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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

SECULAR.

—A block and a half of the business portion of Canby, Minn., was burned on the 8th inst. Loss estimated at $200,000.

—A panic was created in the English House of Commons last week by the sudden death of the scrub woman of the House, from Asiatic cholera.

—A Washington dispatch says that Yang Yu, the new Chinese minister, will withdraw from the country if the Geary Exclusion Law is enforced.

—Hon. Hamilton Fish, who was Secretary of State under President Grant, died at his home in Garrisons, N. Y., on the 7th inst., aged 85 years.

—President Cleveland has appointed Albert S. Willis, of Louisville, Ky., Minister to the Hawaiian Islands to succeed Minister Blount, resigned.

—At Rotterdam, on the 4th inst., twenty-five men were standing on a boat viewing a fire on one of the docks, when the boat upset, and seventeen men were drowned.

—Still more local rebellions are reported in Argentine Republic. The alleged fraudulent election of a governor is said to be the pretext for the latest uprising, that at Tucaman.

—The last monthly report shows the cash balance in the national treasury reduced to $105,000,000, with government expenses running ahead of receipts at the rate of $170,000 a day.

—At Colehour, near Chicago, on the 7th inst., a collision of railroad trains caused the death of eleven persons, besides the injury of thirteen others, some of whom were expected to die.

—On the 13th inst. the great Standard Oil Trust will close operations. A meeting is appointed for that day, when a statement of accounts and report of trustees will wind up the affairs of the trust.

—A recent London dispatch says the gathering of the harvest in Great Britain is practically finished. With scarcely an exception the results are described as the worst known, being even below bad estimates.

—The hop growers in the vicinity of Butteville, Oregon, were obliged to recall a number of discharged Chinese pickers in order to save their crops, as the white employees could not accomplish the work in season.

—A Panama dispatch says that the Legislature of British Guiana offers a bounty of $25 a head for 5,000 Chinamen from the United States. They are wanted to work under contract on sugar plantations and in gold mines.

—In Tulare County, Cal., on the 8th inst. four men, three of them masked, robbed a party of Chinese laborers of $190. The unmasked man was recognized as a leader of anti-Chinese depredations, and has been arrested.

—Another conspiracy to kill the czar is reported to have been discovered at Moscow. A large number of arrests have been made, including eighty-five students, eight professors, and five ladies who belong to aristocratic families.

—The Brazilian navy has revolted because President Peixoto vetoed a bill making it impossible for the vice president to become president. A threat to bombard the city of Rio Janeiro it is said will be opposed by foreign war vessels in port.

—A colony has been organized at Wichita, Kansas, for the purpose of fully testing the Bellamy scheme of cooperative living. As soon as the Cherokee Strip is opened to settlement, a town site will be located for the exclusive use of the colony.

—The latest extensive trust is the Lake Superior Iron Mines, which is to control nine-tenths of the iron product of the United States. The cash capital is $50,000,000, with a reserve of $100,000,000. John D. Rockefeller is one of the leading investors.

—The Chicago Herald says that of the 3,000 Chinese in that city, 1,200 are Masons in various degrees. Their Masonic connection will do more toward annulling the Exclusion Act than any other influence. Ling Tong, of Portland, Oregon, is the highest Chinese official of the order on the Pacific Coast.

—A Russian engineer of high rank is now in California for the purpose of inspecting the various systems of irrigation in vogue in the State. The Russian Government has determined to irrigate the vast province of Astrakhan from the waters of the Volga, and a large sum of money has been appropriated for that purpose.

—Three men rode into Delta, Colo., on the 7th inst., hitched their horses in an alley, and went into the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. They demanded of the cashier what money he had, and when he refused they shot him dead, grabbed $500 that was in reach through the counter window, and ran, firing back at the assistant cashier. A merchant near by heard the shots, and, grabbing his Winchester rifle, ran after the robbers. He fired after them as they fled, killing two of the men and one horse. The third escaped with only $100 of the money.

—The political situation in Buenos Ayres is still exciting and unsettled. The newspapers have been forbidden to publish any political or military news at all. A newspaper issued in the midst of revolution brought on by political turmoil, yet omitting all reference to political or military matters, would be a curiosity in this country.

—A mob of several hundred Polish and Hungarian laborers in Cleveland, Ohio, assaulted a party of men laboring on sewers, one day last week, because they would not quit work, and a number of men were seriously injured. The city inspector was badly beaten. The police interfered, and after a hard conflict, the ringleaders were arrested.

—Farmers in this State are to a great extent compelled to send their wheat to market because the banks will not loan money on it in warehouses. The hardship is doubly hard because freights are run up on account of the rush and prices are very low. One dealer has succeeded in chartering three-fourths of the tonnage in San Francisco Bay.

—The enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Law has begun in earnest at Redlands, Cal. On the 7th inst. twelve arrests were made on warrants issued by Judge Ross, of the U. S. District Court. This was the first installment of 170 warrants that have been asked for. Other towns in the southern part of the State are about to follow in the work of prosecution.

—A New York dispatch of the 7th inst. says: "A thousand people are starving in the city of Yonkers. To-night in response to a call from Mayor Weller of that city the initial steps were taken to relieve the general distress. At the present time more than 10,000 men and women are unemployed and without means of livelihood. Most of them are hatters and carpet makers."

—Late advices from Japan say that a Japanese emigration stock company has been organized in Yokohama, which proposes to procure and dispatch to foreign places farmers, artisans, and fishermen, who shall remain under the control of the company, and thus promote the welfare and power of the State. The company will purchase desirable land on the Pacific Coast, United States and Canada, and send out emigrants, who shall send their products to Japan to sell on commission.

—It appears that the hostility to the Chinese at Fresno, Cal., comes more from roughs and professional tramps than from the real laboring men. This is evident from the fact that just now there is plenty of work in the adjacent vineyards, yet the meanest kind of depredations are committed on the houses and persons of Chinese by men who do not want to work. The leader of one mob has been convicted of riot, and it is claimed that all the known disturbers of Chinese are non-residents of Fresno.

—The latest report from the great strike of coal miners in England is that the strikers in the various districts of Yorkshire were destroying property and resisting the police. Troops had fired on the rioters at Pontefract, wounding several. The Mansfield and Sheffield Railway had been obliged to suspend fifty-five trains on account of scarcity of fuel. The Midland Railway had also suspended a number of trains. All the collieries in South Wales and Monmouthshire had resumed work, about 100,000 miners who had struck for a twenty per cent. increase of wages having returned to their places under the old conditions.

—A Los Angeles dispatch of the 9th inst. says: "The United States Marshal received orders from United States Attorney-General Olney to carry out the Geary Act, sixth clause and all. 'See to it,' he said, 'that Chinese are deported who have been convicted of not having registered.' Laundrymen, Chinese vegetable dealers, and cooks have struck. Not one vegetable wagon was seen on the streets this morning. The laundries are shorthanded, and collections of money are being made by Chinese, who notify their patrons no more work will be taken. The hotel keepers were forced to send wagons into the country to get vegetables. Over 300 applications for warrants have been made, but none will be issued until after the jail is cleared of Chinese."