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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
A KIDNAPPING CASE.
Italian Boy Only Returned to Parents
On Payment OF Money.

u
New York, Dec. 29.-The arrest of
two men and woman last night re-
vealed the details of a rather rema rls-
able Kidnapping case in which a child
was kept from his parents for a. month.
but during which time the father,
Giusseppi Randazzo. an Italian barber,
was afraid to make any complaint to
the authorities. The child was re-
turned only after Randazzo had paid
over $3.50 In cash to the alleged abduc-
tors and transferred to them a half
interest in his barber ship.
1t was on Nov. % that the child was
restored, but the father coWed by pre-
Yious threats still kept the matter
secret and the police knew nothing OF
the affair until yesterday when, after
an investigation. they arrested Fran
cisco Catarinichi and his. wife and an
other Italian. The woman is charged
with kidnapping and Isadora Campisi,
an alleged accomplice OF the pair with
Kidnapping and extortion. The father
has identified Campisi as the man to
whom he had paid the $3.50 and to
whom he had transferred a part in
terest in his barber shop.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
REASON RESTORED BY
SURGICAL OPERATION.

Berkeley, Cal, Dec, 29.--George Me-
Cluskey of this city has been restored
to reason by a surgical operation per-
formed on his skull yesterday. Some
years ago McCluskey7 suffered an ac-
ciient In q machine shop, since which
time he has been afflicted by periodical
attacks Of violent insanity. After the
latest attack, which took place Christ
mas eve he was removed TO a hospital,
where an examination by physicians
revealed the fact that piece of bone
was pressing against the brain. The
bone was found to be firmly Embedded
In the brain, but by the delicate oper-
alton OF treppanning it was success.
fully removed According to the latest
reports from the hospital the man VIII
grecoYer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
PENETRATING POWER OF
TORPED0ES INCREASED

Washington. Dec. %. 1.-The ordnance
department is now experimenting with
the device invented by Conmaa r
cleiand Davis. United States navy. for
improving the penetrating power Of tor=
pedoes. This device was tested some
time ago and the test was Witnessed
The report on these tests has never
been made public, but it was SO fav-
orable that Admiral Mason. chief of
ordnance, ordered an official investi-
cation intothe merits of tho device nne,
thisiis now IN progress at Newport 1t
is fully expected that these tests will
substantiate all claims made for the
device and If that is done its formal
adoption will probably follow in the
near future.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
KROHN, THE WALKER,
Has Finished $500 Miles or a 5000
Mile Tramp.

4
San Francisco, Dec. 29.--I. A. Krohn
of Portland, Me. arrived in this city
today on u walk OF 5000 miles which
he is to make on a. wager in 400 days.
According to the conditions OF the bet,
Kloln, who is better known as Col
onial Jack, Z must push a wheelbarrow
en- route and cover the distance in the
time named. He has alrady walked
1850 miles, an average of 20 miles a.
day..
To complete the walk on schedule
y time he must walk a fraction of over
22 miles day in spite of II days lost
on account OF Illness he is far ahead of
the requirements.
The Sphinx the wheelbarrow.
which the pedestrian trundles on his
long walk, is covered with the post
marks Of 6s5 postoffices. 1t also has a
speedometer attached to register the
number OF miles covered The wager
on the outcome of the walk is $1,000
against 1000 copies of the book which
Krohn will write on the completion
of his walk.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
PROTEST AGAINST RAISE
IN TRANsc0 NTINENTAL RATES

San francisco, Dec. 2a.--one hundred
mass meetings will be held at various
points throughout the state today to
protest against the proposed increase in
transeontsnental freight rates which
arc scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.
The organized remonstrance against
the action of the transportation COM
panies has been handled by an exectl-
tive committee appointed by the ship
5pers of the state who have Joined In
the movement and the day OF the meet
ings has been designated as Rate
day., According to the estimates
made by the committees in charge of
the meetings. q general attendance Of
between 81, 600 and 100000 persons is ex-
peeted. Every important city in the
state will have q meeting and the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
YAQUlsi RENEGADE
REVOLT ABOUT OVEP

