News and Notes

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1897

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

FOREIGN.

—In India there are 100,000 boys and 627,000 girls under the age of fourteen who are legally married.

—The Irish members of Parliament have declared their intention of taking no part in the celebration of the queen's jubilee.

—The town of Ballyhooly, Matabeleland, is reported to be surrounded by armed natives, known as insurgent Mashonas.

—The town of Namsos, Norway, has been entirely destroyed by fire. The flames spread so rapidly that the inhabitants were unable to save any of their household goods.

—At the unveiling of an image of the Virgin Mary at Pisa, Italy, on May 29, a candle fell, causing a panic. During the rush for doors several persons were killed, and about twenty-five more or less seriously injured.

—Pope Leo XIII. has issued another encyclical, dwelling upon the claims of the Eastern and Anglican Churches to the apostolic succession, and urging the benefits to be derived from a union of all churches with the papal see at Rome.

—A report from Berlin states that the Turkish Government has opened negotiations with an English firm for the complete overhauling of the Turkish fleet, the reconstruction of the ironclads, and the building of six new men-of-war.

—Señor Canovas, premier of Spain, handed his resignation and that of the whole cabinet to the queen regent on June 2. It is reported that the crisis is extremely grave, and the excitement in political and financial circles is intense.

—The Austrian Government has submitted to the Reichsrath a bill providing for the State control of all trusts or rings dealing in sugar, petroleum, and beer, with a view of preventing the abuses of combinations and extortions of higher prices.

—Oscar Wilde has been released from prison, and has begun work in the line of literature by making an appeal to the people of England in behalf of child prisoners, and decrying the system of cruel punishment to which they are said to be subjected.

—The Athens correspondent of the Paris Journal states that Crown Prince Constantine, after the retreat from Domokos, attempted to commit suicide with a revolver, on learning of the feeling against him. He was prevented by some of the officers who suspected his intention.

—Advices from China state that fifty persons lost their lives in a temple dedicated to the Queen of Heaven in Tien-tsin, China, on April 18. The temple was crowded with men, women, and children, when a fire broke out, which threatened to destroy the structure. In the attempt to leave the building, the weak were trampled upon and crushed.

—Particulars have just been received of a rebellion of the natives of Raiatea against the French, in which seventeen French soldiers were killed. The French war-ships bombarded the islands of Otaha, Triboal, and Naru, taking a great number of the natives prisoners, some of whom will be transported with their families to the Marquesas and others to Manupito.

—The Hawaiian Government has refused to pay indemnity to Japan for its refusal to land certain Japanese immigrants, and denies that its treaty with that government has been violated. The Japanese minister at Honolulu expresses his intention to renew the demand, and in case of a repeated refusal, his government will break off diplomatic relations with the island republic.

—The provinces of Santa Clara and Principe, Cuba, have been given one month in which to concentrate pacificos in the fortified towns. All who refuse to come in by that time will be killed, and all buildings and plantations in the unprotected regions will be given to the torch. This will be the beginning of General Weyler's tactics for the pacification of the eastern provinces of the island.

—A remarkable collection of ancient Egyptian papyri has been found by Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt, who are working in behalf of the Egyptian Exploration Fund. The papyrus books range from the Roman conquest to early Arab times. Most of the documents are written in Greek, with a sprinkling of Arabic, Latin, and Coptic. One of these books contains a collection of alleged sayings of Jesus of Nazareth; and it is believed that among the fragments will be found some of the lost classical literature.

—A most impressive papal ceremonial is reported to have taken place at Rome, Italy, on May 27. It was the occasion of the pontifical decree of the sainthood of the “Blessed Zaccaria,” founder of the Barnabites, and the “Blessed Fourier,” surnamed the Apostle of Lorraine. All the gaudy glitter, pomp, and splendor possible were crowded into this ceremony of declaring the saintliness of the above named. The advocate of the cause of canonizing made a thrice-repeated demand—“instanter, instantius, and instantissimo”—to which the pope made the reply necessary to make at these grave-bound mortals, objects of adoration and worship.

