The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-22

the namesake of Senator Billy, but not
his home-a little town thirty miles
south of Pekin Ills. During his career
as a preacher. a period of SOME forty
years. he has married l 1857 couples and
conducted 1,500 funerals.
Turning to the divorce side of matri-
mony-a side peculiarly rich in speedy
records-one naturally would look to
Chicago, Oklahoma or the Dakotas for
winners The year found its stellar
performance in the case of Mrs G..
Kruger. 1t took this lady trifie less
than ten minutes to convince Judge
Dunno that she ought to be cut loose
from her husband, Henry William
Kruger a saloonkeeper of the Windy
City.
At $3.50 a. NJ. Aug. IS, she filed her
bill in the circuit court charging that
Henry, whom she had married in the
preceding April, was a cruel spouse
At $40 a. m. the decree had been signed
by the judge awarding freedom TO the
bride and taxing the recreant Henry
$1,000 alimony. The highest speed
achievement in former cases in any
part of the United States was twenty
minutes for the legal separation of a
San Francisco couple in 1900
Referring to feats of travel it GER
tainly was a great year for the auto
mobile. Even in these days Of chronic
record breaking such a performance
as that of Henri Fournier, the French
chauffeur, who drove a heavy French
racing machine mile in 81 As seconds
on the Coney Island boulevard, in No
Vember, was most noteworthy.
The long distance record for horselesa
vehicles was broken by Arthur j. Eddy
o. Chicago a former president of the
Automobile club of that city. In sixty
days, from Aug. l to Sept. 80, he COW
cred 1900 miles, travelling through
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts
and part of Canada. He averaged
about 100 miles a day, and at times
maintained speed of forty miles an
hour.
Wonders incident to travel were pro-
claimed in other classes; for example,
the unchallenged record of Charles
Bellamy, Burlington railroad fireman,
who, in eleven years of faithful SER
vice, travelled SOC, $40 miles and shoveled
32,5O1 tons of coal on the way He
never lost a trip or received a scratch
through accident. Railway men say
that 1T is a case Of physical endurance
never equaled.
An engine of the Great Northern
railway in England, which was built
III 1870, completed in August an aggre-
gate of 100000 miles, breaking the
English record in this respect.
The speediest long distance delivery
Of mail ever accomplished in the world
was that of the consignment which left
Sydney, Australia, Oct. 10 for London,
England, by the American route. a
distance of 1926 miles was covered in
thirty-One days, a saving of four days
over the SueZ canal route.
4 4 IL i T..
thirteen hours and thirty minutes is
the new globe-girdling record, which
was completed, last July by Charles c.
Fitzmorris, Chicago high school boy.
This beat the best previous fast cir
cult of the world by several days
The champion gourmand of the year
was Elmer Pfeifer an Arcola, Ills,
youth with an elastic stomach-a chap
that Carlyle probably would have
called patent digester-whO, on.
hungry day in February, devoured
twenty-four fat ham sandwiches in
exactly forty-eight minutes, thereby
wager, with side bets of $75 |
and establishing a record, which I'M
doubtedly was a world beaten.
Harry S. Black of Chicago and New |
York recently made the largest con-
science contribution to Uncle Sam !
known in the history of the govern |
ment. He sent to the proper officials |
S1S,669.69, representing the duty on |
jewels imported by his wife, which had !
the vigilance of the inspect
ors.
1t was fruitful year in unprecedent-
I'd financial, commercial and Industrial |
transactions. The largest shipment of |
gold which ever left New York in a.
n oil 70
q on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
Ter Crosse. The sum was 1855, 5S3.19.
No other ship in the worlds history
las ever been so richly laden. Another
'ecord is noted in the statement that
1t the opening of business on July 81
he United States treasury had in it's
the largest fund of gold
,ver held by any nation in the world,
md the greatest ever owned by this
government, the amount being $500
ia. 279.
Wall street had record breaking
lay on Jan. I, when, for the first time
n the history of the New York stock
more than 100000 shares
we're traded in on it's floor during the
i've hours of business
The showing of national banks in
he country at large was far in excess
# anything of the kind ever before
eported, the comptroller's statement in
Washington in June accounted for a
otal of 1904 banks, with total re-
ources of So, $50, 794, 367
The largest single order ever given
Or watches was received by an Amer
AN manufacturer from a London firm
he former agreeing to deliver to his
ustomer 100000 timepieces within
welve months.
A. l.. Schaeffer of Edgar county, Illi-
ois, harvested the largest crop of pop
orn ever gathered in the world From
is 1O2 acres he had 1900 bushels, d
ield of little over seventeen bushels l
, the acre. 1t cost him ST an acre to l
aise, sort, shell and pay ground rent. I
The winter wheat yield of Kansas !
II 1901 was 9O.O45,514 bushels, valued .
t $50, 479, $40, and breaking the preced- {
lg years record by 1S,450,O70 bushels. t
heSe two were the largest wheat crops 1
YER grown by any state '
The first year of the new century was 2
n all-round record breaker for the I
trmers of the. United States. The en- l
re years surplus of the products of
lie field and farm sold abroad amount S
l to no less than $500 1000. V
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the
nited States Steel corporation, is au- g
lority for the statement that steel Y
as supplanted cotton in industrial 2
that it exceeded the cotton p
dustry in 1900 by more than 100000 h
o, and for 1901 will exceed it by more a
ian $3.50. 000,0 goo. t
Reports of pig iron manufacturers s
Dvering production in October show o
lat the month was a record breaker, Ii
lie output reaching the great total of