The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-02

Berlin.-The recent action of the
Prussian diet in increasing the civil
list approximately $5,000,000 a year
gives the German emperor the second
largest income of any European
ruler. The czar of Russia, with a civil
list of $8,500,000, leads them all.
st. Petersburg-The practical alb
sorption of Finland into the Russian
empire was a political necessity in
the opinion of M. Stolypin, the pre-
mier. In a speech to the duma NJ.
Stolypin stated the imperial position
clearly and unequiYocally Speaking
of the inclusion of the Finnish
schools, newspaper, regulation, meet
ings and associations within the COM
petenee of imperial legislation, he
said the schools were included be-
cause Finnish teachers were con-
stantly instilling the youth of the
country with hostile feelings against
the Russian government The same
hostile intent animated the newspa-
pers, meetings and associations, and
the government must have control
over them all. The contempt excited
by this idea of Russian dissolution
had prompted the Fins to threaten
passive resistance, and it was the
same thought that had produced the
un1nVited intervention of foreigners,
but M. Stolypin added, you will show
that right is greater than might"
a Cossack girl has started to ride
from Kharbin to st. Petersburg,
distance of 5,42O miles. She is riding
astride on an ordinary Cossack sad
die, carrying a hunting knife and
revolver, and her only companion is
a pure-bred St Bernard dog. For
merly a railway employe, she was
awarded the gold medal for zeaT'
during the Russo-Japanese war.
There was regrettable scene in
the duma the other day when NJ.
Purishkevitch, q reactionary member,
was suspended for throwing a glass of
water in the fact of M. Milinkoff. The
Labor party has demanded an inquiry
into the state of the aggressor's mind.
After sitting with closed doors in
st. Petersburg, a court-martial has
concluded the trial of sixty-eight per-
sons charged with armed robberies
and other crimes, including murder,
during the revolutionary period.
twenty-nine death sentences were
passed.
Madrid.-The queen of Spain is
shortly expected to pay a visit to Os-
born cottage, in the Isle of Wight. |
This is a very favorite spot with her
majesty and she always refers to the !
Isle of Wight as home 1t was
here that she spent the greater part
Of her younger life, and she retains
very pleasant memories of it.
Pretoria.-The TransvaaI govern |
nent and mines jointly offered s25.-
100 for the discovery of a hand drill |
% enable white miners to discard ma
i've assistance. The result of the
competition will be the encourage
nent OF white labor in the mines.
Dusseldorf, Germany.-Count Zen
'eln's passenger airship, Deutssch ]
and, the greatest of all the famous
leronaut's models, lies in the Tueo-
'urglan forest, pierced by pine trees.
mass of deflated silk and twisted
u Siuihlnam. The thirty-three persons
IDoard the a1rsh1p when it struck the
'lnes, after wild contest with the
TORN, escaped uninjured, climbing
Town from the wreck on a rope lad
Ter.
New York.-Just as society became
nadly enthusiastic over automobiles.
o has 1t become wild over aviation.
With such wealthy fashionables as
edwin Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt
colonel John Jacob Astor and Court
and Field Bishop excited over the po-
ite possibilities of the aeroplane, it
5 no wonder that society has trailed
ehind For weeks Hampstead Heath
ias been the mecca for a string of
automobiles bearing
rowds to watch the work of the bird
1en. 1t was this same infatuation
or the flying fad that determined the
Wright brothers in their project of
pening school of aviation in New
ort this summer. The aeronautfc
licrobe is spreading rapidly. To
ONE extent horses, yachts and auto
lobiles are forgotten, or merely used
S the occasion arises. MiIlionaires
re, figuratively, falling over them ;
elves in their frantic haste to pos
ess one of the sky machines. Visions