The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-20

nighttime, both over sea and land.
The device is also of value in showing
the course of the shell. On striking the
waters of the Solent, it shot vertically
upward most surprising result. In
many instances it was DETECTED to the
right or left The sight of a shell
being hurled through the air and leav-
Ing train of light was most weird.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.-Two Roman
Catholic priests, Father August Welsh
and Joseph Nicholas, attached to Les
ser Silver Lake mussion, were drowned
in the Smoky river recently.
St Petersburg-The horrors of the
cholera scourge in Russia. according
to Professor Pen of the Red Cross.
who has been sent by the government
to South Russia to study measures
of combating the disease, are steadily
increasing. Children are starving. in
many instances, because their parents
and adult relatives have died, leaV-
ing them unsupported. There is no
indication yet of the epidemic dimin-
ishing, and thousands of new cases
are being registered daily, the Off
cial figures according to reports, I'M
derestimating the full extent of the
disease.
New York-Fresh milk in super
fluous quantities was enjoyed by pas
sengers on the liner Minnetonka,
which has just arrived here from
London. Even milk bath could
have been had for mere song for
after the pass, engers and the crew
had all the milk they wanted each
day, there was still so much left over
that many gallons had to be thrown
into the sea. This pleasant situation
was a result of the presence on board
of nearly a hundred fine cows con
signed to farms in the middle west.
Ottawa. Ont.-L r. Keogh of the
ottawa collegiate institute staff an
nounces that he has succeeded in
transmitting copper into iron. He
states that the discovery is of no
commercial value.
Amiens, France-The first aerial
race between the birds of nature and
of mans production took place in the
course of the great aerial cross-coun-
try competition and was easily won
by man. A flock of forty-seven car
rier pigeons was released at Douai at
the same instant that Leblanc, in his
Farman biplane, started from the
mark on his fifty-mile flight to
Amiens.
Rising without tremor through
the calm air, the biplane soon outdis-
tanced the birds. and when Leblanc
reached Amiens the flock was not yet
in sight, the first pigeon arriving six
and twenty seconds after Lee
blanc. Before the last flock had
come in, Legagnieux, who had start
q
consumed nine minutes more on the
trip, arrived, beating the last pigeon
by twelve minutes.
Rome-There is no intention on tho
part of the vatican to recede from the |
position it has taken in Spain.
The bishop of Cremona, Mgr. Bono
NELL has published a statistical state |
ment of the number of suicides i'll
Italy from the year 1871 down to the
beginning of last year. The returns |
show that in 1871 there were SS6
6S4 being men and 1872 |
1851 being men and the balance
women; in 1908 there were 2,6S2,
l ,076 being men and 610 women
ConstontinopIe-A letter published
in the journal Sabah, and written by
Said Pasha, the former grand vizier
has caused an enormous sensation.
In the course of the communication
the writer states that he has received
letters bearing the sigma
-ure Patriots" and demanding that
he shall give 30 per cent of his for
tune to the Turkey Naval league.
Failure to comply with this demand
will meet assassination.
NJ Of no |
received deputation from the Turk
sh Naval league called upon Said
pasha and made the request that he
should hand to them a large sum OF
money, and limited that his refusal to
10 so might be followed by conse-
luences serious to himself.
A wild outbreak of Indignation fol-
owed this amazing attempt to raise
unds for the fleet Nor is Said
oasha the only man to be treated in
his extra ordinary manner. Many of
he Weather men in the district have ,
eceived letters similar to those sent /
o the former grand vizier. The !
Tavy league is an institution which
ives its existence to a number of G
oliticians.
After this sensational exposure it is =
OF unlikely that the league viii =
NlVtlS uISSOlNSy LOT the DC \
eff is geining currency that the insti- :
ltion was formed solely with a view :
} collecting money, the benefit of 9
'hich would never be felt by the
ause which the league ostensibly =
Imported. An official inquiry into q
lie whole affair is to take place !.
lortly. i !,
Moscow certain Youravleff. who Y
as just been executed there. it cred
ed with having committed no fewer
ian 265 crimes. 1t Is stated that
ouravieff developed a special pro-
ensity for pfllaging monasteries kill
g priests, monks and deacons. in Il
if they dared to offer n
~ opposition. He made a desperate a
ght before he was finally secured. :
riously wounding several police of q
GERS. e
London-Florence Nightingale, the u
rmer nurse of the Crimean war and ,,
e only woman who ever received =
e Order of Merit, died Sunday aft II
noon at her London home e
Although she had been an invalid II
+ a long time, rarely leaving her u
ON, her death was somewhate I'M II
.pected. A week ago she was quite q
hit |