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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 22.

SECULAR.

—The Senate of Connecticut has concurred in the House bill providing for secret ballots at elections in the future.

—No reduction in fare is to be made to those attending the National Educational Association, which convenes at Louisville, Ky., this month.

—One hundred arrests have been made in connection with the recent rioting in Belgrade, Servia. Ex-Premier Garashanine is among the number.

—The monument in Haymarket Square, Chicago, in memory of the police who were killed in the famous Anarchist riot in 1886 was unveiled May 29.

—The terrible famine in North China has become so widespread and of such a severe nature that cannibalism has been added to the other horrors of the situation.

—Perrin, the man who fired a blank cartridge at President Carnot on the eve of the opening of the Paris exhibition, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment.

—The largest first payment ever granted to a pension claimant was awarded to Philip Flood, of the Ohio Infantry, on the 29th ult. The amount of arrears in his case is $15,289.

—An English syndicate has just completed the purchase of 320,000 acres of yellow-pine land, with saw-mills and other accessories in Florida and Alabama. The price paid was $1,500,000.

—Terrible volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are reported as having recently occurred on the island of Oshima, one of the Japan group. More than half the houses are said to be destroyed.

—The Viceroyship of Ireland has been tendered to the Earl of Zetland, who has accepted it. A deputation of Unionists have presented a petition to Salisbury asking that the Viceroyship be abolished.

—The coroner's jury in the case of Irving Bishop, the mind reader, has decided that death was the result of coma, and not of the autopsy performed by the physicians. The doctors have been discharged.

—A posse of officers made a raid on a gang of counterfeiters in the neighborhood of Versailles, Ill., recently. Counterfeiting tools and bogus coin were found in abundance, beside a large quantity of illicit whisky. One of the gang has turned State's evidence, and interesting developments are expected.

—News received from the Haytian Minister confirm the triumph of the forces of Hippolyte. Legitime has abdicated, and the war is virtually at an end in Hayti. A new election is to be immediately ordered embodying non-interference of foreign powers with domestic affairs in Hayti. Hippolyte has agreed not to be a candidate for the Presidency.

—The trustees of Sacramento, Cal., have set apart a plot of ground in the city cemetery for the remains of Colonel William S. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, the statesman. The remains now lie in a remote lot in the cemetery, but will soon be re-interred, and a fitting monument will be placed over them. Hamilton served with honor in the Mexican war.