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DEAD DY EARTH City of Messina Levelled ti In the Sea, 44G3 Squar Italv hv thp fippafpst l\ 1IU1J UJ tltu VII UUIUUI L Half the Population of Messina Bur! Along the Straits Engulfed by of Earth's Crust Changes the I Courses of Rivers Being Chant Rome, Italy.?One hundred t Reggio and a score of other ti the entire Calabrian region laid wi far as is at present known from th< Rome bn account of the almost cc cation with the stricken places. T"?? death list in Messina rang gio, which, with "its adjacent villa f almost the entire population. At I sana, 1000; at Cosenza, 500, a about 4000. The Monteleone reg Seminara, San Giovanni, Scilla, Laz munes and villages bordering on t - London.?The measure of th( greatest tragedy which has ever be fallen the Christian world cannot yei be calculated. It is known in genera terms that out of a population ol 1,750,000 in the devastated area ol Southern Italy and Sicily at leasl 100,000 perished. The appalling news that the citj of Reggio di Calabria has been total ly engulfed by the sea may make il necessary to largely increase that estimate. Besides, the figure given takes nc account of dozens of towns near the centre of the disturbance whence nc word has come and where there Is only too good reason to fear there are no survivors to describe their fate, Tne destruction or property caunoi be so great as at San Francisco, foi Messina and Reggio, the two principal cities destroyed, were not rich or magnificent from a metropolitan point of view. As a great cataclysm of nature, ?however, this disaster is on a far vaster scale than the California phenomena. The whole face of the country and the coast line have been altered. Even Scylla and Charybdis have changed the positions they occupied since the legendary voyage of Aeneas. The three provinces where the greatest damage was done are Mes. ? sina and Catania in Sicily and Reggio di Calabria on the mainland. They comprise about 4400 square miles. Several hundred persons perished and much damage was done outside these provinces, but with them the devastation was so complete that scarcely a uuiuau iiauuauuu i cmamo, It will be days yet before the story of their destruction can be known. All accounts now agree that the time occupied by nature's gigantic spasm was but thirty-two seconds. It was some minutes later that a great wave came from the sea to complete the havoc in the ill fated coast towns. The violence of the shock seems to have been unprecedented, except in volcanic eruptions of limited area. The buildings in Messina were not merely shaken down. Their foundations were literally wrenched from hp-npnth thpm Tr> nne> side or the other they were toppled from the perpendicular and fell in ruins alongside their original sites. This was the experience of Messina. That of Reggio, on the opposite side of the strait, must have been even more violent, for scarcely one stone remains on another of what was a flourishing city only two days ago. No one has yet been found to recount the fate of this town and its inhabitants. Messina probably will not rise again from her ruins and ashes. This last overwhelming calamity will alter the future history of Sicily and Southern Italy. It may be regarded as certain that a considerable portion of the population of this fair land will bow before the wrath of the gods and seek homes elsewhere. Next to Italy itself America will feel the effect of this calamity more than any other country, for a large proportion of the stricken population will seek refuge there as soon as the means of flight can be secured. Although there was no eruption of Mount Etna at the time of the earthquake, it became active immediately thereafter and continues to threaten an eruption. C. F. KING GUILTY. Boston Jury Convicts Promoter on 27 Counts in $23,000 Larceny Case. Boston, Mass.?Guilty on twentyseven counts was the verdict returned by a jury in the Suffolk County Superior Court at midnight against Cardenio F. King, formerly well known as a financial agent and promoter in this city and New York. King naa Deen oil iriai ior two weeks for the alleged larceny of $25,000 from patrons. The World of Sport. Gerard Meister, a French swimmer, won from an Italian opponent and four others in a race in the Seine. G. Greiff won the holiday cup and R. M. Owen the monthly trophy at the New York Athletic