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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 47.

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DOMESTIC.

—It is reported that another arbitration treaty is being negotiated between England and the United States.
—The latest trust now in process of formation is that of the piano manufacturers of America, which will include all the large manufacturers in the country.
—The Mississippi River steamer Bluff City was burned in the river at Chester, Illinois, on November 18. The passengers and crew escaped, but the loss is placed at $100,000.
—The Chinese Equal Rights League of America has been organized in Chicago, and will begin at once the work of agitating for the granting of suffrage rights to Chinese.
—Miss Evangelina Cisneros, the young woman recently rescued from a Cuban prison, has been placed under the guardianship of Mrs. John A. Logan by decree of the court of the District of Columbia.
—An alderman of the city of Minneapolis has been sentenced to six and one-half years at hard labor in the state penitentiary for demanding a bribe of $10,000 on behalf of a combination of aldermen for the passage of a certain measure.
—In the event that Canada and Great Britain agree to a suspension of pelagic sealing for one year, it is stated that the United States agrees to suspend all killing of seals on the Pribylof Islands or within the three-mile limit for that length of time.
—The greatest mining syndicate in the world is now in process of formation. It will be composed of the most wealthy financiers of England and America, and will buy up all available mining property in the Klondike and other mining regions.
—The Humbert Alaskan exploring expedition claims to have discovered and surveyed a route into the Yukon valley through a pass which is 2,000 feet lower than either Chilkat or Chilcoot Pass, and over which it will be possible to build a railway.
—The advance party of the Nicaragua Canal Commission has departed for the scene of the commission's investigations along the route of the proposed canal. The remainder of the party will soon follow to take up the work assigned it by Congress.
—The commission which has in charge the revision of the criminal and penal laws of the United States and Territories is now at work upon a new code of laws for the government of Alaska, which will be ready within a month. All other work of this commission has been suspended in order that the new code may be forthcoming as soon as possible.
—The Naval Board appointed to inquire into the cost of making armor for war vessels, and to investigate the feasibility of the government operating its own armor plant, has designed the details of a plant which it will recommend to Congress for establishment by the government. This plant will cost over $3,000,000, and will produce 6,000 tons of armor per annum.
—Father Ducey, of St. Leo's Church, New York, in his sermon on November 1, predicted a social revolution throughout the world, a revolution of the masses against wealth and aristocracy, and stated that in the United States the Catholic Church would lead in this emancipation of the people. He claimed to have the authority of Leo XIII. for the statements which he made.
—A despatch from Larned, Kansas, states that the railroad station of Rozel entirely disappeared on the night of November 17, leaving an oblong-shaped hole, about an acre and a half in extent, with almost perpendicular walls. The hole is said to be filled to within seventy feet of the top with dark, stagnant-looking water. No casualties are reported, as no one remained at the station overnight.
—The reply of the postal authorities at Washington to the query of the German Government in regard to the efficiency of women as postmasters and assistants, shows that there are in the United States 7,670 women postmasters, and about 30,000 women to whom the oath of office has been administered as assistants in postal business. The report states that the services of women have proven almost if not equally satisfactory with those of men, and that they are not debarred by rule or regulation from entering any branch of the service.