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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 33.

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  • Eighty nihilists have been arrested at Kharkof, Russia.
  • Toledo, Ohio, has struck a gas well which yields 20,000,000 feet per day.
  • A natural gas company with a capital of $750,000 has recently been organized in San Diego, Cal.
  • The New York Sun has forwarded a check for $10,000 to Mayor Grant, for the World's Exposition Fund.
  • Privy Councillor Kruger of Germany has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in naval frauds.
  • A law school for women is being organized in New York City. It is expected to open about October 1.
  • A fire broke out in Sachsenburg, Prussia, the 10th inst., and burned for three days, entirely destroying the town.
  • Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon. There has been no rain there for two months.
  • The Oregon Short Line and a number of roads in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada have been consolidated.
  • In the recent State election, Kentucky increased the Democratic plurality vote of two years ago by 100 per cent.
  • The walls of a building recently destroyed by fire in Chicago, collapsed on the 14th inst., burying three men in the ruins.
  • A workman at Louisville, Ky., recently sustained a shock of twenty-two hundred volts of electricity without serious injury.
  • King Humbert, of Italy, has sent a special decoration to Edison, the inventor, and has conferred the title of Count upon him.
  • The water in the upper Mississippi is lower than it has been for many years, and navigation is being seriously interfered with.
  • The whole army corps guards paraded before the emperor of Austria, at Berlin, the 13th inst., making a brilliant display.
  • Senator Evarts is suffering from serious eye trouble. He expects to shortly go to Europe to consult with leading specialists there.
  • The Orphan Asylum at Augusta, Georgia, a handsome five-story building, costing $100,000, was entirely destroyed by fire August 11.
  • The constitutional conventions of North Dakota and Montana each completed their respective work the 17th inst., and adjourned sine die.
  • The report is current in foreign countries, that the Russian Government is urging the Regents of Servia to expel ex-King Milan from that country.
  • General Boulanger has been found guilty of conspiracy by the French court. Dillon and Rochefort are also indicted for complicity in the plot with him.
  • It is reported that owing to timely rains, the harvest in Scotland will be unusually abundant this year. Great gladness prevails in agricultural regions.
  • Large bodies of colored people, aggregating many thousands, are preparing to emigrate from North Carolina to Western and Southwestern States during the coming fall.
  • Signor Benedetti Cairoli, the distinguished Italian statesman, is dead. He will be remembered as the man who saved King Humbert from the dirk of an assassin in 1878.
  • An expedition in which Henry Villard is considerably interested, is to be fitted out with two vessels to start on a voyage of discovery toward the South Pole next spring.
  • It is stated that the Sultan of Turkey has notified Greece that if she attempts to land troops in Crete or to incite any further rebellion there, it will be considered a cause for war.
  • Blondin, the celebrated tight-rope performer, has wagered $20,000 that he can walk a cable from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the central dome of the exposition building in less than five minutes.
  • A passenger train on the Western Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the track and went over an embankment at Carver's Station the 16th inst., killing three persons outright and injuring some twenty-five others.
  • Heavy rains in southeastern Nebraska recently, have interrupted railway traffic and have swelled the streams of that section to such an extent that hundreds of houses have been flooded. Four hundred destitute people are being cared for at Lincoln.
  • The Paragon Oil Company, an independent organization outside of the oil ring, with headquarters and refinery at Toledo, Ohio, has just perfected a discovery by which the sulphur in coal oil can be completely taken out. The Standard Oil Company offers $2,000,000 for the control of the process.
  • The Home Secretary of England has announced his concurrence in the opinion of Justice Stephen, who recently sentenced Mrs. Maybrick to death for poisoning her husband. The friends of the condemned woman have given up hope, unless the executive interference of the Queen shall be exercised.
  • An explosion of gas in a crockery house in New York City the 16th inst., blew the contents of the building out through the front of the store, killing two persons almost instantly, and injuring about thirty others. Evidence shows that the explosion was not the result of an accident but had been planned beforehand.
  • An experiment recently made in Kentucky by a physician who tried the effect of the new Brown-Sequard elixir of life upon an aged negro resulted fatally. Unfavorable reports are coming in from other sections of the country also, so it is not likely that the new discovery will prove to be an unmixed benefit, whatever its virtues are.
  • The steamer Allianir, with 140 passengers which arrived at New York the 16th inst., had a narrow escape from destruction by fire during her recent voyage from Brazil. The flames raged for several hours before they were at last brought under control. Three hundred bales of cotton were burned, and seven hundred more bales were thrown overboard.
  • The Temperance Educational Society is the name of a new society recently organized in Chicago, and incorporated under the laws of the State. The first experiment it is trying is that of placing in the street-cars, on advertising placards, in display type, where they cannot fail to be seen, a few most telling facts and figures. The managers propose to be sure of their facts, so that however startling, they shall be incontrovertibly true.
  • Dr. Gradenigo, professor of ophthalmic surgery in the University of Padua, has just succeeded in transplanting the cornea from the eye of a barn fowl into the eye of a patient under his care. On the eighth day after the operation the transplanted cornea presented a quite pellucid and convex appearance. Such a result has never before been recorded in the annals of Continental surgery.—London Lancet.
  • A new process in the production of steel, which if successful will practically revolutionize the manufacture, is now being perfected by John W. Brookwalter, of Ohio. In eight to nine minutes, it is claimed, pig iron can be converted into steel at a cost less than by any other known process.
  • It is reported that three negroes, acting upon the direction of a colored man who claims to be Daniel the prophet, threw themselves into a blazing blast furnace near Birmingham, Alabama, the 10th inst., under the impression that, like the three Hebrew children, they would suffer no injury. Jackson, the prophet, declared that he saw them ascend to Heaven, accompanied by angels, and that in a few days they would return again. The negroes of that vicinity have great confidence in his pretensions.
  • The municipal authorities of Paris recently gave a dinner at the Palais de l'Industrie in honor of the provincial mayors of France, which can lay claim to being the largest banquet in the history of the world. The invited guests numbered 15,000, whose wants were supplied by over 1,000 waiters. For days previous to the grand event, 200 cooks were engaged, and the amount of provisions required was enormous. The number of plates was 80,000, which, if piled one on top of another, would make a stack more than a mile in height.
  • David S. Terry, ex-judge of the California Supreme Court, was shot and instantly killed at Lathrop, Cal., August 14, by Deputy United States Marshal Neagle. Considerable bitterness had existed for some time between Judge Terry and Stephen J. Field, associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, on account of the ruling of the latter individual in the celebrated Hill-Sharon-Terry case, and because of this Neagle had been appointed as a body-guard to protect Justice Field. On the occasion in question, as Field and Neagle were eating their breakfast in the railroad dining room at Lathrop, Judge Terry approached and slapped Justice Field in the face with his hand, when he was instantly shot through the heart as above stated. Both Neagle and Field were arrested, although Field afterwards was released on a writ of habeas corpus. Intense excitement prevails on the Western coast on account of the murder.