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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 35.

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—The premium on gold has advanced to 125 per cent. in Buenos Ayres.

—Parliament has been prorogued by Queen Victoria until November 16.

—Lightning instantly killed four boys at Matamoras, Mexico, August 27.

—The Florida orange crop is estimated to be fifty per cent. short owing to drought.

—In the German army 30 per cent. of the deaths of the private soldiers are from suicide.

—Brown, Steese, & Clark, a heavy wool firm of Boston, Mass., have failed for $1,180,000.

—Half the town of Dubno, Russia, was destroyed by fire the 26th ult., with enormous loss.

—The water-works at San Diego, Cal., have been sold to an English Syndicate for $1,400,000.

—Five men were killed by the explosion of a boiler in a nail factory at Towanda, Pa., August 27.

—The United States sloop-of-war Galena sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for Hayti, August 25.

—Fire in the Ohio State prison, August 27, destroyed buildings and property to the extent of $100,000.

—Twelve colored persons were poisoned in Chattanooga, Tenn., recently by the use of decaying meat.

—It is reported that the German army will be re-organized and largely increased by the coming Reichstag.

—Tacoma, W. T., had a $50,000 fire the 29th ult. Only the absence of wind saved the city from entire destruction.

—It is reported that at the urgent request of his friends, Boulanger will go to Paris and stand trial before the elections.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his eightieth birthday the 29th ult. Many presents and congratulations were received.

—It is reported from Brussels that King Leopold has definitely decided to abdicate the sovereignty of the Congo Free State in Africa.

—Henry Shaw, the philanthropist of St. Louis, Mo., who died the 25th ult., left to that city his entire estate, amounting to $2,500,000.

—Two contractors on the State capital building of Texas were recently fined $64,000 and costs for importing skilled laborers from Europe.

—Nine men were terribly burned at Pittsburg, Penn., recently by molten steel. Only four of them were expected to survive at last accounts.

—The sealing schooner Black Diamond, which escaped from the United States revenue cutter Rush some time ago, has again sailed for Behring Sea.

—The village of Tscherlach, Switzerland, was destroyed August 29 by the fall of a portion of Mount Ruldisberg. The inhabitants fortunately escaped.

—W. E. Selement, a post-office clerk of St. Paul, Minn., has been arrested for robbing the mails. It is estimated that his stealings will amount to $100,000.

—Heavy earthquakes were reported from Greece and Russia, under date of the 27th ult. In the village of Khenzonik, Russia, 100 persons were buried alive.

—A locomotive and twenty cars were burned by breaking through a burning bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad near Laramie City, Wy. T., the 31st ult.

—A terrible negro riot occurred at a colored picnic recently at Jordan Brook, Ark., in which a number of men were killed, and several others seriously wounded. Whisky was the cause.

—It is estimated that 35,000 men took part in the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at their recent annual encampment in Milwaukee, Wis. Over 100,000 strangers were in attendance.

—A disastrous fire occurred at Port Costa, Cal., August 26, consuming a large warehouse filled with wheat, together with two or three ocean ships lying alongside. The total loss is estimated at $750,000.

—White Horse, the chief of the Crow Indian tribe, was recently murdered by unknown persons near the Yellowstone River, in which stream his body was afterward found. The tribe threaten vengeance.

—Several of the agents of the counterfeiters recently raided at Dayton, Ohio, were arrested at St. Joseph, Mo., the 28th ult. They confessed that $50,000 in counterfeit $10 bills had been distributed at that point.

—The steamship City of Paris arrived in New York the 28th ult., having made the run from Queenstown in five days, nineteen hours, and eighteen minutes, beating her own best time by three hours and forty-nine minutes.

—A vestibule train filled with Grand Army veterans bound for Milwaukee, Wis., was thrown down a forty-foot embankment near Kinsman, Ill., the 26th ult. Fifty persons were injured in all, several of whom have since died.

—The official report of the cruiser Boston shows the accident to that vessel to be even more serious than was at first supposed. One hundred thousand dollars and six months labor will be required to put the vessel in condition for sea service again.

—The London strike continues unchanged in situation so far as concessions are concerned, both sides remaining firm at this writing. The strikers, at last accounts, numbered 110,000, while fully 75,000 other laborers were thrown out of work in consequence.

—China and Japan have been recently visited by a series of typhoons of almost unprecedented violence. According to the latest intelligence from Japan the number of persons who have lost their lives by drowning in consequence of floods is at the lowest estimate 5,000.

—Twenty thousand persons gathered at Manchester, N. H., on the 29th ult., to witness the marriage of a young couple of that place. The interesting feature of the case was, however, that they were married in a balloon, and immediately sailed off toward the clouds on their bridal trip.

—The Chinese consul-general at San Francisco, has been accused by his countrymen of swindling them out of several hundred thousand dollars. Investigations are in progress, and it is likely suits will be brought against him in the United States court for the recovery of the money.

—A. J. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, has announced his intention of establishing in that city an industrial institute where 2,000 girls and boys will be taught free of charge by a full corps of teachers. The entire outlay for the erection and endowment of the institution will reach, $1,500,000.

—Recent dispatches from Egypt say that a terrible famine prevails at Khartoum, Kassala, Tokar, and other river towns, and natives are dying by the hundreds. The survivors are said to be feeding upon the bodies of the dead. About twenty deaths from starvation daily are reported at Tokar.

—Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is said to have discovered a process of hardening sugar by which it becomes almost stonelike, and is unaffected by wind or rain. He offers to build an addition to the White House, guaranteeing the material to be whiter than the whitest marble and costing only one-half as much. He also provides that if after the structure has been completed, any objection is found, he will remove all traces of his work free of charge to the government.

—There can no longer be any doubt of the value of the method of treating hydrophobia discovered by M. Pasteur. Up to the 31st of May, M. Pasteur had treated 6,950 patients. Of these 1,187 had been bitten by dogs suspected but not positively known to be mad, and about 1 per cent. of whom died. There were 4,686 who had been bitten by dogs pronounced mad by competent veterinarians, and of these less than 1 per cent. died. The remaining 1,077 were bitten by dogs, about the madness of which there could be no doubt, as they were secured and inoculation from their bodies to other animals proved fatal. Of these considerably less than 1 1/2 per cent. died.—Cleveland Leader.