HAVOC BY IN EARTHOUAKE A Great Loss of Life Probable in Central Japan, FLOOD ADDS TO THE DISASTER. Number Of Fatalities Likely To Be Greatly Increased When All The Districts Affected Are Heard From = The Mountain Ibuki, West Of Gifu, Emits Smoke And Then Collapses With An Awful Roar—Town Of Ozaka Partially Destroyed, 1 PREVIOUS EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN 1703—At Yeddo: 200,000 sons killed. Mount Ozuma; and earthquake; killed. Island of killed. 1894—Large section estimated loss 12,000. Frequent shocks { parts of Japan in | years. | per- volcano 200 1800 1891 Honda; 1,000 affected; of life, various last 10 in the ——— (Special) .—Reports recely ed here concerning the earthquake | in Central Japan, show that there | were a number of fatalities and that | great damage was done to property. | The dead at present is said to num- | ber 30, though it is feared that the fatalities will be greatly increased when the outlying districts are heard | from. The number of persons injured is | 83. Thus far 362 many temples, been destroved, and more than one thousand others badly damaged. The shock occurred at 3.30 o'clock | P. M., and affected a wide area in| the Shiga and Gifu prefectures, The town of Ozaka, in the Gifu, suffered terribly. The banks of the Hida Riv- er there were broken and the sur- rounding country was inundated The people of the district fled high ground and remained in open all night. sho Tokio buildings, including are reported to have | the Intermittent K were felt throughout Saturday nigh and early Sunday morning. The mountain Ibuki, a short dis tance west of Gifu, emited n | the early of the earthquake and then collapsed with a thunder- ous roar. The formation the mountain was completely changed Slight damage was done at Nago- ya, to the southward Gifu, and neighboring villages, B + i Emoke 1 ¥ 23 oF nd siages of of BLOWS UP HIMSELF AND SENTRY Private Tries To Open Ammunition Box With Hachet. Charleston, 8. C. (Special).- attempting to open a box of am nition het J. A, HW burne, seaman, caus an explosion at the camp of the division South Carolina Naval serves, on Isle of Palms and Henry Decou, sentry against orders, ad him enter the uni badly injured There was the tent to but only Both of the cover, nate with a » srelin an ordain ary the allowed tion Arm aii enough de stroy three Car CAUGHT CUTTING MAN'S THROAT iobbers Surrounded Building, Two Supposed In New York (Special). — Robbers cut throat of Lavini, an elderly second-hand clothes dealer of Port Chester, N. Y.. who was known to Kkeed considerable cash abou him, within 1 of the passing crowds on t sidewalk. He will | die. ! Pietro Fa were surrounded and caught An upstairs shop just drawing a throat and Lewis the it 0 feet ue Antonio Birzi the building ‘ it and in CoO entered the he men was across the old man's gave the alarm. tenant of t © NO PREACHING ON THE STREET, | No Dancing, No Street-Piano Playing In Washington, Washington (Special). —A regu- lation prohibiting open-air preaching will be adopted by the Commission- | ers as an antinoise measure, Un- | less the consent of three-fourths of the resident of the neighborhood be obtained the religionists will have literally to “hire a hall.” ; The regulations will provide ailke | against dancing, preaching, the play- | ing of musical instruments in the Streets at any time without the con- sent of residents, and will prohibit any such noises on the street after 10 o'clock. Hanged Under New Law, Georgetown, 8S. C. (Special). — | John Jenkins, alias “Slippery Joint,” | colored, was hanged thers for assault | with criminal intent on a young | white woman of this county. Several days ago Jenkins confessed his crime, saying he was moved to do so by a dream, in which the Lord told him to confess. This is the first execution under the new act making attempted criminal assault a capital crime, Sixth Death From Pellagra. Durham, N. C. (Special). Z- The sixth death from pellagra occurred here. Mrs. D. C. Mitchell, a native Georgian, suceum to the disease, She was a mem of one of the best families of this town and the wife of a large lumber dealer. Phy- sicians attribute the malady to bad cornbread. Prohibition Bill Passes House, Montgomery, Ala. (8pecial).