The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-20

church 100 years ago and was transferred from
there TO Charlottestowllso the ice in March 1861
1t measures 60x36 feet, and was hauled by 100
! horses.
ThesIate Bishop Moore Of Baarat Australia,
was deeply mourned by 1ion-Catholics. Protestant
clergymen and prominent officials attended the tu-
neral and the local Jewish congregation adopted APP
propriate resolutions. AT the funeral of Father
Cunningham of Launcestol, Australia were pres
ent a somewhat similar assenlblage.
Rev Fathers Digman of Rosebud and Linden-
ner of Pine Ridge, two missionaries who have been
working among the Sioux Indians for the past
twenty-five years, we're both expelled from Germany
at the time the Jesuts were ordered out of that
country.
Rev p A. O'Rielly, pastor of ST. Pauls church,
Birmingham Ala, and chaplain of the Third regi-
ment of the state militia, who died as a result of
fall from his horse while brigade encampment,
was a popular citizen. The funeral procession was
a mile long and business was suspended i'll the city
during the services mass meeting held there
raised over $1,000 i'll twenty minutes for monu-
ment upon which it is proposed to spend $1,000
At the conservation services of Armagh cathe
dral the collection amounted to f6,000-a magniti
cent example of Irish faith backed up by substantial
works.
His grace Of San Francisco Most Rev Arch
bishop Montgomery. dedicated the new Home for
the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor Wednes
day, Aug TO- to the honor of God under the patron
age of st. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin
Over score of priests and nearly 1000 laymen and
women attended the services.
"The woman question" in church chors does
not exist in the ecclesiastical province of Cologne.
The great provincial council, held in Cologne in
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choirs, which law was at once carried into execu-
ton throughout the province.
George II. Conley, the new superintendent of
Boston's public schools, is a Catholic, and gradu-
ate of Holy Cross College Worcester At this
years commencement he received the degree of
doctor of laws from his alma mater, Mr.. Conkey is
50 years old and has had years of experience in ed
cational work.
What promises to be one of the most interesting
conventions held during the progress of the Worlds
Fair is that of the ST Vincent de Paul society, the
largest Catholic charitable organization in the
world, which is arranging to hold an international
convention next September in st. Louis.
Thursday, the 18th day of August, is an event
full one in our diocese says the Record of Louis
vile. 1t is the golden jubilee day. or iftieth ami
versary of the founding of the American province
of the congregation of the Xavierian Brothers. Eff
ty years ago the first colony of these humble teach
ing religious arrived in Louisville from Belgium.
The Annals of the Propagation of the Faith
just hand states that the receipts of the society
for the year 1903 were $l,247421. This is a de
crease of $721S7, as compared with the amount
given in the previous year Crippled France CON
tributed $70,61 or little less than one-half the to-
tai amount donated by the Catholic world From
the United States trifc over 500 800 was received.
Minneapolis is not tobc outdone By the cathe
dral builders Of St. Paul. who contemplate erecting
one at cost of $f000,000. The Immaculate Con
cepton parish of the former city has pledged $780,
600 toward erecting proeathedral which is to cost
100000.
Mgr. Falconio, the apostolic delegate, has re-
reived brief from Rome appointing the Rev. j. B.
Delaney as bishop of Manchester, n. H. Tie sue
ceeds Bishop Bradley, WHO died Some months ago
Father Delaney was born-in Lowell, Mass, 80 years
ago. He was, graduated from Boston college and
from the seminary of st. Sulpice at Paris. His
pastoral life has been spent entirely in New Hamp
shire:
Rev. Mother NJ. Veronica who recently died.
was mother superior general of the Sisters of the
Divine Compassion. Her death occurred in the
convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel, at White
Plains, N. Y. the mother house of the order. She
sc years old Before entering the religious life
she was widely interested i'll the charitable work III
New York, and in 1870 with other wcllknown Cath
Ole women, founded the Association for Befriend-
ing Children and Young Girls.