New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-09

fifty or more churches will be transacted
here. and the city will become an important
center for visiting Catholic clergvmen. The
establishment of the Winona diocese has
been matter of discussion for years, but it
was NOT until the past year that definite
plans were formulated and sent to Rome for
approval. 1t may be said that She Office was
fairly created by the rapidly growing inn
portance' of the Catholic denomination of the
Northwest, and, as Father Gotter remarked,
the office furnishes an unlimited field for all
the zeal and energy that can be put
Into it Father Cotter is probably
one of the best known among the
Catholic clergy of the West. From 1866 TO
1871 he was resident Of ST. Paul, where he
began his formal preparations to enter the
the servicessof the church in 1864. Later
he entered st. Francis seminary at Milwau-
kee, further pursuing his studies at st. Vim
cents college in Pennsylvania, and complet-
ing them at ST Johns college in this state
He was ordained May %, 1871. ON June
OF the same year he came to this city as
pastor of the Englsh-speaking Catholic
churches OF Winona county, where he has la
bored zealously ever since for the advance
ment OF his church and his people Besides
MS important work and prominent place IN
the church, Father Cotter has been con-
nected with several prominent movements.
In 1872 he first became connected with the
Father Mathew society, and for three terms
was president Of the Catholic Total Absti-
hence Union of America, where his great
eloquence and wit make him a conspicuous
| figure in the temperance work Of the CONT
nenG He has also been the lecturer for
| America of the national union, and in this
| capacity spoke in the leading cities of the
/ Eastern and middle states
i BISHOP OF SIOUX FALLS.
| Sioux FALLS, s. D., Special Telegram,
kilograms were received from Rome
to-day announcing the elevation of Sioux
Fails to the dignity of see city and the ap-
pointment Of Ri Rev. Martin Marty as bish-
| op of Sioux Falls The new diocese COM
1 prises the whole of South Dakota. The Gus
tom in the Catholic church prescribes that
! bishops see is erected only in such places
! as give undoubted evidence of permanent
| progress, and bishopric once established is
never abolished. This fact will demonstrate
the Importance of this official appointment
to Sioux Falls The bishop-eIect is now Wis
it1ng in Europe, and his conservation will
| doubtless take place at his former home
in Switzerland. Bishop Marty came
here In February last as vicar apostolic. He
was born in Schwyz Switzerland, Jan. -
1884; became a member of the Moaostic
Order of St Benedict in 1855; was ordained
priest in 1860, and sailed for America. IL
| went to Spencer county, Ind, and entered
the Monostary of St Meinrod, which in 1876
was raised to the distinction of an abbey
with Father Marty as the first injured abbot
In 1875 he left there to work among the
Indians of Dakota and established his head
quarters at Standing Rock agency in 1876
His labors soon attracted wide notice, an(
when Dakota was made a Yicarate apostolic
Bishop Marty was chosen to preside and was
consecraUed Feb l, 1850. He took up hi
residence in Yankton. He came to Siou1
Falls last February and has remained her,
ever since The appointment was made
Sunday last in special audience by the pope