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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
HUNDREDS DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE.
Thousands Are Made Homeless Is Southern
Italy.

Rome, (By Cable).-All Italy is sui
fering from terrible depression because
of the news from the South, where one
of the worst earthquakes ever expert
enced occurred. Although the earth
quake was felt all over Calabria, and to
certain extent in Sicily, the worst news
comes from Pizzo and Monteleone, and
from IS villages which are said to have
been completely destroyed According
to the latest news received $40 persons
have been killed and an even greater
number injured. 1t is as yet impossible
to even estimate the property losses.
The shock was felt at 2.55 o'clock A.
NJ. 1t lasted for IS seconds at Catan-
faro. and soon thereafter was felt at Mes
sina, Reggie, Monteleone, Martirano, Ste
faconi, Piscopio, Triparni, ZamnIaro, CeS-
santi, Mazda, Olivadi, and other points.
Scenes of indescribable terror ensued.
Women aroused from their sleep rushed
half clothed into the streets screaming
with fear, carrying their babies and
dragging along their other children and
calling for help on the Madonna and the
saints.
The men escaped into the open with
their families, all calling on their favor
lite saints for protection. The cafes we're
| taken by assault by the strangely garbed
crowd, but as Daylight broke without a
repetition of the earthquake, the crowd
gradually melted away until by 8 O'Clock
the streets had almost assumed their
normal appearance, except in the ruined
villages, where the inhabitants had no
homes to go to.
The general confusion was added to by
dreadful cries from the jailS, where the
prisoners were beside themselves with
fright, and in some cases mutlnled. but
fortunately all the prisoners were Kept
within bounds.
Troops, engineers and doctors have
been hurried to the scene of disaster to
assist in the work of rescue and salvage.
The ministry of the interior sent $4,000
for the relief of the destitute, and Minis
ter of Public Works Feraris lett for
Calabria.
According to the latest kilograms re-
ceived here the earthquake caused serl-
Gus damage to housesin San Floro,
where one person was killed.
At Jonadi 10 persons we're killed and
100 wounded. j..
AT Dafina buildings wef damaged and
number of persons we're killed or
wounded. j.,
At Borgia two persons we're killed and
10 wounded. Many houss collapsed.
At Cirifalco houses we badly dam
aged, but there was no !o' OF lite.
All the houses at Stefaoni have been
wrecked by the earthquake 1t is feared
that a hundred people arepuried in the
ruins. 4
The villages of Piscopio.nd Triparni
have been destroyed; 100 hes lost.
AT Monteleone many hoes were. de-
stroyd and seven persons vre killed.
AT San Gregoria, accordig to the esti-
mates, IS persons lost theifives. !.
The village of ZammarGs destroyed
entirely.
At Mileto II are dead al 200 are in
iured
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15

Godzyadani, Manchuria (By Cable).-
AT o'clock P. M. Japanese COM
missioner bearing a white flag and es-
corted by 50 soldiers, arrived at a post
near the railway and handed to the
Russian officers who went 10 meet HIM
a letter from Field Marshal Oyama to
General Linevitch, congratulating him
on the conclusion of peace and begging
him to appoint Russian plenipotentiarles
to arrange an armistice.
Field Marshal Oyama appointed Cen
eral Tukushima as plenipotentiary TOT
his side, the letter announced, and ne
suggested Chakhedza as the meeting
place.
The negotiations received no Official
recognition in the field prior to theiI
successful conclusion, the army keeping
in state of preparedness for battle
until the receipt by General Llnevitcf
of telegram from Emperor Nicholas
declaring that the treaty had been signe'
and that he accepted the conditions ar
rived at This telegram was othciallI
published in the army newspaper OF
September E, and the outlines OF tn
oeace conditions were printed in tn
same publication. -.
The officers thereafter observed mill
tary decorum in the strictest sense, bu
the soldiers, with the consent OF the ON
GERS, engaged in feasting and othe
forms of celebration.
1t will be a week more before the en-
tire army is fully informed OF the con cor!
clusion of peace, but the news was dis
counted long since by the prevailing
conviction that since the appointment
of the plenipotentiaries, peace was :.
foregone conclusion. 1t may be sal II
that to the great majority OF. the ON
GERS and men so far informed the new
that the war is at an end is most wei
come. Il.
Thousands are daily drinking to tn
health of President Roosevelt.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
poRry WERE DROWNED IN LAKE STORM.
Bodies Of Four Men and q Woman Are
Washed Ashore.

