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The Meschacebe IUBLISHWD WEEKLY. RESERVE. : : : LOUISIANA. NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. IORTH, EAST, SOUTH AN1 WEST Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na tion and Particularly From the Great Southwest. Queen Helene was injured while trying to stop a panic caused by a slight earthquake shock Friday night at Messina, Italy. Greeks, Japs and Chinese now want to take a hand in the framing of the new tariff bill. The San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce, through Tang Mint, its president, has submitted to the ways and means com mittee a brief asking that the duties be reduced on soy, rice, fish, meat, type and firecrackers. Preliminary steps have been taken toward the capitalization of the Pacific coast extension of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul Railroad Co. which will provide for a total bonded debt of $200,000,000 covering the extension should that amount be found necssary. John Sergieff, known as Father John of Cronstadt is dead. Father John was leader of a sect of fanatics, by whom he was regarded as a saint At one time his influence among the ignorant classes of Russia was enor mous and even of late years, notwith standing that Father John's leading satellites has been proved guilty of immorality and drunkenness and of exploiting their leader's alleged sauc tity to their financial advantage, he had a following that numbered many thousands. Referring to a report that C. P. Taft was likely to succeed Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, at the court of St. James, President-elect Taft said that there was no foundation for it. He had not, he added, given any consideration whatever to appointments abroad or changes in the corps of ambassadors and ministers of the United States and should not do so until his cabinet had been selected. Hairy and Theodore Mercer, brothers 30 and 34 years old respec tively of Oakland, CaL, were taken tb New York by officers who had ar restat them in the California city. The oan 'were. arrested on a bench war i (sped on complaint of James A. sa who dbresa them .";s eo gga is. tae only ethe so stw e s i herein sate ter prohibition exists, the law hav ng ben In operation one year. The inaugural step toward re-estab lilament Of the Cuban Republic was marked with the New Year's recep tlon at the palace at Havana, when Gov. Magoon formally presented the diplomatic representatives, t onsular officers and other officials to the president-elect, Jose Miguel Gomes, and the vice-president-elect, Alfredo Zayas. After a continuous service for forty years as a conductor with the Illinois Central railroad, missing but four days in that time, Billy Bryan, whose train is named for him. has resigned. Bryan was the oldest man in, ervice oen the line. An hour after he had wished his former sweeheart, now a bride-of less than a week, a "long life and a happy onem" Ray Reese returned to her home in -KaMsas City, Kas., and shot her through the breast, after which he stepped fntp an nadJioing room and committse suicide by shooting him self in the head. The woman, Mrs. Clyde Setzer, 19 years old, is not ex pected to live. - Several persons were reported to have been killed and the lives of a aumber of others endangered when a frame dwelling at North Sixty-fourth and Madison avenue, Irving park, Chi Oseg, hVew down. The "biggest theft" ever recorded p~ VerYllimoa county, III., was enacted when six residents of Browanville, cart ed away the town hill and six persons are under arrest. It is said plans were made to use the municipal home bar a dance hall following a wedding oiebrtatlon. Wilbur Wright made another as tonishing flht in his, aerodome, sweeping in a great irle ata high -sttmd e for one hour and afty-three -ata and covering lfrJat miles. - iiaw Thlorpe and Otis Laggtt were ar at Mindes, Neb., on suspicion .t s - impiaeted in the Keiene ad .romm bank ro bberiesy "aattiobhle amury It says- ago After abblag his aged mother to eah ii r aiartments in New TerO, Artnr Cotter, 33 years old, at ed to kltl himself. by anrPag b the window. Cotter was take ,a prianer, istaged with homicide in lanesse oerai. Thomas P l O oy, receiver for the . enra b Min- IfoaW in According to advices from Central America, there is prospect of an early upheaval there, and President Belaya of Nicaragua will be hard put to it to maintain his sovereignty in his own country. Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, gave his final demon strations here carrying with him in four different flights members of the Aero club of Sarthe. Mr. Wright will go to Pau for a month, where he will give instructions as to the handling of his machine. Then he will go to the United States. His wife's request that he start the new year by doing something to sup port his family drove August Bloom, of No. 307 East Eighty-third street, New York, to swallow muriatic acid. He was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, but will recover. Open rebellion is threatened among the Oklahoma prisoners at Lansing, Kan., as a result of the charges of Miss Barnard of Oklahoma, state superintendent of charities and cor rections, that the prisoners were mis treated. Pat Dineen, of Boston who recently won the seven day go-as-you-please race in Kansas City, defeated five other professional racers over the full marathon distance, 26 miles, 385 yards, at the Park Square coliseum in Boston. Dineen finished after two hours, 45 minutes and 26 3-5 seconds of hard running, during which he did not stop once. Beach Hargis, charged with the murder of his father, Judge James Hargis, was admitted to $25,000 bail. Great anxiety is being felt by the inhabitants of Greenbank, in West Virginia, over the steadily increasing activity of a burning crater of seem ingly volcanic nature on the side of a neighboring mountain within a half mile of that place, flames being dis tinctly visible at intervals, accom panied by a low, rumbling noise, while the air is strong with sulphur fumes. New Year's Day was marked by a battle, in which one man was killed, another fatally shot and two women wounded. The battle started in Belle vue, Ky., and ended in Dayton, Ky., and only the prompt action of the mayors of the two towns across the river from Cincinnati prevented a mob from lynching the men who did most of the shooting. Edgar Parrish, the young man who was arrested Monday charged with the killing of George Rider at Louisville, Mo., Christmas eve, will be given a preliminary hearing January 14 . Par rish was captured at the home of his father, four miles from the church in which the murder took place. The British authorities have started an investigatiAd of the capture of the Britiahi stamers Tai On by two pWear Kum Chuka. Svwhopreslded over ue's trial on the charge of bribing members of the Schmitz board of supervisors in the award of an overhead trolley franchise to the United Railways. It will be several weeks before the report of the board' of engineers which made a survey of the proposed lakes to the gulf deep waterway reaches congress. The report may not be in the hands of Chairman Burton of the rivers and harbors committee before the end of the present session. Walter Scott who is better known to the public as "Scotty the Million alire" filed in Chicago his application for enlistment in the United States novy. Scotty, who attracted con siderable interest about two years ago when he traveled by special train from the West to Chicago, and tried to break the speed record, says he has spent enough of his. one time ap parently unlimited fortune. President Roosevelt, it was officially announced has invited the following engineers to accompany iPresident elect Taft- on his trip to Panama, the last of January; Arthur V. Davis, chief engineer, reclamation service, Wash ington; John R. Freeman, Providence, R. L; Allen Hazen, New York; Isham Randolph, Chicago; James D. Schuy ler, Los Angeles; Fred D. Stearns, Boston. President-elect Taft will have an op portunity to deliver a message to the entire South while he is in Atlanta, Ga. While there he is to be a special guest at a banquet at which every section of the South will be represent ed. Two masked anen held- up and rob bed Michael Meir, treasurer of San born county, S. D., of $56087 in cash, locked him in a money vault and fled. The robbery occurred at Woonsocket, county seat of Sanborn county. Posses are pursuing the robbers. A e~loaizatkon scheme of vast im portance is seen in theoperations of a.iyndicate headed by James J. Hill aai B. F. Yoakum in the consolidation .(ot-7,000,0 acres of Qat coast land, valued at $75,00000 which Is being rraared at Kingyville, Te .' There has beena dearease n the nmber aof the clergy in the Eplacopal ~ h of the United States, due to the -bWe number of detectimon ffem the ehuire neu also to the high death at The nmaiuttlassties sew. a decrease of ti per cent from 1s07, with 135 deaths and forty-me deposi teas.te eve , herelf Dindt MORE HORRIBLE AND Disaster Unprecedented in World's History==-Two Hundred Thousand Die===Dogs and Swine, Enraged by Hunger, Spring Upon the Injured and Devour Them. Rome.