The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-15

cOadJutor, which event probably Will be
announced from Rome within month,
he would retire from participation in
the affairs of the diocese.
Mexico City-President Diaz has sent
congratulatory telegram to President
Madriz of Nicaragua. 1t was in reply
to one received from Madriz, stating
that he is now head of the govern
mert
st. Louis-Rev. Martin S. Brennan,
astronomical instructor at Kendrick
seminary, located Halley's comet
through a siX-inch telescope last night,
using 214 diameters a few degrees due
east of Albenib (Tamma) and Pegasus.
This is the first time the comet has
been located through a small telescope.
Rome-In the death of Cardinal Sa-
TOLL, the Catholic church loses one of
its strong men and the church in
America one of its finest friends at
the vatican. Cardinal Satolli knew
more about conditions in America than
any dignitary connected with the Gu
ria, and the holy father depended large
ly on his judgment when questions af
fecting American church affairs were
under discussion. Monsignor Satolli
also stood high in the confidence of
Cardinal Merry del Va. the papas sec
retary of state, and was frequently
called into consultation by him when
knotty questions were to be solved
Berlin-Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton
announces that he will head another
Antarctic expedition. Shackleton, on
his last expedition, got within Ill miles
of the south pole.
st. Petersburg-A story of how the
car, like Harounal-Raschid, took
two hours walk disguised as a simple
soldier is officially reported from Lii
vadla by the court bulletin. His ma
Jesty wore the uniform of a private of
the Sixteenth rifle regiment, with COM
plete accourtrements; a rifle, 120 car
tridges and a flask filled with water
The, czar walked alone. Unrecognized
he saluted the officers, and he thus had
an opportunity of seeing the soldiers
life as it really is, and not as it ap-
pears at imperial parades.
A second anecdote also comes from
Livadia, though unofficially. The czar,
accompanied by an adjutant, was stroll
ing in the gardens when he suddenly
noticed sentry attacked by hemor-
rhage. The man vainly tried to salute
the emperor His majesty at once sent
his aide-de-campe to order the soldier
to leave his post and to report himself
to doctor. But the sentry refused, de-
clarirg that he was bound by oath ra-
ther to die than to leave his post with
out being relieved. The emperor him
self then approached the soldier, and
observed to him that by the same oath
he was bound first to obey his emper-
or, and that by the military code he,
hn ho1
of the guard, alone the right to relieve
a sentry. The czar ordered the soldier
to pass him his rifle and to be off at
once. The emperor then stood on duty
till the guard hurried to relieve the i'm
perial sentry.
Pittsburg- Surgeons at Kittinang.
Pa, had placed Norman Barnett, the
little son of George Barnett, on the op-
Grating table to cut out his appendix.
Just as the knife was ready the lad
was seized with a fit of coughing which
cured him. He coughed up a needle |
which is believed to have caused his
illness. He is rapidly recovering.
New York-The sharp teeth and
claws of Clayton, trained leopard,
nearly cost the life of Mrs. Pauline
Russelle, his trainer today, but the
length OF his tail saved her.
Clayton was ugly and would not pes
form. Mrs. Russelle prodded him with
an iron bar and called to her assistant
for aid. As she turned her head TO call call
for aid, the leopard leaped, bore his
mistress to the ground and stood over
her growing.
The quick-Witted assistant spang to /
the cage, grasped Claytons tail. took
a hitch around the bars of the cage
with it and rescued Mrs. RusseIle i'm |
safety.
The woman was badly torn. and at
the hospital it was said her recovery |
is doubtful The attack occurred in |
private training quarters.
Pekin-The highest government Off |
cials are pessimistic with regard to |
British support of the proposals of the !
American government relative to the |
Manchurian railways, but believe that |
more active German support would |
BRING about realization of the scheme. |
The Chinese government is placing
reliance in W. w. Rockhill. the Ameri-
can ambassador at st. Petersburg, to
secure Russian assent to the proposals,
which would also mean French sup
port
Parma and Piacenza, an immense land
slide is slowly moving. 1t is two miles
in length, half mile wide and its
depth is estimated at seventy-five feet.
On top of the slide is the village of
Scopolo, recently occupied by a thou
sand people The village is doomed to
destruction and the inhabitants have
abandoned it, transporting their vaIua-
Oles and the furnishings and altars of
their churches to safer ground.
Ell Paso, Tex.-Supposing he was suf-
tering from catarrh, E. P. Stegall, q
'oundhouse foreman for the Southern
Pacific railroad at Valentine, came to
El Paso today for treatment, and
surgeon removed a knife blade two
inches long from his nose. Stegall me-
With an accident twenty-five years ago
md had carried the blade in his nose
since.
Tallahassee, Fla.-In struggle early
oday with two safeblowers, Paul Sauls.
Z years of age, who was left to watch