The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-04
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nous Western Federation attorney.
The Cahill Iron Works of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, one Of the defendants in
the Governments suit against the So
called bath tub trust" has practically
entered plea of guilty and has prom
Used to be good.
The suit of the state of Virginia
against the State of West Virginia
over the $33,000,O00 debt of the for
mer commonwealth is now before the
supreme court.
Railway traffic has been suspended
in Northern China owing to the prevail
ance of the plague.
Citizens of Guyaquil, Ecuador, par
AIDED the streets in protest against the
proposal to lease the Galapagos
Islands to the United States.
Consolidation of all the independent
telephone systems of the United States
into one great corporation which will
rival the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. is the present plan of
]. P. Morgan & Co. Tentative propo-
sitions from the Morgan house are
now under consideration by the indie
pendent Companies and a definite pro-
position will be submitted to investors
interested on February LIST.
Santa Domingo has officially accept
ed the proposal of Haiti that the boun-
Diary dispute between the two coun-
tries be submitted to arbitration.
Three prominent railway magnates
informed the Railway Securities Com
pany at a hearing in Chicago last
week, that they preferred Federal con-
troll of the issuance of railroad stocks
and bonds to State regulation
The speech of Count Komura to the
Japanese diet at Toxic, made public
at Washington, proved an attempt to
quiet suspicious of foreign nations re-
garding the Manchurian treaty
Thirty thousand kilograms all re-
ferring to one subject and addressed
to Hon. w. III. Taft, president of the
United States, we're received in Wash
ington, D. c., on January %. They
were all from Western friends of the
Panama Pacific exposition to be held
at San Francisco, asking the president
to settle the exposition matter on
broad business lines.
The Hetty Green Trust Co. with E
R. Green as general manager is soon
to be formed in New York. 1t will
care for the vast properties of Mrs
Hetty Green especially those in the
West and Southwest. b.
Through the cooperation of Rodney
Wanamaker and the city of Philadel
phia fund of $150,000 will be estab
lished for the support of the widows
and orphans or dependent parents Of
all city employees who may be killed OF
incapacitated by injuries in the dis
: charge of their duties. The creation
of this fund is the result of the recent
fire when thirteen firemen and one pc
liceman werer killed by falling walls
All big cities should have fund like
this.
Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry, for
mer commander in chief of the Pa
: cific fleet has resigned "for the good O
the service" His resignation was &C
cepted to take effect on January 28th
: His resignation will completely sepa
rate him from the Naval service ant
he will draw no pay from the Govern
ment.
The Right Honorable Sir Charlie
/ Dixie, member of Parliament died il
London on January &c. For NOR
). than quarter of century he wa
: considered one of the greatest think
ers of the Liberal party in England
+ When in the height of his power h,
? might have been Premier but for ;
, scandal. Divorce charges lost him hi
5 seat in parliament in 1885, but he re
: gained it and much of his influence.
I Revelation of several alleged at
tempts to buy the editorial support o
the New York Journal of Commerce
:, in favor of ship subsidy legislation
: which that paper has constantly or
3 posed, was made to the Houseship sub
:, sidy Investigating committee las
d week. Six years ago this paper wa
e offered 100000 and two years ag'
q $4,000 to support this cause editorial
e ly. During the Spanish-American wa
the Spanish government tried to bu
the papers influence.
e It is announced that the government
v of the United States is determined t
d give the government of Japan a mos
S striking proof of its good will by tax
e ing up for immediate action the matte
g of negotiating new treaty to replae