—Generals Weyler and Gomez met face to face in a desperate battle at La Reforma, Cuba. The engagement was the result of an attempt on the part of the Spanish to entrap the Cubans and capture their leader. The attempt was a failure, and the Spanish were compelled to withdraw, with an admitted loss of sixty-five killed and many wounded. The loss on the part of the Cubans is not known.

—The negotiations of the powers for the establishment of peace between Greece and Turkey are still going on, and an extension of the armistice will be granted in order to allow time for their completion. No definite arrangements have yet been made for the settlement. Greece objects to paying a heavy indemnity and to the Turkish occupation of Thessaly, and in this is backed by Russia; but Turkey shows no intention of quitting the territory she has gained by conquest, and continues to send reenforcements to the army of occupation.

—Advices from Cuba report the landing of two large expeditions with supplies for the insurgents, consisting of 800,000 rounds of ammunition, a large amount of arms and dynamite, and one large cannon. A military train near Esperanza is reported to have been blown up with dynamite, killing nine soldiers and wounding many more. During a fight near a Cuban hospital a large number of Spanish soldiers deserted and went over to the Cubans. At Bodega de la Paz, in Havana province, a sanguinary engagement took place between the Cubans under General Rodriguez and a Spanish column under Colonel Peral. The latter were driven off, with a loss of twenty-one killed and forty-nine wounded.

DOMESTIC.

—The Legislature of Iowa has made liquor bills non-collectable.

—A wealthy syndicate is planning a 100,000-acre sugar beet farm in Arkansas Valley, Colorado.

—The tugboat Dauntless has been seized by the cruiser Marblehead, charged with conducting filibustering operations.

—The free turnpikers of Kentucky are again engaged in a toll-gate war, and fears are entertained that much loss of life may result.

—Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, has been chosen by President McKinley as special ambassador to the queen's jubilee.

—About 22,400 New York garment makers are still out on a strike in that city, 2,500 having returned to work under a new agreement with their employers.

—The Presbyterian Synod, in session at Beaver Falls, Penn., adopted resolutions declaring the unalterable opposition of that church to all secret organizations.

—The whaleback steamer City of Everett has been chartered by the government to carry a load of California wheat to the starving people of India. She will carry 2,250 tons.

—The Secretary of the Cuban Junta at New York called on Secretary Sherman on May 29 to discuss plans for the purchase of Cuba by the Cubans whenever Spain shall agree to the sale.

—At 4 o'clock on May 31 an earthquake shock was felt over a section of country extending from Canada to Georgia. Notwithstanding the extent of the temblor no casualties are reported.

—Nine men lost their lives by a railway collision at Pocatello, Idaho, on May 27. Both engines were demolished, fifteen freight cars smashed to pieces, and the station building was totally wrecked.

—On May 28 the city of Butte, Montana, elected a committee of 100 to assist the local authorities in the suppression of crime. The election was immediately followed by an exodus of crooks and confidence men.

—Two thousand persons are said to be destitute in El Paso, Texas, as a result of the recent rise of the Rio Grande. The course of the river has so changed that fifty blocks of the city are now on the Mexican side.

—The Alaskan boundary treaty was reported in executive session by Senator Turpie on June 1. The report recommends the ratification of the treaty, with an amendment making it clear that the United States concedes none of its seacoast rights by accepting Mt. St. Elias as the initial point for the boundary line.

—Seven hundred convicts in the State prison at San Quentin, Cal., went on a strike on May 29. Seventy of the leaders were put in solitary confinement, and succeeded in demolishing their cells. A fight with the guards ensued, in which both sides sustained slight injuries. The mutinous felons held out for several days, and were only successfully subdued after being thoroughly drenched by a stream of water from a four-inch hose.

—By the recent earthquake in Virginia, Angell Mountain was split open for a considerable distance, and Mountain Lake, situated on this mountain, was drained of its entire contents. The wells which have been supplying the Mathieson Alkali Works with water to operate their salt plant have gone completely dry, and this institution, which employed 1,500 hands, has been compelled to shut down. Many of the springs and mountain streams have also gone dry, and others are running muddy water.

—Governor Budd, of California, has refused to interfere with the execution of the death sentence upon W. H. T. Durrant, who was convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont and accused of the murder of Minnie Williams, in Emanuel Baptist Church, San Francisco.

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