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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 15, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 27.

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—July 1, 15,000 workmen struck at Brunn, Austria.

—July 1, the business part of Durango, Colo., was destroyed by fire.

—The amount of cash in the United States Treasury on the 1st inst., was $643,713,172.

—The Bulgarian Government has secured a loan of $5,000,000 from a New York bank.

—July 3, an explosion in a coal pit at St. Etienne, France, caused the death of 213 persons.

—On the night of July 2 a water spout burst over the city of Altoona, Pa., doing considerable damage.

—Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, thinks that the people of Johnstown will soon be self-sustaining.

—Three drunken men engaged in a fight near Omaha, July 4, were run over by an engine and killed.

—Two men were killed, and one or two injured in a railroad accident at Jamestown, New York, on the 6th inst.

—It is said that the Papal Nuncio at Vienna, Austria, has advised the Vatican that war is imminent in Europe.

—The Department of State has been notified that the Island of Suwarow in the Pacific Ocean has been annexed the British Crown.

—July 2, Hailey, Idaho Ter., suffered a loss of a million and a half dollars by fire. There was also a destructive fire in Carson City, Nevada.

—Glasgow, Mo., was the scene of a fierce riot on the 29th ult., in which three men were fatally wounded and six others severely injured.

—Five persons were killed by the cars at Little Silver Crossing, near Long Branch, N. J., on the 5th inst. They were crossing the track in a carriage.

—It is reported that the Irish-Americans have determined to purchase Lower California from Mexico, and found there an Irish-American Republic.

—At Washington, Pa., July 2, lightning struck a forty-thousand barrel oil tank containing 26,000 barrels of oil, setting it on fire. The oil was a total loss.

—The monthly statement to the Treasury Department shows that the public debt was decreased during the month of June to the extent of $16,255,950.

—It is said that the American exhibit at the Paris exhibition is entirely unworthy of this country. In fact, it is said that the show made by Americans is wretched.

—It has been stated that the Pope proposes to leave Rome in case the powers of Europe refuse to interest themselves to secure what he is pleased to call his rights.

—The report that Costa Rica would oppose the building of the Nicaragua Canal is denied. The canal will be of great benefit to that country as well as to Nicaragua.

—Active operations commenced in the United States Navy Yard at Norfolk, Va., on the 1st inst. The force employed there is to be increased at once to about 1,500 men.

—A grand stand at Oklahoma fell on the 4th inst., with nearly a thousand people, who were witnessing races. Nearly a score of lives were lost, and many persons were injured.

—June 30, thirty-six buildings with a large quantity of machinery were burned at Luneberg, Germany. The roof of St. Nicholas Church was also destroyed. Loss 12,000,000 marks.

—One of the silver vaults at Washington, D. C., was flooded on the 1st inst., with about two inches of water. We are gravely told by the press dispatches that the silver was uninjured.

—July 4, the big brewery of Falk, Jugn & Borchert, near Milwaukee, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $1,000,000. When the big vats of beer bursted, the liquor ran in the streets seven inches deep.

—On the 4th inst., an eighteen-year old boy was shot dead by the Assistant Superintendent of the Industrial School in San Francisco. The boy was a hard character, and was attempting to escape from the institution.

—Millet's great masterpiece, "The Angelus," was sold at Paris on the 1st inst., for 154,000 francs. It is said that such a scene was never before witnessed at an auction of the modern painting. The picture will remain in France.

—July 6, the great strike at Duluth, Minn., culminated in a riot in which 30 determined policemen were pitted against 3,000 desperate men armed with pistols, stones, and clubs. Over thirty persons were wounded, some of them fatally.

—It is said that the internal revenue receipts steadily increase. In 1885 they were $112,421,121. This year they reached nearly $131,000,000.

—It is asserted that the defects in the Charleston, the new crusader recently built by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, are due solely to the plans of the vessel furnished by the Government, and that they are no fault of the contractors.

—The coroner's jury at Johnstown has rendered a verdict, the last sentence of which runs as follows: "We hold that the owners of the South Fork Dam are responsible for the fearful loss of life and property resulting from the breaking of the dam."

—It seems that the English occupation of Egypt is not entirely peaceful. Recent advices state that British and English troops engaged a band of Dervishes and that five hundred of the latter were killed and wounded. The Egyptian loss was seventy.

—It is said that the Persian Minister will probably be withdrawn from Washington, as a mark of the Shah's great displeasure toward this country. His Royal Highness is said to have taken offense at what the American papers have said about him.

—Judges Tully, Horton, and Collins, of Chicago, setting in bank on the 5th inst., refused to dissolve the injunction to prevent the Board of Trade from giving its quotations to bucket shops. The bucket shop men are very much pleased with their victory.

—July 4, a reception was given by Minister Lincoln and wife in London in recognition of the day. There was an enormous crowd in attendance, and the building was decorated with American and English flags. Mr. Lincoln is very popular in London.

—July 3, there was a cloud burst at Titusville, Pa. The rain fall was such that the stream running through the town became a furious torrent, and fully three miles of streets were flooded. Women and children were moved to places of safety on rafts. The damage to property was considerable.

—Johnstown, Pa., has again been visited by high water. On the night of the 2nd inst., several families were driven out of their houses in Cambria City, and considerable furniture, etc., saved from the big flood, was destroyed. Some of the temporary bridges built since the great flood were washed away.

—It has been discovered that there is a strong gang of counterfeiters operating upon the Pacific Coast. It is believed by Government Officers that wealthy and influential men are concerned in the scheme. It has been said that so much counterfeit coin has been sent afloat, that there is more of the spurious than genuine coin circulating in Alaska.

—A furious storm swept over Franklin, Pa., on the 3d inst., doing immense damage to property, destroying growing crops, and leveling barns and derricks in all directions. Cellars were flooded and out houses washed away. Serious damage was also done on the same day by lightning and rain through central Ohio. A number of lives were lost. The greatest part of the casualties were due to lightning.

—Sedalia, Mo., is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants and two "madstones" are owned there. One of the doctors of the town has dared to doubt the efficacy of these stones and offered $500 in cash to any one who would agree to be bitten by a mad dog and rely solely on the stones for a cure. He was immediately besieged by applications both by person, letter, and telegram, offering to be bitten, and was compelled to withdraw the reward. The matter of the efficacy of the stones is still in dispute.

—The City of Naples, in Italy, is to be rebuilt. The plans contemplate the demolition of 17,000 houses and 62 churches in the most thickly settled and most squalid parts of the city. The streets are narrow and the whole city is most insufferable filthy. The streets are to be widened and the population of the quarter to be renovated which is now about 600 to the acre, it is to be reduced about one-half. The cost of these improvements will be enormous and the funds are to be furnished principally by the Italian Government.