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l)c Chatham Uecorit f)e Chatham Hecorb. H. A. LONDON, Editor nd Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. Strictly En Advance CHARACTERISTIC Valparaiso, capital of the province of Valparaiso, is the principal city on the South American west coast. It is Chile's fortified seaport and has a population of about one hundred and fifty thousand, having grown from six thousand in 1S26. It is one of the most progressive cities of South America. It is connected by rail with San tiago, the capital, sixty-eight miles distant. Paralleling the Chilean coast of twenty-three hundred miles is the same mountain chain which lies at the back of the State of California, and through which the earth's tre mors ran which so completely trans formed San Francisco. There are two sections of Valpar aiso, one devoted to commercial ac tivity and the oilier to domestic life, that part of the city fronting the water, on which immense ware houses and spacious docks and quays are built, having been in the early days of Valparaiso the centre of its thrift. As Valparaiso began to grow there was a gradual movement Lack from the shore front, until to-day the slopes leading to the heights are oc cupied by magnificent residences, the homes of the bg merchants of the city, all built to endure, nd forming one of the show sights ot the Chilean city. Of course, the streets in the old quarter are crooked and narrow, but the enterprise which struck the city three decades ago :s seen in the regu lar, wide and perfectly equipped thor oughfares in the Almendral. In a southern direction from the city run the Nuevo , Malecob and Gran Abe- nida, joining out in the country in what is known as one of the best thoroughfares in the wrorld. Valparaiso's harbor is protected on THE PORT OF three sides by steep hills, which rii '-' a height o 1700 feet, and are ter raced by rows of wooden houses. The finer buildings of brick and stone, are situated below on the level, which is practically all made ground. The harbor is open to exposure from the north, and is a dangerous anchorage for vessels at all seasons of the year. In ordinary weather there is always a heavy surf, and when a storm occurs vessels are fre quently torn adrift from their an chorage and dashed to pieces on the beach. The Chilean Congress recent ly decided to have a breakwater con structed to protect the shipping at a cost of $20,000,000. There are several wharves on the water front where ships of small ton nage can go alongside, but the larger steamers have to anchor in the bay and discharge and load their freight by lighters. The principal steamship line to Valparaiso is the Pacific Mail Steam Navigation Company, which operates a service from Liverpool via the Straits of Magellan and a coast ;ervice between Valparaiso and Pan ma. The town section of the City of aparaiso i ; called the Almendral. In it the principal business houses, the Park, and the Plaza Victoria are situated. Tue streets are broad, reg- Sotomayor Square on Water Front. ular, and well built. One of the fin est new stone houses in this section is the five-story building erected and owned by the Mercurio newspaper. The terraces on which the wooden houses are situated' are reached from the lower section of the city by means of electric elevators. To the northwest of the Almen dral is the quarter known as the Pu erto, in which the public buildings, warehouses, and docks are situated. The streets in this older section ol the " ty are narrow and crooked and the majority of the buildings old in :'ucture and design. The "Puerto" has three famous sa- Isn't It the Truth? "Say, paw," queried little Tommy Toddles, "who are the city authori ties?" "The city authorities, my son," re plied Toddles, Sr., "are officials who claim to have no authority when the dear public wants something done." Chicago News. Few Diamond Weddings. Only one couple in 11,000 live to celebrate their diamond vedding. VOL. XXIX . PITTSBDRO, CHATHAM COUNTYr 0., THURSDAY. AUGUST VIEWS IN VALPARAISO, CHILEAN SEAPORT DEVASTATED BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE NAME5 ONDERLJNED ARE OrTDWJJS REPORTED PESTROYEPy loons which have been known to sailors of r'l nations for over fifty years. They are called the "Fore top, "Mair-top," and "Mizzentop," respectively, and a i still frequented by the crews of sailing ships in the harbor. Valparaiso is one of the few remaining ports where sailing ships can be seen in any numbers. The majority of then are engaged in the nitrate carryi-.g trade. The town is situated in what seis mologists term the "earthquake VALPARAISO. belt," and has always been subject to shakes more or less severe. Several shocks have been felt in Chile this year, and have caused considerable alarm to the inhabitants. At one f7! 