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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1909)
■usp' '<Bmmn.iL £ 1 OME. ITALY—For 10 years 1 have been an American correspondent i:i this city, bat until the disaster which befell Cala bria and Sicily, when, on the morning of December -'K, 1 K!8, the worst earthquake or other ii,ast<. which the world has ever t.nown hilled scores of thousands, it ,nl never been my lot to even shudder THERE were scenes of indescribable horror ' ■ ‘f a raianiity. Hardened as I was to catastro phes. ' <• piceous sights which met my gar.e at ,.i ss\ i Reggio and other cities more than once drew tears to my eyes. t. a .3 mv good fortune to be one of the mem Ji. is vt the party of King Victor Emmanuel and .••Men Helena, when the ruler visited the stricken b.frict and many times both the monarch and Jo-, "in-.,::! broke down completely upon viewing the a ■! sights which followed the earthquakes, fires a I *idal wave. _ .Survivors were raving maniacs and they roved the b; i.di-strewn streets, in many instances nude. ftm stories told by unfortunate refugees who r-o -ti*' ‘ I their senses were almost unbelievable. A or named Emilio do Castro was in the military hospital. He was awakened by a tre mendous rearing sound. He fell himself falling and th. :ght he was in the grip of a nightmare. It seemed to him that he had awakened in hell, for t' ■ air was filled with terrifying shrieks. He soon realised, however, what was happening. His bed st ruck the floor below, and he war still on it. I! paused a moment and was again precipitated. He struck the nest floor but this gave way at once, a; d thus the man and bed came down from the fifth floor cf the hospital to the ground. The soldisr was not injured. A dr;.-gist named Pulco relates that at 25 riinut. ■ r est five Monday morning he was on a ferry!/ it in the port of Messina going to Reggio. Sudd": v a gale cf wind arcs -, bringing a heavy s/-a v ‘h it. Tl:ea a great chasm seemed to open in the ... ter and the boat went down and struck the bottom. But the waters closed in again and too f i "boat floated safely on top of the suc ceeding wave. Most of the people on board, howe- v-, were swept off and drowned. The boat was badly wrecked but it floated ashore. Pulco was s':,i oii nuaru. Aiier lilt' nisi panic uc lauusu and found Reggio like a city of the dead. No body is moving in the streets, and the silence whs b: ’ken only by the moans and groans and shrieks of the wounded. Pulco and several com panions tried to extricate some wounded from the wreckage, but this was almost impossible be c wise of the crumbling ruins. In one of the square ; Pulco found a group of people all com pletely naked. One old man1 was carrying a little girl in i is arms. The child was covered with l.lood. "is that your child?” he was asked. “So," be replied. ‘ Yesterday I found her on the pave ment in Messina. I picked her up and cared for Per. No one claimed her and I could not abandon her l l ave had her in my arms ever since." With ties touching explanation the old man be came oblivious to his questioner and everything around him. The S 'rapin brought into the port of Naples rec ords of numberless tragedies. Families separated; mothers moaning and crying for their dead chil dren; husbands and wives lost to each other, or a sole survivor wishing that he had not been spared 'H^re was one girl on board the steamer, , tier clothing tattered and torn, who had saved a ! canary bird. She was a music hall singer, and ’ had thing to her pet throughout the terrible 1 scone., of devastation. The bird was the only happy thing on board the vessel. One of the Messina doctors was sleeping in a room on the third floor when the first shock came, and saved himself by gripping the roof of a neighboring house. \ ferryboat moored at one of the docks seemed suddenly to be thrown high into the air. It landed on top of the dock safely. The nerves of the unfortunates were in such a condition that at the least noise they were prone to rush screaming from their rooms, seeking the ' ojen streets. Signor Birot. the mayor of Brescia, in Lombardy, was stop ping at th.