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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 38.

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—The new fortifications of Paris have cost $750,000,000.

—China has just negotiated a loan in Hamburg of $40,000,000.

—M. Stevanoff, president of the Bulgarian Sobranje, died the 15th inst.

—September 16 was the seventy-ninth anniversary of Mexican independence.

—The Boutin sugar refinery near Bordeaux, France, was burned the 15th inst., at a loss of $250,000.

—It is reported that twenty-five thousand families in Montenegro are threatened with famine.

—Louisville, Ky., had an $800,000 fire the night of the 15th inst. Six firemen were killed by falling walls.

—An overissue of fraudulent bonds of 1880, amounting to nearly $1,000,000, has been discovered in Louisiana.

—A riot recently occurred on Navassa Island, in the Caribbean Sea, in which a number of Americans were killed.

—The safe of the Iron Exchange Bank at Hurley, Wis., was blown open the night of the 20th inst., and $44,500 stolen.

—Recent dispatches from Auckland state that King Malietoa has been quietly restored to power in Samoa once more.

—Tsui Kuo Yin, the new Chinese Minister to the United States, arrived in San Francisco from Hongkong the 18th inst.

—Recent prairie and field fires in San Mateo County, Cal., have done heavy damage. Two towns narrowly escaped destruction.

—In target practice with smokeless powder, Italian military authorities say double the usual number of hits have been made.

—Two young ladies were killed by lightning while sitting in a class in Sunday-school near Columbia City, Ind., the 15th inst.

—A colored barber of Lima, O., is said to have fallen heir to a fortune of $5,000,000 worth of real estate in Logansport, Ind.

—The late Professor Elias Loomis of Massachusetts bequeathed the bulk of his estate, amounting to about $300,000, to Yale College.

—The Shah of Persia has taken a fancy to Mrs. John W. Mackay, the wife of the millionaire, and offers to purchase her, it is said.

—The extensive oil refineries of Leonard and Ellis at Shadyside, N. J., were totally destroyed by fire on the 21st inst., at a loss of $500,000.

—It is reported that no less than two hundred people have been killed by the brigands of Macedonia within the past two months.

—The State constitutional convention of Wyoming provides that each voter shall be able to read before exercising the privilege of the ballot.

—A terrible famine prevails throughout the Tigre State of Abyssinia. Bands of starving peasants are ravaging the country around Sokota.

—The Spanish government intends to lay a cable between the Canary Islands and Porto Rico, thus connecting Spain with Porto Rico and Cuba.

—W. B. Webb, the former Territorial secretary of Montana, was arrested at Helena the 17th inst. for embezzlement of public funds while in office.

—The English and Italian governments declare the slave traffic to be piracy, and have pledged themselves to use their utmost efforts to suppress it.

—A London journal states that shirts of chain armor, which cost about £100, are now worn by more than one distinguished person on the Continent.

—An express train ran into a freight at Tioga Junction, Pa., September 15, killing some three or four persons and wounding fifteen or twenty more.

—The Spanish government is much distressed at the steady increase of emigration of able-bodied peasants and the working classes, to South America.

—It is proposed to introduce the cultivation of the sugar beet on a large scale in Pennsylvania. Probably the experiment will be tried in Berks County.

—The thousands of negroes who have removed from the Carolinas to the valley of the Mississippi are to be followed by a colony of 400 families of poor whites.

—A yacht from Detroit, Mich., bound for Cleveland, O., with nine persons aboard, foundered during a storm on Lake Erie the night of the 17th inst. All on board were lost.

—Secretary Tracy has decided to have the two new 3,000-ton cruisers built at the Government Navy Yards, as none of the bids received for their construction came within the limit.

—A Mormon emigrant train containing 160 passengers went through a bridge near Lynchburg, Va., totally wrecking two cars, but, strange to say, doing no serious injury to the occupants.

—A woman and her two-year-old child were burned to death and two other children terribly injured by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp in San Francisco the night of the 16th inst.

—Miss Sallie Bull of Alaska was appointed to a position in the Department of the Interior on the 17th inst. This is the first appointment to the department service on record from Alaska.

—Mrs. Eva Hamilton, a prominent lady in New York society, who stabbed her domestic servant at Atlantic City, N. J., recently, was sentenced to two years in the State prison at Trenton, the 19th inst.

—Jessie Wentworth Payson, chief author of the Payson, Dunton & Scribner copy books, died at Hyde Park, Mass., the 17th inst., aged 74 years. She was known as one of the greatest artistic penmen of the world.

—The Boston Peace Jubilee with cannon and anvil chorus, under the management of P. S. Gilmore, will be reproduced in San Francisco the 11th of November, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Jubilee at Boston in 1869.

—On account of the burning of a bridge on the Central Pacific near the summit of the Rockies, recently, hundreds of passengers and tons of mail matter were delayed on either side of a gorge in the mountains for several days.

—The Tonga steamer Wainui, recently landed at Auckland with the crew of the British ship Garston, which foundered in the mid-Pacific ocean recently. The shipwrecked sailors were twenty-two days in an open boat without food or water.

—A justice of the peace at Norwalk, Conn., recently sentenced a little boy only six years of age to the State reformatory for fifteen years, for quarrelling with another child on the street. An appeal has been entered against the ridiculous sentence.

—It is now stated that notwithstanding the paucity of the United States exhibit at Paris, our country will come out in the matter of awards much better than any of the foreign nations, on account of the superiority of American design and workmanship.

—Secretary Noble has directed that the lands in Colorado and New Mexico, upon which are located the prehistoric ruins and mounds of the "cliff-dwellers," shall be withdrawn from settlement until the historical value of these ruins can be ascertained.

—A desperate conflict is reported as having taken place in Mexico, near the Rio Grande, recently, in which four hundred natives engaged in a bloody fight with Mexican officers and soldiers, over the collection of enormous taxes. The soldiers were compelled to retire.

—The American National Colored Baptist Convention, just closed in Indianapolis, passed a resolution asking President Harrison to recommend to Congress the passage of a bill appropriating $100,000,000 to enable the colored people to leave the South and colonize in the Western States.

—Several thousand tons of rock slid from the promontory known as Cape Diamond, in Quebec, Ont., the 19th inst., falling three hundred feet into the street below, crushing several buildings, and burying over fifty people in the ruins. Up to the date of this writing, twenty-eight dead and eighteen injured victims have been taken out.

—Neagle, who killed Judge Terry recently for his attack on Chief Justice Field, was acquitted at San Francisco the 15th inst. by Judge Sawyer of the United States Court. The State of California has declared its intention of filing an appeal, on account of the trial of Neagle being taken out of its jurisdiction by the Federal Court.

—The official trial of the new cruiser Baltimore, took place the 14th inst. The development of 10,000 horse-power, which is 1,000 horse-power above the contract, will entitle the builders to a premium of $100,000, while in point of speed, her attainment of over twenty knots an hour makes this vessel the fleetest man-of-war in the world.