Club shoot. George Standing defeated Peter Latham, of England, at racquets at the New York Racquet and Tennis Club. At Los Angeles, Cal., James J. Jeffries issued a statement declaring positively and emphatically that under no condition would he re-enter the prize ring^ QUAKE AND TIDAL \ NOW ESTIMATED A ) the Ground, Reggio Engulfed ~ e Miles Made Desolate in Mc lisaster in Modern Times. lar poi of ed in Its Ruins?All Towns and Villages ?rr Gigantic Tidal Wave-Titanic Upheaval iss :ace of Sicily, Hills Disappearing and the tsot? led?Entire Island of Sicily is Desolate. housand dead; Messina, in Sicily, and del zei owns in Southern Italy overwhelmed; am iste; this is the earthquake's record as ^r< tQ j reports which are coming slowly into gai jmplete destruction of lines of communi- ^h Vil; for ;es from 12,000 to 50,000; that of Reg- w? 01 ges, contained 45,000 persons, includes cei >almi 1000 are reported dead; at Cas- J gre nd half of the population of Bagnara, pre ;ion has been devastated, and Riposto, 9J" the zaro and Cannitello, and all ether com- J he strait, are in ruins. ?ue Frt aid MOUNTAIN OF WAT SHIPS I Tnrnp^A Rnaf Pnttimon Wrought by Tidal W Rome.?Lieutenant Saccarese,com- hac mander of the torpedo boat Sappho, Gai r which arrived at Porto Santa Venere, we: thus describes the seaquake at Mes- poi I sina: ma "We were anchored off Messina aro when, at 5.20 yesterday morning, ? there was a fearful upheaving move- sms ) ment which, coming from the bottom afti i of the sea, struck violently all the wa1 ships anchored in the harbor. "Then the sea suddenly arose into ! a mountain of water which, running , ) down the strait, struck with a thunderous crash on the piers and jetty. P?? Ships Sank at Anchor. ' "The bridge giving communcation pris . between the breakwater and the shore plu . was swept away. Many ships at an- Sic! chor in the harbor were totally put 1 wrecked; the Austrian steamer An- dor drassy was torn from her moorings " and ran amuck, greatly damaging ing 1 other steamers. abl "In a few moments all the harbor and works were destroyed, me sea De- lug came less agitated, and itB surface ap- was peared to be absolutely covered with moi barrels, casks and pieces of broken eru boats. Then a black cloud came over mir and hid the town. " "Only when dawn broke was It pos- hav selble to get an idea of what had hap- der pened on land?a disaster whose hor- nak ror and tragic magnitude no one can " describe. The whole town was re- doll duced to ruins, among which stood suff the sinister skeletons of the Town " Hall and of the Hotel Trlnacrla. All rail the splendi^ palaces and villas which ceei "IWf liKWAL,}" SAKS WUJJ1 TELLING OF EAR1 Catania, Sicily. ? The following ty. graphic story is told by a woman who was arrived here from Messina. She was by herself badly injured. She describes of t the horrors that accompanied the dis- " aster at Messina in these words: tied " 'Infernal' is the only word that clad will adequately describe the fearful seei and.terrifying scene," she said. in v "When the first shock came most " of the city was fast asleep. I was into awakened by the rocking of the this house. Windows swayed and rattled, The and crockery and glass crashed to the \^a\ floor. The next moment, I was vio- roai lently thrown out of my bed to the " floor. I was half stunned, but knew flee! that the only thing to do was to make buil my way outdoors. The streets were eno filled. the "Everybody had rushed out In their low night-clothes, heedless of the rain the falling in torrents. Terrified shrieks the arose from all sides, and we heard " heartrending appeals for help from pal the unfortunates pinned beneath the foui ruins. peo| "Walls were tottering all around whs us, and not one of my party expected of f to escape alive. My brothers and sis- groi ters were with me and, in a frenzy of the terror, we groped out way through squ the streets, holding our own against scoi the panic stricken people, clambering nea over piles of ruins, until we finally scio reached a place of comparative safe-1 SCIENTISTS SAY DISASTE BY SINKING OF T] Baltimore, Md.?Dr. Harry Field-1 at i ing Reid, professor ot geological tnai physics in the Johns Hopkins Uni- be i versity, and one of the leading au- am thorities in the United States on seis- was mic disturbances, attributes the dow earthquake in Southern Italy to a stra general