> Hotel Trir.a cria. in Messina, rind . was buried under the ruins ct tfc? bail ling for five hears. Finally sev eral persons approached the piace where he lay, hut at that, moment a fresh shock put them to nigh'. Kvent a body of sailors extricated him unconscious and took Lira aboard a ship. A young doctor named Ros:~a at Messina, gives a vivid account of his experiences. "Suddenly the profound silence was broken by an extraordi nary noise like the burst ing of a thousand bombs,” he says. "This was followed by a rush ing and torrential rain. Then 1 heard a sinister whistling sound that, I can liken to a thousand red hot iron rods hiss ing in water. Suddenly there came violent rh} th mic movements of the < artli and the crashing down of nearby walls mad11 me realize the aw ful fact of the earth quake. Failing glass, bursting rcofs and a thick cloud of dust add ed to the horror of the situation, while the ex traordVnary donbl» move 7/T MAN LAY /A 77//.S POS17/OF FOP FJVF HOUPS “J FELL /NTO THE APARTMENT UHDER ME?' at the same time, crumbled walls and imperiled my life. I rushed into the room where my moth er and sister were and with a rope, which for tunately I had with me, I succeeded in rescuing them. I was also successful in getting out of the house a number of other persons who had given themselves up for lost. Then some soldiers came and helped me, and together we dragged forth several women and children from the toitering walls of a half destroyed palace near by. A few seconds later this building was entirely destroyed. There were scenes of indescribable horror in the streets and squares through which iny party made its way. We finally gained the open country.” Another survivor of Messina said: ‘‘The first thing I knew I was thrown out of bed. Then the floor of my room collapsed and I fell into the apartment under me. Here I found a distracted woman searching for her sis ter and son, whom she found dead. We remained in tile ruins for 24 hours, entirely alone, without food or drink. We made a rough shelter of boards to keep the rain off. Our ears were assailed with the cries and means of the wounded. These sounds abated somewhat during Monday night. Still no one came to our assistance. We were as in a tomb, with the dead bodies of our chil dren beside us. We could see no one, but every time sounds were heard from the street there would come an outburst of piercing cries for help from the injured hidden and pinned down in the wreckage.” This refugee lost his two children. He arrived in Rome half clad and covered with dust and burns. His wife was clothed in little else than an old counterpane. The station master at Reggio says that imme diately after the first shock a chasm 80 feet wide was opened in the earth. From this there gushed forth a flood of boiling water, some jets rising to the height of an ordinary house. Many injured persons who were in this vicinity were horribly scalded by the flowing stream. Paolo Rizo, the mayor of Capriolo, was in Messi na on a pleasure trip that fateful Monday morn ing. He was awakened by the fearful roar of the first shock. The floor of his room fell, and, half unconscious, he was precipitated into a mass of rubbish. His body lodged in a niche in a wall, and he was pinned down by a heavy beam, liia face being covered by a carpet that threatened to suffocate him. He managed to move the carpet with his teeth until' he made an opening in the folds through which he could breathe. The man lay in this position for five hours, expecting death at any moment. Had it been possible, he says, he would have committed suicide. The Marquis Vincenzo Genoese of Palmi was awakened by a tremendous roar and a severe shock. It seemed as though the house was whirling round, like the wings of a windmill. At Messina a frightful scene occurred amid the ruins of the customs house. The first of the search ers who were successful were attacked by others with revolvers and knives, and were obliged to defend their finds literally with their lives. The struggle was fierce. The famished men threw themselves upon each other like wolves and several fell disemboweled in defending a handful of dry beans or a few ounces of flour. One of the unfor tunates was pinned to a plank by a knife, while clinging to his hand was his little child, for whom he had sought food. NEWS IN TURKEY The Turkish papers have published5 liioir version of the tragic death of Horn Carlos of Portugal. In the Levant Herald we -sad that the king and the < roivii pr:nre “died on their way hack to the palace after an excursion." The .Slrtmboul says: “Dom Carlos is dead. Mis son, Manuel, has succeeded In the .throne. There is therefore no change in the destinies of the country." And this, of course, is in accordance with the tradition;! of the Ottoman press, which is never allowed by the censor to admit that any chief of any state or any member of ar.y royal family has died a violent death. It stated that Alexander of Servia and Queen Draga “died of indigestion at the dead of night," that President Carnet suc cumbed to a. “chill," and that the Empress Elizabeth of Austria “had a sudden attack o< apoplexy on one of the steamboats on tlie Lake of Geneva.” First Pest Office. The first letter post. In the modern acceptation of the word, seems to have been established in the Hanse towns In the early part of the thirteenth cen tury. A line of letter-posts, connect ing Austria with certain towns in Lom bardy, followed in the reign of Em peror Maximum. In 1431, when Ed ward IV. was at war with Scotland, a system of relays of horses was estab lished in the north in order to provide the king with the latest news from the seat of war. The first regular post route between England and Scotland was established by Charles I., in 1635. —New York American. Lands of Almost Fabulous Value. Do you know the average value of a square mile of land on Manhattan island ?