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AWHty as Editor.
Abbeville. Dec. 28.—Oen
iar* .Worth of Prwperty Was D«*-
atroyed by ihe Kartbqnake.
Reid Hemphill, editor of Tbe Abbe
ville MediuibT died at bia home here
this morning at 11 o’clock. He has
been In failing health for several
months, and his death was not ,al-
logethdT unexpected, still It came as
-&■ shock to hia frlendl In Abbeville.
New Year’s
Handled Attended.
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.A fearful convulsion of the earth
which devastated Southern Italy and
Sicily on Mouday of last week, wlp-
lag out the lives of Sd&.Md people,
and overwhelming two large dtles
,as.wail as a score of smaller towns,
will go 4°*n In history as one of
the most terrific disasters that have
ever visited this planet.
* There is no record of any earth
quake that wrought as much fright
ful _ damage and caused greater loss
of life than the earthquake that via-
.. ited the lower part of the Italian
peninsular and its neighboring isl
ands, last week. Few regions of
the world have, suffered more heavi
ly In the past than the province or
Southern Italy and the beautiful
. Island of Sicily, which are now stag
gering beneath tbe weight of anoth-
er blow even more terrible than any
which preceded It.
Of all known earthquakes of an-
Hent and modern history the most
lestructtve up to last week was that
. which visited Antioch, the. capital of
’ Syria, in the year 626 A. D. It Is
said that the streets of the ancient
city literally opened and that not
fewer than 150,000 human be
ings, is 'well as Innumerable tent-
plea and houses were engulfed In
the yawning chasms./In 116 B. C.,
while the city was thronged with
visitors, who had come to attend a
celebration in honor of the Emper
or Trajan, another earthquake o<v
curred, leas destructive than the one
which waa to come; some six hun
dred year* later, yet violent enough
to causa the death of thousands,
among them being many Romans of
distinction, the Tffimperor himself
bsrejty escaping from the. ruins of
- his castle. T ' - - —
ttt Yeddo, Japan, In the year 1703.
an earthquake occured, In which
100,000 people are 'said to have
/ lost their lives; and Just twenty-
eight >ears afterwards the city of
Pekin was practically overwhelmed
by a similar disaster, in which k
is bellaved that nearly 200,000 of the
inhabitants perished. Of other
•srtfcOMkes In which the lost of life
' Win go great as to render them mem
prrvble for all time, there are so
many as to forbid enumeration. Sev
eral of these, in remarked above,
took place in the same region which
was affected by Monday’s appalling
disaster, and in the other countries
of Southern Europe.
Br-s
In 1137 seismic disturbances caus
ed th* death of 15,000 people lu
Sle»y. In Lisbon, In 1531, 1,600
houses were wrecked and 30,000
Uvea were lost, and again. In 1 755.
In the same city, 60,000 people per
Ished aathe result of earthquake, and
a large portion of the town sunk
beneath the waves. In 1 7 83 Meg-
sins, which has been practically ob
Uterated by this most recent disas
ter, was almost entirely destroyed
by a mighty shake, which, at the
same time, caused the death of many
thousands. The same Ill-fated city
suffered heavily from seismic dib
turbances In 1894 and 1896.
In 1851 the South of Italy, the
same region devastated by the earth
quake of last week, was visited by
an earthquake which blotted out 10,-
000 souls, and again, in 1&57. there
wers other convulsions, the death-
toll of which amounted to about 10.-
ft oo. Th** most famous of all seis
mic disaster which have visited Italy
—that In which the twin cities of
Herculaneum and Pompeii were de
stroyed—-was not an earthquake, but
an eruption of the volcano Vesuvius.
Some of the Great Disasters.
Number
Year. Place. * Killed.
626—Antioch 250,000
1137—Sicily 15,000
20,00t)
60,000
40,000
30,000
70,000
*0,000
the immediate ckuse^of his death
was heart failure. He left a wife
s.nd a humber of children, all of
whom were with him when he died,
oen. Hetnphllt was boro mrtxmg.
cp Cteck. In Abbevttle county, on
May 2, 1840, and was the Son of
the Rev. William R. Hemphill, As-
oclate Reform Presbyterian cfcurch
His grandfather. Rev. J. Hemphill,
was also a leading minister of this
lenomlnation. Major J. C. Hemp
hill, editor-ln-chlef of The News and
Courier, Is the only brother Gen.