—The Fuller Prohibition bill, as amended, gaased the House by a vote of 45 to 3 - EXPRESS TRANS CRASH ON CURVE Eight Dead and Fifty Hurt Near Colorado Springs. ‘ngine Crews Had No Time To Jump And Four Hundred Passens gers Are Thrown To Car Floors—— Many Hurt In Stampede To Get Out = Injured cnveloped In Clouds Of Steam—Mistook Freight For Passenger, Springs, Col. (Special), and fifty injured, result of a head- Colorado Eight are dead some fatally, as a on collision between train No. 8, northbound, and train No. 1, south- bound, on the Denver and Rio Grande at Husted, 13 miles north of Colorado Springs. The trains, both running at terrific speed, met on a tunity to avert the collision. No. § drawn by two engines, baggage car and the I and all three engines the ditch. With more than 400 on the two trains the excitement lowing the accident was ble. in of the hurt No into smoker of went passengers fol- the hurt ‘he the Mass on many were e8Cape. the aid a screaming the cars and stampede to rushed to of were enveloped from the engines, It is stated that the officials of the road place the blame the wreck upon the crew of train No. 8, who were ordered to meet No. 1 at Husted, It is claimed the crew mistook a switch engine and cars for No. 1 believed the track was clear, the cars, which clouds of steam of COST 8§500,000, Runs Close To Hundred Thousand, Washington, D extraordinary hich completed tariff t ha Cc (Special), "he session of Con- gress, wi one week ago COs law, 3 revision American pe 4 mated by some around the Capit Many different grand its the 8 Deen ost tatistician %: vs i ” Hea » Capitol am Oo about ves engaged mation for Congr relative to salaries In nment yet supplied Gover th cont nore s shia rnin Tariff it is known that 1e Bill, re MANY ASK RURAL SERVICE, Over 17,000 Petitions Reported Ad. versely By Department, 163 petitions for rural ser reports were submitted itiong pending, one for establishment Au- September 1 1606, titions 147 for October, 1,230 64 for a remainder of upon leaving 0s i acted BY TELEGRAPH Army officers and have been awarded since 1004 were of Army heroes, First Lieutenant Frank W. Ball, who was tried by court martial for being drunk while on duty, has been ordered dismissed from the Army Ambassador Reid, at London, ex- pects to sail for New York soon, acording to an announcement made at the Btate Department. An additional $2,500 was sent to the American Red Cross Relief Com- mittee at Beirut, Turkey, to assist massacre sufferers The Department of Agriculture has discovered a successful means combatting black rot, a which destroys grapes. The State Department has been informed that Oscar Malmros, the American consul at Rouen, 1s dan- gerously ill. Acting Secretary Wilson withdrew names of men who medals of honor added to the list 1 ¥ Seven od enliste rado River, in Utah, There are $20,000,000 involved in government. Over $100,000 was pald by Treas. urer Treat to Receivers Richardson and Rowe for the transportation of Spanish officials following the late war, The Navy Department will ask for two aeroplanes, capable of carrying two men and flying at a rate of 40 miles an hour for four hours, In a statement furnished the State Department China claims to be suf fering from a violation of treaty stip- ulation. The Interstate Commerce Come mission ordered a cut in the rates on coal from Georges Creek basin to tidewater, During last month 143 sall and steam vessels, of 25,623 gross tons, were built in the United States, The Standard Oil Company will have to pay a duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem on ofl it has imported into the Philippine Islands since the new tariff bill became effective, HARRY THAW DEFEATED SAYS WILL TRY AGAIN Judge Mills’ Holds White's Murderer Is Insane, MUST GO BACK TO MATTEAWAN, The Fight For Freedom Waged By Man Whom A Jury Declared De- mented Fails — Court Traces Ine sanity In His Family—Says His Release Would Be A Menace To Society — Words Of Charity For Thaw's Mother — Prisoner