The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-25


Treasury Department. Meanwhile
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
sent a special agent to Wisconsin to
make complete report as to the pro-
cess of it's making and exact character
of the product.
The Commercial Club of, Sioux
Falls, S. D.. understood to be acting
for number of South Dakota cities,
is actively at work to bring about the
construction of line of railroad con-
Meeting Yankton, S. D., with Denver,
Colorado. This would give the Twin
Cities a new direct line to Denver and
open up a fertile territory in Ne
braska now reached only by branch
lines of. the Burlington and other
roads.
Radium has at last been found and
actually seen in it's metallic form.
Nine. Curie, after the most painstaking
and prolonged labor, has reduced bro
mide and produced the long-sought
substance She took tons of rock,
slowly separating it's constituent and
gradually concentrating those portions
which showed radio-activity. A few
grains of impure radium bromide,
which glowed like a freely in the dark,
was obtained from some eight tons Of
rock. Then by electrical means she
hn
in tiny crystal retort minute film
of bright metal
A new disturbing element has arisen
in the Turkish situation through the
activity of the Zionist element in the
Jewish population, especially in Sa-
lonica. While the present Turkish
government is trying to remould the
people of the empire in Islamic form
by forbidding the teaching of racial
languages in schools and by other
methods, the Zionists have launched a
counter movement for the teaching of
Hebrew and Talmudic tradition. Turk
ish rules have usually treated the Jews
with indulgence, but not unnaturally
the Zionist movement has never been
regarded with favor.
To curb it's progress there is a pro-
hibition against Jews owning real
estate in Palestine and this check has
been yrigidly enforced of late.
Trouble for Turkey has again broken
out in Yemen. The Arab Imaun or
Mahdi has declared war and sent out
armed bands to cut all the commune
cations of the Turkish force in South
west Arabia. The Governor of the
province of Asir is besieged in Mena-
dir, the capital, and there has been a
good deal of slaughter of Turkish
troops
The problem of subduing Yemen has
been insoluble for Turkey for more
than forty years and has cost millions
of money and thousands of soldiers.
Peace never lasts for more than year
or so. 1t is hardly two years since a
compromise was made with the Madhi
after nearly year of murderous work.
The United States senatorial dead.
lock which has held the New York
State Legislature in its grip for near
ly five weeks, is costing the taxpayers
of the state at least $4,000 a day and
up to the present time cost $82,500 OF
the taxpayers money. This fact is
causing the Democrats to pause and
take stock before making the final
I ,S1I I~Gx
up.
A balance of trade of more than
1858, 100000 in favor of the United
States against the foreign creditors in
the foreign trade of the country and
the establishment of new high mark
for exports in the record of the United
States trade with foreign nations for
/ the first seven months of the fiscal
year ended January 81, is shown by an
official statement issued by the bureau
of statistics of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor The splendid
showing is considered to be due large
1y to the higher price of cotton. The
increase in exports amounted to more
than $172,000,000 and in imports to
more than $2,500,00O.
The Missouri Pacific has passed from
Gould control. George J. Gould, after
being president of the system fol
twenty years, was virtually forced tt
give in by having arrayed against hin
not only Kuhn Loeb and Company, the
syndicate which took over the Pearson
Farquhar holdings, and John D. Rock
efeller, but also the Deutsche Bank
of Berlin, international banking
houses, representing all of the foreign
stockholders and most of the Wal
street houses of any consequence. 4
is rumored that Howard Elliot is tx
be president under the new manage
ment and Mr.. Gould to be chairman o.
the board of directors.
Dispatches from Cettinge, Montene
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