The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-07

for the purpose. This commission ex
poets to visit the United States mex
fall. Prince Tsai Tao, now in Wash.
ington, also is a brother of the prince
regent.
Marietta, O.-During an outbreak
by circus elephant here today Sam
uel Montgomery, an animal trainer
was trampled by the beast and per-
haps fatally hurt. William Evans
took refuge on the top of a wagon.
but fell from it and was killed.
Portland, Me.-A horsewhippine
was administered by Colonel Fred
erick Hale, son of Senator Eugene
Hale, and a leading candidate for Con-
gress from the First Maine district
to Charles Thornton Libby, publisher
of several suburban weekly papers, al
the latters office. The cause of the
assault was an article published in
the six towns Times in which Colonel
Hale's mother was attacked.
After Colonel Hale left the office
Editor Libby said;
Il like him better than I did be-
fore. 1t was a manly thing to do. A
man who wouldn't stand up for his
mother don't amount to much"
"
Madrid.-The general elections will
be held on May s. One hundred and
fourteen deputies. whose candidates
are uncontested, have been officially
declared elected, and will not figure
in the voting. They comprise SO Lib
erals, "a Conservatives, Republicans,
CarliStS and of other parties.
London.-A dispatch to the Daily
Telegraph from Vienna says it is re-
ported that Countess Szechinyi, for
merly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt Of New
York, had lost a cacket of Jewels val
ued at $4,000.
Lima, Peru.-On account of mines
placed in the river Guayas, the steam
ers of the Pacific and Kosmos line
VIII not touch at Quayaquil.
Christfania.-The funeral of the late
Bjornstjerne Bjornston, the Norwe-
gian writer, who died recently in
ceremony. 1t was attended by the
king and queen.
Dubuque, Iowa.-Walter Smith, "a
years old, confessed, according to the
police, to setting fire twice to the
Grand opera house yesterday during
q performance.
Washington.-In honor of Rasso-
ciate Justice Lurton of the supreme
court an elaborate dinner, with covers
laid for sixty guests, was given here
tonight by Alfred P. Thorn, general
counsel of the Southern railway.
IT,
port on the north shore of the main
port on the north shore of the main
island of Japan, was visited by
which destroyed two
thirds Of the town. The census Of 1900
gave Aomori a population of $1,000.
San Francisco.-Ralph Madison, 13
years old, son of a wealthy Palo Alto
has been cured of chorea.
rare disease which caused him to labor
under the delusion that he was a dog.
Barking and snarling, the boy, who had
been a sufferer from the strange mall
ady for two years, was admitted to a
local hospital last month. Prominent
physicians interested themselves in the
case and hypnotic treatment was de-
termined upon. But afterwards Dr.
Walter B. COffey. who had charge Of
The case, decided to try an entirely new
method. An electric belt was placed
about the patients waist and when
ever the boy had a convulsion and
parked, a nurse pressed a button and
gave him a sharp shock. By autosug-
yestion and through fear of the shocks, |
he physicians say, the boy began to
improve, the convulsions became less
requent and now they have ceased en-
irely and permanent cure, it is be-
ieved, has been effected.
Cambridge, Mass.-Although the end |
# the tail of Halley's comet may brush |
he earth about the 18th or Goth of |
Day. Professor o. c. Wendell of the |
Harvard observatory said that he did |
lot look for any interference with
lectric wire or wireless communica-
ion. m
All government stations have been
sked to look for disturbances about
hat time, but Professor Wendell re-
ards this precartion as unnecessary.
Zurich.-The observatory here official
Y reports that Halley's comet was Wis
Die to the naked eye for fifty-five min
ties before dawn. Its position was
ue east, just above the horizon. There
IL,
nth the telescope.
South Norwalk, Comeback Hand
,tters threatening the destruction by
of the new st. Ladislaus Ro-
ian Catholic church have filed the
members of the congrega-
on with CONSERVATION. The writer
ants $500 in gold before May l. The
tiers, which are in the hands of the
olice, ere plain and written in excel
mt English.
Dublin.-If Ireland were threatened
18th real invasion, with artillery
nd men at arms, she could hardly be {
lore reused than she is today by the !
Home Coming of the Exiles" Rich
rd Croker is counted hard man by
lany, but when he started that home {
oming idea moving in America he {
Nv with a flash of genius how the |
erYe center of Irish sentiment would {
e stirred and all the heart blood of I
lie nation would leap to the task of
ospitable reception. From May on ]
ard this summer thousands of Irish {
mericans, touring through the land I
their ancestors. will drink their fill ]
patriotic fervor and hands across I
le sea" will come to closer pressure.
ct me tell you something of 1t In
lvance. At every fair and in every 6
arket place the talk is all of the I
Its possibilities. as far !
) the Emerald Isle is concerned. are :
garded with the widest specula- I
on. There are even those who be- 6
eve the activities set in motion by $
le impetus of the invasion will mean +
new era of hope and prosperity for (