dropping down or sinking of L the earth in that locality. Speaking the of the shock and the reports concern- Isle ing it, he said: sho' "Southern Italy seems to be what beei may be termed earthquake territory, mar Seismic shocks occur there frequently full RUEF GETS FOURTEEN YEARS. T navi Former Boss of San Francisco Sen- stea tenced For Bribing a Supervisor. San Francisco, Cal.?Fourteen years of t in the penitentiary, the maximum sen- latti A ? J-J < M lence pruviuea iur unucij ui a oupervisor, was the penalty meted out to Abraham Ruef, who tor years di- t rected the political destinies of San Francisco as adviseT of the adminis- in(jj tration of Eugene E. Schmitz, former- twe< ly Mayor. of ? Fall River Mills Prosperous. The review of the dividends of cot- . ton manufacturing corporations of ? . Fall River, Mass., for the year, shows ,, an average dividend of 6.99 plus for . . the year. The total payments were , $1,741,135 on a capital stock of $27,125,000. in<^ Prohibition W'nve Swamps a Firm. Giving as a reason that their busi- drei ness, though solvent, was being run a at a loss on account of the prohibition piac wave, a receiver was appointed for Que Eckhouse Brothers, wholesale liquor exe< dealers, at Cincinnati, Ohio. and J , ?? . a - .... fAVE I OVER 100,000 RELIEF WORK IN AMERICA. ivement to Express Sympathy in Financial Terms is General. Wnshinftrin D f!?Vrnm all thfi ge cities of the country come rerts of prompt action for the relief the survivors of the devastation ought by the earthquake in Southi Italy. Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, ued an appeal to the people of that ite for money to be sent by cable the Italian Government, and Bosi citizens began a response immeitely. Mayor Reyburn, of Pbila;phia, called a meeting of the Citiis' Permanent Relief Committee, i, upon receipt of a message from ssident-elect Taft, national head of s Red Cross, that organization .be1 to raise funds. In New York, icago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisle and other large centres plans the relief of the Italian sufferers re under way soon after the news the extent of the disaster was reved. [talians all over the country were :atly stirred by the tidings, a large iportion of them having relatives friends in the stricken portion of ir native land. San Francisco.?Mayor Taylor isid a proclamation calling on San inciscans and all Californians for for the sufferers. ER HIT N THE HARBOR I apliically Tells of Havoc ave at Messina. I risen on the sea front and Corso ribald! had disappeared; the streets ' re full of debris, and at various nts the town was reduced to a ss of horrible ruins, from which se flames and smoke. 'Petty Officer Dennini landed in a elII boat manned by eight sailors, ar a long struggle with the angry res, and entered the town. Moans Greet Sailors' Ears. 'Cries, moans and desperate ap.ls for help arose from the ruins h disheartening insistence. 'Meanwhile convicts and other joners escaped from jail began to nder the ruins of the Bank of lly, the Military College and other >lic buildings; nothing could be ie against them at first. 'Dennini and his few men, workfrom 8 o'clock until noon, were e to dig out 150 injured people [ keep life in many others by givthem liquor; unhappily their force i inadequate to the needs of the raent.' Officers and men of the iser Piemonte also accomplished acles of valor and self-abnegation. At least half the population must e perished. The survivors wanabout the ruins stupefied and half :ed, imploring aid. Italy needs several millions of lars even to partially relieve the ering and want. Mourning women and men fill the road stations here, trying to proi to the devastated region." AN SURVIVOR, HQIAKE HORRORS But this was not done before I i struck down and badly injured a piece of furniture that fell out he upper story of a house. All along the road we were josI by scores of fleeing people, half I, like ourselves. The houses ned to be crashing to the ground whatever direction we turned. Suddenly the sea began to pour i the town. It seemed to me that must mean the end of everything. oncoming waters rouea in a nuge re, accompanied by a terrifying r. The sky was aglow with the retion of burning palaces and other Idings, and as if this was not ugh there suddenly shot up into sky a huge burst of flame, foled by a crash thatseemed to shake whole town. This