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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 8.

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—Coal is selling in Fort Benton, Montana, at $60 a ton.

—The home-rule feeling in England is growing riper every day.

—The wheat crop of South Australia shows a surplus of 175,000 tons.

—On February 15 a sharp shock of earthquake was experienced at Petaluma, Cal.

—A young woman died in Indiana, not long since, after a fast of one hundred days.

—Emin Bey has freed from the slave trade a province containing 10,000,000 inhabitants.

—Some of the streets in Los Angeles are flooded to such an extent that the horse-cars run with difficulty.

—The British army in India will be armed with repeating rifles, and the Martini will be transferred to the Sepoys.

—The jail at Murfreesborough, Tenn., was burned February 13, and three men confined in it perished in the flames.

—The bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine has passed the Delaware House of Representatives.

—Stanley's expedition for the relief of Emin Bey will comprise 1,200 men, including 80 blacks, and will cost $100,000.

—It is reported that the Emperor William's health is rapidly failing; it is feared that he can live but a few months longer.

—It is computed that there were 3,000 separate strikes during 1886 and that the loss to the country was about $25,000,000.

—Queen Victoria celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her reign by turning 25,000 criminals loose upon the people in India.

—The British Foreign Office has a dispatch from Cape Town, denying the report that Dr. Holub and his party have been massacred.

—The United States steamer, Thetis, has been ordered to sail from New York on a scientific cruise to Alaska. She will be fitted up at San Francisco.

—Dispatches received at London announced that Russia has notified the Bulgarian delegates at Constantinople that she has decided to occupy Bulgaria.

—Two passenger trains running between Chicago and Milwaukee have been equipped with an apparatus for heating the cars with steam from the locomotive.

—The Socialists in New York have raised means enough to cover the election expenses for twenty-five Socialists, members of the German legislative body.

—General Master Workman Powderly advises the Knights of Labor to use more wisdom and discrimination in declaring boycotts, and to keep the same secret.

—Four boys ranging in age from eight to fourteen years broke into a store in Oakland recently. As might be expected they were habitual readers of the Police Gazette.

—In Omaha an Anarchist plot to murder a newspaper editor has just been exposed. The editor's offense consisted in making fun of Anarchists in general.

—Two sailing vessels were wrecked, February 14, off San Pedro, Cal.: one a large American ship—the Kennebeck—from Liverpool; the other was the barkentine St. Louis from Coos Bay.

—A new island has been discovered in the Pacific, in latitude 1° 25' south, longitude 143° 26' east. It is two and one-half miles long, and is covered with trees. It has been named Allison Island.

—Switzerland, though so small a country, has a thousand hotels, whose revenues considerably exceed those of the Republic.

—The Government at Vienna will ask a credit of 25,000,000 florins to complete military supplies, and also for an extra credit (not exceeding the former) to be used if the situation continues threatening.

—A gentleman was impaled on a splinter while descending a toboggan slide last week in Boston. The giant skewer entered his body at the groin and projected through his back. He lived but a few hours.

—News from Newfoundland represents things in a deplorable condition; the Government has already sent thousands of barrels of flour to keep the people from starving, but the supply is altogether inadequate.

—Positive orders from many of the railroad companies to their dock agents in New York prohibit any strikers being taken back to work. Gangs of strikers are going about from pier to pier in search of work.

—It is reported that many of the Wesleyan native students on the Island of Tonga, Australia, have been accused with being implicated in the Baker outrages and plot to murder the king and make his nephew chief.

—A very severe rain storm prevailed in New York on the night of the 18th inst., accompanied by much lightning. One of the bolts struck a large cotton warehouse, setting the building in flames. Loss, about $350,000, fully insured.

—An explosion occurred, February 18, in a colliery in Rhonda Valley, England, and forty-five men were entombed in the mine. Twenty-nine persons have been rescued unhurt, and sixteen remain in the pit, six of whom are reported dead.

—The closing of the saloons in Leavenworth, Kansas, has engendered the most bitter feelings against the Law and Order League, and bloodshed is feared. On the night of February 12, two gentlemen were set on by roughs, and terribly beaten and maltreated.

—A new line of passenger steamers is to be established between the United States and England. The vessels will be twelve in number, and are to be so constructed that they will make the trip from New York to Liverpool in a little less than four days.

—The British Government has decided on the construction of a military railroad from India across Burmah to Mandalay. The intention is to connect the terminus with a fleet of commercial steamers, thus opening up a trade route direct from India into the heart of China.

—A very severe wind-storm occurred in Colorado, February 16. In Denver many buildings were unroofed, chimneys, telegraph poles, etc., were blown down. Outside of the city several trains were blown from the track, wounding nearly all of their passengers.