4 CALLE BLANCO, town, Rancagua, there were thirty distinct shocks on the night of March 27, and a violent shock was felt at GENERAL VIEW OF GOAl-uriAV IDENTIAL Who's Hoosier. An Indiana woman has just died at the ripe old age of 112. It is un fortunate, if true, that she has left no written record of the Indiana poets and novelists she had met. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Not All of Life. The young have to learn to live; the old, to die. It is difficult to de cide which is the more disagreeable process. London Truth. i .. in H i.i i .1 nil M " ' '' ' " DISTRICT VISITED BY EARTHQUAKE Arica, one of the seaport towns, on May 5. Prolonged and severe shocks were experienced at Valdivia April 24. There is about $60,000,000 of for- J eign capital, mostly German and Brit ! ish, invested in various industries in Chile. A few years ago the capital was principally British, but now the Germans predominate. ; The Valpa raiso electric street .railway system was constructed by a German corn- A BIRD'S-EYE VrIEV pany, but it is now owned by a local concern. About 20,000 personsare employed in Chile by British companies in the extraction and preparation of nitrate ... .. IN VALPARAISO. of soda for export. The late Colonel North, who was called the "Nitrate King" in England, v.-?. en? of V.-.2 v .-..AUAlSJ LOSING TOWARD THE BAY RES PORTION SHOWN ON HILL AT THE RIGHT. Profound Observation of a Traveler. If a man had to wait half as long for his dinner at home as he does at the swell city cafe he would do things that would give the neighbors some thing to talk about for weeks. Washington (Kan. J Register. Remembers War of 1812. Mrs. Ruth Allen Smith, of Put ney, Vt., who is in her 102d year, distinctly recalls the departure of her brothers to the war of 1812. first to open up the nitrate trade in Chile, and made several million dol lars by it. The Chilean Government owns and operates the railroads, which are be ing extended in all directions. The most important line in course of con struction is the Trans-Andean Rail road, which will, when completed, ena ble persons to travel from Valparaiso passengers to travel from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres in forty-eight hours OF VALPARAISO. and bring Chile two weeks nearer to Europe. It is expected that the line will be opened toward the end of 1908. Another railway is being built from the Peruvian frontier to the Straits of Magellan, with branch lines to coast ports, mining districts and agricultural centres. Chile has been visited by severe earthquakes about every sixty years. In the last severe earthquake, in 1S35, the Isle of Santa Maria was up lifted in three different localities, eight, nine and ten feet, but all this land subsided a few weeks after ward. At the same time two great waves rolled over the town of Talca huano. Valparaiso's chief manufactures are cotton goods, machinery and iron goods. Much mineral water is bot tled there, while the sugar refineries and the brewing and distilling inter ests are large. From the city are ex ported nitrate, in which millions are invested, grain, wool, leather, guano, saltpetre and copper, although this mineral has not been developed to its fullest extent. Valparaiso suffered a disastrous earthquake in 1855, it was bombard ed by the Spanish in 18 6 6 aud suf fered from a terrific tidal wave on June 30, 1899, which wrecked the railroad and did a great deal of dam age in other directions. Chile threw off the yoke of Spain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It consists of twenty-four provinces and territories and con a?ns 290, S29 square miles. King Carried Joy to Newcastle. King Edward didn't carry coals to Newcastle on his recent visit, but he carried joy. Heretofore Newcastle's chief magistrates have been plain mayors; henceforth, they are to be lord mayors. Prince and Pauper. Most any man can make a fool of himself. It is where he wants an el egant job and doesn't care for the expense that he gets some woman to help him. Puck. GREATEST NAVAL REVIEW . I AlHEfflCAM HISTORY Catalogue of the Ships Roosevelt Vili Inspect Off Oyster Bay. -FIGHTING BOB" TO COMMAND Fleet Larger 'than he 'Lonibi'netl Fight in st Force of Admirals Ro jestvcnslcy and Togo- Line of Vessels Twenty Miles Long. "2w York City. Plans, have been completed for the greatest naval re view in the history of the Western world when President Roosevelt from the Mayflower will inspect the assem bled squadrons of? Oyster Bay on September 3. All the f ora ality that goes with naval functions v.ill be ob served and the twenty-one-gun salute to the President will be given' by every ship in turn as he passe? down the line. The fleet will be larger than the combined fighting force of Admirals Pojstvensky and Togo, and will un doubtedly be the most impressive re view ever held, with the exception of ih gathering of British off the coast of England a few years