probably was gas works blowing up. Eventually we reached the princlsquare of Messina. Here we ad 2000 or 3000 utterly terrified pie assembled. None of us knew it to do. We waited in an agony ear. Men and women prayed and med and shrieked. I saw one of big buildings fronting on the . are collapse. It seems to me that es of persons were buried beth the ruins. Then I lost conusness and I remember no more." R WAS CAUSED HE EARTH'S CRUST rregular intervals. The whole of t section of the cquntry seems to sinking in pieces, dnd personally I inclined to think that the shock due to this general dropping n of that portion of the earth's ta." iondon, England. ? John Milne, well known seismologist of the of Wight, said that his records wed the Italian earthquake to have a the most severe in Europe in ly years. He fears that when the effects are known the loss of life Navy Bureaus Consolidated. i >10 nrnpHral cnnsoltdation of the al bureaus of construction and of .m engineering was effected at jhington, D. C., the President apiting Rear-Admiral Capps, head he former bureau, as head of the 2r bureau, also. Mexico Pacifies Yaquis. he long warfare between the :ican authorities and the Yaqui ans has ended by a treaty bean three chiefs and the Governor Sonora. Feminine Notes, [me. Vincens ? better known by pen name of "Arvide Barine"? [ recently in Paris. [rs. Jane Bancroft Robinson has been elected president of the nan's Home Missionary Society of Methodist Church. [rs. Mary Anderson de Navarro, former American actress, accomied by her husband and two chill, came from England on a visit. . mortgage deed for $70,000 was :ed on rccord in Hawaii by former en Liliuokalani, the deed being :uted in favor of Claus Spreckles _W. G. Irwin, will prove to be even more appalling than the present reports Indicate. The shocks were as severe as those which devastated San Francisco and Valparaiso. Vienna, Austria. ? Professor Edward Suess, the celebrated geologist, says he believes the earthquake in Calabria and Sicily was not due to volcanic eruptions, but to the subsidence of the earth's crust, and that it is likely to be followed by volcanic movements. Should this settling down of the earth's crust continue, says Professor Suess, the granite hills of Scylla and a great portion of the Peloritan Mountains will be submerged by the sea. THE CALABRIA N CALAMITY. City of Reggio Disappears Under the Sea and is One Vast Sepulchre. Naples.?Latest information received here says Reggio, in Calabria, is a vast sepulchre, having been utterly destroyed. No part of the province escaped the awful calamity. The ominous absence of details concerning Reggio proves xo oe aue 10 the fact that not only the city itself but its whole population, with the exception of a mere handful, has disappeared. The warships which were ordered to relieve the survivors were unable to approach the coast owing to the changed configuration of the Strait of Messina. Ultimately a .torpedo boat ran close to the shore, but was unable to discover a trace of the city. . Where an aggregation of buildings and busy streets stood two days ago there was nothing but rocks and earth. The city had vanished as completely as Aladdin's palace under the magician's spell. Only five of the city's 17,000 inhabitants have yet been accounted. for. These unhappy wretches reached Cattanzaro and Palmi half demented by fright. They were scarcely able to talk intelligibly, but their incoherent stories are sufficient to confirm the horrible fate of the city. In view of this latest development of the catastrophe the death roll may well reach 125,000. One estimate is 200,000 dead. The Ministry of Marine has received wireless reports of the obstruction of the Strait of Messina, showing tnat its sare navigation wm be impossible until it is recharted, while its future navigation is likely to be extremely difficult. The news has caused a deep Impression here, for its consequences, from commercial and military points of view, will be incalculable. The strait was of great strategic Importance and the Government has spent immense sums in fortifying it. It is now anticipated that such fortifications as may be undamaged will be useless. Moreover, the strait formed the shortest route from Marseilles, Genoa and Naples to Egypt and India, and if it be found impracticable voyages to and from those countries will be lengthened by