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fEARTHOUAKE 111 ITALY,
Many Towns Destroyed and
Thousands Killed.
Tidal Wave Following Does Greal
Damage af Catania preterit Castro
phe Embracea Larger Area Than ih
Shock of 1905.
Tho province of Cosenza, Catanzarc
and nogglo, coiuprtxlng the depart
ment of Calabria, which forms the
aouthweBtom extremity of Italy, were
devastated by an earthquake, the far
reaching effect! of which were, felt al
'moat throughout tho entire country
iThe towu of Messina, In Sicily, wo
partially destroyed and Catania was
'inundated. la Messina hundreds ol
houses have fallen and many persona
have betn killed. Owing, however, to
the fact that telegraphic and teh
phontc communications were almost
completely destroyed, It is Impossible
Uo obtain even an approximate Idea ol
ithe vast damage done. Tho fatu ot
ithe entire region within the zone ol
'the earthquako Is unknown, but re
jports received at Rome indicate
that tho havoc has been great and the
destruction to life and property mora
iterrlblo than Italy has experienced li.
many years. The uncertainty of the
situation for many thousands has
tilled all Italians with the deepest din
tress, for they still have fear that the
day may come when at part of the
country, which seems to have been
most blessed by nature, will be de
stroyed by the blind forces of that
same nature which nearly nineteen
centuries ago overwhelmed Pompcll
and Herculaheum.
, All reports show that tho present
catastrophe embraces a larger area
than the earthquako In 1005 The tidal
wave which followed the earth shocks
on the eastern coast of Sicily sunk
vessels and inundated tho lower part
of Catania. It Is knowtuthnt a number
of people were killed at that place,
but tho rushing waters carried every
thing before them and caused such an
indescribable confusion that It will bo
impossible for some time to estimate
the damage and the lives lost
For a period the town of Messina
uml the whole province of Ilcgglo
wero completely Isolated through in
terruptlonB to the telegraph and tele
phono and landslide that obstructed
tho railways. The first newa from
Messina came in the form of a dis
patch "which a torpedo boat, flying at
full speed nlong the coast, carried
from point to point, always finding the
wires down until Unreached Nicotera,
Whore the telegraph lines were found
'to be lntaqt. From this point the dis
patch was sent. It briefly stated that
the situation was despernte und, after
summarizing tho immensity of the ca
tastrophe, ended with tho announce
ment that Captain Passlno, command,
jer of tho local station for torpedo
'boats, was burled Ip. the dobrla, after
having, with other officers, performed
lierolc work in trying to save others.
The city of Messina has suffered
probably moro than any other plnce,
the latest Information coming Indirect'
ly from that quarter, stating that two
1 birds of tho town was destroyed and
Eoveral thousand persons killed. The
eteamora Washington oud Montebello,
which were in that harbor, later pro
ceeded to Catuula, loaded with In
jured, who were so stupefied by terror
tlmt they seemed unable to realize
(what had happened, slmplj saying
Ithat It looked as though the end of
;the world hqd como. Five steamers
left Catania for Mussina to abalst in
removing the Injured from that place,
who are reported to number thousands.
, At Catania tho panic stricken peo
ple, fearing new shocks, absolutely ro
Jused to re-enter their houses and are
camping on tho squaros which are
free from water. The tidal wave sunk
600 boats there and did great damage
to sovoral large vessels and steamers,
including the Austrian steamer Duda.
Not only did Catania suffer from the
effects of a tidal wave, but a similar
body of water Inundated the hand
teome Btreeta ot Messina which flank
ithe harbor, covering them with a tnick
payer of mud, which rendered more
difficult the succoring of the wounded,
many of whom could be seon lying
under tho wreckage.
It is understood that the villages of
Faro and' Ganzlrrl, adjoining Messina,
have disappeared. The effects of the
earthquake were aggravated by Are
through an explosion of gas, the
flames of which swept along several
streets, adding terror upon terror.
1 In Calabria, the region around
Monteleone was most affected. The
village of Stefaconl, the Inhabitants ot
which number 2,300, was practically
destroyed. Only five persons were
klUed, but many were Injured,
Thousands of people abandoned
their homes, although a terrific rain
'storm prevailed, and filled the air with
'lamentations and prayers. In some
places, such as Prlzto, Cotrone, Santa
Severlua and Piscoplo, tho peoplo en
tered the churchea almost while tho
Satier were tailing and carried out the
ealuta, They bore these In procession
through tno open country, Invoking
the Mercy o4 God, In the mountainous
re0.uis n.and the population has
lta,.ta relume In grottoes and caves,
wi.tJ peu.nts and priests, soldiers
atu ersou- of gentlo birth are living
in jmn . Tbey sleep on the
gr Ires burn to keep off wild
ai Albl 3,000 are homeless,
eolved from ,Palml and
D. Ich arc but a short dls-
tu iegglo, state that the ef.
ft earth shocks at these
o-t terrible.
ROCKEFELLER NOT EMBITTERED
Advene Criticism Haa Not Caused
Him to Feel Resentful.
"It a combination to do business li
effective In saving waste and In get
ting better results, why Is not combi
nation far more important In philan
thropic work?"
In this question Is sot forth the text
of an article by John D. Rockefeller,
head of the Standard 01 interests,
published in the current issue of the
World's Work. Tho general subjoct
of Mr. Rockefeller'g article Is "Tho
Value of the Co-operative Principle in
Giving."
In the course of his article Mr.
Rockefeller says of himself! "Criti
cism that (s deliberate, sober and fair
Is always valuable and It should be
welcomed by all who desire progress.
I have had at least my full share of
adverse criticism, but I can truly say
that It has not embittered me, nor left
me with any harsh feeling against a
living soul. No matter how nolay the
pessimists may be, wo know that tho
world Is getting better steadily and
rapidly, and that it Is a good thing to
remember in our jnoments of depres
sion or humiliation."
CARNEGIE'S PLAN FOR LABOR.
Says Profit-Sharing It Final Solution
of Industrial Problem.
"In the future, labor is to rise still
higher. The joint atock form opens
tho door to the participation of labor
as shareholder in every branch of busl
ness, In this, the writer believes, lies
the finnl and enduring solution of the
labor question. Nothing can stand
against the direct management of
owners. Wo are only pioneers whose
duty is to start the movement, leav
ing to our successors its full and free
development as human Hoclety .ad
vances "
Those are striking statements found
in an article by Andrew Carnegie In
the forthcoming January number ot
tho World's Work. An editorial note
states that the article Is taken from
Mr. Carnegie's new hook, "Problems
of Today," and that It Is published In
tho magazine "because of the remark
able It might be called een sensa
tionalforecast that he makes of tho
continued Improvement In the position
ot labor till profit-sharing does Us per
fect work and the laborer and the cap
italist becomo tho same man."
FUNERAL OF CLAUS SPRECKELS.
Sugar King Is Burled With Simple
Ceremonies at San Francisco.
Tho funeral of Claus Spreckels, the
multl-milllonalre sugar king, hwo died
at his home in San Francisco Satur
day of pneumonia, was held from the
family residence Monday nfternoon.
large rooms of the mansion Sunday,
The body lay in state In one of tho
large rooms of the mansion yesterday,
and muny persons called at the house
to pay last honors to the dead man.
The funeral was exceedingly simple,
by tho wish of the family. The honor
ary pall hearers wore: D. N. Earl,
D. W. Hopkins, Robert Oxnnrd, W. G.
Irwin. John Scott Wilson, Captain II.
L. E. Mojer, Dr. L. L. Dorr and
Charles Holbrook. The Interment
took place In Cypress cemetery
Night Rider Case Detayed.
The sudden Illness of Arthur Cloar,
one of the defendants In the night
rider case, caused a suspension of the
trinl at Union City, Tenn. The
state bad completed Us testimony 'and
had rested. "Lrud" Morris and Sum
Applewhite both Uefendants, testified
and denied any connection with tho
night riders.
