Local Disaster Hits Santa Marie College Site
Confined report notes students killed at Castroreal and Montagano as Santa Marie College at Ali between Messina and Gatania was overthrown. Several girl students buried in the ruins.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
3
Confined report notes students killed at Castroreal and Montagano as Santa Marie College at Ali between Messina and Gatania was overthrown. Several girl students buried in the ruins.
The Associated Press reports that Reggio near Messina was struck by a similar fate as Messina with no confirmation due to telegraphic outages. The catastrophe spans a wider area than the 1905 quake with a tsunami flooding the Sicilian coast, sinking ships and inundating Catania where several deaths are reported.
The article on page T1 quotes the Oil King defending trusts, claiming resilience against criticism and urging progress. He expresses no bitterness toward critics and notes belief in steady global improvement despite pessimism.
One of the pleasant events in the annals of the institution was a home talent show at Lonecliff last night. The hospital audience saw the play Our Jim set in a Lexington area farmhouse in 1861 just before the Civil War. The hospital orchestra provided music with help from local players.
Special to The Tribune Wabash Indiana December 25 7 I Owen aged sixty two and a forty year resident of Wabash county took his first car ride and his first trip out of the state of Indiana in any vehicle Mr Owen and his
Washington December 28 The Associated Press reports indications that Germany will seek early agreement with the United States under the new tariff act to secure minimum rates. Count von Bernstorff arrives as ambassador and plans talks with Secretary Root and President Roosevelt.
Cleveland dispatch notes Andrew Carnegie angered the iron and steel trade and the Iron Trade Review by testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee on tariff policy. It says Carnegie appeared to treat the subject as a joke, contrasting with colleagues Schwab and Gary who offered detailed cost estimates.
Miss Bettie Wilson hosted a Saturday whist gathering on Broadway with a lively informal tone. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Crawford, Mrs. Dan Cahill, and others hosted dinners and socials, while church groups and civic clubs planned meetings and dances around New Year’s Eve events and charitable gatherings.
Cass county bar pays tribute to Judge Myers and Judge Larry as possible successors to the Supreme Court bench. Judge Nelson and Judge Myers are praised for a long partnership, dedication to duty, and service to the community.
Fragmentary notice indicates Apollo lodge will hold a meeting on January 4 with roll call and local proceedings to follow. The text presents a standard lodge gathering shorthand. The exact year and venue are not specified in the readable portion.
At a New York meeting of the A A U registration committee six prominent athletes were suspended for professionalism. Named were Melvin W Sheppard Charles Bason Harry E Porter Geo Bonhag of the Irish American Athletic Club F G Bellard of the New York Athletic Club and J J Lee unattached. The charges allege they accepted or asked for excessive expense funds.
The American Atlantic fleet under Admiral Sperry nears Suez cruising around the world. The battleship fleet, after leaving Colombo on December 20, passed Aden, Arabia, on December 29 and is heading toward the Suez Canal.
The readable text presents a garbled query with phrases like what she inherited and left handed references, lacking clear persons, places, or event details to summarize into a newspaper item.
A fragmented report details ongoing stalemate in constitutional reform talks. Key figures and institutions remain unnamed in the readable text, with no clear deadlines or outcomes available from the fragment.
A Cincinnati Enquirer report recounts a physician patient at an Edinburgh asylum whose calm demeanor hid a dangerous fixation. A remark about a moonlit night sparked his transformation into a mani a, revealing how obsessive astronomy can drive mental collapse and determine incurability.
A New York Times note recounts that carpets entered NYC fashion at the end of the seventeenth century via Captain Kidd. The first carpet lay in the best room of Kidd’s Han o ver square home in 1692 and was valued at 25 pounds, reflecting early domestic luxuries.
A hotel room tale from Stewart Edward White’s The Mountains depicts a night in a cut off suite where sounds travel through a thin door. A heavy sigh follows a man’s apology for not joining an association for artificial vacations promising to exhaust a person in two days as effectively as two weeks.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Stevenson and a beggar in London with unclear context. The text references Robert Louis Stevenson in a ambiguous scene. No verifiable event or details to confirm a complete report.
A travelogue notes rain and sunshine in a Hawaiian valley, describing a vivid rain scene with broken rainbows, a streetcar ride by the sea, and a volcanic rock feature. It explains rainfall varies by location on Oahu and honors irrigation realities in island life.
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