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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
1
An immense disaster report estimates 200000 dead and 4000000000 in property losses from the Messina Reggio quake. Rescuers race as starvation pneumonia and typhoid threaten refugees and soldiers. Plans for rebuilding Messina and Reggio outlined amid dire counts.
In Palermo the escaped merchants resolved to return and rebuild Messina once the ruins are cleared. Premier Giolitti’s stance contrasts with local resolve as vast wealth is recovered from banks and cathedrals amid ongoing looting. A government commission may search wreckage for securities and treasure.
Joshua Rhodes a pioneer business man and fingeler of Pittsburg died at his home in his eighty fifth year. Rhodes was worth 25,000,000 dollars and was a lifelong friend of Andrew Carnegie who never entered the field of tube making, Rhodes’ specialty.
President-elect Taft commended the influence of the church on civilization to a body of ministers in Augusta Georgia, praising its guidance and moral role as the nation approaches a new era.
The article surveys 1907 trade figures and shifts in global power. It notes China’s umbrella imports, Haroun al Rasgchid in Baghdad with near 25 million dollars yearly trade, Japan’s steam tonnage share rising from .88% in 1886 to 3.33% now, Britain’s coal output and 940,618 workers, and Mexico’s 1907 imports with the United States supplying 146 million dollars in silver. It also mentions foreign officials in China and labor wage gains in Northern Mexico, while Japan rises to sixth among world maritime nations as labor costs and living standards increase globally.
Foreign observers estimate 60,000 killed or trapped in Messina and 30,000 at Reggio. Two cities are in ruins with two thirds and half of their populations lost. Descriptions detail desolation, stench, corpses, and corpses buried with lime where possible. Royal decree sought siege status as Mazza wrests control. king vows rebuild stronger. Survivors flee, looting, hunger, and desperate pleas for bread persist amid wreckage.
Earthquake experts say the Messina quake arose from a geological fault between Etna and Vesuvius causing contact between volcanic action and land movement. Evidence includes harbor deeper and shallower water at different points, subsidence and uplift, and the Exmouth reporting 58 fathoms where 243 existed.
A correspondent recalls the Messina disaster, describing refugees on the waterfront awaiting boats, improvised hospitals, and sailors and Russians aiding rescue. He notes two mile by four mile ruin with two thirds of the Norman cathedral destroyed, widespread debris, and scenes of death amid a chaotic, stifling air.
The Austro-Hungarian Government in Vienna demanded an apology from M. Melovonolsz the Servian Minister for anti Austrian remarks made in a National Assembly speech.
Ade P. Morgan of Holbrook Arizona sent a fossilized tree trunk to the Natural History Museum of Paris, France. The trunk, altered into a gate by water action, was donated as a historical curiosity from Morgan.
The items span international and U S notes. Austria’s state railways posted a loss of 16.849 million dollars in 1906. Senator Burkett supports the Postal Savings Bank bill. The South Manchurian Railway moves its head office from Tokyo to Dalny Mathurio with a Tokio branch. Standard Old Interests bought two buildings on St James Park South Side London drawing resident criticism. President Tallleres opened an aeronautical salon in Paris. Korean mining firms will receive timber at nominal rates from the government to aid mining development. In St Petersburg Father John of Cronstadt was reportedly robbed of funds and his will forged. Germany’s pig iron output for the first five months reached 65.093 million tons, down 8300 tons from last year.
William E. Beall was arrested in Washington DC and will be taken to New York to face a charge of attempted blackmail. He allegedly handed letters to Dr Dadirrian an Armenian demanding 10000 dollars.
Debates in Washington over plans to erect a monument to Iowa Senator William Boyd Allison, who died last summer, with discussions focusing on suitable design and location for the tribute.
Petitions to Providence seek salvation from annexation to Chicago during a week of prayer in Oak Park. The drive cites the danger of the saloon curse as the motive behind the movement.
The first gold sovereigns ever produced in Canada were minted at the royal mint in Ottawa. They are struck from gold mined at Larder Lake and bear the mark "C" indicating Canadian manufacture.
Northern Pacific engineers work in Livingston to enable electric trains over the Rocky Mountains. A large power plant is planned on the Yellowstone River to supply the line.
The President withdrew the nomination of Robert Watchorn for Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York, a nomination he had sent to the Senate in Washington D C.
Jennie Joyce of 444 North Clinton avenue New Jersey committed death by own action to spare her starving family. Seventeen year old girl drank carbolic acid after speaking of a $300 life insurance payout. She mailed a letter to a navy brother as the family faced hunger.
Washington DC—The Supreme Court will not review the government’s $20,240,000 fine against Standard Oil. Chief Justice Fuller announced the court’s action, leaving intact the Court of Appeals ruling that favored Standard Oil and against the government.
Ex president Fidel Castro underwent surgery in Berlin for kidney trouble. The report notes international health concerns and the Berlin hospital setting as the operation's context.
Miss Helen Stockton daughter of retired U S Navy Admiral C H Stockton and Ainsworth Parker of Baltimore were married in Christ Church Westminster London.