Hemphill left.
Gen. Hemphill was graduated from
Ersklne' College In 1869. with the
1 ihest honors of his class, and ‘on
June 8, 18*1. at Richmond, he en
listed as/h private In the 7th South
infantry. Army of the Con-
States of America. At the
first Manassas he acted as
orderly for Gen. i,i. L. Bonham. On
June 24, 1 862, he was transferred to
/the 1st South Carolina, (Orr’s
Rifles), and In March, 1861, he was
made sergeant major.
He was In most of the battles in
Virginia and was slightly wounded
it Chancellorsvllle, Petersburg and
OettysbuDg. Captured at Falling
Waters on July 1 4, 1 864, he was
t prisoner of war for alx weeks,
'fter the war ended hg studied law
and went to Texas, where he practlc
rf his profession for two years. In
1870 he married Miss Eugenia C.
Preston, of Spartanburg, who, with
three sons and five daughters sur
vlve him.
in 1 876 he was sent to the State
Convention ' which nominated the
ifralghtnut Democratic ticket, and
'n the same year was elected
member of the State Legislature
from Abbeville county, and with an
Intermission of two years served
three terms. He was a member of
the special committee appointed In
1 877 to Investigate the charitable
and penal Institutions of the State
and did good service in bringing the
corrupt officers to Justice. He also
represented Abbevil!*> county In the
Btate Senate from 1 886 to 1894
He was a member of Ihe Constltu
lonnl Convention of 1896.
At the reorganization of the St»t<-
Government and militia he waa com
missioned a brigadier general b
Ben. Hampton. He represented
South Carolina as a member of a
committee from the^Senate at The
funeral of Jefferson Davis dn New
Orleans, and delivered an address
H the Tennessee Centennial and al
so before the National Woman's Suf
’rage Association in Atlanta in 1895
For a number of year* he had
been the president, of the Assoclatlot
if Survivors of Orr’s Rifles, and a
time of his death was Clerk of
'm Stnte Senate, a position which
•m filled with ability. In fact th
'’•mate never bad a better clerk than
he was. lie had given notice only
•t few weeks ago that on account of
’eriinlnig health he would give up
'he clerkship.
As editor of the Abbeville Medium
which he founded some thirty-five
years a*o, and which has long been
-erognlzed as one of the ablest and
most/lndependent weekly newspapers
>f South Carolina, Gen. Hemphill
did excellent service for the Sta’e
and for the Democratic party. He
was regarded as one of the most
prominent and resourceful members
of the State Press Association.
An uncle of Mr. Hemphill. Mr
bn Hemphill, was at one time
tilted Staites Senator from Texas
iml later became Chief Justice of
the Supreme CJourt of that State.
-Nixrly WO _
poor children/ their eiiten, cousins
snd stmts, mothers and grandmoth
ers, attended the dinner nt the Ma
sonic temple this afternoon, tbe Rev.
Dr. Vedder opening tbe entertain
ment by saying, “Hslp youraelvea.
children,” haTthe fun was on. Re-
markable changes of scenery made
up this remarkable dinner, where
nothing was satsn, and yet the ap
petite of hundreds was satisfied.
U waw a pi*? of three acts under
the heads of preparation, realisation,
and mastication.- The preparation
took weeks, the realisation about
two minutes and the mastication
was of indefinite length, this din-
ler is one that requires the going
out into the highways and the by
ways for guests, of which work of
several good people of the city each
year hundreds of poor people are
wade very happy by the dinner, and
this year they seemed especially so.
Promptly at 1:30 o’clock this
afternoon Miss George F. M. Fowler
gave the signal to Mets’s orchestra
In the large Masonic temple banquet
hall, and the waiting children, wo
men with babies In their arms and
little ones tugging st their skirts,
old women who needed assistance,
and one old roan, moved up stairs
and Into the hall. They found rows
of tables gay with many good things.
