This money was raised, and would have been paid to the brigands, but
that the police stepped in and insisted upon their right to manage the
case.
Mr. Ross had been warned against allowing the police to interfere. The
thieves had written to him that if he did so they would kill the boy.
The Mayor of Philadelphia offered the enormous reward of twenty thousand
dollars for the recovery of the boy and the arrest of the persons who
had stolen him. Notices of this were printed in every language, and sent
all over the world; but though numbers of people were working to gain
the great reward, Charlie Ross has never been found.
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We told you last week of the new volcano which has appeared in Mexico.
The shocks have done a great deal of damage. The town of Tehuantepec has
been completely destroyed, and the people are living in tents on the
outskirts of the place.
Tremblings of the earth still continue to be felt along the Pacific
Coast, and the people are terror-stricken.
One very severe shock was felt in San Francisco, but little damage
resulted from it. Some of the California towns have, however, suffered
severely.
Nature seems to be playing some strange tricks this year.
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