ago. There 'ill be twelve battleships, four ar 'inrad cruisers, four ironclads, four --otected cruisers, six torpedo boat " "troyers, six torpedo boats, two - .marines, six auxiliaries and a iroTi ship. Altogether the Imposing line -r;ill retch for twenty miles along the coast. Through the waterway be-v,-p?n the double row of floating "ort the trim little Mayflower bear ing the President and Secretary Bo nanarte, of the navy, will steam slow ly to the diapason of roaring salutes. Occurring as it will on Labor Day thousands of persons not only from New York tut from cities within n radius of 200 miles will flock to the quit village to witness a sight such as few persons s-r in a lifetime. A score or mora of big excursion steam ers will go out, while neaily every yacht club uo and down the coast will have its complement of cract cn hand. The commander of the flstt will be Rear-Admiral Robley D; Evans. The first saua-dron is made uo of the flag ship Maine, and the Missouri, the Kentucky and the Kearsarge. In the second division are the new Louis iana, the Rhode Island, that passed her fina acceptance test as recently as Aulas'.. rr( the New Jersey and ttift Virginia. The second squadron is under the command of Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis, and comprises the Ala bama, his flagship, and battle ships Illinois, Indiana and fwjt The fourth division, the second sectVtrft cf this squadron, is under Rear-Admiral Willard H. Bronson, and is made up of the West Virginia, the Pennsylva nia, the Colorado and the Maryland. The third squadron, also in two di visions, numbers the Puritan, the Ne vada, the Florida, the Arkansas, the Minneapolis, the Tacoma, the Cleve land and the Denver. The torpedo boats, destroyers and submarines will be in two flotillas. A separate part of the line will be taken by the trooDship Yankee and .he auxiliaries, which include three olliers and the nrovision ship Celtic nd the water ship Arethusa. At the Oyster Bay review there will be nearly 16,000 officers and ir.en on the ships. If. as is expected, 12,000 shots are fired in salutes, the cost for powder alone wrill bo over $5 000. After the inspection the President will make and receive calls from commanders and flag officers. The review, according to the general orders, will end officially when the President returns to Oyster Bay. B. at night the public will enjoy the spectacle of the entire fleet ablaze with electric lights, while the search lights all along the line will play for miles. niTNDREDS SEE GIRL KILLED, Foot Hopelessly Wedged Between the ' Sleepers on Trestle. She Prays. Wilmington, Dal. .Kneeling in prayer, after she had struggled vain ly to free her foot from between the ties of a Baltimore and Ohio railroad trestle, Miss Elizabeth Rothwell, a young woman of this city, was ground to piece3 by a freight train near Branlywine Springs P,ark. Her aunt, Mrs. Richard Rothwell, and a young cousin, Richard Roth well, who were with her at the time, ere both injured. i There was a farmers' fair at the park and hundreds of persons saw the tragedy. , Miss Rothwell, her aunt and her cousin had gone to the fair together, and were crossing the trestle to take a car home when a whistle warned them that a train was approaching. They turned to run back, but when they saw that they were; more than half way across they wheeled about again and ran in the otier direction. In doing so Miss Rothwell's right foot slipped between the ties and became firmly wedged. Miss Rothwell jumped, alighting on the bank twenty- feet below and breaking several bones.- The boy was too bewildered to move, and the en gine struck him, tossing him off the side of the trestle. Them Miss Roth well was killed. Mutiny of Cossacks. A serious mutiny of Cossacks is re---arcand, Russia. Krupp Never So Busy on Artillery. A representative of the Krupp works at Essen, Prussia, informed the press tha.t the concern is manu facturing 2700 pieces of artillery for eight governments. The works never had such ltrge orders for artillery. Drago Doctrine Referred. The Pan-American Congress at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, voted to send the Drago Doctrine as a questioa before The Hague tribunal. . K 1 Ay K q 30, 1906, NO. 3. 