Evening star., 1886-11-08
Columbia Gets the Worst or It.

SHARP EARHQUAKE SHOCKS YESTERDAY. ACI
CuMPANIED BY DESIGNATIONS.
Columbia and Charleston, S. e., telt quite
sharp shocks of earthquake yesterday after
noon. AT Columbia the shocks occurred
shortly after 1 o'clock. Houses were violently
rocked and glassware ratified. Many persons
who were at dinner lett their tables and rushed
into the streets. The vibrations continued
about fifteen seconds, and were accompanied
by the USUAL loud roaring and rumbling. Since
the heavy shock OF Friday last slight tremOrs of
the earth have been felt at irregular intervals
throughout the day and night at Columbia.
Loud subterranean detonations. resembling The
blasting OF rocks, unaccOmpHnled, however, by
tremOrs, are frequently heard. This leads
many persons to believe tina; the center OF the
disturbances Is shifting from the lower to the
upper part of the state. The negroes are again
greatly excited, and religious revivals have
been renewed in all their churches.
At Charleston the first and snarpest shock
was elt a few minues after IL o'clock. 1t was
preceded aud accompanied by the usual rum
bling sound aud vibrations. II was followed
in ABOUT five minutes Dy a second shock, which
was quite moderate, however, and lasted only
u lew seconds.
People in tne upperstories Of high buildings
in New York thought they felt u slight shock
about o'clock last night.
Beating Records all Along the Line.
REMARKABLE RIDE OF ALFRED A.. MCURDY ON
A wHEEL-3U5 MILES IN Less THAN TWENTY.
FOUR HOURS.
The bicycle record OF Stillman G. Whitaker,
of Indiana, has been beaten by Alfred A. Mo
Curdy, of Lynn, Mass, who flushed his "a
hours run at Waltham Saturday. making Q
clean total OF 3o5 miles In 2 minutes and Is
seconds iess than "a hours. Total time of actual
wheeling, % hours and 80 seconds; average rate
OF speed almost IA miles an hour. Besides
breaking the 2O-mtle, 25-mie, 5O-mile and 100
mile records. he beat the 15O-Inie record by
minutes ana % seconds, and Hollingsworths
3uO-mile record by 80 minutes and 80 seconds,
M "a In a lnls II tc
also said that the course travelled iS about half
mile over 50 miles, and ii measured and proved
McCurdy used 4S-inch Star light roadster
He got through witnouta u header except at The
finish when III turning to his motel through the
crowd he swayed OFT and struck the curbstOne,
bending his wheel out OF shape but sustaining no
injury from the Ial. He was 81 years old last
Friday, is ieeL lUA2 inches tail, weighs about
16O pounds, and Is Lynn shoemaker.
TEN-MILE Squirting RECORD BROKEN.
An attempt was successfully made Saturday
afternoon AT the New York Athletic Club track.
in Mott Haven. to lower the American amateur
lO-miIe record. This was held up to Saturday
Carter, OF tue New York Athletic Club, did the
distance Saturday in 52:5S 3-6. and beat De-
laneys record from the three miles up to the
finish.
DROWNED In Foor OF WATER.-For the
past ten years Mrs. Margaret kirwin, hfty-
seven years of age. has been in the habit Of
going out 10 q little pond at the foot OF Corson
TIE purpose OF "takiny morning wash," as
she called it, which consisted OF bathing her
lace and hands in the water. Saturday morn
ing she absent from the breakfast table,
and a search resulted liz finding her ON her
face, drowned in less than q foot OF water. She
had evidently pitched forward while taking
her customary bath.
BRowNs FIRST LADY FREsHMAN.-The first
candidate tor admission 10 Brown university,
Rhode Island, under the recent vote OF the
faculty permitting women TO enter, presented
herself last week. the young woman is a
graduate oi the classical department of the
Providence high school and. .passed through the
the freshman class. Sue was graduated In the
class OF "a at that schOOl and entered the class
WON ans institution. The lady has not entered
ior any degree at brown, but u special student
in chemistry alone.