On the rostum was seated the
Rev. Dr. Vedder, with visiting la
dles and gentlemen. Mets’s orches
tra, of seven pieces, was therp, as it
Is every year, with music tor the
occasion given free.
When all was ready, the Rev. Dr.
Vedder gave a three-minute talk
appropriate to the occasion, and told
he children to help themselves.
Dr. and Mrs. Vedder, Miss Geor
ide F. M. Fowler Mrs. J. H. Holmes.
Mrs. C. J- Larsen and all the ladles
interested In Ithe dinner returned
most hearty thanks to all who had
helped to make the dinner success
ful. Some 35 hams, 35 turkeys, a
a ——u.«r-r\f Kn mnnnn vAF’Ji 1
nosen DUQcncB vxt ijuuKtutaB, otvoi
boxes of oranges, scores of pounds
of candy, boxes of raisins, scores
of- loaves of bread, hundreds of
cakes, several bushels of apples, and
other food were distributed. The
cash donations were HberaJ, and
there was no lack of Interest or
help. Many ladles and gentlemen
boys and girls helped to prepare the
tables and Hood this morning, In
work from early morning, and much
cood was done In the feeding of the
poor. The poor children’s dinner
is an Institution that blda fair lo
continue many years In Charleston
K Is a large work. ’
AfrUl, ahootlpg took'plaice a tew
miles from Rwansea on last Satur-
dty night, and as a result Garfield
lutto lies beneath the sod and
Thomas Craft is languishing behind
the bars in the Lexington Jail as
i result of the Christmas frolic and
• he Christmas drain? A gloom has
It Is ssid she hoaxed him into the
house and when ho refused. <
main drew a revolver and shot Stone
in the right temple/ When he fell
she fired again the ball lodging In
the base of his brain. Then she Hint
herself twice in the foreheLl and
temple. "— —
Southern Italy, Which was swept by
earthquake, tidal waves and Are, It
s predieted thle morning that, the
been cast over two households,
vhlch generations cannot wipe out.
The doctors at -the hospital say
that the woman has a fighting chance
for her life. Stone hiae two broti.
i
has
been
and the life of v young man /bhee jers, Albert Stone, New York, aid
Captain Edgar Stone, U. C. Ay, sta
tioned in Luzon, Philippine Islands.
The former Is on his way here to
7. take charge of the body.
.*> full of promise,
•lighted forever.
On hist Saturday night there was
ii old-time country “break-down,
is they are termed by the average
:oui>try • pefcso'a,.. at the home of
•‘Feg” Brown, said to be a question
able resort in the vicinity of Swaj
•»ea. There was plenty of whiskey
there, and soon a row arose between
Thomas Craft and another ytoung
nan, In which a number took a part,
/raft became langry and left the
louse, only to bring a Winchester
Ifle into play, which he had hid
outside upon his arrival for the frol-
c. VWth this rifle he fired several
.hots into the building with the re
mit "that Garflejd Hutto was struck
n the head by one of the balls, In-
llctlng a wound from which he died
n Sunday about noon.
At the Inquest, which wae held by
Magistrate U. Jeffcoat several
witnesses were sworn and the tes
timony was conflicting, It Is said.
But It was sworn that Craft, after
leaving the house, remarked that he
“would get somebody,” and began
firing, the second shot striking
'onng Hutto in the head. It wa*
itated that several shots were fired
>y Craft, although he says that only
>ne shot was fired, and that the rifle
vent off accidentally.
He claims that the whole affair
was an accident; that he and Gar
field Hutto had been the best of
friends and that he had no Intention
of killing him. It is stated, as a
matter of fact that Craft and Garfkld
had been bosom friends, and that
they had taken several drinks to
gether Just a short time' before the
killing, and that it was another
younig man by the name of Hutto
that Craft wanted.