1 HEW SPELLING ADOPTED President Orders It For Whito Hq'jso Documents. Spelling Hr farmers Rejoice and 'Ex ppct the Canse Will Xow ?irake Rapid Progress. Oyster Eay.L. 1. President Roose velt has indorsed h Carnegie spell ing reform movement He issued or ders to Public Prints.' Stillings that hereafter all messages from the President and all other documents from. the White House shall ba printed in accordance with the rec ommendation of the Spelling Reform Committee headed by Brander Mnt thews, Professor of English in Co lumbia University. This committee has published a list cf 300 words in which the swell ing is reformed. This list contains such words as "thru" and "tho" as the spelling for "through" and "though." The President's official sanction of this reform movement is regarded as 'the most effective and speediest method of inaugurating the new system of spelling throughout the country. Not only will the printed docu ments emanating from the President utilize the reform spelling, but his correspondence also will be spelled in tho new style. Secretary Lo$b has sent for the list of words whjch have been reformed, and upon its arrival will order all correspondence of the President and of the executive force of the White House spelled in ac cordance therewith. As the Spelling Reform Committee shall adopt new reforms they will be added to the President's list and also to that of the Public Printer. While the order to the Public Printer does not contemplate an im mediate reform in the spelling of offi cial documents from the executive departments in Washington, it is re garded as more thp.n likely that the respective heads of the departments will fall in line with the President's ideas and have their official docu ments printed in the new spelling. - GENERAL EAXDERA KILLED. Cuban Rebel Leader Hacked With Machetes and Riddled With Lead. Havana, Cuba. The body of the negro, General Quentin Bandera, th most daring insurgent in Havana Province, was sent to the morgue at Havana with those of two mulatto comrades, all frightfully gashed. The arrival of Bandera's body hf re was the first news of the fight in which he met his death. The con flict occurred at the Silveira farm, near Punta Brava. fifteen miles from Havana. A detachment of tnirty 3ight mounted Rural Guards, ".nder Captain Ignacio Delgado and Lieu tenant Martinez, were searching for Bandera's party when they were sud denly fired uoon by Bandera'? twenty followers. The Guards rushed upon the insurgents, but with the excep tion of their chief and his two lead ing comrades they all succeeded in getting away. The bodies of Bandera and his companions were placed in a wagon and taken to Havana. Bandera's? body showed that bisnrincipal wound w-as a severe machete blow on the head, which cut off his left ear and made an ugly incision in his f?ce. He also had bullet wounds in his arras and breast. The condition of Bandera's two dead companions was even more shooking. Their f.?ces and heads were terribly gashed by the heavy, dull machetes of the Guards, and they also had machete wounds in their breasts and on their arms. The clothes of all three men showed every evidence of the hard life which they had been leading while eluding their pursuers. BOROUGH CLERK DEFAULTER. New Jersey Official Confesses Heavy Embezzlement. Orange. N. J. Madison has a sen sation which has been brought about by the confession of Borough Clerk H. Van Wagenen Meyer,, that he is an embezzler. It is feared the pec il lations may reach $8000. Dr. Cal vin Anderson, Mayor of the borough, when asksd what, explanation Meyer had made, replied: "It was the old, old story. He had merely anticipated salary payments with the intention of putting the money back, and it got beyond him." Meyer succeeded William N. Ball in 1898, after Ball had absconded, leaving behind" him a shortage of S2000. Simon P. Flanagan, a mem ber of the Borough Council, has been appointed in place ofMeyer, who in his confession merely""anticipated the report of a citizens committee which, with an expert, has been going over the books. The ostensible purpose of this overhauling of the borough records was to start a hew system of accounting, but the real purposs seems to have been to discover a sus pected shortage. Planters Import Porto Kieans. One hundred Porto Ricans, to be tried as laborers on Louisiana sugar plantations, landed at New Orleans from the steamer Arcadia, having been shipped at San Juan. The ex periment is being made under the auspices of the Louisiana Immigra tion League. If it is a success large numbers of the islanders will be brought here to supply the planta tions. . - 7 ' v-' Big Corn Crop in Tennessee. The State Agricultural Bureau es timates the Tennessee corn crop this year at 100,000,000 bushels against 75,000,000 bushels last year. Tho average condition this year 'is re ported as eleven points above tli3 average of the past two years and the acreage is greater than in cny previous year. Boston Wool Market. Steady improvement in the tone of the Boston wool market is re ported. . RATES OF ADVERTISING One aqntr, on insertion $1.00 One eqaare, two insertion! 