The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-05


legislatures of the two states, Illinois
and wisconsin, were passed
An increase in safety OF railroad
travel and employment is reported for
the fiscal year ending June 80 by the
Chicago and Northwestern railway.
Much of the credit for the decreases
| in the number of persons killed and
injured is ascribed to the safety COM
mittee plan, inaugurated last year. to
interest officers and employees in the
safety problem. The results of the
safety committee campaign for the
year are disclosed in a report by Ralph
C. Richards, general claim agent, and
also chairman of the central safety
committee. This gives list of the
accidents and fatalities divided as be-
tween passengers, various classes Of
employees, and other persons. In
nearly every case there are fewer ac-
cidents shown. The total of persons
killed in all kinds of accidents were
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cent, and the total of injured from
10, 1853 to 1886, or 17.3 per cent.
Fragments of human bones, believed
to represent three bodies, were recov-
cred last week from the wreck of the
Maine The discovery was made in
pile of mud and rubbish on the main
deck, almost directly beneath an in
verified coming tower, which had been
upset and hurled sixty feet aft from
it's original position, and close to the
spot where the bones of foot encased
in shoe, and other fragments, were
found several weeks ago. The frag-
ments consisted of a skull minus the
lower jaw, the frontal part crushed
in, several pieces of jaw bones and
portions of vertebrae. Other splintered
fragments were not identified. The
bones are discolored and coral en-
crusted, and unless the teeth afford
some clue, they will be listed among
the unknown" They we're taken in
charge by the official undertaken, Mr..
Jenkins, and placed in a temporary
receptacle, composed of mahogany
panels stripped from the Admiral's
cabin.
United States Attorney General
Wickersham, before the Minnesota
State Bar Association at Duluth last
week, took an advanced stand on the
further federal regulations of corpora
lions and declared that a government
commission to regulate great indus
trial organizations, in the same way
that the interstate commerce commits
sion regulates railways, was certainly
most desirable and that it might be
absolutely necessary. The speech was
little short of sensational in many of
it's features. Mr.. Wickersham declared
that it was matter of serious con-
sideration whether it would be prac-
teal to give to the proposed interstate
corporation commission the power to
fix prices. To do this in theory simply
would require an extension of the prin-
ciple by which the interstate commerce
commission controls the rates on rail-
roads.
The Mercantile Trust Company of
New York City, which was owned by
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
until few weeks ago, when 1884
shares were sold to a group of men
affiliated with the Bankers Trust Com
pany, will shortly be merged with the
latter organization. In the process the
name and identity of the Mercantile
Trust Company will be lost, making
the Bankers one of the largest trust
companies, in point of deposits, in the
country. The other, the Guarantee
Trust Company, as well as the Bank
ers' Trust, is closely associated with
the Morgan interests.
The revolution in Haiti is spread
ing so rapidly that it is believed here
to be doubtful If the capital of the
island republic will much longer re-
main in possession of President Simon.
The political situation is steadily
growing worse, according to the com
mander If the United States gunboat
Petrol, now in Haitien waters for the
protection of Americans. His report
to the Navy Department indicates that
all of the department north, except
Cape Haitien and Forte Liberte, is
controlled by the revolutionists. These
important ports are threatened, how
ever, as the rebels defeated the Gov
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