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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 41.

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—The new republic of Hawaii has been officially recognized by President Cleveland.

—General McCook has withdrawn all the troops from the Southern Pacific Railroad line in Arizona.

—A large pottery establishment at San Jose, Cal., was burned on the 8th inst. Loss estimated at $100,000.

—The striking miners at Glen Campbell, Ind., have returned to work at the rates offered by the company.

—The old and reputedly substantial opticians, Queen & Co., of Philadelphia, with a capital of $600,000, have failed.

—A bill has passed both Houses of Congress appropriating $50,000 for building a revenue cutter for San Francisco harbor.

—At Memphis, Tenn., on the 10th inst., two shocks of earthquake caused tall buildings to sway and windows to rattle.

—Three more French Anarchists have been convicted, on charges of upholding the act of the assassin of President Carnot.

—The sequel of the great strike, so far as Chicago is concerned, is the filing of heavy bills for damages by the railroad companies.

—An explosion of gas caused a fire in a coal mine at Dombrowa, Poland, on the 11th inst., closing in 700 men, with no hope of escape.

—Striking Polanders at Ironwood, Mich., are leaving that vicinity, having become satisfied that they cannot get work from their old employers.

—Extensive mills at Mahoning Valley, Niles, Girard, and Youngstown, Ohio, have resumed operations after being idle from six months to a year.

—Industrial Army men to the number of 400 were driven from Rosslyn, Va., into the District of Columbia, by the State militia, on the 11th inst.

—That the Chinese and Japs expect to have a prolonged war is evidenced by both parties giving large orders for concentrated provisions in this country.

—Gen. James B. Weaver, People's party candidate for President in 1892, has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Ninth District of Iowa.

—Two departments of the Pullman shops were opened on the 9th inst., the great engine moving for the first time in three months, and 850 men went to work.

—The Indians of the Mosquito Territory of Nicaragua are still in rebellion, and the Government of Honduras has offered 5,000 troops to assist in restoring order.

—Late advices from Peru state that Trujillo has been captured by the rebels. Government troops sent to attack revolters at Junin espoused the cause of the rebellion.

—John Hardy, the colored servant of Jefferson Davis during the Rebellion, died at Hope, Ohio, on the 7th inst. He was 99 years old, and said to be the father of forty-one children.

—A Baltimore dispatch states that eighty of Coxey's men were arrested at Hyattsville, on the 9th inst., on charges of vagrancy, and are now in the Maryland House of Correction.

—The revenue cutter Bear has brought forty-seven more reindeer from Siberia to Port Clarence, Alaska. The animals brought over during the past two seasons are said to be thriving well.

—Appeals are now made to the public for assistance for families of strikers in this city and in other places who left their situations at the bidding of "organization" leaders, and now can't get them back again.

—About nine miles south of De Kalb, Texas, on the 10th inst., some boys who were playing ball took refuge under an oak tree during a shower of rain. Lightning struck the tree, and seven of the boys were killed.

—The ballet girls of New York City are on a strike, and have formed a union. It is a time of confederacies, and a significant feature of the condition is the more unions are organized the less harmony there is.

—The strike of coal miners in Grundy County, Ill., which has prevailed since April 21, crippling all branches of trade, and bringing thousands of people to the verge of starvation, was officially declared off on the 9th inst.

—The war news from Corea is somewhat conflicting as to the details of actual fighting, but the effect upon the great powers is such that there is no doubt that they are all in "perplexity" concerning the effect upon individual interests. If it is allowed to continue, the possible complications of other nations are decidedly ominous.

—Already the war between Japan and China over Corea has brought destitution to many of the Corean people, and a movement is on foot to send relief from this country. The government will undertake the transportation of donations of provisions.

—Severe earthquake shocks did great damage in Sicily on the 7th inst. Many houses were thrown down. At Zaffarano six people, and at Santo Antonio four, were killed. At both of these places and at Zaffarano many persons were reported injured.

—About 100 Chinamen, who were to begin work at a fruit-packing establishment in Santa Rosa, Cal., on the 8th inst., were met on their arrival and forcibly driven off. The manager of the establishment was obliged to send them away, and has decided not to employ Chinese packers.

—From the 5th to the 11th inst. 456 new cases of cholera and 101 deaths were officially reported in St. Petersburg. The disease has obtained a strong footing in nineteen Russian provinces, and in seven districts of Galicia. In Prussia, also, especially in the vicinity of Dantzic, it is causing many deaths.

—It is said that the Pullman Company officers have decided to evict the families of strikers living in the company's houses, as the tenements are needed for the families of new men. There are about 1,000 of such families, and as they have no means whatever, they must suffer great privation.

—The California militiamen who have been on duty on account of the strike, have all been sent to their homes, and it is said that many of them find their former situations occupied by others, and themselves out of employment. This takes off much of the glory and romance of belonging to a military company.

—The crusaders against the illegal sale of liquors in back rooms in San Francisco have about given up the contest for the present. They say it is impossible to procure conviction in the police courts so near election time. It seems to be clearly demonstrated that "judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off."

—A scientific analysis of the Zem-Zem water of the sacred well at Mecca has lately been made in England, and the specimen shows sixty-nine grains of chlorine to the gallon. Nine grains to the gallon are generally considered sufficient to render water unfit for use. It is not surprising, then, that so many pilgrims are afflicted with disease.

—A new feature of woman in politics has been evolved in North Dakota. A young lady candidate in a convention for nomination for superintendent of schools is said to have bought off a rival candidate by a promise of marriage in case she was elected, he to stump the State in her behalf. This is about the severest blow the marriage institution has yet received.

—The will of the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, is a peculiar document, inasmuch as part of the bequest to his three sons is good advice. He advises them that the only thing that is more difficult to build up than an independent fortune is character, which is the more necessary of the two, and the safeguards are the ten commandments and the sermon on the mount.

—A crowd of several thousand people assembled on the South Side, Chicago, on the night of the 9th inst., determined to denounce the city authorities. The meeting was in violation of an order of the mayor, and the crowd was charged by 100 policemen. The result was the disabling of five policemen, the arrest of eleven rioters, and the wounding of about twenty.

—On the night of the 9th inst. part of a train went over a bridge five miles south of Lincoln, Neb., and twenty-one men lost their lives, several of them being burned to death by a car taking fire. The engineer, conductor, and fireman are among the dead. There is evidence that the track had been tampered with, and an ex-convict negro has been arrested on suspicion.

—The latest reports from the strike of meat packing-house employees at Omaha, Neb., are to the effect that the trouble is about over. On the 9th inst. the sheriff sent 100 deputies to the scene, broke the guard line of the strikers, and escorted workmen to the houses. The strikers jeered the men, but offered no violence, and a number of the old hands returned to work. Subsequently the yards were guarded by troops, but these have been withdrawn, and it is said the old hands are willing to go to work if they can get back their places.

—A grand jury has found 321 indictments against persons concerned in the mining troubles at Cripple Creek, Colo. Through the confession of one of the participants, it is ascertained that the tarring of Adjutant General Tarsney was the work of deputy sheriffs and some prominent mine owners. It will be remembered that while the sheriff's deputies were endeavoring to arrest riotous strikers, the State troops were called out by the governor to prevent the service of writs. So the grand jury reports that "the executive officers of the county have been seriously interfered with by the Executive Department of the State in the execution of their writs."