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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

SECULAR.

—Cholera continues at Buda Pesh, Hungary, 21 new cases and 9 deaths being reported on the 2d inst.

—The President has issued a proclamation setting apart Thursday, November 24, as a day of thanksgiving.

—The Hungarian Ministry is threatened with dismemberment because of the advocacy of Jewish political rights.

—In Belfast, Ireland, a reduction of five per cent. in the wages of shipbuilders, affecting about 5,000 employes, went into effect on the 4th inst.

—Seven drunken Indians, who were sleeping in a deserted cabin in Okanagon County, Wash., were burned to death on the night of October 31.

—It is reported that nearly every line of business in New Orleans that can be affected is crippled by a combination of strikes on the part of "union" laborers.

—The jury in the Circuit Court at Portland, Oregon, promptly acquitted the two prize fighters recently on trial there, and other indictments were dismissed.

—A London dispatch of the 5th inst. stated that it was expected that 60,000 cotton operatives would leave their looms by the 8th, on strike, stopping over 16,000,000 spindles.

—George Sontag, convicted at Fresno, Cal., of train robbing, was sentenced to a life service in the State prison at Folsom. He was taken to his new quarters the same day.

—The steamship Empress of Japan, which arrived at Vancouver, B. C., on the 1st inst., brings reports of appalling ravages of cholera in Chung-King, China. It was estimated that over 30,000 deaths had occurred. Anyone going any distance from home carried a tag with name and address, on account of liability to the disease and sudden death. Many deaths were also reported at Hankow.

—The latest proposition of the Homestead, Pa., strikers is to establish a coöperative steel plant in Allegheny County, Va. The scheme is said to be backed by English capital.

—A case of leprosy is reported in Philadelphia. The victim is a woman 67 years old, who has never been abroad nor to her knowledge ever been in contact with anyone so afflicted.

—Destructive forest fires are reported in the vicinity of Uniontown, Pennsylvania; on both sides of the Ohio River near Sciotoville, Ohio; and in the vicinity of Brownston, Indiana.

—On the island of Kuprenoff, Alaska, within a few weeks, the bodies of six white men have been found with their heads cut off. Indians are supposed to have been the murderers.

—Last week the remains of a woman and her babe, in Pottawatomie County, Okla. Ter., who had been missing for two weeks, were found in the lair of a panther some distance from their home.

—A Vienna dispatch of the 2d inst. says: "A panic occurred in a village church at Vinagora on a false alarm that the tower was collapsing. In the mad struggle to get out 25 persons were trampled to death."

—The waiter who murdered Frank Riley, one of the crew of the U. S. ship Newark at Genoa, Italy, has been sentenced to twelve years and six months' imprisonment, together with a fine for indemnity and costs.

—Diphtheria continues its ravages in Philadelphia. From January 1 to October 31 there had been 3,685 cases, of which 1,095 were fatal. Forty new cases were reported on the first two days of the present month.

—A dispatch from Yaguaron, Brazil, says that another revolution has broken out in Porto Alegre, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The government troops charged on the revolutionists and killed a number of them.

—Lieutenant Schwatka, the noted Arctic explorer, died in Portland, Oregon, on the 2d inst., from an overdose of laudanum. He had been in the habit of taking the narcotic when suffering with a chronic stomach trouble.

—Two girl babies have been born in the new Esquimau village established at Jackson Park, Chicago. The first was of Christian parents (Moravian) and the second is an absolute heathen, with neither religion nor family name.

—The Southern Pacific Company has filed amended articles of incorporation. The mileage is given at 3,392, and the capital stock $90,000,000. Some branch lines are included that were constructed since the re-incorporation.

—At Spearville, Kansas, on the 1st inst., two men entered the Ford County Bank, and, with drawn revolvers, compelled the cashier to give up $1,700. They then made their escape, although soon afterward followed by a posse.

—A Chicago dispatch says that all the West-bound railroad lines from that city have voted to make no more than 20 per cent. reduction for World's Fair rates. They will work for that rate at the mass meeting of all American lines, to be held on the 21st inst.

—Colonels Hawkins and Streator, of the Pennsylvania National Guard, who were tried for assault and battery on Private Iams, on account of tying him up by the thumbs at Homestead during the strike trouble, have been acquitted. The suit against them for damages will be tried in a Federal Court.

—A New York dispatch of the 1st inst. says: "The British war ship Champion has arrived from the South Seas. She reports the Pitcairn islanders in good health. At Tahiti there is complete commercial stagnation, owing to the suspension of the pearl industries and withdrawal of the French militia."

—Osman Digna, who was the chief lieutenant of the once famous Mahdi in the Soudan country, is said to have appeared again with a considerable force and occupied Sinkat. An Egyptian outpost, 50 miles from Suakim, is reported as having been evacuated, and the adjacent tribes fleeing before the invaders.

—During the recent rainy weather dozens of the college girls of Ann Arbor, Mich., appeared on the streets in the Jenness Miller "rainy-day dress." The skirt is plain and tight fitting, but the striking feature is that it reaches only about half way from the knee to the ankle. To make up for this gap the girls wear long gaiters.

—According to a St. Louis press dispatch, "the grand chief of the Brotherhood of Carmen is authority for the statement that the railroad labor organizations have a surprise in store for their employers in the shape of an international organization, which includes every railroad employee, from trackmen up. The organization, he said, would be in shape before January, and meetings are now being held throughout the country.

—Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to Knill (the new Catholic mayor of London) announcing his inability to attend the banquet, says his decision is due to the advice of his physician, who insists that he shall abstain from all public banquets. Gladstone congratulates Knill on the spirit and success with which he has sustained the principle of religious freedom.

—The whaling bark Helen Mar was crushed by an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean, October 6, and totally destroyed. Twenty-seven men went down with the ill-fated vessel, and only five escaped. These, after a night and a day of intense suffering from exposure, were rescued by another vessel which happened to spy the "black speck" on the ice from a distance.

—The U. S. war ship Mohican, famous for having been fourteen years undergoing repairs, to the scandal of three administrations, and having seen but six years of actual service, is lying at Mare Island navy yard in a badly used-up condition, and will probably be condemned. She recently struck a rock in Bering Sea, and was barely able to get home.

—With the approach of winter the distress among the poor of Berlin becomes more clamorous. A mob which collected in one of the poor quarters on the 5th inst. threatened to pillage the shops. They threw a police officer into the canal, whereupon a body of mounted police charged them and cleared the streets. A boatman luckily saved the policeman. A large number of arrests have been made.

—The populace of Granada, Spain, are greatly incensed at the refusal of Queen Regent Christina to visit the city with King Alfonso to assist at the unveiling of the statue of Columbus, and a mob gathered and destroyed the decorations, reviewing stands, etc. Finally someone shouted, "Down with the government!" and, "Long live the republic!" The mob took up the cry and a serious outbreak was imminent, when the civil guards charged on the mob, slashing right and left with their swords. A number were seriously wounded and 30 taken prisoner.