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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1893

SECULAR.

—Emma Goldman, the New York Anarchist speaker, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

—The total expenditure for the World's Fair up to the 10th inst., as shown by the treasurer's account, was $30,261,480.

—Thirty-one tribes of Moors are said to have pledged themselves to fight in a war of extermination against the Spaniards at Melilla, Morocco.

—The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided as unconstitutional the law requiring employers to make weekly payment of wages to their employees.

—The new suffrage bill introduced in the Austrian Reichsrath by the government gives the right of suffrage to 3,000,000 citizens not heretofore entitled to vote.

—Some of the U. S. Senators are waking up to the fact that there is danger of a controlling interest in the Nicaragua Canal passing into the hands of English capitalists.

—Since the closing of the rolling mills in the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, on the 1st of July last, 10,000 workmen have been idle, and their families are said to be in want of the necessaries of life.

—The paid attendance at the World's Fair last Sunday was 146,821. That “Christian sentiment,” which it was claimed kept the people away on Sunday, seems to be wearing off at a rapid rate.

—From a Victoria, B. C., dispatch we learn that two English war vessels will leave that port November 27 for Honolulu, and that the flagship will visit Pitcairn Island to present a lifeboat given to the islanders by Queen Victoria.

—The conduct of British forces in South Africa, in the war against the Matabeles, is said to be so cruel that even the English papers speak out against it. Annihilation of the natives to secure their land seems to be the main incentive in the contest.

—The sultan of Turkey has assigned a fund of 80,000 pounds to build a hospital in El Hejaz, on the Red Sea. The sultan's purpose is to repress the cholera among the pilgrims to Mecca. He himself will defray the running expenses of the hospital.

—A lieutenant attached to an Italian war vessel at Markah, a seaport of East Africa, was killed a few weeks ago while on shore, and in retaliation the town was bombarded. A number of the inhabitants were killed, and much damage was done to the town.

—The Postmaster General has authorized a standing reward of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of any person who shall rob the mail while being conveyed in a mail car; $500 for anyone who shall rob the mail while passing over star routes, and $250 for anyone who shall attempt to rob the mail in transit.

—The revolutionary conflict at Rio Janeiro has waged for several weeks with varying results. The revolutionists, which comprise the principal part of the Brazilian Navy, have not yet succeeded in overthrowing the government, though they have more than held their own in the conflict, with a strong probability of success unless the president be better supported than he has been so far. Rear-Admiral Stanton, commanding the South Atlantic squadron of the U. S. Navy, has been relieved of his command for prematurely saluting the flag of the revolutionists.

—On the night of the 27th inst. Hon. Carter Harrison, mayor of Chicago, was shot to death in his own house by a man named Prendergast. The murderer gave as a reason for the deed that Mr. Harrison had declined to appoint him to a position for which he had applied.

—The new U. S. cruiser Oregon, the largest war vessel yet built at San Francisco, was launched on the 26th inst. It is 350.9 feet long and 69.3 feet greatest beam. She will carry forty-eight guns of different sizes, and in vital points her armor plate will be seventeen inches thick.

—A recent eruption of the Chilean volcano Colleno is said to have caused incalculable damage in the surrounding country. Many residents have been compelled to abandon their houses because of the great fall of ashes and cinders, and hundreds of acres of growing crops have been ruined by the run of lava.

—The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's large steamer City of New York, which left San Francisco early in the morning of the 26th inst., for China, went on the rocks in a dense fog, off Bonita Point, just outside the harbor, and became a complete wreck. No lives were lost, and a considerable portion of the cargo was saved. The loss is estimated at $500,000.

—Six hundred men employed on the new buildings of the Mutual Reserve Fund and Postal Telegraph Company of New York City struck on the 26th inst. against a sub-contractor who refused to discharge non-union men. The strike was expected to extend throughout the city. An effort is being made to have the building trades of Boston coöperate in the strike.

—It is rumored that U. S. Minister Thompson, at Rio Janeiro, is apprehensive of European designs to overthrow the Brazilian Government and establish that of the revolutionists, because of the favorable commercial treaty existing between Brazil and the United States. The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the cruiser New York to Rio to reënforce our naval squadron now there.

—About midnight of the 28th inst. a number of masked men, armed with guns, ordered all the Chinese in the gardens of the Cahuenga Valley, between Los Angeles and the ocean, to leave the valley. The Chinese were badly frightened and scattered in all directions. Their friends have placed the matter in the hands of an attorney who will bring suit for damages against all of the mob who can be identified. It is said they were all farmers.

—A fierce battle between the Spanish forces at Melilla, Morocco, and the Moors occurred on the 27th and 28th insts. The Moors fought desperately, and but for the Spanish gunboats would have been victorious. The Spanish commander, General Margallo, was killed. The Moors are determined that Spain shall not permanently fortify Melilla, and it looks as though a large force of troops will have to be maintained in that country if the Spanish design is accomplished.

—A Pittsburg dispatch of the 29th inst. tells of a cruel attempt to poison non-union workmen in the glass works at Wellsburg, W. Va., by putting some kind of acid in the blowpipes while the men were at dinner. The sudden effect upon one man saved a large number by putting them on their guard. Putting the pipe to his mouth, it seemed to be set on fire, and he ran for water, which only carried the fire into his stomach, making the matter worse, and causing his death.

—There is now no doubt of the passage by the U. S. Senate of the Voorhees Silver Repeal Bill, which has been a bone of bitter contention for several weeks. The Democratic opponents of the bill have at last yielded to the wishes of the Administration. The only difference between this and the Wilson Bill which passed the House is that the Senate Bill more explicitly declares the policy of the government to continue the use of silver as a money metal. Either measure effects the repeal of the Silver Purchasing Bill now in force.

—Congressman Wheadon, of Michigan, has introduced a resolution for an investigation into the methods of the American Protective Association, an anti-Catholic political association. He alleges that in Michigan, at least, it is dominated by the most ignorant Canadian Orangemen; that it resembles the old Know Nothing Party, except that instead of being directed against all foreigners, it is only against Catholics; that it has issued alarming circulars as to the aims of the Catholic Church in this country, which have caused a reign of terror, and members of the organization are arming themselves to repel an invasion of the pope. We have no interest in the operations of the A. P. A. other than as it seems to be a feature of the irrepressible conflict of the last days; but it is safe to say that there will be no Congressional investigation of any of the several Catholic societies of whose military preparations the A. P. A. and others are loudly complaining. Such a resolution as that introduced in Congress by Mr. Wheadon, should at least be impartial, and take in all societies which threaten the peace of the country.