Murder Runs Riot through the Union

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 48.

Murder Runs Riot through the Union

“Murder Runs Riot through the Union,” is a two-column heading in a western daily of November 12. Those two columns give, as a record in nine States and Territories, thirteen murders and three attempted murders, besides injuries to others. One murder and two suicides are noted elsewhere in the same paper. And this is probably not all that took place in the Union on that day, nor was the day particularly exceptional. Violence is abroad in the land. The days of Noah are being repeated. The days of the coming of the Son of man are upon us. Where, reader, is thy hope?