The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-29

York fire department. suffered a stroke
of psraIysis ON Oct. ,. 1t is expected
that he will be able to return to duty
in month or so.
It has been decided to begin at once
the work preliminary to the erection of
the new cathedral at st. Paul, Mimi.
Rev. w H. L. Reayney was elected
chaplain-in- chief OF the Spanish War
Veterans association at the annual
convention held inst. Louis. Father
Reaney was chaplain of the Olympia.
Admiral Dewey's ship, during the battle
of Manila bay, and is d son of Captain
Reaney of the United States lighthouse
service.
Father Bernard Vaughan of London
has been selected by commission of
cardinals sitting in Rome to preach in
that city on the occasion of the great
celebrations in connection with the jul
bilee of the definition of the dogma of
the immaculate conception, Dec. s.
ARRANGEMENTS are said to have been
made by the bishop of Cremona for
sending 100 Italian emigrant families
to the island of Cuba, where plans have
been made for their entering agficul-
tural pursuits. Count Pecci. the neph
ew of the late pope. is interested in the
scheme. His wife has large property
interests in the island
More than 100 clergyment gathered at
St. Johns ecclesiastical seminary. Bos-
ton. last week, to take part in the eX-
ercises connected with the unwilling of
a memorial to the late Able Hogan,
first president of the seminary. Arch
bishop Williams was present. The me-
mortal monument is gift of the alumni
of the seminary.
Tbe parish school of the Mission
Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help,
Roxbury, Mass, opened its fall session
with a rollcall by actual count of 1,9O1
pupils.
European exchanges are publishing
report that Archbishop Walsh of Dub
lin is to be made a cardinal.
So many Catholic peasants continue
to leave Brittany on account of the
persecution of religion there by the
French government that the minister
of the interior has sent Il circular to
ali the communities of that depart
ment urging the officials to stop the
exodus.
Here is a declaration that deserves
a little more than a weeks attention.,
says an English exchange one of the
speakers at the Catholic Truth So
Ciety's conference at Birmingham last
week said if all Catholics became total
abstainers for eight weeks and gave
IL u, tod ia t11n "a IN
Ole war chest they would not only
have the e1,OOOOO0 they wanted for
school work, but many thousands for
rescue and preventive work.
Lecturing in Dublin on Catholic
Government" Rev. Father Edwin, o.
S. F.. c.. B. A, L. Phi. Louvian, pointed
out that Germany with a population of
90 DOC. 900, has over 100000 Catholics.
and that the Catholic provinces of the
Rhine. WestphaIia and Silesia are pros
porous. while the Protestant provinces
are amongst the poorest of the empire.
The United States has been largely
built up by Irish Catholic brains and
blood. while England owed Magma
Charta to Catholics of the stamp OF
Stephen LangtOn. Primate of England
and cardinal of the Catholic church.
English laws were the product of the
Catholics, Alfred the Great and ST. Ed
ward the Confessor. Catholic Austria
is progressing. and still more Catholic
Belgium, while the Protestant countries
of Holland. Sweden and Norway are
descending to obscurity. Father Edwin
gave a detailed account of the extra
ordinary progress which Belgium has
made since the Catholic party came
into power twenty years ago.