many hours. Even Scylla and Charybdis, the great whirlpools In the Strait of Messina, which have resisted the forces of nature for centuries, were moved by the tidal wave, thus rendering navigation dangerous and preventing aid^from reaching the stricken cities by sea. The whole channel of the Strait of ,Messlna is altered. | THE WORK OP RESCUE. Rome.?The first stories of the res cue work at Messina reveal to the full the horrors which accompany such catastrophes. In addition to thousands of corpses, often hideously mangled, hundreds of Injured are lying beneath the wreckage. Many of these are women and children in their night clothes. Shrieks and cries of pain are heard on all sides. Now and again some unhappy wretch, mad from terror or grief, is seen sitting in the mud the sea deposited in the streets, or clinging with useless energy to some support, fearing the sea will return and wash him away. Instances are recorded of such demented persons deliberately plunging into the burning ruins and perishing in the flames. In one place five children were found around their mother's corpse, themselves only justalive. The torrents of rain have helped to check the fires, but make it difficult for the rescuers to accomplish anything. They are also aiding the decomposition of the bodies. Crowds of destitute, too much Hurt i or too dazed to help themselves, huddle in the higher parts of the town. Many have fled into the country seeking refuge in caves and crevices in the mountains. Reports from numerous places in Calabria and Sicily bring tales of disaster, any one of which -would alone cause a sensation. At Riposto the sea suddenly receded, and as suddenly returned in a wave of enormous height, overwhelming everything for a distance of a quarter of a mile inland, and in its ebb sweeping hundreds of inhabitants into the sea. It it stated that the dead are lying in thousands at Monteleone and throughout that neighborhood. All kinds of reports of robbery in Messina have reached here. The prison was demolished and many of the prisoners were killed, but others made their escape and started to join the vandals who were looting the city. , Thooo rnlihora undeterred bv the appalling sights around them, robbed the collapsed buildings and took valuables from the bodies of the dead. The fear of the pestilence that usually follows such disasters confronts those in charge of the situation. Snvings Banks' Dividends. New York City's savings banks will pay to depositors a semi-annual interest estimated at more than ?20,000,000. Embezzler Lowe Caught. Detective Flood brought back to New York City from California Theodore C. Lowe, accused of robbing the United States Express Company of $2500, whom the detective found with the wife of an Amsterdam avenue butcher. Beekman Winthrop Selected. That Beekman Winthrop has been j seieciuu as rust nssidiaui gcticwu j of State, upon the suggestion of Judge Taft, was announced by Senator Knox In Washington, D. C. Notes From Across Sens. The Dutch cruiser Gelderland arrived at Willemstad, having been recalled from Venezuelan waters. A Royalist adherent attempted to pull the beard of President Fallieres in Paris and was arrested. A picked bodyguard is being formed to protect Prince Chun, the Regent of China, against assassination. M. Iswolsky, speaking before the Russian Duma, said that the only way to curb the aribitrary Austrian action was through a conference of the Powers., i "EXPL ( i ?Cartoo EARTHQVAI | Many Thousands Killed ; ? ; 1 Losses of life in previous big Island of Yeddo, Japan, 1705 T , Lisbon, November 1, 1755; 5 Z 000,000.^ > Island of Krakatoa, August . x Charleston, S. C., August 31 I $5,000,000. ; Japan, June 15, 1896; 30,00' X St. Pierre, Martinique, May 8 + Calabria, September 8, 1905 wiped out. X Mount Vesuvius, April 5, 19 I ished. San Francisco, April 18, 190 X killed; damage, $500,000,000. Valparaiso, Chile, August 17 towns destroyed. 1 Kingston, Jamaica, January Calabria, October, 1907; 60( Karatagh, Russian Turkestai X there and in adjoining villages. [ HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION KLUIUiy IIS HALT EARTHQUA Messina, the Ruined City, is 2 Many Masters an Studied with maps and accounts of the more recent of the great earth- 1 quake disasters of Italy, it is seen that in the latest catastrophe the dis! turbance reached the surface on the ' northern border, close to Swiss terrij tory. Bomodossolo is among the [ Alps, and the mountain range seems 1 j to have been the route of the earth- 1 I quake. It passed to the southward, ? following the Apennines. There is a i . twenty minutes difference between < the time of the shocks reported in < upper and lower Italy. 