p. 15 | NEWS AND NOTES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 28.

NEWS AND NOTES.

(Continued from page 18.)

—It is estimated that 100,000 people participated in the Christian Endeavor parade in Washington on July 11.

—Northern Arizona is said to be suffering from an unprecedented water famine. Water for whole villages is hauled by train a distance of one hundred miles.

—The Christian Endeavorers in convention at Washington have decided to hold their sixteenth international convention at San Francisco, California, in the year 1897.

—A head-on collision on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, between Logan and Missouri Valley, occurred at 6:30 P. M., July 11, resulting in the death of thirty-three passengers, with fifty more or less dangerously injured.

—At the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago, Ill., Senator William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, was chosen as presidential nominee of the party, with Arthur Sewall, a wealthy shipbuilder, of Maine, as vice president.

—A curious state of affairs exists in the Oakland county jail, where two prisoners have suddenly become speechless. It is believed that they have hypnotized each other, as they stand hour after hour gazing intently at each other without uttering a sound.

—Advices from Montevideo state that a large American ship was recently wrecked on the Falkland Islands, and went down, with all on board. The name of the ship is not known, but it is supposed to be either the Santa Clara or City of Philadelphia.

—Two young bicyclists left New York City on the morning of June 1 on their wheels, and arrived in San Francisco on the evening of July 8, making the entire trip, including a circuit around San Francisco Bay, in thirty-seven days, fourteen and one-half hours, lowering all previous records.

—The illicit manufacture of opium in San Francisco is a matter that is just now puzzling the officials. Not a steamer leaves port without a load of the terrible intoxicant, and yet the whereabouts of its manufacture remain an unanswerable enigma to those whose duty it is to ferret the matter out.

—Following close on the heels of the great Dunham tragedy of San Jose, comes another, less terrible only in the number of lives sacrificed, from the city of Santa Barbara. On the night of July 5 a man, supposed to have been Cyrus Barnard, entered the residence of Mrs. H. R. Richardson, and murdered both her and her eighteen-year-old daughter. Barnard’s resistance of arrest for the crime resulted in his own death at the hands of an officer.