Cleveland, O., (Specia)-W. A. Haw-
good & Co., owners OF the steamer losco'
which foundered in the recent heavy
storm on Lake Superior. received tele-
gram from Marquette, Mich, saying that
the bodies of four men and one woman
have been washed ashore at Pine River
with life-preservers attached to them
hearing the name "Iosco." The woman
is believed to have been the wife OF the
cook. who shipped from Fairport.
The Iosco carried crew OF 10 persons
all of whom undoubtedly perished. ne
total number of lives lost in the Lake
Superior storm is now placed at 40
Word was received by the Hawgood'
that body believed to be that of Cap
tain McGreery, of Buffalo, commander
of the steamer Olive Jeanette. had driftee
ashore at Lance, Mich.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
FINANCIAL.

The average price of railroad SHARE
has fallen about d per cent. IRON q
TOP level of last week.
Stock Exchange business in New Yor
in August gained Is per cent. over n
same month of last year. In the Phils
de!phia, Exchange the transactions II
creased 200 per cent.
E. w. Clark & Co. are largely intel
csted in the purchase of all the stree
railways of Portland, Me.
No one doubts that Morgan still favor
higher prices. There is sonme doul
about what the Standard Oil Peep
favor.
One firm of brokers having an impor
ant Philadelphia house are reported
have bought 100000 shares of stock
two days.
All rail freight rates on grain fro
Chicago eastward were increased p
cents on domestic and I cent per II
pounds on export. grain.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15

Connellsville, Pa. (SpeciaD. - The
Rand pewter Mills at Fair Chance, six
miles south of Uniontown, were entirely
wiped out by an explosion at o.o5 o'clock
A. M. Of the 81 men who went to
work in the mills 10 are known to be
dead. Of these 10 have been identified.
Scores of people in the town of Fair
Chance, within half mile of the pow
der mills, were more or less painfully
injured.
The shock of the explosion was dis
tinctly felt in Connellsville, 20 miles
away, buildings being rocked on their
foundations. AT Uniontown hundreds OF
panes of glass were broken.
In the town of Fair Chance there is
scarcely house that did not suffer
damage. The sides were battered in as
though axes had been used. HayStacks
were toppled over in the fields and live
stock were stunned The rails fthe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the
West Penn Traction Railways Company
were rooted from the roadbed and trat-
fic was delayed from four to six hours,
transfers being made over the Pennsyl-
vania.
Train No. 81, on the Baltimore and
Ohio, had narrow escape from annih-
ilation. 1t had just passed the Rand
Mills when the explosion occurred. The
windows in the passenger coaches were
shattered and passengers thrown into a
panic. Had the train been a few sec
onds late it would have been blown up,
as the mills are within few rods OF the
tracks.
A street car on the West Penn Rail
way had also passed just few seconds
before the explosion and was far enough
away to escape damage, though it was
derailed.
There were seven explosions in all.
Every one of the 10 buildings was total
ly demolished Not a vestige OF them
remains. The debris that was strewn
over the ten acres of ground where the
plant was located took fire soon after
the explosion and added its terrors to
the disaster. The dismembered parts
of the dead were burned in many in
stances. Identification of many was
made by parts of clothing alone. The
first three explosions were not as seri-
GUS as the last four. Then the packing
house, pressing room and magazine blew
up. followed by two cars of dynamite
standing on a nearby railroad siding,
which were set off by the conclusion
from the powder mill explosions.
Two other cars remained intact and
it was with difficulty that they were
moved to place of safety after the ex-
plosion.
Wherever a survivor or a finder OF
some CHASTITY relic chose to talk he was
Immediately surrounded by eager groups
of listeners. Orville Swaney was work
ing in the glazing room and had gone
out for drink of water. He was just
outside when the mixing mill went up.
The explosion threw him high in the
air and he landed on his feet in net
work of fallen wires
lodging through these, he sped
around the hill and was so feet away,
when the second explosion threw him
on his face. He lay there stunned and
knew nothing of the terrific blast that
came when the storage magazine went
I'D. A half hour after the explosion ne
was picked up and carried to place OF
safety.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
|p KILLED BY BLAST
Ten Buildings Of the Rand Powder
Mills Blown TO Pieces.
SHOOK BUILDINGS MANY MILES AWAY.
Tore Rails From Baltimore and Ohio and the
Electric Railway Tracks..Windows Smasneo'
Cattle 10 the Fields Stunned, Trolley Car
DeralIed and Persons Badly Shocked over
an Area Of Many Miles.

