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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-31
Banks Money Is Saved.

Catania, December 30.-The entire local
treasury of the Messina branch of the
Bank of Italy, some $2,000,000 has been
saved and is on board an Italian war;
ship.
The rescuers ut Messina are rapidly be-
coming exhausted The fires have NOT
been put out, and there Is no water with
which to combat the flames. Many of the
people still refuse to leave the ruins Of
their houses. They cling to the sites of
their homes, crying out that their only
safety is in fidelity to the wrecks of their
houses. Force often is necessary to get
them to the ships in the harbor. There
are large numbers in the suburbs of Mes
sina who will not come back into the
city for fear of a recurrence of the
shocks.
A dispatch received here from Deputy
Felice at Messina says:
Organize a squadron of volunteers for
rescue work. Send us food, for we are
dying of hunger. A number of the sur
yivors are leaving today for Catania
Receive them with love and fraternity
1t Is the duty of every family in Catania
to shelter a family from Messina''
Only two members of the municipal
council of Messina survived the disaster.
The blueiackets from the Russian war
ships at Messina have performed valor-
ons service. They risked their lives reck-
lessly In the work of extricating the
wounded. Hospitals have been improvised
in the railroad station. which is partially
standing. In another building on First of
September street and on board the
steamer Reina Margherita, but they are
already full.
A roll call of the Eighty-nnth regiment
of infantry reveals the fact that the
rganization has only ten survivors
A man named Roberto. the sole sur
vlvor of his family, became mad from
grief in Catania today and committed sui
eide
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STAMP OF FEAR
ON FACES OF PEOPLE

Naples, December s0.-The steamer
Therapie is lying Naples crowded
with refugees from Messina bereaved
men, starving women and weeping
children. all with the stamp of great
fear still upon their faces. One of the
refugees, man employed with a Ger
man cotton firm in the lost city said:
"Messina is utterly destroyed Moth
ing remained when 1 left but a part
OF the citadel. A few soldiers are the
lone survivors of the whole garrison.
The prison was destroyed and the
wardens killed but most of the con-
victs escaped. They prowled about the
ruins robbing and numbering. They
cut off the fingers OF the dead and
wounded to get the rings. Some of
them were singing songs of liberty as
they piled the knife.
"A Russian vessel lying in the har-
Dor was thrown into the street by the
tidal wave. Other vessels foundered.
Railway lines were swallowed up. The
square known as the Cae Campo Santo
collapsed and sank"
The Therapie brought 80 German and
600 other fugitives. During the voyage
to Naples several injured women died
and one child was born.
One states that an express train on
the road from Reggie to Naples was
brought to a stop by the shock when
about 1S miles along the road on its
way. The passengers demanded that
they be taken back to Reggie where
they found scene of desolatien.
While searching for friends fresh
shocks occurred and practically all the
passengers were killed.
Admiral Mirabello, the minister of
marine, left here tonight for Messina.
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Rishop sessums Is Safe.

New Orleans, December 3O.-A cable
gram received here tonight from the Rt
Rev. David Sessums, Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Louisiana, states that he and
his daughter. Miss Alice Sessums, are
safe in Rome. The prelate and his daugh-
ter were believed to have been in Mes
sina at the time of the earthquake
Bishop Sessums wrote some days ago
from Pisa that he was about to make a
trip to Messina. and the news of the seis-
mic horror which wrecked the latter town
occasioned deep anxiety among the
bishops relatives and friends here. and
every effort to procure news of him was
made. 1t would now appear that the
bishops plans were for some reason
changed with the fortunate result that he
and his daughter were not In the de-
wasted section.
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tellanua che ci dimostra IL gran popolo
Americana
In alto 1 cuorl.
sLsAmbassoiatore di sua maesta'
Washington d. c., Dec. 30. 1908
Following is liberal translation of the
proclamation
Italians of America
"The disasters of Calabra and Sicily
must Join our souls in a thought of love
for the great ancient mother country, de-
prived of SO many Of her sons; In a
thought of complete sympathy with our
brothers afflicted by so many trials.
Members of one great family, let us
show that the misfortune of our fellow
countrymen is felt by us deeply and sin
eerely. Let us show this, not by vain
lame mentations, but by material assistance.
ITALY has supported other grievous
trials and risen from them So now again,
thanks to the intelligent willingness and
concord of her people and of her august
ruler, embarked as always in a pilgrimage
of mercy, Italy will triumph over this
blind fury of nature.
ut is the quality of the strong to
gather fresh energy from reverses. Upon
the ruins of Messina and Reggie soon
there will flourish again, in the pride Of
new life, cities more prosperous and beau
tiful
1.-The italian nation is hardened to
blows and does not lie down under them.
Meanwhile, II in such a grave mo-
ment anything can soften the acuteness
of our grief, 1t is the sympathy of the
civilized world and the generaus feeling
of brotherhood manifested towards Italy
and the Italian people by the great Amer
lean nation.
I'm heartfult sympathy,
THE AMBASSADOR OF HIS MA
JESTY
Washington, December 30, 1sOS.'
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Several Shocks Felt.

Marseilles, December 30.--The Mes
sageries Maritimes packet Orenoque.
which arrived here from Alexandria to-
day, reports that at 3 o'clock Tuesday
morning, while steaming 80 mile out
side of Messina, she experienced sew
eral formidable shocks, the passengers
being greatly alarmed. The steamer
passed within 600 feet of Messina and
saw the city afiame between drifting
columns of smoke. The city at that
time was a vast heap of ruins and there
were no signs of life. More than 800
vessels were adrift and the sea was
filled with wreckage.
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NINETY AMERICANS ARE
BELIEVED TO BE LOST

Washington, December 30 - Ninety
Americans in Messina hotel that was
destroyed and Italians and Americans
cooperating in the quest for informa-
ton regarding the missing, are reported
in a cablegram to the state department
from Ambassador Griscom at Rome.
The ambassador oabled that he has re-
ceived no word from the American con-
suls at Messina and Palermo. He has
asked the foreign office for informa-
tion, and that office, he adds, will use
every effort through army and navy Of
ficers to obtain immediate news.
The British consul at Messfna Is Ie-
ported injured.
The ambassador says 1t Is reported that
80 Americans were in the Trinicia hotel
at Messina, which is said TO be totally
destroyed. 1t is known, however, that
some of the guests escaped.
The foreign office reported that several
foreign nations are hurrying warships to
the scene to offer assistance. The ambas-
sador has dispatched consular officers in
the quest for information.
Every effort is being made by the state
department to obtain news of American
citizens who were in the earthquake
zone in Italy, and whose fate has caused
their friends much uneasiness and there
has been a general appeal to the depart
ment to help locate them. Ambassador
Griscom was directed to cable promptly
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any Information obtainable regarding the
missing people and to send some of the
American vice consuls in Italy to the
scene of distress to render whatever aid
possible. Efforts also are being made to
keep in communication with Deputy Con-
sui Lupton at Messina to the end that
prompt advices may reach here regarding
any Americans in trouble there.
9he state department announced that
It vill make public promptly to the press
an Information received from its officials
III italy so that it win reach those inter-
estef at the first possible moment The
ailments information is that the win
tef tourist season has not yet fully begun
in Sicily. The impression among officials
is that those Americans who were In the
earthquake zone in that island were main
ly at Taormina.
Many inquiries came to the department
regarding friends believed to be in the
earthquake region.
Those inquired about include the fol-
lowing:
Mrs. Martha c. Kttredge, her two
daughters, Ethel and Clariss, and Miss
Margaret Mendell, all of Broolline. Mass,
and all of whom are believed to have been
at Taormina; Miss Blanche Kane of Phil
adelphia whose probable whereabouts in
the disturbed district are not stated. and
those believed to be at Messina: Misses
Lillian and Elizabeth M. Wiggin of
Bloomfield N. J.; Mr.. and Mrs. John B.
Wright of Philadelphia; Miss May II. De-
hart and Miss May Sherman of Elizabeth,
N. j.; Miss Henrietta L. Stadelman of
New Castle, Del.
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No American Representative.

