News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 3.

RELIGIOUS.

—The great Mormon temple was formally dedicated on the 6th inst., just forty years from the date of the laying of the corner stone.

—Fifty master bakers of San Francisco have presented a protest to the Board of Supervisors against the proposed ordinance prohibiting the delivery of bakery supplies on Saturday night and Sunday. They claim that it is class legislation, and would greatly injure their business.

—A Rome dispatch of the 31st ult. says the Vatican has announced that the pope will not grant audiences to any royal personages of the Roman Catholic faith who have come to Rome to attend the silver wedding of King Humbert and Queen Margaret. The decision will apply also to representatives of Catholic sovereigns.

—Not for twenty years, says a Roman dispatch, have so many Catholics and foreigners been seen in Rome during holy week. The principal churches are filled to overflowing. The queen visited the holy sepulchres of seven churches on Friday and was present the next morning at the ceremonies in the Church of Santissimo Sudario, accompanied by her mother. The pope celebrated the mass on Easter day in the Vatican.

—The celebration of Easter was more general this year among so-called Protestant churches than ever before. It grows as the years go by. Many of the pastors, on accepting the innovation, feel the necessity of a half-way apology, as they find it most difficult to give even a plausible excuse for the folly. But it is becoming popular, is beautiful, and enticing; others are doing it, and we must follow or lose prestige. And so Rome clinches another nail in the Protestant coffin.

SECULAR.

—A large grain elevator in Chicago, containing 100,000 bushels of oats, was burned on the 28th ult. Loss, $1,000,000.

—The government of Venezuela has granted a general amnesty to all persons implicated in the recent revolution.

—California has lost her prestige in the Japanese mission, the President having appointed Edwin Dunn, of Ohio.

—The receiver of the government land office at Roswell, New Mexico, is missing, and his accounts are short over $10,000.

—An iron-working establishment, at Hazelton, Pennsylvania, was damaged by fire, on the 29th ult., to the extent of $200,000.

—A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that a gentleman has left that city for China, intending to bring 100,000 Chinese laborers to Brazil.

—An old man was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, for begging last week, and it was found on examination that he was worth over $20,000.

—Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, President Cleveland's former Secretary of State, has been appointed ambassador to Great Britain.

—The citizens of Merced, Cal., have burned the Governor in effigy because he vetoed the bill to construct a free wagon road into Yosemite Valley.

—An earthquake shook the villages in the vicinity of Mount Ætna on the 1st inst., doing much damage to property. The people fled from their homes.

—Recent advices from Manila, Philippine Island, bring an account of a great fire which destroyed over 400 houses. Many persons were injured while fighting the fire.

—It is reported that on the Russian German frontier a large gang of smugglers has been discovered doing a very profitable business through collusion with the Russian police.

—A fire in the State Prison building at Auburn, New York, on the 29th ult., destroyed the furniture shop, pearl button shop, broom shop, and the cabinet and moulding shop. Loss, $150,000.

—The two partisan factions in the Choctaw Nation have recently been so near to armed collision that only a threat to call out U. S. troops and declare martial law persuaded them to desist.

—A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 1st inst. says: "Several cases of cholera have been reported in the suburbs. News was received here of the appearance of the disease in several of the provinces."

—The Southern Pacific Company has offered $3,000 reward each for the arrest and conviction of the persons who removed a rail from the track near Drain, Oregon, on the night of the 23d inst.