-South Italy and the island of Sicily have been visited by an ap palling calamity, the extent of which cannot yet be grasped. An earthqluake Monday wrecked city after city and obliterated smaller towns and villages with out number. Then a tidal wave swept along the Strait of Messina and added to the horror, drowning the people in their helplessness and panic. Fire came to com plete the work of destruction. Flames broke out in the devastated cities and countless numbers of wounded men, women and children were burned to death. The finest palaces, churches and theaters of Messina are heaps of ruins. Count less dead bodies are scattered through the wreckage and their decomposition will doubtless bring pestilence to add to the horrors of the situation. The devastation over the entire district was more or less complete. No part of the province of Reggio de Calabria escaped. The disturbance was most severe along the shores of the Straits of Messina, where the cities of Messina and Reggio are situated. As mankind can do nothing against the work of nature, it only remains to raze Messina to the ground in which the bodies of the dead will be forever buried. So the place where Messina once stood will thus become a huge cemetery. Rome.-Although graphic stories are coming into Rome of the horrors in Southern Italy and Sicily, these are but repetitions of individual tragedies already recorded. What chiefly concerns the government and people is the progress that is being made toward the relief of those who have suffered by the dreadful visitation. Considerable advance in this respect has been made at Messina, where, according to official reports received here, the supply service is beginning to work satisfactorily. So far as has been possible quicklime is used on the dead; many bodies have been burned and other buried. One feature of the disaster at Reggio is the large number of homeless children. In some cases little babies were found creeping about in the ruins, and it seems impossible to restore them to their parents, even if the parents were alive. A sailor who went ashore at Reggio relates that during his work of rescue he was attracted by a sound of infant voices. Looking under a fallen beam, he found twins about a year old in a basket. In many cases survivors recovered consciousness to find themselves far away from the scene of the disaster. Large numbers of survivors have become insane. What has taken 'place at Reggio has been a repitition of the scenes at Messina, but the proportion of the population to perish at the former place is higher. The conditions at Reggio are worse than at Messina, owing to danger of epidemic from decomposing bodits. It has been proposed in small villages where not a house remains standing to set the debris on fire as a means of purification. Messina.-The city is absolutely destroyed. The spectacle is a terrifying one. A great conflagration broke out immediately after the earthquake and devoured all that the earth shbcks had spared. Nearly the entire population is buried in the debris. The latest calculations place the total number of survivors at only 10,000. The dead at Messina alone reach the stupendous figures of nearly 100,000. Help from the outer world is at last beginning to reach the stricken city. The British cruiser Sutlej steamed in Wednesday from Malta and was followed by the Russian battleships Slava and Czarewitch and the cruiser Admiral Maka rout. The officers and men of the two navies are giving every possible aid, yet their task is a fearful one. Under the pelting rain, in open air; hospitals are being installed in what were once the streets of the town. The sights on every hand are so moving, so tragic, that it is almost impossible to describe them adequately., _ u tmost depths of aid children lie. The sea is closed to them from want of ships, and they are suffering the cruel extremities of hunger and thirst. Here and there they can be seen searching eagerly in the debris and universal ruin for some morsels to eat or for water to drink, but the heaps of dust and debris yield them nothing. At every rn some lamentable scene meets the eyes. Men and women half naked and terribly injured are imploring relief. The hospitals and chemists' shops have disappeared, and there are neither drugs nor surgical instruments at hand. The configuration of the Straits of Messina has been materially altered. The tidal wave that completed the destructive work of the earth quake was thirty two feet high. ;300,000 IN SUPPLIES RUSHED TO SURVIVORS OF EARTHQUAKE. Washington.