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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
1
Rome reports a staggering death toll from southern Italy’s quake. Messina and Reggio among cities crushed with tens of thousands killed or missing. Relief efforts surge as monarchs and pope donate funds and ships assist rescues amid looming pestilence fears.
Reports from Catania describe refugees arriving by train, steamship, and carriages in terror and despair. Survivors recount Mes sin a destruction with crumbling buildings, collapsing stairways, and streets choked by debris, voices rising in screams and suffering.
Witnesses recount a catastrophic disaster with a tidal flood submerging areas near the water and public buildings ruined. The town experiences mass casualties including 200 customs agents at the barracks with 41 saved and eight of 280 railroad workers accounted for. Looters are shot by soldiers as survivors wander in the wreckage.
Rome reports Italy plunged into mourning as Calabria and eastern Sicily absorb a massive quake. Messina is in ruins with fires and destruction surpassing past disasters. Reggio and coastal towns are wrecked, mariners note a altered strait, and thousands lie dead or injured amid fleeing survivors.
A Messina Observatory report describes the earthquake lasting twenty three seconds with charged air flashing sparks and flames. The shock caused the earth to drop suddenly followed by lateral oscillations that toppled panicked pedestrians into the streets.
In Sicily New York on December 30 reports say hundreds of Americans are in Cala foria and Sicily though the Mediterranean tourist season has not begun. Authorities express grave fears for their safety amid unsettled conditions.
Ohio politics centers on a fractious senatorial contest as Burton opposes a caucus plan to unite legislators. Taft backers press for a Saturday caucus while Foraker and Keifer oppose, signaling a battle likely to move to the senate floor with Foraker seeking to rally remaining Republican votes.
Rome reports global sympathy and rapid aid as nations including Great Britain France and Russia dispatch warships and funds. Reassurance comes as doctors police and firemen are sent from cities such as Rome Milan Florence and Naples. Minister Tittoni receives widespread sympathy.
John Milne of the Isle of Wight reports his records show the Italian earthquake as Europe’s most severe in years. He fears that when all effects are known the loss of life will prove even more appalling than current reports indicate.
Three men died and two were badly hurt when two freight trains collided one and a half miles north of Carthage Indiana on the Big Four railroad. The dead were Charles Fisk Ray Anson and William Remsey all Wabash men. Injured were John Myers and E Wilson. The crash occurred after the northbound freight left Carthage ahead of schedule and the Big Four officials condemned the incident.
An advertisement explains how stomach digestion works and how Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can restore gastric juice balance. It claims the tablets build missing elements, aid digestion of large meals, and allow unrestricted eating. The flyer cites endorsements by forty thousand physicians and offers a free sample by mail from F. A. Steare Co. Marshall Mich.
Telegram items note cholera surge in St Petersburg due to cold weather and a string of other items including wheat price moves in Chicago, Japan's imperial aide appointment, a Chilean loan in London, legal alibis in Tennessee night rider cases, Abe Attell’s boxing title defense, a European cold wave, a major Leeds estate valuation with debt, and a railway derailment in Virginia with fatalities and injuries.
Palermo reports from Messina straits tell of a new, twisted sea route after the earthquake. Many villages and forts are destroyed, lighthouses swallowed by the sea, and navigation dangerous both day and night.
American Consul Arthur Cheney and his wife are thought dead after the Messina earthquake, according to advices to the state department from Vice Consul Stuart Lup ten. The report places the couple among earthquake casualties.
An old advertisement proclaims Electric Bitters as a true medicine for malaria and digestive issues. It claims the tonic purifies the blood, strengthens the liver, and restores health, urging readers to try it with confidence and value.
Indiana teachers gather in Indianapolis from all regions for the fifty-fifth annual State Teachers' association meeting. County superintendents join in sessions at the state house as leaders discuss education, new methods, and a possible state pension and disability fund to be presented to the 1911 General Assembly.
Crown Point Indiana December 30 Peter J Lyons Hammond city engineer filed with United States commissioner Charles Surprise forty affidavits on information against the Hunkies from Gary charging illegal voting and fraudulent naturalization papers Deputy United States clerk Wr Surprise issued the papers and is issuing writs Democrats say arrests will extend to politicians saloon keepers boarding house bosses and foremen involved in the fraudulent votes further details on numbers await statement
Leo Ssybinska a Hungarian mine foreman was abducted from his Little Giant Ohio home by a mob of irate foreigners two miles away and severely beaten for allegedly firing a countryman for a minor offense The assault may be fatal and the mob driven by insistence on reinstating the discharged worker.
In Bloomington Indiana police intensify action against cigarette distribution. George Timberlake a poolroom owner faces a circuit court trial next term after a $26 mayor court fine and an appeal. The case tests the anti cigarette law nationwide trend.
H B Agar departed Princeton Indiana heading to Texas and is believed never to return as he settled affairs and bondsmen consented. His family will follow in a few months. New York December 30 The rate at
Indications suggest no further arrests in the city council scandal for now. The Voters' League that triggered the probe is seen as having acted early due to Bank Examiner Nesbit’s discovery of a note at a national bank serving as depository, implicating two bank officers. Federal bank investigations continue with few corroborating charges beyond the depository issue.
Abraham Ruef, once a powerful San Francisco political boss, received a fourteen year sentence in San Quentin. Judge William P. Lawler pronounced the penalty after Ruef’s trial for bribery linked to granting an overhead trolley franchise to United Railroads. The verdict followed a highly publicized trial ending December 10.
Twelve men are dead and about twenty five entombed after an explosion at Lick Branch colliery Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co Bluefield West Virginia. Rescue work proceeds slowly as the fate of the missing remains uncertain. Indiana counties vote county option saloon in first test results.
A compilation of humorous science gaffes from a barroom style example and a Scientific American list reveals misstatements about air, electricity, gravity, and geometry. The pieces mockingly misstate facts like air weight, speed of lightning, and parallel lines.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt captures a dramatic baseball moment with a crowd of 25 000 roaring as a strikeout ends the at bat. A blond spectator laments the miss while a note about Foley's Orino laxative appears amid the text.
The American battleship fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry has passed Perim at the Red Sea entrance. All crew are reported well and the fleet is due to arrive January 8.
A Venice area signalman faced a week of arrears and halted a train with a polite speech. He claimed the company owed him 2 francs a day and requested payment from passengers to unblock passage. The crowd subscribed to the sum to resume service.
Prevailing prices listed for wheat corn oats cattle hogs and sheep across Indianapolis Cincinnati Chicago and New York markets. Prices include Wheat No 3 red 1.05 to 1.63 per bushel and cattle hogs and lamb figures with regional variations and weekly livestock receipts. Wheat futures at Toledo May 1.09 and July 1.62 show continued trading activity.
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