Show TOPPLING TOWNS V an earthquake spreads dasas ter and ruin c KILLED AND WOUNDED the german chancellor wants peace massacre in china br by western assid free press to the 11 j vice jackson laakson resigned Ke signed new sept I 1 A A washington special to the times says thomas courtland manning of louisiana hu has been appointed minister to mexico to succeed jackson Jac keon of georgia resigned the louisianans here are pleased with the choice made by secretary bayard and bay manning ie Is a roan man of ripe age o 0 fine flue legal ability and large experience EXIt TIPS 1 convulsions eastern i cities receive a shaking lip up general consternation cincinnati ohi AUK aug 31 at pm a slight shock of earthquake was felt here the printers in the sun office started to run down the stair a thinking the building was fall falling ja g the rh chock was quite perceptible 1 at the telephone exchange and an other buildings I 1 but it was not noticed much by persons in the streets naw nsw bonx aug 31 at ahia evening a very i ery decided earthquake was felt here and a nd accordine according lo 10 telegram g rams at baltimore washington and richmond in the upper stories of the western union building in this city the waves were vere plainly discern hie ble and persons walking about experienced perien ced a sen bation tation of falling failing DETROIT aug 31 at 9 0 tonight a shock of earthquake caused considerable consider ablo excitement in this city it was of bf short duration but distinctly felt eit olf ferent parts of the town inthe in the fee buildt building n C the editorial st made a stamp stampede ede for the street while in the composing rom posing room the M weekly men all fill stopped work but those on piece work kept right on LoUIS louisville VILLu ky aug 31 A decided earthquake shock was felt here about pm p m lasting nearly half a minute the tg vibrations seemed to be north and no damage is ak at yet reported CLEVELAND august 31 an earthquake shock lasting about one minute has just occurred here the building buildings swayed perceptibly no 20 damage is is yet reported people left their houses and ran into the streets and great excitement cit pit ement prevails aue aug alan ai an earthquake shock was distinctly felt here about A portion of ike tk cornice riia placed ed falling felting to the pavement and all the t e tow ow er of the court house rocked roc ked to such an tin extent that the fire watchmen on duty fled down stairs pa august 31 at 10 p in n shock of earthquake was felt followed immediately by a slighter shock the whole lasting about twenty seconds the streets were at once filled with people guests rushed out ofine of the hotels in their night aps parel women and children were crying and screaming and everyone more more or less al alarmed armid aka A far as le learned arned no damage hat hai been done washington august 31 at delbek tonight to night the desks in the ilia As Z d frets press office in corcovan Cor conan building Hull ding began to vibrate in a peculiar but unmistakable fashion tb that tbt t suggested an earthquake A few minutes later the janitor reported rep oried that the upper stories of the building abid were ro back bick and forth and the night watchman odthe of the western union telegraph office made a similar an with the additional information that the clock on the i western wall of the room had stopped A telephone message from a gentleman connected with the associated socia ted press office who live lives on avenue and from other points in the city reported that tha t the orn ornament amente on mantlo were rattling linc telegraph operators in at lintz a few minutes before thie this bad had notified the operators jo in washington 1 that l at a chake was coming and to look 0 out ut jarit forit jar it but ao no attention was paid to the warning as its it was dedas 1 bolte joke tenn aug 81 A violent shock of earthquake waa was experienced here at tonight to night its motion wag was from north to south and ten seconds conda ee ithama it had a rapid oscillating movement great was felt many who were within their offices and residences fled into the streets number abers who had ye retired tired feeling the shock ailt oa 01 of their dwellings not waiting to drei dreis themselves guests at the peabody hotel hurried down stains thinking the building I 1 falling it was the same all over alie 1 chyi cita a and d many women went into jete hysterics c it was the severest shock ever experienced in this section of country tenn aug ai two distinct chocks shocks of earthquake ake were felt here tonight to night the tile longer one at and the shorter one at it all in tall was very perceptible to buildings but not felt by a majority of the people at Jex lexington ington ky I 1 st louis charleston charlesi I 1 W va columbus bo columbus lumbus ohio hlo Louls louisville vil I 1 e chicago cleveland milwaukee and dubuque shocks were also felt Nsf YORK sept I 1 the telegraph officials in this city report that earths bock continued contin ded anthe south alantic ic seaboard daring the night great excitement ie is reported the negrone were paralyzed with fear and all classes of people kept in the open squares entire night might stox bupt althe I western union telegram telegraph pa manager at ton conr na NC son cent t the following aa A train de