Ten buildings of the Rand
powder mills, at Fair Chance. 20
miles from Connellsville, Pa,
were blown into splinters.
Out of 32 men who went TO
work in the mills 10 are known
to be dead.
A passenger train had a mar
row escape, having passed a mo-
ment before the explosion oc-
Cured.
Windows were broken and
houses shaken in a radius OF
20 miles. Many persons were
painfully hurt in nearby towns:
Cattle in the fields were stunned
and wheat stacks overturned.
Seven explosions in all oc-
Cured.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Appeals to the Gar.

St. Petersburg, (By Cable) Through
dispatch from Tiflis and current reports
in St. Petersburg say that the oil works
and tanks at Baku have been entirely con-
stunned and the town practically wiped
out; according to dispatch to the Nobel
Company from Baku this is an error,
and the loss, though enormous, is not
complete
This dispatch stated that the firing in
The town had ceased and that the in
cendiarism had been checked. The fate
Of the banks and works which are not
yet on fire depends on the wind, which IS
blowing hurricane. Unless it changes
and sweeps the fire back on the unaf-
fected districts there is hope of saving
some of the properties. The sender OF
the dispatch was unable to give details
Of what had been destroyed and was not
destroyed, smoke and flames preventing
close examination.
The st. Petersburg press attacks the
government for its indecision in handling
events in the Caucasus and its neg
Iect to attempt to take measures to re-
:oncile the Armenians and Tartars, and
declares that the ruin of one of the most
Important industries in Russia and i'm
mense losses to industry and commerce
are the fruits of the governmental dis
regard for years of the most legitimate
amp practical suggestions Of the oil
men, especially the governments refusal
Of their request for authority to establish
local organization for Self-protection
against the excuses of the natives.
The authorities of the Caucasus would
seem to have been taken completely by
surprise by the magnitude Of the Tartar
rising. There is not the least doubt that
it had been long planned and carefully
organized, and is connected with the
Separatist movement.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15

parentIy uninjured. Before the motor
man could step from the platform and
lift the fender the crowd made a rush for
him, and in the scramble he was forced
against the controller. turning it around
and putting on full current. Instantly
the car shot forward distance of 200
feet, and the child's body was ground to
pieces
II u II
The sergeant in the West Thirtieth
Street Station heard voice but saw
nobody until he stood up and looked
over the desk. Then he made out WIFI
Archer, grown man, who is just IS
inches tall.
Sergeant, I've been robbed" the little
man said. 81 was going home on a
Thirty-fourth Street car, when two big
loafers, who were three times as tall as
l. picked me up and stole my diamond
and turquoise scarfpin, worth $780,"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15

; Baku, Caucasia (By Cable)-The prin-
ripal fighting is not in Baku itself, but at
8alakhan, where hundreds have been shot
BY the infantry and artillery, and where
1000 were killed or wounded during a
desperate attack on the military camp
md provision depots.
The troops sustained few casualties. :
A large number of workmen barricaded
themselves in-the Balkan Hospital.
The soldiers began the attack with rifle
FIRE and then stormed the hospital and
completed their work with the bayonet.
The manager of the Mantashoff Conf
pany says that the Bibiebat plants have
been burned out, that the depots of the
Caspian Company have been destroyed
and that the Christian workmen are sur
rounded by thousands of armed Tartars.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
TURKS INCITE RIOTING
Many Villages in Ruins and People
MaSSacred.
PEASANTS ATTACK THE MOBILES.
The Whole Caucasus Ia a State Of Anarchy
and Revolution. Authorities Completely Sur'
prised at the Magnitude Of the Tartar up
rlsiug-FIames Still Sweeping Oil Works
and Factories Ia Baku.
Russia's Troubles.

Anxiety prevails in Russian
official circles over the revolt in
the Caucasus.
In the fighting at Baku 1000
people were killed or wounded
in an attack on the military
camp. No quarter was shown
by the troops.
Turkish agitators are blamed
for melting the Tartars to
bloodshed and pillage.
Managers of the oilworks
have appealed to the Gar for
more troops. The fires con-
tinue.
The extent of the Tartar ris-
ing is a great surprise to the
Causasus authorities.
The Tartars have devastated
and pilliaged many villages and
massacred the residents.
Christian workmen of the
Caspian Company are surround
ed by thousands of bloodthirsty
Tartars.
Bands of peasants have or
ganized against the mobiles.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Ex.Mayor Goes 10 Prison.

