The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
Ole World
For a Week

AFTER reports of catastrophe on the island Of
IL Martinique but add Pierre city
of $4,000 Inhabitants destroyed less than forty
Of its inhabitants escaped AS the people had feared
from the actions of Mont Peee that explosion
was coming it is thought may escaped
Friends and relatives of United States
Prentis and his family they warning escaped
to the mountains The people St. Pierre and
, smaller towns and the surrounding country
gases and apparently the stream Of
burning lava and escaped
who had not departed before o'clock
Thursday morning that the dead on the
island will number 100000. resort
where 600 staying
rocks and dust and boiling upon the shipping
the harbor destroyed Relief parties fail any
alive in building not ruined The people
OF the island threatened with starvation
the storehouse of the
The United dispatched the steamer
Dixie for Martinique with supplies consisting
OF food and $4,000 clothing President Roosevelt sent
message to congress MONDAY suggesting an
100000 for relief but
sufficient The French many municipalities
in various parts Of contributed
to the relief of the stricken island.
The eruption of Mont continues and the island
of st. covered with dust and ashes in some
places to depth Of two feet The varfously
estimated from 500 to 1900.
A dispatch Naples on Wednesday stated that lava
is flowing from the Pompe vesuvus while hot Gin
GERS are thrown up from time to time
Asuncion Esquval naugurated president of Costa
RIGA last Thursday He succeeded Rafael Iglesias.
Mrs Dimies T. s. Denison president of the
General Federation of Womens Clubs States at
Los Angeles Thursday. -
On Friday. May President signed the oleomar-
garin BILL Hereafter all limitations butter will have to
be sold for what they the
and seller OF oleomargarin are heavily taxed
The act for the admission Arizona New Mexico and
Oklahoma passed the lower house congress on FRIDAY
May 9. ~ - -
Former President Jiminez Of Domingo has left the
snd on French steamer Prince and his
ablest adheren Deschamps has sought refuge in
Haiti This leaves the former president vasquez in
On Saturday May TO- the attorney general of the United
commenced suit in the circuit court of the
states Tor the northern district of against what is
known as the beef injunction to restrain the
trust from monopolizing products and arbi
trarly hxlng prices for the keeping black
hst OF dealers, or other unjust proceedings.
Lieutenant Governor Stone of Wisconsin died Sunday,
May H. aged &C. He was banker and manufacturer
General Tresias Simon Sam, president Of the Hatien
republic has congress met on Monaav
and made an effort to elect successor the result being
herce light between three factions supremacy.
About 40 employees of the coal Pennsylvania
hours and better conditions of employment.
On Monday evening five containing naphtha ex
poded at Sheridan Pa killing sixteen people and ear,lv
about $50 Others many of whom have died
blazing fluid thrown hundreds the air and
descending upon the people and destroyed property est
mated at over a hundred thousand dollars.
The British steamship Camorta with 7se people on board
Is supposed to have been Nav
lfeboa and boom have been picked up She is ten DAYS
overdue. =2=' 5~E-9 .
The social democrats have decreed general
strike in support Of their suffrage Only such
work as is to life continued during
the consideration of the risdag Several ma
pers have suspended publication.
Sbe Ferry for Shadovvtown
- Sway to and fro in the twilight gray
This is the ferry Shadowtown:
1t always sails at the end of day.
Just the darkness down.