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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 46.

DOMESTIC.

—The Iowa Savings Bank at Sioux City, and the First National Bank at Decorah, Iowa, suspended on the 10th inst.

—The working time of all shop employees of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway has been reduced from nine hours a day to eight hours.

—The Federal Grand Jury at Kansas City has indicted three men for distributing advertising cards on which had been stamped the imprint of a $20 gold piece.

—Perry Richardson, charged with the murder of S. S. Gates in Sauk County, Wis., twenty-six years ago, lately applied for a pension, and in this way brought about his arrest.

—An invention in the line of religious rescue work will be inaugurated shortly by the Salvation Army in St. Louis. It is that of caring for persons who are intoxicated on the streets.

—A steel bridge is to be built by the Southern Pacific over the San Pedro River in Arizona. It will have a 160-foot span and masonry abutments. The steel will come from the east and the stone from Texas.

—William P. Hazen, Chief of the Secret Service, in his annual report shows that the amount of altered or counterfeit notes captured during the year was $757,731. The amount of counterfeit coin captured was $10,678.

—A heavy storm is reported on the coast of Washington and Oregon. The gale struck Astoria at the rate of 100 miles an hour, unroofing houses and driving ashore several ships in the harbor. Fears are entertained for vessels outside.

—Thirteen members of the Salt Lake Coal Exchange have been found guilty in the United States District Court of combining to prevent persons not members of the Exchange from obtaining coal at prices as low as were made to members of the Exchange, in order to destroy competition.

—A fight between striking miners and a party of Austrians, at Leadville, Colo., on the 12th inst., resulted in the death of one man and the serious wounding of four others, one of them fatally. The Austrians were union smelter men, but were mistaken for non-union miners. The fight occurred at a saloon, of course.

—A remarkable discovery has just been made by experiments with the X ray in San Francisco. A boy who has been blind for fourteen years was enabled by means of the apparatus ordinarily used, to see metal objects through wood and other materials the same as a person with sound eyes. Tests will be made with other blind persons.

—The San Francisco Examiner says that large amounts of gold and silver are pouring into the mint from all parts of the Pacific Coast. More gold was coined during October than in any former month since the mint opened, this included $5,000,727 in gold and $697,000 in silver. On the 20th of this month $2,000,000 in gold will arrive from Australia.

—An attempt to blow up an express train near Washington, Ind., on the 10th inst., was frustrated by a tramp who learned of the plot and signaled the train. The bandits saw him give the signal and fired upon him, wounding him in the leg. But the train was saved, and the passengers took up a collection for the tramp. A heavy charge of dynamite had been laid upon the track.

—The officials of the Treasury Department frankly acknowledge that the spirit of the Chinese Exclusion Act is being constantly violated, but declare their inability to prevent it. Hundreds of Chinamen are annually entering the United States through the means of certificates fraudulently secured and sold in China by those leaving this country with no intention of returning.

—The Evangelical Alliance, by William E. Dodge, its president, and Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong, its secretary, has put forth a suggestion that as a preparation for the religious campaign of the coming winter, the ministers of the churches in each community meet for conference and prayer, and spend a quiet day together on Tuesday, November 17. The suggestion has the approval of representative ministers of all the evangelical denominations.

—A Washington despatch says that the War Department has called upon the leading railroad lines running to Key West, New Orleans, and other gulf ports, for an immediate statement of their capacity to move troops, supplies and heavy war material. The inquiry is supposed to be in view of possible difficulties with Spain in regard to Cuba. The U. S. minister at Madrid is of the opinion that Spain is contemplating complications with this government as the most honorable means of backing out of Cuba.