p. 510 | SECULAR by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 18, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 32.

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—Chicago has eighteen solid miles of saloons.

—A $500,000 fire occurred at Dublin, Ireland, August 8.

—The French Senate has passed a bill adding twenty regiments to the army.

—At Malta on the 8th inst. there were fourteen new cases of cholera and six deaths.

—Great damage is being done to the crops in Kansas, by the drought and chinch-bug.

—The total value of mineral productions in the United States for 1886 was $465,000,000.

—The Paris papers declare that the new Panama loan has already been subscribed in full.

—At a fire in St. Louis, August 10, three firemen were killed and four others severely hurt.

—Nineteen men were killed by the explosion of a shell at the Wakhalm Fort, Stockholm, August 11.

—The aggregate strength of the State militia throughout the United States is 97,267, of which 7,839 are commissioned officers.

—Signor Bove, the explorer, who was an associate of Nordenskjold in the latter's Arctic expedition, committed suicide last week.

—The Government of Ecuador has determined to give $2,500 to the Pope on the occasion of his jubilee, as an offering from Ecuador.

—The west-bound express was stopped by thieves, thirty miles east of Tucson, A. T., on the night of August 10. About $3,500 was stolen.

—The outlook for the farmers of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin, is very gloomy owing to the damage done by fire and drought.

—The San Francisco Chronicle wisely and truthfully remarks, "It is becoming clearer day by day that the average police court is a law unto itself."

—The small-pox and yellow fever are raging in Havana, Cuba. During the month of July there were 104 deaths from yellow fever and 112 from small-pox.

—A collision between the British steamer Norbiton and the Greek steamer Andrea Vagliano off Lizard Point, Eng., August 13, resulted in the drowning of seven persons.

—Locusts have done a great deal of damage in Salvador and Guatemala, and both Governments are adopting measures to alleviate the suffering and distress which have been caused.

—Over 200,000 powerful guns have been furnished by Herr Krupp to a dozen different Governments. His cannons were actually used by both sides in the struggle between Russia and Turkey.

—An explosion occurred August 11 at the Giant Powder Works, at Fleming's Point, near Oakland, Cal. One Chinaman was killed, six employees injured, and property to the value of $10,000 destroyed.

—Willis McDearmon, a school-teacher near Gambetta, Tenn., found his school-house guarded by a mob on the morning of the 9th inst., who refused him admission on the ground that he was a prohibitionist.

—The War Department at Washington has received a telegram from the governor of Colorado announcing the uprising of the White River Utes near Meeker, Col., and asking the assistance of the United States troops in suppressing it.

—Andrew Walker, the colored Texas prohibitionist speaker, who was set upon and badly beaten after a recent speech, died at Galveston, on the 7th inst., from the effect of his injuries. His assailants are supposed to have been anti-prohibitionists.

—It is stated that several British war ships will assist in the work of protecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Atlantic Coast fisheries from American poachers. These vessels will not only act as patrols for the purpose of keeping Americans outside the forbidden waters, but will be prepared to make seizures whenever the opportunity offers. Many look upon this as an omen of coming trouble.

—One of the worst railway horrors known in the history of this country occurred the night of August 11, three miles east of Chatsworth, Ill. A train, loaded with 960 excursionists, bound for Niagara Falls, fell through a burning bridge. Over 75 passengers were instantly killed and about 100 wounded. No sooner had the wreck occurred than a band of men commenced robbing the dead and dying. The suspicion exists that the accident is a deliberate case of train-wrecking.

—A table recently prepared shows the royal salaries paid in Europe, and it forms interesting reading for those who have an idea that our own Government is conducted on an extravagant plan. The Emperor of Russia receives $8,250,000 per annum; the Sultan of Turkey, $6,000,000; the Emperor of Austria, $4,000,000; the King of Prussia, $3,000,000; the King of Italy, $2,400,000; the Queen of England, $2,000,000; the Queen of Spain, $1,800,000; and the King of Belgium, $5,000. That is, eight persons receive each year $28,150,000 for doing nothing. What a sermon against monarchial government.