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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 10.

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—Omaha, Nebraska, had a $500,000 fire on the 27th ult.

—Montana has a female attorney-general, Miss Ella Knowles.

—Yellow fever and typhoid are reported to be raging in La Guayra, Venezuela.

—The burning of sugar mills and stock near Galveston, Texas, on the 27th ult., caused a loss of $250,000.

—The telegraph says that Mr. Cleveland denies having offered Senator Hill the position of Secretary of State.

—Judge Sharpstein, the only Democrat on the California Supreme Bench, died in San Francisco on the 28th ult.

—Nine officers and several private citizens have been arrested at Kieff, Russia, on charges connected with a conspiracy against the Czar.

—A Hamburg dispatch of the 28th ult. says that cholera continues to claim new victims, and the people are dreading the return of spring.

—Susan B. Anthony, the well-known temperance and woman's rights lecturer, has been appointed manager of the New York State Industrial School.

—Mr. Loring Pickering, editor of the San Francisco Morning Call, and part owner of both the Call and Evening Bulletin, died December 28, aged eighty years.

—Sixteen Tomachic Indians, taken as prisoners by the Mexican troops in the recent battle in Chihuahua, have been removed to the City of Mexico, and sentenced to be shot.

—In San Francisco, New Year's eve, A. Sydney McCoy was accidentally stabbed to the heart by a young lady, while acting in a parlor tragedy as Russian Nihilists. He died a few minutes later.

—A party of United States engineers, who have been in the field since April, 1891, surveying a route for a railway between North and South America, arrived at San Jose, Costa Rica, December 20.

—Ex-Senator Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire, will be a member of the House of Representatives in the next Congress. It is said that he proposes to again introduce his once-famous Educational Bill.

—The vicinity of Fortress Monroe, Virginia, experienced the worst storm known to that region in twenty years, on the night of December 26. There was a heavy fall of snow, and navigation was suspended.

—Recent high water has caused disastrous floods along the Sacramento and lower San Joaquin Rivers, in this State. A Sacramento dispatch says that at least 90,000 acres of cultivated grounds have been overwhelmed.

—In the early morning of the 29th ult., an explosion in the hallway of the Paris Prefecture of Police caused considerable damage to the building. The police lay the blame on the anarchists, but there is no positive clew to the guilty party. One of that class has boasted that "so long as human beings die from hunger by the side of those who die from indigestion, the former will be avenged by every means in the power of their friends."

—A fight over a claim in the new mining region of San Juan County, Utah, in which seventeen men participated, is cited by miners as evidence of valuable deposits. Two men were killed and several others wounded.

—Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given another million dollars to the new Chicago University. This was a Christmas gift in 5 per cent. bonds, and makes $3,600,000 altogether that Mr. Rockefeller has given to this enterprise.

—The ferry boat Tiburon was damaged by fire to the extent of $50,000, while lying at her dock in San Francisco, on New Year's day. The fire was started by a pan of grease becoming ignited in the restaurant galley.

—An epidemic of chronic diarrhea is afflicting the convicts of the Arkansas penitentiary. About fifty victims are reported, and officials are charged with negligence in regard to sanitary precautions. Fears of cholera are also entertained.

—A dispatch from Charleston, South Carolina, reports a heavy storm on the night of the 26th ult., and for the first time in fifteen years the housetops were covered with snow and sleet. Orange trees are injured, and will probably bear only one-fourth crop this year.

—A Dublin detective was recently killed by a dynamite explosion, and a London dispatch says fears are entertained of an extended dynamite conspiracy. Mr. Gladstone and Home Secretary Asquith are said to be secretly guarded by detectives in citizen dress.

—The house of William Phillips, a colored laborer living near Stony Brook, L. I., was destroyed by fire on the night of December 31. Four small children, who were locked in the house, were horribly burned. Two were dead when discovered, and the others died the next morning.

—A serious labor riot occurred in Madrid, December 31. While 1,000 workingmen were marching in a body to interview the mayor they became involved in a conflict with the police. Many people were wounded with sticks and stones before the workingmen were dispersed.

—A plot to burn the city of Buenos Ayres was discovered last week, and a number of policemen and firemen were arrested on charges of being connected with the conspiracy. The plan was to set fire in different places at once, including the custom house, post office, and archbishop's palace. The object is supposed to have been plunder.

—Late advices from Buenos Ayres say that the rebels in the province of Corrientes, Argentine Republic, have defeated the provincial troops in a number of skirmishes, and have seized the town of Mercedes and the railway lines of the district. An attempt was made to capture the towns of Caseros, but the would-be invaders were defeated, after a hard battle, and were obliged to retire.

—It is now asserted that $2,500,000 of the Panama Canal funds was used in the United States to quiet the natural objections to a canal across the isthmus under European control. It is a fact that when the project was first mooted there was considerable objection on the part of the press, and a resolution was introduced in the Senate expressing disapproval; but the company appointed an "American committee" to look after "American interests," and for some reason the work went on without protest.

—Of the two thousand people camped along the border of Oklahoma, waiting for the opening of the Cherokee Strip lands to settlement, about three-fourths were severely frost-bitten during the terrible blizzard of the night before Christmas. Many have lost hands or feet, and in one family two children were frozen to death. Two men out hunting were caught in the storm and frozen to death. In one family three children had to have their feet amputated. Live stock also suffered terribly, many head perishing from exposure to the cold.

—The bandits, or insurrectionists, or whatever else they may be called, are again raiding the Mexican border along the lower Rio Grande, taking refuge on the Texas side. They have twice defeated Mexican troops within a few weeks' time. These adventurers also give much trouble to United States troops who endeavor to hunt them in the chaparral thickets in the Rio Grande bottom. At last accounts they had secured two U. S. deputy marshals as prisoners. It is said that a document has been found implicating 200 prominent citizens in a plot to overthrow the government.

—The city of Milwaukee continues to experience disastrous fires. Early in the morning of December 28 a bomb was thrown into a building of the Street Railroad Company, causing a terrible explosion, and a fire, which was not subdued until property valued at $500,000 had been destroyed. On the day previous two large tanneries were burned, causing the death of three persons and a loss of $250,000 in property. And two days previous to that occurrence two fires destroyed property to the value of $125,000. These occurrences, only two months after the great $500,000 fire, naturally cause much apprehension, and the suspicion of a determination on the part of evil-disposed persons to utterly destroy the city.