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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 25.

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—Cholera is epidemic at Manilla, Spain.

—Jersey City had a $150,000 fire the 18th ult.

—Lightning did $6,000,000 worth of damage in New York the 15th ult.

—The king of Holland has had a serious relapse from his recent recovery.

—President Harrison has refused to wear the badge of the Patriotic Sons of America.

—Thirty-one persons were poisoned at Findlay, Ohio, June 22, by eating canned beef.

—The largest furniture depot in Europe burned at Paris the 21st ult. The loss was $500,000.

—The Montenegrin army is to be reorganized and put in readiness for service at the shortest notice.

—The subject of a submarine cable to Honolulu is under consideration by capitalists of San Francisco.

—A fire in Vancouver, W. T., June 22, destroyed four acres of buildings in the business part of the town.

—The Sultan of Turkey has contributed $1,000 in Turkish money for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers.

—A cyclone passed through Albany, Mo., June 20, demolishing dwellings, school-houses, and other property.

—Several earthquake shocks were experienced throughout the Sacramento Valley on the night of the 20th ult.

—A syndicate representing $4,500,000 has been formed to supply American meat at low prices to the English markets.

—Natural gas has been discovered in Milwaukee, Wis. It is said to possess the properties of the Pennsylvania gas.

—Twenty-five girls in a grammar school in Brooklyn, New York, have been dismissed in disgrace for smoking cigarettes.

—Prince Louis Napoleon has resigned his commission in the Italian army at the request of his father, Prince Jerome.

—Another immense transfer of mineral lands in New Mexico has just been made. The amount involved is $200,000,000.

—A bill providing for the citizenship of children born in France of foreign parents passed the Chamber of Deputies June 19.

—Oliver Woodhouse, the present postmaster at Hartford, Conn., has held that position uninterruptedly for the past forty years.

—General Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has been stricken with paralysis. At last accounts his death was momentarily expected.

—Mexico has successfully concluded the negotiation of a commercial treaty with Japan, which will greatly extend her foreign relations.

—Twenty-five thousand tons of sugar were recently bought in Cuba, by a Boston firm. This is the largest single purchase of sugar ever made, the transaction involving $2,500,000.

—Official returns from the recent election in Pennsylvania show that the prohibition amendment has been defeated by nearly 190,000 majority.

—The Russian army is being provided with breech-loading rifles which will carry a distance of 6,000 feet. Noiseless powder is also to be used in the future.

—A destructive wind-storm swept over Peru, Ind., the afternoon of June 18. Trees, fences, and telegraph wires were leveled to the ground, and many dwellings were injured.

—Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-President Hayes, was prostrated by a stroke of apoplexy the 21st ult. Paralysis ensued, and at last accounts not much hope was given for her recovery.

—A company backed by English capitalists is making arrangements to establish large iron and steel works at Vallejo, Cal. The total capital to be employed will aggregate $2,000,000.

—The steamship Parthia recently made the voyage from Yokohama to Victoria, B. C., in less than thirteen days. This is the fastest time ever made in steamship travel across the Pacific.

—The constitutional prohibition amendment of Rhode Island was repealed on the 20th ult., by 18,596 majority. This constitutes more than three-fifths of the total vote necessary to carry the amendment.

—Uniontown, Kan., was swept away by a flood the night of the 16th ult. Several lives were lost and great havoc was done to growing crops. The storm swept over other portions of the State also, doing considerable damage.

—The Chamber of Deputies is considering the feasibility of negotiating a Government loan of fifty million francs for naval improvements. It is proposed to bring the naval strength of France up to the proper standpoint.

—It is said that nearly $5,000,000 has been subscribed to build a railroad between the lower forks of the Congo River and Stanley Pool, in Africa. The object is to open up the country to civilization and to get rid of the slave trade.

—The Prince of Wales is taking the lead in the movement to commemorate the labors of Father Damien, the leper martyr, by the erection of a monument over his grave at Molokai, Hawaii. A leper ward is also to be established in the Hospital for Skin Diseases at London.

—Recent dispatches state that England will take no steps at present to protect British sealers in the Behring Sea, but will secure the co-operation of other maritime powers to dispute the claim of the United States to the right to close the sea. The matter will probably be settled by arbitration.

—General Guzman Blanco, who for the past nineteen years has governed Venezuela, S. A., with an absolute despotism almost equal to that of Russia, was deposed by a peaceful revolution while he was absent in Paris recently. It is not believed that he will be able to recover control of the Government.

—A mortgage for $150,000,000, covering all the property owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company, excepting lands, has been filed with the Secretary of State at Milwaukee, Wis., in favor of the United States Trust Company of New York City. The object is to secure a lower rate of interest.

—Advices from British Columbia report much excitement over the presence of a Russian man-of-war off the coast, whose officers have been studying the defensive points of the province, and taking notes as to the best points which could be made available for fortifications in the event of war between Russia and England.

—Two French scientists who went to Australia a year ago for the purpose of testing M. Pasteur's discovery of inoculation for exterminating the rabbit pest of that country have recently returned, bringing bitter complaints of their treatment by the Australian authorities. An inquiry into the circumstances will be made by the French ambassador in London.

—News was received at Helena, Montana, of the discovery, on June 20, of the bodies of a camping party numbering five persons who had been found butchered about one hundred and fifty miles north of that place. A man named Wilber, who was arrested on suspicion of having done the deed, committed suicide in his cell the following night. The victims were from Helena.

—Le Caron, the British spy, has been summarily dismissed from the Grand Army of the Republic on account of discoveries growing out of his testimony in the Parnell case. Circumstances point to the fact that he has not only been acting as a spy against the Irish revolutionists, but that he also joined the United States Army and the Grand Army of the Republic for the purpose of giving information to the British Government.