The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-11
Secular News Of the Week.

The State of Wisconsin has raised
the taxes on steam railroads operating
in the State to the sum of $3,330,819,
which is $134,I57 more than was
levied for 1910. These taxes are pay
able in two installments, one in Febru-
airy and one in August.
Montana stands for state rights and
to that end measure, recommended
by the Montana Conservation Com
which has been introduced in
the Legislature demanding state
rights to control the waters of the
State for power and other purposes,
throws down the gauntlet to the ma
tional government.
The lumber mills of Oregon cut
!, 75O,000,000 feet of lumber, valued
at $4,000, 900, last year. This is
showing in view of the fact
that the advance in freight rates of 5
cents a hundred has restricted the
lower grades of Western lumber from
competing in Eastern markets, and
temporarily handicapped the industry.
The new Great Northern ore docks
at Superior are to be finished by Au-
gust. It is expected that 100000
tons of ore will be shipped from this
point in 1911
will
and 400 Filipino natives were killed
in the tidal wave which followed the
of the volcano Taal. Since
1909 Mount Taal has been the scene
of eight destructive disturbances. The
volcano rises in the center of Lake
Taal, body of water fifteen miles in
circumference, about thirty-miles dis
tant from Manila.
The Civic Improvement League of
Mimi, have started novel
series of ten cent teas for the purpose
of raising funds to be applied on the
purchase of clock for the court
house tower
The quarterly report of the United
States Steel Corporation showed net
earnings of $20,462,460
The metal production of Mexico for
the fiscal year 1909-191O amounted to
$158,965,S32. In this aggregate silver
leads with so per cent; gold follows
with 80 per cent; copper with II per
cent.
The Mexican government has made
an appropriation of $10,000,000 to i'm
prove several harbors on the Gulf of
Mexico Several million dollars has
also been appropriated to improve the
harbor at Topolobampo on the Pa
cific Coast. These harbor improve
ments are said to be the first step
taken by the Mexican government
with view towards the construction
of a Gulf railroad in the near future,
The national banks of the country
have lost $191. 566,48S in deposits the
last two months. Where the money
went to is what is mystifying the
officials of the Treasury Department.
During the period of withdrawal the
banks of the South are about the only
ones showing gains of deposits and
this is accounted for by cotton pay
ments Meanwhile treasury officials
are eagerly awaiting an explanation of
the phenomena
DR.. c. w. Duval, of Tulane Univer-
sity, expects to develop curative
serum as result of experiments with
the bacillus of leprosy.
Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, of
Washington, D. c., has given his en-
dorsement to a movement, inaugurated
by the Improved Order of Red Men,
to erect a museum in Washington to
perpetuate the memory of the Ameri.
can Indian.
One hundred women have been en-.
listed in the police service of BARGE
Iona, Spain, whose principal mission
will be to aid in stamping out anarchy
in that city.
An artificial eye has been invented
by Russian scientist which will en-
able man to peer into every part oil
the earth. The inventor is Prof. ]. HI
Rosing, who holds the chair of physics
in the Nicholas l. Institute of Tech
nology at st. Petersburg. The inven
ton is made possible by the cathode
rays, which are Influenced and set in
motion by the impulse of an electric
current. The object to be looked al
impresses itself on rotating mirror
at one end of the line, is transformed
into electricity, and reproduces itsel
at the other end by means of the
cathode rays acting as fluorescen
screen.
Seventy thousand pounds of dyna
mite, which was being unloaded from
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