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. s9.-Accnrding
to the latest advices from Sonora, the
Yoqni renegades revolt seems to be
about over. That negotiations for peace
have been on and are now before Presi-
dent Diaz is known. An answer is eX-
pected from him early In January
when the truce existing will be up, but
1t is thought unlikely that hostilities
will be resumed
OF late few Yaquis who were trans
ported to Quintana Roo. the territory
formed from the southern half of Yu-
acatan, have succeeded in escaping and
getting back to their tribe.
They have told stories of terrible
hardships and from what they have
learned of the governments power as
seen IN the country they have gone
through, they have been convinced that
further struggles arc vain
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
FIRE IN SILVER CITY, IDAHO.
Eight Business Buildings Destroyed,
Loss $4,000.

Eight business buildings in Sisrar City.
the leading u1fTsrg n"ssSn ern
Idaho. were destroyed by fire al dSIla.
mite early this ...orliIiis, eat.. 80
of $4,000. with practically no i ,..s.nce.
THE fire originated In Il Chinese restau-
rant, and quickly spread TO the adjoin-
y in buildings. In order 20 save the town
War Eagle hotel. the general store of
Charles N. Caldwell, the largest store In
town. and two other buildings. were
dynamited. The fire ragged FOR four
hours before 1t WAS brought under con-
trol Three hundred miners did heroic
work In hghtirg the FIRE. ChiHamen
caught looting goods removed from the
burning buildings were driven away
with siS-sheoters, and an armed guard
placed around. the goods. The fact that
no wind prevailed is all that saved the
entire town from destruction. The big
gest loser was Sheriff Mike Rock. own
Ger OF four OF the destroyed buildings.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
MOUNT ETNA SHOWS
SIGNS OF ACTIVITY

Catania. Sicily. Dec. 29.-Mount Etna
is this morning showing considerable
activity and the decorations. which can
be plainly heard In this city, together
with the volume OF smoke rolling out
of the crater, have added to the panic
of the people.
According to the director of the local
observarSry this activity Is directly
connected with the earthquake OF yes
ter}ay which wrought such havoc in
4 Caiabria and Sicily but great erup-
tion Is not expected. Such phenomena
seldom accompany violent seismic dis
tturbal ces.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
RoBBER coNFEssEs.

Nacogodches. Texas. Dec. 29.-Arthur
Berdy. negro wanted at Taft, Okla,
on g. charge Of having. stolen $4,000 in
currency at that place on Friday last,
was arrested here today. About s12,-
900 OF the money was found
Berry, it is declared, has confessed,
stating that an accomplice had the re-
manning part OF the stolen money.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
DIED OF STARVATION.
But Dead chinanan Had $4,000 In
His Pocket.

Los Angeles. Cal. Dec 2e.-With
a roll of $4,000 In his pocket with
which he intended to return to China.
an unknown Chinese died of starva-
ton on Southern Pacific train yes.
terday shortly before the Arcade depos.
WIS reached.
The man has not been identified an
yet, but railroad employees stated that.
he had worked u small vegetable
ranch near Cotton for several Years.
He had denied himself sufficient.
food to keep alive in order to nave
as large q sum as possible when he
got back to his native country.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29

the shippers OF California to what Is
termed the imposition or a s1o,00o,oo0
annual tax OF, California consumers,
thai being the estimated difference be-
tween the rates row in force and those
which the companies seek to collect
after the first OF the year
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29

combat with cut i'll the rear of u,
butcher shop over some meat scraps.
a boy in the shop hearing the cats
cries dashed out and caught the bird
by throwing a sweater over It's head.
Followed by cheering crowd OF 200
children, he then carried his captive
TO =: nearby police station. 1T Will
be given to the Central Park zoo.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
CHICAGO GREATEST USER
OF TELEPHONES IN WORLD

Chicago. Dec 2s.-According to the
annual report of the Chicago telephone
exchange more householders have tele-.
phones here than in any other city In
the world. There is enough live"
telephone wire in tho city to sirdle the
world is times.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
FISHERIES COMMISSION.
Date for Meeting of International One
Postponed to June 5.

