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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 46.

SECULAR.

—A fire in Duluth, Minn., a few days since, destroyed elevators and other property to the value of about $1,000,000.

—November 19, the Haddock murderers at Sioux City were all admitted to bail in sums ranging from $15,000 to $25,000.

—A blunder of a telegraph operator in Missouri, a few days since, caused a serious railroad accident in which two men lost their lives.

—A cyclone struck Girard, Kansas, November 22, doing considerable damage to light buildings. Several persons were seriously injured.

—The captain and seven of the crew of the French man-of-war Penguin, were massacred recently by the natives of one of the Feejee group.

—An explosion of fire-damp in a Wilkesbarre, Pa., coal mine a few days ago seriously burned and otherwise injured forty-two men, twelve of them fatally.

—Montana is anxious for a Statehood. A committee of citizens at Helena is getting up a strong memorial to Congress and will go to Washington to press the claim.

—The Municipal Council of Paris has requested United States Minister McLane to intercede with the Governor of Illinois in behalf of the condemned Anarchists of Chicago.

—November 25, a rain-storm, accompanied by cyclonic manifestations, swept over the center of Gloucester County, N. J. In the vicinity of Pitman Grove the wind blew with the force of a tornado. One report says: “The thunder, lightning, and hail were terrific.”

—The Emperor of Austria, who is a great smoker, has been ordered by the doctors to give up the weed. They attribute his neuralgia to it.

—The spread of cholera in the Republic of Buenos Ayres, S. A., is creating great alarm. On the 26th ult. seventy-two new cases and fifty-four deaths were reported at Rosario.

—Sunday, November 21, the Socialists of London held a monster mass meeting in Trafalgar Square. The temper of the meeting was very bad and many of the banners bore incendiary inscriptions.

—Another Anarchist plot has been discovered in Chicago. The plan is to blow up the water tower some stormy night, start fires in several different places, and then capture the city during the confusion.

—Lord Salisbury, replying to the memorial which the Socialists left at his residence recently, says of the proposals which it contained: “I am unable to adopt or support them, as I am convinced that the proposals, if effected, would cause additional distress and suffering far exceeding what prevails at present.”

—November 27, Superintendent Bell, of the Foreign Mail Office, received a dispatch from the Postmaster General of Belgium informing the department that the United States mail for Russia, while passing through that country on the night of the 26th, was robbed of 141 registered packages. It is supposed that the robbers secured about $200,000.

—The Seth Thomas Clock Co., of Thomaston, Conn., have prepared drawings for the great clock which is to be placed in the tower of the new city hall at Philadelphia, and which, if completed in accordance with their plans, will be the largest in the world. The bells upon which it will strike the hours and quarters will weigh fifty thousand pounds, and the glass dials, as contemplated, measure 25 feet in diameter.

—The New York Tribune’s cable special of November 27, from London, says: “The Irish crisis has arrived at last, as was predicted, and political circles both in London and Dublin are exceedingly disturbed by the possibilities before us.” Another dispatch says: “In the opinion of leading Liberals the Government is entering into a labyrinth from which there is no escape in safety. Shelving the Irish question next session will be found impracticable.”

—In his speech from the throne, read by the Minister of the Interior at the opening of the Reichstag, the other day, Emperor William says: “Although the policy of the empire is always pacific, Germany, in view of the development of the military establishments of neighboring States, cannot longer defer increasing her defensive force, especially her peace effective. A bill, therefore, will be submitted providing for an increase to take effect from the beginning of the new financial year.”