The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-03-11

work to be done, the construction OF
the north canal, have been forwarded
to Washington, and it is expected that
the contract will be awarded this COM
ing week.
Through the medium of the depart
ment of extension at the North Dakota
Agricultural College, campaign has
been started under the direction of
Prof. A. G. Arvold to foster public
speaking and debating contests in the
country schools of North Dakota. In
the beginning the extension depart
ment expects to reach 5000 schools
throughout the state and get them in
terested at once in the work. Farm
ers and agricultural clubs are also be-
ing organized with the some purpose
in view.
The time for the appointment of the
st. Cloud charter commission has
been extended by Judges Nye and
Hale. The extension was granted to
allow the commission to draft amend
ments to the charter embodying the
commission form of government. Some
time next summer another special cleo
ton will be held, at which time the
amendment will be voted upon.
The decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission reducing the pre-
cooling charges on fruit from Cali
fornia is of wide interest. The out
come of the decision must mean
cheaper oranges. The reduction in
charges is a cut of rs per cent, and
while no such proportional reduction
can be expected in the price of Cali
fornia fruits, yet a heavy cut must
result.
An earthquake shook Central Italy
last week, especially the provinces in
the compartments of Emilia, in the
Marches and in Tuscany. The dam
age, however, was not great. Several
buildings were damaged at Forh and
Casena One occupied house collapsed
and many chimneys fell. The shock
was less violent, through considerable
elsewhere.
The work of raising the wreck of
the battleship Maine from Havana
harbor is about three-fourths COM
p1eted, according to the estimate of
the officers of the War Department.
Sixteen of the twenty cylinders of the
cofferdam now being constructed
around the hulk have been put in
place. 1t is expected that the Golfer
dam will be completed about the mid.
die of April. When the dam is fin
ished the water will be pumped out so
as to expose the hull of the wreck
The bodies of the victims still remain.
ingsin the hull will be removed and
buried in the Arlington National Gem.
will be erected over the graves as a
memorial.
Italian anxiety regarding American
designs on the sulphur mines at Cy.
rene, has been considerably deepened
by a dispatch to the Corriere d'Italia
to the effect that Americans have got
possession of the mines and that an
American steamer is patrolling the
coast of Tripoli with the consent OF
the Ottoman authorities
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and ada
cent states are sounding an alarm
warning farmers to be prepared for an
invasion Of seventeen-year locusts due
to come this spring. These pests
known to agriculture as periodical
cicada made their last visitation in
Eastern states in 1894. The larvae Of
the insects live underground feeding
on the roots of trees and shrubs fol-
seventeen years, when the insects
emerge out into the outer air with
weeks. They appear with the coming
of warm weather and remain unwel
come visitors until cold weather sets
in. During the summer of their
winged existence the females deposit
eggs in the twigs and branches oil
t1OCS, UO11A uOICS IOl ILLS pun pOSO
and the twigs and branches penetrat
ed, die. This as about the extent OF
the damage that can be charged to the
| insects.
A fund of between $4,000 and
$4,000, which is still growing has
been subscribed to by various maya
zines in New York and Philadelphia
to combat pending legislation in con
gress providing for increased postage
rates on the advertising pages of pc
riodical literature.
General Rosales, peace envoy o.
President Davilu of Honduras, says
the people of his country will never
accept General Bonilla for president
declaring the rebel chief to be il