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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 43.

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DOMESTIC.

—The Fowler Bicycle Company, of Chicago, failed on October 22 for $225,000.
—The International Fur Seal Convention opened at Washington on October 23, with Russia, Japan, and the United States represented.
—The general offices of the Wabash Railroad of St. Louis, Mo., were burned on October 27, entailing a loss which the company places at $500,000.
—Officials of the Navy Department estimate that the United States has already expended about $2,000,000 in assisting Spain to keep filibusters out of Cuba.
—Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the well-known Arctic explorer, arrived in New York on October 23. He will give a course of sixty lectures before returning to Europe.
—The famous trial of Adolph L. Leutgert, the Chicago sausage manufacturer, closed on October 21, with a disagreement of the jury, and Leutgert was remanded to jail.
—Fire destroyed the Hotel Brooklyn at Kelletville, Pennsylvania, on October 23, three of the inmates being burned to death in the conflagration, and seven being seriously injured.
—The steam schooner Caspar, of San Francisco, Captain Anfindsen, struck on a reef near Point Arena, California, at midnight on October 23, and became a total wreck. Eleven of her crew of fifteen men are known to have perished.
—General Miles, of the United States army, who has recently returned from a tour of Europe, reports to the War Department the necessity of large expenditures for the coast defenses of the country, and a considerable increase in the size of the army.
—Severe storms of rain, snow, and sleet have seriously interfered with traffic during the week in the States of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. Snow plows have been called into service to clear the tracks. Much damage has been done to telegraph and telephone lines, especially in Denver.
—The situation in the fever-stricken districts of the south shows no signs of improvement. The largest number of deaths recorded during the week ending October 27 was on that day, the number being 14. The record for the week shows 59 deaths and 347 new cases. A number of cases in a mild form have been reported from towns farther north than the previously affected area.
—A battle occurred recently between the force of a Colorado game warden and a band of Ute Indians who were killing deer in Colorado contrary to the law of the State. A number of men are said to have been killed on both sides, but details are lacking. Troops have been ordered to the scene of the difficulty to protect the settlers and drive the Indians back to their reservation.
—A petition now before the district court of Neosho County, Kansas, and subscribed to by citizens of several counties, prays for relief from the power of trusts. The petition states that the dry goods merchants have formed a pool, that grocers have joined in a combination, and the coal dealers in a combine, to prevent competition, and force the people to pay a uniform price for the necessaries of life.
—The proposed postponement of the sale of the Union Pacific Railroad has been abandoned, and the sale will be made on the date previously announced, the reorganization syndicate having added $8,000,000 to its former guaranteed bid. This bid does not include the Kansas Pacific branch nor guarantee a buyer for it, and it is claimed that the chances for a purchaser of the branch line will be meager indeed, in view of its dependence upon the main line. In view of this fact, the chances are yet good for a government loss of several million dollars.
—Dr. J. O. Hirshfelder, of San Francisco, Cal., has discovered a cure for consumption. It is based upon the discovery of Dr. Koch, but other elements are added to the tuberculine. The curative lymph is named oxytuberculine. The faculty of Cooper Medical College, to which Dr. Hirshfelder belongs, have examined a number of patients who have been cured by the newly discovered remedy, many having been in the advanced stages of consumption.
—The New York and Buffalo Express on the New York Central was thrown down an embankment near Harrison, on October 24, and plunged into the Hudson River, killing twenty persons and injuring a large number. The president of the road states that dynamite had been placed in the road bed, and was exploded as the engine passed over it, the design being to wreck the train and secure a large amount of gold which was being carried in the express car.