Secular News:

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1879

—The insurrection in Algiers is at an end. —Cholera is spreading in Afghanistan. —The Khedive of Egypt has been deposed by the Sultan. —A violent storm deluged the streets of Baltimore, the 28th. —John M. Langston, Minister to Hayti, has the yellow fever. —Operations in Zululand are active, but not strikingly successful. —The Turkish forces have defeated the Macedonian insurgents. —Albert Weber, manufacturer of the Weber pianos, died in New York, June 25. —The Chapel Street Cotton Mills in London have been burned. Loss $400,000. —Two of the Nebraska man-burners have escaped jail, by overpowering the jailor. —The Afghan war is at an end, England of course, getting the territory she desired. —The long expected strike of operatives in Fall River, Mass., is not likely to occur. —Incendiary fires are of alarming frequency in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia. —Chili has ceded Patagonia to the Argentine Republic. It is of little value to either. —Some fifty saloon keepers were arrested in Boston, June 29, for violating the excise law. —Nine hundred feet of snow sheds were burned on the Central Pacific Railroad, June 24. —The loss of the Prince Imperial so affects the Empress Eugenie that her life is considered in danger. —On account of the unsettled state of things in Thessaly, etc., Turkey is busy making preparations for war. —Speculators in Chicago are "cornering" wheat in a manner unprecedented. Somebody is likely to lose a fortune. —D. O. Mills, of San Francisco, has purchased a block of 32 lots on Fifth Avenue, New York, where he will erect a residence. —An engine and three cars of an express train went through a bridge near Wytheville, Va., June 28, and fell a distance of eighty feet. —Eight inches of water fell in a rain storm at Fort Griffin, N. W. Texas, on the night of June 20. Much damage was done by the flood. —Captain Eads recommends a ship railroad across the Isthmus. He says it can be built in one-third the time, and at one-fifth the cost of the canals. —"Grant's Travels around the World," will be published by the American News Company, which has refused $250,000 for the privilege of the contract. —M. de Lesseps says the Panama Canal will be finished in eight years. But he will find many difficulties in keeping laborers on duty in that region. —Since our acquaintance with California, high crimes were never so frequent as of late. It seems as if the powers of evil were on a strife to excel in malignity. —The entire line of railroad from St. Louis to Texarkana, 700 miles, was changed from broad guage to the standard guage, in one day, June 28. 3000 men were employed. —The State law of Illinois, requiring private organizations to deliver up their arms, is being carried out in Chicago, and the fears of an outbreak in July are allayed accordingly. —The pleasure steamer May Queen, on Lake Minnetonka, in Minnesota, exploded her boilers, June 28, and sunk a complete wreck. Captain and engineer were killed, and others were injured. —Great distress is reported in the west of Ireland on account of continued rains. Crops in all parts of France are much injured by the rains. Several persons were killed in Paris in a heavy thunder storm, June 29. —Is Kentucky civilized? June 24, the residence of Samuel Faulkner, twelve miles from Frankfort, was assaulted, Mr. S. severely wounded, his house burned with two of his children, and a young man of 17. No cause assigned. —Indian troubles are expected in North Park, Colorado. The mining prospectors complain of outrages, and the Governor has notified the Agent to remove the Indians to their own reservation, which, it is thought, he will not be able to do. —The work of filling in Long Wharf, from Oakland Point to the ship landing, with rock, has commenced. Travelers throughout the whole country will be glad to learn this, as many entertain fears of the condition of the piles on which the tracks run. —From the Idaho Avalanche we learn how Indian wars are made up. Two peaceable Indians were lately shot at Stein Mountain, and the paper says, "Settlers are well armed everywhere, and will kill Indians on sight whether they are peaceably disposed or otherwise." —A terrible explosion occurred at a mill in Philadelphia, June 27. The engine house and a portion of the mill were blown in all directions, flying bricks and iron doing much damage. Several dwelling houses in the vicinity were completely wrecked. The dead body of the engineer has been taken from the ruins. The boiler, by the force of the explosion, was driven into the second story of the dwelling occupied by a family. Several persons were killed—some missing.