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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 32.

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—General Fremont confesses that he is bankrupt.

—Tennyson celebrated his eightieth birthday the 6th inst.

—The Sorghum Sugar Works at Topeka, Kan., were burned the 6th inst., at a loss of $10,000.

—Parnell's health is said to be failing. Physicians have advised him to go to the south of France.

—The National Editorial Association will hold its annual meeting at Detroit, Mich., the 27th inst.

—Two men were killed and 15 injured by an explosion of natural gas at Pittsburg, Pa., August 9.

—The strike in the coke regions of Connellsville, Pa., embracing 12,000 coke owners, has ended at last.

—Four persons lost their lives by the explosion of naphtha on a pleasure yacht at Buffalo, N. Y., August 7.

—Over 150 cases of typhoid fever, said to be caused by impure drinking water, are reported from Chicago, Ill.

—In the recent French elections, Boulanger, who was a candidate for the Councils-General, was overwhelmingly defeated.

—The extensive property of the Riverside and Oswego Mills Company at Oswego Falls, N. Y., was attached for $412,000 by the sheriff, August 6.

—The steamship Montreal, which recently sailed for Liverpool from Montreal, Canada, was totally wrecked on Belle Isle. All the passengers were saved.

—Twenty-eight United States soldiers deserted the barracks of David's Island, N. Y., the night of the 5th inst. They were privates who had enlisted for the regular term.

—An earthquake, lasting forty-five seconds, occurred throughout the region of the Adirondacks, in New York, August 10. The shock was particularly hard at Warrensburg.

—A deposit containing thousands of tons of a fine quality of natural soap has been discovered near San Diego, Cal. But little extra treatment is necessary to prepare it for the market.

—Henry Dupont, the powder manufacturer, died at Wilmington, Delaware, August 8, on his seventy-fifth birthday. He leaves an estate of $15,000,000, principally in powder factories.

—Extensive iron mines in Cuba are being opened by a syndicate of Minnesota capitalists. They expect to work one thousand men, and will send all the ore to the United States for manufacture.

—A fight between two rival factions of colored people occurred at Walton, Ky., on the night of August 4, resulting in four persons being instantly killed, and many more seriously injured.

—There are prospects of trouble with the Mormons in Wilson County, Tenn. Their preachers are threatening to avenge the blood of Joseph Smith. Much excitement exists in the community.

—Within the past few weeks, there have been no less than four successful train robberies on the Western roads in the United States. The amounts obtained by the robbers were small in each instance.

—It is reported from Albany, Wis., that several fine pearls have been found in the shells of clams taken from the Sugar River at that place. A shipment valued at $1,500 was recently made to Chicago.

—The prisoners confined in the fort of San Juan de Ulloa at Vera Cruz, Mexico, revolted against the officials the 7th inst. Twenty of them were shot by the troops on duty before the uprising could be quelled.

—The extensive plant of the Spreckels Sugar Refinery now in course of erection at Philadelphia, will be duplicated as soon as completed. This will give the double refinery a capacity of 4,000,000 pounds of sugar per day.

—Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman who was accused a few weeks ago of poisoning her husband in Liverpool, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. The popular verdict is in her favor, and she possibly may be respited.

—By the recently completed survey between California and Nevada a portion of the boundary line has been placed so much farther west than the old survey that Lake Tahoe will be nearly if not entirely within the boundaries of the latter State.

—An official dispatch from Guysboro, Nova Scotia, to the American Consul-General at Halifax, announced the seizure of the American fishing schooner Vidette, August 4. It is thought to be a retaliation for the recent seizure of British sealers in Behring Sea.

—Salt Lake City, Utah, so long under Mormon rule, indulged in a jubilee the night of the 6th inst., on account of a Gentile majority of forty-one in the recent election held there. It is thought by many that this will revolutionize the government in the Territory.

—Dispatches from Zanzibar under date of August 8, state that Stanley and Emin Pasha are on their way to the coast with 9,000 men and enormous quantities of ivory. The Germans are endeavoring to create a disturbance, and an uprising against Europeans is feared.

—Charles Foster, the secretary of the Sioux Commission, sent a dispatch to Secretary Noble the 7th inst., announcing the successful negotiation of the treaty by which the Sioux Indians agree to surrender 11,000,000 acres of their reservation in Dakota, for the sum of $14,000,000.

—Official information has been received at Washington to the effect that the governments of Columbia and Venezuela will take part in the Convention of American States to be held in October. All governments invited to participate have accepted, with the exception of Paraguay, Hayti, and San Domingo.

—The imperial diamond, lately discovered in Cape Colony, and now at the Paris Exposition, weighs 180 carats and is valued at $3,000,000. It is kept in a glass case by itself, and guardians stand around it all day. At night it is placed in a big safe, which is similarly guarded all night. It is the largest cut diamond in the world.

—Spokane Falls, Wash., was visited by a terrible fire Sunday night, August 4, which destroyed the entire business portion of the city. Thirty blocks were burned over, and only two brick business houses are left in the entire place. The loss is estimated to be at least $10,000,000, over and above all insurance.

—The grand naval review in honor of the German emperor, William, took place at Spithead, England, the 5th inst. Miles of battle-ships were in line and the first salute alone included 15,000 guns. It is said that the magnificence of the display was greater than has ever before been witnessed in the history of the world.

—The new cruiser, Boston, while returning from a series of important trials in Narragansett Bay, struck a rock at the lower end of Rose Island, in Newport Harbor, the 3d inst. The vessel narrowly escaped going to the bottom, and has sustained heavy damages which will retard her completion several weeks.

—General Grenfell, the commander of the Egyptian troops, reports that his recent victory has completely broken the Dervish army. Every emir in the ranks of the Dervishes has been killed, with one exception, and Wad-El-Jumi's followers are surrendering by the thousand. It is thought the war is practically ended.

—A well-known attorney by the name of Collom, of Minneapolis, Minn., has confessed to forging the name of John F. Blaisdell, a millionaire of that city, to notes and other securities to the amount of $227,000. He claims, however, that he has been forced to make this confession by Blaisdell, who himself signed the notes. The creditors are investigating the matter.

—Three fast Atlantic steamers, the City of Rome, City of New York, and Teutonic, left Queenstown, August 8, on a race to New York. It was hoped that one of them at least would lower the record of the City of Paris, which at present occupies the enviable distinction of having made the fastest time ever recorded across the Atlantic. The result of the race had not been learned at the date of this writing.

—An insurrection of the natives occurred at Honolulu, Hawaii, July 30, and an attempt was made to depose King Kalakaua from his throne. The palace was stormed, and the king was compelled to flee for his life. Prompt action by the Honolulu Rifles, however, put down the uprising before much damage was done. Seven persons were killed and ten were wounded in the fight. The leader of the insurgents, a native Hawaiian named Wilcox, is in jail with over sixty of his followers.

—Dr. Brown-Séquard, a French physician, has, it is claimed, discovered a practical method of renewing youth, or doubly perpetuating the vital strength of maturity. The doctor takes live particles of flesh from animals and triturates them, immersed in distilled water, thus obtaining a liquid containing the essential elements of the tissues. This he injects hypodermically with a syringe, and the effect is very remarkable in the way of re-invigoration. Dr. Séquard claims to be thus enabled to do six times the amount of work he could do with ordinary food.