The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-27

shock of April Is, 1906, was felt in thi:
city at an early hour. Buildings rocked
and creaked for fifteen seconds and peo.
pie rushed into the streets for safety
So far as has been ascertained no dam
age resulted from the shock
London, Nov.-"It is my opinion that
it is my opinion that it is impossible
that any liberal government can ever
again bear the heavy burden of office
| unless it is secured against a repetition
OF treatment such as other measures
had to undergo for the last four years. -
This sensational declaration by Lord
Loreburn, lord high chancellor, in the
debate on the budget in the house of
lords today, hand an electrical effect
upon liberal members of the house of
| commons who crowded the galleries
Quitting the gallery they surged into
the lobbies under the conviction that
they had heard the governments last
| word before the general election: that
Premier Asquith will make a similar
declaration in the house of commons
next week, and that the long delayed
| campaign against the lords has now be-
! gun in earnest
Chicago, Nova reply to the govern
| ments answer to the petition for a re-
| nearing of the appeal of John r. Walsh
in the United States circuit court of APP
peals was filed today by the defendant
in the reviewing court.
New York, Nov.-Continued improve
ment in the condition of John G. Car
Isle was noticed today at ST. Vincents
hospital, where the former secretary of
the treasury has been seriously ill for
some time.
Denver, Nov.-Pinched across the
railway track by rail which had fall
en- upon him, a railroad section hand
was saved from death Tuesday by a
margin of just twenty-four inches The
accident occurred in Argo a suburb of
this city. Fellow workmen rushed for
ward to flag the train, and the engineer
just managed to stop the train in the
nick of time.
Cincinnati, Now wind and rain
storm approaching tornado proportions
swept up the Ohio river last Sunday,
doing much damage in this city and it's
suburbs The towboat G. W. Daley of
Marietta was sunk. The crew had a
narrow escape. Several persons in Gin
cinnati were injured.
Evansville, Ind, Nov.-Wind and rain
caused heavy damage between Boon
vile and Newburg, Ind, Sunday. Ten
large barns were demolished and sew
eral horses were killed. The rain was
the heaviest in that section in several
years.
Hamilton, o., Nova tornado Sun
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outbuildings were blown down. Roofs
were blown off number of business
houses and factories The wind was ac-
companied by heavy rain. One build
ing in which eight men were working
was blown several hundred feet The
men suffered only minor injuries.
Dexter, Mo-, Nova tornado struck
this town shortly before noon Sunday
and demolished fifteen houses and
wrecked the Stoddard county fair build
ings. Two women and two children
were injured.
Buffalo, N. Y, Nov.-Joseph H. Miller
and his son. Horace ]. Miller, Tuesday
last were convicted of using the mails
to defraud. Sentence will be imposed
on Monday. The Millers conducted an
the Amsterdam Diamond company,
comewhat similar to the famous Frank
lyn syndicate, investors being promised |
enormous dividends. Evidence showed |
they had taken in nearly three quarters
of million dollars and paid out about |
one-third of it in so-called dividends.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov-Representa- !
tive David A. De Almond, one of the |
leading Democratic members of con-
gress and his grandson, Waddie De Ar !
mond, aged years, were burned to
death in a fire that destroyed the De |
home at Butler Mo-, early on
Tuesday.
Los Angeles, Nov 24.-President Taft |
at Riverside said:
California is one of the few states
Of the Union which has d picturesque
past which the people of the state
should do all in their power to pre-
serve. l fully sympathize with the de-
sire IF California people to preserve
hesc missions and the style of arc.li-
lecture they created"
Governor Gillett makes stirring ap-
peal: California has no great battle
fields to honor, no statues of great
generals to stir a martial spirit, but
enthusiasm, in the crumbling
monuments erected by the self-sacrific-
ng fathers in their efforts to bring
men from darkness into the light
The desire of the people to pre-
serve the missions is something with
which L am in full sympathy, and 1
lope before l leave my office to be able
o appoint a commission, the duty Of
which will be the study of these mis-
ions and of the best way in which to
,eep them, to preserve their beauty as
n ethical stimulus to the people of our
tate"
Bishop Johnson, the executive head
# the Protestant Episcopal church in
outhern California, speaks of the work
f the pioneer Catholic fathers as monu-
nents of national architecture. He
avs: '
These Mission fathers built with
reat courage, great devotion and great
iligence, and they erected style of
which we should maintain.
his can best be done by keeping for
urselves and those who come after
ne original examples of the beauty
hey developed.
1T is phenomenal that the fathers
hould have builded so wisely and so
eautifully. 1t is due to their memory
nd our own interest to keep Cor the
ountry what they gave to the prov 7
zee"
President David Starr Jordan of
tanford university for years has been
ne of the prime movers in the preser-
alton work. He expressed himself 4