Stanford University, Cal. Dec 20
BY order of the state department and
the foreign Office of Great Britain. tne
date for the report of the international
fisheries commission has been post
the resignation OF S. Il. Bastedo, the
British member of the commission,
who has been made a deputy minister.
Prof. Edward T. Prince of the uns-
versity of Toronto, his successor. has
asked for more time TO acquaint ilinl-
self with the work befo,s making the
report. DR.. David Starr 5S,irdan is the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
MARY M ADAMS DEAD.

Chicago, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Mary Nj.
Adams. one of the first pupils Of Mrs.
Mary Baker Eddy In Chicago, is dead.
In Hihgland Park. after an illness of
several months Mrs, Adams was born
iii Lowell. Mass.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
roy cApTUREs EaGLE.

New York, Dec. GA lusty young
eagle. probably from the CatskilI noun
tairs, made its appearance in Harlem
last evening where 1t engaged In a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
sHERrFFs LIST.

Sheriff elect Joseph Sharp. when seen.
said he had not yet completed the list
of 26 deputies and assistants under his
jurisdiction, but expected to have them
ready for approval by the commission
ers by the time of the meeting OF the
new board.
Sheriff Sharp, il the present force IS
maintained and not Increased, will
name one chief deputy; five deputies
for the criminal division; two deputies
for the civil division: four court bail
ifs: four jailers. three deputies for
Bingham; two deputies for Bingham
Junction; one deputy for Garfield. one
deputy for Lark, ono deputy for Alta
q stenograpiler for the Office. and one
license collector.
No changes have been announced in
the force of the county treasurer, and
none up to date in the county recorders
office, although some changes may be
expected in this Office as the recorder
elect is not the present incumbent.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
SEVENTY THOUSAND
PEOPLE DEAD in ITAL Y.

Victims Of the Earthquake and Tidal Wave that Visited
Southern ltaly---Messina Reports $4,000 Dead and
Wounded-Great Wave that Swept Inland Was 80 Feet
High Whole Religious Communities Wiped Out
sg88 Vandalism Of Worst Kind Has Broken OutLSevere
Measures Taken to Repress IL Robbers and Looters
u Shot on Sight.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29

been received from two other. towns
in Calabria, G.assanos and Coceti 2 q
Cassano is said to have 1000 dead
while the wounded nunlbr 500. At
Cose1lza 500 dead people have been
taken from the ruins.
( Classano has 500 people, while
1Cozenza is the center. IF a$comnlunity
with Il population Of BLOOD. 2s
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
cARUso's CONTRIBUTION.

New York, Dec. 29.--En1ico Caruso
will contribute weeks salary to the
earthquake sufferers in Italy, his ma
tive land. Caruso is said 4 to receive
s2,50O q week at the metropolitan
Opera House.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
APPEAL OF RED CROSS.

Washington. Dec. 29.-The American
National Red Cross today sent ont
Geographic requests to all Of its
branches for relief funds to be applied
to the sufferers from the earthquake in
son tNe,.n TIA W. sii .gt> ff4
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29

Rome. Dec. sReports have Just
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29

London, Dee ga special dispatch
from Rome says the pope has been noti--
fled that the entire religious commu-
mites of Messina and Reggie, including
bishops, priests, monks and nuns, have
been wiped out by the earthquake and
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
REFUGEES FROM MEssINA.

Palermo, Dec. 29.--Refugees from
Messina say that there We're 100 for
eigners in the hotel Trinacria, and that
they all lost. their lives. The hotel has
been completely obliterated. It was
one of the best in the. city and patron
lied Almost exclusively by tourists. It
was situated in the Via Galibaldi.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25
Wholesale Prices.
POULTRY.

