p. 47 | Items of News

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 26, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 4.

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Items of News.

—It is said that there are a million miles of telegraph in the world.

—A plot to assassinate the President of Hayti was recently discovered.

—The bank of England has subscribed £500 to the Irish property defense fund.

—A fire at Atlanta, Ga., the 21st inst., destroyed property to the amount of half a million dollars.

—A dwelling-house near Clinton, Mo., was burned, on the 19th, and five of the inmates perished in the flames.

—It is reported that the Sultan, acting at the instigation of the fanatical religious party, has resolved to depose the Bey of Tunis.

—The British schooner, Weather Gauge, was destroyed by a whirlwind recently in the West Indies. Eight persons were drowned.

—Ex-Judge McKenzie, who sent the famous dispatch to General Sherman, “Hold the fort, for I am coming,” died recently at Hempton, Iowa.

—The Oceanic Steamship Company have recently determined to put on a line of fast steamers between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands.

—A farmer in Lancaster, Ky., recently murdered his wife, mother, and two daughters, and then hanged himself. Of course he is said to have been insane.

—Messrs. Healy and O’Connor, the Irish envoys, are now in California in the interest of the Land League. They met with an enthusiastic reception in San Francisco.

—Nine buildings, including the Court House and post-office, were burned at Abilene, Kan., January 17. All the Court records, and the County officers’ books were destroyed.

—A sanguinary collision has occurred between French and Italian workmen employed on the Brives and Montucan Railway. Twenty persons were wounded.

—At a banquet given in Rome, recently, in honor of veteran soldiers, the Mayor declared that the people of Rome would rather see the city in ashes than again be subjected to Papal domination.

—The Supreme Court of Illinois, has declared the Probate Courts of Cook and La Salle Counties unconstitutional. This renders all the wills that have been probated, over 3,000 in number, invalid.

—Grave fears are entertained in Greece for the future of Chios. The island is said to be continually sinking, and there are reasons to believe that in time its entire surface may disappear from human sight.

—A conspiracy in Nepaul, India, against the British residents was discovered just in time to prevent its being carried into effect. Eighty notables were arrested, and twenty-one military officers summarily executed.

—On the 19th, a freight train on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad ran into the caboose of another train, killing one man and fatally injuring two others. Carelessness on the part of the engineer is said to have been the cause.

—One of the guests at a recent German wedding in Chicago, where raw ham was among the refreshments served, died soon after, in terrible agony. Forty thousand trichinæ were found in a single inch of muscle taken from the body.

—Serious complications have arisen in Egypt between the Chambers and the European Controllers, generally over financial measures. Cherif Pasha, the Prime Minister is supported by the army, and another demonstration is probable. The situation is critical.

—The People’s Bank at Tecumseh, Mich., has failed it is thought on account of speculation. The list of depositors is very large, and consists mostly of clerks, farmers, small merchants, and women, who had small sums and are least able to bear the loss.

—Much damage has been done by freshets in the South. About thirty miles of the Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans Railroad are under water. Advices from Mobile, January 19, state that all the lower landings along the Tombigbee River are inundated. Fifty-six feet of water are reported at Tuscaloosa, and the river is still rising.

—As the result of excessive speculation in Europe, a panic now exists. In Paris the crisis is serious. Many firms have declared themselves insolvent. It is said that many Roman noblemen and the Vatican suffer severely from the fall of the Union General Bank stock. A considerable sum of Peter’s pence is invested in the shares of that bank.

—A formidable insurrection has broken out against Austrian rule in Herzegovina. The focus of the insurrection lies in the district which was the scene of the first uprising against the Turks in 1875. The insurgents are quite general, and is well planned and organized. The insurgents are destroying telegraph lines and shooting the officials and workmen who attempt to repair them. Warlike preparations are actively going on in Vienna. Several engagements are already reported.

—The Spuyten Duyvel railroad disaster was followed by several others. A night train on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, was run into by a freight train while crossing the Mississippi River. Nobody was killed, but $400,000 damage was done to trains and bridge. Near Lansing, Iowa, January 17. two cars were thrown from the track, by the breaking of a wheel, and twenty-three persons were injured, some of whom died. The same day a collision occurred near Chicago, doing considerable damage.

—The New York Central Railroad Company have been censured for the accident at Spuyten Duyvel, by which so many lives were lost. Governor Cornell has sent a message to the Legislature recommending prompt and vigorous legislation to prevent the recurrence of such calamities. He refers to the above-mentioned accident as one easily prevented and absolutely inexcusable. If this is the case, a mere censure seems very much like a farce. No wonder accidents are so common when a censure is thought sufficient punishment for a wholesale destruction of life.

—The Central Pacific Railroad depot, at Oakland, received its first trains on Sunday, the 22d. It is built on a mole of rock which extends 6,650 feet into the bay. Besides the numerous railroad tracks leading to the depot, upon this embankment, there is a wagon road sufficiently wide to allow two to drive abreast. The depot is 240 feet wide and 1,050 feet long, and is arranged with special reference to the convenience of the immense number of passengers between San Francisco and the neighboring cities. One hundred and sixteen trains will pass in and out every day. The total cost is about a million dollars.

—On the 16th inst., two men waylaid and killed a clerk in Seattle, W. T. A Vigilance Committee assisted the officers to capture the murderers. They were lodged in jail, brought before a justice, and charged with the crime which they admitted, and were hung, all within twenty-four hours. In their verdict, the Coroner’s jury expressed themselves “satisfied that substantial and speedy justice had been subserved.” The following notice appears in the papers: WARNING!—All persons committing highway robbery or any capital crime, are warned that the punishment for such offense is death. (Signed) CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE.