Putnam patriot., 1911-07-07
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The great cyclone which devastated | the coast of Chile a few days ago ex= tended from Pisagua on the north 10 | Antofagasta 10 the south. Torrential rains have followed .the hurricane, al most completing the disaster. II k | estimated more than 200 persons were | killed CT injured, and immense dam- | age has been done to property of all | kinds.
 Reliable advices have been received | from Albania where the situation Is | extremely critical. Turkey has massed | 60 .o00 troops within a days march of | the frontier. Charles k. Crane of Chi | cago, who has just arrived al Vienna | from eettine, after trayersing Albania, describes conditions as absolutely in- | tolerable The Turks he says, are deF- 1 astating whole districts, killing priso. ners, refugee women and men, burn ing houses and crops, and blowing up churches. \ large body oi Albanian women and children is now caught be- tween two wings of the Turkish army and escape k impossible. NIT. Crane adds that ,000 women and children have fled to Montenegro, and are starV- ing there, their only means of subsist enee being grass and various roots they are able to gather.
 A floating capital was substituted f l.. ,I tas aF coronation week, and the beautiful coast beyond the entrance to South ampton water was converted into holiday theatre for the display Of the resources Of sea power for the defence of the empire. The first salor.king since William " has inspected the most formidable fleet afloat, and the special coronation envoys, the regular diplomatic corps and the foreign prin- ces have been afforded a convincing demonstration that Britannia still rul the waves. Ranged in parall elogram six miles in length and two miles broad Aoated l67 British war. ships and eighteen foreign vessels, rep resenting seventeen nations.
 The total production of Portland ce- ment in the United states in 1910 As reported to the Geological Survey was 75,699, ,is5 barrels, valued at s67, ,506, ,479.
 The Michigan national guard during is annual eneampment in Detroit, acting under the lead of Dr. l.. O. Howard, chief of the United States bureau of entomology, will wage war on the fly through it's sanitary depart ment. Memories of the experience of our troops during the Spanish-Ameti- can war have inspired special watch fulness on the part of all our military men.
 Mir. Hearst's purchase of land worth S2,000,000 on Columbus circle, opposite The entrance to Central park, is under stood to signify that he will erect there the lallest building in the world, or the next to the tallest building, for his New York publications.
 our distinguished eXpatriated pa iriot, William Waldorf Astor, now a British subject, has been buying more real estate in New York city. His aggregate real estate possession in the metropolis figure up to 5000 ,o00,0oo. He may be the richest man in the world within 10 years, and perhaps he Is already.
 The first piece of merchandise ever delivered at sea by aeropane fell on the upper deck of the giant White Star liner Olympic today as she steamed through the Narrows, outward-bound on her first eastward passage on We'd nesday.
 X refreshing note comes from Con- neetieut In the statement that this years peach crop is to be a record breaker, likely 10 total S50,0oO baskets. The magnitude of the yield will be realized when il is said that from 75,O00 to l00, ,oo0 baskets are looked foI from the Hale orchards in Glaston. bury, against $, 900 baskets last year This will mean about l50 carloads from that point,