Rome. December S0.-The destruction of
the American consulate at Messina and
the death of Consul Cheney and perhaps
the death also of the former vice consul,
]. H. Peirce together with the absence
~ w TT Rishop, the American consul at
Palermo. leaves the United States with
out a representative in Sicily at the pres
ent time officials in Rome are consider
ing the possibility of the administration
at WASHINGTON ordering one or more OF
the ships of the battleship fleet now cruis-
ing around the world to proceed to Sicily
In order to protect American interests.
So far all reports agree that there were
few. II any, Americans in Messina at the
time of the disaster with the exception
of Consul Cheney and his wife.
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Sea Front Is Gone.

Naples, December S0-The sen front at
Reggie has been completely swept away
according to statements of refugees. The
harbor is filled with wreckage from ves-
sells of every kind and 1T is impossible to
approach Reggie by sea or by land. For
a distance of 12 miles from the city roads,
bridges and foot paths have been de-
stroyed. Even the face of the country
has been changed. 1t Is believed that
there are still great number of people
in the ruins, dying, not from their In
jures, but of slow starvation, simply be-
cause it is impossible to get in supplies.
Several Calabrians here who have rela-
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Contributions Recommended.

Albany. N Y, December Ex-Governor
Hughes this afternoon issued a proclama-
tlon in which he calls attention to the
calamity which has visited southern Italy
and Sicily and recommends that contri-
buttons be made through the New York
state branch of the American National
Red Cross society.
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS

Page I.
italian disaster grows worse
Hard to realize fate of Sicily.
Mine explosion caused 80 deaths.
Baron Desplanches sends appeal.
Ninety Americans may be lost
Page 2.
Wednesday club gives recital.
j. X. Thomas named for Pratt City.
Governor Conner is saying nothing.
Page 3.
IIumes funeral largely attended
Montgomery banks to pay dividends.
Dallas county wants good roads.
Page 4.
Editorial.
Page 5.
Special council committee finds Alder
man Fulghum not guilty of charges pre-
ferred.
smyer says extra session could pass
Greater Birmingham bill.
Mayor Perryman of Woodlawn ex-
presses attitude of suburbs toward Bir-
mingham.
Funds on hand for reorganization OF
Southern Steel company.
Page 7.
Birmingham society.
Feminine Fancles, by Dolly Dalrympls.
Page 8.
Teachers take up negro problem.
Page 9.
Stocks show slight decline.
Cotton market is fairly steady.
Wheat gains slightly in price,
Page 10.
Wonderful game ends in victory fer
Notre Dame.
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tives and friends in the stricken district,
who could neither go to their homes nor
get news of their loved ones, have become
insane.
The local prison collapsed and all the
convicts, estimated to number 1900, lost
their lives
A group of travellers who were at the
railroad station awaiting the arrival of
train were crushed under the debris Of
the building.
All the railroad stations in a radius of
12 miles of Reggie have been destroyed.
The is still strong. A torpedo boat
left Santa Venera for Reggie loaded with
provisions but she had to turn back on
account of the bad weather.
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Governor swanson,s Appeal.

Richmond, December 30.-Gov. Claud
Swanson tonight issued a proclamation to
the people of Virginia directing attention
to the italian earthquake and asking that
they aid the sufferers. He suggested
that collections be taken in the churches
Sunday for this purpose. A committee
was named to receive the contributions.
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Syracuse. Sicily, December 3O.-violent
earth shocks were experienced here at
$50 this morning. The people of Syracuse.
terrified and fearful. rushed through tho
streets into the surrounding open country.
The bishop of Syracuse exhorted them to
be calm and to have courage. Two diff
ferent shocks were felt In Utica last night.
Utica is 30 miles north of this city The
inhabitants spent the night shivering in
terror in the fields
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Big Fire In Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, December 31.-Fire was
discovered at 1:45 this morning in the
wool warehouse of Fred Wolstenholm
and Howard Boyer & Son at "a South
Letitia street, in the center of the down
town wholesale district. The flames made
rapid progress, and the building, which
Is five stories high, is a mass of flames
general alarm was turned in. At 255
the fire was under control. The loss will
reach 100000
fund for the earthquake sufferers has
reached $4,000. The banking houses Of
the Rothschilds and the Barings each
have contributed $5000 and Mr.. Wilson of
the Wilson line of steamers of Hull has
opened a fund and also offers to convey
relief gifts to the scene of the earthquake
free of charge.
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ST. Petersburg Responds.

