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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS HAYTi.
Gonaives, Thriving Town, Is Raw.

GOnaives, Thriving Town, Is Raw
aged by Shocks.
An earthquake caused havoc at Go
naives. Hayti. Several houses were de-
stroyed and others damaged No loss OF
life has been reported. Communication
with the town is broken. The first shock
was followed by a tidal wave. Among
the buildings destroyed are the CONNER
cial houses of Hermann, Adder 4 JOLT
bert. Gonaives is one of the most thriy-
ing towns of the Haytien republic. 1t
is situated on the bay or gulf of Go
naives, sixty-fve miles northwest of Port
au Prince. 1t has a good harbor. 1t
exports coffee, dyewoods. and cotton, and
imports from the United States dry goods
and provisions. Gonaives is Bishops
see and has population of $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
BLACK HAND EXPLOSION.
1t Breaks Windows-AImOst Causes
Panic In Bellevue Hospital, n. Y.

1t Breaks Windows-AImost Causes
Panic In Bellevue Hospital, n. Y.
An explosion which the police lay TO
the BLACK Hand" occurred at an early
hour Thursday morning in a tenement
house in East Doth street. New York.
SCATTERING the front of the building,
breaking windows in nearby buildings and
almost causing a panic in the wards of
Bellevue hospital, which are located On
that side of the hospital toward the build
ings where the explosion occurred. The
explosion seems to have been directed to-
ward the family of Pietro Owarato,
coal Snd wood dealer. who with his wife
and three children lives in the building.
Owarato says that Dec. - he received
a letter signed BLACK Hand in which
he was directed to place $1,000 on the
grave of a certain Italian in a Brooklyn
cemetery within month on penalty of
being killed with all his family. No one
was seriously injured in the building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
SEAS SWAMP HAVANA STREETS.
Heavy Northwest Gale Drives the
Wota.s Into ,ha Cftv

Heavy Northwest Gale Drives the
Waters Into the City.
A heavy northwest gale drove high
seas against the ocean front at Havana,
sweeping over the Malecon sea wall and
inundating the lower part of the Prado
and adjacent streets to the depth of sew
eral feet. The lower section of Vedado,
a suburb, was also inundated. A fire.
man, while engaged in rescuing persons
from flooded houses in Vedados, fell into
the water and was drowned. Much dam
age was done to the Hotel Kiramar, and
scores of residences on Gulf avenue, the
lower floors of which were submerged.
Entrance to or exit from the harbor was
impossible during the gale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
500, HUNGRY, PARADE ST. LOUIS
Mayor Wells Promises "Army" EN-
plOyment on the Streets.

Mayor Wells Promises "Army' EN-
plOyment on the Streets.
Hungry and out of work, 800 thinly
clad men marched through the snow and
cold to the city hall in st. Louis, seeking
Mayor Wells in order to make applica-
ton for his assistance in securing en-
ployment. James Eads How, philan-
thropist and scion of a prominent family,
who proudly styles himself hobo" led
the procession, and the welfare. associa-
ton, of which he is the founder and ben
efactor, formed the nucleus of the
army" w. ]. Willard, a Socialist lead
er of Cincinnati. acted as marshal May
or Wells said he would divide the work
now being done for the city and give
part to the army" He instructed Street
Commissioner Travilla to prepare an or
dinance calling for an appropriation of
$4,000 for street work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
BUBoNIC PLAGUE DISAPPEARING
War on Disease Requires Lives Of
13O,OOO Rats in San Francisco.


With only seven cases of bubonic
plague reported during the month Of
December and only three cases remain
ing under treatment at the isolation
hospital, the plague in San Francisco
is almost eradicated as result of the
vigorous sanitary campaign conducted
during the last four months by the Uni
ted States Marine hospital service un-
der the direction of DIR. Rupert Blue.
1t is estimated that approximately
10000 rats have been destroyed dur
ing the last four months. Thirty-fi i've
thousand six hundred and forty-two
rats were brought to the laboratory of
the health department. OF this num-
Der 1881 We're examined by bacteri-
ologists for plague and 1O6 found to
be infected
The total number of cases reported
to date are 1856; deaths, 73; cured, GO;
remaining under treatment, 3; suspect
ed Vases, 10.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Talks After sixteen Years.

Speeches. for sixteen years, Gustave
Laut of New York has learned in ten
months to talk fiuentlv. During the
same period he has developed from an alb
normal, undeveloped, almost imbecile boy
into an alert, active, ambitious youth !;
he has grown four inches in height, per-
manent teeth have come to him against
all the beliefs of the dental profession,
and he gives promise of becoming a
healthy normal man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
AMERICAN IN MEXICAN PRISON.


