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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 32.

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—Persia is engaging German officers to organize her army.

—Russia is building hurriedly a strategical railway to the Austrian frontier.

—Cholera and dysentery are sweeping off the Russian troops on the Afghan frontier.

—Nine persons have died in Baltimore from trichinosis, caused by eating raw pork, on May 10.

—The losses from fire in the United States and Canada during the first seven months of 1885 aggregated $60,000,000.

—The Sacramento River is so low that it is feared that navigation between Sacramento and San Francisco will be stopped.

—The Russians are fortifying the island of Quelpoert, at the entrance of the Yellow Sea and south of the Corean Peninsula.

—The city hospital at Montreal contained, August 13, thirty-six small-pox patients.

—The grasshoppers have been doing destructive work in Fort Reford and Poplar Pine Agency, Montana.

—Forty Germans have lately been expelled from Russia. Many Germans are becoming naturalized to prevent expulsion.

—Dysentery and scarcity of food are causing great suffering at Bridgeport, Pa. August 11, thirty cases of sickness and five deaths were reported.

—At Bay City, Mich., August 12, a desperate fight took place between some strikers and the officers, in which several persons were wounded.

—A cyclone at Norward, N. Y., August 12, killed eight persons, blew down the church steeples, and completely demolished the growing crops.

—The Mexicans who participated in the notorious train robbery on the Mexican National railroad, in February, 1883, have been condemned to death.

—The cholera is still doing its deadly work in Spain, and the southern part of France. The mortality from cholera alone, in Spain, is from 1,600 to over 2,000 daily.

—The World's Washington special says: "All the Spanish-American nations despise us. . . The Chilian officers declare that the Chilian navy could destroy ours in a three hours' fight."

—At the West End Coal Company's mines at Mecanaqua, Pa., twelve men lost their lives, August 11, from gases which accumulated in the mine after the engine broke which supplies fresh air.

—The villages and gardens in the environs of Herat are being demolished to prevent their use for covering the movements of Russian troops in case of hostilities between England and Russia.

—United States Senator Coke, of Texas, has inaugurated an anti-prohibition campaign. He declared that prohibition is opposed to personal liberty and intended to overthrow the Democratic party.

—While the cashier of the San Jose Safe Deposit Bank of Savings was selling a small note of exchange to a stranger, a tray containing $10,000 in gold was taken, it is supposed, by some one entering a side door.

—Reports come from Tonquin, southeastern Asia, that the black flag was hoisted recently and a raid made upon the Christian missions. Many Christians were killed and eight thousand followers of the missionaries took refuge with the French troops.

—According to the Bulletin (S. F.), the trades organizations throughout the United States were to issue, August 15, a petition requesting the president to call an extra session of Congress for the purpose of considering measures for the relief of the industrial classes and revival of business.

—The Pacific Mail steamships, which refused a few weeks ago to carry the mails, will take letters properly stamped and delivered to them, to China, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. There will still be great delay and inconvenience to all persons outside of San Francisco, for they will have to send all mail destined for the above-named places, by the way of London and the Suez Canal.

—At Porter Station, a village of 300 inhabitants, twelve miles from Valparaiso, Ind., an epidemic, supposed to have been caused by eating meat coming from a filthy slaughter house, is raging. The report of August 6 states that five had died, fifteen were dangerously ill, and about twenty-five others sick. It makes itself known by a leaden feeling in the stomach, followed by vomiting and diarrhetic discharges. The most powerful drugs fail to give relief.