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Show A nd now It Is Russia's turn to bo visited by earthquakes. Andijan a city In the Caspian sea region lias been destroyed. f000 people are reported re-ported to have been killed. The state treasury containing live million roubles rou-bles is In the ruins. The water has disappeared dis-appeared from the wells and a general subsidence of the site of tho town Is feared. Something seems to be out of Joint with the old world this year. It lias been a long time since there has been such disaster fiom volcanos and earthquakes as the world has witnessed witness-ed in tho last few months. The destruction de-struction of St. Pierre Martinique was the most peculiar and most awful of its kind ever recorded In history. We had hardly gotten over the Martlne-quc Martlne-quc disaster, when news came of the eruption of Mount, Santa Maria hi Guatemaula and the destruction of nearly all of the coffee glowing dls-t dls-t rlct of the country. Since then there has been other disturbances in different dif-ferent quarters and now comes lUissia for her share of the trouble. No ono knows where the merciless hand of death may fall next. t |