The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-12

CATHOLIC, NOV
: here, L. D. Hopkins of St Louis, the
conductor, clutched at his breast
reeled and fell dead In the Pullman
: coach. Hopkins had been on the roa0
forty years, and this was the first ac-
cident that had ever occurred while
, he was in charge of a train.
San Francisco-The two constitu-
tional amendments on providing for a
state tax of $5,000,000 on Panama Pa
cific exposition and the other author
izing this city to bond itself for So
100000 more for the same purpose,
were overwhelmingly carried in San
Francisco.
Santa Fe. n. M.-After heated de-
bate the New Mexico constitutional
convention voted to allow women to
vote at school district elections and
made them eligible to the Office of
school director and county superin-
tendent of schools.
|. 1t was agreed that the so-called mill
itary warrants, amounting to about a
million dollars, should be validated or
paid by the state. They were issued
during the civil war and the subse-
quent Indian raids The bonded in
debtedness of the new state, to be
! created in the future, is to be limited
to l per cent of the assessed valuation.
Chicago.-A gathering advertised as
political rally turned out to be a
prize fight. The fight got well under
way before the police raided the place
and arrested 300 men, including the
| principles and a prominent politician.
Seattle, Wash.--A bill providing for
admission of Alaska to statehood Will
be introduced on the opening day of
the December session of Congress by
Delegate James Wickersham.
Oyster Bay, n. Y.-Theodore Roose-
velt stayed at home, except for a trip
to the village at noon to vote. He had
made no preparations to receive the
election returns, declining offers of
special service from newspapers and
news associations
He felt that he had earned rest, he
said, and will take a vacation at Saga
more Hill. He does not expect to visit
his editorial offices in New York until
November II.
Gary, Ind.-Reports emanating
from outside sources that a call for
state troops had been sent to Gov
ernor Marshall by Sheriff Thomas
Grant were discredited by the sheriff. |
He said he had made no such plea and |
did not expect to. |
A message purporting to contain an |
appeal from Sheriff Grant was made |
public at the governors office at In
dianapolis, signed by Morley, sheriff |
at Gary" Grant denied having been
the author.
Sheriff Grant sought reelection and
was opposed by Chief of Police J. B.
Martin of Gary. Each swore in a
squad of deputies to preserve the in
tegrity of the election. and several
clashes of minor Importance hap
pened.
San Thirty-five automo-
biles valued at 100000, were de-
stroyed in fire which burned the
Piellman auto garage in this city.
Watertown, n. Y.-The war which
the local board of education is waging
against high school fraternities has Il
'eached climax with the expulsion of l
sixty-four out of a total enrolment of I
'S4 students in the high schools. Their I
expulsion followed their refusal to
ign paper renouncing present or fu- ,
ure membership in secret high school I
Twenty-nine of those :
standing out against the board are !,
girls.
The expelled ones have engaged an :
lttorney and will make a test case of ;
he matter =
Rawlins. Wyo.-A German woman 9
famed Mrs. Kippart, who was travel q
ng from Portland to Chicago, was !
ground to pieces by a passenger train !
n the Union Pacific railroad here. She :
vas crossing the track from her own =
rain in order to reach lunch coun- =
er, when another train struck her.
gettysburg, PAN the presence of ;.
everal thousand survivors and friends
the Irish brigade which participated .
n the battle of Gettysburg, the me- :,
norial statue to their chaplain, Rev. =
'ather William Cormy, was Saturday y
nveiled and dedicated =
Blairsville, Pa.-Rushing through n
he flames of his burning home to II
ave his son and daughter, John Noun f,
lin was overcome by smoke and, with a
wo of his children, perished. Mrs. h
fountain and another son, aged Is, N
rere saved. =,
Notwithstanding on a frai1 plat Il
)rm 235 feet in the air. Right Rev. N
icholas c. Matz, bishop of the diocese s,
Colorado, Wednesday sealed and b
lessed the capstone of the west spire al
the new Roman Catholic cathedral m
the Immaculate Conception
Bishop Matz. accompanied by sever
priests and number of newspaper n
zen. ascended to the platform in the -
'ugh elevator used to carry material
uring the construction of the twin =
'ires Of the cathedral. A large crowd -
altered on the sidewalk below to II
atch the unique ceremony.