Train Official Punished for Ejecting
Penniless Passenger.
J. s. Conger, train auditor of the Mex
lean Central railroad, has been placed in
prison at Jiminez, Mexico, on complaint
of a Mexican passenger who boarded the
train with his wife, four children and
two tickets and was put off when he de-
clared he had no money to pay for the
others. Mr.. Conger is brother of for
mer United States Ambassador Conger.
The railroad company sustains the audi
tor in his action and its officials are try
ing to secure his release from prison at
Jiminez
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
General Dies Prisoner.

Gen. Josiah Pickett, former Worces-
ter, Mass, postmaster and commander of
the famous Massachusetts, Twenty-ffth
regiment during the Civil War, and
known as the hero of Cold Harbor. died
in Worcester, aged So years. Shortly be-
fore his death he boosted of the fact that
he was the only officer of the Civil War
still under military arrest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Following the conviction of two of the
customs secret service men for falsifica-
ton of a public document, the courts in
Manila ordered the prosecution of Colo
mel H. B. Mccoy, the deputy collector,
upon similar charges. Mr.. Mccoy has
held the position since the establishment
of the civil government in the Philip
mines
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Murder Juror Kills Self.

John S. Peters, one of the jurymen
who found r. Meade Shumway guilty of
murder, afixing the death penalty, COM
mitted suicide in Beatrice. Neb., by
shooting Peters had brooded over the
verdict rendered against Shumway two
months ago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

At White Rock, Pa, John Wintle was
shot dead by Mrs. James Henter while
he was trying to force his way into her
home IN the absence of her husband. The
shot drew a crowd. but for eight hours
the woman defed the officers and only
surrendered when her husband returned
home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
james r.. Randall, Poet, Dead.

James Ryder Randall. famous as a
war poet. died in Augusta, Ga. He was
born in Baltimore in 1913. Among
other products of his pen was Mary
land, My Maryland For twenty years
he was editorial writer of the Augusta
Chronicle. severing his connection with
that paper in 1888 when he became con-
nected with Baltimore newspapers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

marriage license issued to John j.
Rochfort, boatswain of the receiving ship
Hancock, at New York, revealed ro-
nance His fiancee, Miss Gertrude Al
bers. was one of a party of girls shown
over n battleship by Rochfort at the navy
ward three years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Railroads VIII Cut Wages.

1--WE are just on the edge of reducing
wages. That applies to all railroads"
This statement was made by Vice Presi-
dent III. U. Nudge of the Rock Island
Railroad. IF the legislatures keep on
with such legislation as they have al
ready enacted against us it will simply
mean trouble. Men are being laid off
now and more will be laid off right
along"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
CaIIs Nebra stxa ion.

The Nebraska Democratic State CEN
trail committee has decided to hold the
State convention at Omaha March D.
Delegates to the national convention will
be chosen. The committee made optional
primary plans, permitting the voters in
any county to call for direct primary
to express preference in candidates for
delegates
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Five skaters Are Drowned.

Of six persons who formed a skating
party at the Jimtown reservoir. near
Connellsville, Pa. FIVE were drowned
John Luxner. 10 years old: George Coch-
ran. 81: Frank Cochran, Jr., a brother,
IL; William Fulmer. %, and Elizabeth
Fulner, IL, sister.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Heavy Fine for Summers.

In the Municipal Court at Chicago
Judge Newcomer recently fined William
Warner, merchant of Kansas City. $50
and costs for going on Summing trip
through the city. Two women who ac-
companied him were fined SO each The
Judge declared that persons who had no
intention of doing good had no right to
be on a so-called Summing tour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Woman Pleads for Prisoner.

Miss Inga Anderson, who came to Lin
coin. Neb.. from Alaska to plead the
cause of her sweetheart, John Martin.
convicted of swindling, appeared before
Gov. Sheldon and declared if he would
pardon the prisoner he would lead an
upright life. The Governor took the
question under advisement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Fourth Bar Case Ends.

Failure to agree upon verdict and
the illness of Juror William Soellner
caused the discharge of the jury in the
fourth Sunday closing case in Chicago.
Municipal Judge Heap dismissed the
twelve men after they had been out twen-
ty-three hours without reaching an agree
mcnt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Famous Flour Mil BURNS.