-President Roosevelt announced that he has sent two supply ships with $300,000 worth of supplies to Italy; that he will ask Congress for additional aid, and that he has offered the use of he battleship fleet to Italy. The announcement was eontained in a telegram, made public at the White House, which the president sent to Patrick F. McGowan, chairman of the Ameri can-Italian general relief committee, New York City. The telegram follows: "I earnestly wish success to the American-Italian general relief now in its great mass meeting at Madison Square Garden. It is, of course, not possible for me to attend in person. I am doing everything that can be done to get aid to the suffering, and on aceount of the extreme urgency of the case, have sent two supply ships with $300,000 worth of food and provisions, without waiting for the authority of Congress, being confident that Congress will approve of my action. 'I shall also ask Congress for additional aid, and throughout the coming week will keep in the closest touch with Congress and through the state depart ment with Italy, so that everything possible to be done by the United States may be done. "Furthermore, I have cabled the Italian government, proffering the services of any or all of the battleship fleet, if such can be of use in this crisis. 'THEODORE ROOSEVELT." SUPPLY SHIPS HURRYING AT FULL SPEED TO MESSINA. Suez.-The United States Atlantic battleship fleet, completing two days ahead of its schedule, the next to the longest run of its world-girdling cruise, arrived here Sunday morning from Colombo, a distance of 3,440 knots, from which place the fleet sailed on December 20. The converted cruiser Yankton and the supply ship Culgoa, with a humber of doctors and a large supply of provisions and stores aboard, will go to Messina at full speed. All arrapgements were made by wireless for the ships of the fleet to pass through the canal as quickly as possible and to coal at Port Said, where s85000 tons are stbred. The authorities have made arrangements for the battle ships to have right of way for a clear run through the canal. At Port Said the crews will coal the battleships with all possible speed, so as to be in position to go promptly to Messina. In reply tq a message from the navy department, Rear Admiral Sperry said he had supplies available for distribution to the Italian earthquake sufferers as follows: Beverages, 50,000 gallons; bread, 690,000 pounds; cereals, 80,000 pounds; fruits, 90,000 pounds; fresh meat, 90,000 pounds; other meats, 100,000 pounds; vegetables (canned), 80,000 pounds; milk, 50,000 pounds, and numerous other items. The Culgoa will distribute these provisions. There are six surgeons and a number of hospital men on board the Culgoa and Yankton, and they are taking with them supplies of cots, blankets, etc. QUEEN GOES WITH EMANUEL TO SCENE. Rome-Queen Helena has refused to allow her husband, the King, to go alone to the seem of the disaster. She said she would not give up her privilege of sharing her husband's dangers, and consequently both King and Queen left Rome on a special train for the south. ThePP.. ecouple arrived earlier in the day from Naples. The Queen ex pibaid to a :sber of her entourage that she considered it her duty to do all Sher- pswert. comfort and help her afflicted sbjects. .It *as imened iere Wednesday that the- Pope will inuqurat. the -_blaps of an interaaticna committd of Roman Catholia the world over, I. as: at t the se al s of thas 4stsstoph The Pope heads tie- subscription list1 TERRIFYING Paris.-The Figaro of Saturday pub. lishes the following dispatch from Rome: "As each day goes by the disaster ap pears more horrible, terrifying and im mense. It is withut precedent in the hitorv of the world. In my earlier di` patches I spoke of over 15I0.100 dead This number doubtless will be exceeded, for now it is conservatively estimated that 200.000 persons perished miserably in this staggering catastrophe anr! the worst is not yet known. The scourge has not vet done its final work. "The tremblings of the earth continue with sinister rumblings, and at times jets of boiling water surge from the crevasses. The sources of the streams are poisoned by putrid water. "In spite of herculean efforts, the succor still is insufficient. In the more remote regions the unhappy injured are dying for want of food and medical treatment. I)gs and swine, enraged by hunger, spring upon the wounded and devour them. Insatiable fire and uncon trolled famine will inexorably claim their victims." HUNG BY SKIRTS FOUR DAYS. Horrible Experience of a Girl Earthquake Victim. Naples.-Harrowing episodes from Reggio continue to flow in. A girl. in a frantic effort to escape, attempted to leap over a balcony of her home. Her skirts caught in the iron work and she hung there swaying in the wind for four days. A woman buried under the debris of her house, although slightly injured, was unable to move, while her husband and children, crushed on the floor above, slowly bled to death, their blood dropping on her breast and arms. She was finally taken out alive, but was de mented, not even knowing her name. NOT A WHOLE HOUSE. Destruction of Messina Terrible and Complete. Rome.