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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1893

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

SECULAR.

—The Kansas Legislature has passed a woman suffrage law.

—All the switchmen on the Vandalia line (Illinois) have struck for higher wages.

—The province of Corrientes, Argentine Republic, is again in revolt against the general government.

—The Minnesota Senate is considering charges of extensive timber land frauds in Itasca County, in which it is alleged that several large timber dealers are concerned.

—Miss Julia Force, of Atlanta, Georgia, who recently shot to death two of her sisters, has been adjudged insane.

—The Hawaiian Annexation Treaty was not ratified by the Senate, and the question is therefore left for the new administration to deal with.

—The press dispatches in regard to the inauguration of President Cleveland say that never before was there so large a crowd of people in Washington.

—A late Panama dispatch says that the Campidan Valley, in Guatemala, has been flooded. Six villages have been swept away and hundreds of people are reported drowned.

—In Rome, on the 27th ult., the police surprised twenty-six Anarchists working in a bomb factory on the outskirts of the city. A large quantity of explosives was seized.

—At Columbus, Indiana, the gamblers are turning the tables on the Law and Order League by entering complaints against society people who play progressive eucher for prizes.

—A press correspondent at Buenos Ayres says that it has been discovered that cartridges served to government troops in Corrientes were filled with coal dust instead of powder.

—On the evening of the 3d inst., a cyclone struck Marion, Mississippi, unroofing and demolishing houses and throwing freight cars from the track. Several deaths are reported.

—Some of the Chinese, a comparatively small number, however, think it safer to register as required by the exclusion law. Up to the 1st inst. 100 had registered at San Francisco.

—A fire, said to be incendiary, destroyed the Colored Baptist College at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 2d inst. Twenty students jumped from windows; six were badly hurt, two fatally.

—The Supreme Court of Kansas, in the contest between the two rival legislative bodies, decided against the Populists and in favor of the Republicans. The Populists have surrendered.

—The Gladstone government is firm in its maintenance of the present monetary system of England, and insists that the bi-metallists have as yet offered no feasible scheme for a double standard.

—Great destitution is reported in Oldham, England, on account of the prolonged struggle between masters and employees in the cotton mills. Thousands of the idle people are out of food and fuel.

—Ex-President Harrison has formally accepted the law professorship of Leland Stanford Jr. University, at Palo Alto, California. The duties involved are the delivery of ten lectures yearly on general law.

—There is great rejoicing in the mining regions of California over the passage by Congress of the Caminetti Hydraulic Mining Bill, which permits a resumption of hydraulic mining under prescribed restrictions.

—It is estimated that not far from 75,000 men are annually maimed or killed by accidents while coupling railroad cars. Yet nearly 5,000 patents for improved coupling apparatus have been issued in the United States.

—A train on the Iron Mountain Railroad was wrecked near Hope, Arkansas, on the 1st inst. The baggage car, chair car, two coaches, and one sleeper were burned, and fifteen persons were badly injured, but none fatally.

—New York City and Brooklyn are to have another great connecting bridge across East River, to cost $10,000,000. It will take in Blackwell's Island, and will be used by the New York Central and Long Island Railroads.

—The residence of Cyrus Lee, near Greenville, Kentucky, was burned on the night of February 28. Mr. Lee, his sister, brother, and brother's wife and child, were all burned with the building, and no one knows the origin of the fire.

—A Belfast, Ireland, telegram says that the National Federation has elected as president Thomas Sexton, who indorsed Gladstone's home-rule bill and denounced Salisbury for endeavoring to incite Orangemen to outrage and riot in opposition to the bill.

—A high unfinished brick building in Chicago was blown over by the wind early in the morning of the 28th ult. The tumbling bricks fell upon adjoining frame buildings, covering fourteen persons in the ruins. Of these six were rescued alive, four of them seriously injured.

—A Berlin dispatch says that in western Russia and eastern Germany enormous loss of property from floods is reported. In Hungary also rivers are overflowing their banks, submerging villages and sweeping away thousands of cattle. The small river Raab has swollen to three times its usual size and has wrecked some 300 houses in the city of Raab and in surrounding districts. More than 50,000 acres of agricultural land have been laid waste.

—The Roman Times of a recent date says: "A telegram from Washington, U. S. A., states that the ministers of the various nations resident in that city are prepared to recognize Monsignor Satolli, the newly appointed papal delegate, as a member of the Diplomatic Corps."

—Chancellor Caprivi, of Germany, is not willing to enter into any international arbitration arrangement that would possibly relegate Alsace-Lorraine back to France. He says that "rather than to give up that country the Germans would prefer to shed the last drop of their blood."

—A terrible sandstorm is said to have prevailed in a large portion of Arizona on the 26th ult. A Phoenix dispatch says that on the Agua Fria River whole groves of mesquite were borne down, and the drifting sand covered up and annihilated many wood camps scattered along the edge of the desert.

—The civil war in the State of Rio do Sul, Brazil, is said to be of a purely local nature and does not represent any widespread dissatisfaction with the general government. This is probably true, as the trouble appears to be confined to that one State; but the fact that the general government seems unable to quell the disturbance indicates a rather unexpected degree of weakness.

—A labor mass meeting was held at San Jose de Costa Rica, at which the dictatorship of President Rodriguez was denounced. Colonel Mena was named as the candidate for President. A riot was caused by an attempt of the police to disperse the meeting. Many of the labor leaders were arrested. It is predicted that the reign of Rodriguez will be suddenly terminated.

—A new feature of the ceremonial exchange of official positions at Washington City took place on the evening of March 1. It was a grand reception to Vice President Stevenson, given by the outgoing vice president, Mr. Morton. This courtesy is said to be the first of the kind in the history of the nation, and is said to have been the result of a personal friendship of many years' standing.

—A new battle ship, the Indiana, was launched at Philadelphia, on February 28. She is one of three vessels of which the Secretary of the Navy says: "In these battle ships the United States will become possessed of three vessels of the highest power, whose equal as fighting ships does not exist at the present day." The other two are named Massachusetts and Oregon. The last named is being built in San Francisco.

—The wool sorters at the Milwaukee Worsted Mills have quit work. The strike is partly against a large reduction of wages, but the strikers also allege that a portion of the wool used comes from districts in Persia and Turkey where cholera has been raging for a year. They also state that they have been notified that the work of disinfecting the wool from these parts would be stopped. The superintendent denies the latter complaint.

—On the 3d inst. a destructive cyclone cut a swath through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, passing out into the Atlantic Ocean. There was great destruction of property, and over fifty persons are said to have been killed. The town of Greenville, Georgia, was completely wrecked, although of the 1,000 inhabitants only one was killed. At Hogansville some houses were carried two miles and then dashed to the ground.

—The boomers encamped along the line of the Cherokee Strip country, waiting for Congress to open the land to settlement, having suffered much from exposure and the want of necessary supplies, are said to be getting desperate. Threats are made that if Congress does not move soon, they will invade the coveted domain, secure homes, and, if necessary, fight for them. A Washington dispatch says that Secretary Noble has asked for a military force to prevent the threatened invasion.