*Accordir.g to the consensus of opinion of nine of the best informed real estate agents dcing business on the island, it is ?2D0,2:.."\ I BOIL ‘LIVE’ GHOST SEEN II ENGLAND VISION OF VICAR IS PROJECTED ALL THE WAY FROM ALGERIA TO NORFOLKSHIRE. ALLEGED PSYCHIC PHENOMENA Disembodied Spirit in Bodily Shape Sesn by Preacher, Aged Woman and Maid—Man Unconscious at the Time. London.—One of the chief topics in London recently has been the Astley ■ host story, which front the state n.-ents made by persons concerned, the ci/cumstances of the alleged appari tion, and the effort made at prompt investigation, deserves a special place in the chronicles of alleged psychic phenomena. As a rule, spook stories rest upon second-hand evidence. In this in stance three persons have made affi davits of what they saw. One is Rev. Robert Brock, who is acting as locum tenens for Rev. Dr. Hugh Astley, vicar of East Rudham, who is wintering in Algeria and whose disembodied spirit is stated to have made its appearance in bodily shape at his Xorfolkshire vicarage. The first news of the alleged ap parition was published in the London Times in a letter from Rav. Robert Brock. The Times assigned a well qualified correspondent to investigate and while this correspondent has been unable to see the apparition himself his circumstantial reports have been a plausible contribution to the case. Rev. Mr. Brock's story folipws: “Owing to the fact that his wife was not in good health. Dr. Astley, vicar of East Rudham, decided to win ter in a warmer climate, obtaining a chaplaincy at Biskera, Algeria, and left England with Mrs. Astley on De cember 10. It was arranged that 1 should act as locum tenens. "I met Dr. Astley for the first time in London on December 9 and spent not more than half an hour with him The Apparition Stood Begide the Ga* den Wall. prior to coming on hero: and I heard nothing more of him until December 26, when I received a letter front Rev. Herbert Muril. the English chaplain at Algiers, announcing that Dr. and Mr3. Astley had sustained injuries in a railway accident on December 16. On the same evening I got the let ter 1 was seated in the dining-room when Mrs. Hartley, the housekeeper, came to me and said: ‘Como and see Dr. Astley,' and led me in’o the study. “Looking through the glass window on the lawn, 1 myself distinctly saw the figure of Dr. Astley in clerical at tire standing against the wall which adjoins the dining-room. It certainly was not a reflection of nty own face, for I am clean shaven, and the lace of the figure I saw wore a beard and mustache. It was distinctly Dr. Ast ley as I saw him in Loudon. I rubbed my eyes and looked again. 1 was not dreaming. The figure was not looking at me. “Mrs. Hartley had a candle in her hand, and 1 told her to take it away. 1 still saw the figure most clearly. A housemaid who had joined us also could see the figure. “ ‘I will go and have a look in the garden,' I said, and 1 did go. There was nothing to be seen there: and when I returned the vision had gone.” On the following Tuesday, Decem ber 29. Mrs. Hartley again saw the apparition. “As on the previous occasion," con tinued Mr. Brock, "Mrs. Hartley went to close the shutters of the study, and came running in to me, saying: Come quickly! Here it is again!’ I went rapidly to the study. Looking through the window 1 again saw distinctly the vision on the lawn, al beit it was not so distinctly visual ized as before, probably because of the strong moon shining.” After the first apparition telegrams were sent to Algiers inquiring about the Astleys. The response came that both Dr. and Mrs. Astley were prog ressing comfortably, but, curiously enough, a letter written December 26, which arrived in England later, re vealed the interesting fact that Dr. Astley was suffering from concussion Df the brain, and presumably was un conscious at the time of the appari ttou. I GIRL IS SALOME MAD; GAH'T RESIST DU6INIS CIRCLES AROUND BEFORE DOC TOR UNTIL HE HAS HER SENT TO HOSPITAL. New York.