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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 2, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 22.

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—An official dispatch announces that cholera has broken out in Constantinople.

—The Iowa Legislature has passed a bill granting school and municipal suffrage to women.

—Thirty-two Chinese gamblers were arrested at Fresno, Cal., on the night of the 22d inst.

—Fire in Denver, Colo., on the 22d inst., caused a loss in buildings and merchandise of about $175,000.

—The women of Armourdale and Kansas City, Kansas, are to have a convention and nominate a candidate for the council.

—The world's production of gold for 1893 is placed by the Bureau of the Mint at $250,000,000, an increase of $11,000,000 over 1892.

—The Secretary of the Interior has approved the application of "Pawnee Bill" for the loan of thirty-five Sioux Indians to be exhibited at Antwerp.

—Glanders of a virulent type is prevalent among horses in some sections of Fresno County, Cal., and one person is reported to have died with the disease.

—Eight convicts escaped from the penitentiary guards at Little Rock, Ark., on the 21st inst. Two were killed, two recaptured, and the others are at large.

—So far the present year, the gold product of Montana has been double that of last year, which in a great measure compensates for the drop in silver mining.

—The Anti-cigarette League of New York City has secured the promise of business men employing 20,000 boys to give preference to boys who do not use cigarettes.

—The "industrial army" march to Washington City has cropped out in Spokane, Wash., and it is said that a large company has been organized to join the crusade.

—A convention representing all the miners' unions of the United States met at Pueblo, Colo., on the 22d inst. One purpose is the federation of all miners' organizations.

—Reports from Texarkana and Rison, Ark., report damaging washouts on the railroads and great damage to property by recent floods along the Sulphur and Red Rivers.

—A very rich gold discovery is reported near Lewiston, in the South Pass region of the Rocky Mountains. A like report comes from the Cochiti mining district of New Mexico.

—On the evening of the 20th inst., guests at the Armour Institute, Chicago, listened to an address delivered in New York. The experiment was a test of the long-distance telephone.

—Thomas Fortune, a noted negro speaker of Albany, N. Y., has been given judgment for $1,000 damages against a saloon keeper who refused to sell him a drink and ejected him from the saloon.

—Seventy-five Italian laborers were driven into the woods by a mob at Altoona, Pa., on the 20th inst. Several were so badly beaten they will die. The Italians had agreed to work for 75 cents a day.

—Paris reports another bomb explosion. It occurred on the 21st inst., in the Church of St. Gatien. Twenty persons were injured, three fatally, and several more were seriously hurt in the panic which followed.

—On the 20th inst. about 200 men of the "unemployed" class arrived in Los Angeles from Texas, and, being an unusually rough set, there came near being a conflict with the police. The chief succeeded in inducing the railroad company to carry the men on northward.

—Southern Idaho, along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, has suffered great damage by floods. Washouts caused a delay of mails and passengers for eight days. An ice gorge in Wood River Valley caused an overflow, which drove thirty families to flee for safety.

—Several of the political henchmen of the noted "Boss" McKane, of Coney Island, N. Y., are likely to accompany him to the penitentiary. A constable and a justice of the peace have already been sentenced, and others are implicated in his unlawful political methods.

—Another severe storm is reported in the Northwest. At Moorehead, Minn., on the 21st and 22d insts., two feet of snow fell, which, with very high winds, delayed all trains and did great damage to fruit trees. Eastern and central Nebraska, Eastern Wyoming, and the Black Hill region also suffered great inconvenience in travel and loss of property, especially of cattle. The snow was from one to four feet in depth on the level.

—A new treaty with China has been negotiated by Secretary of State Gresham and the Chinese Minister at Washington. The treaty is now in the hands of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In the main it has the indorsement of Senator White, of California, and Congressman Geary, author of the Registry law, who are of opinion that it will quiet Eastern opposition to existing laws on the subject of Chinese immigration.

—Some very clever forging of checks has been discovered in St. Louis, and the work is so well done that the perpetrators must be persons well posted in the banking and business customs of the city. Thousands of dollars had been drawn before the scheme was discovered.

