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Sanitary State of
City to Be First
Consideration

The mayor yesterday an
nounced the appointments of Drs.
Thomas G. McConkey, Guy E
Manning, F. Dudley TAFT. Will
liam Ophuls and Thomas w.
Huntington to be members of the
board of health. The first two
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What's fhe Matter With You?

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lMPERTlNENT. QUESTIONS.
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Two OF Former Health Board
Are Reappointed by Mayor

-Four members Of the health board appointed BY Mayor
lor: Dr. Wladm Ophus (abopc) Dr. f. Dudley Tait (igh).
Dr. Thomas ~ Huntington (IcfD and DR.. Guy E.. Manning
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named were reappointed to mem
bership from which they had pre-
viously resigned owing to differ
ences with their former colleagues
over the city's sanitation.
The new health board took its
seat at o'clock last evening and
will meet again this morning to
ehect-organization by the election
of DR.. Huntington as president.
The board decided, also. to con-
fer with DR.. Rupert Blue, who
has been detailed by the federal
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INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE TEMPORARY SO
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER II. 1907
wEATHER CoNDITIoNs
NEWS TO-DAY

YEsTERDAY-ciesr; west wind; maximum
temperature. So; minimum. 81
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Cloudy; fresh souti
winds. Page
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Supplying the brick for the rebuilding
OF city is a big job. And the new kinds
Of brick being made are a revelation. A
good article in
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
GREAT EARTH SHOCKS OF PAST.

Lisbon was destroyed with 100 houses
and 10000 lives in 1881.
Lisbon was again destroyed in 1855
and 10000 lives lost.
Valparaiso was completely destroyed
in 1870.
Port Royal in Pamaica sank beneath
the ocean in the early part of the last
Ger fury.
Santiago in Guatemala was wiped out.
with all it's inhabitants. in 1913.
In 1922 Santiago de Chile was partial
ly destroyed, and in 1929 was devastated
again. each shock changing the level of
the coast line
Chile was devastated by earthquakes
in 1885. 1919 and 1851. and in the last
100 houses were wrecked and many lives
lost.
In 1880 the town of Illapil. near Val
paraiso, was destroyed and 200 people
persisted.
In 1892. 25.0OO persons persisted in an
earthquake in Peru.
In 1851, 10000 persons lost their lives
in the south of Italy. and in 1857 more
than 10000 persons were killed by earth
quakes in Italy
In 1901. great seismic disturbance
convulsed the Caribbean Sea and coinci-
dent with it the volcano Mont Pelee burst
into violent eruption and wiped out the
city of st. Pierre in Martinique.
During the past year Valparaiso. Chile.
and San Francisco have been visited by
destructive earthquakes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

The Senate confirmed the nomination
O. Brig. Gen. Franklin Bell. chief of staff
OF the army, to be major general.
Representative Sherley of Kentucky
asked to be relieved from service on the
judiciary committee. to which he was
appointed by the Speaker.
The House passed bill creating new
division of the southern judicial district
of Iowa and providing for terms of court
at Ottumwa and for clerk.
Secretary Shaw has selected 4. Jerome
Starek OF Cleveland as his private secre-
tary, to succeed Arthur L. Slater, re-
Gently appointed assistant Secretary of
the Treasury.
The House committee on judiciary de-
cided, by vote of . to z. not to consider
the Hepburn-Dolliver bill making liquor
carried in interstate commerce subject to
the laws of any State it enters.
The Mexican government has dispatch
ell Senior Don Jose +. Godoy, the Mexi-
can minister to Cuba, to Washington to
take charge of the embassy pending the
arrival of Senior Enrique Creel. the newly
appointed ambassador, who will not ar
rive until early spring.
Representative Lacey, chairman of the
House committee on public lands, intro
d1ced dill to place the Salton Sea prob
lem in charge of the United States gov
eminent. The bill creates reclamation
reservation in the Colorado river valley
and appropriates 100000 for dams
enc bitches.
Secretary Hitchcock appeared before
the House committee on public lands to
indorse the Presidents plan to have all
government coal, oil and gas lands leased
instead OF sold.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee. who commanded
the battleship Maine when that vessel
xas blown up in the harbor of Havana,
has been transferred to the retired list
of the navy on account of age.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock has
withdrawn 665,60O acres of unalienated
public lands in western Colorado from all
folms of disposal under the public land
laws for an addition to the Oncompahgrc
forest reserve.
Advices to the State Department re-
garding the abandonment by the japanese
government of the plan to send its naval
training ships to San Francisco officially
assign no reason for the change of pro-
gram, although a cordial invits lion was
extended to Japan by the State Depart
raent.
President Roosevelt received six chiefs,
representing the Ute indians who desert
e., their reservation last summer. They
Told the President they wanted to settle
among the Cheyenne river Sioux In South
Dakota, being wiling TO purchase lands
with their funds. The President prom
iscd to take Up the matter with Indian
Commissioner Leupp.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