of the atlantic coast line bas has just been in and says their section master stationed twelve miles froin charleston reports that the hock shock wrecked a bridge near there and says a darkey from four miles north of charleston reported ported giat the water down the ground up heaved the tricks A special engineer lias has been started to bring any r reports three available SAVANNAH sept l abree distinct hocks shocks have been felt I 1 here since midnight the last occurred at a m ma all the e shocks were short and not violent v 10 the people are still greatly excited and are sitting out in the streets and squares or crowding round around the telegraph graah and newspaper olla offices ces the general era impression is that charleston has 6 suffered fredred seriously it is supposed that the cable under athley ashley elver river is b broken at tybe island at the mouth of the savannah elver river the lenses in the lighthouse were destroyed the people on the ireland telephoned to the city that they are in a state of terror there was no communication with the main land until daylight and all the inhabitants are assembled on highlands their chief cause of fear ia is from a tidal wave the tho island having been swept swei tin in august 1881 RICHMOND sept 1 A dispatch die patch just t received here eay says the streets of barleston charleston are blockaded with fallen buildings telegraph poles and tangled wires over sixty persons are killed or wounded alter after the earthquake fires broke out in different parta parts of be the city but are not now spreading the population spent the night in the streets and vacant lots there is BO so much confusion that it Is hard to get at the facts cincinnati sept 1 there was a decided difference in the severity of the earthquake shock in different buildings gs and in different parts of the city last night many people did not observe it at all the largest building in the city and one of the strongest the govern government meni building rocked violently with three distinct vibrations A large clock was stopped and a mirror broken eaven story flats in the city the yi i orations brat ions were severe dishes were thrown from cupboards boards and articles fell from mantels i while chandeliers were agit agitated abed as ibby if by a strong wind probably twenty or thirty meet inga ing it of lodges and societies were b broken ro ken up without a motion toad to adjourn at the old armory building on court street the plastering on the ceiling was broken A most dc de aided hock shock was felt in cummings ville in the northern part of the city here lights were wert put out and bottled broken in in the drugstores throughout the state dispatches indicate that the shock occurred alti almost lost at the same instant at Il hamilton amilton boarders in the hotels ran from their rooms in aright and the walls were said to have swayed one and ahalt a halt inches at canton ohio four shocks were observed the motion being from north to south half of the ice ace was in the streets talking of the strange experience for a long longtime time after the event at denison a meeting broke up in a panic coshocton Cosh octon fe felt t two sli shocks the same ame etory story ca cornea aneg from nearly every town in ohio lammey S C sept ithe I 1 the shock b burst the mill dams here and some thousands of feet of railroad track have been destroyed the telegraph wires are also destro destroyed ed N 0 it trains ra ins are running and the western va tern union ban started hand in iino amt io r n 1 to restore com great damage is re report ported edat at summer vill the railroad is badly broken pu both sides of branchville charleston sept 1 11 a in an earthquake such as has never before been known in the his history tory of th q city swept over charleston lat last night shortly after ten causing more loea loss and injury to property pio perty and far more loss of life than the cyclone of a year before the city is wrecked the streets are encumbered with masses of fallen bricks and tangled telegraph and telephone wire and up to an early hour it was impossible to pass from one part art of the city to another the first shock was by far the most severe most of the people with their families passed the night in the streets which even this morn eng ang are crowded with people afraid to reenter their homes more than sixty persona were killed and wounded chiefly colored fires broke on oil out in dif lerent parta parts of the city I 1 in wed mediately iRtely after the earthquake and some are till still burning but no danger of 1 spreading reading there ie is no way of le leaving 1 ag the city at pree prea ent S C Q sept I 1 the nil ra 11 road is under water in some pieces places between here and charleston 2 25 miles north of here and the earth liae has caved in in several places jacksonville fla sept I 1 the earthquake shock last night was quite severe here and was felt as s far south aa as bartow 1 it commenced at 9 27 eun sun time hine and lasted abbat 30 seconds TUE THE SCANDAL REFUTED wai was not intoxicate intoxicated and be tired early CITY crry or OF aug 31 an adjourned meeting jofs of por portion tion of the A Amer iron colony waa was held late this aate afternoon anoon at the house of general john to consider the charges made against special agent sedgwick resolutions