The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-13
CURES AT HOLY HILL
Ex-senator Herman Kraeger Says
He Knows Personally Of Sew
eral Made There.
Many Catholics Dispute Recent As
sertions of Father keenan,
Of Fond du Lac.
Special to The Journal

Special to The journal.
Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 13.-The attack
on the authenticity of the Holy hill mir
acles, which the Rev ]. J. Keenan, of
Fond du Lac has made, has caused some
thing of a commotion among Roman
Catholics who have faith in the efficacy
of pilgrimages to that point. While it
is generally known that the church does
not acknowledge the miraculous charac-
ter of the cures that are alleged to have
been effected, many members OF the
church concede to the locality some of
the qualities of shrine.
This is shown by the fact that the pill
grimage scheduled for Saturday, the
church festival of the Assumption of the
virgin, will bring to the hill hundreds
of pilgrims. Former State Senator Her
man Kraeger, who has taken keen in
terest for years in Holy hill, said:
THE church has not indorsed the mir
acles at Holy hill, because 1T has not felt
warranted in making investigation unless
more decided proof is presented, yet IL
is folly to discard the evidences that are
known. The church did not indorse the
miracles at Lourdes until the miracles
there were investigated
Cites TWO Cases.
IT know some facts about Holy hill and
was, I think, in 1891 or 1892. l went out
with about $50 from this city. In the
party was a woman with child who
was suffering with a scrofulous sickness
of the knee: Before they entered the
church the child asked her mother what
form of prayer to use, and was told TO
pray, Mary, mother, help me-. Inc al :
fected knee was not examined That night
but next morning when the little one
tot. oil a
| time it was found that the sore knee was
healed, only red mark showing Where
! the sore had BEEN The knee has stalo
healed and the child walks as we'll as II
| she had never been lame
| Another case was my brothers daugh'
ter who was afflicted with sore eyes Sc
badly that she could not study. she wen
to the hill. Father thinner, the rector
told her to lay her spectacles on the win
| dow and leave them there. lie knel
down and prayed with her and her sign
has been completely restored. she ma
been able to do fine: needle work.
Few people go to the hill for the pur
pose Of receiving physical cures or TO SCI
others cured" said Rev. Father Bertran'
"They go out of generation OF the Vlr
gin, to whom the church is dedicated
to fulfill a vow to make the plgrlmag
taken in the time Of sorrow or trouble
there are more often spiritual than phys
, ical cures" .-.....' H.
Honest saloonkeeper Is Dead.
"Judg" Showles the honest saloonkeep
err, is dead of heart failure.
ShowIes had been in the liquor pus
mess in Milwaukee for more than thlrt
years, and had established the reputa
ton Of conducting saloon in the mos
; upright manner it is possible to run sue
| a place and stay in the business. -....
He was a man of remarkable appear
ance, well educated, a Mason OF hlgn ue
gree and we'll informed on topics OF TN
day He never sold a mixed drink oe
clined to sell more than three drinks L
a man, and If he knew a mans famll
suffered because he frequented ms pace
no price could bug drink
''No beer for youy my friend ne "oui
saw. Take your money home to YOU
family. I do not want it, they need IT,
And he adhered toJthis rule.
onIv About one-HaIf in School.
1 A report Of the school census was, pre-
scented to the board of education Las
night by Secretary Legler. The mos
interesting feature of the count IS tn
fact that Milwaukee has about lO4, O'
children of school age and only, 59,5s
are attending public or parochial school
The increase over last year is 100.
According to Mr.. Legler's figuring TT
, present population of Milwaukee is
little over $4,000. He uses three as TT
multiple. Mr.. Wright, the director
, man. figures from the number OF name
in the directory that the population
1923, 600.