POULTRY.
Eggs, Toe doz. Hens, &c ID.
BOOSTERS per ID. sc.
Young Chickens, each Is to 25,.
Turkeys, fat, per To-, 7c
Ducks, per To-, &c.
BOOSTERS, per h., Sc.
Full feather geese, per doz. So. 90
GRAIN.
No. 2 Northern mixed oats PEI
1ushel. IS; No. Timothy hay, pei
on, $500; No. Timothy hay, pei
S7n, $1,000; No. ! Clover Hay, pc
on, $1,000; Mixed Clover Hay.
POULTRY, EGGS AND BUTTER.
Prices paid by wholesale deal ers
% the producers and dairymen:
Live Poultry-Hens, per ID, 7c.
Butter-Packing, packing stock
per h., 12c
ROOTS, HIDES, WOOL AND TAI.
LOW.
Prices paid by wholesale dealers
to butchers and farmers:
Roots-Southern ginseng, 1925 b.;
Golden SeaP' yellow root, 81. 90 ID. !;
Mayapple, &c; pink root, 12c and 1Sc.
Tallow-No. l, &c; No. 2, SC.
Woodbury. II to 20; Clear
Grease, zoe Medium, tub
washed, 35c to 45c: coarse, dingy.
lub-washed, 3OC to 36c Black wool
4c.
Feathers Prime white goose,
Sc; dark and mixed old goose, 25c
to 35c; gray mixed, l5c to Doc. white
duck, 35c.
Hides and Skins-Tbese quota
mons are for Kentucky hides
Southern green hides &c.
We quote assorted lots; dry flint
No. /, SC TO loo:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25
The EnaIishman,s Letter.

whenever l get a letter with a
string Of unnecessary instructions for
delivery on the envelope l know it is
from an Englishman," said the tall
girl. "He is so used to covering every
scrap of space with the complex direc-
tions that prevail in his own country
that he cannot understand how the
simple address Miss Smith, 80 Blank
Street, City, will ever take a letter to
its destination In order to insure safe
and expeditions delivery he adds East
Side or West Side or Manhattan OF
United States or something else equal
ly superiuous. The only really happy
Englishman I have met in a long
while was one who made the acquaint-
ance Of a girl who lives over on Staten
Island. He was tickled to death when
he gained permission to write to her
and found she had long address. He
made it a good deal longer than 1t need
be. He wrote - Avenue, Stapleton,
Staten Island Richmond County, New
York, N. r. with irrepressible glee.
He said that address was the first
thing he had seen in America that
made him feel at home."-New York
Sun.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25

Tennesseean, David NJ Key, who
was appointed Postmaster General
by President Hayes, March II, 1877,
and three years later was appointed
to the Federal Circuit Court bench,
making way for another Tennessean,
a Republican, Horace Maynard, to
be Postmaster General.
No Southerner has held so high q
Cabinet position since Jefferson Da-
Wis, of Mississippi, was Secretary of
War in Pierce's administration. II
is new thing in the administration
of the Governments affairs for a
former Confederate soldier to be at
the head Of the war establishment of
the Union. President Cleveland had
a former Confederate soldier as Sec
rotary of the Navy in Col. Hilary A.
Herbert, of Alabama, but nobody
who has ever had anything to do
with the Confederacy has ever before
held a responsible position in the
War Department.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25

"Have you ever noticed what strange
memoranda mans mind makesT ask
ed the observant inquisitor "You have
met people who cannot remember 2424
except as a number which they call
twice 1912 That's an ordinary case,
but / think i got across a champion
freak mind the other day when was
looking up a man who has been dead
for some fifteen years. / got to his
neighborhood and began questioning
the old timers. Yes, remember Char
ley Johnson we'll enough. sure l do
said one old fellow Then l wanted to
know what Charley Johnson's trade
had been. HIN, Charley Johnson's
trader answered my informant in
perplexed tone. Charley Johnson's
trade? Well, darn it, what was his
trade now? What did Charley do, any
way? Just wait a minute. know that
there Is something here in the house
that will remind me what his trade
was. Just let me look around a min
ute. Let us see, what was it now?
That's right. that's right; there l have
it. Charley was a baker. That's right.
You see that there picture over there?
1t has some Dutch writing under it.
That reminds me Of Dutch cake and
makes me think of it that Charley was
a baker, Now, what do you think of
that? Why couldn't that freak mind
just as easily remember that Charley
was a baker as remembering the labo
rious process for refreshing it's men,
DRY PHILADELPHIA Record.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25
THE MASTERPIECE.
Il 10 Produced on the Average AZ che
Ase Of Fifty.