Young Garfield Hutto was just 20
years old. He was a son of Mr
Jerome Hutto, a well known farm
er. Craft Is 26 years of age, and
Is a son of the late Walter Craft
Oraft was arrested early Sunday
night by Deputy Sheriff Miller, who
went to the scene immediately upon
hearing of the tragedy, . and was
lodged in Jail late last night.
REFVHE THEM BAIL.
1158—Syria
1 ?68—Cl llca
1436—Naples ..
1531—Lisbon .
1626—Naples ..
1667-—Schamakl
1603—Sicily /. 100.000
1 703—Jeddo 200,0‘00
’TIS—Algiers 2 0,000
] 100,000
40,000
50,000
40,000
40,000
20,000
20,000
25,000
50,000
12,000
35,000
25,000
1754— -Grand j Calre
1755- —Lisbon
1755—Kaschau, Persia , ! !
1797—Central America . . .
T *1*—Venezuela
1822—Aleppo
1867—Peru and Ecuador ..
1888—island of Krakatoa
1893—Persia .
1896—Japan
196*—8t. Plerrts. Martinique
1905- --NorthemXndia -
j Messtoa City of Disasters.
Many times has Mlessina been
overwhelmed with disaster. Some
the most Important are:
*1 **** Cfiifanr. B. C.—Relied »,y
from Bentos aad Miletus.
C.—Destroyed by the Car
snd Rebuilt by Dionysius
C.—Once more fell Into the
of tke Carthaginians, under
A D. Taken 5y the Sara-
CAST ACID FX HER FACE.
Jealousy Cau>H'H Serious Crime in
City of Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28.—Following
a few heated words about what no
one knows, Mrs. Alfa Garner threw
what Is believed to have beer. a
strong acid In the face of Mrs. Clem-
ma Long, in the dobrway of the lat
ter's home, at 39 Glenn- street, last
nlifht. Jealousy Is believed to have
been the ceuae.
Mrs. Long was called to the dour
where she met Mrs. Garner. They*
talked excitedly for several moments,
when pasgershy were startled by a
scream from the former. Mrs. Gar
ner dashed away, and the police
have not yet been able to locate
her.
The victim was found to be suf
fering with jerimis burns on the
face, the same having been caused
i »,60<)|hy a strong acid. -Sb« was -taken
the Grady HospRaf, where docto-s
could do nothing beyond relieve her
of the pain. She will survive any
material injury beyond a marring
of her facial beauty, which badf pre
viously been of rare order.
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“IIS
v--
U|8
thousand per-
Tl^e largest band saw in the
the world is Ja use U» a-mill at Hia-
qulm, Wash. It is 65 feet long by
20 Inches wide and has teeth 3 inch
es apart.
Women seem to regard a charity
work as q stepping atone into soci
ety.
1854 A. D—Cholera carried Off
16,600 victim#.
lYtt amd 1666 A. D.—Suffered
The Coopers Must Stay In Jail Until
Tried.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 28.—“Gen
tlemen, I desire to say that I have
given this case careful consldi ration
from every standpoint and after hav
Ing done so, I am of tho opinion that
It Is not a bailable case, therefere
Iodine to allow ball, as to any of
the defendants, and deny the appli
cation, this Is all before court thin
morning.”
The above Is the opinion of Judge
William Hart delivered thla mon/ng
tn the criminal court, disallowing
the men ball who are charged with
the murder of ex-United States Sen
ator E. W. Carmack. The decision
seemed to come like a stroke of
lightning out of a clear sky to the
defense, which side bad seen.eJ most
confident of- receiving • favorable
decision.-
The attorney for the defense seem
ed dazed and stunned. The defend
ants themselves bore up well and
held a sort of reception In court and
received re-assurlmg words from
friends about them.
Some of the friends of the Coopers
about the city are stating that they
really did not want bait at ail, but
that the defense simply made 1 'the
move to ascertain some of the most
Important evidence against them in'
the hands of the State. How.'vcr,
this m«y be the decision of Judge
Hart that the case Is not a bailable
one, It is thought will prove quite a
blow to the defense, the standpoint
of public sentiment. The tiinl comes
up on January 20th next, on the
merks, and at the same time the
legislature will be in session and a
State-wide prohibition fight will b<
on.