1.58 One eqaare, one month 2.60 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Con tracts will be made. BUSINESS BEYOND ALL BELlEf Industrial Concerns Clamor Fo . Machinsry and Materials. Nothing in History of Railroading t Compare With Present Trans portation Demands. Chicago, 111. There is no way oi measuring the volume of business now coming to the Western rail roads. Traffic officials say that,prece dent does not offer a parallel condi tion with which to compare the pres ent situation. The roads are prac tically swamped with tonnage, and some officials state that a lull in the movement of freight would be wel comed. General business in all directiftns continues to expand as a result of the bountiful crops. The corn crop promises to be a bumper one, and farmers are practically assured of enormous returns for their grain. Enough is known to create a belief that the country will not realize the extent of its prosperity for many months. Railroad people are empha sizing their optimism with rather sensational orders for cars, rails and structural material. Industrial concerns, great and small, are clamoring for machinery and material with which to carry out their plans of expansion, and manufacturers are pleading for ship ping facilities with which to market their products. The production of pig iron has increased and is at the rate of 25, 205,000 tons a year, but stocks ar low at the furnaces and consumptioa is heavy. Northern furnaces have sold their outputs for this year an made liberal sales for delivery in th first quarter of 1907. The steel milli have in most instance sold their prod uct for this year, and most of then are well sold up for the first quartei of next year. The movement of lum ber has grown considerably larger, and local and contiguous consump tion is large. ' ' Low prices for Western bituminous coal have reduced production in Illi nois and Indiana, but the demand is 'mproving and the trade has a health 'er look. Cheap excursion rates from Mie Southwest and far West brought in a large number of buyers to the targe distributing centres. A satis factory volume of business has re sulted. Traffic officials say that it will b easier to get money to move th. crops with than to secure cars an engines with which to haul the grai to market. They are predicting als a year of large earnings, and witl ihe farmer prosperous, indication! are all in favor of a good genera! ousiness. The dry goods trade has felt the effects of the improved con ditions probably more than any othe line. RUSSIAN CRIMES GROW APACI? St. Petersburg Statistics Show Mort Murders Than in 1905. St. Petersburg, Russia. OfTlcia; itatistics show that the increase oi srime in St. Petersburg feince the beginning of the revolutionary move ment has been enormous. The numt ber of deliberate murders was. 40 per cent, more than in the year 1904, and 200 per cent, more than the rate For the first seven months in 1905. Homicides during quarrels increased 800 per cent, compared with 1904. and 1200 pe:- cent, compared witt 1905. According to the returns issued '03 the police department here the revo lutionists throughout Russia during the last week alone killed 172 gov ernment officials and seriously wounded 42. The police also dia covered 120 bombs, 12 illegal secre printing plants and 17 depots of cop les of suppressed editions of varout newspapers. The revolutionists fur ther pillaged thirteen governmen; spirit depots, and in these operations killed and wounded twenty-two em ployes. There were 276 arrests for political offences during the week. HOKE SMITH NOMINATED. Landslide Ends Fivc-Corncred Figlrt in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga. A landslide for Hok? Smith hit Georgia. The former mem ber of Cleveland's Cabinet swept through the State, leaving his -four opponents far in the rear. Hoke Smith is acknowledged to be the next Governor of Georgia, and the only question is as to the size of his ma jority over the combined four oppos ing men Clark Howell, of "The Constitution;" J. H. Estill, of 'The Savannah News;" James Smith, a wealthy planter, and Richard RuS3ell, a Georgia judge. Smith conducted his campaign on the lines of opposition to present freight rates favoring disfranchise ment of negroes and opposition to the ring rule. Not a 3Ian in Kansas Idle. ' Kansas has not an unemployed la borer, as far .as T. B. Gerow, director of the Free Employment Bureau, Kansas City,- has been able: to ascer tain. Mr. Gerow has application foi nearly 200 men who are wanted ai once in various parts of the State, and he has not had one application for work. Some of the dcmanls for help are exceedingly pressing." In J several counties men are wanted for I threshing machine crews in order t take care of the wheat crops. . Watched Himself Die After taking carbolic acid with, sui cidal intent, Otto Radeck of St. Louis Mo., stood in front of a mirror, his wife and two children by his side, and watched his face grow paler and paler until he dropped dead. Lightning Kills Three of a Family. Mrs. Elizabeth Prince, of Fair--chance, Pa., and her two daughters were killed by lightning during a ' storm and two of her sons badlj shocked. ,
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