Un- moved By Decision, N. Y. (Bpecial) York won Harry Justice Isaac N. Mills the slayer of Stanford Wi him back White The plete Plains, State of New victory over a com- K. Thaw | when decided | ite is} to the #till insane and sent » contentions the three WAS Bus gomew hat | brought | Justice and | of tae Thaw his recent He however off than before present sult because in his decision suggests Sugegstion amounts practically orders-—that Thaw at Matteawan | restored to the privileges he en- during the first three months | stay there and that his allowed all possible privileges | treated with every consideration she calls to im, prisoner took e decision | His only statement was a, the assertion in the court's] that hed the delusions him {0 White Nf many during hearing one by of { | | is + he the Mills the to be £ his moth- he and when The coolly denial e gee | i ' ktill cherish that drove Wo ae shoot in econclud insane the tance to his history, His ’ 138 not Thaw 8 now firgt impor- family and childhood determination that the recovered is the opinion of 0: tant rin. that gives ing court yet on ansis Matieawan based princips Amos tendent “All such Mills, *‘are conceivable duties.’ Hil pe Asvl Justice with no do iaker, ¥ 03 the authorities EAVES to their ONE DEAD, ONE DYING OF BURNS Men Had Gone To Sleep In Tenement With Lamp Lighted. Cincinnati (Special) clothed ith : fa £2. : iis Le risp In 1 % in} i piaces pain as he ran aroused the tenement house The sufferer, fous at the ; ' two 1 retired ablaze and +5 Tr omen and CIRCUS STEERS STAMPEDE, Port Huron | Hurt, Dozen Into Girl Seriously Mich Dogs Drive Crowd; Port Huron number of persons and h. (Special) Aj were trampled injured were I when a of a into Clair | otherwise on dozen art # ro tnd gfeors which arged to St West show narade ¢h a orowd at the entrance Street bridge here Reaver dogs ran as they reached ad st vod ed of Gral internally other of barking at the the bridge ap- the al gleors animal ing, was by being injured na- Jroach a an Mise J seriously trampled Jersons ture, essie Ingley, injured on. hurts The a were minor Whole Train Off The Track. Creston, Ohlo (Special) Five per- i i § 2 on the Wheeling and i deralied at ger train No railroad three miles west train left the engine, tender, baggage and mail overturning and a passenger coach, with 110 persons, toppling in- to a diteh The engineer remained at his throttle and stopped the train. | was here track, the of The entire Guests Flee From Flames, | Mackinac Island, Mich, {Special), | j ] Forty guests had narrow escapes from death when the Hotel Hessel, at Hessel, Mich., 18 miles northeast of here, was burned to the ground. A number of them escaped in their of their baggage. John Hessel was the own- er of the hotel and his loss is about £15,000, Co Perished In Hotel Fire. Vancouver, B. C, (Epecial).— Eleven lives were Jost when the Okanagan Hotel, at Vernon, B, C., was burned. The bullding contain- ed about 60 guests, Ten bodies have been recovered. One man died in a hospital and four others are saverely burned. The property loss is $25,000. SO S53 AO Shark In Fishers' Net, Long Branch, N. J. (Special), — An elephant shark, sald to be the first ever caught along the Jersey coast, was captured at sea by Cook and Smith's crew and landed on the beach at Galilee after a sharp fight. Captain Daniel Gaskin was in charge of the crew that made the lift of the nets in which the huge shark was entangled. The fighting mons ter did not take kindly to the prongs in the hands of the men and SA the men finally had to kill the big fish. t BIG NAVY TUG LOST IN A HEAVY GALE Four Drowned When the Nezinscot Goes Down. Loaded With Anchors Until Decks Are Awash—Big Sea Hits Craft And Engine-room Is Flooded Wife Of Captain Floats Away On Raft — Surgeon Trotter Swept Into Sea And Lost—Lifeboats Chase Raft Through Seas, Rockport, {Special }) .