1 In Calabria, which has been laid waste again and again by such dis- i turbances, this earthquake first 2 touched the surfacfe with its full < effect. Lofty signal posts of disaster i I marked its way, for it struck with 1 J full force at the extinct volcano of < San Giovanni, spread its devastation across the Strait of Messina to Sicily, s and rolled up another score of death i and ruin all about the slopes of c Mount Etna, reducing to ruins the t ancient and famous city of Messina and tumblingthebuildings of Catania, fifty-nine miles farther south, only to again overwhelm the busy port soon afterward with a great tidal wave. ( The spread of the earthquake in Sicily and Southern Italy, according to the cable dispatches, was through very much the same area as that of the earthquake of 1873, which was ' the most destructive in"\ the history of Italy. Then, as now, the earthquake caused enormous damage on both sides of the Strait of Messina, <3 which separates the toe of the so- c called "boot" of Italy from Sicily. The historic disaster completely p wrecked the populous seaport of Mes- t sina in Sicily near the northern end t of the strait and destroyed many 1 smaller cities and towns in Southern p Italy and Sicily. t The loss of life in .this disaster of v 1783 was estimated at 60,000, Mes- ? sina, a city which is for the most part c uui 111lie auuvc tuc icvci ui cuo oca, i * suffering terribly?then, as now, from li a tidal wave. The region to the a south of Messina has also been often overwhelmed by eruptions from f Mount Etna. The southeastern and e eastern portion of the island has been e damaged time and again by eruptions a of Etna and very little by earth- d quakes, while the northeastern por- t tion has sustained heavy loss of life b and property from earthquakes and C very little from volcanic eruption. b Messina, which as in 1783 suffered c the greatest loss of life and property 0 from this earthquake, is a city and ii seaport of upwards of 80,000 inhab- li itants, while in the commune em- ^ bracing the city, suburbs and adjacent c country, the population is upward of 1< Skirt Manufacturers Decree P Complete New Spring Outfits. Toledo, Ohio.?Husbands, take notice! The makers of women's styles F decree that you must buy your wife ti a complete new outfit for spring, p There's no chance to save by making o ???? Art Ka Hnno Tl UYCI vlULliCO, IUI 11 VyUUUUL UWUU, | ti they say. It must be a three piece : ci suit with a hipless effect and in one e of these colors: Ashes of roses, green, si taupe, electric blue, reseda, stone tl gray, catawba, cedar or wistaria. y This edict was issued by the Na- w tional Cloak, Suit and Skirt Makers, it Anions: the Workers. Holland now has an estimated union labor membership of 75,000. n A proposal has been made to form J a union of clergymen in Boston, Mass. A reorganization of the bartenders ti and bootblacks is going on at Oak- a land, Cal. The British Government in India is s' taking care that the native workers are sharing the benefits of British factory law. a Notwithstanding trade disputes the P average paid-up membership of the 0 American Federation of Labor has in- ?' creased 47.915 in the last fiscal year. C A,N!^ Fo n by Davenport, in the New York Mail. SIS' 3 T viai ~T - S the; I in PreTlous Disasters* 7 waj stai earthquakes were as follows: * w?r I; 190,000 lives lost. trai >0,000 lives lost; damage, $100,- x 1 a S 26, 1883; 50,000 lives lost. mil ., 1886; 50 lives lost; damage, x mo1 J iul' 0 lives lost. P?3' !, 1902; 25.000 lives lost. T ?ne ; 3000 people killed, 30 towns + ?Pa a Unc 0 6; 500 believed to have per- X ' zem 6; earthquake and fire, 500 ', ID 06'; 1000 killed; 140 small t ?em bun 14, 1907; 1500estimatedkilled. X ?esa ) estimated killed. **up l, October, 1907; 14,000 killed f??1 ^ o? 1 OF THE was DEVASTATED BY . yf' IKES AND TIDAL WAVES L joui '700 Years Old and Hat Had \d Catastrophes. ?