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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 8, 1883

News and Notes.

—The British municipal elections show large Conservative gains. The public debt was reduced $10,304,798 during the month of October.

—The cashier of the bank of Clyde, Ohio, has absconded with $60,000.

—Four negroes were killed in a cyclone at Paris, Kentucky, on the 29th ult.

—In San Francisco a project is under way for establishing a home for working-girls.

—The Old Dominion Creosote Works at Norfolk, Va., have been burned; loss, $100,000.

—Nine counterfeiters have been arrested after a desperate fight in Pike County, Indiana.

—Earthquake shocks were quite noticeable in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay, Oct. 30.

—The number of divorces in San Francisco last year was one-sixth of the number of marriages.

—Three clerks of the Water Bureau, New York, have been arrested for forgery and stealing.

—Morris Ranger, a cotton broker in Liverpool, has failed for £650,000 and carried down two other houses.

—It has been decided by the Supreme Court of California that trial by jury does not apply to divorce cases.

—The office of the Chief of Police, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, was damaged by a dynamite explosion, Oct. 29.

—Letters from Havana, Cuba, state that an American filibustering expedition has landed at Santa Spiratus.

—One hundred and fifty Egyptian soldiers were surprised and massacred by hill tribes in Sineat Defile, Nubia.

—The railroads centering at St. Louis have blacklisted 322 yardmen who were especially active in the late strike.

—Burglars operating in a drug store at Whitney, Kan., fired the building, causing the destruction of property valued at $20,000.

—The Central Pacific Railroad Company is building a ten-wheel locomotive, to weigh 105 tons, for use on heavy grades of the road.

—The steamer Holyhead, and the ship Alhambra, were sunk by a collision off Holyhead, Wales, Oct. 31, and fifteen men were drowned.

—A desperate fight recently took place at Kocanie, Herzegovina, between Russian gendarmes and robbers. Several of the robbers were killed.

—Steve Raymond, the English forger, convicted of passing forged coupons of Union Pacific Railroad bonds, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

—It is reported that the Malagassy Envoys, who recently returned from a visit to Europe and America, and the Prime Minister, have been strangled.

—Spain has decided to abolish the stocks and fetters for slaves in Cuba and will do all that is possible toward the destruction of peonage among the slaveholders.

—The Spanish Cabinet has agreed upon a diplomatic note which will end the controversy arising from the unfavorable reception of King Alfonso in the streets of Paris.

—A destructive cyclone swept over Catahoula and Tenas parishes, Louisiana, Oct. 29. Several plantations were seriously injured, and a number of negroes wounded.

—It is estimated that the trial of O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, the informer, will cost $30,000. Most of the money will go from America, as also the lawyers for the defense.

—A street riot between whites and negroes occurred at Danville, Va., on the 3d inst. Two white men were shot and mortally wounded. Five negroes were killed, and several wounded.

—One night last week, the St. Louis police raided nearly 100 public poker-rooms, in view of the recent decision that poker is to be classed with faro and kindred games of chance.

—Greece protests against the action of the Turkish Government in refusing to allow the Grecian men-of-war to land supplies at Tchesme, for the sufferers from the earthquake at that place.

—Fiji wants to be annexed to New Zealand or New South Wales, and has so petitioned the crown. Popular demonstrations in favor of Pacific annexation are being held throughout Australia.

—A severe shock of earthquake, accompanied by subterranean rumblings, was felt at Kamience, capital of the Government of Podolia, Russia, on the evening of Oct. 29. The shock lasted thirty minutes.

—Dynamite in a magazine near Brooks Tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad exploded, Oct. 29, with terrible force, blowing five men into atoms. It is not known how the terrible accident occurred.

—A fire in Denver Oct. 31, reached the store of Perry Bros., where it ignited 600 pounds of giant powder, destroying and injuring several valuable buildings. Several people were severely injured, one fatally.

—A London cablegram of the 3d inst. says: "A great fire is raging to-night in Glasgow, Scotland. Accounts already received show that over $2,000,000 worth of property has been destroyed and several lives lost."

—Two mysterious explosions occurred in London on the night of Oct. 30—one on the Metropolitan Railway, and the other on the underground railway; the first one injured over forty people and wrecked six cars.

—General Sherman's official report, on retiring from the command of the army, places the number of officers at 2,143, and enlisted men, 23,300. He expresses confidence in Crook's management of the Apache campaign.

—The first bale of cotton ever picked from a field by machinery was exhibited last week at the Charleston S. C., Cotton Exchange, and created general attention. The condition of the cotton was pronounced a success.

—Much excitement prevails in Pike County, Pennsylvania, on account of the murder of Annie C. Cheever, a young woman who was found dead, with a bullet-hole near her heart and the left breast riddled with fine shot.

—The river Salembria, in Thessaly, has overflowed its banks, causing widespread devastation. One hundred houses have been destroyed, and several lives lost. Larissa and the villages in its vicinity are surrounded by water.

—A great fire occurred at Savannah, Ga., Oct. 31. It originated in a cotton warehouse, and communicated with a lot of wooden houses. Twelve persons perished in the flames, and the pecuniary loss is estimated at $1,000,000.

—The Paris Figaro publishes the report that the Governor of the Chinese province of Yunan, with 14,000 troops, has received orders to enter Tonquin and occupy Coa Ban, 130 miles north of Ha-Noi, the French headquarters.

—The Mormon Church is assessing all the wards in Salt Lake for funds to assist Mayor Jennings and others in a lawsuit against the Utah Commissioners, who prevented them from registering and voting at the August election.

—A life-size portrait of President Arthur, said to be a remarkable likeness, has been hung in the corridor of the White House. There are now upon the walls of the White House portraits of all the Presidents except James Buchanan.

—A tragedy resulted from a game of croquet on the 28th ult., near Woodbury, N. J. The players were two men and two women. Rudolph Hines became angry because his wife beat him, and kicked her with a heavy cowhide boot. She became unconscious and died soon after.

—Four unmasked men boarded a train near Danville, Ill., and robbed the passengers in one coach; then meeting another train at a station, coolly stepped on to it and robbed the passengers on one car, and jumped off. They obtained a large amount of money and valuables.

—The Mussel Slough country, San Joaquin Valley, is again agitated. John W. Cockrell, who has by honest toil built up a substantial home, was evicted last week by the United States Marshal, and two other parties representing a railroad purchaser, were placed in possession.

—A through freight train on the Southern Pacific Railroad broke through the Santa Ana River Bridge, near San Bernardino, on the night of November 1st. Eighteen cars were wrecked, and two brakemen and a tramp were severely injured, and another tramp killed. The loss to the company is estimated at $100,000.

—The office of the County Treasurer at Virginia, Nev., was robbed on the night of Oct. 30, of $8,400 in coin. Two masked men compelled the treasurer to open the vault, when they took out the money and shut him in. He made known his whereabouts by beating upon the door with a piece of board, and was released by parties outside cutting off the hinges.

—Several hundred factory women are on a strike because the proprietor refused to discharge a man in the factory who moved in the Corporation of Londonderry to rescind the resolution granting permission to the Lord Mayor at Dublin to lecture in the City Hall. The women paraded the streets crying, "God save Ireland." they were attacked and stoned by a mob, which they fought desperately. The police finally dispersed the mob.

—Frank James, the notorious outlaw, under arrest at Gallatin, was, Nov. 1, given the freedom of the town, and with his wife and child walked about visiting the stores at will. Great indignation is felt by the citizens of Gallatin over the fact of James being allowed his liberty. In the Court House, while James was walking about the streets, was a negro with a ball and chain attached to his leg, who is charged with stealing a ham to supply the needs of his family.

—The death of James McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento Bee, has developed much human nature on the part of his brother editors. Some of them who have been really hard on him, are now at a loss to find words to sound his praises, and they are raking his whole life over to bring up his good deeds. Why could not some of these encouraging words have been spoken while he was alive, instead of some of the reproaches? All parties would have felt so much better, and the public weal would have been fully as well served.

—Secretary Teller says that if Congress will give enough money for Indian schools there will be no "Indian question" in the next generation. He estimates that by the establishment of a sufficient number of schools, 20,000 pupils can be educated by the end of the fiscal year 1888, and be able to take care of themselves. The total cost of this will not exceed $22,000,000, which is about two-thirds the amount spent in fighting the Indians in 1864-65. The education is to be moral and manual as well as mental. Mr. Teller thinks that if 30 or 40 per cent. of the Indian children are well educated, they will control the sentiment of the next generation.

—Mail advices confirm the cable reports of the cruelty of the French troops in Anam. It is authoritatively stated that the French forces in the encounter in the vicinity of Ha-Noi in the early part of September, and the Chinese regulars well armed and officered. After a conflict of three days, during which the French took some of the enemy's works, they withdrew, leaving Haipong still in the hands of the enemy. Some of the troops of the King of Anam were with the enemy. Letters from Saigon state that murders and cruelties were committed near Hui, on the occasion of the capture by the French sailors. Admiral Corbet directed an official order that there should be no quarter given to the men, women, or children. Three hundred families fleeing to the bay of Thurau were all shot. One hundred more, drifting in a junk without weapons or oars, were also massacred. The Figaro declares that Admiral Corbet, at the instance of Commissioner Hiarmand, allowed the perpetration of such acts in order to terrorize the Anamites.