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Features of the Day's Trading and
Closing Quotations.
Chicago, Dec. 28. Wet weather In
Argentina and a decreabe in the
world's shipments of wheat for tho
week had a strengthening effect on
the wheat market, finnl quotations be
ing a shade lower to ijc higher, com
pared with the previous close. Corn
and oats closed steady and provisions
firm. Closing prices:
Wheat Dec, $1,03; May, $1.06!;.
Corn Dec, G7c; May, Clc.
Oats Doc, 49&c; May, 61519ic
Lard Jan., 91G.321&; May, $16.67Ji.
Lard Jan., $9.52,; May, $9,75.
Ribs Jan., $8.37'.!; May, ?8.72ft.
Chicago Cash Prices No. 2 hard
wheat, $1.03 1.05; No. 3 corn.
57Vi57c; No. 4 oats, 49c.
South Omaha Live Stock. '
South Omaha, Dec. 28. Cattle Re.
colpts, 3,800; 10c higher; native
bteerB, $4.007.25; cowb and heifers,
$2.755.00; western Bteers, $3 2a
COO; Texas steers, $3.005.00; cau
nors, $2.002 75; stockers and feed
ers, $2.755.50; calves, $3.0006,00;
bulls, stags, etc., $2.5004.40. Hogs-
Receipts, 4,600; 10c higher; heavy,
$5.706'6.00. mixed, $5.6505.75; light,
$5.255.75, pigs, $3.5'05.00; bulk of
sales, $5.605.80. Sheep Receipts,
4,800, 10c higher; yearlings, $5.25
6.00; wethers, $4.404.75; ewos. $3.25
4.40, lambs, $G.257.25.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Dec. 28. Cattle Receipts,
19,000; 1015c higher; steers, $4 60
T.80; cows, $3.005.25; heifers, $3.50
4.60; bulls, $2.7504.50; calves, $3.50
I 9.00; stockers and feeders, $2.505.00
Hogs Receipts, 30,000; 1015c high
er; choice heay shipping, $6.10
6.12'i; butchers, $C.006 10; light
mixed, $5.455.65; choice light, $5.65
5 85; packing. $5 7506.00; pigs,
$4.00 5.15; bulk of salos, $5,75 6.00.
Sheep Receipts, 25.000; market
steady, sheep, $4.00 5.00; lambs.
$5 257.75; yearlings, $4.2506.50.
JOHNSONWINS TITLE,
Negro Pugilist is Now Heavy
weight Champion.
Contest Goes Fourteen Rounds When
Police Stop the Fight With Burns
at Sydney Canadian is Outclassed
and Unmercifully Beaten.
Jack Johnson, Jhc big negro from Gal
veston, Tex., Is the world's champion
heavyweight pugilist. He won the title
In the big nrena at Sydney, N. S. W,
from Tommy Hums, the Canadian.
The end come In the iouitventh
round, when the police, Eeelng Burns
tottering and unable to defend him
self from the blows of his opponent,
mercifully stopped the fight. Previ
ously It had been arranged that If the
police Interfered a decision should be
JACK JOHNSON,
rendered on points, and Referee Mc
intosh, without hesitation, declared
the big black man n winner, for all
through the fight ho had shown him
self Burns' master In every way.
Burns, In an Interview after he had
gone to his dressing room, said: "I
did the best I could and fought hard.
Johnson wns too big und his reach
was too great."
Johnson appeared fresh after the
fight, while Burns' eyes were budly
puffed and his mouth swollen to twice
its normal size. The Cnnadian fought
a game battle and showed indomitable
pluck, but was no match for the black.
The fight was for a purse of $35,
000, of which Burns received $:;u,000
and Johnson $5,000. ...
Thousands of persons from all parts
of Australia were attracted to the
scene of the encounter and many
renched there Christmas night and
blept In tho open. The crowd was esti
mated at between 18,000 and 20,000
persons and It kept perfect order
throughout the fight. Bums weighed
In nt 168 pounds and Johnson at 192.
