The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-23

waukee, Peter White of Maruuette
| Mayor Maybury of Detroit, Bishop
Davis of Michigan. Bishop Foley of
Detroit, James L. Blair of st. Louis,
| William j. Onahan, Secretary Edward
.. Brown of Chicago. The association,
which has been Incorporated under the
laws of Michigan, plans to build a ma
tional memorial to Father Marquette.
the missionary priest and explorer. The
Island of Mackinac, at the foot of Lake
Michigan, has been selected as the
most appropriate place by various his
tor1cal bodies and those most interested
in this scheme. The park commission
of Michigan, which has control of the
greater part of this island as a state
park, has dedicated site The monu-
ment is to be of heroic size The work
of raising funds by subscription will be
begun Immediately. 1t is estimated that
the statue will cost $4,000.
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OF all the women census enumera-
tors in the state of Missouri Sister
Mary Rose Broughton of St VinAent's
Institution for the Insane in st. $ouis
dated May rs, denying an assertion
made by the Journal de Geneve that
writing to the Duke of Norfolk he had
denounced the temporal power of the
Pope and the methods of the Roman
congregations. The archbishop says no
word ever escaped his pen or lips that
was contrary to the ideas of His Holt
ness respecting temporal power.
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Rev. William ]. Hamilton, a curate
at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy of
Brooklyn, N. Y, died Saturday of
dropsy at his home, 1869 jefferson av-
enue, after an illness of a year. Father
Hamilton was 40 years of age When a
boy he found employment in A. T.
Stewards dry good house and a clerk
ship in the Brooklyn Times office While
as an altar boy in SIS. Peter
and Paul's church, the late Father Ma
lone, the rector, took an interest in him
and saw that he received a good edu-
cation. II studied at st. Francis Xav-
lers in New York, and later in the
Grand Seminary of Montreal He was
ordained to the priesthood seventeen
years ago and took his first charge at
St. Anthony's church in Greenpoint.
from there he went to St Peters
church. For four years ne had served
at the church of Our Lady of Mercy.
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The dedication of the Catholic chapel
at West Point Military Academy last
Sunday recalls the bitter controversy
which was aroused over the efforts of |
the church to obtain Justice for Catho-
lie cadets. The opposition was bitter.
and probably the protest would have I
tailed had not the Catholics of the /
country been reused by the Catholic I
press. congressman did not dare re- /
'ist the pressure brought to bear upon /
county. probably is the only one who /
viii perform her duties while wearing
he garb of Nun. Sister Mary Rose
serves m the Tenth Census district /
lnder the direction of Supervisor F.
w Rauchenstein Of Clayton. The st.
Vlncents Institution is the largest in
'ane asylum in the state of Missouri
Ind contains within it's walls patients
Who have formerly occupied prominent
POSITIONS, both in the business and So
ial world One of the cardinal prin-
1pleS OF the institution is that the out
ide world shall not be permitted 70
.aze upon thei nfirmities of their pa
tents. and it was for this reason that
he Sisters petitioned the Washington
authorities to permit one of their num-
er to take its enumeration. Director
derriam readily consented to the plan
Roberts, Kitchener, French, Kelly
Aenny and the other generals who have
one the best fighting in South Africa
re Irishmen. And now comes Colonel
ryan Lahon. a Galway man. to swell
ne list by. leading the relief column