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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 19.

SECULAR.

—Rich gold discoveries are reported in Presidio County, Texas.

—There are said to be 40,000 unemployed men in Boston. The Legislature has now a Special Committee on the unemployed.

—Hon. John G. Downey, a California pioneer, and ex-governor of the State, died at his home in Los Angeles on the 1st inst., of pneumonia.

—At Nebraska City, Neb., a man charged with hanging Secretary of Agriculture Morton in effigy has been fined $200 and costs of prosecution.

—Fifteen deported Chinese were sent home from Tacoma last week, twelve of whom were from the State of Washington, and three from Chicago.

—A new weekly line of steamers is announced for the coming season, to be run by the Ulster Steamship Company between Montreal and Queensland.

—A mining strike is reported at Cripple Creek, Colo. The mine owners offer $3.00 per day for nine hours' work, but the strikers demand an eight-hour day.

—The most ultra of anti-silver governments is Persia. It has not only stopped silver coinage, but has prohibited its importation on penalty of confiscation.

—The pioneers of a long-talked-of colony, to settle in the district east of Mount Konda, Africa, left Hamburg on the 28th ult. The new district is to be named Freeland.

—The Golden Rule Bazar, corner Market and Geary Streets, San Francisco, was destroyed by fire on the 26th ult. The loss on building and stock aggregates about $300,000.

—Joseph Donjan, who sent a threatening postal card to Vice President Stevenson, has been sentenced by the U. S. District Court at Baltimore to eighteen months in the penitentiary.

—The latest news from the Brazilian revolution is that the rebels were defeated at Sarandí, leaving 400 dead on the field, besides losing 3,000 horses and large quantities of arms and ammunition.

—At Tiffin, Ohio, early on the morning of the 1st inst., an explosion of natural gas, caused by leakage from a pipe, completely demolished a large brewery and damaged many other buildings in the vicinity.

—The New York Legislature has passed a bill submitting to a vote of the people included, the proposition to enlarge the boundaries of the city of New York, taking in the city of Brooklyn and thirteen suburban towns and villages—in fact, all of Kings and Richmond Counties. The consolidation will give New York City an area of about 318 square miles, and a population of nearly 3,000,000, making it the second city in the world, London being first.

—A great mass meeting at Buda-Pesth, Austria, on the 4th inst., in which 130,000 people participated, declared in favor of the new civil marriage measure, and for religious liberty and the recognition of the Jewish faith.

—It is said that many Italians and Poles in Pittsburg, Pa., are getting married and seeking wives in order to get work from the Employment Committee, who refused work to any but married men. The pay is $1.00 per day.

—German experts who have been examining the meat methods at Chicago, report to their government that the system of inspection is not reliable. The report it is expected will affect adversely the sale of American meats.

—Gen. Jubal A. Early, one of the prominent Confederate leaders in the Rebellion, died at Lynchburg, Va., on the 2d inst. He had served in the Florida war and in the Mexican war, and was one of the founders of the notorious Louisiana Lottery.

—There was a general lockout in the Ohio coal mines on the 1st inst., owing to a failure on the part of miners to agree to a reduction of wages to the Pennsylvania basis. A Cincinnati dispatch says that in Jackson County alone over 4,000 miners are shut out.

—In Terre Haute, Ind., the Relief Committee ran so short of work for the unemployed that, on the 27th ult., there was a fight for the available jobs. There were about two hundred applicants and work for but thirty-five. The police had to quell the disturbance.

—Mr. Gladstone has resigned the premiership of Great Britain, and Lord Roseberry succeeds him. The leading political issue in the country now is the proposition to abolish the House of Lords, and Gladstone's last speech was a vigorous advocacy of that measure.

—Rev. W. P. Ratcliffe, a member of the Mississippi Legislature, and generally known as the "fighting parson," became involved in a street duel in Kosciusko on the 2d inst., and shot three men. Two of them are dead, and the third so badly wounded that his recovery is doubtful.

—Thirteen Anarchists were arrested in Paris, on the 4th inst., and in their lodgings were found considerable quantities of explosives. It has been discovered that a number of well-to-do persons, among them several priests, have been paying Anarchists money to avoid their depredations.

—The presidential election in the republic of Brazil, on the 1st inst., resulted in the choice of Señor Prudente Moraes for president, and Señor Victorino Pereira for vice president. It is hoped the election will have a tendency to quell the political disturbances which have so long kept the country in a state of turmoil.

—The ex-teller of the Bank of Minneapolis confesses to having embezzled $123,000 of the bank's funds. The strange feature of the case is that prior to January 1, 1893, he had taken $50,000, and the directors, knowing this to be the case, reemployed him at an increased salary, and already he has taken $73,000 more.

—A Denver dispatch says that the police of that city have been asked to prevent the sale of a young Chinese girl by her father to a rich Chinaman. The girl was born in Colorado, and is fifteen years old. She appealed to a justice of the peace for protection, as the would-be purchaser has already two wives, and wants her for the third.

—The susceptibility of this "enlightened age" to the delusive effects of fiction is illustrated in the formation of a secret order called the Order of Ben Hur, named after Lew Wallace's popular novel. The First Court of the Supreme Tribe was formally instituted at Crawfordsville, Ind., on the 2d inst., with 447 charter members. There have been 1,000 applications from different parts of the country for charters to organize tribes.

—Fayette County, West Virginia, is in the throes of a great strike of coal miners. As usual, the strikers not only refuse to work themselves, but claim the right to prevent others from working who are willing to do so. On the 28th ult. a conflict occurred at Eagle, which resulted in the death of three men and the wounding of eight others. At last report the State militia was preserving the peace, and the sheriff was making arrests. The citizens of Montgomery are said to be friendly to the strikers, and the mayor declared the sheriff and militia under arrest.