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¿Chinese Ald American Red Cross Lit Campaign.) i saltwerd ~San Francisco, May 22,--The Chinese: boys' band- und 50 Chinese volunteers canvassed the -the local Chinese section for Rad Cross abscriptions in recognition of the Red Cross relief work-in- Chins during floods and famines.
✅ Pigs and Potatoes."" Mr. Prothero addressed a meet- "of farmers and "agricultural istourers at Fareham_recently. "He usid that the Board of Agriculture was supposed to have aid that pigu were not to be kept. "That was not what the Board ssid, and his advice was, "Keep all the pigs you can, but do not do it extravagantly, and do not "feed them on grain which is wantéd for human consumption." The -feeding of pigs should be radically changed, and it should be made the most economical of animals. He hoped that cottagere would Leep pigs once more. The pig and the poisto were, kwa of "the uncut valuable things that could „be grown, "and" he hoped that there were was going to be a very large inoressed in the potato crop. Mr. Prothero also emphasized the importance of cultivating allot- ments, pointing out that one of the great difficulties this year would be railway transport, and that, with allotments at hand, we should have our distribution ready
made.
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At Bow street Police Court; before Mr. Graham Campbell, James Edmondson and Joseph Goulding, farmers, were sam moned at the instance of the Board of Trade for carrying on at the City Chambers, Carlisle, ..and elsewhere within the United Kingdom, employers' liability inearance businers without depositing and keeping deposited with the Paymaster-General, for and on behalf of the Supreme Coart, the sum of £20,000 88 zequired by the Assurance Com. panies Act. Mr. Frampton, for the defendants, admitted & fech. nical offence, but said that it had, arisen from AT anintentional misinterpretation of a section -of the Act: The defendants
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Electricty failed immediately, and within ten minuses the braak. ing of the gas maine made it necessary to shat of the supply, The water mains were not much
One of the freaks of the earth- quake was the andden flow in wella. Many artesisz walls, dry Los Angeles, Cal, April 22. for years, showed a sudden free and adjoining districte for theirMore than one-third of the supply of water. This andḍen cnutual protection and insurance business district of San Jacinto increase of water manifested itself against losses by fire and cattle and a smaller proportion of that pertionlarly in the San Jacinto dissses. They bad made the of Hemet, both in River-side River. Before the earthquake it mistake of beginning operations County, about seventy milea east was dry. Immediately after the before the consent of the Board of of here, were in ruïne to-day, and shopka the river at a point below Trade had been obtained to an scores of residences in the two the town showed a flow of twelve, application for exemption from little towns were wrecked, by a inches in depth and forty feet in
the obligation applicable to series of earth shocks late pester-width. ordinary seurance companies of day afternoon, which caused sil of The earthquake of yesterday depositing 420,000. Mr. Graham southern California to tremble, was almost a repetition of that of Campbell fined Edmondson $20, The property damage is estimated Christmas Day, 1899, when the and ordered Goalding, who had at from $100,000 to $150,000 in two towns suffered shocks of like some knowledge of the law the two place. Half a dozen severity. relating to companies, to pay s other towne and cities, including Fear was expressed in Los denalty of 40 gainers, in addi Los Angeles, suffered minor Angeles that several large office tion to 10 guineas coste.
damage, confined mainly to plate-buildings had been thrown ant Lord Jellicoe and A Naval Battle glass windows and shattered of plumb. A survey will have to be undertaken to learn the. Admiral Lord Jellicoe, acknow. cornices.
Hemet and San Jacinto have truth. The Washington Building, ledging the presentation of an address at the Victoria Working populations of less than one a large business structure on men's Club, Kew Gardens, re- thousand each. They are about Spring Street, was perceptibly ently, asid he did not know how three miles apart and lie in a separated from the Carrier Build- many times he took the Grand picturesque country, which was ing, immediately adjoining. Ficet down the Heligoland Bight, described in the concluding Spores of plate-glass windows broken at San Fern dragging our coat tails for the scenes of Helen Hunt Jackson's were Germans to tread on," but they novel, "Ramons."
ardino, and cracks developed Con- never came vuk,? There was still Only one life was known to in several brick walls. the same keen spirit to meet the have been loss, that of Frank E. orets roads and highways leading enemy, but he was dot optimistic Darnell, a retired manufacturer of from Perris to Hemet and to San that our men were going to get this pity, who was drowned when Jacinto were upheaved. their chance for soms little time, he fell off a pier at Santa Monics, The earthquake was felt over a I think "sid Lord Jellicoe, besch resort near here, Hus wide area in the West. Im moet that the Germans will remain dreds of pleasura seekers on the northern extremity apparently ža barbour not that he fanke vier made a wild dash for solid was Fresno, Cal Tremore also the business, for the German ground when the shock came at were felt at Phoenix and Selig- ecaman in a very gallant fellow 3.33 P.M., and Darnell was swept man, Ariz., and at Milaoid, Utah. it the enemy knows he is mak from his feet, Persona in scores Two miners who wats entomb- zing our task very difficult by of theatres and motion picture ed by s landelide at a magnesíte htopping where he is, because houses in this vicinity were mine near San Jacinto were there is always the threat that he frightened and many, suffered reported rescued today. In San might come out, and there is no slight injuries in their rash to the Jacinto, latest reporta said, lour situation: more difficult to deal exits;
teen business establishments were
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