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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 50.

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—San Francisco is calling loudly for sea-coast defenses.

—The employes on the street-car lines in Brooklyn, N. Y., are out on a strike.

—Owing to ill health, Cardinal Jacobini has tendered his resignation as Papal Secretary of State.

—It is said that New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are determined to secede from the Canadian confederation.

—In January all French employes on the Alsace-Lorraine Railway will be dismissed and replaced by Germans.

—Ex-Alderman McQuade of New York has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5,000.

—Germany has recently been visited by very heavy snow-storms which seriously interfered with railway traffic.

—Because of disagreement with his colleagues, Lord Randolph Churchill has resigned his seat in the British cabinet.

—A woman died a few days since in Indian Territory at the age of 136 years. She was born in St. Augustine, Fla.

—A terrific railway collision occurred at Charkowa, Russia, on the 18th inst., resulting in the killing of thirteen persons and the injuring of thirty others.

—The passenger pool on the Pacific roads has again been broken and another rate war, such as took place last February and March, seems probable.

—The Women's Christian Temperance Union of Sioux City, Iowa, has organized an incorporation for the purpose of erecting a Haddock memorial building.

—The resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill from the British cabinet, has caused a sensation in England, and the fall of the ministry is confidently expected.

—French agriculturalists are demanding that a tax be levied on all foreign cereals imported into that country; the movement is directed chiefly against American products.

—December 22, two men in a Poughkeepsie, N. Y., factory threw a thirteen-year-old boy into a steam box where he was probably fatally scalded. It is not known that the boy had given them any provocation.

—Sixty-nine freight brakemen on the main line of the Louisville and Nashville Railway struck on the 22d inst., because of the discharge of two men who were spokesmen in a recent demand for an increase in wages.

—Grand Master Workman Powderly is opposed to giving any aid or comfort to Socialists or Anarchists and as a result a local move is in progress among the Knights of Labor at Chicago to depose him from his present position.

—The Russian Government has discovered the existence of an extensive nihilist organization, the members of which are principally workmen in large factories in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Vladimir. Many members of the organization have been arrested.

—There is said to be a great deal of dissatisfaction among the colored people of South Carolina, and large numbers of them are emigrating to Arkansas. They complain that under the laws of the State the landlords absorb all the proceeds of their labor and that they are to all intents and purposes disfranchised.

—Contrary to general expectation, the Government bill for the increase of the German army is meeting considerable opposition in the Reichstag. But the North German Gazette says the Government will maintain the bill at all hazards, and preparations for the proposed changes are being carried on the same as though the bill had already been approved.

—On the 21st inst. seventeen indictments were made public against members of the old Board of Public Works and clerks in Cincinnati. The indictments cover every phase of fraud and embezzlement by which public officers usually pluck a city. The amount they cover will run up into tens of thousands, as the men indicted were poor when they went into office a few years ago, and now live in fine residences and bear every external mark of wealth and luxury.

—Europe seems to be upon the verge of a general war. The difficulty in the Balkan Provinces is apparently no nearer a settlement than it was two months ago. Great Britain is rent with internal feuds, while France and Germany are both preparing for war. A Paris dispatch of the 21st inst. says: "Uneasiness is felt here over the rapidity with which the Government is working to place the armament of France in the completest conditions possible. The State manufactories of arms and ammunition are all being worked to their utmost capacity. It is reported from Rome that Italy is arming. Advices from Berlin state that Germany is increasing her troops in Alsace-Lorraine."