The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-12
CATHOLIC NOTES.

United States authorities have, it is
said, forbidden the Jesuit Fathers in
charge Of the observatory at Manila
to send out any more weather bulle-
tins. The bulletins referred to have
been sent out regularly during the last
half century, and have always
proved especially accurate.
On Sunday, the anniversary of the
murder of the Empress of Austria, a
mass in memOrium was celebrated at
Farm Street Church, London, Repre-
SentatiVeS from a number of foreign
embassies were present.
Cardinal Vaughn has finally decided
that the monument to DR.. Rivington in
Westminster Cathedral shall be a fac
smile Of the statue Of st. Peter in his
chair at Rome.
BY request of the late Bishop Wat
terson of Columbus, all his vestments
were given to the Sisters Of St. Mary's
of the Springs
There is but one Catholic church in
St. Petersburg, that of St. Catherine,
but on the account of the increase of
the number of Catholics, a new church
viii be built as soon as permission can
be obtained from the holy synod.
.
The London Tablet, which is in a po-
sjtion TO judge Of the matter. SAYS that
the signs of Catholic progress are to be
seen all over the land and it proposes
To demonstrate in its columns that
marked, substantial and solid progress
is every day, so to speak, being made
by the English Catholic Church.
.
Archbishop Corrigan makes the an
nOuncement that the Rev. DR.. BurtSell,
of Rondout, n. Y, has generously do
mated s., 600 to endow a scholarship in
the seminary at Dunwoodie. n. Y The
Rev. DR.. DOugherty. of the Home of
the Immaculate Virgin, n. Y, has
given like sum for a like purpose.
.
Catholics learned with interest that
Bishop Mcdonnell Of Brooklyn, n. Y,
who is in Europe, had consulted j. +.
Bentley, an English architect in refer
ence to plans for the completion of the
Brooklyn Cathedral, at Vanderbilt, and
CleTmOnt avenues. The Cathedral has
been in an unfinished state for many
years.
.
a hospital in which consumptives |
alone viii be treated is soon to be erect |
ed near Chicago by a number of phil !
anthropic citizens at a cost of $215, GEO. /
Al J
tin. where a tract Of twelve acres has
been purchased. The plan was origi- /
mated by the order of Sisters known as /
the Poor landmarks Of Jesus Christ.
.
The French pilgrims who will visit (
Rome in the coming year Of jubilee are
expected to come in the greatest num- /
Der in the month Of May. as it is then, /
according to the reports prevailing, that /
the Canonization of the Blessed de Ia .
Sale viii take place That event viii /
naturally attract French Catholics 10 .
the Eternal City.
Monsignor Stanley has resigned his /
position az Vatican correspondent of
the Times newspaper. His position in
this capacity must have been a difficult
enc Any news which was confidential
he could hardly transmit, and any
news which was not, the paper could .
secure without the services Of a regu-
lar correspondent.
Right Rev. John Moore. Bishop of
st. Augustine. Fla, who Suffered an
attack Of paralysis some weeks ago,
has been for most Of the time since
under treatment at st. Agnes Semi
nary. near Baltimore, Nd. The Bishop
is widely known and warmly esteemed (
throughout the country, and his i'm
proved condition viii be pleasant news
to his host Of friends.
Our Catholic exchanges differ as to
the object Of the recent visit of car
dinal Gibbons to Mr.. Mckinley. Some
say he went TO protest against the
deeecration of Churches in the Philip
pines, while others state that he went
to assure Mr.. Mckinley that the
Church had no complaint to make Of
ff-,.l op7+ l--
..
An official note announces that the
Pope viii be unable to grant separate
audiences to the pilgrims expected to
come to Rome during the year, but as
he is anxious not to deprive them of
the benefits of the Apostolic Benedic-
ton, he viii follow the example of lis
in similar circumstances
ana viii pronounce a Solemn Benedic-
ton in the Court Of Belvidere or else
where, as may be CONVENIENT.
The Catholic societies Of Covington,
Ky, presented the city council of that
place with resolutions adopted by their
body at its last meeting. protesting
against the laying of the corner stone
OF the new court house With Masonic
ceremonies The membership thus pro-
testing numbers between 800 and I 700,
ana the outcome viii be watched with
interest.
. {
The Marquis Of Butte prior TO the j
illness with which he has been stricken, ]
was engaged in the work of preparing j
new edition of his English translation 6
Oh the Roman breviary His CONVEX s
sion to the Catholic church was the {
sensation of a quarter of a century ago, E
ana supplied Lord Beaconsfield with q
material for Lothian" Monseignor {
oapel, who effected the conversion. was ] [