The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-05

park Monday evening. with the baro-
graph registering a new worlds rec
ord for altitude. The little machine,
of only thirty y-five-horse power, had
been up 9,714 feet, exceeding by 528
feet the height attained in France,
October 1, by Henry w. Wynnmalen
of Holland
Los Angeles, Cal.-MTs. Alice Steb-
bins Wells, California's first police
woman, has asked permission to enlist
eight additional policewomen to serve
as volunteers, without pay. She ex-
poets to recruit them from the circle
of women who are interested in the
work of moral uplift among the
young.
Mrs. Wells keeps watch on dance
halls, moving picture shows and sim
liar gathering places of the young. AL
though not wearing blue uniform nor
carrying night stick, she has full
power to make arrests.
Chicago.-The Independent Tele-
phone company, operating in approx
imately twenty-five cities and towns in
northern and centra | Illinois, was
placed in the hands of a receiver by
Judge Kohlsaat in the United States
circuit court
1t was asserted that the debts of
the corporation exceed the assets by
$1,000,000. The complaint of the
stockholders relates that former
President Henry H. Evans paid out
$4,000 of the company's funds with
out authority.
Caracas.-The government has an
ha+
of the plague in Caracas but that else
where throughout the republic the sit
uatfon is satisfactory. The theatres
are closed and public gatherings for
hidden. All persons leaving Caracas
must submit to incubation.
New York.-News of the death OF
Hugo Richards Garden, organizer and
captain of the famous confederate
Palmetto battery, has reached here
from Southport, N. c. Death was
caused by apoplexy. Mr.. Garden was
20 years of age and was born at Co
lumbia, s. c. He was a lawyer in
New York for twenty-five years. He
Elizabeth Richardson. daugh-
ter of Judge Richardson of Virginia.
Rochester, Minn.-Senator and Mrs.
for Madison, Wis, their home. Sen
ator La Toilette has completely recov-
cred from his recent operation for
gall stones.
Houston, TeX.-Judge James Brock |
man. who was shot Monday night by |
Special Officer Ransom, died of his |
Wednesday.
Greenville, S. Give years in the
Atlanta penitentiary is the sentence !
imposed by Judge w. H. Brawley
upon Milton A. Carlisle, formerly pres
dent of the Nawberry National bank,
who was convicted in the United !
States district court last week on
of funds.
London.-Captain John Carter, the
skipper who commanded King Ed
wards yacht Britannia, died Wednes-
lay
New York.-The largest automobile
ever built for the trans
)ortation of animals has been put in
commission by the New York Society
or the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails. 1t is gift by Mrs. Russell Sage
md has three decks and a capacity
or carrying 200 dogs and cats.
Tacoma, Wash.-John Boss and
Patrick Daily, held in Jail for bur-
'lary, cut cards to see which should
dead guilty to charge of burglary
nd take the blame for their joint
rime. Daily lost, pleaded guilty and
vas sentenced to one year in the state
eformatory. Boss won, went to trial,
vas found guilty despite Daily's testi-
nony on his behalf and was sentenced {
o five years in the state penitentiary
t Walla Walla. After his fate had
cen pronounced Boss told of the
risOn pact.
Cheyenne Wyo.-An attempt was J
1ade Tuesday night to blow UP the t
Ouse Of Alderman Albert Thomas in {
he town of Hartville, near here. Dy-
amfte placed at the read door shat /
cred the porch. windows and furni-
Ire, bat Alderman Thomas. his wife
nd child were uninjured.
Washington.-Pre Taft and /,
ostmaster General Hitchcock reached
n agreement on the recommendations 9
lie President will make to Congress
sgarding a change in the second :
dSS pOStdSe rates d1eCllng mdSa-
nes and other periodicals.
Mr.. Taft will recommend that mag
zines be required to pay the present
ite of l cent a pound on all reading
latter, and much higher rate, to be a
etermined later, on advertising pages. v
ach magazine will be required to :
md copy of its current issue to the
ostoffice department each week, or
onth, as the case may be. There the v
lblication will be dissected, the read s
6 matter and the advertising sections q
Ill be weighed separately and the :,
mount of postage computed. =
Newspapers will not be affected The '
,erage haul of the newspaper is but q
20 miles, while the average haul of q
e magazine is LOO miles.
Los Angeles.-Miss Ethel Beatty, Il
lrse in the receiving hospital, battled s.
ith an insane patient for twenty n
inutes before aid reached her and II
empowered the maniac just as she 81
as succumbing to his strength. II