The Maple Leaf -four mill at Kenora,
Man, valued at more than S1.O0O.O00,
was entirely destroyed by FIRE. There
was not much wheat in store. Kenora is
100 miles east of Winnipeg. The mill,
which had been in operation but six
months. was known as the most costly in
the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Would Re-Establi.h Canteen

The governing board of the Army Can
teen Association in New York is taking
steps to organize branches in all States
in a movement for the repeal of the law
prohibiting the sale of liquor at army
posts and soldiers homes. Maj. Gen.
f. d. Grant is supporting the movement
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Headquarters for the promotion of
campaign against tuberculosis have been
opened at Albany, Y. Y. The movement
has been made possible by the subscrip-
ton of single benefactor, whose name
is withheld as condition of the gift
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

The formal opening of the first parlia-
mcnt under the reign of King Gustave
took place in Stockholm Thursday with
simple ceremonies. King Gustave, who
was present, in the speech from the
throne, referring to the heavy RESPONSE
bility that devolved upon him with the
death of King Oscar, promised, in whole
hearted zeal, always TO try to fulfill his
duty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Had Debts Wreck Bank,

The Sovereign Bank of Canada, a 81
100000 Toronto institution. has been
forced into liquidation by bad debts, bat
the depositors will lose nothing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Deaf in Future. No Gamble.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has,
in effect, decided that dealing in futures
is not gambling within the meaning of the
law. The decision was in the case of
Ferdinand A. Hallett, member of the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce,
against Peter \. Aggergaard of Yankton
eountv S d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Drops Dead: Buried by Snow,

Covered with snow, the body of John
Rhoades, aged Go, wealthy oil operator
of Duff City. was found in field twelve
miles from Sewickley, Pa. He left home
JAN to visit his oil property He had
been sufferer from heart disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
JAPAN BUDGET WARLlkE.
Asks s1OO,OOO.OOO for Defenses to
he Ready for Emergencies.

nc HRV"U5 '"T T@1ffNE sCHNfNS'
Japan's budget for 1908 and 1909,
which was submitted to Parliament the
other day, provides for expenditures of
$500, 100000, of which about one-third
is to be devoted to the army and navy.
There will be a deficiency, but this will
be made up by an increase in taxes. The
navy, including the new warship fund,
is allotted $44, 107, S94.56, and the army
SOL 1858, 051.04. These allotments are re-
garded as significant of Japan's inten-
ton to maintain itself on a strong war
footing for developments which the fu-
ture may bring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Loses Money and Ends Life.

William Bourne Nevin, II years old,
who until two years ago was a member
of the New York Stock Exchange. COM
mitted suicide by leaping in front of
subway train in that city. He suffered
heavy financial losses during the last five
months. and had been in serious con-
Sition of health for some time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Dragged and Beaten; Dies.

]. b. Graham, said to be well-to-do
rancher from near Dickinson, n. D., is
dead in Butte. Mont, from the effects of
being drugged and beaten. Graham was
found unconscious near the railroad
tracks. his pockets rihed and a bad
wound on his head.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Ru.sian Social Peace Far or.

Professor Paul Milyoukov, leader of
the constitutional democrats in Russia,
told a monster meeting in New York
that there is no prospect of social peace
in his country. but that the people will
fight on till problems are settled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Son of Farmer Murdered.

With the back of the head crushed, the
body of Keevil Albring, son of A. j. Al
bring. a prairie farmer, was found on a
country road near Hillward. a suburb of
Spokane, Wash. A tramp is suspected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Sale Causes Sufcfde Effort.

Worrying over sheriff's sale which
was scheduled to take place at his home.
Charles Hartung, aged 50, a widower,
shot and probably fatally wounded him
self at his home in Pittsburg. The sale
was poStponed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Uprisins of Sunragists.

A big uprising in Berlin in favor of
manhood suffrage was participated in by
10000 persons, many of them women;
police with drawn swords charged on the
manifestants and many were injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
BIG POULTRY SHOW.
Aristocracy Of the Feathered Tribe
on Exhibition in Chicago.

Three thousand aristOcrats of the
poultry world contested for honOrs in
the national poultry show recently held
in Chicago by the National Fanciers'
and Breeders Association. The breeding
Of the finest stock is becoming so pop
ular in the Middle West that products
of this section have begun to take
prizes at the New York poultry show,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Mayor Robert \. Smith of ST Paul.
Mrs Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. Copley. their
sen-in-law and daughter. have been seri-
ously III for three days from the effects
of ptomaine poisoning as result OF cat
ing chicken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
YIELDS 10000 BARRELS OIL.
Baku Well Keats All Records in
Daily Production.

