Woodruff County news., 1902-05-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


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 The president has issued a procla- nation opening to settlement the Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho. All of the land within five miles of Pocatello will be sold at public auction at noon on July IF, at a minimum of $10 an acre, and all the rest of the land will be thrown open to settlement and en- try at noon of July IF next. The opening involves nearly 100000 acres ceded to the government by the Shoshone and Brannock h. dians.
 The discussion concerning the observance of the Sabbath, which arose during the annual session of the central conference of American rabbis in New Orleans recently, has stirred up more or less argument among the orthodox Hebrews throughout the country. Vigorous protest has been made against the liberal school of rabbis, who raised the question in the conference to the extent of suggesting that the Sab bath day should be changed.
 The mail steamer Anselm, from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, arrived at New Orleans last week with off, cial reports from the Guatemala earthquake, reported April 20. The disaster was much more appalling than at first reported. Not a build ing was left standing in the city of Quezaltenango, the second city in the republic. The place is now un- der martial law. At Salcajo, 175 persons are known to be dead. Pat sum was completely destroyed by the shock. Mazatenango was wreck ed and left in ruins. The seismic disturbance seemed to move from southeast to northwest, keeping in direct line with the Sierra Madre mountains. Amatitan was totally destroyed. San Marcos, San Pedro and Zejutla were left in a heap. The total. loss of life can not be es- timated as yet, but it is conserva- lively estimated to have been be- tween 2,5O0 and 5000 souls.
 Pestilence on the Islands of Mar unique and St. Vincent add to the horror of the volcanic eruptions, which caused the death of so many people. Mount Pelee is still active which prevents rescuers from reach ing certain parts of the islands to bury the dead. Though absolutely all the life within the borders of the city of St. Pierre was destroyed, not a single soul of the entire popula- tion escaping, the ruins show great variations of the force and fury of the destroying fire current. The fercest land disturbance was direct ly across that part of the town known as the fort, where the walls were tumbled to nothing Here the houses seem to have been dissolved into thin air, for not even the foun- dations can be traced. A contrast to this is the district known as Mouillage, which is recognizable from the walls that still stand. In the fort district the dead were ut terly consumed, but in Mouillage there are bodies everywhere, denud- ed of clothing and charred so that 1t is impossible to distinguish white from black, and men from women. Mont Pelee, which had been quiet for half a century, gave the first indication of its present activity on Thursday, May l, a week before the great eruption. Strange noises were heard on that day from the re- zion of the mountain. At midnight of May 3 the volcano belched forth volumes of boiling mud. Disturb ances were intermittent after that, doing little damage outside a ra- dius of two miles until Ascension day, Thursday, May &. At 7:3o o'clock on the morning of that day the people of St. Pierre heard a terrific explosion from the volcano. A volume of molten metal and lava was thrown off, enveloping the city and all the shipping in the harbor in one mighty flame.