The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-12-16

Japan has 58,S72 Catholics,
A new Catholic church will soon be
built at Grafton, N d.
The French Catholics of Crookston
are contemplating the erection of a
new church.
1t is rumored the Catholic clergy of
Milwaukee are laying plans for sum
mer school there.
The Rev. T. Casey of Fredericton
has been appointed by the Holy See
coadjutor bishop of New Brunswick.
The scolastic year of 1900 will wit
ness the opening of Trinity college
for the higher education of Catholic
young ladies.
After 900 years of oblivion statue to
st. Bernard is now to be erected ON the
Great St. Bernard mountain. Cathol-
lefty is setting up many monuments
these latter days
The learned Catholic historian. DR..
Pastor professor of history at the
University of Innsbruck, has been APP
pointed by the Emperor of Austria a
Councillor of the Imperial Court.
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1t looks as though the Western Sum
mer School will be held in Detroit next
year. Bishop Messruaf, the head of the
school, and Bishop Foley, the head of
the Detroit diocese, both favor that
place.
Father W. A. McDermott, known in
letters as Walter Lecky, is on the road
to recovery. His physicians, however,
say that he must not again devote him
self to literary work.
Archbishop Hennessey, who preached
at the dedication of ST. Josephs Ca
thedral in this city, will celebrate the
golden jubilee of his ordination to the
priesthood next year.
The Rev. Father Vattmann, the vet
eran army chaplain, has recently re-
turned from an extended trip to Eu-
rope. He spent quite a long time in
Rome and had an audience with the
Holy Father.
When st. Louis gave house to Cen
eral Sherman it was known to every
contributor that Mrs. Sherman was a
Catholic. What was no offense in the
hero of the march through Georgia was
g. crime in the hero of Manila bay
In the Klondike regions there are
four Catholic Churches-one each at
Dawson, Selkirk, bunker creek and
Last Chance Creek. Four priests are
now located in Dawson City, Rev.
Fathers Lefebre, Desmarias, Corbell
and GendrOn, all Oblates.
Sister Theodore, superioreSs of the
convent of Notre Dame, connected with
the Mission Church, Roxbury, Mass,
has been presented with a piano, the
gift of Father William H. /. Reaney,
chaplain of the Olympia. The piano
was given tc. the chaplain while ne
was in the Philippines by the Arch
bishop of the Catholic diocese of Man
liza.
A remarkable funeral service took
place at St. Simon's Church, Wash
ington, Ind, recently. The services
were held over the remains of William
Stanton of Washington The Mass was
sung by five priests, all brothers, they
being nephews of the deceased. They
are the Revs. John F. Hickey of Gin
cinnati, Charles A. Hickey of DAYTON.
o.; George F. Hickey of Milford O.:
D. Hickey of Dayton. O.; and
E. P, Hickey of Piqua, o.
The Hartford Courant thinks that
Chappelle does not go TO
Manila on a mission foredoorned to
failure 1t says: 1T is not at all inn
possible that the mission of Archbish-
op Chappelle to the Philippines as per
sonal representative and delegate of
the Pope, may accomplish more in the
way of tranquilizing the natives and
reconciling them to the new order of
things than the winning of MANY
paddy field skirmishes. In spite of his
French name and blood vet people who |
knew the Archbishop of New Orleans
when he was as yet only Father Chap
oelle of ST. Matthews. Washington.
say that there's no discount on his |
The fact that Pope Leo XIII has
cent gift to the wife of the French |
'epublic has caused any amount of |
gossip. The incident is. however |
grave significance. This good |
ady, who is in no way Responsible for |
matters political in France. has been |
lnown to His Holiness since the DAYS |
when he was Nuncio Apostolic in /
Brussels, and has always been a zeal |
JUS Catholic, and the gift of His Holt
less had no political Significance
whatever.