Daily Production.
Oil producing firms in st. Petersbul g
have received news from the Caucasus
of the opening of a mammoth oil susher
in the Bibi-Eybat field at Baku, flowing
at the rate of 10000 barrels day. 1t
far surpasses any other well in the Bahu
region and unlike the new gusher opened
at Surakhant in December, which gives
10000 barrels daily, the new gusher was
discovered in an already exploited field.
Oil shares jumped 3 per cent on the mar
ket there ON account of the new discov-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

The Burlington and Union Pacific will
take porters off chair cars and do away
with fagmen on some Of their passenger
trains, according to a dispatch from
Omaha. Retrenchment is given as the
reason.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

4 sportsman hunting channels near
Ttterdorf. Austria. started an avalanche
by discharging his rife; fell and became
as he rolled the center of great snow
ball. He was crushed to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Emil Ruff, who twenty-five years ago
registered a vow never to wear a hat,
and. SO far as known, has lived up to it,
is about to leave Rochester, Mimi, for
the Pacific coast. He finds it too cold
this winter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
NIGHT woooRox is FATAL.
Major Tasgart's Uncle Unable to Ex-
tricate Himself and Is Frozen.

tricate Himself and Is Frozen.
His limbs frozen in a night spent wedg-
ed in a woodbox, into which he had fall
en- head first at his home in Orrvllle,
Ohio. James Taggart, 80 years old, uncle
of Major Gilmore Taggart of army divorce
case fame, died of exposure. His plight
was not known till morning. when a
reighbor found the white-haired man
wedged, head down, in the box. He was
unconscious and did not rally. Taggart
ard Horace Greeley were close friends,
the Ohioan visiting the New York editor
frequently. Taggart had been wealthy,
but signing of bail bonds for a score of
men who fed. wrecked his fortune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Cortelyou Reported Ont.

Secretary Cortelyou. according to a
Washington dispatch TO the New York
World, has resigned from the cabinet in
a huff and will become president of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
MD Preacher Make Bad Money.

Rev. James r. Kaye, pas or of the
First Congregational Church of Whea-
tor. H., has been sentenced TO seven
years in the Leavenworth prison for coun-
terfeiting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
100 KILLED IN PANIC
AT CHURCH BENEFIT
Blaze Follows Explosion and
Women and Children Are
Trampled to Death.
coRPsEs BLOCK STAIRWAY.
overturned Oil Lamps Feed Flames
and Force Trapped Audience to
Jump from Windows.

One hundred persons were killed and
seyenty-nve were seriously injured.
many Of whom will die. in a fire and
panic which followed the explosion of
a moving picture machine at church
entertainment in the Rhodes Opera
House in Boyerton, Pa, Monday even
ing.
Most of the dead and injured are
women and children, and the catas-
trophe has thrown the little town of
$500 inhabitants into the deepest grief.
Scarcely a family but has lost some
member
The opera house, a two-story struc-
ture on the main street of the town,
was filled to overlooking by a benefit
for st. Johns Lutheran Church. The
feature of the program was a series of
moving pictures. Most of the audience
were women and children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Fire in the town of FL Orc, Mexico,
caused loss of $4,000 1t was thought
for time the town had been destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
WOMAN SHOOTS CHICAGO MAN.

II. A. McMilIen, Book Agent, Found
Lying in Hallway.
Il. A. McMillen of Lewisvile, Ohio, a
book agent for a Chicago firm, was found
lying in a pool of his own blood in a
hallway at Col Delaware street, Kansas
City. He had been shot twice and lob
bed. McMillen said he believed he had
been shot by woman, and Stella Ar
wood, in the hallway of whose place be
was found, was arrested. She denied
the shooting, but was held. McMil,en
will probably recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23

Fire destroyed an entire business block
in Culbertson, Mont. and it was neces-
sary to use dynamite to keep the whole
city from being burned up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
iDlENESs CAUSES SUICIDE.

Eighteen-Year-O Wife, Dependent,
Takes Poison and Dies.
Mrs. Mary Forbwerk, IS years old,
bride of a few weeks, committed suicide
in Norristown, Pa, by swallowing
strychnine While her husband was abb
sent from home Mrs. Forbwerk walked
into a neighbours house and announced:
Il have swallowed poison. / am tired of
living with my husband out of work"
Before a physician could be summoned
the woman died The young woman's
husband had been out of employment but
few weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
Only Fire Engine Disabled.

To make matters worse, the one FIRE
engine in Boyertown is disabled, and
there was no means of fighting the fire.
1t is almost certain that all of the
bodies of the victims were cremated,
and the hopes of identifying any Of
them are destroyed. Fire engines were
sent to the scene from Reading and
Pottstown, but they arrived too late
to be of any service further than to
save surrounding property.
Requests for assistance We're quick
~ sent to Pottstown and Reading, and
special trains bearing surgeons and
nurses were hurried there. These sur
geons, assisted by local physicians, inn
provised hospitals in nearby residences
and stores, and gave what aid was pos
sible to the injured.
At the foot of the narrow stairway,
which was jammed full of dead and
dying, scores of victims could be seen
from the street. Dozens of men tried
to reach them, and succeeded in carry
ing a few of them out, but I heat
of the fire soon drove them back. Then,
as the flames ate their way down the
stairway and reached them, the bodies
were cremated in the very sight of
those who would have carried them
ont
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-24

In order that the competition
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