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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 27.

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—The Irish Crimes Bill has passed its third reading in the Commons.

—Parnell says that evictions are alarmingly on the increase in Ireland.

—The British ship Muskota has, it is feared, been lost at sea with all on board, twenty-six men.

—The Catholic Herald, one of the New York papers which supported Dr. McGlynn, has suspended.

—Gold-bearing quartz has been discovered near Ishpeming, Mich. The ore is said to be very rich.

—Two men lost their lives in a fire in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 5th inst. The money loss was $160,000.

—Over 100 persons who took part in the recent rebellion at Chang-Chow, China, have been beheaded.

—Eight men lost their lives on the 7th inst, in the Sturgeon River district, by the sudden flooding of a mine.

—Locusts (commonly called grasshoppers) are devastating the country in the vicinity of Perham, Minnesota.

—Parts of China have recently been visited by most destructive floods. Thousands of persons are supposed to have been drowned.

—One woman was killed and two other passengers were probably fatally injured in a street-car accident in Fitchburg, Mass., on the 4th inst.

—The French revenue receipts for June were 4,000,000 francs less than the estimates. The total deficit for the half year is 25,000,000 francs.

—The new French Premier has prepared a budget which proposes retrenchment in the expenses of the Government to the amount of 129,000,000 francs.

—Fires in the little town of Clarendon, Pa., July 4 and 6, destroyed 381 buildings out of a total of 386, which constituted the town. Three persons perished in the flames.

—July 4, at Quincy, Ill., an aeronaut named Baldwin jumped from a balloon at the height of one mile, and landed safely by the aid of an eighteen-foot parachute.

—The New York Tribune gives figures to show that the present population of the United States, even without taking into account the immigration from Canada, is not less than 61,700,000.

—During a drill of the Sappers at Jazygia, Hungary, July 4, a dynamite cartridge exploded prematurely, killing twenty-seven men and injuring forty-eight others. Of the killed four were officers.

—The Michigan Legislature has passed a county local option liquor law, and the opinion is expressed that under it more than half of the counties in that State will free themselves from the liquor curse.

—Mr. Powderly is authority for the statement that "in one Pennsylvania county in a single year $17,000,000 was spent for liquor, and it was estimated that $11,000,000 of the amount came from workingmen."

—A terrible disaster occurred on the 6th inst. at Zug, Switzerland. A huge landslide precipitated twenty-seven houses besides one large hotel into the waters of the lake. At least 100 persons perished.

—July 7 a fire broke out in the barracks at the citadel, Quebec, and a large number of the buildings were destroyed. It was only by almost superhuman efforts that the fire was prevented from reaching the magazines.

—The town of Nagy Karoly, Hungary, was destroyed by a hurricane and water-spout on the night of the 6th inst., and the site of the town and the adjoining district converted into a vast lake. Many persons lost their lives.

—A correspondent of the Congregationalist referring to the waning influences of the home, calls attention to the statement made recently that of 243,000 families in New York only 13,000 live in homes of their own; the remaining 210,000 families board.

—About eighty persons were made seriously ill in New York City on the 4th inst, by eating poisonous ice-cream. It is said that this was undoubtedly a case of a tyrotoxicon form of milk poison discovered by Professor Vaughn, of the University of Michigan.

—President Cleveland has sent a letter to the mayor of St. Louis stating that he will not attend the Grand Army encampment in that city on account of the opposition expressed by many members of the organization, and the stated determination to insult him by a public denunciation should he attend.

—The riot at Oak Ridge, La., reported last week, resulted in thirteen deaths instead of seven as first stated. If the newspaper reports are trustworthy, the trouble was occasioned by a party of colored people attacking some officers who had a prisoner in charge. Only one of the victims was a white man.

—The skeletons of sixty murdered men were found a few days ago in a cave not far from a road in Kentucky which for seventy-five years was known as the Kentucky stock-road, and was once the principal highway for traders between Louisville, Ky., and several South Carolina and Georgia towns. Traders and cattlemen frequently disappeared mysteriously while traveling through that section and it is now known that they were murdered and thrown into this cave.

—The discontent with the corrupt rule of the Gibson ministry in the Hawaiian Kingdom culminated June 30, when the citizens, assembled in mass-meeting, demanded of the king that he form an entirely new ministry, restore certain moneys illegally and wrongfully taken, and consent to the formation of a new constitution. The king has appointed a ministry nominated by the people and has promised all the reforms demanded. The ex-Premier and his son-in-law have been placed under arrest and will be dealt with according to law.