The spectators conceded that John
son's victory wns due to his physical
advantages over Burns and his supe
rior knowledge of the fighting game
nud his unruffled demeanor while be
ing taunted by the champion.
First Negro to Win Title.
Jack JohiiBon Is the flrbt negro who
ever won the world's heavj weight pu
gilistic championship. Johnson was
bom In Galveston, Tex., in 1878 and
began his ring career In 1901. He Is
six feet, ono and three-quarters inches
in height. During his ring career he has
fought sixty-four battled and twent)
two ot his opponents have gone down
to defeat byt.be knockout route Piom
lnent of those who have been put to
sleep by the big black are Jack Jef
fries, a brother of the former heavy
weight champion, who was knocked
out by Johubon at Los Angeles, In
1902 in five rounds, and Bob Fltzslm
moiiB, who, In Philadelphia In 1907,
was ablo to wlthstnad Johnson's
shifty work but two rounds He has
lost bu two fights, ono a twenty-round
decision to Marvin Hart and the other
on a foul" to Joe Jeanette.
Not slnco the days of James J. Cor
bett has the prize ring seen so per
fect a boxer as Johnson. Long and
lithe, he Is as graceful as a dancing
master and as true as an arrow in
plnclng his blows. Especially deft is
he with his left hand and few boxers,
unless they have great skill, are able
to keep tho big black man from beat
tng their faces to tatters.
FATAL FIGHT IN JIM CROW COACH
Blacks Plunge Through Car Windows
to Escape Bullets.
One negro was killed and two fatal
ly wounded during a fight In tho negio
coach of a St. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern railroad negro excursion
train between Fort Smith, Ark , and
Cherokee Junction, Okla. Four others,
who plunged through tho car windows
to escape the bullets, cannot be ac
counted for. Trainmen finally over
powered some of the disturbers and
they were lodged in jail at Sallisaw.
Oklahoma Town Fire Swept.
Practically the entire business sec
tion of Ravla, Okla., n town of 1,200
inhabitants, in Johnston county, was
wiped out by fire, tho loss aggregating
about $55,000. Five business houses,
a lumber yard and three warehousea
were burned. A defective flue caused
the fire. The Merrill-Houston Lumber
company, $20,000, nnd L. D. Com
tock's store, $10,000, were the heav
iest losers.
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HAIN8 SCORES TWO POINTS,
Witness Declares Defendant Called tfoi
Officer to Arrest Brother.
The defense scored two material
points in the evidence developed in
the trial at Flushing. N. Y., of Thorn
ton J. Halns, which the defend
ant's counsel assert disproves the
charge that the author was a principal
with his brother, Captain Peter C
Halns, Jr., In the killing of William E.
Annis of the Bajsldf Yacht club An
exhausting cross-examination of t la
two witnesses for the detens? lert trie
main poluls or their testimony un
shaken
Testimony that Thornton Halns did
not go to Baystde to kill Annls, but to
look at property, was testified to by
Charles R. Weaver, sales agent for the
Halns Concrete Mixer company, who
further declared that it was at his In
sistent Invitation that the Halns broth
ers on Aug. 15 postponed a trip to
Sandy Hook and went to Bayslde to
Inspect real estate there. Weaver al
most sobbed on the Maud when he
said he felt responsible for Bending
the Hains brothers on the jourue.
The mental condition of Captain
Halns previous to the shooting was
testified to by Mr, Weaver, who testi
fied that from the actions of the army
captain he believed him to be Irra
tional. Thd second material point
brought out by the defense was drawn
from John Tierney, a garbage collect
or, who said ho was an eye-witness to
tho tragedy. Tierney declared that
Captain Halns had ceased firing before
hla brother ran down to the float and
the defendant did not draw his re
volver until Charles RobertB, a club
member, advanced toward Captain
Hains, with the captain's revolver in
his hand. Tlorney said that Thornton
Halns did not point his revolver at
anyone on the float, but called for an
officer to arrest his brother. He did
not see Mrs. Annls on the float
STANDARD MAY ASK REHEARING.
