The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-19

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ington, d. c., is progressing vigorousl!
Masons began to erect the walls durin
the present week.
The Sisters of St Joseph conduct
p school of feeble-minded children at Naza
reth, Kalamazoo county, Michigan.
Mr. Charles NJ. Schwab has authorize
the committee which has the building G
the new st. Thomas church at Brad
dock. Pa, to draw on him for $4,000.
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! A most beautiful life size statue OF s.
! Joseph has been placed in front of 81
Joseph's church at Appleton, Wis.
! St. Joseph's school and st. AIMS Con
vent, Cohoes, n Y. which are to replac
the burned buildings, will be structure
of elegant architectural design and com
/ modious and convenient in arrangements
A project to erect new Polish Catholi
church is under discussion at Woodmere
Mich. There are said to be about ninet,
families in the immediate vicinity.
Military mass was celebrated in tn
post hall at Fort Sam Houston on Easte
Sunday by Chaplain T. P. O'Keefe. !
squadron of troopers of the Twelfth I
5. cavalry assisted, and there was very
large attendance. The Brothers of Mary
from ST Mary's college, furnished th'
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BY the will of the late Elizabeth Ro
melfanger of McKeesport, Pa, it is di
rected that her estate be sold and S3,4
be set aside for masses for the repose o1
her soul.
FIT. Thomas. KY, will shortly have q
new $4,000 church. Work has been com
menced and it is hoped to have it ready
for occupancy before the end of summer
\ new lighting system is being in
stalled in St Joseph's church, Rock. Is
land, Ills. Arrangements are also being
made to secure a new $500 organ.
Two churches in Williamsburg, n. Y,
were robbed ON Wednesday night. and in
one, the church of st. Louis, the thieves
smashed the tabernacle. in the altar
where the gold and silver chalices were
kept and took the chalices, valued at
s1.j00. The blessed sacrament was strewn
over the floor.
The corner stone of the new college of
St. Basil at Waco, Tex. was laid last
Sunday with imposing ceremonies. The
event was quite a notable one in the am
nails of Catholic EDUCATION in Texas.
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Mrs John F. Ellis has presented to the
house of the Good Shepherd in West
Washington. d. c., a beautiful new or
gan to replace the old instrument here
tofore in use there, and its reception
was marked with great joy and thanks
giving by the Sisters and inmates of the
The Sisters of ST Joseph have OBJ
tanned permission to establish a novitiate
of the community in the Cincinnati do
cese and the work will shortly be under
taken at the Cedar Point house, which
has lately been enlarged and improved.
Chicago architects have in preparation
lie churches. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
church, Chicago, a frame building, will
be replaced by 100000 brick structure.
st. Teresa's. in the same city, will have
a $4,000 edifice, and st. Mary's congrega-
ton at Sycamore, one costing $4,000.
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A new church and chapel is to be erect
I'd at Earl park, Indiana, for st. John the
Baptist's parish at a cost of $4,000.
Brother Jerome. for the past few years
1t the head of the Christian Brothers
pointed director of Manhattan college. in
to the late Brother Charles.
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Sisters of the Holy Family have erect
ID a beautiful school at Opelousas. La,
ior colored children, under the patronage
If st. Joseph. They have made rapid
progress and the number of pupils in at
endance is fifty-nine.
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Mrs. Charles NJ. Schwab. the wife of the
PRESIDENT of the United States Steel cor
)oration, takes great interest in studies
hat aim TO find remedies for tubercolo-
lis She has displayed practical interest
n the matter by the donation of the
'est microscopic outfit made in the
World to the East End Charity hospital,
oittsburg, Pa.
Mr.. w: j. Chalkley, a well known and
citizen of San Antonio. was
'aptized and received into the Catholic
hurch on Easter Sunday afternoon, at
It. Mary's church; by Rev. G.. j. Smith.
ntieth year. Immediately after his re-
option, Mr.. Chalkley had the additional
of becoming sponsor to his
oungest grandson, son of Mr.. James
\ beautiful new window. representing
hrist walking on the water and holding
ut his hands to the Apostle, who is on
he point of sinking, has been donated to
t. Pauls church, Washington, d. c.,
lade by William Early of Dublin. Ire
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The eldest two grandchildren of William
fncent Wallace, composer of Mari |
ana" 'Lurline" and other works, were |
eceived into the church last week in the |
hapel of Santa Clarissa at Aiken, s. C. !
Iiss Celestine Eustis, sister of the late |
TO France. was godmother |
,r Miss Helene Ruth Wallace, and Mrs. |
homas Hitchcock, jr.. for Master Vim |
ent Wallace. c. S. Wallace the only |
IN of the late composer, presided at the |
rgan.
Owing to the great demands on the
ecommodations of the hospital at
sph, in charge, find that a new wing
an urgent necessity. \ training school |
II nurses has also been organized.
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st. Anthony's chapel, Troy Hill, Pa.
/ Easter Sunday received the full force |
BOD on that day. and the large statue
st. Anthony. which stood upon the
p of the facade, was hurled with
eat crash to the street pavement, to-
ether with heavy weight of masonry.
he statue was twelve feet high, made
zinc and cost something like $500.
Twenty-one converts received holv
mmunion for the first time at st. Pat
ck's church, Cleveland. o., on Easter
lnday morning.
ade by Mayor Low of New York was
at of Thomas w. Hynes to be the com
issioner of correction, one of the most
lportant offices under the city govern
ent. Mr.. Hynes has for twenty-five
ars been president of the St Vincent
Paul Society of Brooklyn, and is one
the best known charity workers in
nerica.
Sister Angelo and Sister Ludivica of
itHr Of ha |
ph have arrived in this country from
e mother house in France to visit all
e houses of the community which are
i'll affiliated with France. and these
mprise such establishments as stin look
New Orleans as their American center.
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The emergency hospital which has been
nducted by the Consolidated road i'm
evidence. r. l., for the past nine years,
S been given up and the patients trans
rred to st. Josephs hospital A de-
rtment OF railway surgery has been 4
tablished at that institution !,