The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-23
Secular News Of the Week.

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Working under the direction of An
drew Carnegie and well supplied with
funds by the American multi-million-
aire, a group of former diplomats OF
various European countries and few
trained journalists are busily engaged
for an international newspaper which
has for it's primal object the death of
war. Mr.. Carnegie recognizes the fact
that the press is the mightiest weapon
he can command in his hobby for the
creation of an epoch Of world peace.
sidize a powerful publication which
can learn the diplomatic secrets of the
world, and through this means circum-
vent secret plans calculated to incite
nations. to war.
The Hal Chi, the first Chinese war;
ship to visit this country, arrived in
New York harbor on September II and
will remain a week before visiting
Philadelphia, Boston, Newport and An
napolis.
A new through route from Canada
to the Gulf of Mexico, which is ex-
pected to rearrange the railroad map
of the West in important particulars,
is provided for in plans made known
in New York last week by Newman
Erb, who, with Edwin Hawley, is &C
lively engaged in the undertaking.
The first step in the project is to be-
the leasing of the Iowa Central rail-
road to the Minneapolis and st. Louis.
Arrangements also have been made to
extend the Iowa Central to ST. Louis
and the Minneapolis and ST. Louis to
the Canadian border, thus giving the
Hawley-Erb group of railroads the
through route from the wheat fields
of Northwestern Canada to Galveston.
1t is expected that both the Canadian
Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific
will connect with the new extension of
the Minneapolis and st. Louis. The
new route also will afford the Cana
dian Northern an entrance to Mime
apolis and st. Paul.
The appointment of M. Bakkhmetief
as Russian ambassador to the United
officially announced at st. Petersburg
this week. M. Bakkhmetief was for
merly ambassador to Japan.
In 1910 the receipts of the Mime
sofa State Fair we're $289,961.S4 and
the fair cost $213,392.O7. The profit
that year was used in paying off old
bills and in improvements.
An address by Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Degraw, in which
he strongly favored the parcels post,
featured the opening session of the
national convention of first-class post
masters at Omaha on September IL.
Contrary to prevailing belief" de-
clared Mr.. Degraw, "the parcels post
will prove boon to the merchant
catering to trade in his own territory,
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houses" He declared the proposed
parcels post law would cut off many
of the mail order houses from their
trade, and that they would be the in
terests to most strongly oppose it.
The executive committee of the
Farmers League of Minnesota will be
appointed next week at a meeting of
the officers elected week ago at the
meeting on the fair grounds when the
league was launched. The meeting
will be called by President R. A. Will
kinson of Lake Elmo One commit
teeman from each congressional dis
trict of the state will be chosen. The
official headquarters is in the office
of the Northwestern Agriculturist in
Minneapolis.
Seventy-f1ve requests for lectures
before as many different groups of
school teachers in Minnesota have
been received by DR.. HI. M. Bracken,
secretary of the State Board of
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the boards plan of instructing by diff
ferent lecturers the teachers of the
state in elementary sanitary and
health principles. No definite ar
rangements, so far, have been COM
pieted by DR.. Bracken for the assist
ance of prominent physicians outside
the state, but several are expected.
DR.. e. B. Hoag, professor of child
hygiene in the University of Califor.
mia and pioneer in the instruction in
that subject, may appear, and it is
possible that another lecturer will be
obtained from the American Medical
association. The great majority Of
the lectures, however, will be deliv-
cred by the members of the board and
their representatives, DR. Bracken and
DIR. H. w. Hill of Minneapolis, director
or the archaeological division Of the
state health department.
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