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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 9, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 47.

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—The loss by the fire at Leechburg, Pa., on the 26th ult. is estimated at $175,000.

—France has taken the lead in recognizing the new republic—the United States of Brazil.

—A Hartford, Conn., dispatch, November 29, reports a fire which destroyed $180,000 worth of property.

—From Pomona, Los Angeles County, the first car load of oranges for the season was started for the East.

—The Pall Mall Gazette states that a virtual rupture has occurred in the relations between Germany and the Vatican.

—The Hecla Iron Works, at Williamsburg, N. Y., were damaged by fire to the extent of $25,000 on the night of November 25.

—A storm on the night of the 27th ult. blew down all the electric light towers in Quebec, Canada, leaving the city in darkness.

—Hon. George H. Pendleton, once U. S. senator from Ohio, and more recently Minister to Germany, died at Brussels November 24.

—British Columbia has a car load of exhibits of the province's products traveling through the Atlantic provinces of the Dominion.

—It is proposed to open connection between Berlin and the Baltic Sea. A ship canal will be built from the city to the Oder River.

—Although Canada was in favor of giving us back our criminals, and passed a bill to that effect, yet England has refused to honor the act.

—On the night of November 27, the Stowell mansion, at Athol, Mass., was robbed of money, bonds, and jewelry, to the value of $50,000.

—At Pittsburg, Pa., three aldermen and three detectives have been sent to prison for conspiracy in accepting bribes from illicit liquor sellers.

—Grand Master Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, is confident that there will soon be a consolidation of that order with the Farmers' Alliance.

—On a recent Australian steamer there arrived in San Francisco 1,000,000 gold sovereigns, which were deposited in the mint for recoinage into U. S. money.

—At Elliottville, W. Va., on the 28th ult., four girls found a keg of powder, and in some way exploded it. They were all blown to pieces, and their mother has gone crazy.

—The silver convention at St. Louis favors a unit of silver currency for all the Americas. A railroad connecting the United States with South America is also advocated.

—A disastrous fire occurred at Edwardsville, Ill., on the 25th inst., entailing a loss of $300,000. The fire started simultaneously in a mill, warehouse, and a grain elevator.

—Austria is backing out of the recent arrangements with Germany, Russia, and Italy, and Bismarck's great scheme for so-called peace has received a discouraging check.

—An explosion of natural gas at Dayton, Ohio, November 25, completely shattered a brick residence, killing two children, and badly injuring three adult persons.

—Ten representatives of the Vanderbilt railroad system are inspecting California. All the big railroad companies and combinations are looking for Pacific Coast outlets.

—Secretary Tracy has made arrangements by which the navy will be furnished with the Brown prismatic powder for large guns, and the new smokeless powder for smaller guns.

—The State Constitutions of both Dakotas stipulate that no law shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session of the Legislature in which the law was passed.

—Two girls in Wooster, Ohio, recently broke a store window and stole some goods. On being arrested, they acknowledged the crime, and said they "just wanted to do something devilish."

—On the night of the 25th ult., an express train was boarded by twelve robbers at Berwyn, Indian Territory, and $30,000 in money carried off. Nine persons suspected of the robbery have been arrested.

—Judge Anderson has decided that alien Mormons who have taken the Endowment House obligation cannot become citizens. There is great rejoicing among the Gentiles at Salt Lake over the decision.

—A Constantinople dispatch says: "A report has been received that the steamship India, with 500 Mohammedan pilgrims on board, has sunk, the captain and two passengers being all that were saved."

—Hon. Thos. B. Reed, of Maine, has received the nomination of the Republican Caucus for Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, which of course means his election, that party being in the majority.

—King Humbert, in opening the Italian Parliament, said he hoped that the armaments which all the powers were preparing would not be used; but the questions which might disturb the peace had not all been settled.

—Sir John Macdonald, Dominion premier, has refused to allow the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company to make Halifax the terminus of its ocean route. It is now thought that new ships recently contracted for will not be built.

—A great fire occurred at Boston, November 28. The Shoe and Leather Exchange and several other large establishments went down. The loss is estimated at $5,000,000. It is reported that six firemen were burned to death.

—On the 30th ult. a disastrous fire occurred at Minneapolis, Minn. The large structure known as the Tribune building, containing several printing offices, was entirely destroyed, and at last accounts it was supposed that fifteen lives were lost.

—The old imperial flag of Brazil is retained by the new republican government.

—A very destructive fire occurred in Lynn, Mass., on the 26th ult. The loss includes all the great shoe manufactories, newspaper offices, and other buildings within an area of a mile square, estimated at $5,000,000. About 8,000 people are thrown out of employment.

—At Marseilles, France, on the 28th ult., a vessel laden with 3,000 barrels of powder took fire, and the explosion which soon followed shattered all the windows for miles around, besides other damages. Fragments of the ship were thrown to great distances in every direction.

—A terrible cyclone occurred in Buford County, N. C., November 28. Houses were blown down and trees uprooted. In one demolished house, the father, mother, and four children were found dead. At another house a little girl was carried off by the storm, and had not been found the next day.

—The State of Missouri is determined to squelch the "trust" business. It has a stringent law against the union of corporations for the sake of monopolizing any branch of trade or manufactures, and in enforcing it has declared forfeited the charters of about one thousand corporations that refused to obey it. There will no doubt be a hard legal battle to test the constitutionality of the law.