p. 95 | SECULAR | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1892

SECULAR.

—It is said that a colony of 1,000 Japanese is about to settle in Sinaloa, Mexico.

—It is said that of the 100 teachers in the new Chicago University 94 are native Americans.

—A Paris journal states that cholera has again broken out in the Cherbourg, and several deaths have occurred.

—It is said that the Indians in the vicinity of Gorham, Ontario County, New York, are building wigwams for the Columbian Exposition.

—All the newspapers of Charlottenburg, Germany, have been fined fifty marks each for having falsely reported a death by cholera in Berlin.

—The police of Cleveland, Ohio, have discovered that there is a branch of the murderous Italian Mafia Society of at least 200 members in that city.

—The public debt statement issued December 1 shows a cash balance in the treasury of $130,328,918. Decrease of the debt during the month of November, $1,079,935.

—A Berlin correspondent states that the governments of Germany, England, and the United States have agreed to take common action in restoring order in Samoa.

—Of the 60,803 votes cast at the late election in San Francisco, 2,150 did not show any choice for presidential electors at all, and 9,400 ignored all congressional candidates.

—During the month of November Inspector Noyes, of San Francisco, captured $30,000 worth of smuggled opium, and began the month of December by a $6,000 find on the 1st.

—Great suffering in parts of China is predicted during the winter. The cause is the continued concentration of all the wealth in the hands of a small minority of the people.

—The Treasury Department has decided that a Chinese boy may enter the United States for the purpose of receiving an education, provided he has the permission of his government.

—Russia is not alone in the anti-Jewish sentiment. It is cropping out prominently in Austria and France. In these countries, however, the movement is of a financial rather than a religious character.

—The Santa Fe Railroad system has made a cut of eight cents on wheat, corn, and flour rates from Kansas City to Galveston, Texas, which puts Galveston on an equal basis with New Orleans.

—Striking miners paraded the streets of the city of Liege, Belgium, and raised a riot, on the 1st inst. The gendarmes fired on the mob, and the fire was returned. One miner was killed and three wounded.

—The Russian Nihilists are trying to stir up the Volga peasantry, by means of pamphlets and letters, to revolt against the government. The police have been instructed to suppress any insurrectionary attempts.

—The trial by court-martial of persons concerned in the cholera riots in Saratoff, Russia, in July last has ended. Twenty-three prisoners were sentenced to be hanged and fifty-six to be imprisoned in Siberia.

—The factory of the Chochi Gallipo Company, in Berlin, was burned on the 1st inst. This establishment was the principal manufactory of street organs in Europe, and the chief business was with the itinerant Italians.

—Jay Gould, the great railroad owner and speculator, said to be "the greatest money spinner in the world," died on the 30th inst. He has gone where "the rich and the poor meet together," and left all his gettings behind.

—California passed through a five days' wind and rainstorm from November 27 to 31. The wind did considerable damage both in city and county, but the good results of the rain will many times compensate for all the damage.

—Miss Mary Allen West, senior editor of the Union Signal, organ of the W. C. T. U., died in Tokio, Japan, on the 1st inst. She had been in Japan nearly a year, having gone there primarily for the benefit of her health, but was engaged in temperance work.

—The Treasury Department of the United States, acting in cooperation with the Marine Hospital Service, has sent a corps of physicians to Europe to survey the field of the possible breaking out of cholera in the spring and to inaugurate protective measures there.

—In Talcville, St. Lawrence County, New York, last week, miners attacked the shanties of a gang of Italian railroad hands, over which an Italian flag was waving. The flag was pulled down and burned, and in the fight which ensued several persons were injured. The attention of the Italian Minister at Washington has been called to the affair.

—Burglaries, sand-baggings, highway robberies, and other crimes are being committed in such numbers in Chicago, and the residents are so thoroughly aroused that orders have been issued by the police inspectors to the captains of the divisions to suppress all mention of such misdeeds.

—The Oakland, Cal., Tribune offers to the school-children of Alameda County eight prizes for holiday stories. There are chances for high school, grammar, and primary grades, as also for private schools or seminaries. It is expected that a great many young authors will come to the front. The Tribune is prolific in plans to incite young minds to action.

—The nomination of the czarowitz to the presidency of the Russian State Council is hailed as an indication of the desire of the czar to infuse a more liberal spirit into the administration. No immediate change in methods is possible, however; but under the presidency of the czarowitz the repression of the Jews and Catholics will eventually be relaxed.

—The Nicaragua Canal Convention, held in New Orleans last week, declared it to be the paramount duty of the government to aid in the construction of the canal as the cheapest means of national defense, as it would shorten the distance by water between our Atlantic and Pacific seaboards by 10,000 miles. As a matter of self-defense, the canal should not be allowed to fall into the hands of European nations.

—A press correspondent thus describes the eviction of a tenant near Kanturk, Ireland: "The sheriff's party and twenty policemen went to evict Caretaker Murphy. They found the crops trampled down, the trees and orchard uprooted, and the houses barricaded. The inmates kept the party at bay for two hours with red-hot irons and boiling water. The bailiffs, having finally effected an entrance, had to fight their way from room to room, and eventually succeeded in arresting eight persons. Several of the bailiffs and policemen were burned and scalded."

—Exciting times are again reported from Madrid. It seems that the municipal authorities in some way embezzled part of the funds appropriated for the Columbus celebration, and trouble in the ministry is the result. Rioters to the number of 12,000 crowded the streets on the 1st inst, and several shops were looted. The mob shouted, "Down with the government!" "Down with the city thieves!" "Crush the upper ten thousand!" "Give us our rights!" After a stubborn resistance, the crowd was dispersed by the police and military. Several people were wounded, and the leaders were arrested.

—An earthquake, October 18, did great damage to the city of La Union, San Salvador. Many houses were entirely wrecked, and scarcely any escaped damage. Although there are 5,000 inhabitants, and the shock occurred in the night, no one was killed, but several persons were more or less injured by falling buildings. Being warned by a lighter shock, most of the people had fled from the houses before the heavier shocks came. Latest reports state that the people were camped on the beach of Lake Fonseca, and were greatly terrorized. Parts of islands in the lake had disappeared, and the old volcano of Conchagua, long supposed to be extinct, was again smoking. This adds to the terror of the people, as the town is situated at the base of the mountain.