The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-05

the physicians Office and at the point
OF revolver borrowed $50, prom
ising to pay it back when he got the
money.
Chicago.-Thomas Sheridan, 103 years
old, who came to America from the
| south of Ireland in a saIfbOat. which
took forty-two days for the journey,
| died yesterday at the residence of his
granddaughter. He was an inveterate
smoker for more than ninety years.
Milford, N H.-Ten years past the
century mark, Michael LeaYitts is dead
at his home. He had been an inveter-
| ate smoker for ninety-six years.
| WashingtOn.-War is to be Waged
| upon souvenir post cards which ridicule
the Irish race. Leading Irishmen of
the national capital have started the
crusade. Efforts will be made to have
the postoffice department hold them UP
as unmailable.
Paris.-Paris can now sympathize
with those people in America who find
1t necessary to call in the aid of Judge
Lynch in the administration of justice.
During the recent floods it was found
necessary to administer justice without
the formality of trial to the apaches
Who engaged in pillaging, and this sum-
mary Justice was administered in true
backWoods stlye. The crowd lynched
four ruffians at Issy, hanging them
from signposts, and a patrol fired VOL
leys at fugitive scoundrels at Boulogne-
sur-Seine, and killed two. Another pill
lager had the misfortune to be caught
by a civilian boat patrol at Ivry. To
punish him for showing fight his cap
tors threw him into the water with a
moose under his armpits and dragged
him behind the boat to the police sta
| tfon He was unconscious when he
ended the trip, which lasted three
quarters of an hour. Almost at Ivry, a
band of eight men and women was ar
rested, after a determined resistance. 1t
was with the greatest difficulty that the
military protected them from an in
furiated crowd.
Two other men were not so fortunate
at Ivry, but were strung up to lamp
posts. At Rueil, where the apaches
were active, orders were given to gems
d'armes to fire at every boat which did
not stop when hidden. Ivry gate has
been closes to prevent the entrance of
everyone not showing pass from the
mayor or magistrate. At Asnieres the
people were awakened on Monday night
by fusillade. Eight pillagers had
landed from a boat and entered an
evacuated lace factory policeman
fired repeatedly. When help came the
gang defended themselves with revo1v-
ers. Eventually they sought to escape
by plunging from the windows and
swimming. Three were drowned. When
pursued at Alfortville, a boatload of
roughs, seeing itself rapidly overhauled,
began to use revolvers. The sailors
in the fleeing boat. which went down.
Two of the apaches were drowned, a
third escaped, and the fourth, when
brought to land, was seized upon and
lynched by the crowd, which left his
body hanging as a scarecrow for his
comrades. Similar incidents could be
repeated Indefinitely. These drastic
measures, it may be said, were ex-
tremely discouraging to the apaches.
Finding her son Kostia hanging
dead in his room, the lad having
committed suicide because he had been
punished at school, Nine. Effrou hanged
herself, in her own house, unable, as
she declared, to survive her child. The
career of Nine. Effrou was remarka BILE.
The daughter of former governor of
the interior, she some years ago threw
herself into the revolutionary movement
in Russia, and narrowly escaped execu-
ton for her acts. The greater part of
the unfortunate lady's life was passed
in prison or in exile, and she had re-
Gently come to live III Paris solely with
view to watching over the education
of her young son.
Tokio-A lively discussion is in prog
ress in Japan regarding the advisability
of adopting the jury system. Even
among the members of the legal profess
sion opinion is divided, but if anything
the balance appears to be against the
innovation. This view is shared by
Baron Hatano, formerly minister of
justice, who declares that no argument
has been advanced to justify the intro
duction of the system into Japan. He
makes the somewhat remarkable state |
ment that in European countries juries
are generally regarded as a nuisance,
and would be got rid of if it were pos |
sible. The danger, he says, of allow
ing laymen to interfere in a matter in |
which they have had no special training |
is very great"
Walla Walla, Wash.-The catastrophe |
at Mace occurred at 11:30 at night, ac-
cording to telephone reports received by |
the Union from Wallace, Ida, and |
overwhelmed the entire town of Mace, |
covering the twenty-five families in the |
little village under tons of snow and |
debris. Rescue parties have gone from |
Wallace to the scene Residents in |
Wallace say that the roar of the ava
lanche could be distinctly heard there. |
Mace is five miles from Wallace.
Berlin-The women of Germany have |
at last become aroused to the serious
conditions in the public schools, and
already has been inaugural
ed with some of the most influential |
women of the empire back OF Il having
for it's object reformation of the pub
lie school system under which scores of
little boys and girls have been drawn
to suicide because they could not stand
the strain put upon them in keeping up
with their classes. There has been a
regular epidemic of suicide among the |
German school children in recent years.
A typical instance was that of the self
destruction of George Hardenburg, aged
II, pupil at one of the public state
schools in Rheinickendorf, a Berlin
Little Hardenburg had failed
to pass rather a stiff examination neces-
sary to qualify him for promotion into
a higher class and his lack of success
depressed him to such degree that he
found life unbearable. After writing
number of formal letters which seemed
to bear the stamp of an intellect far old
er than that of an 11-year-old boy, he
took poison and died. There have been
many other child suicides during the
last twelve months, and the overstrain
hv the existing schooling SyS-