Referring to the recent movement start
ed by the Society of Sanitary and Moral
American Propbylaxis, the New York
School Journal now declares that the
necessity of recognizing sex in the prac-
teal teaching of pupils in the public
schools is before us in a greater force
than eves. before DIR. Mary Putnam, who
had investigated the schools of twenty
cities, found no attention given to sex in
struction, except in three girls high
schools, where women physicians gave
brief talks on topics relating to child
birth. The result was that shame. mys-
terry and actual evil were associated with
sex in the minds of children. especially
those over 10 years Old She opposes
the doctrine of leaving the matter alone
on the ground that disease will punish the
guilty, as many innocent ones are infect
ed for one guilty one. Dean Ballet Of
the New York school of pedagogy say
the subject has passed the stage of in
curry as to whether these subjects shall
be taught, for the present question is how
the subject is to be presented. John X.
Elliott of the New York ethical culture
schools opposes the plan of having a ply
stefan brought in to teach sex knowl-
edge, as it increases the wrong notion
that the subject is unusual. and he makes
the practical suggestion of using the boy
and girl leaders to influence their mates
in the right direction.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

The whole town is in ruins.
The cable line from Kingston was
broken.
Many Americans were killed and have
tecn buried.
The body of Sir James Ferguson was
found and buried
4 school house fell at the first shock,
k,nng ninety children.
The battleships Missouri and Indiana
entered the harbor safely.
A tidal ware inundated Anotta bay,
washing out many houses.
Appeals have been sent to all sections
of the island asking for assistance.
Thirty-6ve out of total of ffty-6ve
employees in a tourist bureau were killed.
The shock was severe at Richmond,
ard this town also was destroyed by fire.
The topography of the country has
been changed and the navigation into the
Earbor materially altered.
The Plum Point and Port Royal light
he uses are both at the bottom of the har
LOr.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
CITY SINKING INTO THE SEA.
Bottom Falls Out of Hnrbor and New
Peril Is Caused.

tuuScu.
The city of Kingston, rocked by an
earthquake and almost destroyed by
fire, next seemed i'm imminent danger
of sinking into the sea altogether and
disappearing utterly from the face of
the earth.
With the number of dead still not
definitely known and estimates run
ming from LOCO to 500 and a property
loss reaching into millions, fresh alarm
was caused by dispatches from Port au
Prince, Haiti, which said that the bed
of the harbor was sinking and that it
was dangerous for ships TO approach.
There are thousands of tourists i'm the
vicinity of Kingston and this news
from there caused widespread unrest
The water along the front portion of
Kingston is said to be 100 feet deep in
many places and that other portions
of the shore are rapidly sinking. The
are both at the bottom of the harbor
The navigation channel has materially
changed and i'm some places the depth
of the harbor has been altered from
forty to 100 feet A circumstance that
tends to uphold the new danger is a
dispatch from Holland Bay, saying
that the portion of the town of Port
Royal which sank 200 years ago is
again under water.
The news from Havana regarding
the huge tidal wave that inundated the
entire coast near Jamaica's capital and
changed the jamaican coast line, fol-
lowing closely upon the heels Of the
cumulative details Of the earthquake
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
Interesting News Items.

