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Show Z5he Earthquake at Caracas TUB CITY OP" CAIIACAS Caracas, Voncinela, was again visit- , d by a severe carthipiako last week. Fifteen persons were killed and many others Injured Oreat damage was done to buildings Including the Pantheon Pan-theon nnd tho churches Tho United BUtes legation was badly damaged, but all tho occupants eacaped unhurt Treoident Castro who leaped from a balcony on tho second floor of the government house, bad one leg broken, brok-en, Mr William Henry Doveton Hag-gard Hag-gard had a narrow escape, the second floor of tho lliitiih legation having fallen upon him and burled him In j the debris Itepurts from the interior I show that (be effects of tho earthquake were widespread Tho dltturbineos I woro felt no far as tho region of tho Andes. Thero were many wonderful escapes Caracas has twlco been shaken by tarthquakos In recent years In tho middle ot November. 1890 a sevtro disturbance oceumd at midnight. Thero were two dlttluct shocks There waa a panic In the city und most of the Inhabitants fled to the open place There was lltllo damagu dune, however, how-ever, and no loss ot life Tho city of Caracas, which lis fre-quently fre-quently suffered from earthquakes, was visited Inst July by a serloa ct seismic disturbances, which did rrent damage to prujerty Thero were seven terrific shorkj In succession, and tho residents ot the city wuro terror-stricken terror-stricken Prcldcn' .Castro nnd hit family slept for moral nights under tints In the riata Ilollvar, nnd all the churches and theaters were kept closed for a week London -t Saturnalia. The scencaennctad In 1-ondon'a streets upon tho occasion of tho arrival of tbo City Imperial Voluntiwra home from tho wars" wore ft disgrace to the largest larg-est city In the world nnd tho one which has claimed to bo best protected, protect-ed, esys the C.ilcago tribune. Many social reformers havo pointed to tbo London police as hu organisation which con maintain order without tho tuo of physical force, and havo hold It up aa an example to American po-llcomen po-llcomen who are In the habit of using their clubs aa persuader Perhaps tho shameful and dlrgustlng ncenss on Monday night would have boon yrorented had tho London police used their duha nnd used (hem vigorously go far as tho reception ot tho returning return-ing troops was ot n patriotic, character charac-ter It assumed extraordinary dimensions dimen-sions only because they wcro I-ondon soldiers. They had not particularly distinguished themselves as the Irish, , Scotch and. English Tommy Atkins did, nor hnd they made a record com- i parablo with the Canadian or Auslrn- , llan contingents , 76.20J.220. J The peoplo of the United Klnton "t bate stood up nnd been countol, and thcrd are Just 70.29S.220 of tho novvr- 1 rlgns With the posslblo axccptlou ot i tho Ilryanlte and outl-lmpcrlnllsu, J who aro opposed to expansion of any s kind, Americans will plume them- J selves upon their substantial Increase, and will bo Justified In doing so tor In ten years they have gained 13.225,- ' 401, or nearly 21 per cint During tbo 1 cuitury now closing they hnro In- created from C 308 183 to TO 255,220. j and tho gain In the last decade Is larx- j cr than that of any provlaus dcendo. 1 To tho total tho forty-flye ttutra cim- trlbuto 71 027 007 and tho seven terrl- i torlcs tic 1 TC7 3I3 Trincc Chrhtian Victor. tsvJai A dispatch ttqm Pretoria nunounoeo j! the dwith from enteric fever of Prlnco i.l Christian Victor of Hchleswlg-Ilol- ',Vi stein, eldest son of V tho Princess Hcl- y""N j" rne of England and I? ?fJ a grandson of S ,JJ Queen Victoria Ho sXSws ' was born In 1RC7 A35Jr 2 V JJ and wot n major tnKHjn j In ths King s Hoy flf:ir WiJH f, nl rifle Ho Joined ft'HWvvjfB ''" tho King's Hoynl WS&y1W rifles twelvo years llff'Rwwlj ngo, and sim a iJ'arvTfc groat deal of war 'S-'Jsifjs'v scrvlco He took IliYSi? $ part IntheAshanil Ymffiyi expedition, win h jkf hiM "i brought henvj or " I v" 1 row to the fine, i !,.,, ctiristlaa i through the d t i Clor of her sou lu 1 1 1 . Prince Ileni j , , and waa promoted bnvun ) lu remgnltlon ,, of bis senile l wj , Oindur- jj man viltb the s,r! r latterly ho J served with his nglnunt In Irpland. f Ho was 3S yoars of age - - I Tho emperor of AuMila nlnnys used to send tho Kite king of Italy annually annual-ly n present of 10 OW picked Havana 3 cigars m |