The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-05
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

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on without the aid of Irish Nationalist
votes. This means that even If there
should be a disposition on the part of
the Liberals to go back on their prom
Use of local self-government for Ire
| land, and, and be it said there is no
evidence of such inteIftion, they could
not do so without committing suicide.
More than this, the closeness between
the two great parties means that when
the home rule bill comes to be shaped
up, the Irish Nationalists will have a
much greater say in it than they
probably would have had if the min
istry could get along and enact laws
without their aid. Naturally, Ireland
feels jubilant and regards home rule
as now assured.
New Ycrk-Another child murder
startled the city Monday. 1t occurred
in house on East Fiftieth street,
where man shot and killed one child.
wounded another probably fatally and
then shot himself The police are fol-
lowing a theory that the man may
have been the slayer Of two boys shot
recently while coasting.
Denver.-Two women and one man
are dead and another man fatally hurt,
the result Of collision between troll
ley car and an automobile Monday
The dead and injured were occupants
of the automobile.
Pekin.-An imperial edict issued ap-
proves the plans of the constitutional
bureau for abolishing the traffic in
human beings.
Drakesboro. Ky. Sixteen bodies
have been recovered, eight of which
have been identified; ten others have
been rescued alive, and from twenty
five to sixty men are supposed to be
still entombed in the Browder mine, in
which there was an explosion Monday.
1t is believed the dead will number
thirty.
Rescuers are working desperately to
save the miners who may be alive and
to recover bodies of those killed.
OF the ten men taken out alive five
We're seriously injured. There is no
fire in the mine and both the fan and
airshaft remain intact.
At the pit mouth wives of the dead
and missing miners crowded about
waiting reports from the rescuers.
Jesse Jonghan was rescued alive, but
is so badly burned that his recovery is
doubtful.
1t is believed that the explosion was
caused by a track repairer going into
an abandoned room with an uncovered
lamp. The room is shattered to atoms,
and the body of the repairer is no.
where to be found.
The mine is not on fire and the fans
are working. This gives rise to the
hope that all the bodies may be re-
covered by daylight.
The PrOwdnr 0Oinn with thrnp otbnrC
in this vicinity, recently was purchased
by a syndicate of Tennessee and West
Virginia capitalists.
Primero Colo.-Monday' disaster in
the main mine of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company, which claimed the lives
of at least seventy-nine men, was
caused by an explosion of firedamp, ac-
cording to a survivor of the catastro-
phe on January %, 1907, in the same
mine, in which twenty-four lives were
lost.
The same authority holds that the
explosion was caused by the ignition
of gas from flame originated proba-
bly, through the carelssness of some
miner in direct violation of mine rules,
either through the crimping of a cap
for a fuse, or the lighting of a match
surreptitiously carried into the work.
ings.
A check of bodies recovered tonight
reveals that forty-seven have been re-
moved. leaving thirty-two still in the
workings.
Tonight a large force of men was put
to work digging graves in the cemete- !
ries of Trinidad, and the bodies recov-
cred will be taken to Trinidad for bu- |
rial. Nine Japanese miners recovered !
hn in 40 nto
Three large drays have been trans |
formed into temporary hearses for use |
to convey the bodies from the train to |
the cemeteries. Seventy collins were
brought to Princeton, and this supply !
will be increased.
Officials of the company on the |
ground who were not needed to super
wise directly the mine work turned |
their attention to the relief of families
of the victims. Coroner Guilfoyl had |
a jury to take up an inves-
tigatiOn of the catastrophe, and rela-
tives and friends of the identified dead
turned their attention to preparations
FOR their burial
Chieago.-Oliver Z. Pagin. special
attorney general, did not
cave here Tuesday as was expected.
and it is said he will be here for some
time. The presence of Mr. Pagin in
he federal building gave rise to re-
ports that the government would file a
civil suit to dissolve the National
Packing company within a short time.
The federal grand jury continued it's
into books and docu-
nents belonging to the National Pack
ng company
Paris-Dr. Laveran, the specialist in
nicrobic diseases, who received the
Nobel prize for medical research in
907, proposes the use of a cheap and
Effective disinfectant, which he saws
vas used extensively in the time of
he Romans,
This is the smoke from damp straw.
{ produces a gas that is a perfect dis
nfectant at small cost.
Paris.-The height of the water Mon
lay night at Pont Royal was 81 feet 8
inches, a fall of nearly four feet fratn
he highest point, and the fidod con-
inues to drop at the rate of three
quarters of an inch an hour
Soldiers are still guarding many pub
ic buildings, and strong detachments
ave been sent to the outlying districts
o stop the wholesale pillaging that is
till going on
A patrol surprised band of
apaches' robbing villa Tuesday