—A press dispatch from Wharton, Tenn., says that a wealthy planter named Boldin was murdered on the 19th inst. by a mob of fifty negroes whom he had brought from Alabama to work on his plantation. Sixteen of the mob had been arrested, and great excitement prevailed. Boldin had reprimanded the men for unfaithfulness in their work.

—Commodore Kirkland, who was en route to Hawaii to take command of the naval fleet, has been recalled and Admiral Walker substituted. The sudden change is said to have been owing to a rumor that the Hawaiian Provisional Government is about to apply to some foreign power for annexation or a protectorate. It is alleged that this government will not tolerate any such action.

—Strikes are on the increase. In Chicago 1,000 men employed in the establishment of Crane Brothers went out because of a 10 per cent reduction in wages. In Milwaukee the stonecutters are on a strike for an eight-hour day. In Toledo 117 motormen and conductors on street cars refused to take out their cars because of the discharge of four men for some unsatisfactory cause.

—In St. Mary's Catholic Church in this city, on Sunday morning, the 18th inst., a man named Brady discovered his wife, from whom he had been separated, sitting in a pew, and shot her to death. Being pursued by the priest and others, he fatally shot himself. The services of the day were completed in the yard in the rear of the church, inasmuch as no further service was permissible in the building until it was reconsecrated by the bishop.

—The U. S. Secret Service Bureau stations at Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., have combined to seek out the working quarters of a gang of counterfeiters who are making and passing large quantities of silver dollars and half dollars. These coins have the same composition as the genuine, and are therefore difficult of detection. The low price of silver enables the manufacturers to produce a coin as pure as the genuine at a profit of 50 cents on the dollar.

—Lord Roseberry, the new premier, is to marry Princess Maud, daughter of the Prince of Wales. It will add somewhat to the political complication to have the premier, who is himself a lord, and whose policy it is to abolish the House of Lords, become husband of the queen's granddaughter. This, in addition to the rumor that the Prince of Wales is becoming quite democratic in sentiment, looks as though the royal family was becoming imbued with the democratic idea.

—It seems that King Kabaraga, of Unyoro, Africa, is next on the list for subjugation or annihilation by a "civilized" power. Great Britain has declared war upon him, for the reason that he refuses to be robbed peacefully. It is strange how obtuse those "uncivilized" fellows are; somehow they are all unable to see that they have no right to retain their possessions when a European power gets a foot upon them, and that resistance to the onward march of the rum traffic is worthy of death.

—Louis Kossuth, the renowned Hungarian patriot, died at Turin, Italy, on the 20th inst., aged 92 years. Having failed in a revolt for independence in 1848-49, he fled the country, and has ever since been an exile from his native land. In 1851 he visited the United States by invitation of the President, at the instigation of the Senate, being conveyed hither in a government vessel from Constantinople. Here he was enthusiastically received, and addressed immense audiences in all the large cities. Now that he is dead, the Austrian Government will permit his return home for burial.

—The last steamer from China brings news from Corea that on New Year's day (February 6) an attempt was made to blow up the king and his ministers. Preparations were all ready, and only an hour before the appointed time, one of the conspirators weakened and warned the intended victims. Investigation disclosed 1,200 pounds of powder under the floor, connected to a fuse and electric wire to an outbuilding. The young king and his prime minister, a Mr. Greathouse, formerly of San Francisco, are said to be too progressive for the old-fashioned and exclusive Corean people. Twenty-seven of the leading conspirators were arrested before they knew that their plot had been exposed.

—A man named Coxey, ambitious for notoriety, conceived the idea of marching an "army" of unemployed men from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington. There was much talk and great expectations; there were to be not less than 1,000 to start on Easter morning, and to gather myriads more by the way. There was great disappointment when the march began with less than 100, accompanied by a snowstorm, this, too, in face of the fact that many people along the way were preparing to feed them. The army of 800 that started from Los Angeles, Cal., when heard from at El Paso, Texas, was reported to be 900 strong, although it lost some 200 while passing through Arizona. An effort is being made to raise an "army" in Denver, Colo.