EXPERTS ENGAGED.
KEPT IN A QUEER PLACE.
Find Will Nailed to the Bottom of
Washtub.
Boston, Dec. 29.—Enclosed In a
red envelop and nailed to the ho(t-
ot a wMhtuh the will of PstL
rlck Monahan, of Charlestown d<*v.
posing of property valued at -|264L
000 was found today and offered for
probate.
When Monahan died last Septem
ber no will could be found. Jbhr F
Lynch, his former counsel, believed
a will had been Iqft, and today, with
relatives of the -deed man., resumed
ths search. In a sub-cellar the law
yer kicked over a washtub and
cautght sight of the envelope conUln-
ing Monahan’s will. After bequests
to relatives 910,000 is left to Cath
olic charities. ^
SUICIDE AT DENMARK.
Berry Gibson Takes His Life
Carbolic Add.
With
The Herald says news reached
Bamberg Tuesday night that Jurt
about dark Mr. Berry Gibson, a
young white man of Denmark, had
committed suicide by taking carbol
ic acid. Mr. Gibson was cotton
weigher at Denmark, having been
elected to the position last July by
the county board of commissioners.
He was about twenty-four years old,
and leaves a wife and a number of
relatives. He was married only a
few months ago to Mrs. Davis.
No real cause can be assigned for
his act, but it Is said that he has
been despondent for some time, and
has often said in the presence of
others that he wished he was dead.
About dark he went to his room in
bis home at Denmark, and shortly
afterwards when his wife went to the
loor, it was locked. He did not an
swer when iphe called to him, so she
ailed for help at once and entrance
'’fis effected by the window. Mr.
Gibson “was found In a dyUvg coa
lition, and death ensued before a
physician could be summoned. He
must have drank the carbolic acid
Immediately on ^oing to the room'
casualties will reach 260,090, per-
haps more. Hfindred8~of men sn4
women and children were hurled
alive, caught In the debris
ried to suffocation and lnatant d • th.
Tlye disaster in the P.ovlnco of
Ca&lbria and Island of Sicily ha* to
day assumed staggering proportions.
Each sueceslve report received from
the stricken region makes it more
apparent that tbe first etorbis of
■^widespread destruction w?re little,
if any, exaggerated.
Reggio stlir remains in the tragic
isolation. It is Impossible
word from the stricken city and
the siIqfkse gives rise to rhe most
fearful apprehensions. News , has
come from Messina, eight milesjtorxh
of Reggio, but no reliable estimate
of the dead there has been made
Vandalism of the worst kind has
broken out and the government has
adopted the most energetic and most
severe measures for its repres-ion.
Robberies and looters are shot on
sight. The prison at Messina col
lapsed, and some of# the prisoners
were klHed, but the survivors made
their escape, and joined the Hooli
gans who were sacking the cjty.
convince
heMelf you nre In love with her un
less you are.
it sometimes happen that a girl
may get rid of a persistent suitor by
mtrrylng him. ^ 7 " -
Service* Result In Great Commercial
Benefit to Owners.
From recent reports received at
the Department of Commerce and
Leltor it appears* kthat the honey
Interests of England have found It
worth while to employ experts to
supervise that industry. Cornwall
the best honey producing county in
that countr-y, was the first to engage
the service of an expert in beekeep
Ing, with vast commercial benefit
When, three years ago, “foul brood,’
an Infectious disease among beer,
attacked the ap’aros at Cornwall, aud
worked great destruction, the sup-*
ervlsors determined that It would be
necessary to destroy hundreds of
hives where the disease was preva
lent. This forcible extinction,.of thv
hives saved th-> Industry In the coun
ty. There now remain but a few
traces of the* disease.
In prder that attention may b-:
1rawn to the success that may at-
‘end beekeeping the authorities have
instructed their expert Inspector to
visit all beekeepers in the county,
examine the hives kept by them, and
rive advice as to their condition and
management. It is also the duty of
the Inspector to work up markets.
