Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Cablejdispatches from Constantinople c i ve copious details of the destruction wrougb t by the recent upheavals of nature in Asia Minor and along the coast of Greece. The shocks extended over a wide area of country, of which the Turkish capital seems to hhve been the geographical center, and were of almost daily occurrence for a period of over two weeks. At the ancient city of Smyrna the shocks were particularly severe, as many as a dozen occurring in one evening, the waves extending from northeast to southwest. Many buildings were shaken down, nearly 150 people killed and hundreds injured. The survivors fled from their houses and have 6ince been living either is tents or in the open air without any shelter. The walls of Smyrna, which have boen standing since the time of the Crusades, were completely demolished. With them many of the remains of ancient Smyrna have been destroyed. The destruction of property and life in the outlying country and in the districtSTemote from Smyrna has been very great. Great landslides which came tearing down the steep declivities -with the water swept before them every habitation. Scio island, Samos, Metelin, and Lesbos, all a few miles off the western coast of Anatolia, in the Argean sea, were all severely shaken up, and there was a large loss of life and property on Samos and Lesbos, while the other two suffered much loss. At Alabanda ninety lives were lost. A fugitive from Kespil places the deaths there at fifty and the numbor wounded at 125. At Qk-Hissar fifty persons were burled beneath a land slide and a few more killed by falling walls. Bogaseusda suffered a depletion of about ono-half of her population. Of the population of Surgerlis abouticne-third survived to mourn the others. From scores of other hamlots come similar reports, and when all are in the loss of life will probably be found to aggregate well up Into the thousands. The large stationery and printing establishment of Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., Chicago, is financially embarrassed, and has made an assignment. The liabilities are reported to be as high' as $500,000. It is one of the oldest and best knows firms in Chicago, and has always stood very high. Mary Churchill, who mysteriously disappeared from St. Louis on the 19th of August, has written to her father a formal letter stating that she is earning an honest living. The handwriting is fully identified, but the Indianapolis postmark is ten days behind the inner date. It is believed that the girl is held for a largor reward, and that the letter was dictated by her captors. The tug Edic exploded her boiler in Mobile bay, killing the Captain, mate, cook, and fireman, and painfully wounding the engineer. A cyclone passed over Tensas and Catahoula parishes, La., sweeping away sew eral plantation structures, and injuring many persons. Wind wrecked James E. Clay’s tobacco warehouse in Bourbon county, Ky., and four negroes were killed. The receipts of the Postoffice department for the fiscal year were $45,508,692, and the surplus revenue was $2,691,992. G. N. Fox, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Gideon Welles was Secretary under Lincoln’s administration, died at New York last week. Five men were killed at a magazine on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio road in Pennsylvania by the explosion of dynamite. The detonation was heard for fifty miles, and windows were smashed several miles distant. Nothing but fragments of the bodies of the victims could be found. Up the track for 200 yards or more the ground was strewn with shreods of flesh and drops of blood. The face of the rocky cut In which the powder stood was adorned in a like ghastly manner. High up on the top of the tunnel fragments of flesh and clothing fluttered from the limbs of trees, and splinters the size of a toothpick covered the scene for hundreds of yards in every direction.