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member of the ministry of public instruc-
ton of Canada, accompanied nv bis
daughter and by the Rev. Eugene Dros-
hin. parish priest of Woodstock. in the
diocese OF Burlington, Vt. Private pom
tf1ctal audience was likewise accorded to
the director of the papal museums and
galleries, CALI, accompanied by his son.
Guido, who made Offering to the pope Of
bust IN clay representing the cele-
Prated artist Bernadino Bell, known as
Pinturicchio, copied from portrait of
Plnturlcchio himself, preserved in the
CHURCH of st. Maria Maggfore in Speflo,
Umbria. His holiness congratulated the
youthful sculptor on his evident pro-
fieiency in his art and gave orders that
the bust be reproduced in marble or in
bronze and placed in the apartment
Borgfa, in the Vatican palace. which al
ready boasts the most splendid paint
tngs and frescoes, due to the marvellous
brush of Pinturicchio.
NARROW ESCAPE.
Archbishop Irelnd, after over a month
passed in the Eternal City, Quilted Rome.
en- route to Paris on Aug. 20, in company
With the Rt, Rev. Mgr. Denis O,Conneli.
both prelates having had most narrow
escape from danger and possible death
| or mutilaton in the recent terrible rail-
L., All i
they having fully intended leaving for
Switzerland by that very train, but hap
ply, at almost the last moment a press
ing invitation to take part in the cele-
pratlon of the feast of the Assumption
Aug. Is, in the Ttular Church of Cardinal
Gibbons, ST. Maria in Trastevere caused
them to defer their departure, and finally
his grace OF St Paul determined to re-
main until after the pontifical feast of
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deplored victims Of the above mentioned
fearful accident was the we'll known Do
minican, Father Vincent Vannuteli, of
Gennazzano, very distant cousin of the
two broths, Cardinals Nannutefli. and for
long years chaplain to the pentiical zou-
ayes and taken prisoner together with
the papai troops Sept. 20, 1870. Later he
was greatly distinguished as an Orien-
talist, travelling constantly in the East.
and publishing numerous learned and in
teresting volumes on that distant land
He was on his way to the baths of Mon
tecatini for the cure of rheumatism.
when he met his sad fate; he was for
seven long hours imprisoned beneath
three corpses pressed upon his chest and
a heavy beam over his already severely
broken leg, his head alone being free :;
seven hours of agony he later declared
them. His death, some days subseduent-
ly. at the military hospital. raised to
sixteen the number of travellers killed by
the collision, due solely to eupable neg
ligence on part of railway officials, and
wanton disregard of the most elementary
prudential measures. Heavy claims for
Indemnity have already been served upon
the "Adriatic Railway Network culprits
in the premises, which In their turn,
eager to escape the civil courts, have
themselves come forward with proffers
for fair and amicable settlement with
the families of the dead and wounded
victims of the disaster. Mgr Campbell,
ex-rector of the SCOTS college In Rome.
was likewise on the wrecked train, but
fortunately unfnjY-ed and able to con-
tinue his journey 20 Florence, telegraph
ing from Orte to tranquilize his friends
in the Eternal City as to his personal
safety.