Telegraphic condensations note Laura A. Hecox tended the Santa Cruz Lighthouse for twenty seven years. Other items include C E H Mackay elected president of the Equal Franchise Society and Cook County Illinois starting a one million dollar tuberculosis hospital project.
A summary list recounts major earthquakes and tsunamis with death tolls and damages from 1703 to 1907, noting Yeddo 1703 190,000 lives lost, Lisbon 1765 60,000 killed and $100,000,000 damage, Krakatoa 1883 50,000 dead, San Francisco 1906 600 killed and $500,000,000 damage, Valparaiso 1906 1,000 killed, and Kingston Jamaica 1907 about 1,500 killed, among others.
The historical region of southern Italy and Sicily suffered repeated seismic and tidal disasters ending in 1783 with Messina and Catania heavily damaged. Messina, a 40 000 inhabitant port city, faced a major relocation of life and trade, while Etna’s eruptions and regional quakes wrecked towns across Calabria and Sicily. The article traces the region’s long history from ancient Zanole to medieval prosperity, and through plagues, warfare, and natural disasters, leading to eventual unification with Italy in 1860.
In Toledo the National Cloak Suit and Skirt Makers announce husbands must buy wives a complete spring outfit. It must be a three piece suit with a hipless silhouette in a selected palette including rose, green, taupe, electric blue, reseda, stone, Bray, Catawba, cedar or wistaria.
Molland reports a union labor membership of 75,000 with other estimates: AFL about 47,915 paid members in the last year. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at 63,500 with 1720 full admins. Proposals for a Boston clergy union. Oakland bartenders and bootblacks reorganizing. UK India policy on native workers. Seamen’s compensation laws operate in multiple countries. Alsace Lorraine municipalities run employment bureaus to connect employers and workers.
Washington D. C. An American Pompeii is being revealed at Casa Grande near Florence Arizona as Charles B Walcott Smithsonian secretary reports. The year’s largest find is a 200 foot long building with eleven rooms and massive enclosing walls around a plaza.
Reports say Mr Taft will visit the Isthmus of Panama in late January. Albany may see a bill to make art forgery a crime. A fire at Ishin Kalomo was checked by Singapore fort guns from two miles away.
The President sent a special message to Congress opposing last year’s limits on the Secret Service arguing no charges against Congress and citing the need for an efficient federal detective force. He asserts the debate centers on protecting crime detection and balancing lawful use of agents with public welfare.
Henry M. Thompson sixty one year old former owner of the Lowell Minas Felting Mills ended his life at home by shooting. He had suffered melancholy for two years, the report states.
Boies Penrose was nominated by an overwhelming majority for a third term in the United States Senate at a joint caucus of the Republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature in Harrisburg.
The Durham union board voted a 3.25 percent wage reduction. Minneapolis Typographical Union aims to push the International Typographical Union convention to August 1910. Irish INEN trade shows manufacturing gains in Lurgan. Britain's Appeal Court ruled unions cannot compel nonmembers to fund parliamentary labor representation. Wage dispute outcomes show 49.90 percent of strikes succeeded, 15.69 percent partially, 21.36 percent failed. In 1901 German employers spent 77,608,000 on direct aid, with over two thirds from voluntary sources.
Police barred Muslim cow sacrifices to respect Hindu sentiment near Calcutta prompting riots at Titteghur. Troops from Barrockpur opened fire on rioters, killing several and wounding one. about two hundred arrests followed. Also reports the death of John of Cronstadt at St. Petersburg days earlier.
Washington D C The Supreme Court dismissed the case of Oscar Reid one of the soldiers discharged amid the Brownsville riot ruling the amount involved was not sufficient to justify the high court review. Earth tremors also reported in New Jersey including Bordentown and Libertyville. Representative Robert C Davey of Louisiana dies in New Orleans. John Stormer shoots wife and sister in Johnstown then kills himself in view of bystanders. Seventeen year old Jennie Brown accused of firing at two South Side Chicago churches.
President Roosevelt sought five hundred thousand dollars for Italian quake relief, later requesting eight hundred thousand. Congress swiftly approved the larger appropriation, funding ships Celtic and Culgoa and allied naval support. The move, backed by Speaker Cannon and Senate leader Hale, passed amid applause with broad bipartisan approval.
Philadelphia physician Dr Edward R Snader a professor at Hahnemann College and author of medical texts died when a car plunged over a forty foot embankment in Fairmount Park. His chauffeur John A Bailey was injured and died later in hospital.
Justice Peckham writes for a unanimous Supreme Court reversing the Second Circuit in New York, blocking an injunction against enforcing the eighty cent gas law in a nationwide policy dispute.
The Quebec government appoints a royal commission to investigate tuberculosis spread in the province. Olga Stein, arrested in New York for Russia swindling, was sentenced in St. Petersburg to sixteen months in prison. Lieutenant Calvin P. Titus resigns from the army, and the President accepts the resignation. Titus, once a private, was famed as the first Allied soldier to scale Beijing’s walls. King Edward, proroguing Parliament, voiced pleasure at Australians’ reception of the American fleet. Work began November 13 on a new dispensary building by the Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh, with convalescent patients assisting. George Stallings, Newark Baseball Club manager, signs to manage the Newark Americans when they depart for southern training next year.
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