The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-12-04


dreds. In 1908 there were thirteen
deaths from football injuries, and in
1907 there were fourteen.
Lamar, Colo.-Henry Starr, the In
dian desperate who pleaded guilty to
having robbed bank at Amity, Colo,
was sentenced today to from seven to
twenty-five years confinement in the
penitentiary.
Washington.-Miss Frances Noyes,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B.
Noyes of Chicago, made her initial bow
to society here last week at a tea at her
parents home on Vermont avenue.
Those in the receiving party included
included Misses Maria Larfdreth of
Philadelphia and Myria Hall of San
Francisco, cousins of the debutante.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Hailstones as large
as walnuts fell in various portions of
this city late Friday during a period of
ten minutes. A sleet storm followed a
sudden drop in the temperature, he fall
ing sleet remaining on the ground for
some time, affording an unusual sight
for southern California.
ashington.-Richard G. Kerens of
Missouri, according to current report.
viii be appointed ambassador to Vienna
upon the assembling of congress on De-
cebber 6. State department officials.
however, are noncommittal on he SUBJ
jetc.
New Haven, Conn.-Samuel and ST.
mon Perrin were arrested last week OH
d complaint of the Los Angeles police
Fhe men. are charged with the theft OF
$4,000 worth of diamonds from j. Ro
senkrans of Los Angeles. 1t is said
that they will fight extradition.
Buffalo, n. Y-Atorney General
O'Malley announced Friday he had ap-
pointed John B. Coleman of New York
City to investigate the charges in re-
gard to the existence of a combination
to control or advance the prices of milk
in Greater New York.
Chicago.-Mrs. Joseph Wyda of North
Chicago danced herself to death Thurs
day evening. She attended a Thanks
giving ball at Waukegan and her grace
full dancing caused her to be eagerly
sought as partner. Toward the close
of the evening her face became flushed
and friend suggested that she sit out
one or two numbers and rest, but she
declined, saying she was having too
good a time. On the way home she told
friends that she was tired, but appeared
all right when she left them block
from her home. Two hours later pedes
trians found her dead on the sidewalk
a few steps from her home. Investiga-
ton showed she had died of hemorrhage
brought on by overeXertion.
court-martial of minor offenses and dis.
missed from the United States army
should not be branded as convicts or
permanently barred from re-enlistment
in all cases, according to Major General
Leonard Wood in his first annual re-
port as commander of the department
of the east
''The present system of handling mill
tary -convicts should be changed says
lie report "and a procedure inaugural
ed looking to reform as we'll as punish
ment under which it will be possible for
prisoners by good conduct to obtain a
standing which will entile them to re-
enlistment in the army. General Wood
also expressed the opinion that it would
benefit the country to turn back into
civil life a number of trained soldiers
each year. Because it is not the policy
of the United States to maintain a large
army, he declares, ''re-enlistment
should be limited to non- commissioned Of
ficers and privates of the first class"
HaVana.-An automobile containing
Louis Oetavio Divine, secretary of JUS
tice; Sub-Secretary Juan Garcia Koh-
ly, Director OF Justice Lozier and Mario
Garcia Kohly, newly appointed minis
ter to Mexico was wrecked Sunday
night while returning to Havana from
a trip in the country. All the men were
severely injured. Juan Garcia Kohly is
not expected to recover.
New York, Nov.-The Roman Catho-
lie Sisterhood of Charity in the United
States has been established in every
city of Importance in the United States
and on December L will celebrate it's
Tooth anniversary by Catholics all over
the country. The order was established
in 1909 at Emmetsburg, Nd, by Mis-
tress Elizabeth Ann Bagley Seton, known
the Catholic world as Moth
er Seton.
Mother Seton was daughter of Rich
ard Bagley of New York, and grand
daughter of Helen Roosevelt. She was
born in this city in 1774, and at the age
of 20 married Richard Seton, a wealthy
who died in 1903 Two years
later the widow embraced the Roman
Catholic faith and moved to Baltimore.
where she started a seminary for young
women.
Mother Seton was made Sister of
Charity by the bishop of Baltimore in
1909, and established the first chapter
Of the order in the United States at the
mother house at Emmetsburg, Nd. 1t
was expected that colony of sisters
would come here from Paris, but polit-
ical troubles due to Napoleon, interfered
and the American order was established,
taking the title and constitution of the
French order. In the past hundred
years branches of the Sisterhood of
Charity have been established in prac-
tically every city of Importance in the
United States, and the growth of the
order has been a little short of marvel
Gus.
Houston, Tex, Nov-Paul and Lee
Durham are dead, and Ed Weber is un-
der arrest, charged with. their murder. |
The killing is the sequel to the shooting |
md wounding Of Sam Weber, a brother
Of Ed, it was alleged, by one of the |
Dunham brothers.
Ed Weber shot and killed the Dun