Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Cable dispatches from Constantinople give copious details of the destruction wrought by the recent upheavals of nature in Asia Minor and along the coast of Greece. The shock extended over a country, of which the Turkish capital seems to have been the geographical center,and were of almost dally occurrence for a period of over two weeks. At the ancient city of Smyrniathe shocks were particularly severe, as many as n dozen occurring in one evening, the waves e.-.t-mdiligfromnortheastto’sbiithwest.Many .bi:;!d;iigs were shaken down, nearly 150 people. kil.ed and hundreds injured. The surwors fel from the houses and have since bednJii ing in tents or in the open air without ajy shelter. 'J he walls of Smyrna, which ici c been -binding since the time of the i r .s;ide-, wei-c completely demolished. AVith TtiUm iiuiny of the remains of ancient Smyrna have been destroyed; The destruction of property and life in the. outlyirrgWcotmtry and in the districts remote from Smyrna ha? been very great. Great land-slides 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 1 esbos, while the other two suffered much loss. At Alabanda ninety lives were lost. A fugitive fromlvespil places the deaths there at fifty and the number wounded at 125. At Qk-Hissar fifty persons were buried beneath a land slide and a few more killed by falling walls. Bogaseusda suffered a depletion of about one half of her population. Of the population of Surgerlis about one-third survived to mourn the others. From scores of other hamlets come similar reports, and when all arc in the loss of life will probably be found to aggregate well up into the thousands.

A detachment of Egyptian soldiers passing through the Sineat defile, in the borders of Nubia, were attacked by a troop of savage hill tribes. The surprise was complete, and, taken at a disadvantage, the Egyptians became panic-stricken and broke ranks, some-going forward through the pass, many retreating toward the open country, and others, leaving the beaten road, attempting to escape unobserved. The hill tribes separated into several bodies, and, giving chase, captured 150 of the Egyptians, who were slaughtered without mercy.... An overflow of the Salembria, in Thessaly, has resulted in great ruin and the loss of. many lives. A frightful accident occurred at Brooks’ Tunnel, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in Pennsylvania. Twelve hundred pounds of dynamite exploded and killed five men, the crew of a freight train sidetracked a short distance from the scone. The men were walking along the track near where the dynamite was stored. The remains of the bodies of the victims were gathered up and were-unrecognizable. The body of one of the victims was blown over the hillside; —One foot, a hand, and a portion ot a leg uere found, and recognized by a ring on one of liis fin-ters and by the torn overalls. The remnants of what constituted the anatomy of three persons is all that could be found and all were unrecognizable. Trees were uprooted and rocks blown into the river in the yieinifyTdf ■ the evplosioii. Tlie pl:iee where the powerful stuff was stored looked as if an earthquake had taken place. The solid rock was scooped out for 101) feet s ;uare and thirty feet deep. The report of the shock was heard fifty miles distant, and windows wore broken in a town seven miles away.... Mr. Henry Irving uppearod in the Star theater. New York in “The Belts,” and was highly successful. The box office charged S 3 for a seat, while the speculators, because of the inclemency of the weather, sold tickets fcms2.;y

Col. Churchill, of St. Louis, has rweiveil a letter from his missing daughter, Mary, which was mailed at Indianapolis, Oct. 27. She says that she is noti on the stage, but is earning, her own living honestly, and seems surprisou that her father should think she had eloped. 1 She had asked that her letter be kept private, but.Mr.Churchill deemed it a duty he owed the public to give the gist of its contents.... With judgment notes for $75,0u0 being pressed by a bank for payment, the stationery and printing-house of Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., of Chicago, has transferred its establishment to its attorney, John Morris. Its liabilities are believed to be nearly $500,000, but no accurate information can be obtained. The head of the house has been heavily engaged in mining speculations, is President of an insurance company, and is interested in the Elgin Watch company.... A cyclone at Columbus, Ind., unroofed buildings and^6 wept down telegraph poles. - On and after the 18th of November next the new time adopted by the rtyjroads of the United States and Canada will go into effect. r