The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-09-24
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

London-While the relatives OF
| Florence Nightingale declined the of
fer of the dean of Westminster for an
abbey burial. a memorial to the Lady
of the Lamp" will be erected either in
the abbey or St. Paul's. The most re-
cent burials of famous women in West
| minister abbey were those of Mrs. Will
berforce. wife of Archdeacon Wilber-
| force G909), the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts $500 and Mrs. Gladstone
! $1,000.
Apart from queens, the best known
women buried there were nearly all
! actresses. Anne Bracegirdle, of the
seventeenth century. lies in the east
/ cloisters. Engaging Oldfield," whom
| Miss Ellen Terry fmpersonates so de-
! lightfully, lay in state in the Jerusa-
lem chamber, and was buried below
the monument of CongreVe Spranger
Barry's wife. an unrivaled Desdemona
! in her time, is buried by her husbands
side. Near her, in the cloisters, lies
Mrs. Cibber.
Other actresses have had monu-
ments erected to their memory in the
abbey. among them Mrs. Siddons, Mrs.
Jefferson and Hannah PrtChard
Jenny Lind. Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing and Fanny Burney also have abbey
monuments. Another remarkable
tomb is that Elizabeth Claypool Oil
yer CrOmwells daughter, who alone
of CrOmwell's family was allowed to
remain undisturbed when they were
disinterred at the Restoration.
George Eliot would have been buried
in Westminster abbey but for her re-
ligious views. The dean refused to ad-
NIT the novelist's remains to interment
there. and Huxley supported his decis-
ion, declaring her to have been "a
person whose life and opinions were in
notorious antagoniSm to Christian
practice Curiously enough, there is
already a Nightingale memorial in the
abbey-that of Lady Elizabeth Night
ingale a sister of the Countess of
Huntington.
Dublin-The Irish nobility is getting
some hard knocks. A few days ago
the Earl OF COurtown was fined for
allowing his workmen to use a net in
fishing in the river Cunavarra without
a license. A Hibernian lord was not
long ago knocked out of a public house
in Belfast. City for singing after hours.
And the financial affairs of the Earl
of Clancarly were threshed out in the
bankruptcy court.
At the last report the United Irish
parliamentary fund amounted to $780,
770, raised since last New Years day.
Brussels-An extraordinary story is
just made public in respect of the chief
prize of $4,000 in the exhibition lot
terry. 1t was long unclaimed, and the
identity of the possessor of the win
ming ticket has only Just been estab-
lished in d curious way.
A young Belgian miner, who had
purchased a ticket for the lottery, was
killed while at work through a stone
falling on his head some days before
the results were announced. Accord |
ing to custom, he was buried in his |
best suit of clothes. When the weeks |
passed and the $4,000 remained un- |
claimed. the young mans relatives re-
embered that he had a lottery ticket |
in his waistcoat pocket, and applied to |
the authorities for permission to ex-
hume the body. After some delay this !
was granted, and the winning ticket
was found. The miner was only 10
years of age.
Calcutta-Public interest in Bengal
centers round the conspiracy trial at
Dacca. The crown has produced a
Gengali agent who penetrated into the
secret society and was even admitted
to the inner council. This man de-
Scribed the organization and explained
how dacoities were planned and arms
collected. He stated that some Euro
peans at Naraingaj were selling arms
to the natives. In working up the
present case the police adopted Euro
pean methods. and they are not de-
pending upon either informers or con
feSsions. Another arrest has taken
place in connection with the case. The
prisoners are regarded as heroes by
the students who assembled in crowds
to witness their march to the court
Fhe authoress of the book, "Sirkhar