The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-09-03

will make St. Patrick's square the handsomest in
the city of Washington, D. G.
Judge John W. Corcoran, of Clinton. Mass,
who died the other day, the first Catholic to
sit on the bench of the Massachusetts superior
court.
A corporation of prominent Catholic gentle
men, with Bishop Conaty at the head, has been
formed in Los Angeles for the purpose of publish
ing Catholic weekly paper i'll that town.
Rev Father Mcdowell who, as representative
of Bishop Christie, opened the mining congress at
Portland with prayer, was also the last speaker
With a short benediction he closed the session.
Blue and White is the mare of a monthly
magazine soon to be issued by the students of
Sacred Heart college, San Francisco. The Journal
will consist of thrty-twoz pages and will contain
articles by undergraduates and the alumni
Chief Charging Bear made speech at the
convention of the Federation of Catholic Societies
held in Detroit recently. Among other things he
said: Il thought Heaven had come down to earth
when was in church this morning
In the tornado which has swept Sorrento Italy,
the cathedral and monastery of San Psoh almost
fell TO the ground One house gave way, burylng
three persons beneath the ruins. The town pre-
sents Il spectacle of greatest desolation.
As postgraduate school, the Catholic univer-
sity at Washington is larger than the Johns Hop
kins university. According. TO Dr. Egan, who was
interviewed by The Milwaukee Sentinel last Sun
day there is now an enrolment of 175 i'll the post
graduate course of the Catholic university.
Honolulu is to be enriched with handsome
Catholic cathedral the gift of a German planter
of the islands who is generous as he Is opulent.
The cost of the structure Is said to be liked at
$15o,000. 1t will be a welcome addition to the
Catholic church property of the Hawaiian metro
polls.
The National Child Labor committee, formed to
"help create healthy public sentiment i'll favor of
giving every child the best possible chance to make
the most of It's life" and to cooperate for the
regulation of the employment. of ehldren<in gain
full occupations, includes the names of Cardinal
Gibbons, ex-President Cleveland, Senator Iillman,
Bishop Greer and host of notabilitics.
There is sorrow among the veterans who
pensioners of the Hotel DIES Invaides, Paris Since
the foundation of the lnvalides by Louis NV nuns
have acted as nurses to the veterans. but the other
day the nuns had to depart to be replaced by lay
nurses. Some of the nuns of the Invalides had
been in the place for number of years and were
we'll known figures especially Sister st. Angelique,
who had nursed in the Invaldes for sixty-fvc
years.
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,Jolictte the leading town OF the new diocese
recently organized in the ecclesiastical province of
Montreal, was the scene Of two-fod celebration,
civic and religious in which the apostolic delegate,
prelates from various dioceses in Canada and the
United States, the clergy from large number of
parishes in this province and the laity from the
surrounding country districts and from Quebec
Montreal and other cities. took part. The occasion
was public reception by the laitv to the new
Bishop, Mgr. Archambault, and his conservation in
the cathedral On the arrival of the train at the
station it is estimated that more than 10000 peo-
pie were gathered in and around the vicinity.