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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 2.

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—Small-pox has appeared in Brooklyn.

—Earthquake shocks are being felt at Charleston.

—Professor Tasso, the celebrated violinist, died January 6.

—The Parnellites are actively preparing for the dissolution of Parliament.

—About 3,000 people are prospecting for gold in the interior of British Guiana.

—Bishop Bassett, a Mormon, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for polygamy.

—It is said that 15,000 Jews have been expelled from the Government of Kief, Russia.

—Congress has been asked to have ten Ericsson's "Destroyers" built, at a cost of $200,000 each.

—It is officially stated that 405 persons were burned to death in the incendiary fire at Madras, India.

—An earthquake occurred in Tunis, Italy, killing seven people and destroying a number of houses.

—The council of the Fenian Brotherhood has issued another circular denouncing O'Donovan Rossa.

—Chicago pays $9,000 in doctors' bills for attendance on the policemen wounded by the dynamiters.

—The Duke of Bedford has remitted the whole amount of his Bedfordshire rents for the current half year.

—The New York courts have decided that the infamous practice of insuring the lives of infants is illegal.

—Seventeen smugglers, who were hiding near Vicenza, Italy, were killed, not long since, by an avalanche.

—The town of Paige, Texas, about fifty miles east of Austin, experienced a sharp earthquake on the 5th inst.

—A terrible snow-storm has prevailed throughout the midland counties of England. Much loss of life is feared.

—Thirty miners were imprisoned by an explosion in a coal-pit at Mons, Germany. Six have been taken out dead.

—The British Parliament has been prorogued until the 29th inst.

—An explosion of gas occurred at a barracks in Portsmouth, England. Six soldiers were killed and several wounded.

—New York City alone is said to consume more fruit than any other city of the world, London or Paris not excepted.

—The British in Burmah have issued a proclamation ordering all the inhabitants to surrender their arms within five days.

—It is said that since the Century began to publish the life of Abraham Lincoln, its circulation has increased thirty thousand.

—The French garrison of Hakhoi and Mongkai in Tonquin have been massacred by Chinese pirates. Daily engagements are going on.

—Intelligence comes from Warsaw that the Russian War Office has decided to immediately construct more forts on the Austrian frontier.

—At Pewaukee, Wis., the other night, a passenger train ran into a sleigh load of men, killing three, and fatally injuring several others.

—The commanders of Canadian cruisers have been instructed to seize and confiscate every foreign vessel encroaching on the Canadian fishing-grounds.

—The wheat harvest of Victoria, Australia, is 12,000,000 bushels. The exportable excess is 150,000 tons, or 60,000 tons over that of the preceding year.

—The British and American claims for the destruction of property in the late Chunkhing riots, have been settled, the Chinese paying each party $30,000.

—The British steamer Dragoman, from Liverpool, collided with and sunk the ship Duke of Connaught off Bird's Eye, England. Seventeen lives were lost.

—The avalanches are destroying considerable property in Switzerland. Several villages have been completely cut off from communication with the outer world.

—A German vessel was wrecked January 9 off Cape Henry, Virginia. The life-boat went to the rescue and in returning was capsized and twenty lives were lost.

—The shops of the Ohio Southern Railway at Springfield were burned January 8. Six locomotives and two cars and valuable machinery were destroyed. Loss, $140,000; fully insured.

—The family of John Wooster, consisting of five persons, were poisoned at Wabash, Ind., a few days ago, by eating biscuit in which had been used a very inferior quality of baking powder.

—An explosion of natural gas occurred at Youngstown, Ohio, January 6, destroying several buildings, including a Baptist church. Several persons are reported missing, and the loss is estimated at $100,000.

—On January 7 crowds of the unemployed workmen of London assembled in front of the offices of the Local Government Board and demanded relief, but received none. After much hooting, they dispersed.

—A disastrous collision occurred January 3 about 200 miles from San Antonio, Texas. The débris of the train took fire, and nine Mexicans who were pinned down on the top of a flat car were literally roasted alive.

—The strike of coal haulers is extending all along the lines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Five thousand men are out.

—The Danish Folkething (lower house of Parliament) has been dissolved, owing to its refusal to agree to the Government's financial proposals and army estimates. Elections for the new Folkething will take place January 28.

—The Adesalchi Palace of Rome has been burned by a fire caused from the lights of a Christmas tree, and a large amount of jewelry and pictures has been destroyed. The palace was not insured, and the loss is estimated at $1,000,000.

—The San Francisco Chronicle says: "One hundred and seventy-three criminal cases remain in this city untried, a legacy from the year just past. Of these 18 are cases of murder, 19 of assault to murder, 25 of assault with a deadly weapon, 13 of grand larceny, and the remainder minor offenses.

—The San Francisco Chronicle says: "To all appearances, a European war cannot long be postponed. Armies are not increased and forts built to no purpose. Warlike demonstrations are not made simply to impress neighboring countries with Russian importance, but as the first step toward a war of conquest."

—A disastrous railroad accident occurred on the 4th inst., near Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger express, going at the rate of sixty-three miles an hour, ran into a freight train which was standing on the main track. The effect of the collision was horrible; the express telescoped, and in a few minutes was in flames. It is reported that seventeen passengers were either crushed or burned to death, and all the mail, express, and baggage was burned, including large sums of money. On the same day another accident occurred at Mittineague, Mass., and two lives were lost.