A report that France had ceded Tahiti
TO Great Britf;n is officially denied in
Paris.
The equestrian statue of Gen. George
Z. Mcclellan in Washington will be un-
yelled on May 10.
Gov. Magoon signed a treaty of ex-
tradition between the republics of Cuba
and Santo Domingo.
The Paris Journal says that Jacques
Lebaudy, the self-styled emperor of the
Sahara is making tour of the United
States.
A lockout of 1900 carpenters and
joyners has taken place in Berlin because
OF the noncompliance of the unionists
with the demands of the Master Carpen-
ters' Association.
The committee on railroads and public
service corporations of the Oklahoma con-
stitutional convention recommended a 2
cent railway fare and the enactment of a
fellow servant law.
Prof. Albert William Berg, FOR forty
years organist at the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION, commonly known as
1.-The Little Church Around the Corner"
in New York, died in that city, aged 81
years.
Prof. J. r. Greer, principal of the pub
lie schools at Waco, Texas, was thrown
from buggy while the horse was running
away and instantly killed.
Prince and Princess de Broglie made
their London debut at the Tivoli Music
Hall. They were well received. Prince
de Broglie married Estelle Alexander of
California and his family disowned him
fer so doing.
4 fire which began in a row os tene-
nent buildings in Ferry street, Hoboken,
y. j., spread rapidly to the adjoining
tenements and did heavy damage. The
loss was about 100000. The origin of
the fire is believed to have been incen-
diary.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

June 2, 1GS2-Whole island shaken by
earthquake. Port Royal destroyed. Three
thousand houses destroyed.
1922, 1874, 1751-Desolating hurri-
canes.
1872, 1S43-Severe CONGREGATIONS.
October. 1S15-Great hurricane and
flood. Whole island deluged. One thou
sand persons killed. Hundreds of yes
sells wrecked. Hundreds of houses wash
ed away.
1S50-Epidemic Of cholera fatal to
about 10000 persons.
August, 1SS0-Cyclone passed over
eastern half of Jamaica, destroying nearly
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

all wharves in Kingston.
December 7, 1SS0-Earthquak shocks
felt throughout island.
October Is, 1SS2-Port Antonio de-
stroyed by fire.
October 81 to so, 1s99-Destructive
floods with great loss of life.
May. 1J02-Volcanic dust fell in great
clouds over island from ST. Vincent
August 10, 1903-Great hurricanes de
stroyed crops Port Antonio in ruins from
fire.
November 13, 1906-Exceedingly sharp
earthquake south and north of island,
followed Immediately by second shock.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

Myrtle Bank hotel and parish
which prominently the earthquake
Royal destroyed
Royal is the channel
quake danger relief ships entering
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

The village inpkeeper had q good
horse. The peasants borrowed 1t -
much that the innkeeper determined
to discourage them. So one day when
a peasant came to borrow the horse,
the innkeeper said he was sorry, but
he had let it already. Just then a
neigh came from the stable.
you've not lent ii. heard II neigh
Ing" said the peasant
Look here" replied the innkeeper,
~either / or the horse is telling a lie,
and you take my word for it. it's the
horse"-Kolce.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

A terrific gale, which blew rinety
miles an hour at times, swept Buffalo,
N. Y, for eighteen hours and has done
81 SOC, 900 damage to shipping. Five
large lake liners, wintered just inside
the breakwater wall, were torn loose
from their moorings and driven
aground.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

Founded in 1893 by refugees from tie
ruined City of Port Royal, which in 1852
was destroyed by an earthquake.
Constituted a city in 1902.
February, 1892, half of the city ws-i
destroyed by fire that caused about s. :
100000 damage, half of the houses beii =
destroyed.
In 1913 another destructive fire brol }
out and nearly wiped the city from ies
foundations. The loss was then $1a, :
100000.
Next came the famous Mansion Housl
fire. which resulted in the deaths of man ]
who we're housed in the hotel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

THAT was a fierce fight you had
with Cholly," said Knox. "He claims
he licked you"
ooh. the b0astah," exclaimed Gussie.
al admit he wumpled my cwavat
dweadfuily, but you should have seen
his collah r-Philadelphia Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

Santa Fee passenger train No. A, east
bound, the Chicago limited from Cali
fornia, was wrecked at Hutchinson,
Kas. The engineer was killed and a
number of passengers injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
$500 900 Fire I'm Savannah, Ga.