—The cargo of anchors on board the naval tug Captain Ned Evans, aroved great burden rolled the from Mass. Nezinscot, as ghe Ports- too a down const had fi rolled and after the seas engine-room, the tug sank off Cape Ann. Four the crew lost gale, of their d and be struggle and were ing by they had wile yy, reached lan hard Captain Evang Mate A. jelfrie, an oak grat fs crew, af after a taken from life-saving in a er heen into the sea F. R. Bit with Mrs narrow th i otter washed Boatswain's struggled an Evang and the plank Engineer Pratt and managed gain the shi} the sinking of the and righting her, hauled Bitter, Mrs Evang and the boy on board and then rowed ashore, The Nezinscot 3 AM. with a chains and scearchlights battieship Missour The a boat of rechoard, CATRO r down decks nearly awash, manned five officers about te men who was in Quincy, Mass, of n River thet aelr i Mate hour bo; on a Chief ter ree to ahit after th Ith at anchors, for tug and until She and left ft Portsmon cargo of the Was hay her was crew Evans, from low f 16 brought 1} were by of n ' command, halls and ys any DRL Shipbuil Ly fia in Cliarge Fore pany during uring England Coa th ree gone down dap’'s Meet China's Plea, Peking China greed to { Special} SOnen regardin he Antung-3 Halliroad Mukden, selects to at All } uestions relating Manchuria and China now await Japan Three Suffocated In Mine, Telluride, Col Lightning struck the Liberty Bell mine and Indirectly killed three miners, who were by the smoke that filled lower levela after the buldings at the mouth had get on fire by the flash Four ot miners are in a jition al were over. gerious cand come while attempting rescues. Overs Cone the hog no her y Sever “Uncle Tom™ Was Sold There. Lexington, Ky. (Special) Light. the Courthouse at Wash- County, in which of “Uncle Tom's was sold, and the destroyed The build. the aged negro at this ing was erected in 1794 It was place that gave Harriet Beecher Stowe the basis for her story. ning struck ington, Mason “Uncle Tom.” Cabin" fame, building was the sale of Educator Killed By Train. Burlington, Vt. (Special). — Prof. Wilhelm Bernhardt, of Washington, D.C, a well known educator and author, was struck and killed by a train on the Portland Railroad here, He was spending the summer here. Prof. Bernhardt was about 60 years of age and for many years was di- rector of German in the Washington High Schools, South Carolina Liquor Law Valid. Columbia, 8. C. (Special). — The State Supreme Court refused td de- clare invalid the liquor law passed at the last session of the Legislature. The Court will later hand dawn an opinion stating the rdasons for the rejection of the petition, Suicide From Transport, San Francisco (Special). —The army transport Logan arrived from Manilla, by way of Japan and Hono lulu, bringing the Thirteenth Regi. ment of Infantry, 100 enlisted men of the Engineer Corps, 38% military prisoners, 90 casuals and 5 of the Signal Corps. The infantry regiment will go into barracks at the Presidio, Bennett, a private in the Marine , commitied suleld July VY es into the sea on, - the Logan. WINTOR C. F, WILLIRD'S LONG SLIDE T0 EARTH ————— Was 150 Feet in the Air When Motor Failed, A NOVICE BREAKS ALL RECORDS, Charles FF. Willard, A Beginner, After Making A Record Oountry Flight In An Aeroplane, Makes The Record Descent In A Machine Without Power — Prac- tically His First Flight And Had But One Lesson, Crosse New York (S8pecial).—Charles F. Willard made the only crosg-country in an aeroplane in this from Mineola, L. I country. with the exception of Orville the one Wright made at : i overn- The feat- of llard is that insiruc- Weeks in- Villard of ment contrac? of tials he 1 a little from of wie feat ved mn Glenn the Golden lier, § record } ‘4 dD0ul ures while tions oC Oe two H hi + ik. the distance Wright by lard covered about minutes and attaine of more than 150 The aeroplane shed the ville Wil i ¥ i 103% was brought from ar 5.23 and into th the 4 the taken @ of race- course, t tor at i most rection ae gtarting 10 point, a Brarteq City once shot 100 feet ag he of Garden and flew over Meadows | brook Hunt Cilul | Westbury Circle thence 10 A large £ 5 1 and Vi id~ and Was pegotiated lard started homeward and cessfully until, hin the starting poi e disc i trouble with t | almost 17 motor fa nere flew guc- r wit two miles of nt. h his mot feet in