st. Petersburg. December ga public
subscription has been opened for the suf-
ferers In the italian earthquake. All the
newspa pers publish most pathetic articles
regarding the catastrophe.
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Fully 10000 Haze
Ferished In Awful
CdtdcySn1 OF Nature

More Than Hundred Thousand Lives Were Lost Messna
Reggie Alone and Thousands Were Hurried To Their
Their Doom By the Dreadful Convuson Of
Land and Sea
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Emperor Gives Freely.

Vienna, December 30-Emperor Francls
Josenh has contributed $4,000 to the relief
of the italian earthquake sufferers
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zaro. has telegraphed to the government
that he has tried vainly for two days to
reach Reggie by land and sea- The roads
are impossible and the shore has been so
torn and twisted as far as he Travelled
In Calabria that 1t Is impossible to ap-
proach the water.
At the ministry of marine WORD mas
been received that frightful looting and
pillaging occurred at Reggie. This place.
already overwhelmed, will have few sur
vivors as it has been impossible for the
relief expeditions to reach it.
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People Welcome King and Queen.

Catania. December 30.-People wept from
emotion when they saw the King and
Queen of Italy come ashore at Messina.
The women threw kisses to her majesty.
Both were practically carried up the pier
in the arms of their subjects Even the
wounded found fresh strength when they
learned his majesty had come among
them An.aged man, who had been aban-
doned under beam that apparently mad
crushed out his life, revived for moment
at the shouts of greeting to the royal
pair. He stretched out his hands and
raised his head long enough to call out,
Now l can die happy. Long life to the
King" He then fell backward and ex-
PRED
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Big Fund Is Raised.
London. December o0.-The lord mayors
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19

wv holiday? '' thanksgiving spirit We 0''nS 70 0''
k=@T= We know what it in the good old days
lAJ when savages lurked and famine staked for the
undoing of men and who tucked away in
crevices among the ancestral cradles candesticks and
tankards that numbered the Mayfower finally
dumped on inhosptabe shore.
We know what it is aimed to be.
But what in reality it is this spirit that is supposed
to run rampant the last Thursday of November?
the holiday and the to which it dedicated,
national?
pie turkey and catching broken stretched family
shouted ourselves hoarse the risk of pneumonia
with the of the holiday keeping matinee throng
in her grip and the memories of brighter days have
scared quivering hearts; but who of has had
thankful Thanksgiving?
Not many of US, if we would be honest enough to
confess it.
Yet why not?
what the day is for-to take stock of our bless
ings and give credit for them.
Who of is down in luck be blessingless?
Surely in 365 long days there have been a few when
something good has way.
If there have then it is only good manners, if
nothing else, to make acknowledgment of them
Somehow most of better mathematicians when
we reckon than when blessings are COM
puted.
No adding machine is to get at the total
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
ISLES OF THE BLEST.

Western Ireland has been excited over palt,cu co.
clear mirage Ballyconnelly town Oh Tue wiz
Connemara coast =, -. ,+h
The spectacle beautifully situated small oo"I WIN
buildings of different sizes and varying styles VI
lecture was seen rising of the sea apparently ABOUT
six or seven miles westward Hundreds gathereo 10 WI"
ness the sight which visible from three until Six
M when gradually vanished
MANY old legends of Irish folklore speak OF mysuc
,and far away In the western ocean, Varousiy known
s Tirnanoge HoyBrazi Moy Nell and the Land OF the
Ever Young. .
In the book of the Dun Cow preserved in the Royal
Irish academy in Dubn-a volume more than lOOO years
odtbe story is told how Prince Connla of the Golden
Hair son of King of the Hundred Battles, was car
ried off by fairies the Isles of the Blest.
Standing on the shore with his mobiles and his royal
father Prince Connla boat of shining crystal NOV
ing toward him. When the gtterng vessel touched the
shore fairy like a human being richly dressed, came
forth and addressing Conna endeavored to ence him to
accompany her.
At last the fairy chanted few stanzas like the Lorele
of German legend Bewitched by her sweet voice. Prince
Connla stepped into the magic boat, and carried from
sight in an instant, again in his native
lsnd-New York Sum-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
THANKSGIVING SPIRIT
BY HELEN BRUCE WALLACE