Raleigh, N. c., (SpeciaD.-The ST.
preme Court denied the application Of
ex-Mayor McCown, of Durham, for a
writ of habeas corpus and directed that
he serve the term of 80 days in jail, to
which he was sentenced for cursing and
striking Judge George Ward, OF the STU
perior Court, because the Judge refused
to increase the sentence OF man who
had killed McCown's brother-in-law.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Town Marshall Killed.

GAINESVILLE, o. Especially While walk
ing along the streets of McConnelsville
Marshal H. C. Porter, of that city, was
shot and instantly killed by well-known
Young man named Woodie Stewart, a
brother of the county clerk Of Morgan
County. Stewart fired four shots at Por-
ter. ali of which tool, effect, three in the
head either of which would have pro-
duced death, and another in the body:
Stewart has long been regarded as OF
unsound mind, though never before did
he do a violent act. He has no grudge
against the Marshal and no cause can
be assigned for the crime.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
THEY CHEER ROOSEVELT
Oyama's Peace Greeting to General
LiHeyitch.
ALSO PLANS FOR AN ARMISTlCE.
Remarkable Demonstration Among the Russian
Standardization Correspondent Cen.
ter of Admiration for the Cossacks..T hous'
snds Daily Drinking Health Of President
Roosevelt.
Arranging Ar nlst'ce.

Field Marshal Oyama has
sent peace congratulations to
General Linevitch and asked
him to appoint Russian officers
to arrange arnistice.
Oyama has suggested Chalk
hcdza as the meeting place of
the japanese and Russian off,
GERS.
The Russian army in Man
churia teens with praise of
President Roosevelt for bringing
about peace.
Thousands OF the soldiers
cheer Roosevelt and drink his
health.
Russian soldiers are apprehen-
sivc about returning to Rus
sia and many of them want to
settle in Manchulia.
TOXIC has quoted down, al
though Japenese political agita-
tors continue to try to stir up
trouble.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Accuses Father OF siabblug Him.

St. Louis, Mo-, (speciaD.-In critl-
cal condition and believed to be dying
William Miller, Jr.. dry goods sales
nan under treatment at the City Hos
lital accused his ia her of having in
.sicted stab wounds from which he is suf-
bring The father was arrested and adj
lifted having had trouble with his son,
HI denied having stabbed him.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
In Memory of Senator Hanna.

Cleveland, O., (SpcciaD. = President
Charles F. Thing, of Western Reserve
University, who returned from two
month trip in Europe and a visit with
Andrew Carnegie at the latter's castle in
Scotland, announced that Mr.. Carnegie
has given $4,000 toward the establish
ment of a fund of 100000 for the endow-
ment of chair of political economy at
Western Reserve University to bear the
name of the late United States Senator
M. A. Hanna.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Palma Renomluated.

Havana DISQUALIFICATION Palma
was unanimously rcnominated as can
didate for the presidency of Cuba. Men
DEF Capote received the nomination for
the vice presidency. The platform does
m. mention the Plat amendment, as the
Moderates consider the constitutional
snnend;x settled. 1t declares strongly
for ive-year, extension of the recl-
procity treaty with the United States
md for amendments thereof according
n the interests of both countries.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
LIVES WITH BROKEN NECK.
james Booth Is Brought From Atlantic City on
Bed of Water.

Philadelphia, (SpeciaD.-Lying on a
bed of water, James Booth, aged "a
years, conductor on the Central Rail
road of New Jersey, was taken from the
hospital at Atlantic City to his home, in
Mauch Chunk, Pa. Booths spinal cord
i; broken between the fifth and sixth
vertebrae, the result of an accident while
he was bathing in the ocean on August
a. Booth Owed from the shoulders of
friend and struck on his head in the
sand, breaking his neck.
He was at once taken to the Atlantic
City Hospital and placed on water
BED. Doctors said he could not live.
In the care of physician, a trained
nurse and his sister, he was removed to
his home His case is puzzling the ply
sicians who have interested themselves III
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Killed By His Brother.