the fled, From t made a perfec the greatest Gescent wered some Was the £59 117411 + # O1 Willard 31] ground, wal h a w examina shaft £ file +} 1 inge HOUR An Lam i a8 A past demonstrated 3.000 GET POSITIONS, Through Department Of Commerce And Labor, BD. LC { Special). for gix weeks | Washington, | work has | persons {through | the Department { Labor Most of gone {to the wheat fields of the Northwest, | although according to a statement by the department labor is much in de- mand In factories as well as on the farm The division of information, under a ruling by Assistant Secretary Me- ‘ Harg, is confined in its operations to { unskilled labor, the labor organiza- { tione having protested against any | activity on the part of the govern. | ment looking to the employment of skilled labor. secured 3,000 ithe een during past division of and the info TETed i i i Herole Girls Save Cash, Buffalo, N. Y. (Special) —Fire in ( the East Buffalo plant of Jacob Dold { Packing Company caused $100,000 damage. The fire started in the hog and beef dressing department. The office buildings were threatened for a time. The office force, made up largely of young women, fought through dense clouds of smoke tc remove $5,000 in cash to a place of by smoke, were rescued by firemen Elephants Stampede, Clay Center, Kas. (Special).-—Foi1 two hours the people of this tower were terrorized by 11 stampeded through the streets beast at once began to trumpet and breaking from its keeper, ran away Ten other elephants followed. Be fore the animals were finally cap tured a showman was seriously hurt Bimesiemiasacns Pressing Club Was Very Wet. Birmingham, Ala, (Special) The first arrest in Birmingham under the new Carmichael law was made when a pressing club was raided under the section of the law which prohibits the storage of liquors. Half a dozen cases of whisky, several tagks of beer and two tubs of feed beer were confiscat d, as well as the proprietor’s cash drawer and its contents. His bankbook showed de. posits of over $100 a for some BIG BALLOON FLIES OVER THE ALPS Reaches Altitude of 18,373 Feet. M. Spelterine, The Daring Aeronaut, And Three Companions Land Near Locarno At A Height Of 5,400 Feet And Have A Perilous Path To Traverse On Foot—Did Not. Equal Altitude Record, The Sirius Chamnolix, France (Special) all n h ballcon Sirius hag succeeded in f Sirf over the Alps The last Sunday under Bpelterine, who ha Fears of passengers for the gufety Lhiey 0 § 1s 3 ianded Locarno feet have $ f foo down at covered three } The would lishment appear to Messrs Coxwel in 1R€2 i Ascended feet or abo ch Alive. Zeppelin Very Mu * WANTED WIFE TO DIE FIRST At "fer Ard B Then Killed Himself, Man Shot by. O00, expende 3 } ARO rea and il E nd Irs the ings Follows A Joke, iSpa {iS Pe Wild Boars For Griscom. New York { Spe ix boars, a present Italy to Lloyd C United States Ambassador 3 who recently returned to this coun try from Rome, arrived here by the Italian liner Duca Di Abruzzi. King Victor, knowing that Mr. QGriscom had a hunting camp in Canada, sent the tuskers as a tokem of his ap. preciation of the Ambassador's work in relieving the sufferers of the Mes. gina earthquake. They will be ship- ped to Canada ial). 8g from the Griscom wila King of former to Italy, 2 Boys Club Third To Death, Brownsville, Texas (Special), That both .ad a part in clubbing to death their 10-year-old companion, BElisee Cantu, was the confession of idalfono Gomez and Angel Cerveras, 14 and 10 years old. The trio had par- taken freely of "meseal,” and Cantu was attacked with a heavy stick when he became abusive, Friday Cervoras asserted that Gomez alone did the clubbing, OLDS AND ENDS Opalescent glass for the use in the manufacture of stained glass win. dows is made in this country in a manner which cannot be duplicated, and this material is shipped ai! over Europe, Many tigers in Isdia live entire. ly on domestic cattle, and the upkee, of one which does 80 has been saris ously estimated at from $300 to Bt yan, that an found & autho say the flounder is only a codfish with a flattened
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