The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-12-18
FLASHES FROM THE WIRE.
Flashes From the Wire.

Flashes From the Wire.
London.-A sensation has been caused
in society by the mysterious disappear
ance of Viscountess Churchill, sister OF
the Earl of Lonsdale. Lady Churchill
arrived at ST. Pancreas station with
her son and two daughters on Novem-
Der %. She has not been seen since, al
though advertisements have been pub
lished to trace her whereabouts. Ac-
cording to rumor, Lady Churchill re-
Gently consulted a spirit medium, who
assured her it was her duty to leave
her husband, Viscount Churchill, and
take her children away.
Toledo O.-That the government will
endeavor to prove widespread con-
spiracy to extort money from Italians
is shown by the Indictment returned
today by the federal grand jury here
against sixteen Sicilians alleged MEM
bers of a ''Black Hand" organization
apprehended last June A secret indict-
ment was returned also, the nature OF
which is not disclosed.
The joint indictment of fifteen counts
charging conspiracy to use the mails
to extort money by threats reveals for
the first time the names of fifteen Ital-
ians of Indiana and Ohio, who, it is
alleged, the defendants attempted to
Yictimize
The indictments charge that the de-
PENDANTS were members of the organ
ization known as the "Black Hand,
composed of persons bound by solemn
covenant to enforce their demands for
money by means of bodily injury, assas-
sination and destruction of property.
Six of the defendants are in Jail here.
After the report of the grand jury,
Judge Knappen issued bench warrants
and bonds were fixed at $4,000 each.
District Attorney w. L. Day said by
this prosecution the government hopes
to check effectually "Black Hand" OPP
erations throughout the United States.
New York.-Death played sensa-
tional part in the passage of the liner
Campania, which arrived here Friday
from Liverpool. Two days out Nine.
Maria Gay, the opera singer, was pros
trated by a wireless which conveyed
news of the death of her father, Ramon
Pinchot, in Barcelona, Spain.
Three days later John Davis of New
castle. Pa, whose wife had been visiting
relatives in the old country, dropped
dead of heart disease. Nine. Gay here
took advantage of a chance of alleviat-
ing her own grief and began raising
purse for the dead mans widow Pas
sengers contributed $3.50.
Dresden.-Mrs. Benjamin Shears of
Scranton, Pa, and Miss Angela Reeves
of Nanticoke, Pa, have arrived here
from Warsaw, Poland, where they have
been collecting data for history of
Poland. The two ladies declare they
hope to create sufficient sympathy for
the Polish cause by their book to re-
suit in the ultimate freeing of the ma
ton. Mrs. Shears and Miss Reeves
have made a tour of Poland and will
begin the actual writing of the book
here.
Chicago.-Robbed of his memory in
the San Francisco fire and restored to
the recollection of past events two
weeks ago by seeing a man ground to
death under the wheels of a freight
train, William F. Meyers returned to
his bride here, from whom he had been
parted few days after their wedding. |
Meyers was called to San Francisco |
in April three years ago to supervise |
the erection of large building. Since
then his wife had not heard from him.
According to the story told by Meyers |
he was hit on the head in the disaster
and could remember nothing. He wan |
dered about the country and two weeks |
ago he saw a man killed by a train in
Tama. Ia. The shock caused his mem
DRY to return, and he FASTENED here to |
find his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyers will leave for |
the south TO continue their interrupted |
New York-In rusty tin box which |
Il ~, FOL
Of the Subtreasury here since the civil |
war, a number of musty old documents
of great historical Importance have just |
been discovered They will be gone over
carefully by experts and preserved, |
either here or in Washington.
One of the more interesting docu- |
ments is a record which shows to what |
axpedients the governments was some
times compelled to resort to obtain |
funds with which to defray the eX
penses of the. army during the civil war.
Through this paper, fifty New York
bankers turned over to the government |
on a single days notice the sum of ST.,
100000. AT that time, the document
says, the success or failure of the north
ern army seemed to depend on a speedy
forward of the sinews of war.
The paper bears date of November II,
1862
Chicago.-A unique experiment in the
training of hundreds of stammering
children attending the Chicago public
schools is being planned by Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young, superintendent of schools,
and several medical specialists Of Chi
cago.
Investigation shows that there are
200 stammerers in the public schools.
Mrs. Young will present recommended
ton at the next meeting of the school
committee of the board of
education to assign special teachers for
Washington.--AH but incredibly re-
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