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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1909
Page
1
Reports from Tokio describe a Saturday earthquake in Shiga and Gifu Prefectures causing many deaths and injuries. About 362 buildings including temples were destroyed and over a thousand damaged as Osaka and surrounding areas faced flooding and fear. Intermittent aftershocks continued through the night.
Little Beneta, a daily balloon ascender at Palisades Amusement Park, New York, parachuted from several hundred feet with partner George Prew. A strong wind carried them toward trolley wires. Beneta landed on the lines, spilled air from her parachute, and Sprained her ankle, while Prew escaped unharmed.
News from Banner Elk in Watauga County reports Alonzo Hardin slain by Mary Bennett described as a mountain Amazon. She struck him with a hoe and beat him to death after a long feud tied to her son's murder. Hardin died about 9 this morning after being wounded yesterday while passing her house in a drunken state.
William S. Bancher, 45, says his dying consumptive wife forced the crime after months of unemployment. He was arrested today on charges of breaking into a meat shop and stealing beef as magistrate Breen sends a probation officer to investigate the case.
Reports from Pence de La Gomera on the Moroccan coast say Moors have cut telegraph wires isolating the Spanish garrison. Bombardments at Ponce de La Gomera continue with many Moor casualties. Kabyles mobilize near Alhucemas to monitor Melilla.
A London dispatch reports excavations by the Indian Government Archaeological Department near Peshawar in Afghanistan unearthed a casket said to hold ashes of Prince Siddhartha the founder of Buddhism. Dr. Barnett notes the eightfold distribution of Buddha's ashes and references the Piprahwa vase found earlier by survey. Siddhartha later named Sakyamuni and Gautama lived around 500 BC and died around 80 in Kusinagara. Buddhism now claims about 150 million adherents.
Miss Ruth Rogers leaped from a raft at Manhattan beach and touched a man's body lying at the lake bottom. Former Congressman Charles S. Wharton and two doctors swam to aid, resuscitated John Tuzhocki, twenty three, who remained unconscious but breathing after an hour of effort.
In Tacoma Washington on August 17 T F Callaghan of West Seattle and Joseph W Stevens of Trenton New Jersey are believed dead after a rescue party found their Alpine staffs and packs ten feet from Mount Tacoma's crater. They left camp at 2 30 Saturday morning without a guide and had little food.
Joseph W. Stevens longtime Trenton businessman and public figure died at about forty five. He served on the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders representing the Fourteenth Ward and was a former Republican floor leader. Stevens planned Assembly service within a year or two and left a wife, the daughter of the late William Cloke. He had contracted building work at Asbury Park Belmar and other coast resorts. He resided near Cadwalader Park.
A New York obituary recounts Raphael Cascone who boasted of six murders and was buried at Mulberry Street after last Saturday noon. The piece laments vendetta feuds and praises social justice as essential to civilization and the rule of law.
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