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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 28.

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—Canada has extended the voting franchise to the Indians.

—The exact reduction of the public debt last month was $9,156,861.63.

—By private letters from Iceland, we learn that famine is imminent there.

—During 1884, about 300,000 cattle were driven north from Texas to be fattened.

—The relations between Russia and England are again assuming a threatening character.

—About forty miles from Eagle Pass, Texas, the Indians, recently, made a raid on the Mexicans and killed fifteen of them.

—General Sheridan telegraphed the President from Fort Reno, July 16, that no serious Indian troubles need be apprehended.

—July 15, Niagara Park, at Niagara Falls, was thrown open to the public. No more admission fees forever, for seeing the Falls.

—It is estimated that, at the end of the present fiscal year, there will be a deficit of about $6,000,000 in the Post-office Department.

—July 14, the Munster Bank (Ireland) suspended payment. Liabilities $8,750,000. This, it is thought, will bring great suffering on the south of Ireland.

—John Roach, the well-known ship-builder, has failed. The four cruisers that he built for the Government and which were not accepted is what caused it.

—A very heavy rain-storm, accompanied by heavy wind and lightning, passed over the western part of Pennsylvania, July 13. The damage done to property is very great.

—The house of Josiah Evans, three miles from Grahampton, Clearfield County, Pa., was burned on the evening of July 16, and six of his children perished in the flames.

—Much damage has been done to the wheat crop in Kansas, by the recent long-continued cold rain. It is estimated that at least 1,000,000 bushels of wheat have been destroyed.

—The terrible storms and flood, which recently swept over Hungary and Austria, have killed a large number of persons, destroyed many homes, and done much damage to growing crops and trees.

—In Washington, D. C., June 16, a fire broke out in the building occupied by the Daily Post, National Republic, Critic, and Sunday Gazette, and did damage to the amount of about $150,000.

—It is now rumored that the Government proposes to disarm the Apaches and Cheyennes. The Cheyennes in Colorado have been holding war dances and resorting to other wild demonstrations.

—A water-spout broke, July 5, at Weldon, Texas, and carried a freight train bodily 200 feet from the track, entirely demolishing the track. The flow from the water-spout was 8 feet deep and 100 feet wide.

—News comes from Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, that a wreck has recently been washed ashore there, which indicates the loss of the British ship, Yarra Yarra, which left Portland, Or., February 2, for Queenstown, Ireland.

—Parnell spoke with considerable feeling on a motion of his to investigate cases of supposed unlawful imprisonment, but upon the suggestion of Churchill, withdrew his motion. This, it is thought, indicates a combination of Conservatives and Parnellites.

—One result of the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court that persons accused before United States' courts, of "infamous" crimes, must be proceeded against by indictment, not by "information," was the turning loose of 125 convicts from the house of correction at Detroit, Michigan.

—A dispute between a rancher in Santa Barbara County, Cal., and the owner of a stage line, led to a survey which showed that the rancher claimed nearly one thousand acres of Government land. Mr. P. Spitze, the surveyor, thinks that there are from twelve to twenty thousand acres of land held in the same way in that county.

—The United States' sub-treasury vaults in San Francisco are supposed to contain upwards of ninety million dollars. The vault doors are constructed so as to defy the ravages of fire or the efforts of a regiment of thieves. Electrical wires run all through the building, so that it would be impossible for a thief to work without touching a wire and thereby giving the alarm.