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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 23.

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—Bread riots are threatened at Conception Bay.

—June 7, eight persons lost their lives in a burning building in Chicago.

—King Ludwig, of Bavaria, has been declared insane, and a regency has been established.

—The evangelists, Jones and Small, are said to have received over $1,000 for their work in Baltimore.

—Oscar Neebe, one of the Chicago Anarchists, who has not yet been indicted, is to be released on $20,000 bail.

—New Jersey was visited by an earthquake June 12. The shock was light, probably about like those which are so common in California.

—The House Committee on Territories has agreed to report the bill extending the operations of the general homestead laws over Alaska.

—There has been but one fall of rain in the vicinity of Galveston, Texas, for some months, and water sells in that city at fifty cents per barrel.

—Richard M. Hoe, the noted inventor and manufacturer, died in Florence, Italy, June 7. Mr. Hoe was the inventor of the famous printing-presses which bear his name.

—The infantry regiments at Frankfort-on-the-Main are being drilled to the use of bicycles and tricycles for military purposes. The men ride the machines in marching order.

—Since the recent tornado in Ohio, a deed and memorandum book have been returned to their owner, from whose premises they had been blown a distance of forty-eight miles.

—The French bark Michael Emile was run down and sunk by the Newcastle bark Canova in latitude 46° 8' N., longitude 53° 50' W. Seven of her crew are missing, and are thought to have been drowned.

—At Milwaukee, June 8, forty-nine men were arraigned in the Municipal Court for rioting and conspiracy. They all pleaded not guilty, and were held for trial with bail from $1,000 to $2,000 each.

—The Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries reports that the total value of the catch for 1885 was $17,722,000, of which Nova Scotia produced over $8,000,000 worth. The total investments in the fisheries is $6,697,000.

—On the 7th inst. local-option elections were held at many points in North Carolina. The Prohibitionists carried the day in Raleigh and at eleven other places. The liquor men were successful in eleven towns.

—The San Francisco Bulletin says that "there are now in this country more than 400,000 Swedes and Norwegians, the great majority of them being residents of Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Kansas."

—A bill is now pending in Congress which proposes to place a tax of five cents per pound on oleomargarine and other butter substitutes. It also provides that all such compounds must be plainly labeled and sold for what they really are.

—The French Government proposes to expel from that country all members of the royal families, and Prince Jerome Napoleon has published a protest against the proposed expulsion. He predicts that the Chamber of Deputies by such conduct will drive the republic into civil war.

—The fisheries question is still attracting considerable attention both in this country and Canada; and while the general opinion is that the matter will be amicably settled, some of the leading papers recognize the fact that serious complications may grow out of the present trouble.

—June 9, a mule in Avignon, France, was seized with rabies and caused a panic in the city. The infuriated beast broke loose from its stable and after nearly killing its owner, charged through the streets, attacking and biting every living thing it met. A number of persons were bitten.

—The Orange riots in Ulster, Ireland, have proved to be more serious than at first reported, and continued till June 11, when the terrorized districts were placed under martial law. A number of taverns were destroyed, and all their stocks of wine, whisky, and beer thrown out to the crowd in the streets, who drank it ravenously or carried it away in jugs and buckets. In the latter work scores of women and children were engaged all the time the rioting lasted. Several persons have been killed and a large number wounded. The police were compelled to fire upon the mob repeatedly with buckshot.

—Gladstone's Home Rule bill came up for its second reading in the House of Commons on the 7th inst., and was defeated by a majority of thirty votes. The defeat of the bill was the occasion of intense excitement throughout both England and Ireland. At several points in the latter country the Orangemen indulged in riot. In Belfast, an Orange mob wrecked a number of Catholic houses, and was fired upon by the police; the fire was returned, and many on both sides were injured. The mob was finally dispersed, but the situation is very grave, not only in Belfast, but throughout Ireland. The Government has decided to dissolve Parliament, and thus appeal to the country at large. It is impossible to predict the result.