*u * they , Thei ' ' '* S] 152,000. Next to Palermo, It is the vem chief commercial town of Sicily and mon its harbor, which is formed by a that peninsula, is the busiest in Italy from la v the standpoint of steamboat traffic. imp* The principal object of interest to lrntr tourists, apart from the scenic attrac- gha<3 tions of the place, is the cathedral, n which was begun in 1098, at the time natl< of Norman occupation of the island, Spai and parts of which are still standing prea is originally constructed with the exception of the evidences of damage wrought by the frequent earthquakes. Thft tnwn fa nn*> of oroot anHrmlfw ind derived its first known name, Was Sanole (a sickle), from the shape of :he harbor. It was founded by Cunaen pirates and Chalcidians in 732 . , B. C., and was governed by the laws ,Qt02 )f Charondas. over In 396 B. C. the town was de- P4!*' itroyed by the Carthaginians, but was insts ebuilt a few years later by Dionysius ne*r )f Syracuse, only to fall again into he hands of the Carthaginians under Par0 Sannibal in 269. The first Punic ,e n var, however, left the plaee in the lands of the Romans, and the place vas of importance second only to that 1 if Syracuse and Lilybaeum in Sicily j; luring a period of Roman occupation asting for several centuries. In 831 A. D. the town was taken *' >y the Saracens, but in 1061 it was aken from them by the Normans. JU8U ^he city prospered greatly during the Crusades, being a favorite rendezvous STU] or soldiers from the continent en oute to the Holy Land. In the Mid- Mart lie Ages also it became a flourishing ommercial city. ; Its commercial importance disap- Mj leared after a bitter struggle between mom he aristocratic faction, or Merli, and stud< he democratic faction, or Mavizzi, in quad .674. The democratic faction ap- Dr. ] lealed to the French and the other to Reicl he Spaniards. The former faction of wl rere at first victorious, but eventual- Eve. y were deserted by the French, the ity was taken by the Spaniards, and rhen the struggle was over the popuation was reduced from 120,000 to W bout a tenth of that number. there The town never fully recovered no re rom this disaster. Whatever recov- mart ry was made was neutralized in the Euro ighteenth century by a series of dis- effect sters. In 1740 about 40,000 persons to be ied of the plague, and in 1783 the a litt r\nrn nroo o 1 mAc?f nnfi'raltr rtrrorfVirnnrn \J rv jlx w ao aiuivob guuiicj; vrti iuxvtiu y the great earthquake of that year. rreat damage was caused by bom- _ ardment in September, 1848. The be holera carried off no fewer than 16,- ?awJ 00 victims in 1854 and earthquakes Plnea a 1894 and 1906 also caused loss of 0CCUI ife and property. In 1880 the town ye&T3 ras occupied by Garibaldi. It be- 0,^UDJ ame a part of united Italy the fol- s]*cec jwing year. shlPP 'rehistoric City Being Un- P earthed Near Florence, Ariz. Jol Washington, D. C.?An American 'ompeii is gradually being brought j*1 o light, according to the annual re- ?eattl ort of Charles B. Walcott, secretary ?om^ f the Smithsonian Institution. The | ound rorK 13 tne etcavating 01 a Duriea tty at Casa Grande, near Flornce, Ariz. Already a number of Ch tructures have been discovered, but -Tudg( tie largest one excavated during the more ear was a building 200 feet long, soldie ith eleven rooms, the massive walls 'n Wi lclosing a plaza. enty-1 Newsy Paragraphs. Mr. Taft expects to visit the Isth- ,j lus of Panama in the latter part of oenv< anuary. Juver It was said that a bill would be in- I(ja -oduced at Albany, N. Y.r making ,j}ecj rt forgery a crime. The burning oilship Kalorao was n unk by shots from the Singapore be bu )rt, two miles distant. son x The United States, Great Britaitv fresh nd Japan agree on most points of. the i ropositlons submitted to a meeting stage f delegates appointed to frame rules her fi overning the International Prize lng o ourt. shire, MIT WORLD'S END IMPS IHE PBDPHE1 llowers of Spangler Vainly Listen For Angel's Trumpet / 4 ADER MAKES EARLY FLIGHT 1 ; llowers of Lee J. Spangler Still Await Destruction of Earth He Predicted, While He Escapes Prom Police. Nyack, N. Y.?Lee J. Spangler, 0 has preferred to be known as lie Prophet," is missing. It is just well for Mr. Spangler's. peace of ad that he is. Some time ago, in a prophetic od, this modern Isaiah ventured ... 