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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 49.

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—The treasurer of the Choctaw Nation has left the country, leaving his accounts over $100,000 short.

—On the 4th inst. a cyclone struck the village of Nolan, Ga., tearing down nine houses and killing one man.

—Yellow fever still holds sway at Brunswick and Jessup, Ga., deaths and new cases being reported every day.

—The old firm of A. Lusk & Co., San Francisco, received the highest award for canned fruits at the World's Fair.

—A dispatch from Little Rock says that the town of Fulton, Ark., was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 6th inst.

—A commercial house in Denver, Colorado, has contracted to send 5,000 tons of hay to Liverpool, via Galveston, Texas.

—The San Francisco papers note the fact that six children in the family of the county clerk are down with diphtheria.

—Leading men in Paris have opened an office with twenty-five clerks to begin preparations for another World's Fair in 1900.

—It is reported from Buffalo, Wyo., that the Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge Agency have left the reservation and gone on the warpath.

—During the recent bombardment of Rio Janeiro by the rebel gunboats, a British citizen was killed while standing at the window of his hotel.

—An American traveler named David Garrick Longworth has sent forward the type and presses for the establishment of an English newspaper in Cairo, Egypt.

—At Parangariento, State of Michoacan, Mexico, on the 1st inst., ten persons were killed and a large number injured as the result of a panic caused by a fire in a church.

—A cyclone is said to have struck a portion of South Union County, Ark., on the 6th inst., destroying scores of houses, and killing several people, mostly colored.

—The engineers, firemen, trainmen, and telegraph operators of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad have agreed to accept ten per cent reduction of wages until January.

—A dispatch from Sunderland, England, a port on the North Sea, says there is much excitement there owing to the United States coal merchants entering into competition with those of England.

—The police of Prague have discovered a plot to assassinate several high officials of the Bohemian Government. Three hundred Czechs were arrested, but the leader had escaped and gone to Paris.

—About $40,000,000 of Northern Pacific Railroad bonds are held in Germany, and the recent embarrassment of the company and factional disagreement has brought over German representatives to look after their interests.

—The Baptist Gleaner office at Fulton, Ky., has been completely destroyed by fire, and it is generally believed that the fire was set at the instigation of the saloon men and corrupt officials, whose disgraceful acts have been severely criticised in the paper.

—Although the rebellion in Brazil is spreading in the country, it is stated that foreign war ships will prevent further bombarding of the city of Rio Janeiro by the rebel fleet. Such action may eventually thwart the entire purpose of the revolutionists for the present.

—In the United States District Court of Alaska the British steamer Coquitiam, and also over 6,000 sealskins, valued at nearly $100,000, which were found on board the vessel, have been forfeited to the government. So says a Port Townsend dispatch of the 4th inst.

—The work of pulling down the World's Fair buildings will begin promptly after October 31. Customhouse officials will virtually take possession of the foreign displays the day the Fair closes. This is to prevent the sale of any of the goods without first paying duty.

—It is reported that the English Government has decided to act as mediator between the striking coal miners and the mine owners, provided such mediation is acceptable. Soldiers have been sent to Newhall, where there has been a fight between the police and strikers.

—The Ethnological Department of the World's Fair has decided that the children of this city (Oakland, Cal.) are the finest, mentally and physically, in America. The test was on this: 6,000 children were examined by taking length and breadth of face, breadth and length of head, weight, height, and other details involving thirty or more measurements. The comparison was with like examinations of children in Boston, New York, Chicago, and other leading cities.

—The carpenters' union of San Francisco is endeavoring to compel certain contractors for the Midwinter Fair to recognize an eight-hour day. The contractors say that they pay for the over time, and that extra work is necessary in order to complete their contract on time.

—The military barracks at Roslay, Russia, were burned on the 4th inst. Sixty men were driven to a roof, and obliged to jump. Eleven were killed and eight fatally injured. Twenty-eight men were suffocated by smoke and burned to death, and still others were reported missing.

—According to the Treasury statement issued by Secretary Carlisle, the total amount of money in circulation in the United States on October 1 was $1,701,939,918, about $25 per capita. This represents the aggregate wealth of about 200 of the richest persons in this country.

—Late London advices announce that England has formally declared war against King Lobengula, of Matabeleland, South Africa. The native population numbers about 300,000, and the colonists are comparatively few in number, and until reinforced they are said to be in a precarious position.

—The people crowded into Chicago last Sunday in such numbers, to be on hand for "Chicago day" on Monday, that many could not find sleeping places. Thousands sat up all night in restaurants, booths, and in doorways. The number of visitors at the Fair was double that on any previous Sunday.

—The buildings under construction for the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco are as follows: Manufactures' and Liberal Arts Building, 450x200 feet; Agricultural and Horticultural Building, 460x160 feet; Mechanical Arts Building, 320x140 feet; Fine Arts Building, 124x64 feet; and the Administration Building, 80x55.

—The latest reports of the effects of the great storm and tidal wave along the gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama foot up the loss of human life at about 2,000 persons, and the property loss goes into the millions. Besides this there is much suffering and want among the thousands who are left destitute.

—U. S. District Attorney Garter, of San Francisco, says that all the money expended in attempting to enforce deportation of the Chinese is simply thrown away. He says, "No one doubts that Congress will eventually extend the time for registration under the Geary Act, and all cases prior to such action will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

—A Chicago dispatch says that R. Dorris, a saloon keeper of Benton, Ill., sued A. C. Terhume, of the same place, for a liquor bill of $60. Terhume filed a counter claim of $350 for days' labor lost, fines paid, and Keeley treatment taken, all due to whisky furnished by Dorris. The justice of the peace allowed the claims against the saloon keeper.

—Spain is sending 8,000 troops to Morocco, with instructions to attack the Moors with the utmost vigor. Other troops will also be held in readiness. Dispatches from Mellilla say that 27,000 Moors are surrounding that place, and are determined to prevent the erection of a Spanish fort at Guartach. Spanish gunboats were shelling Moorish forts along the coast at last accounts.

—The English Consul General at Shanghai has sent the foreign office an interesting report of the silver question as affecting China. He gives his conclusions, after an exhaustive investigation, and says China never has been an absorber of silver. Between 1870 and 1880 she took about £3,000,000 yearly, but since 1880 the process has ceased, and recently she has even exported a small amount of silver.

—Dr. George W. Nass, of New York, who has been in Hamburg for nine months past inspecting the sanitary conditions of that city, especially as regards cholera, has sent a letter to the Herald to correct the prevailing impression that the authorities there are not doing their utmost to keep the city clean. He says that the city is now entirely free from cholera. Notwithstanding this statement, a Hamburg line steamer arrived in New York harbor on the 8th inst. with several cases of sickness which was thought to be cholera. There had been five deaths on the voyage.