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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 38.

DOMESTIC.

—Ali Ferras Bey has been appointed the new Turkish minister to Washington.

—Five men lost their lives in a burning coal mine at Bell Ellen, Alabama, on September 20.

—On September 22 President McKinley and party arrived at North Adams, Mass., where they will spend a few days. Large crowds of people gathered there to welcome their honored guests.

—A freight and passenger train were wrecked at Kytesville, Mo., on September 16, which resulted in the death of four men and injury of nine others.

—The flour-mills of W. S. Byers, at Pendleton, Oregon, were destroyed by fire on September 20. The loss on plant and wheat will reach $200,000.

—General Lee has been requested to return to Havana and resume the duties of consul-general at that place. He will return to Cuba about October 15.

—By a collision of freight trains on the Wisconsin Central Railroad near Howard, Wisconsin, on September 17, five men were killed and three badly injured.

—It is estimated that the strike of coal miners in the United States has cost the enormous sum of $7,000,000, about $2,500,000 of which has been lost to the miners in wages.

—Nearly 3,000 feet of snow-sheds were destroyed near Truckee, Cal., on September 20, and all overland trains were delayed, until the track beneath the sheds could be rebuilt.

—The druggists of Warren, Pennsylvania, have decided to close all their stores on Sunday except one. That is, they are to take turn and turn about at keeping their places open on Sunday.

—A mining company's store at Raton, N. M., was blown up with gunpowder on the night of September 14. It was believed to be the work of some of the 350 dissatisfied coal miners at that place.

—The city of New Orleans is suffering from a scourge of beetles, millions of them having infested the city in every quarter. The gutters are said to be filled with the festering bodies of the beetles which have been trampled upon.

—The steam sailing bark Hope, with Peary and company on board, returning from North Greenland, arrived at Sydney, Cape Breton, on September 20. The vessel brought back the huge Cape York meteorite, the largest in the world.

—Secretary of War Alger has given the necessary orders for a company of United States troops to be stationed during the coming winter at St. Michaels, Alaska, as it is feared that the scarcity of food in Alaska may lead to serious outbreaks before spring.

—A plan is now on foot to draw train loads of supplies up the Yukon River on the ice during the present winter by a locomotive now in use in many lumber camps, but which may be readily adapted to the desired work on the Yukon when it is frozen over thickly.

—A man suspected of having designs on the life of President McKinley was arrested on the White House grounds on September 20, and a loaded revolver was found in his possession. He had made repeated attempts to see the president on "important business."

—A conspiracy has been discovered at Port Townsend, Washington, by the operations of which over 600 Chinese have been brought into the country in plain violation of the Geary law. The collector of customs at that port is believed to be implicated in the illegal transactions.

—The coal miners' strike is reported to be over in the district supplying the St. Louis market. Seventeen mines in the Illinois district began operations on September 16. On the same day between 15,000 and 18,000 miners resumed work in the Pittsburg district at the rate of 65 cents per ton.

—The southern cities of the Gulf States are still suffering from the yellow fever epidemic. A number of new cases are reported each day, but the fever seems to be of a mild type, and but few of the victims succumb to it. People in some parts of Texas are said to be fleeing to the woods to escape the disease.

—From inspired articles in the German press, it is seen that the German Government does not intend to enter into a tariff war with the United States in retaliation for the Dingley tariff; but it is stated that laws will be passed which will treat American meats and preserves with great stringency, making the inspection much more rigid, and extending to every kind of food preserves.

—The white citizens of Hogansville, Georgia, objected to the colored postmaster, who was appointed by the administration for that place, and he was shot by some person unknown to the authorities. President McKinley has decided that if this colored postmaster dies, another colored man will take his place, and if he lives, he will retain his position, backed by sufficient federal power to protect him.