1 prediction that Sunday, Decern- /' 27. would mark the end of all t is destructible on this planet. In ?) t he made an error. When the i ' of annihilation had slipped by town was in the first stage of its uty sleep, having got over whatr fright it may have had. rhe prophet's followers spent a y uneasy night and day and part mother night. Many of them did A go to bed at all, determined to be it the first blast of the trumpet of destroying angel. At the first 1 of dawn, a party of the faithful ,11 women?performed their abla- .v-.$ is and put on white dressed, "spe- : ly made for the occasion." Then ; 7 foregathered. After that they .'V ked in procession to the railway :ion to meet a party of Saints who V e expected by the early morning in. n due time the train arrived. Not laint was seen;?unloss it be the kman arriving with the early ning supply. Behind the "faith- ' J /f ' was a crowd. This was corned of about l&O rude citizens. iy made fun of the disciples of ngier wnen no a amis appeared. s? Liscouraged, however, the white- >2d ones, followed by the rude citi3, marched sorrowfully to Oak I Cemetery. Why there, no one ned to know, unless it be that the etery appealed to them as a happy ting ground. Arriving, the prodon attracted, the attention of erintendent Halstead. Not having . <1 posted as to its object, and not ag the looks of the 150 followers the white-robed ones, Halstead re all from the grounds.. [any of the 150 had eggs which, it . rumored, had been sent up spely for the occasion from New k. City. The rumor was enough ; Halstead; he didn't propose to the eggs. eaving the cemetery the faithful */ ; neyed to the South Mountain, re a large congregation had asbled. ' All waited for the trumpet of the angel, but after a while ' got tired, as nothing happened, a they dispersed. pangler got what is known In the tacular as "cold feet" at the last .r!-.aent. Whether or not he ttiought Nyack was or was not a fit place .Li.L V J T .11 S rumu iu us iuuuu wuei' mw an- , ^ artant moment arrived Is not ten, Bat he left town under the , low of darkness in the morning. here is a feeling of strong indig[>n in the town over the harm igler has wrought by his delusive chings. SHOT MAN FOR Ej?AJR. Clad in Buffalo Overcoat?Ver- i diet, Justifiable Homicide. flattanooga, Tenn.?Mistaking an . ticated man clad in a long buffalo coat for a bear, Thomas Decka well known farmer, shot and intly killed Thomas Andrews Lafayette, Tenn. , . adrews h$d been in jail, but wc.s led by the sheriff in order that light go home for Christmas. In1 of going home he visited sevsaloons and later sat down in loorway of a residence, where he * isleep. The family, thinking An's was a bear, called Deckmar, prodded the form with his gun, getting no response, fired. A aer's jury rendered a verdict of flable homicide, DENT HILLS 4 OP FAMILY. ?? .-4 lers Father and Sisters Because They Refused Him Money. linz.?Because his demands for jy : were not gratified, a young ;nt of astronomy committed a ruple murder, killing his father, Rackj, a former member of the _i. *V. AV./V tlBlttg, auu ui? uiicc oioicior uuc torn was betrothed on Christmas 9 Potatoes Nearly ^ 1 fl hile potato prices have sagged M is no change in conditions and' H lason to look for weakness in the H ;et. Imports of potatoes from H| pe have a somewhat unsettling M t, but such imports are not likely H large unless the market goes up |H le higher. SB flB Pineapples From Hawaii. pen years ago only forty acres of lii's fruitful soli were devoted to .pple culture; now the pineapples 99 >y more than 6500 acres. Six ago Hawaii shipped to this try 3000 cases of pineapples, BD 1, crushed, grated; now she is II ing more than 400,000 cases. 9H 'ostmaster Burned to Death. ?? A n/^aror?n nAafmAofait keeper and Crown Lands Agent' HH nmount, Ontario, was burned to . in a fire which destroyed his in Tory Hill. Hi3 body was [ in the ruins. Former Judge Phelps Dies. h9 arles E. Phelps, formerly a flH ; of the Supreme Court of Balti- mm , and widely known as jurist,r ;r and author, died in his home ilbrook, a suburb. He was cev- Pflj 5ve years old. / HM Women In the Day's News. ^XH is said that the women voters of - IH jr elected Judge Lindsey, of the v^H lile Court. Bfl i Hawley, a comic opera 3tar, Wj in a New York private hospita^^^H an operation for appendicitis. seems to most theatregoers t a few years since Mary Ander-^J^Hj low Mme. de Navarro, in all he^^^H youth and beauty, was one nost prominent figures on But recently she celebradH^^^^l ftieth birthday. She is now livn a pretty farm in Worcester- flB England. BH