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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 9.

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—A noisy element in Buenos Ayres are calling loudly for war with Chile.

—"Mrs. Rev. Minnie Thorne" officiated at a marriage ceremony in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 24th of December.

—A new paper has been started in Toronto, Canada, for the purpose of advocating annexation to the United States.

—Californians experienced another severe windstorm on the 24th inst., which was followed by a heavy rainfall.

—The orange shipping season in Southern California has fairly begun, and the shipment is estimated at 7,000 car loads.

—Chicago has 2,000 policemen, yet the chief's carriage was stolen from its accustomed place, near the city hall, one evening last week.

—Investigation has revealed that the treasury of the State of Pueblo, Mexico, has been swindled to the extent of $250,000, by high officials.

—The cholera commission at Hamburg have announced the re-appearance of cholera in that city, and business men are much discouraged.

—The recent election in Guatemala, Central America, is said to have been very exciting, several persons having been killed in street brawls.

—The Union Pacific Railroad was completely blocked by snow on the day before Christmas, about forty miles east of Portland, Oregon.

—At Spring Hill Junction, Nova Scotia, 1,300 colliers went out on strike, on the 21st inst., and threatened to call out the engineers, firemen, and pumpmen.

—A Chicago millionaire was recently arrested for docking the tails of his horses, which is against the State law. He claimed that his hostler was responsible for the deed.

—A great step in Hindu social reform was taken recently in Madras, when a Brahmin widow was remarried in the presence of one hundred and fifty Hindu gentlemen.

—The last steamer from Australia brought 250 tons of freight for the World's Fair, being part of the New South Wales exhibit. It is said that there are 600 tons yet to come.

—The popular vote for President shows the following result: Cleveland, 5,567,990; Harrison, 5,176,611; Weaver, 1,025,060; Bidwell, 258,347. Cleveland's plurality is 391,379.

—Among recent additions to the Southern California World's Fair exhibit are a 300-pound beet, a 250-pound pumpkin, and a cucumber thirty inches long and weighing twenty pounds.

—At Waverly, Tennessee, on the night of the 21st inst., three children were left locked in a house by their parents. During the absence of the latter, the house and children were burned.

—The village of Berson, France, was nearly destroyed by fire, on the 20th inst., and fourteen persons were burned to death. There is said to be great suffering from want of food and clothing.

—Insurrectionary raids in Mexico, along the Texas border, have been revived. The raiders find refuge on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, which gives the U. S. soldiers the burden of hunting them.

—A gang of counterfeiters and their plant have been discovered near West Superior, Wisconsin. Also in Stockton, California, two counterfeiters are under arrest for passing counterfeit money, one of whom had on his person $420 in well-made $5 pieces.

—Judge Emery Speer, of the U. S. Court at Macon, Georgia, has decided that the fact of a telegrapher's being a member of a labor union is not of itself a sufficient cause of discharge by a railroad official. The decision is regarded as a decided victory for labor organizations.

—It has been decided that the President of the United States will deliver the opening address at the World's Fair, in May, and start the machinery. This, with a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the formal introduction of dignitaries, and appropriate music, will constitute the program.

—The Panama Canal scandal is the heaviest load the French Government has had to carry for a long time. Continued investigation makes the showing worse and worse, and even threatens the integrity of the government. Of $260,000,000 expended, only one-third was for actual work on the canal. Ministers and ex-ministers of State and many legislators are involved, and several are under arrest.

—A Kansas City, Missouri, dispatch of the 21st inst. says: "City Counselor Roselle brought suit in the Circuit Court to-day to compel B. T. Whipple, a prominent capitalist, to pay $2.50 as a penalty for not voting at the last spring election. Kansas City has a clause in its charter fixing a penalty of $2.50 per capita on all who do not vote. The suit to-day will be followed by others, to include every delinquent voter on the books.

—Anarchists appear to be resuming active operations in Spain. In Seville, on the 18th inst., three petards were exploded, causing great damage to two fine mansions. The authorities have found a code of Anarchist laws which require that the compatriot, first of all, shall be absolutely regardless of life. He is to recognize no jurisdiction but the tribunal of honor appointed by the social revolutionist, from which there is no appeal.

—Count Bobrinsky, marshal of the court, has issued an appeal for aid for the famine sufferers in the province of Tula. There are 173,000 persons in the province dependent upon outside assistance. The crops are an utter failure, and the condition of the farmers even worse than in 1891. Typhus fever is raging to an alarming extent among the people. The fever sufferers lie huddled together without attendance and without bread.

—A war of extermination seems to be waging against the Tomochic Indians, in the State of Chihuahua, by Mexican troops. The great battle of last October, which cost 700 lives and the entire destruction of a village, seems to have aroused rather than conquered the Indians, who are defending their lands; and the Yaquis, of Sonora, are joining in the contest. An alleged prophetess, a girl of twenty years, is said to be inciting the aborigines on to the fray, and a stubborn resistance is the consequence.

—It is always expected that men will be free in the expenditure of means that costs them nothing, especially in public funds. But the lavish expenditure on the dedication of the World's Fair buildings is almost startling. The expenses were as follows: Sandwich luncheon served on the Exposition ground, $15,000; feeding State and government troops, $25,159; carriage hire for the guests of the week, $12,000; fireworks, $25,000; music, $23,143.80; hotels for guests, $3,099.34; printing invitations, $16,000; postage, $4,000; Miss Monroe's ode, $1,000; seating arrangements, $1,000; preparing floats, which were not used, $90,000; incidentals not specified, $25,564.08. Total, $228,866.22. And this does not include about $10,000 for preparatory work on ground and buildings for dedication purposes only.