intestines.

—The trouble in Roumelia, a province in the northeastern part of Turkey, is difficult of solution. It seems that when Aleko's term of office expired last year, England, Turkey, and Russia each put forward a candidate for governor of East Roumelia. Russia's candidate, M. Crestovitch, a Bulgarian devoted to Russian interests, was appointed. It was this governor whom the people of Roumelia "sent to the right-about" about two weeks ago. The Turks are trying to put down this disturbance, while the great powers of Europe are divided in their sympathies between the Roumelians and the Turkish Government.