—Dr. A. W. Newfield sat reading in his study in his apartment on West One Hundred and Forty-first street. His wife, his daughter and the latter’s husband had gone to a theater. Soon the doctor dozed, he doesn't know how long, but. suddenly hi; was awakened by a low, wailing cry right in the room. The doctor looked up with a jerk, adjusted his glasses on his nose and then fell back limp in his chair. In front of him, swaying and pirou etting, with her hands chasing each other in snakelike fashion, stood his housemaid, Margaret Kelly, with her “I’m Salome,” Chanted Margaret, Twirling on One Tee. hair in a braid and doing a Salome dance, appropriately ciad. “B-bless my soul!” exclaimed the doctor when he got bis breath. “W-what does this extraordinary con duct mean, young woman?” But Margaret answered not. She just kept tji^ dancing, sliding her arms sinuously about, singing the queer, wail ing tune, with tier eyes fixed on the doctor's as if to her he represented John the Baptist. Around his chair she'circled slowly and the doctor's un easiness grew every second. "Go way!” he cried. "Are you crazy? Suppose some one should come. Go ’way!" “I’m Salome." chanted Margaret, twirling on one toe. "I saw Eva Tan guay do it at the - i don't care! i don't care!" Then the doctor telephoned police headquarters, aud when two police men came they had their hands full with Margaret Kelly. She refused to put on any more clothes, and when Dr. Tompkins came he found the two policemen holding a blanket about her. “Too much Eighth avenue whisky,” the doctor said, aud he bundled Mar garet, still protesting that she was | Salome, off to a hospital. Mrs. Newfieid engaged Margaret a few days ago from an employment agency, ’J’ire girl is young and pretty and had excellent references. When she sent her trunk to the Newfieid apartment it was so big that it had to be put in the attic. "But it didn't hold much.” Mrs. New fieid said. “One of the other servants saw her unpack it and told me that all it contained was a lot of fancy gauze stuff that must have been the Salome costume she was practicing in.” • TERRIFIED BY WILD 'VIAN. Taunton Citizens. Fearing Mysterious Person, Appeal to Police. Taunton, N. J.—A wild man is haunting the vicinity of Prospect Hill in the north end of the city, and scores of residents, frightened at his peculiar actions, have appealed to the police to investigate his case. Reaming about on the* outskirts of the woods and often appearing near the edge of the reads, he has spread such a reign of terror in the locality that mothers will not let their children run about as be fore. He was sighted on tlje summit of the hill, wildly waving his hands toward the sky and singing as if in prayer, but before anything could be done to effect his capture he disap peared. Other reports say that he has been seen running like a hunted deer through the underbrush and tearing down bushes and small shrubbery in what appears to be a maniacal desire to destroy. He is described as very poorly dressed and his unshaven face and un kempt hair give him every appearance of a wild man. Residents of the neigh borhood are planning a concerted ac tion to effect his capture the next time he makes his appearance upon the summit of the hill. Some believe that he may have escaped from the insane hospital which is located nearby. Premonition Saves Woman’s Life. Altoona, Pa.—Premonition of danger saved Miss Lillian Jeffries, assistant postmistress of Bellwood, from seri ous injury while returning from Pitts burg over the Pennsylvania. “Change your seat.” something seemed to tell her. She did. and a short time later a stone was hurled through the win dow, striking and perhaps fatally in juring a child that had taken her nl ace. Have Little Patronage. The highest public house in England is said to be the Tan Hill, In York shire (1,7-17 feet). The second nighest is the Cat and Fiddle, in Cheshire (1,690 feet), and there is also the Traveler's Rest, in Westmoreland (1.47G feet). The Tan Hill house is so lonely that an 18-gallon cask of beer has been known to last three months. One winter no stranger crossed the threshold for 11 weeks. War of Extermination on Rats. A Paris journal suggests that in order to rid the world of rats the vari ous governments should offer a re ward of one penny for each rat killed. Denmark, it appears, has already set the example. There, since a aw was passed giving a halfpenny a head for dead rats, the schoolboys of Copen hagen devote their playtime to hunt ing the rodent. The bodies are taken to the fire brigade station, where the tails are cut,off in order that the re ward may not be claimed a second time. The bodies are burned the same night in a furnace at the gas works. NEBRASKA III BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUGHED UPON Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Grand Island postoffice receipts for 11*08 show a substantial increare over the previous year. Judson Brown, a deaf mute of Te cumseh, was run down and seriously injured by a Burlington train one mile from the city. If you are in need of old line life insurance, or wish an agency to write life insurance, correspond with The Midwest Life of Lincoln. Governor Shallenberger has accepted the invitation of the senior class to deliver the