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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 16, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 23.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-Carl Schurz is now editor of the New York Evening Post.

-It is estimated that there are now 10,000 Americans in Rome.

-Boston people have raised $1,400 for the widow of John Brown.

-Petroleum wells have been discovered in Hungary and Bohemia.

-Iron ships are to be built at Cleveland for service on the lakes.

-The French troops in Tunis are suffering terribly from typhoid fever.

-Foreign merchants are now allowed to settle in the ports of Eastern Siberia.

-There are about 40,000 Spanish Jews in Constantinople, and 5,000 of other origin.

-A severe drought in Trinidad, West Indies, has damaged the sugar crop immensely.

-An elevator, with 50,000 bushels of wheat, was burned at Farebault, Minn., the 11th.

-The population of Liverpool, according to the census returns, is 648,988, being an increase since 1871 of 92,083.

-The number of grain sacks used in California during the year 1880, was 34,111,500; the number used in 1870, was 8,200,000.

-The Erie County Savings Bank at Buffalo, N. Y., has been robbed of bonds amounting to $100,000, which were deposited in it.

-It is estimated that the Jews of Southern Russia lost $65,000,000 by the destruction of their property during the late riots.

-It has come to light that bribery is employed in the Senatorial contest at Albany, N. Y. One Assemblyman was offered $2,500 for his vote.

-The receipts of customs at the port of New York in the month of May amounted to $11,600,398, against $10,139,786 for the same month last year.

-According to President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the annual receipts for newspaper paper telegraphing amount to $1,000,000.

-Brazil is experiencing a financial panic, which has been brought about mainly by an attempt made by the merchants and dealers to curtail the credit system.

-The Pope has instructed the sacred college to take action at once against Archbishop Croke and those priests who have identified themselves with agrarianism.

-A telegraph operator at Cedar Rapids, Ind., whose carelessness caused the collision on the C. & N. W. railroad, has been charged with murder by the coroner's jury.

-The village of Ludington, Michigan, was visited with a most destructive conflagration the 11th inst., which nearly wiped out the business portion of the town.

-An attempt was made, June 9, to blow up the Liverpool town hall. Two Irishmen, known to be Fenians, were arrested. They had a quantity of dynamite in their possession.

-King John of Abyssinia, wants to enter into direct diplomatic and commercial relations with the Christian States, and demands from the Egyptian Government the cession of a port in the Mediterranean.

-A collision occurred June 7, on the Peoria division of the Wabash railroad, near La Harpe, Ill., between two freight trains while running at full speed. Both engines and a number of cars were demolished. The loss will reach $50,000.

-A Geneva dispatch says it is intended, if possible, to run trains on the railway through the St. Gothard tunnel by electricity, which is to be produced by the machines now employed in pumping air into the workings and for other purposes.

-Wednesday night, June 8, a fire broke out in Quebec, and, owing to the inefficiency of the fire department, upwards of 600 houses, including a few of the finest buildings in the city, were destroyed. Several hundred families are homeless.

-The great flood of the Mississippi valley has left something besides fertile deposits behind. Malarial diseases have set in, attacking both man and beast. Many cattle have died, and there is much sickness at Council Bluffs and other points.

-The Court-martial has sentenced three others of the ring-leaders of the anti-Jewish riot at Kieff to twenty, ten, and six years penal servitude, respectively, and two to be exiled to Siberia, Three have been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.

-During a rain storm, June 8, a family living on Glenn's Run, near Wheeling, W. Va., were swept away in the night, the mother and five children being drowned, and the father carried on a log to one of the Sister Islands, where he was found in an insensible condition.

-A letter from Russia, June 7, states that about thirty army officers, including the Colonel of the Imperial Guard, were arrested during the month of May. Among the naval officers arrested, is a relative of Procurer-General Mouravieff, who conducted the prosecution of Rousakoff, and other Nihilists executed for complicity in the murder of the Czar.

-According to the latest dispatches from Constantinople, the plague has broken out with renewed violence at Neojeff, in Mesopotamia. The physician of the Sanitary Commission reports that during the week ending May 2, fifty-six persons died daily out of a population of about 6,000.

-A steam-tug, drawing 10,000 tons of grain, equal to 33,000 bushels of wheat, equal to 1000 car-loads, has just made the trip from St Louis to New Orleans in five and a half days. The freight and insurance were less than one-third as great as they would have been by rail to the Atlantic sea-board.

-Considerable change is being made in the Faculty of the State University. President Le Conte has resigned his office, and the chairs of Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry, were declared vacant, by the regents. It was voted to discontinue the offices of Instruction in Spanish and Hebrew.

-A dispatch from Scio, June 11, says: "A renewed shock of earthquake occurred on this island to-day, and overthrew a minaret and several partly-ruined houses. Two men were injured." A shock of earthquake also occurred, on the 9th, in the valley of the upper Rhone, and extended to Geneva, Switzerland.

-The German Consul at New York is alleged to have written to a Prussian newspaper a letter, in which he represented the business of this country to be in a deplorable condition. Germany is much exercised over the immense emigration of her people to this country; and this is, doubtless, one of the means taken to check it.

-A break was discovered in section ten of the Erie Canal, two miles west of Albany, N. Y., on the morning of the 11th inst., caused by a defective culvert. Forty feet of the canal were soon torn away, and the water flooded all the adjacent section of the country, carrying away fences, bridges, and working destruction in general. The damage is estimated at $30,000.

-Thursday, June 9, Kansas was visited by a terrible storm of wind and hail. The town of Americus, near Emporia, was almost totally destroyed. Two churches were torn to pieces, and nearly every house was damaged. In Emporia many houses, including the State Normal School building, were seriously injured. Great damage was done to crops in the surrounding country.

-A Mr. Walruff, of Lawrence, will make a test case before the United States Supreme Court, as to the power of Kansas to make his valuable brewer's property worthless to him by a law preventing him from manufacturing what it formerly encouraged and sanctioned. The Brewers' Association of Chicago has promised him aid to the amount of $75,000, if so much is necessary.

-There are now eight thousand miles of underground telegraph wire in use in Germany. They have cost nothing for repairs, although in use for five years. The method of employing them consists in inclosing seven or more separately insulated conductors with a coil of moist hemp surrounded by a complete sheath of iron wire, which again is covered by a layer of hemp yarn impregnated with a protecting compound.

-A terrific hail and wind-storm passed over the city of Deadwood, D. T., June 6, doing great damage. Hail-stones the size of a hen's egg fell for over two hours. Hundreds of trees on the hillside were uprooted, and were hurled, in some instances, a distance of over five hundred feet. The telegraph poles were torn up for a distance of nearly a mile. One person was killed, and several severely injured. The whirlwind separated before it reached the thickly settled part of town, otherwise the destruction would have been terrible.

-The Executive Committee of the Nihilists have informed the Czar that his doom is certain. A plot to kill the Czar was recently discovered, and all the conspirators were arrested. The Czar's palace at Gatchina is a perfect arsenal. Cordons of trusty Cossacks surround the whole district, and the palace itself is guarded night and day by the police and picked officers of the line. All visitors, except the high officers of State, are searched, and at night there is a password and countersign, not only for the precincts of the palace, but for all the roads approaching it. There is an old tradition that in 1881 the dynasty will be overthrown, and the Czar, being superstitious, is much disturbed in consequence.