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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

DOMESTIC.

—Mining property valued at over $60,000 was destroyed by fire at Keswick, Cal., on September 13.

—At a meeting of the Christian Alliance at Old Orchard, Maine, a contribution of $70,000 was made for foreign missionary work.

—A train wreck occurred on the Iron Mountain road at Nansen, Indian Territory, on September 12, and seven men who were stealing a ride were instantly killed.

—Seymour Brothers, of New York, stock and grain brokers, with offices in various parts of the country, failed on September 15, with liabilities of nearly $1,000,000.

—The strike among the Pennsylvania miners is rapidly spreading. It is reported that fully 10,000 men are idle in that State, and it is expected that every colliery in that region will be closed in a few days.

—Five robbers who were arrested at Versailles, Indiana, on September 14, were taken from the jail by a mob and lynched. They had terrorized the community for years, subjecting their victims to all manner of cruelties.

—At Sabine Pass and Port Arthur, Texas, considerable loss of life and destruction of property were occasioned by a cyclone on September 14. Authentic reports place the death list at sixteen, while a large number were injured.

—The Methodist Protestant makes the statement that the trustees of a Methodist Church in Alabama have introduced a tax of $10 per annum upon every member of the congregation who chews tobacco. It is said to "work well."

—Another carrier pigeon purporting to come from Herr Andree at the North Pole, was captured near Logansport, Indiana, on September 13. The bird was marked "No. 21. A.," and the message which it carried read, "August 29, pole. Andree."

—The president has been asked to provide means for alleviating the distress which is bound to be felt in Alaskan mining camps during the coming winter, and the matter has already been brought before the cabinet, tho no definite action has yet been taken.

—E. B. Andrews, president of Brown University, has withdrawn his resignation, and will again take up the duties of that position. He will not conduct the Cosmopolitan University, the presidency of which had been offered him by the editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine.

—The national troops have been ordered to the Zuni Indian reservation to arrest certain members of that tribe for cruelties inflicted upon "witches." The Zuni Indians have a strong force of braves, and it is feared that there will be trouble when the attempt is made to arrest them.

—The steam whaling vessel Navarch, of San Francisco, has been lost in the Arctic Ocean. Of her crew of fifty men only six were saved, who, with the captain and his wife, left the vessel and were picked up by the revenue cutter Bear. It is believed that the others have gone down with the vessel.

—Ten persons were killed by a head-on collision on the Santa Fe Railroad near Emporia, Kansas, on September 8, between an east-bound mail train and a west-bound express. William J. Bryan was a passenger on one of the trains, but escaped injury, and rendered valuable assistance to the less fortunate passengers.

—A serious head-on collision occurred near New Castle, Colorado, on September 10, between a passenger and freight train. It has been impossible to arrive at a definite knowledge of the number killed, as the wreck caught fire, and many of the bodies were cremated. The number who lost their lives is placed by some as high as twenty-five.

—Yellow fever is spreading among a number of towns on the gulf coast, and there is said to be a considerable exodus of people from these towns, and from some of the larger cities of the south. The government expert on yellow fever predicts a further spread of the plague, basing his prediction upon the fact that there is in the infected region abundance of material for the fever to feed upon.

—Twenty miners were killed and forty or more wounded at Latimer, Pennsylvania, on September 10, by bullets from the rifles of deputy sheriffs who were opposing the marching of the miners. The feeling in the vicinity of the terrible tragedy is strongly against the sheriff and his deputies, and by many the shooting is denounced as a cold-blooded massacre. The governor, fearing vengeance on the part of the miners, has ordered out the State troops who are now in command of the district.

—At a meeting of the Social Democracy, held in Chicago on September 12, among other expressed sentiments of a revolutionary nature, it was declared that "the time has passed for a passive resistance, and it is time for a great revolution in this country. The plutocracy of the country has the federal militia behind it, the State militia behind it, and the judges and deputy sheriffs behind it." It was reported that at this meeting were voiced the most revolutionary sentiments ever uttered since the days of Spies and Parsons.

—The San Francisco Examiner sent, July 23, an expedition to the Klondyke by the Chilcoot Pass, consisting of Joaquin Miller, E. J. Livernash, and William Kreling. They reached there August 15, 12 days by boat from the head-waters of the Yukon, 14 days from the coast, 15 from Juneau, 16 from Seattle, and 23 from San Francisco. Livernash made the trip a day ahead of this. They report much sickness, and probable suffering, but no starvation. The mail was sent out by the "Jack Dalton Trail" from Fort Selkirk, one day by steamer, and 16 days by horse, to tide water in Alaska.