The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-06

MOUNTAIN CATHOLIC, AL
i land stocks and kindred securities
was $194,050,0O0.
II 1t is reported that the potato bligh
! has appeared in the west of Ireland
and that it is to be seen in some po
T tato fields in the Barony of Erris
County Mayo. 1t is stated, however
i that the outbreak is not so general il
t the district as in former years.
. Vfenna.-Announce was made
l last week of the marriage engage
ment of Miss Gladys Kerens of St
Louis, Mo-, daughter of Richard c.
Kerens, American ambassador to
: Austro-Hungary, and George H Col
} ket of Philadelphia.
Louisville, Ill.-Henry Krintz, hav-
ing lived to the ripe old age of rs
years, upset all traditions of the
? comic papers by wedding his moth
er-in-law, so years old, while the
/, thermometer stood 100 degrees in the
shade. His bride, before the wedding,
was Mrs. Elizabeth Fuchs, whose
daughter divorced Krintz several
years ago. Both live in Oskaloosa,
Ill. Krintz is a farmer
Friends of the two are trying to
figure out just what kin Krintz is to
his wife. The former Mrs. Krintz
now becomes his stepdaughter. Sa
far it is easy, but the other possible
relationship among the three are
puzzling the good folks of Oskaloosa.
albuquerque, N M.-Rev. William
P. Sullivan of st. Mary's cathedral,
San Francisco, created an ecclesias-
| tfcal novelty near here Friday when
he conducted mass on an eastbound
Santa Fe train. The services were at
| tended by a hundred knights of Co
lumbus, en- route to Quebec, and were
held In one of the cars which had
| been labeled the chapel car"
New York.-The family of Thomas
F. Ryan will, it is understood, enter
tain lavshly during the coming sea-
son. Plans have been filed for alter
ations in Mr.. Ryan's New York home,
Eighty-fifth street and Fifth avenue,
which will include the handsomest
and one of the most spacious private
bathrooms in the city. Mrs. Ryan is
one of the leaders Of the Catholic
theologic set and is known as a
model hostess
Mr.. Ryan has permanently retired
from business and stated to friends
before he left for Europe recent
ly that he intended for the balance of
his days to enjoy the good things of
life.
Washington.-The postmaster at
Salt Lake has made applications to
savings bank. 1t has now been de-
termined by the department to de-
signate certain offices as repositories
by October L, and it is believed that
Salt Lake will be among the first Of
fees to be designated. Two addi-
tional letter carriers have been al
lowed Salt Lake, to begin service
August l.
New York.-When the Bankers |
Association of America convenes in |
Los Angeles, Cal, shortly, steps viii |
be taken to establish safeguards |
about banks which will prevent finan-
the future by INSCRIPTIONS officials |
cial institutions from being looted in |
and employees. Alleged thefts from |
two New York banks and a big finan-
cfal institution in louisville, KY, re-
Gently have compelled the attention
of the American Bankers association,
and when the annual convention is
held movement will be inaugurated
with a view of protecting the funds
of the depositors more carefully in
in the future than they have been
system of safeguarding banks from
protected in. the past. An elaborate
employees will be inaugural
ed. The fact that more than 1885,
hoC L, i
banks and trust companies in the
past few years brings the question of
looming up as one of
the most important things to be con-
'1dered in modern banking. That the
bankers are alarmed is evident from
he preparations which are being
made for the handling of the SUBJ
ect.
Following is partial list of defal-
cations:
Edwin Wider, acshier 'Russo-Chi-
lese, charged with the theft of $780,
100.
Officials of the Denver Savings
)ank, S1,700,00O
T. Lee Clarke, Enterprise bank of Z
'ittsburg, s1,2OO,OOO.
Henry Rieber paying teller. John !
young, cashier Farmers National :
ank, Pittsburg. $1,1O5, 900. /
August Ropke, Fidelity Trust com- :
any, Louisville, $1,140,0OO.
Oliver NJ. Daugles, bookkeeper :
rust Company of America, $1,30O,- l
90.
c. S. Hixson, bookkeeper of the 5
nion Trust company, Pittsburg,
$4,000. % o
]. Howard Lowrey, cashier Utica !,
N. V National bank, $4,000. y
The grand total of money stolen =
ON banks and trust companies by a
ficials and intrusted employees in l,
lie past five years is over $685.
lO.fl
Notwithstanding of the ro- "
ance of orchid hunting was suggest W
by some of the exhibits at the =,
oval Horticultural society's summer -
ne of the blooms was discovered in ..
low at Holland Park, Kensington. ~
ew Guinea, sprouting out of a hu- g.
an skull. Search led to the discov- +t
y of other orchids growing under -,
milar conditions, for in New Guinea 4.
is the practice with some of the h,
.ttves not to bury their dead, but to ~
ace them on shelving rocks. An -
hpI. orchid fn which Ito