IL ls Produces on the average - t"s
Ase Of Fifty.
The ssummum bonum" Of a mans
ufe-who shall say when or what 1t Is
IN any given case? It becomes almost
n work of supererogation to attempt to
designate any single act or perform
ance as the one most valuable in any
mans career. Reduced to the ulti-
mate, il becomes, after all, only the
expression of an individual opinion,
save in those striking instances in
which by general consent a certain
achievement is recognized as the mans
greatest work. No one would deny
that in Paradise Lost" Milton attained
the highest expression of his mentality,
that wellington achieved his greatest
fame when he won the field of Water
loo that Bacon's "Novum Organum" Is
his greatest accomplishment and that
"Don Quixote" exceeds anything else
that Cervantes ever did. In other life
records one act may appear equal to
another at different stages in the mans
development, or to one observer the In
fuence Of one deed may far outweigh
that of another, and contrariwise. This
difficulty has been exceedingly hard to
overcome and without any attempt at
dogmatism, but with the earnest desire
to ascertain the truth as far as may
be possible, has the decision been made
In the disputabIe records.
Having been arranged in this man.
ner, the records give an average age
of fifty for the performance of the
masterwork For the workers the av-
erage age is forty-seven and for the
thinkers fifty-two. Chemists and physi-
cists average the youngest at forty-one;
dramatists and playwrights, poets and
inventors follow at forty-four; novel
lists give an average Of forty-six, ex-
plorers and warriors forty-seven. mu-
steal composers and actors forty eight,
artists and divines occupy the position
Of equilibrium at fifty, essayists and
reformers stand at ffty-one, physicians
and surgeons line up with the states
men at fifty-two, philosophers give an
average of fifty-four, astronomers and
mathematicians, satirists and humor-
lists reach fifty-six, historians fifty
seven and naturalists and jurists fifty
eight. AS may be noted, there is a re-
arrangement of the order at this time,
but the thinkers, as before and as
would naturally be expected, attain
their full maturity at later period
than the workers.
The corollary is evident. Provided
health and optimism remain, the man
of fifty can command success as read
lily as the man of thirty. Health plus
optimism read the secret Of success;
the one God given. the other Unborn
also, but capable of cultivation to the
point OF enthusiasm.-W. A. Newman
Dorland in Century.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25
IN AUTOMOBILES.
Chicago Parties Will Travel
Overland to Denver.

Starting next Tuesday from Chi
cago, twenty delegates to the Ma
tionanl Democratic Convention will
tour to Denver in train Of five au-
tomobiles, stopping at all of the
important cities and towns along the
route and occupying about ten days
on the journey.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, the home of
William Jennings Bryan, which the
tourists Will meet on Saturday, a
second train of cars, carrying Gov.
Hoch, of Kansas; and Gov. Folk, of
Missouri, will meet the Illinois trav-
elers, and continue to Denver as one
train. The Hon. John Atwood, of
Leavenworth, who is expected to
make the nominating speech for
William j. Bryan, will be one of the
Kansas party.
The automobile train carrying the
Illinois delegation was chartered by
the Hon. Roger G. Sullivan, chair
man of the Illinois Democracy, and
the party will include number of
prominent Democratic statesmen.
1t is expected that the Chicago
train will reach Clinton, Iowa, on the
first day, Marchalltown Wednesday,
and Omaha, Ncb., Thursday night,
remaining at that point nearly an
entire day, as prominent Omaha
Democrats have arranged gigantic
reception in honor of the delegates.
Following another reception at Lin
coin, the tourists will continue
through Grand Island, Kesrney and
North Platte, Neb., crossing the
Colorado river near Julesburg.
At that point a number of distin-
guished Democrats in automobiles
will meet the tourists and escort
them to Denver. At the convention
city special entertainment is being
arranged in honor of the Illinois. Kan
sas-Missouri travellers, who will es-
tablish precedent in convention
travel, this being the first time in
the history of transportation that a
train of motor cars completes with
trunk line railroads over long dis
lance routes.
The route to be followed by the
touring delegations is based on the
one generally used for cross-conti-
nent automobile tours, but several
slight deviations will be made for the
purpose of touching cities and towns
in which prominent Democratic or
CARNATIONS are anxious to entertain
the delegates.
1t is expected that Denver will be
reached some time during the day
of the glorious Fourth. The train
will go leisurely, and average about
l25 miles day.