of our msfortunes We multiply with lightning rapidy
the times our friends have failed us, business has
come cropper or health has gone to the bad.
An hour of toothache makes more impression than
year without the Dentist stock that drops will
cause more agony of mind than twelvemonth of in
fation gives pleasure slight will rankle where kind
ness is forgotten.
We can see they, poor hungry, haffrozen terror
stricken Puritans had much be thankful for they
had the Indian have the railroads to mutilate
If we haven't found any for Thanksgiving here
tofore the good of souls to make systematic
hunt Rest assured it will not be unavailing.
It will make women of if learn to
reckon our There greater sweeener of the
disposition and smoother of the angles of e than to
think on the things we have to make happy.
If we would grow into souri, disgruntled women with
whole baskets of chips shoulders bunch of
grievances to make the of our acquantances
let us acquire the habit of thinking all the world better
off in blessings than we are.
The Thanksgiving spirit need not, nay, should not be
and throw in the nights, but make Thursday the 26th
of many months will be summed up and gratefully ac
kuowledged.
Gratitude is expensive, should be- the direct
suit of the true Thanksgiving spirit pass merces
along.
From our store of blessings scraps should
culed for those favored The lonely
hospitals those to whom Thanksgiving joys are
all should come share of attention that their
day NAV be made brighter and they, too have
to reckon their causes of Thanksgiving.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19

Won know teacher, that the man that lVes oo"i ou
,o1, was arrested He had little girl like me. lucy
any any w.. auav and he can't home for long
to hrino them anv money. That little girl she ala
not have any dress only torn with big holes IN IT,
and she would get cold through the holes nad wv, two
dresses So my mother she gave one OF tne ~ ~ ~
I CO che could go to school, because 1t is SO colu d'
home NIGHTS after go to bed, my mother she WaSno'
out NV dress so it will be clean the next day.
The spirit of Thanksgiving that has come 70 Us IN
n oncestors of old Plymouth has permeated through
orr national life and well and SO beautIuy an
fos+od in the epsode of the poor woman and her mite
The influence OF that first Thanksgiving mas spIeau
oar tho land and here Milwaukee it will be manIest
"a b generous outpouring from the grateful hearts
No not hesitate because you have little to give
1itt1o NAV mean much him who has nothing ana .nN
of the accumulation of little Let us De worthy u 'n
institution of our fathers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19

The output of amber in 1907 by the
mines of Burma was two and ono
half tons, valued at 1920. These
mines are situated in the admins
tered territory Of the Myitkyina. The
output of the year previous was 216h
hundred-weight, valued at $S,54o.
kmber mining in Burma is reported
not to be a paying business. The
average value of amber in Burma ig
$43 a hundred-weight, which is higher
by eight or mine dollars taan the
price of last year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19

in fear that the lights in the glasses
looking seward would be broken in
by the force of the waves, and that
they themselves should be washed out
into the sea to certain death. But the
iron lattice work outside the windows
saved the panes from destruction.
The light keepers, who were old
sailors. affirmed that no experience on
shipboard could be as horrible as this
long struggle with the storm at the
summit of the lighthouse. They would
have been glad to take refuge even in
q frail ship.
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THE HEIGHT OF OCEAN WAVES

very respectable hills Some years
ago the steamer that carried supplies
to the lighthouse on Tillamook rock,
on the coast of Oregon, was able to
make landing and establish COM
munication with the light keepers
after a series of storms only by siren
uous endeayors covering a period of
six weeks.
The waves of the Pacific had torn
away the wharves and other con-