The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-21
ARCHBISHOP OF
MILWAUKEE DIES
SAME DAY AS POPE
Rt. Rev. F. X. Katzer's Suffer.
ings End in a Sanitarium at
Fond du Lac = Schinner to
Administer Diocese.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, July 20.-The
RI. Rev. Frederick Xavier Katzer,
archbishop of the archdiocese of Mil
waukee. died at ST. Agnes sanitar1um
in this city tonight, after a lingering
illness. The cause was cancer OF the
liver, which had slowly been eating
his life away, until the archbishop had
been reduced to mere shadow. Al
the bedside when the final summons
came were Vicar General .F.Schinner,
Father Kerstan, the archbishops per
sonal attendants and physicians. The
archbishop had not partaken or 1ooo
since Friday last, and life had been
sustained by the injection of stimu-
lants.
Archbishop Katzer took a sudden
change for the worse Sunday, ana
Vicar General Schinner and other hlgn
church dignitaries were summoned
from Milwaukee to his bedside Two
Milwaukee physicians were also called
in to assist the local physicians.
During the day the patient had sew
eral violent vomiting spells, during
which large patches of clothed blood
were thrown up, indicating that the
cancer had entirely destroyed the
pancreas.
The archbishop was fully resigned.
He had given direction that his re-
mains be inferred by the side OF his
parents, in the little chapel In the
woods of ST. Francis, Milwaukee.
There is little doubt that Chancellor
Schinner will be administrator of the
diocese and in charge until successor
is chosen.
The Ri. Rev. Frederick Xavier Kat
ger. since Dec. 20, 1890, archbishop of
the archdiocese of Milwaukee, was
born en- Feb. Z 1874. in Ebense. Upper
Austria. Early in life he displayed
desire for learning and wish to be-
come a priest. He was sent to Linz
and studied under the direction OF the
Fathers of the Society of Jesus. max
ing a creditable record for schoiarsn1p.
He came to America in May, 1854. His
intention was to enter the Jesuit or
der but instead he completed his
studies at the Seminary of st. Francis,
in Milwaukee, and was ordained TO the
priesthood Dec. 81 1866. He then was
appointed professor of mathematlcs IN.
the seminary and subsequently pro-
fessor of theology and philosophy,
which position he filled acceptably and
ably until July. 1875. when he became
pastor of the cathedral at Green Bay
and secretary of Bishop Krautbauar.
After four years of labor in that ca
pacity, Father KatZer was appointed
vicar general of the diocese of Green
Bay. On the death of Bishop Kraut-
bauer, in December, 1885. ne became
administrator, and in May, 1885, bishop
of Green Bay, receiving the episcopal
conservation Sept. 81, 1885, -On the
death of Archbishop Haiss, OF. the Mil
waukee archdiocese. in December, 1900.
he was chosen to succeed him. He was
the third archbishop of Milwaukee, and
it fell to his lot to administer longer
than any other predecessor in office:
The body of the late Archbishop
Katzer will be taken to Milwaukee on
Wednesday, on the Wisconsin Central
train. leaving here at 4:25 o'clock in
the afternoon, and will lie in state at
ST. Johns cathedral until Friday. when
pontifical requiem mass will be held at
10 o'clock in the morning. Mgr. Fall
conf, apostolic delegate, will be in
vited to sing the mass, and Archbishop
Ryan, of Philadelphia, will be invited
to preach the funeral sermon.