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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1894

SECULAR.

The Brazilian insurgent leader, Admiral De Gama, has surrendered to a Portuguese man-of-war.

Ex-President Harrison delivered his first lecture on Constitutional Law at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., on the 6th inst.

Judge McAdam, of New York City, has decided that a newspaper has no right to publish pictures of persons without their consent.

A municipal election row in Troy, N. Y., on the 6th inst., resulted in the death of one man and the serious wounding of three others.

New York Anarchists held a meeting in the Thalia Theater on the night of the 11th inst., to commemorate the assassination of Czar Alexander II. of Russia.

A treaty of peace has been agreed upon by Spain and Morocco, the latter paying a heavy indemnity for the demonstrations of the Riff tribes against Melilla.

Late dispatches from The Hague report a fight on the island of Sumatra between the Dutch and Atchinese. The Dutch loss was five killed and seventeen wounded.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Brooklyn, N. Y., have publicly protested against the action of the mayor in refusing to allow the Irish flag to float on the City Hall on St. Patrick's day.

The Colorado State Coal Mine Inspector reports that in Las Animas and Durango Counties he has not found a single mine where the wages of miners were not from two to five months in arrears.

Three hundred drivers in the employ of the Street Cleaning Department of New York City quit work on the 8th inst., by order of the Executive Committee of the Drivers' and Hostlers' Union.

The recent general election in Japan resulted in great gains for the Liberal party in Parliament, and will cause a marked reaction against the anti-foreign sentiment that has for some time been manifested.

The mayor of Cincinnati has been authorized to expend $100,000 from the contingent fund of the city for the benefit of the unemployed. The plan is to use it in promoting repairs and other work needed.

The Supreme Court of Colorado has decided a case against Bishop Warren, of the M. E. Church, which necessitates his relinquishing title to 160 acres of land adjoining the city of Denver, or paying for it $1,000 per acre.

Five Chinese and four Italian orange pickers were driven from a ranch near Los Nietos, Los Angeles County, Cal., by a mob on the 9th inst. Some of them were severely beaten, and were not allowed to gather up their property.

It is reported that Great Britain and Portugal are again in trouble over their African spoils, and that there has actually been a small battle about land that honestly belongs to neither of them. The European game of grab in Africa has all along been based upon the principle that people who are called "uncivilized" by those who assume to be "civilized" have no right to their possessions unless they can hold them against superior might.

The British naval officer at Rio Janeiro says that all vessels should be ordered to leave there, and the port closed, on account of yellow fever. Other reports state that there were as high as seventy-four deaths in one day last week.

A correspondent writes from Seattle, Wash., that "the battle between the A. P. A. and the Catholics is fairly on" in that city. For two days the city had been "under a nervous strain," with "20,000 people on the streets."

The landing of some British marines and guns at Bluefields, Nicaragua, some time last month, against the protest of Nicaragua officials, is likely to lead to international complications involving the United States and Great Britain.

It is said that so many people are leaving the Transvaal, South Africa, to take up claims in Mashonaland that the commandante general has issued a manifesto protesting against the emigration. He claims that it is helping to extend British sway over all South Africa.

The employes of the electric street railway in Youngstown, Ohio, inaugurated a strike last week. An attempt to run cars with non-union men was frustrated by the strikers and other idle men, who attacked the cars, smashing the windows and otherwise damaging them.

A dispatch from Bathurst, West Africa, reports further engagements between British forces and Arab slavers, in which the towns of Brikama and Bakjur were captured and burned. The Arabs made a desperate stand, and lost 150 killed and twice as many wounded.

Daniel Coughlin, who has stood two trials on a charge of complicity in the noted Dr. Cronin murder, committed in Chicago five years ago, was acquitted on the 8th inst., amid wild cheering of the spectators in court. It is said that his two trials have cost the State $75,000.

A quantity of condemned giant powder, about 5,000 pounds, was carried into the mountains back of Del Norte, Colo., on the 11th inst., to be exploded. The explosion shook the mountains for fifty miles, and gave the general impression that a great earthquake had occurred.

An exchange informs us that in Mexico a government inspection of the Catholic parochial schools has developed the fact that ninety-three per cent. of the pupils cannot read. They are taught to repeat prayers, to manipulate beads, to revere relics, and to observe the various superstitions peculiar to that church.

The mayor and police superintendent of Indianapolis have decided to prevent inflammatory speeches of chronic agitators who will not work when opportunity offers, but seek every opportunity to harangue crowds of idle men. Orderly meetings of the unemployed are not to be molested, but professional agitators are to be arrested.

A long-continued case of violation of the prohibitory liquor law was recently decided in Vermont. In 1882 a liquor dealer sent liquor to Rutland in jugs, for which he was convicted. He pleaded guilty to 307 offenses, which brought the penalty up to sixty years in the house of correction. The United States Supreme Court decided that it had no jurisdiction, and the State Supreme Court has just approved the law.

The Italian Government has decided to protect Italian farmers by a heavy duty on grain. The principal aim, however, is to increase the revenue of the government, which fell $30,000,000 short the past year. An increase in the taxes on real estate, salt, and spirits is also proposed. The radicals demand a reduction in the civil list of the royal family, but royalty's requirements are always the last to be curtailed.

At Rome, on the 8th inst., a bomb was exploded near the Chamber of Deputies, and eight persons were wounded, one fatally. The explosion was of considerable force, tearing up the sidewalk and shattering all the windows and much crockery in the immediate neighborhood. It is thought the design was to have the bomb explode about the time the house would adjourn and the members come out, as there was great indignation on the part of workingmen because of the defeat of the National Exposition Bill.

The steam yacht Natalie, which was purchased in New York, and sailed from Savannah in January with arms and ammunition, to be used by General Manigat in an attempt to overthrow President Hippolyte, of Haiti, has been captured by the Haitians. Her cargo has been landed, says a late dispatch, and the entire crew shot by order of the president. Revolution seems to be certain, as it is said there are no less than thirty aspirants for the presidency, six of whom have quite strong following. Hippolyte is himself a Voodoo priest, and this fact gives him considerable power over superstitious believers. He is said now to be preparing for a human sacrifice in order to assure his position. According to superstition, the victims must be an innocent boy and girl, and no one knows whose children may be stolen for the occasion.