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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1883

News and Notes.

—The value of American railways is $6,300,000,000. —In Berlin 124,000 children receive free instruction. —Last week, 1,042 immigrants arrived in San Francisco by rail. —A hundred warehouses have been destroyed by fire at Salmica, Roumelia. —A Socialistic picnic at Chicago, on the 12th inst., was attended by 10,000 people. —Over $500,000 damage was done by a wind and hail-storm in Iowa last week. —There was a violent thunder-storm in northern California, on the 6th inst., doing much damage to hay and grain. —Two Norwegian barks came in collision off Dover, Eng., last week. One of them went down, carrying with her thirteen of the crew. —It is reported that in a riot in a Russian town, August 3, against the Jews, many houses were destroyed and one hundred persons killed. —A fire originating in the Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., on the morning of the 12th, resulted in loss of property to the amount of $1,000,000. —The Austrian, German, and Turkish Governments are engaged in negotiations for the complete annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria. —Many telegraph wires have been cut in the East by strikers. Nearly 200 wires between New York and Philadelphia were rendered useless one day last week. —The railroad telegraph operators have now been ordered to stop work. This will be a more serious affair than the first strike, as it will inconvenience the traveling public. —It is stated that as some laborers were digging a well on a farm, five miles from Kansas City, they struck a large vein of silver ore, at a depth of twenty feet. Specimens assayed were found to be very rich. —At a Baptist church festival in Camden, N. C., Friday evening, Aug. 4, sixty persons were poisoned by ice-cream, some of them fatally. Ice-cream is in danger of being abandoned as a means of spreading the gospel. —The Sacramento (Cal.) city authorities have passed an ordinance licensing gambling, the only restriction placed upon the gamblers being that they must confine their operations to the upper stories of buildings, and not permit minors to play. —A rain and hail-storm occurred near Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 8th. It swept through a section two miles in width, beating down all vegetation. It is regarded as one or the most severe storms that ever visited western Iowa. Several lives are reported as having been lost. —There was a terrible riot at Los Palmas, Mexico, on the 8th inst. The trouble occurred between the American and Mexican laborers employed at the terminus of the San Luis and Tampico Railroad at Los Palmas. Seven men were killed, three others fatally and ten seriously injured. —The Produce Exchange of New York, at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution directing that a committee should be appointed to see if independent telegraph lines could not be erected throughout the country, for the joint use of the different Exchanges, thus freeing themselves from the telegraph monopoly. —Several weeks ago the Common Council of Syracuse, N. Y., passed a resolution prohibiting the Salvation Army from parading the streets. One night last week the Army marched through the streets, shouting and singing, and the whole body were arrested. They were saved from jail by a friendly Alderman, who signed their bail bond.