The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-11

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Bills have been intro
duced abolishing certain boards,
deemed unnecessary, and general in
vestigation is under way of various
departments and commissions.
Baron Kuno Won Eltz, nephew of
the Prime Minister of Hungary, is
working as laborer on the New
Uswoco mill of the United States
Worsted Company, now being built at
Lawrence, Mass. The Baron wears
overalls, carries a dinner pail and
Yields a pick or shovel and carries a
bod. He will remain until the mill
is completed and will study every de-
tail of it's construction.
Near Tuxpan, Mexico, in the Polrero
del Llano district the greatest oil
well in the world has been spouting
since January 8. The flow is about
IT'S 900 barrels day. The oil spouts
to height Of $50 feet and the mist
formed carried by the wind has set
tied down on vegetation and formed
pools within radius of ten miles. A
large earthen reservoir which holds
2 ,00O,000 barrels is now overf1owing
and at present the overflow is going
to waste. The Taxpan river, which
receives the overflow, has been on fire
which threatened the whole district.
The foul gases which are emitted at
intervals from the well caused the
death of many domestic animals and
endangered the lives of the people.
The district has been placed under
martial law and those not in the serv-
ice of the Mexican Eagle Petroleum
Company, which owns the well, have
been ordered to move out of the
deleterous zone with all their belong
ings.
The workingmen's compensation
bill has been taken up by the Legis-
lature this week. The provision fixing
the limit of liability in case of death
is the special item upon which opinion
seems at variance It's various sup
porters have advocated maximum
amounts ranging all the way from
$4,000 to $4,000. The bill has been
recommended to pass fixing the limit
at $500.
The tri-state exhibit to have been
held at Superior, Wis, this year has
fallen through. Many of the towns in
Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin
endorsed the project, but the support
needed and expected from Duluth was
not forthcoming owing to an adverse
report on the proposition being made
by the committee of the Duluth Com.
mercial Club.
The Northwestern Minnesota and
North Dakota Implement Dealers AS
ISOLATION held their annual meeting at
DEVILS Lake, N. D., this week. The
feature of the meeting was the large
display made by the wholesale jobbers
and manufacturing concerns of the
Northwest. Fifty booths were used
for displaying the latest devices in
farm machinery and accessories.
+ If present indications prevailed Min.
nesota will secure the National Corn
show for 1913 and 1914. The delega
tons of all the Northwestern States
are helping the Minnesotans in their
efforts to secure the show. Column
bia, S. c., Kansas City, Louisville and
Atlanta, Ca, are the other compet1
tors.
The Minneapolis milling capacity is
$3.50 barrels a day The grain re
ceipts for 1910 as given by the Min
neapolis Chamber of Commerce reach
ed the total of 161, 100000 bushels, OF
which 98,50O,OOO bushels was wheat
The grain storage elevators now have
carrying capacity of 4O,75O,00(
bushels with several new elevators in
course of construction
The executive committee of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
lines, meeting i'm New York, voted te
complete the double-tracking of the
lines from the Missouri to San Fran
cisco.
BY a decisive vote the House O.
Representatives has declared that the
location of criminal reformatory
within ten miles of the home ant
tomb of George Washington at Noun
Vernon would desecrate a nationa
! shrine.
Japan is said to be responsible fol
the disturbances in Ecuador which
prevented the United States from
leasing the Galapagos Islands.
| The Carnegie Steel Co. has CLOSED
land deal at Perryville and intends
to build a mammoth plant on tn,
Chesapeake. Perryville is on the B
/ and O., and is the junction point o
three branches Of the Pennsylvania
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