The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-05
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

BRIEF TELEGRAMS
London.-Interest in politics centers
in the premier's audience with the king
and the prolonged cabinet council gen.
orally is considered to herald a pro-
found change in the policy of the gov
| ernmene. 1t is stated the prime minis
ter conveyed to the king his belief in
the impossibility of proceeding with the
reconstruction of the house of lords and
in the necessity of concentrating all
forces on the veto question. Although
! though several members of the cabinet
strongly favor reconstruction, it is not
believed a split will result, put the at
titude of the extreme radicals and Ma
tionalists is disquieting.
New York.-A record feat in cold
| storage is recounted in a statement by
DR.. Bayard c. Fuller, chier inspector of
foods for New York City. According
to the doctors story, there was discov-
cred in Russia some time ago the car
| cass of mammoth which scientists
said had been alive before the glacial
period. That meant that the body, still
| in perfect condition, was more than
| 250,00O years old Tests showed the
meat was well preserved and huge
steak from it was served at a dinner
given by a prominent scientist. The
guests pronounced the meat excellent.
''Once meat or poultry has been fro
zen," says DR.. Fuller, "the passage of
time has no effect on it, and fermenta-
ton is completely arrested, so long as
it is kept in a frozen condition. When
thawing sets in, however, disintegration
is rapid
South Bethlehem, Pa.-Peace pre-
vailed in South Bethlehem and It's en-
virons today, but the Bethlehem Steel
company, many of whose employees are
on strike. was not able to resume work
as was expected when operations were
stopped by the disturbances on Satur-
day. Only a comparatively small per-
centage of the 5000 men reported for
duty. Most of the men want to work,
the officials say, but are afraid to run
the gauntlet of the pickets. Since the
shooting on Saturday, in which one man
was killed, the foreign element among
the strikers has given the state police
little trouble.
Spokane, Wash-In swift succession
two terrible disasters have carried
death and dismay to the mining towns
northern Idaho. At 1895 o'clock last
night a snowslide swept down the
mountainside, striking the little town
of Mace and burying twenty-five houses
and their sleeping occupants in a mass
of snow, ice and wreckage at the bot
tom of the canyon. At 5:30 a. m. an
other slide rushed down on the town of
Burke, crushing a score of houses under
thousands of tons of earth and snow.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered
already from the ruins of Mace; six
teen dead have been found at Burke,
and how many are still buried can only
be guessed at. 1t is feared fifty or sixty
lives have been lost.
There is fear that the number of dead
at Burke may be even larger than that
at Mace. Every man thae can be spared
from the rescue work at Mace has been
appealed to. Doctors are being rushed
from Wallace and another train leaves
in an hour.
From the foot of the Anchor mine
plant to the Catholic church, about half
a mile. the slide is thirty feet deep.
The scene around Burke following the
slide was appalling. The whole village
with it's 900 inhabitants was thrown into
a panic Older heads at once began to
seek places of safety for their wives and
children.
The little mining town of Mace lies
between precipitous mountain sides, a
struggling line of cottages in the creek
bottom, bisected by the lines of the
Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad
& Navigation companies.
Hartford, Gonna $4,000 monument
to Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing
machine is to be erected here by Mrs.
George M. Lilly, widow of the former
Connecticut governor and congressman.
She is a distant relative of the inventor.
Miss Elizabeth M. Killbourne, now so
years old, who was the first woman to
use a sewing machine, will unveil the |
monument She still lives IN the old
home where she resided when Howe |
was perfecting his invention. She
dropped in at his workshop on her way |
home from school one day, and at his |
request ran the quaint little machine |
for a few minutes. This was the first |
time it had been operated by feminine |
hands.
New York-Labor troubles in the |
east and west, two violent strikes rag
ing in Pennsylvania and threats of dire
if police and troops are
allowed to continue shooting down
all indicate that the United
States stands upon the brink of an in
dustrial revolution, the possibility of
which are appalling to contemplate.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
other conservative leaders among the
unionized workmen, sounded a note of
alarm, and it is evident from the tenor
Of their statements they fear they
would have little control if the radical
element should assert a dominancy.
Calcutta-The Viceroy and Lady
Minto gave a great state ball in Cal
eutta in honor of the opening of the
new councils Among the crowd of 1900
guests present was a maharajah of
sporting tastes, but high caste. who
danced with the wife of a general in
he State Lancers. For this "sin''-the
.ouching of the bare arms of a white
maharajah has been con-
lemned by his gurus to fine of 10000
-upees and to undergo a course of
'purification," consisting of morning,
midday and evening baths every day
or three months.
Chicago.-Eddie English, paroled con-
,ict. whose elaborate plans of hold-up