-It is beginning to be possible to obtain something of a precise idea of the extent of the catastrophe caused by the earthquake. Messina is said to look like a town that had been bom barded for hours by a great war fleet. Not a house remains standing. Of the city's 160,000 inhabitants, it is still im possible to say how many perished. There is a possibility that a third sur vived, a quarter or fewer still. In any case, it is safe to say that 100,000 persons were buried beneath the wreck age. In thirty seconds Italy lost more of her children than did Russia in a whole year of her war with Japan, which was the most sanguinary in history. It seems certain that all the small towns most entirely destroyed. Messina, 160,000; Reggio, 60,000; Laz zaro, 3,000; Scilla, 5,000; Gaguara, 10, 000; Vills San Giovanni, 12,000, and Palmi, 14,000. Inland towns and vil lages, too, have suffered enormously. CASTROREALE DESTROYED. Survivors of Shock at Catanzaro Are Raving Maniacs. Catanzaro, Calabria.-The prefect of Reggio, after the first shock, rushed about like a mad man, seeking help to save his wife and children, who were buried in the ruins of the prefecture. Two workmen finally reached them and brought them out, but the two children died in the arms of their father. A young girl arrived here Friday from Reggio after walking 18 miles, prae tically without clothing. Finally, on the outskirts of Catanzaro, a monk stripped off his habit and gave it to the unfortunate. Another young woman of Reggio was a prisoner for 48 hours on the fifth floor of her home. She called for help, which none dared give her be chuse of the unsafe condition of the walls. Finally, when a fireman braved the danger and brought the girl down, she was found to have gone raving mad. Her mother and father, two brothers and a sister were lying dead in a room beside her. Rome.-There is every reason to be pessimistic over the situation. At Palmi 425 bodies have already been dis covered. It is said the deaths at Bag nara are 1,000, at Sante Eufemia 1,500 and at Seminara 400. Orso, the prefect of Reggio, sends the following from Gerace Marina: "As a result of the earthquake the town is almost entirely destroyed. Many thou sands are killed. EThe prefecture and other public buildings are in ruins. Other towns in the province are almost entirely destroyed. Send help at once, especially food and medicine, as the town contains nothing." A man who escaped to Catania from Messina declares it is impossible to de scribe the spectacle presented. The town is in ruins and reduced to a mass of smoking debris. SCORE OF TOWN LAID LOW. Immensity of the Disaster Can Hardly Be Estimated. Rome.--The immensity of the disaster in Southern Italy and Sicily can only be measured by the fact that it is now estimated that 110,000 people perished in Messina and Reggio alone. A seore of other towns have been devastated and thonusands of vietims he these plaes must be added to the roll. In the fm of these awful teotals Italy stands sp paled. COUGHS AND COLDS. I Took Pe-ru-na. -.h SJOSEPIH IiALL HASE. 804 SrrH STr. Wr1ASHiNrTO L nD.C. i. P'eruna Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio. Geutieiuen:-I can icheerfully recom mend Peruna as an effective cure for coughs and colds. You are authorized to use my photo with testimonial in any puhblc:ation. 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Romance Clearly Had Little to Do with Silas' Marriage. Preston Kendall, the actor, tells a story of a ne'er-do-well in a little New England town, where he has often spent his summers. "I was walking down the main street one day," said Kendall, "when I saw old Silas grin ning from ear to ear. I hardly thought that he was that glad to cee me. So, tin' married this morning,' was the un expected reply. 'Married! You? I exclaimed. 'Why, Silas, what on earth have you done that for? You know you can't even support yourself as it is.' 'Wall,' said Silas, 'you see, it's this way: I ken purty near support myself, an' I kind of figured out that she could finish up the job.' " The Unexpected. The judge was about to pass sen tence upon the condemned man. "In view of certain contingent cir cumstances," he said, "I'm inclined to treat you with leniency." A veiled woman who was sitting at a little distance suddenly burst into tears. "Are you the prisoner's wife?" his honor inquired. 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