commencement address at the Normal in Peru, June 2. The city council of Fairbury has de cided to purchase a combination chemical fire engine and hose wagon as a preliminary step towards organ izing a paid fire department. Farmers should all have telephones. Write to us and learn how to get the best service for the least money Nebraska Telephone Company, 181:. and Douglas streets. Omaha. “Use the Bell.” Crawford is anxious to secure th‘ sext encampment of the National guard of the state and a committee of its citizens called niton Governor Shallenberger to extend the invita tion of the ccity. Dr. Wells of West Point announces that he will accept the appointm ir or assistant physician at the >roi rolk Insane hospital. He was appointed by Shallenberger and wanted the su perintendency of the institution. The citizens of Cambridge held an enthusiastic meeting to effect immedi ate arrangements in support cf a hill pending in the legislature, providing for an appropriation of $75,000 for ■ state agricultural school at Cam bridge. One of the biggest land deals made in Gage county for some time was closed, when C. H. Calkins or nos. tiee sold his 480-acres farm northwest ! of Filiey to Henry Kelle of Logan township for $40,800. A meeting of the resident members was held in Falrbury and an organiza tion formed which is known as the Fairbury Knights Templar assoc i j tion. R. D. Russell was named a. president. The juity in the oas- or Henry Brown, accused of robbing the bank at De Weese, Clay county, brough in a verdict of guilty. Hall and Brown were cauglr in St. Joseph, Mo., tJi demanded separate trials and Ha was tried first and found guilty. When Frank Jcr.nsnn started out t burglarize the town of Clarks hN plans for securing his booty and making his escape were poorly laid, for within three or four hours he was in the Merrick county ia;t and th ■ loot he secured was locker, in Sheriff ller's strong box. Johnson evsnowl edges his transgression. The Farmers’ bank of Ma lar, a vil lage In Pierce county, fn > mil ’ - north of Norfolk, was robbed f § 1 .OH* in cash. The robbers dug a hot*' through a twc-foot vault wail with pick-axes, dynamited the rare nr both ends, got $1,903. dropped $10 on thir way out and escaped without creat ing the slightest disturbance in th town. According to his system or compu tation the food commissioner or Ne braska finds that the people -if Ne braska pay $54,000 a year for water which they buy at oyster prices, the same. which he declares to be an adulteration and liable tor prosecu tion. He has sent out a statement to oyster dealers in the state, giving his objections to the water cure for oysters and forbidding th-m to ecn tinue this “cunning trickery." A Valentine dispatch says: Leo Phillips of Rosebud, S. D.. was round ip a snow drift frozen to death. He started from Crookston Wednes iay with a load of coal and feed. His horses showed up at Rosebud, with check reins up. A searching parti started out at cnce, and found his wagon broken down and the supposi tion is that he started to lead his team to Rosebud and was lost. At a recent meeting of the slate board of agriculture in Lincoln. Secretary W. R Mellor submitted a long report dealing with everything of interest to the board, receiving the progress made in agriculture in the state, agricultural education, progress of the board in its work, and show ins irw-iins aim expenuitures from warrants drawn by the secretary. The total receipts were $81,616.77; expend otures, $16,500.78. The report of the board of managers showed that there had been available last year a surplus of $20,000 for construction purposes. To this- was added $2,000 firm the re sources of the society. Buildings un der way were completed in time for the use of the fair. Howard Archer, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Archer, former Beatrice residents was killed at Kan sas City by falling f(om the sevent.i floor of the Lorraine building. Mr. Archer served in the Philippines with the First Nebraska. Wesley Travis, a theatrical man from Chicago, has just organized a lo cal company of art'sts at Tekamah. and gone on the road is, a musical comedy called “The Poor Mr. Rich." He prompted a home talent play re cently given in that place and found what he considered good inater.al for a company. A man giving his name as James H. Davis walked into the office of Sheriff Her at Central City, and said he desired to give himself up as he was a deserter from the United States army. The sheriff commun cated with the officers and is holding the soldier mentioned. It was announced to memoers of the legislature at. the state farm dur ing their trip to that institution, that the North Platte experiment station had taken the prize at the Denver stock show on a carload of hogs, fed * from the products r-ised on the farm and reare-*