Attorney Eddy Confers With Kansas
City Representatives.
Alfred D, Eddy, the general western
attorney of the Standard Oil company,
Is In conference with Frank I lager
man, whorepreseuts the company in
Kansas City.
"This Is the first time we were ever
ousted from a state," Mr, Eddy said.
"The Waters-Pierce company, lu
which the Standard Oil company is
Interested, was ousted from Texas
once, but the company was reorgan
ized and admitted. Thla is the first
time that any government in the
world ever ordered a Standard Oil
company to get out and said our goods
wero contraband and we bad no rights.
Consequently we are not propared for
the next move. I suppose it will be
an application for a rehearing in the
stute supreme court. If the law is
constitutional we hae uo right to op
eiato our property und no power to
sell it."
If the Missouri supreme court stands
firm on its judgment of ouster and
there is no way to overturn It, Kan
ens City, Kan., and Quincy. 111., may
becomo Important shipping points for
oil and the wholesale grocers muj buj
It and bring it Into Missouri to sell to
retail grocers for distribution
EIGHT DIE IN TRAIN WRECK.
Fatal Collision on the, Great Northern
In Montana.
As the result 'Of n head-on collision
In Montana between a fi eight train
and a work train on the Great North
ern, eight men aie dead and four in
Jured seriously.
The wreck resulted from the failure
of the freight to stop at Mldcauyou
siding to allow the work train to pass.
The freight; train was heavily loaded
with ore and the work train consisted
of an engine, caboose and pile driver
Tho engine of the latter train was
shoving the cars ahead, with the ca
boose leading. Coming around u
curve, tho work train dashed Into the
frolght. Both caboose and pile driver
were smashed to pieces, and catching
Are were burned up.
Seven of the bridge carpenters
were killed and two injured. The
freight engine plunged over an embank
ment and the fireman and head brake
man were carried along. The latter
was killed, but the former escaped. A
number of frolght cars wore wrecked
The dead; E. L, Headline, carpen
ter foreman; H. C. Masley, Charles T.
Fuller, Charles Peterson, M W. Beal,
three carpenters, names unknown.
TEN MEN KILLED IN TRENCH.
Gas From a Four-Foot Main Pours In
on Entombed Workmen.
Ten men were killed and six Injured
by a cave-In at the blast furnace plant
in Ensley, Ala. The cavo-m occurred
without warning and the bodies were
recovered with difficulty because of tho
large amount of gas which poured into
tho excavation.
The men were working In a large
trench about eight feet below the sur
face. They were excavating for tho
gas flue which is to connect the blast
furnaces with the new battery of boil
ers. The end of the old gas flue had
been temporarily bricked up while tho
laborers were at work on the exten
slon, A bear- fell on the cement wall
Which formetl ono side of the trench
Tho entire wall toppled over and with
it tons of loose earth, which broke
down the brick work at the end of tho
big four-foot gas main and gas, quick
ly poured in on the entombed men.
Finland Expelling Hebrews.
One of the periodic expulsions of
, Hebrews Is now going .on in Finland.
Thirty families have been ordered to
emigrate at once.
Celebrated Jackson
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DON'T FORGET THE DATE DEC. 31st
Tickets will be on sale at all Business Housos
Price, $1.00
atnoLanl Base Burners
For Hard Coal.
Round Oak and Cole's Hot Blst
For Soft Coal.
All Sizes, $11.00 up.
Newberry's Hardware Co.
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Shoe Repair Shop
G. P. Guire, Proprietor
REPAIRING NEATLY DONE
Haven't got a machine to sew soles on
but will nuurantee that hand sewing
will stand the test hotter than machine.
GIVE ME A TRIAL
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OPERA HOUSE
Year
Boards
of ail descriptions
for any part of a
house or barn.
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Phone 22 D. Waters, Mgr.
Wallaces
Transfer Line
Household goods
moved promptly
and transfer work
solicited. Phone i
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Painting, paper Hanging
and Kalsomining
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