Notes of News | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 1.

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Notes of News.

—Secretary McCrary is said to be an ardent spiritualist.

—At Tamworth, England, 2,000 miners have struck against a reduction of wages.

—At Cherson, southern Russia, the receiver’s office was undermined June 17, and robbed of 1,500,000 roubles.

—In the recent Sicilian riots at Calabriano, 18 persons were killed and 60 wounded, and 70 arrests have been made.

—A freshet at North Adams, Mass., and vicinity, has damaged property to the extent of $100,000 or $150,000.

—The membership of Spurgeon’s church now amounts to 5,166. During the past year 394 new members were received, and 57 died.

—An exchange says that in Calcutta there are 199 Hindoo temples, 117 Mahometan mosques, 31 Christian churches, and 2 Jewish synagogues.

—A ministerial crisis is at hand in Turkey. In consequence of the circulation of threatening documents against the sultan, numerous arrests have been made.

—Negrete, commanding general of the Mexican army, has pronounced against Diaz, and has left the city of Mexico, followed by 3,000 adherents of Diaz. Chief Justice Vallarte is acting president, and congress has disbanded.

—Fresh inundations in Galicia, Silesia, and Hungary. Half the town of Troppau, in Austrian Silesia, is under water. The Danube is still rising, the hay crop is destroyed, and seven iron bridges have been demolished.

—Messina, June 17.—Continued shocks of earthquake, which are attributed to the action of Mount Ætna, have occurred near Santa Venere and Guardia. Several houses have fallen, others are in danger of falling, and there has been some loss of life.

—U. S. Marshal Shaughnessy and a banker named McCormick, at Salt Lake City, Utah, have been appointed receivers of the late Brigham Young’s estate, on application of Amelia A. Young, who claims that the executors have improperly made way with $1,000,000 of the $2,500,000 at which the estate was valued.

—A hailstorm six miles wide passed from east to west near Germantown, Columbia county, N. Y., about midnight of June 15. The hailstones were as large as hickory nuts, and broke panes of glass in every farm-house, killed poultry, destroyed fruit, uprooted trees, blew down fences, and near Clermont unroofed several houses.

—News was received in Paris, June 20, of the death of the Prince Imperial of France, at the hands of the Zulus. The sentiment of the Paris press is divided as to the probable effect on the political situation, some of them regarding the event as the virtual end of Imperialism, while others favor the idea of putting forward another claimant to the throne in the person of the Prince Jerome. The ex-empress Eugenie is said to be prostrated by the news.

—Four thousand nine hundred and fifty-three persons were killed during the last year in the north-west provinces of India and in Oude by wild beasts and snakes, and of these 3,871 owed their death to snake bites. No less than 10,513 head of cattle were also destroyed, mostly by leopards in the vast grazing plains of the Terai. Rewards to the extent of 10,000 rupees were paid by the government for the destruction of 3,910 wild animals.

—The New York Witness says: “Crime is increasing fearfully in Germany. In 1871 the number of offenses legally investigated was 82,000; in 1876 it swelled to 133,700. Perjuries increased from 491 to 800; offenses against morality rose from 1,072 to 2,000, and bodily injuries from 7,900 to 15,400. In six years the number of offenders, under eighteen years of age, increased nearly 2,000. This increase in crime has kept pace with the growth of infidelity.”

—Galveston, Texas, June 18.—The News’ Laredo special says: “Negrete’s pronunciamiento against Diaz has been confirmed. Governor Diaz Gutierres of San Luis Potosi has been killed by the revolutionists. All mails in the interior of Mexico are interrupted. All the newspapers of Monterey except the official journal have been forced to suspend. General Trevino is expected to pronounce soon. Naranjo is in Lampasos organizing against Diaz.” A Brownsville dispatch from Saltillo says that the governor of Nueva Liona was killed by the revolutionists at Saltillo yesterday.

—A letter from an English missionary in Mogadore, Morocco, gives a harrowing account of the miseries caused by the famine in that unhappy country. In Mogadore alone over 13,000 persons have perished from hunger, and all the cattle, camels, horses, sheep, and other domestic animals have starved to death. Only the dogs have survived, and these, finding no food in the towns, are roaming over the country in bands of from twenty to fifty, sometimes attacking and devouring every person they meet. In their hunger these animals have also dug up the buried bodies of the dead and stripped their bones.

—Particulars of a cloudburst near Buffalo Gap, Dakota, on the 12th inst., have been received. The waterspout caused a sudden rise in the water of Beaver Creek, near the banks of which was camped a party of nine persons from Mills county, Iowa, and four men from the Black Hills, and Montgomery Bros. and Clark’s freight outfits, loaded with 40,000 pounds, principally machinery, which was nearly destroyed and scattered for miles around. Within five minutes of the first alarm everything was flooded. The water covered a space of 40 miles wide, but subsided within two hours after the rise in the Creek. Fragments of wagons, etc., were seen three to five miles from the scene of the disaster. All the creeks around the hills are unusually high. Eleven persons were drowned. Six bodies have been recovered.