The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-10
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iiC pay az thC bhCdttl III SuobnlSoi-
ola, on the evening of the terrible disaster,
was burlesque, which, strangely enough,
opened with scene representing an earth
quake Eyewitness describe the scene
when the real earthquake occurred as an
awful one. The curtain had just risen
when tremendous shock was felt
A fearful roar followed, and the ground
rocked like the sea in storm. A great cry
of terror arose from the audience, who were
thrown in heap, and large number buried
beneath the timbers of the building, which
fell on them. Two more shocks occurred
All who could rushed outside the theater,
and hundreds clambered into the trees in the
vicinity for safety. Most of the people, how
ever escaped TO the shore, where bonfires
were lighted as signals of distress Hun
dreds of half-naked men and women, wild
with terror and grief, ran to and fro among
the ruins in Casamicciola with torches during
the night searching for missing friends AM
Piles dispatch says 1.-The latest estimate places
the number of deaths Mt between 1900 and
5000 AS il would be impossible to rescue
and bury all the bodies, the Minister of Pub
lie Works has ordered that in view of thu
horrible exhalation from the decomposing
remains, the uncovered corpses shall be lett
where they lie and liquid lime be poured
over the remains made by the
earthquake Cassami ccola will then be
converted into vast cemetery;
Mount Vesuvius is in a state of erup-
ton The lava is descending from the
crater in the direction Of the town OF Tore
del Greco at the southwest foot of the
mountain The inhabitants are fleeing to
places of safety"
1t is reported that an earthquake
shock was felt on the island of lschia July
% but the fact was suppressed that visitors
might not remain away from the island
Several leading Irish landlords have
sent to Mr.. Gladstone a statement that land
has greatly deprecated on account of re-
cent Legislation, and suggesting that state
aid be given to property owners
Eleven thousand de..ths from cholera
have occurred in Egypt since the outbreak
OF the epidemic. Tie disease is raging at
Alexandria, but rs subsiding at Cairo, only
for the want of material A party Of English
physicians has reached Alexandria Cholera
has been declared epidemic in Bombay
Blue Grass, owned by j. r. Keene,
won the stakes for S-yoar-olds at the Good
wood races in England
The French Government proposes to
make loan of 3oo, ooo. COO francs at per
cent, half of the amount to be devoted to
the army and navy
The Hungarian Jews who were on
trial for the murder Of Christian girl have
been acquitted
A rumor is current in Paris that
plot to restore tho monarchy in France has
been discovered
When the steamer Pathan reached
Melbourne, three informers in the Phoenix
Park cases were identified and forbidden to
land
A box of dynamite with lighted
fuse attached was found in q large linen
factory at Cupar Fife, Scotland. and the
police are searching for the criminals
ODonnell, who killed Carey, the in
former, was committed at Port Elizabeth,
South Africa for trial on a charge of wilful
murder. In the ordinary course of events
he will be tried at the Port Elizabeth Assizes
in October At the final examination or
O'Donnell, a bo- was produced belonging to
the prisoner labeled Cape Town, and con-
tanning woodcut of Carey, and paper of
American citizenship dated Toronto, No
vember, 1ss6' Carey's son testified that
his father was smiling and talking to
O'Donnell when he saw the latter draw
revolver and fire one shot He wit
ness) then ran to fetch his fathers
revolver. His mother was holding his
father when the third shot was fred,
o Donnell declared that Carey first drew n