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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 28, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 4.

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—Russia closed 80,000 dram shops by law last year.

—White Caps are still committing outrages in Indiana.

—Mrs. Jay Gould died at her residence in New York on the 13th inst.

—The Danube is frozen over solidly for a distance of eighteen miles below Vienna.

—Three girls were burned to death in a New York cigar box factory on the 15th inst.

—There are but two Russian-Greek churches in America, one in San Francisco and one in Sitka.

—January 19 Dewitt C. Davis, a respectable citizen of Sparker, N. Y., was horsewhipped by White Caps.

—On the 18th inst. riotous strikers set fire to one factory and seriously damaged others at Orgony, France.

—Thirteen White Caps who had whipped a man in North Salem, N. H., were fined $15 each on the 16th inst.

—January 16 Anthony Higgins, Republican, was elected to the United States Senate by the Delaware Legislature.

—It is feared that a revolution is imminent on the Isthmus of Panama. Should work cease on the canal 10,000 men will be thrown out of employment, and trouble will be almost sure to follow.

—The yield of gold in Queensland, Australia, for 1888, was 426,000 ounces, an increase of 27,000 ounces over the yield of 1887.

—The steamer Phyapeket was sunk by a collision near Singapore, India, on the 15th inst., and forty-two persons were drowned.

—An explosion of fire-damp occurred on the 18th inst. in the Hyde Colliery, near Manchester, England. Thirty persons were killed.

—Heavy snow-storms are reported in Eastern Europe. The railways in Galicia and Roumania were blocked by snow-drifts.

—A letter has been received from Henry M. Stanley, and his safety up to last August, the time the letter was written, is assured.

—Last year our imports from Japan, including raw silk, teas, fans, handkerchiefs, bamboo, and the like, amounted to nearly $16,000,000.

—It is thought that Congress will make an appropriation for the establishment of a relief station at Point Barrow, in the Arctic Ocean.

—The Anarchists in attendance at the peace congress held in Milan recently, decided to foment a revolution in Europe in the event of war.

—Doctor Kruss, a chemist, has succeeded in decomposing cobalt and nickel. Both have hitherto been supposed to be elementary substances.

—One man was fatally shot and one child and a woman were trampled to death in a row between circus men and citizens at Live Oak, Fla., on the 19th inst.

—It is said that a mountain of iron ore has been discovered in Lower California, about forty miles below Ensenada, and not over half a mile from the ocean beach.

—Admiral Kimberly, with the frigate Trenton, has been ordered to Samoa to protect American interests there, and to resent any violation of treaty rights by the Germans.

—It is stated that ripe tomatoes, green corn, and new potatoes were on exhibition in San Jose this State, since New Year's day, all grown in the open air in that vicinity.

—The bill appropriating $800,000 for the purchase of a post-office site in San Francisco passed the Senate on the 16th inst. It had previously been approved by the House.

—According to Bradstreet's, the visible supply of wheat December 29, 1888, was 38,301,447 bushels, against 44,421,130 bushels a year ago, and 62,729,869 bushels two years ago.

—The New White Star steamer, Teutonic, which was launched at Belfast on the 19th inst., is the largest vessel afloat. She is 582 feet in length and is of nearly 10,000 tons burden.

—The Royal College of Surgeons in London, by a vote of 21 to 2, has adopted a resolution censuring Dr. Morell Mackenzie for publishing his book on the case of the late Emperor Frederick, of Germany.

—Alexander T. McGill, D. D., LL.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary, died at Princeton, N. J., on the morning of the 13th inst., aged ninety-two years.

—Lieutenant Zalinski's dynamite gun was successfully tested at New York on the 18th inst. A shell containing 180 pounds of the explosive was thrown 1,400 yards and exploded with a force that no vessel afloat could have withstood.

—Assistant Sergeant-at-arms Isaac Bassett, of the Senate, is the oldest employe in the service of our Government. Fifty-eight years ago he was appointed a page in the United States Senate through the influence of Daniel Webster.

—A report from the Secret Service division of the treasury shows that during the past year there have been 407 arrests for counterfeiting. About one-half of the persons arrested were Americans; of the remainder nearly one-half were Italians.

—The general offices of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Road at St. Paul, Minn., were partially destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Several clerks jumped from the second story and were quite severely injured. Loss, about $40,000.

—Owing to the negligence of a flagman a passenger train running at the rate of fifty miles per hour ran into a freight train at Tallmadge, Ohio, on the 14th inst., wrecking both trains and killing ten persons. Fourteen passengers were seriously injured.

—A recent dispatch from Philadelphia says that all hope for the safety of the Austrian ship Lord Warden, now out 108 days on route from Montevideo to Philadelphia, has been given up, and there is no longer any doubt that she has gone to the bottom. Her crew consisted of eighteen men.

—A society has been organized in Boston called the "Massachusetts Society for Promoting Good Citizenship." It proposes a course of lectures this winter. Edward Everett Hale, the President of the society, will begin with an address on "Possible Boston."

—The largest mortgage ever placed on record in this country was that of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, made to the Central Mortgage Company of New York, and placed upon record on the 16th inst. It is for $30,000,000, and is on the property of the road.

—Arabs have destroyed the German missionary station at Tugu, fifteen miles west of Dar-es-Salem. A majority of the slaves were captured by the German man-of-war Leipsic and lodged at the station. One missionary escaped and eight were massacred. Three bodies, one of a woman, were found mutilated barbarously.

—It is asserted that robust young men and boys are employed by labor agencies and sent aboard oyster vessels on Chesapeake Bay, and there held and compelled to labor as slaves. Some who have escaped report that all the boys sent to the oyster sloops are treated like slaves, beaten horribly, and given vile food.

—Two serious railroad accidents took place on the 19th inst., one at Elmwood Station, Michigan, and the other at Twenty-ninth Street, Chicago. In the former accident some three men were killed, one of them being the Lieutenant Governor of the State; in the latter one man was fatally injured and two others seriously.

—Great excitement was occasioned on the 19th inst. at Midlothian, Texas, by the sinking, at that place, of a strip of territory some 200 yards long, over which runs the Fort Worth and New Orleans Railway. Forty car loads of gravel failed to raise the grade and trains could not cross the sunken territory. The cause of the phenomenon is a mystery.

—The population of the United States in 1790 amounted to 3,929,214, and the cost of the census was $44,377. This represents a cost per capita of 1.12 cents. In 1880 the population amounted to 50,155,783, and the cost of the census was $5,862,750, showing a cost per capita of 11.68 cents, or more than ten times the cost per capita of the census of 1790.

—A Chicago judge has decided that the police of that city have no right to forbid Anarchist meetings. The judge said: "Members of the society may seek to disseminate views or principles which in the opinion of the great majority of our citizens are opposed to the public welfare, but they have the right to publicly meet and discuss them in a quiet and peaceable manner and make converts to their views if they are able to do so."

—Concerning the end of the Burlington strike the Chicago Journal says: "It will be a great relief to the treasury of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which has been literally drained to support the strikers in idleness. The fact that the strikers have gained nothing, but have lost a year's wages, and that the brotherhood has been heavily taxed meantime for their benefit, should serve as a lesson against embarking hastily or obstinately in strikes. As a rule, with very few exceptions, strikes are a losing game."