The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-12-28
DEP0SED PRIEST
OF TEE DErRoIrpoI1sH CHURCH,
Who has 9son Stirring Up Strife In His
CoDErsgAtiOn-somo Must0ring', bat No
Violent Outbreaks YSStsrdAy-WhAt
tho Bishop says-sorious Charges.

DErRolr, Dec. 27.-Trouble was an
ticipated by the police among the Poles
this morning and. force was on hand tc
quell any outbreak. A crowd was on
hand all day and once or twice there were
mutterings az Of a coming uproar, but the
people were kept moving and nothing
serious resulted. A few arrests were made
for drunkenness or rough behavior, but
there was no sharp contest between the
officers OF the law and the dissatisfied
church people. The crowd was composed
largely OF sightseers, who had no interest
in the church troubles. This evening the
police are on duty, but find little to do,
the fury OF the mob seeming to have spent
itself. The police we're expecting trouble
on Christmas day and to-day, the people
being idle, and the former holiday. To.
day having gone by without special in
cident no outbreak is looked for before
New Years day.
In regard TO the disturbance and the
charges against Father Kolosinski, Bishop
Borgess. objects TO being called despot,
and says in explanation Of his actions:
"0rdinarily when charges are preferred
against a priest he is allowed to continue
the performance OF his pastoral duties,
since to suspend him immeditely might
work great injustice. There are
charges, however, OF such ner.
ious character for which the
good OF religion and salvation Of souls
REQUIRE immediate suspension, il the eVi.
dence sustaining them is OF the proper
character. Such charges were preferred
against Kolosinski, and the evidence in
support OF them is overwhelming. He
has been charged with immortality Of such
a character that he should not be allowed
10 stand at Catholic altar for a single
hour, and no pure home should permit
him to cross its threshold.
Under these circumstances, the Bishop
deemed it his duty to religion, to the
community and to family purity to sus.
pend his functions. While endeayoring
TO And suitable successor he requested
Father Dombroski, worthy priest, to act
as temporary pastor. The latter consent
cd to do go, but with great reluctance, ss
he knew Kolosinski's character, and what
treatment might be expected from him.
Immediately the latter began to pose as y
martyr, and TO stir up rebellion among the
people. He did not address them Christ
mas day because lie had no reliable
Interpreter, and also because the whole
object OF the demonstration was bull
doxing OF the worst type and
Koloslnski was at the bottom OF it. The
Bishop sincerely desires that the people
will abandon the man who is misleading
them for his own purposes; that they
will believe he has their interests ELI
cerely at heart and That the first op-
portunity, il they will allow him to do 80,
ne will supply them with a pastor worthy
OF them and of the altar to which they
are 90 much attached"
Father Kolosinski has also stated his
position in an interview in which he
states that he believes the Bishop is
wrong aud he is light, and that he should
not have been removed until the Bishop
bad publicly announced his reasons there
for. He believes the trouble will not be
ended until he is Teinstated as pastor Of
the church, and says he WAS convicted
without hearing. He proposes to re-
main In this city until no gets whit
he considers due him. The rev.
erend gentleman grew warm in his
protest that he was innocent, and said in
conclusion that the only way to solve the
difficulty vas for the Bishop to listen to
the prayers Of q powerful congregation,
which Is able to Judge the wrong from the
right. "The closing OF their church
against them on one OF the most important
h6lidsys in the year is painful to them,
and it cannot be wondersd st that they
desire to worship in their own Hedilice With
one whom they want as their pastor"