of censure were pending but a substitute motion was offered and carried that sedgwick was here as a an sin american citizen and that it was outside the interest into reit of the mem bers of the Amerl american catz colony to pursue the inquiry now pending into his lils conduct all interest in the matter seemed to baan subsided and the meeting closed in five minute minutes the friends of sedgwick considering the action taken as settling the injurious report IL against him the manager of the iturbide hotel farni furnished bed a letter in which he be denies the reports against his guest sedgwick asserting aseer tins that that gentleman returned to bis his hotel at an early hour after the ball free from signs of intoxication and retired to his room behaving in a gentlemanly manner members of the jockey club pro pose giving a grand dinner to sede wick tonight to night to vindicate the tile hospitality f of the club and to show their respect for him 1112 coto T aug 31 secretary of state Bayard received this morn ing a telegram from mr sir A 0 sedgwick stating that the circulated about hini him were ridiculously false and nd that proof to that effect would be produced whenever he waa was called upon by the secretary of state there I 1 fob lot to 4 christians an awful tale of blood s hed trim frim the ilia flowery lanil sept I 1 arrived gale gate hull fr from shanghai advices ching too foo the chief rity of the province provi oce of Sec buen state that the natives 0 of f the eastern part of that province and those of northern cochin 1 in china have rasen against the christiana christians and are massacring them and destroying their property this active persecution is attributed to the improvidence of english and american missionaries in ln cochin china alone fifty christians have been kills ed their hougee houses burned and farm farms d destroyed est royed in Sech nen a general massacre maag acre of christiana is reported to be in progress pro grees and they are killed w wh lie rever found it ie Is caid said that whole villages villa ees occupied by christians have been destroyed and that all lands occupied by professors of that faith are being devastated the apostolic aposto Hc vicars residence in inSe chuen baa has been bein burned to the ground and not a 9 bi pie ee e of furni furniture tuTe nor a book nor a paper er was saved the foreign fa a t barely irely escaped from with their lives no efforts have been made up to the latest reports to quell the bisor der dir and so far as now known it continues unsuppressed the european war cloud claud aug 31 the north german gazette reiterates that germany has no interests whatever in bulgaria bulgari a it says it is not worth while to keep a single german soldier soldie under runder armson account of bulgaria the necessity for german armaments is due to france every french newspaper the gazette says I 1 proves that franco france is making rapid preparations to fight and that financial sacrifices are being made to raise the efficiency of her army ge germany amany must always keep her heir eyes fixed faxed upon france aug 31 dispatches from st petersburg state that leading bussian russian papera affect to have great feare fears concerning the fate of bulgaria where to quote the language otone of one of them there wre re two government and two arales menacing mena cinc each other with civil annoe vreona declares thai that alexander must be prevented from returning to sofia and saye says all the russians would e enthusiastically support any steps that luesia might take to prevent him paris aug 31 A dispatch from berlin says prince will not go to bulgaria the russian lius sian officers who were in the BulE bulgarian arian army army prior to the coup wil win not reenter re enter por prince it ince alexanders service ervice the dispatch also says prince alexander is not at all sanguine of restoring order and would abdicate only that hat ho he is encourage id by england to pir persevere severe sept 1 the lius Itus sian colonel has been arrested at lorn it is rumored that fled bed from sofia LONDON sept lethe le it the standards berlin correspondent says that ina a conversation yesterday with bismarck he said yi 1 I fully believe in have havel fled led from that city action during the revolution was wits suspicious pi cious lie ile allowed alexanders partisans to be arrested by and to remain soldiers in prison son and failed to disarm all the soldiers implicated in ts conspiracy so SOFIA sept 1 1 colonel roff a and nd ills his troops arrived here today to day and received an enthusiastic welcome the city is cleam preparations are being in made for a joyful welco welcome me to alexander er arrests Arrest of plotters continue A court martial is bein being formed and will deal with the conspirators as early as possible the ministry try continues to sit at Tir nova the king has written to alexander congratulating him upon his return A lynching bit bee mies sept I 1 three negroes were lynched near mcnutt lake like leflore co on monday night for an sin attempted assault on soine young ladies indies the negroes had formed a conspiracy to carry out their designs one of them was to himself in a house during the evening and after nightfall when all was quiet helas be was to 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