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uly 11. A severe shock at midnight a me Phones W. I. 
July 16 and 18. Two severe shocks in H 
July 21. A slight shock at 5 a.m. at Salt ip City.—(U. 8. 
Weather Rev.) 
July 26. A slight shock, direction north and south, was felt 
at 8.25 a.m. at Los Angeles, Cal., and at San Gorgonio, San 
Bernardino and other places in the mountains east of Los 
Angeles. 
a 27. At 7.30 P.M. a strong shock at San José, Costa 
ic 
re . 3, A severe earthquake occurred at 2.15 P.M. in the 
Island of Martinique, W. I. The vibrations continued fifteen 
seconds, and in the town of Diptiens several buildings were 
thrown down 
Aug. 9, 13, 14, 15, 22, 30. At San José, Costa Rica; on 9th 
at 4.15 a. ua feeble shock ; on 18th at 7.17 P.M. a strong 
shock, at 11.380 P.M. a feeble shock; on 14th at 3 a. M. and 
.48 P.M. feeble shocks; on 22d at 10 Pp. m. a strong shock ; 
on 80th at 0.23 a. M. afeebleshock. At Cartago, twelve miles 
east of San José, five shocks occurred from 7 P. M of the 14th 
wa Vee M. of the 15th. 
Aug. 29. Letters from Alaska, dated Sept. 1, state that 
frequent shocks had occurred during the summer, in connection 
with renewed activity of the volcanoes of the Aleutian Islands. 
On Aug. 29, the village of Makuslin on Unalaska Island was 
destr royed by earthquake shocks and tidal waves 
Sept. 7. Three shocks from west to east at San Francisco 
about 9.35 a. m.—(U. 8. Weather Rev. 
Sept. 24, 29. At San José, Costa Rica, feeble shocks at 5 
A. M. and 6.55 P. M. of 24th, and at 7.45 A.M. and 7.15 P. M. of 
29th. 
Sept. 29th A shock about 6 P.M. at San Francisco and 
esti Cal., from N.E. to 8. W. 
Oct. 2. At 6 P.M. a severe earthquake occurred in the 
feared from the neighboring voleanoes, and advices a few days 
later report great activity in the voleanoes Izalco and Santa Ana. 
The same day a slight shock was felt in Santiago 
de Catia: Cuba. Se S. Weather Rev.) 
Oct. At 2.30 4. M. a shock was felt along the Hudson 
River ue Marlborough to Peekskill, N. Y., a distance of 
about twenty-five miles. It was sufficiently wicks to awaken 
