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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 50.

SECULAR.

—The Manchester Cotton Mills, at Fort Worth, Texas, were burned on the 12th inst. Loss, $100,000.

—In the past ten years the U. S. Government has expended over $61,000,000 in the improvement of the navy.

—Four blocks of business buildings, mostly wooden, in Sioux City, Iowa, were destroyed by fire on the 12th inst.

—The great Belgian miners' strike has ended, and all the men have returned to work at a slightly increased rate of wages.

—Thirty-two new cases of yellow fever were reported at Brunswick, Ga., on the 14th inst., and thirty-four on the 15th.

—Up to the 12th inst. 50,000 of the coal miners engaged in the great strike in England have returned to work at the old wages.

—From the Pall Mall Gazette comes the information that the old Clan-na-Gael is being reorganized in Ireland and Great Britain.

—While the Russian squadron is being fêted at Toulon, France, a portion of the British navy is visiting the Italian port of Taranto.

—An epidemic of diarrhea (suspected of being cholera) is reported at Greenwich, England, and 150 inmates of a workhouse are afflicted.

—Louisville, Colo., a coal mining town of 700 inhabitants, is said to be sinking into the earth. The undermined foundation of the place is giving way.

—It is announced that although the World's Fair will officially end on the last day of this month, it will be continued as long as the weather will permit.

—Fire in one of the Chicago City Railway stables on the 12th inst. destroyed the entire building and burned to death 481 horses. The loss is estimated at $120,000.

—The farmhouse of George Komatski, near Minto, N. Dakota, was destroyed by fire on the 12th inst., and his four sons, aged from 8 to 15 years, were burned to death.

—It has been decided that the last day of the World's Fair will be dedicated to Columbus, and arrangements for its celebration are being made on an extensive scale.

—The Russian Colonel Vannovisky, with a force of Cossacks attempting to cross the Pamir Country, has been driven back by the Afghans, but avows his intention to make another attempt.

—It is now expected that the astronomical exhibit of the World's Fair, as also the great Ferris Wheel and other leading attractions, will be transferred to the San Francisco Midwinter Fair.

—There was a great demonstration of laboring men in Hyde Park, London, on the 15th inst., at which resolutions were passed condemning coal mine owners for their treatment of miners.

—The Atlantic Coast experienced another West Indian gale last week. While it was especially damaging along the Florida Coast and at Charleston, S. C., its effect was felt as far north as the New England States.

—The U. S. steamer Mohican arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., on the 13th inst., from Bering Sea, with five officers and seventeen men sick with the grip. She will come on to Mare Island Navy Yard this week.

—The president of the republic of Guatemala has declared himself dictator and assumed absolute control of the government. He dismissed the extra session of Congress on the 12th inst., and ordered a new election.

—The National Irrigation Congress, now in session at Los Angeles, this State, is attracting extensive attention, and great results in the way of blooming deserts are predicted. Even foreign engineers are present taking notes.

—The Ultramontane party in Bavaria, in order to arrest the revolt of the peasantry led by Dr. Sigl, and in order to stay the progress which Socialism is making, has decided to pass legislation in the interest of the rural classes.

—A Rome dispatch of the 12th inst. states that a large dynamite bomb was exploded in the vicinity of the Florentine Gate, shattering all the windows in the neighborhood and injuring several people. It caused a great panic.

—A disastrous fire occurred at Allentown, Pa., on the night of the 13th inst., causing an aggregate loss of $300,000. It was caused by telephone wires coming in contact with electric wires, setting fire to the switchboard in the telephone office.

—Citizens of Cushing and Ingalls, Kan., have appealed to the U. S. Marshal at Guthrie for protection against the Dalton gang of robbers, who have threatened revenge on those towns because the citizens assisted officers against them some time ago.

—The Lower House of Congress has passed a bill repealing the Federal Elections Law, which was originally designed to protect the colored men of the South in the exercise of their rights at the polls at elections for Federal officers. The passage of the measure by the Senate is deemed doubtful.

—In our issue of the 2d inst. we published a current press item to the effect that John G. Wooley, one of Evangelist Moody's coadjutors, had become a defaulter in connection with funds of the Rest Island Retreat. We are pleased to note that he has been exonerated by a special investigation.

—The Union Pacific Railroad has gone into the hands of a receiver. On account, it is alleged, of a depression of business in the States and Territories through which it runs, the receipts have materially fallen off the past year. The earnings are not sufficient to pay the interest on the company's bonds.

—A police officer of New Orleans has been twice assaulted by Italians recently. His second assault is supposed to have been by friends of his first assailant, whose trial is soon to take place, the design being to get rid of the officer's testimony at the trial. Both assaults are thought to be the work of the Mafia Society.

—A dispatch from Ashland, Wis., reports that in the vicinity of Hurley, on the Golgobic Range, there is great suffering among the unemployed miners, and bread riots have already occurred. In Elmwood and across the line in Michigan at least 1,000 men, half of whom have families, are out of bread, with no prospect of employment.

—The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer Newbern ran ashore in a dense fog a few miles from San Pedro, Cal., early on the morning of the 14th inst., and is a total loss. The cargo, excepting the bullion on board, was lost. The passengers and crew were all saved, as also $75,000 worth of silver bullion. Loss, about $175,000. The vessel was bound for San Francisco from Mexican ports.

—A railroad collision at the Michigan Central Depot, Jackson, Mich., on the 13th inst., caused the death of twelve persons, and the serious injury of twenty-two others. It was an excursion train from Watertown, N. Y., bound for Chicago, in two sections. One section was standing at the station, when the second dashed into its rear. The engineer saw the danger, but his air brake failed to work. The two rear cars of the standing train were telescoped by the engine and tender.

—The signification of the term “Mecca” has been reversed by the death roll of pilgrims to the Mohammedan Zion the present season. It used to signify, in common parlance, a place of supreme enjoyment, but hereafter it will rather imply the extreme of suffering and death.

—The Hungarian Diet is having a rather stormy session. Attempts have been made to pass resolutions censuring the government, and when the premier was making a speech, one day last week, in opposition to the resolutions, the opponents of the government left the house. The government party, of course, applauded the premier.

—There are now thirty-nine Chinamen in the Alameda County, Cal., jail, awaiting deportation to their native land, under the Geary Exclusion Act, for failing to register. Most of these have been convicted in Judge Ross' Court, Los Angeles. All the cases have been appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, and the defendants will have to lie in jail until that tribunal renders a decision. Their expense to the government for board is forty cents per day each.

—Late advices from Rio Janeiro state that one adjacent fort had surrendered to the revolutionary navy, and that two regiments of soldiers had also revolted. The matter of foreign interference to prevent further bombardment of the city had called out a protest on the part of South American States against European powers taking any hand in the matter. They claim that American governments only have a right to interfere, and are amply able to do so. They were anxiously waiting for our government to assert its old-time contention for the “Monroe doctrine.”

—The United States Senate last week held a continuous session of thirty-seven hours. It was a test of endurance on the part of the silver and anti-silver factions. The anti-silver men, or those favoring the repeal of the act requiring the government to purchase a certain amount of silver each month, wanted to bring the matter to a vote, but the other faction talked, offered amendments, and otherwise filibustered until their opponents wearied of the contest and moved to adjourn. The motion was quite acceptable to the silver party, although determined not to make it themselves.