Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-03-17
EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.
Some Details of the Terrible Shock on the
landi of Ischia- Three Hundred Victims

Some Details of the Terrible Shock on the Is
landi of Ischia--T Three Hundred Victims in
All.
On Friday, 4th inst, a terrible earthquake
occurred at Cassamicciola, in the island of
Ischia, in the Mediterranean, at the north en-
trance of the bay of Naples, by which the whole
upper part of the town was destroyed Lon
don dispatch says the shock lasted seven Sec
Onds. 1t was accompanied by noise like sub
terranean thunder. Then came crash of fall
ing houses mingled with the shrieks of victims
to their breasts. At Villa Cametti two
girls playing upon a doorstep were
struck dead by falling architrave
Two hundred houses were thrown
down, and many others were damaged and
made uninhabitable. The killed number 104
Many were injured The total number of vic
tins is estimated at 400. The wounded are
being conveyed in steamers to the hospital of
the Pellegrint, Naples. At Amnes, five persons
were killed and thirteen houses destroyed. The
panic stricken inhabitants are camping In the
fields
Monte Epomeo the highest point of Ischia,
about 2, 500 feet above the sea, is a volcano
surrounded like Etna, with small craters, and
its eruphons have often caused great damage.
The island has also severely suffered from
earthquakes. The mineral waters of Ischia are
very celebrated and the projection of the climate
is an additional advantage for invalids suf-
fering from rheumatism and other similar dis
eases. The population in 1874 was "a, ,OOO
Shooting Of Alleged Wife Seducers.
A special dispatch from Brookfeld, Wauke-
sha county, Wisconsin, says: On Thursday
night, George Daubuer, prominent politician
of that village, was shot by William II. Shower
man, who found him skulking about his premi-
ses. The circumstances caused ripple of ex-
citement among the villagers, but the people
looked forward to such an event as the natural
outgrowth of scandalous proceedings which
have been transpiring for the past year The
trouble grows out of an old feud of seven years
standing, caused by too familiar relations with
Mrs. Showerman. Three weeks ago Shower
man returned to his home rather unexpectedly,
and found Daubuer nursing his wife and cajol-
ing her with sweet lullabys. Daubuer skipped
out, but Showerman laid for him. and final
ly he heard him in his yard, creeping about,
and going out, fired a load of buckshot into him
Daubuer is lying at the point of death, and can
not recover. The parties to the tragedy are
both well known, and the affair has created the
greatest excitement rE...
A St Louis dispatch of the 10th says:
Michael j. Reilly, ex-letter carrier, formerly
policeman, while descending from the secoud
story of the shoe factory of Phillips, Grant &
Co., TIP St Charles street, about IL O'Clock
this morning, met Albert G. Hatch, former
employe of Phillips, Grant & Co., who was go
ing up stairs, and shot him in the head, killing
him instantly, the ball entering just below the
eye and coming out at the back of the head
From acauaintances of both men it is learned
that Reilly had seduced Hatch's wife, and on
tive or three occasions taken her away from
home and spent two or three nights with her at
time. Hatch vowed vengeance, and openly
and repeatedly stated he would kill Reilly on
sight, and when they met on the stairway this
morning the former attempted to draw a weapon,
but Reilly was too quick for him, and sent a
bullet through his brain before he. could get
his pistol out Hatch's hand was on his pistol
pocket when he died. Az s.e -aF.-.