Pleasureville, KY, (SpeciaD. - Cash
Club, one of the wealthiest men in
Henry County, was hot and killed here
by his brother, Coswell The dead man
was 20 years old His brother is 49,
They had some difficulty over money
matters, but their friends attribute the
shooting to mental arrangement rather
than disagreement over finances.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Shot His Sweetheart.

Atlantic City (SpeciaD.-Dudley Vas
ouez, young Cuban, attempted to muir
der Mary Hayden, an employe OF a no.
.1t nth thew were walking on Chalfonte
a "m Three bullets entered the @o-
n .nsn,s bodv but none of them is con-
' .:da.od fatal The shooting occurred at
S , ,;,,s when there was large crowd on
che boardwalk and there was consid-
.ne oxc;te,nent. 1t is said that the
Chan 1Har had repeatedly asked the woman
- VA raarry him. but she always refused.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
y y !

A vivid dream in which Mrs. William
Clarity of SIS Humboldt Street, Brook
Ign, saw her I5-year-old son mangled by
a car was proved true, when the mother
learned that he had been killed by a
train in Pennsylvania on May 7. The
boy, William Garrity Jr., ran away from
home on May a to follow circus. Al
ter her boys disappearance Mrs. Garrity
had vivid dreams about him.
She had a vision Saturday that her
boy had fallen under the wheels of a
train The vividness of the dream fast
ened itself upon her so that the next day
she again called on the police and begged
Them to make inquiries regarding the boy.
That evening she was visited by a
stranger, who said he was a circus man,
who gave her the news.
A mob on Clinton Street caused the
death of little girl while trying to get
at motorman, and in the riot that fol-
lowed several persons were badly hurt.
The victim of the accident was Anna
Schrinshock, 2 years old. With her ia
her and another man, she was being
led across the street when crowded
northbound car rolled the girl under the
fender. where. she lay CRYING but ap-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
FOREIGN


The Japanese government announces
that Japan acquires suzeralnty over
Korea and free hand in the Peninsula
Railroad south of Changchun; also the
right to retain the collieries at Fushan
and Yental.
1t is reported that the Swedish naval
authorities have ordered the mining OF
certain waterways and that precaution-
airy measures have been taken to pre-
vent injury to shipping.
Field Marshal Yamagata, of JAPAN in
reviewing the war, sums up by stating
that Japan's military strength is unim-
paired and her army could have taken
Hardin.
1t is feared that Jacques Faure, an
aeronaut, and the Marquis de Villanong,
of France, have been lost in an aerial
voyage from Paris to Denmark.
The King of Italy has. given $4,000
for the relief of the earthquake suffer
ers. The railways in the devastated dis
trict are badly damaged.
There is some anxiety in St. Peters
burg over reported clashes at arms in
Manchuria and the continued delay in
establishing an armistice.
Gen. Leonard Wood, u. S. A., who
underwent a surgical operation, has re-
covered and left London for the Phil
ippnes
The international Prison Congress
closed at Budapest and the next con"
gress will be held in the United States
in 1910
The losses to the oil companies in the
Caucasus by the incendiary fires are es-
.imated at 100000 900.
Quiet has been restored in Toxic and
other japanese cities.
The Chinese magistrate of Quinsan,
near Shanghai, has been asserted and inn
prisoned OH the charge of torturing a
British subject of Chinese descent.
There are indications of serious trouble
between Sweden and Norway. The
Swedish newspapers are calling upon the
government to mobilize 10000 troops.
No more Russian emigrants will be
booked for the United States from Ger
man ports until after the raising OF the
embargo against cholera.
The Russian authorities explain THAT
the principal cause OF the disorders at
Baku is the Mosem hatred Of the Ar
menans.
Quiet has partially been. restored in
Toxic, the result of proclamation is
sued by the military commander.
Lieutenant General Chaffee and Briga-
dier Generals Bell and Crozier witnessed
the evolutions of division of cavalry
under General Dessirier. in France
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-09-15
Killed By Premature Blast

Butler, Pa, (5pccial).-Onc man was
led and sever badly Injured by the
mature explosion of charge OF dy-
lite at sand plant owned by the
a,dard Plate Glass Works, at Saxon,
The men were Ill foreigners. Three
l,he injured are suffering from trac-
lsd skulls, and .,ill die. The other
hurt are badly cut and bruised. All
Injured were brought to the Butler