The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-26
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

Cherry, ul.-Eleven bodies of miners
were recovered from the st. Paul mine.
| To the amazement of veteran mine in
! spectors the bodies, entombed since last
November 13, when brought to the sur
face, were found to be almost complete
ly mumified.
The mummified condition was brought
about by the bodies having, during the
| three months, been in q part of the
mine which was dry and warm and the
| bodies going through the slow process
of drying up.
This is one of the most remarkable
! incidents of a disaster which has been
| full of wonders" declared an old mine
inspector. 'The mumies are in such good
preservation that they might have been
| taken out of the ancient tombs OF
Egypt"
Fighting through fire and the deadly
| black damp which ever since the dis
aster has stood between them and the
165 or more bodies still entombed in the
mine, the rescuers found the eleven
bodies in what is known as the second
| level They were about IT'S feet from
| the main air shaft. The men instead OF
retreating to remoter parts or the mine,
| evidently had made a depsrate effort
| to escape when the fire broke out and
they were among the first to die.
They were found with their arms
stretched forward and faces down,
having been suffocated as they ran,
probably by a gust of heat and gas.
Shut in air-tight chambers when the
mine was finally sealed up, they re-
mained in kind of oven, in which the
| temperature was little above blood
heat.
Pittsburg.-Frank S. Frasier of Oil
City telegraphed John Jenkins Of Char
leroi last Monday that he dreamed Jen-
kins was elected justice of the peace by
27 votes. At Tuesdays election Fra
sier's dream came true, even to the
number 27, but Robert I. Fitzgerald
Jenkins Democratic opponent, contests
the election on the ground that the
ballot boxes were tampered with.
London-King Edward is a much
sicker man than the public realizes
His condition several weeks ago gave
alarm to the kings family and init
mates. The very severe strain of the
! general elections, the mighty interests
| involved, the indecisive results Of the
contest and the necessity of King Ed
wards deciding whether or not he will
agree to the notifications in the pow
erS of the house Of lords which the gov
ernmnent will demand, or precipitate
another general election, have greatly
aggravated his majestys symptoms,
and it is an open secret now that he is
very sick man. While no official in
formation as to what is the matter with
the king can be obtained, there are in
dications that he is suffering from
Bright's disease. He is lethargic, in
| clined to drop off to sleep at odd mo-
ments and under almost ay ciTcum-
STAGES, and every effort is made to have
him take more outdoor exercise
Everybody about the king has re-
ceiVed the hint to make him walk. The
Marquis de Several, the kings favorite
companion. is himself an indefatigable
pedestrian. Croquet and golf have both
been tried to induce his majesty to pot
ter about, but the most successful agen-
cy is his favorite little dog. The pretty
women about the king are almost all
over thirty, and after that age most
self-respecting women walk daily for
the sake of their figure. Beguiled by
amusing stories, in which he delights,
the king walked much during his re-
cent visit to Brighton.
Gondokorko, Soudan Con the Upper
Nile)-Colonel Roosevelt, Kermit Roose-
velt and Ermund Heller, the zoologist,
left on a steamer for a final week of
shooting along the river banks Mean
time r. ]. Cunningham, the field nat
uralist; Major Edgar A. Mears and ].
Loring will remain here to pack the
specimens, dismiss the porters and 9TH
ers who have accompanied the Ameri-
cans as helpers and conclude the details
;ro 10 aa Of
pedition. With the exception of the riv-
er excursion the hunting is practically
ended.
The party will leave here about Feb
ruary 25, and from then on Mr.. Roose-
welt will devote himself to the prepa-
ration of the lectures he is to deliver
upon his arrival in Europe
Dublin-John Redmond, leader of the
Irish Nationalists and perhaps the man
in all the United Kingdom who looms
largest in the public eye just now, is as
little like the popular conception of an
Irishman as could well be imagined.
There is nothing of the reckless, merry,
devil-may-care fellow about him. Heav-
lily built, square-jawed, keen-eyed, he
looks the leader of men he is. One of
ParnelPs most valued lieutenants, he
has been a notable figure in parliament
for almost a generation, and he knows
the game from soup to nuts. Mr.. Red
mond was seen shortly before he left
for London to take up the struggle
which means so much for Ireland. He
is not a talkative man, but when he
said "Theer is only one question for
Irishmen-home rule-and every other
question will, so far as the National
lists are concerned, be subordinated to
that" he looked as though he meant
just that
1.-The government of Ireland is the
most costly government in the world. 1t
costs proportionately double to main
tain it as the governments of England,
Scotland, Wales or any other country
Of Europe costs. For more than a CEN
tury Ireland has been drained to main
tain a system of government unsuited
to the country. The English rule of
Ireland is extravagant and inefficient,
a system that must be extraYagant, in
efficient and costly because it does not
who are governed. Now what are we
asking for-what we demands that in
government of purely Irish affairs
should be ruled by the sentiment of the
Irish people. There are twenty-eight
different portions Of the empire at this
moment which have home rule in that
senese, where there are local legisla-
lures governing local affairs. That is
all we ask We want to manage Irish
affairs here in Ireland in our own way
and we WILL
Mr. Redmond, when asked as to the
position of the Irish Protestants in case
home rule is secured, said: I'VE Irish
Catholics would indeed be unworthy of