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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 40.

SECULAR.

—The relations of Germany and Russia are said to be getting worse daily.

—An epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in London. There are 1,900 cases in the hospitals.

—Five Mexican bandits were caught at Brownsville, Texas, October 12, and were immediately shot.

—Judge Manning, United States Minister to Mexico, died very suddenly in the City of Mexico, October 11.

—A riot between Orangemen and Catholics occurred in Toronto on the occasion of Cardinal Taschereau's recent visit to that place.

—Twenty-four persons were killed and thirty were wounded in a riot at Plevna, which occurred during an election for members of the Sobranje.

—Owing to the almost daily shocks of earthquake in Santiago de Cuba, a panic has seized the inhabitants, and business is almost completely suspended.

—A snow-storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, prevailed in England and Wales on the 12th inst. The roads in Wales are blocked with snow.

—October 10 the Austrian steamer Hapsburg came into collision with and sank a Bavarian steamer on Lake Constance. Many passengers in the cabin were drowned.

—The prize offered by the French Government of $10,000 for the most valuable discovery relating to the utilization of electricity is to be awarded next December.

—A disastrous collision occurred between a loaded passenger train and a freight train, on the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad, near Kouts, Indiana. Thirty lives were lost.

—A severe hail-storm visited Albuquerque (N. M.) and vicinity on the 14th inst. Much unripe fruit was beaten from the trees. The hail-storm was preceded by a heavy rain.

—Minnesota has a law requiring that every railroad car shall be supplied with at least two fire extinguishers. The railroad commissioners are determined to enforce this law.

—For several days in the early part of this month terrible fires raged in portions of Sonoma and Napa Counties, in this State. Many vineyards were destroyed, and buildings were burned.

—The Coroner's jury at Mitchelstown, in the case of the members of the League who were killed while attempting to hold a meeting, have rendered a verdict charging the crown officials with murder.

—According to a telegram from Rome to the Frankfurter Zeitung, the Pope said in a private audience, October 11, that a solution of the Roman question depends upon restoring Rome to the Pope, and that the Italians must leave.

—A fire broke out, October 12, in the Northern Ohio Insane Asylum, at Cleveland, during the weekly dance. A panic immediately ensued among the 350 patients, and six women were suffocated. Others were injured.

—Two Sisters of Mercy, who have been teaching in the parochial school in Father McTighe's church, in the Thirty-third Ward, will apply for positions as teachers in the school of which Father McTighe has been elected principal.

—It is announced that Germany, Austria, and Italy have formed an alliance. The object is to guard against the menacing advancement of Russia. As a consequence, Austria will increase her force in Bosnia from 3,000 to 10,000 men.

—The Queen Regent of Spain has signed a decree authorizing the construction of six ironclads of 7,500 tons each, which shall be capable of attaining a speed of from sixteen to twenty miles an hour; also four large and sixty small torpedo-boats.

—A Pennsylvania coal company has issued orders to remove all persons working in their mines who are unable to speak the English language. This is because serious accidents frequently occur through the inability of the workmen to understand English orders.

—For some time past incendiary fires and burglaries have been very frequent at Elmira, N. Y. On the 11th inst. nine young men who had banded together for the purpose of arson and burglary were arrested. The culprits had an oath which called for the death of any member of the gang who divulged its secrets.

—Much uneasiness is caused in London by the ever-increasing crowds which gather in Trafalgar Square, clamoring for bread or work. The meetings are not organized by the usual socialistic propagandists, but are composed of laborers without homes or work, the number of which is estimated at over one hundred thousand. They are always surrounded by the police, who have difficulty in preventing serious riots.

—The storm that raged in Sinaloa, Mexico, from the 6th until the 9th, completely destroyed the town of Rosario. The Rosario River rushed over the country to a depth of twenty feet. At Tajo and Guaranupina eight persons were drowned, and six are missing. The great silver mines are overflowed and badly damaged. The towns of Mataton and Capales and also the city of Onelito, containing over 8,000 inhabitants, are destroyed. Several vessels are reported lost.

—A band of boy burglars, who have terrorized the section of Boston known as Highlands, the past summer, was discovered and broken up by the police on the 11th inst. The band appeared on its face to be a social organization known as a Labor Club, and occupied a large room in a tenement house, which was fitted as a gymnasium and arsenal. The club had a common cash fund, which was kept full by burglaries, and from which the members supplied themselves at pleasure. The ages of the boys ranged from 13 to 17 years.