The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

! mate observed his SEVENTEEN birthday.
Dom Gasquet. the well known historian and
scholar will come to this country next month. He
is to lecture in the ecclesiastical seminary in St.
| Paul the University of Notre Dame and st. Narys
academy, Notre Dame, Ind
When Sir Henri Taschereau presented himself
to the king the other day to take the oath privy
councillor, he informed that there was special
form for him as Catholic
The employment of women as compositors is not,
! as many suppose. modern innovation. Within
half century after the invention of printing nuns
were busy setting type at the Ripoli monastery
press, III Florence.
Pledged to fight vice and immortality in Scran-
ton, Pa, federation of the Catholic societies of
that city has been formed with a membership of
5000 Right Rev. Bishop Hoban is the moving
spirit of the society
Among numerous old Instruments to be seen at
the Music Loan exhibition in London this month
was cello presented by Pope Plus to Charles
TX of France Which reminds us that an auto
graph letter of this same sainted Pontif is pre-
served at ST Augustine, Fla.
The will of the late Mrs. Gillow of Holdbrooke
House, Hereford, England, leavese the bulk of an
estate valued at 100000 for the purposes of educa
ton and charity, the principal benefciares being
the Blind asylum, Boys Home, Girls Orphanage
and Good Shepherd converts in the diocese of Liv-
erpool.
The signal honor conferred by King Edward
Admiral Lord Walter Kerr by appointing him
additional admiral of the feet. sin recognition of
the great value to the navy of his fifty years of ma
val service" will be matter of congratulation to
all Catholics. Apart from the manner of the pro-
motion" says an English paper. eve believe him to
be the only Catholic who has held that highest rank
in the navy"
4 committee of ladies has been formed in New
Orleans with the object of preparing and present
ing to Pope Plus X pair of sandals, richly
adorned with precious stones, to be by His
Holiness at the pontifical mass he is to celebrate
the jubilee anniversary of the proclamation of
the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Archbishop Keane Of Dubuque refuses to sell
valuable plot of ground of which he is trustee to
that city, to parties who wish to erect department.
store Oh it. because in his opinion the department
store is injury to any town of Dubuque's size
of less size. The Sioux City Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION noting the bishops attitude held meet
ing, passed resolutions of thanks and appointed
committee to forward the same to him.
Cardinals composing the commission appointed
10 codify the law held a meeting in the vati
can a few days ago. in the presence Of the pope.
Contrary to hopes and expectations. the work pro-
ceeds very slowly and it is prophesed here that it
will not be concluded during the reign of the pres
ent Pope Much time is taken up by the fact that
church laws which are not adapted to present times
cannot be absolutely rejected without long study
and discussion by the commissioners.
Georgetown university celebrates double jui-
lee this year One is the hundredth anniversary Of
the restoration of the Society of Jesus which began
It's new life in Georgetown college in 1904. Tic
o4I,o, of+ 81 H.,
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. It was under this title that the College So
daty was founded toward the beginning of the
past century.
What promises to be one of the most interesting
conventions held during the progress of the Woriia
fair is that of the ST. Vincent de Paul society. the
largest Catholic charitable organization in the
world, which is arranging to hold interna ticnal
convention next September in St Louis. This will
be the first gathering of the society since the
held in Washington, D. c., sixteen years ago The
assembly Will bring together representatives Of the
society from all parts of the world.
Rev. C. O'Byrne pastor of ST Nicholas church.
Buffalo, celebrated the twenty-ffth anniversary If
his ordination to the priesthood on the 9th ult.
The event was fttingly honored by his brother
priests in the diocese of Buffalo, and deserved hon
also to him from many other places in the
United States and Canada
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A massive monument OF Barry granite has been
erected TO mark the resting places of the late Arch
bishop Katzer and his father and mother in the lit
tie cemetery at st. Francis seminary. Milwaukee.
The monument was erected by the archbshop's es-
tate. 1t is cut from solid block of granite, is
twelve feet high and weighs about egh. tons.
Monsignor Falconio will return TO his post IN
Washington; he is even now on the or ran bound
for this country. But it is very likely that he VIII
be transferred to Manila. position of greater i'm
portance, made vacant by the recent death of Mon
signor Guidi.
With its receipts of last year (including $1O3-
600 from the diocesan colections), the Catholic |
has paid up all its deficits and floating
Indebtedness of two years standing. Its funded
debt is only 100000.
The Pope assisted at solemn mass in ST. Pc
ters Saturday morning, July so, the anniversary of
the death of Leo NH. The ambassadors and min
isters the cardinals and about 5000 other persons
were present. Cardinal Aglard oficiated. The
Pope blessed the catafalque and said short prayer
before the provisional tomb of Pope Leo. afterward
to his apartments in the vatican.
new encyclical of Plus is announced 1t is