The plant of the South Atlantic Car
and Manufacturing Company at Sa-
vannah, Ca, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is about 100000; partly covered
hv insurance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

A severe earthquake was felt at
Tolmezzo, Italy. The Inhabitants are
panic-stricken and have fed from their
homes. There was no loss of life.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

and fire, caused the most profound in
terest in Washington official circles.
Naval officials were stirred. Secretary
Metcalf expressed himself as greatly
shocked at the advices from Jamaica.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
Farmer Governor Higgins Dying.

Former Governor of New York
Frank w. Higgins T. dying at Clean,
NY, of an affection of the heart. Doc
tors say there is no hope for him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
FEATURES OF INTEREST
CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES
AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD.
Courts and Crimes, Accidents and
Fires, Labor and Capital, Grain,
Stock and Money Markets.
HORRORS ON THE RAIL.

POwser Explosion Wrecks Big Four
Passenger Train-Other Wrecks.
Big Four accommodation train No.
was destroyed by the explosion of a
car load of powder as it passed a
freight train at Sanford, Ind. Twenty
two charred, broken and mutilated
bodies have been taken from the
smouldering ruins The number of in
jured will total at least thirty-five. The
cause of the disaster is not fully ey-
planned, as several theories are adj
vanced. The shock was felt for thirty
miles, many believing it an earth
quake The three coaches of the ILL
fated passenger train were filled. The
entire train, including the engine, was
blown from the track, the coaches be-
ing demolished, the engine hurled fifty
feet and the passengers either blown
to pieces, consumed by fire or rescued
In a more or less injured condition
The locomotive drawing the east
bound Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
freight train No. 80 exploded on a
bridge near De Soto, Kas. The bridge
was demolished and the engine and
fourteen freight cars went into the
creek. F. w. Bartell, engineer; w. w.
Dortch, fireman, and H. F. Shaw,
brakeman, of Argentine. Kas., were
killed, their bodies being buried under
the wreckage.
The Winnipeg flyer of the Great
Northern railroad, south-bound, was
wrecked ten miles out of Minneapolis,
Mimi The entire train, with the ex-
CeptiOn of the engine and baggage and
express cars, left the rails. Three pas
sengers-two men and one woman
who were in the overturned cars, were
injured, but not seriously.
An overturned telegraph pole hurled
across the Nickel Plate tracks by a
heavy gale, wrecked the west-bound
passenger train on the Nickel Plate
railroad at Fairview, Pa. Six persons,
occupants of the two coaches over
turned by the force of the collision,
were injured.
A south-bound Lake Shore passen-
ger train is reported wrecked at Riga,
Mich, with four coaches off the track.
1t is reported that one person was
killed and number were injured.
A Pere Marquette passenger train
was wrecked by a broken rail nine
miles west of Alma, Mich. No passen-
gers were hurt. Fireman Homer John
son was killed.
BY the wreck of a suburban train on
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad at Hammond. Ind, thirteen
persons were injured, none Of them
fatally.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
Bryan I'm a Train Collision.

The Montana Central's west-bound
train. on which Mr.. and Mrs. William j.
Bryan were passengers, collided with
switch engine and stone cars in the Great
Falls yards. The engine of the passenger
train was badly damaged. the baggage
car was wrecked and several passengers
we're shaken up badly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

&70o,0OO Fire mt Youngstown, Ohio.
A fire thought to have been caused
by the crossing of electric wires in the
basement of the building occupied by
the H. L. McElroy Company, furniture
dealers at Youngstown, Ohio, complete
ly destroyed that building and the adj
joining one occupied by the ]. N.
Euwers Sons Company. dry goods
dealers. The Eastman Hotel was en-
tirely destroyed. The total loss is esti-
mated at 500, 900 with insurance about
twO-thirds.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
Manna Loa is in Eruption.