Value of Sweet Milk.
The value of the pure sweet skim
milk fed to pigs fresn from tae
cyeiani separator, wes found by the
wel’-ktovn dairyman. M*\ C. P.
Goodrich, to be muoh greater than
» snally xetinrated. He found that
100 pounds of gain In pigs weigh
ing 125 pounds when fed alone, a id
one bushels of corn fed alone mad-
gain of ten pounds. This puts
high value on sweet skim milk
When he joined skim milk and coin
n duo prjpm tlons the feed value oi
Uth were increased 20 p°r cent
ihiowln'g that both made a fine bla-
nnced ration. He fed 100 pounds
jT sw/gt ekim milk with one bushel
of net n, and that gave 18 oonnds
of gain to the phoata. Heard’s
Daryman sajs;
“In our own experience we-kaVo
made skhu milk worth £3 cents p
100 when fed to grade Guernsey
lives sold at 7 months of age at
$25 each. •• . -
“D. L well enourh to say that
large part of the feeding value of
separ.tftor skim milk nay be wasted
t > iinpiT'per methods of feedlrigT iT- harbor oLLaifijQjJ/
so Its* beat value Is always found lu
Gedlng It # o youvg pigs and ihcat-.'
KILLED BY AN OFFK KR.
Drunken Negro Resist Arrest and
Is Shot Down.
John Mays, a negro who was drunk
and disorderly In Wagoner Tuesday
night, was shot and killed by Police
man Kirkland.
Kirkland atlempted to arrest Mays',
who said he would not be arrested,
pulling a pistol at ihe same time,
when Kirkland began Tiring, one bu!--
let taking effect In the centre ;>l the
abdomen.
Dr. O. F. rortwood-waa mm 11
ed. but found the negro in a flying
condition. A post-mortem was hold
by Drs. Portwood and Schofield, with
the above findings. — — (
The shooting took place about 7
O'clock JT~nr Mays li"ed, about HO
minutes after the shooting Ho is a
strange negro In this sccji m. hut.
Is said to have deserted his family
In Edgefield.
Strange -negroes and oil ml tiger
whiskey is responsible fo- many of
the murders Ith which South thiro-
llna Is charged. Policeman Kirk
land had to shoot Mays or be *h:»t
himself.
The kind of a hovel
dotes oa is whsro. tbe
a woman
beautiful
clothes and costly jewels
heroine nre an adorkble
low life ud property 1*jr :*H tho heart Money she ban to suf-
.? T , - ~ ~ tw.—'
tim . .‘-t . • 1 j-v -
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:Pr
There’s no way a man can help
his wife to enjoy herself when she
doing
l' of thel^Tho-fpieerest thine about women’s
setting to failhlont.ia how they con shift thefr
wetit from around.
hand R to their
_ . *, -1
r* «■
knees and
r bladea.
Should Not Change.
Too many men who before thel
uarriage were always particular to
get out of the buggy and help the
young woman In, may be observed a
w years after marriage sitting i»
be wagon while the good wife
Gamhers in over the wheel as bes
<he may. There is something wrong
when the man Is Teas thoughtful of
his wife tharf he was of his sweet
'p-i’-f, anti eve-v hmbam' w.h
guilty of it should let one of his
\ew Year resolutions tie a defcprmi
nation to treat his wife as he did
his sweetheart.
More people hay* been civilized
with the bathtub than with the Ten
A mean Arte* Tor a man to play
on a girl who rejects his-proposal la
to taka her at her word;
Not until the undertaker gets busy
with a man does he cease to be un
popular with his relati^bs.
Every man likes to hear a wise
woman talk—because she always
talks to him about himself.
A girl wonts to stay in bed When*
shp ha«r a cold no that.men can’t
see the red nose that' goes with It.
When a giri’-a hair is a golden halo
Instead of being Just plain red; It’s
a sign it’s her mother describing it*
A man seems to be able to out
grew most any 8uperBtiUipn_except
that his whiskers couldn’t be finer.
