The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-01

CON t1tionas II II; me town Els.
4 about $500 Inhabitants and mann
a features leather and paper goods
STETT1l1 German seaport. ON
4 the Oder river. thirty miles from tnel
baltic sea and efghty four miles
/. northeast of Berlin. Extensive an I
i strong fortificationa girdled the toWn3
until 1874, when expansion OF 3 - lIs
4 commerce and manufactures COM
PEELED the tearing down Of these bar
riers to its growth From po1la-l
i ton OF 99.475 in 1883 Stetttn grew
Ito city with 2S6. a s In 1910-.Nss a.
'lshfps and other vessels of al ktnqs.i
\ locomotives. boilers and macnlineLs
are made 4 nEreat esta bllsnme n1s,
4 while the city nianufa features clofnlng I
cement, bricks, soap, paper. Deer,t
sugar, spirits and cycles. me cay
4 is que In me number Of insurance.
Ecompanies which have their heau-
lcaIar tars there. The town Is said 20 |
4 have existed in the ninth century.l
IN 1906 the city yielded to Francs
without any resistance ana was hel p1
1 by the French until 1913.
i NSTOCHOWAi-A forttned
i town OF Poland, so miles south or
southeast of Kalisz on the Warta.
loving its fame to the location OF g
! fortified convent on Mt. kIarenpers,l
also called Jasna Gura. which seRa-
rates New Czenstochowa from sne
1 old town. mile and half away. The
4 fortress. in the shape of duincunx.
/ commands the roads from Silesia 20
/ Warsaw and from Posen to Cracow
i by way of Paris. It was defended
1 against the Swedes In 1855 and again
lin 1904, when the Monks retained ~.
I'm 1872 It fell t othe Russians. -" 49,
lcaptured by the Pruss1ans IN 80 an |
]capitulated to the French In 1893.
\ C.haplets. images, etc, for pilgrims
Ito the convent, form the chief article
|of local maintenance, although the
lefty manufactures cotton goods. clotn
4 and paper. 1t has popuiatlon %
Eabout 10000.
4 ODESSA The fourth city Of Rus
4 STA in size and foreign trade at tne
northwest angle of the Black sea,
1.-The seaport for the basins of the
4 Dnieper and the Dniester. halfway
Albetween the two estuaries. Its pay
has an area of IA square miles. Fhe
4 city is built on a terrace 100 TO Io2
fleet in height. Catacombs extend
underneath the town and Suburbs. ~ =
Il population In 1910 wask47S,90V. y
a is estimated that no ess than 3o,vVV
are wing from hand to mouth in the
1 utmost misery, partly in the extensive
Icatacombs. The etty's occupations
Eare connected with exporting, snip
hing and manufactures. Grain Is the
chief article of export. The pay OF
EOdessa was colcnized by Greeks at
= a nearly period. In lS64 the low u
{ was unsuccessfully attacked by the
l Anglo Russian feet, and In 1857
( Inv the Turkish. In 1905-06 ODESSA
z was the scene of violent revolution
airy disorders.
PsKoV-A Russian town, OF both
& banks of the Velikaya river. 11V
{ miles by rail southwest of st. Peters.
Ebnrg. The ruins of the old wall OF
Z the town. built in 1855. descend 70
4 the right bank of the river, W .t
ruins OF numerous rich and populous
=, onasteries in or near the town at
N fest fits former wealth and greatness.
Il The present town is ill-built. chiefly
4 of wood, and shows traces Of decay
81 Tts manufactures are untmpo rtant.
IPskoy was formerly the sister repuo-
sIIic OF Novgorod and was one OF tne
8Iodest cities of Russia. maintaining It's
ltindependence until the 18th century
i I'm 70 the. time it was brought under
the rule of MOSCOW it was prosperous
land wealthy, its inhabitants NUMBER
i ing about go 600. Today its popula-
\ ton is close to $4,000.
IISsA-The outermost island OF
4 the Dalnatian Archipelago, surround
ed by wall of rock Its chief towns
4 are fssa and Comisa. The former
4 has q SLTOn6y .1OA SAAASN
contains the palace of the old Vene-1
/. tian counts Gariboldi. a little to the
east of the ruins of the ancient CITY
of Issa, The industries are y1ne-cul-
i tire 'sardine fishing and the d1stllla-
Ition of rosemary oil. me Town OF
LISA has a population of about 1,OoO. |
/ a colony was introduced at Issa by /
the Parians, assisted by Dlonysfus the
Elder IF syracuse. In the 4th CEN
/ t,,,,,.vER &. AS early as 966 the Ven
jletians ruled the Island. During the
lNanoleonic wars, the French held
In .issa until 1911, when the French
Venetian squadron was defeated by
i the Rritish off the coast. LISA was
l eeGled to Austria "a 1915, The sec
ilond naval battle of LISA was fought
lbetween the Austrians and Italian ma
vies in July 1866, the former being /
victorious.
MADRASAThe chief seaport on
line eastern coast of India, which ex-
.Itends nine mics along the sea and
NEARLY four miles inland. Its popula-j
lion II, 1911 was 51S,66o. The city
has several buildings of architectural
urete1sions, and many spots OF MIS-
ltorical interest It's Industries In
Ic1ude cotton mills, several cement
works. iron foundries and cigar fac
tories The harbor is not safe dur
ling a cyclone, and vessels have to
hut out to sea. The city was founded
in 1910.
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