The volcano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, is
II. eruption, q stream of lava having be-
gun to pour out of the crater. The erup-
ton forms a magnificent spectacle, which
is visible for 100 miles at sea.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

The selection of the first division of tt:
armored cruiser squadron to represeA,
Great Britain at the jamestown navs.
review was officially communicated to tn.
American embassy ia London.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

Mrs. Hav ler-How do you like your
new girl?
Mrs. Homer-Shc's a jewel. But she
isn't new girl We've had her nearly
week
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
wife Horsewhips Girl Rival.

Hrs. Jennie Cauley, enraged by her
husbands attention to Miss Gail Rem,
waylaid and horsewhipped the young
woman in the street in Baltimore. The
girl ran to store, where customers pro-
,ected her. Mrs. McCauley was arrested.
The court admonished her to be less siren
uOuS.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

State Department officials are withot>
advices from consular or diplomatic off,
Gers in China concerning the mass NEE =
ing reported to have been held in Cantdl
to revive the boycott on American good.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

William r. Hearst, speaking before Il. ).
New York City committee of the Ind.,-
pcndence League said Il myself am ne
and viii not be again candidate for any
Office
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

Hundreds of Shawneetown, ILL.,,
refugees have arrived at Carmi, H.,
having fled from their homes in fear
of the flood in the Ohio river.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

twenty-five persons were kliieu IN
the wreck of Big Four passenger train
No. 50 near Fowler, Ind, Saturday,
twenty of whom were burned alive,
and forty others were injured. Those
killed were nearly all in the combina-
ton car, which took fire and burned.
The sleeping cars were not wrecked
The wrecked train was Queen City
Special, east-bound, from Chicago, and
was going fifty miles an hour. Owing
to a dense fog the engineer of the flyer
was unable to see the light on the soma
phore, which directed him to stop, rs a
west-bound freight had the right Of
way.
The train dispatcher, knowing that
the dense fog would prevent the train
men from seeing the block signal, went
outside and waved his lantern frantic
ally and fired at least half a dozen
shots from his revolver, but the train
went crashing by and moment later
the crash came, the passenger running
into the freight, head on.
The tender OK No. 50 telescoped rhe
baggage car, the rear end of the tender
cut through to within ten feet Of the
rear of the smoker. The firemen of
both trains were killed instantly, but
the engineers escaped by jumping. The
report of the collision was heard all
over the town. Fire bells and wills
ties called the people to the aid of The
injured.
Immediately following the crash rhe
wreckage caught fire and the people
were burned before they could be OK
treated from the ruins. The heat of
the burning cars was so intense that
the rescuers could not gH near enough
TO help.
Crushed Like an EggsheII.
The trains met three-quarters of a
mile east of Fowler. Both were at top
speed. When they struck the engines
were welded together. The combina-
ton car. first in the passenger train.
was crushed like an eggshell under the
impact of the sleepers behind Before
the grinding, splintering mass had
time to settle bright flames sprang mp
i'm half dozen places. The combina-
ton car was smashed TO kindling and
much of its wreckage, tossed up on the
kissing locomotive wreckage, burned
fiercely In few minutes the wind
had driven the fire back into the first
sleeping car. It's occupants knew the
car would burn and before tse fire at
tackled it had fed. some Of them in
night attire. All the coaches, except
the sleepers and the private car OF
Vice President SchaR, we're destroyed.
Or the passengers known to have
been in the combination coach at the
head of She train only five were res
cued. Most of the others died horri-
BILE deaths by fire and steam, pinned
in the wreckage of the car.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
re- HINT for North Pole Again

II is reported that the Duke of Abruzzi
intends to make another attempt to reach
the north pole. 1t will not be made,
however, until the result of the Wellman
collar expedition il known.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24

There are now more telephones in use
connected with independent exchanges
than with Bell exchanges.