The average girl is ambitious to
make a name for herself, but she
usually ends by aconptmg—sow**
man’s. , / , ‘/_ ..
The kind of photograph a woman
thinks Is good of her is one her
own mdther couldn’t guess who it
/V
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Such confusion reigned timt the rob-
bers*tnet with no resistance. The
local chief of police lies dead.. The
barracks at Messina were demolish
ed, the commander of tb > troops was
killed outright and there were, n any
victime among the enlisted men.
The government sent an army
crops commander to take charge of
the troops in the devnsted dlKtr ct
One of his first measures will bu to
declare martial law. Robbers pil
laged the ruins of shattered build
ings, and even stole clothing and
valuables from the corpses of the
victims. They were not deterred by
the flames that broke out In several
sections of tho city, but took advaro
tage of the light for their vandal-
lam.
The night in Messina was on? of
horror Indescribable—fire, robl.ery,
dead and dylnig on every side the city
in utmost confusion and people
panic stricken and under the sik:!!
of terror. The finest palaces, church
es an<j theaters of Messina are heaps
of ruinsf^eountless dead bodies are
Scattered through the wreckage
No part of Ihe Province of Reggio de
Calabria qscaped.
Premier Gloletti has received
telegrana/ from Deputy Felleeat at
Messina conflrihtng the previous re
ports of the complete destruction of
Messina by the fire following the
earthquake. The report says that
the dead at Messina will be counted
by tens of thousands.
In some towns gas meters explod
ed. The tidal wave that completed
the destruction work of the earth
quake was thirty-two feet high and
sank numberless small boats In the
Wireless tel--
grwphy has been of great assistance;
an Italian naval squadron at sea was
reached by wireless and ordered to
Messina.
Ship and Crew Lost.
London, Dec. 28.—A report from
New Castle today brought the In
telligence to the English maritime
centers that the British steamship
Advance and the bark Iverna col
lided with the former, sinking with
all on board but the first officer.
Killed Himself.
Hazlehurst, Ga., Dec. 28.—John
Plckner, a well to do farmer of this
section, shot himself In the head
with a .38 Smith and Wesson pistol
here last night, while seated in a
rocking chair In his home talking to
hia wife. Death was Instantaneous.
No cause Is assigned for the deed.
Very Foolish Boy.
Rome, Ga., Dec. 28.—Clifford
Clark, 19 years old, committed sui
cide here today .by drinking aA,ounce
'-frrf- carholle acid. — He had bewray
ing attentions to a young woman of
Rome for the past several months,
and because she did not reciprocate
Tils'affectisn he became despondent.'
Consul Lost.
Washington, Dec. 30.—The State
department received a dispatch from
Consul Gayle, at Malta, saying that
the consulate at Messina bos been lu-
tally destroyed and Colonel Cheney
and lU? ..ilff add official family all
lost thSrF’TIVei.' Their bodies ore’
still In the ruins of the consulate.
He Hod to Go.
San Francisco, Dee. 29.—Clans
Speckels, the famous sugar million
aire, died here of pneumonia Mon-
* t " 1 hw wails' m a T£s;
to r. rtrt* on dolor It. b(>rn ^ u „
and came to the United States in
18T6. Ater being employed^ Yoh
some time in Charleston and fE«w
York ha came to. Sin Francisco. _/
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There are persons who will, with
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$10 to a “city doctor/’ and ye*
grumble when the local physician
deipanda $1 for the same advice,
with seventy-five cents worth of
medicine thrown In. Don’t be one
of this kind, says the Farm Journal;
but be willing to pay a fair fee to
your home physician who. In nearly
all cases, can give as good advice
as the doctor in the city.
Due to Monoxied Gsa.
Washington, Dec. 28.—Deadly
fumes of monoxied gas caused the
death of another person In this city
yesterday. Th* latest victim, Wil
liam McGowan, was over come while
in his b.vth room and died within
20 minutes after lighting a water-
heater. Monoxide gas Is caused by
Improper combustion, Three mem
bers of a family were killed by 6uch
a gas at their home on October
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