The Irish standard., 1909-11-20
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Rev. S. ]. Cassidy. formerly of the
Cathedral, st. Paul, who was recent
ly appointed temporary chaplain of st.
Mary's hospital at Rochester. Mimi,
was stricken with typhoid fever a
month ago, from which he is slowly
but surely recovering, owing to the
splendid medical treatment and tender
care of the Sisters of st. Francis.
Mrs. Bellamy Storer, a convert 70
Catholicity, has given $4,000 as con-
tribution to the endowment fund of the
Catholic university at Washington She
is the same lady upon whom Theodore
Roosevelt inflicted corporal punishment
(fgurately speaking) with his big
stick" because Of using his name with
out authority when her husband was
ambassador to European court.
There are more Irish in New York
than in Dublin, and yet T. P. O'Connor
got only $4,000 for the Home Rule
cause in that city. In Boston he re-
ceived $4,000. in Philadelphia $4,000.
and in Chicago he is promised $4,000.
What is the matter with Gotham and
its 100000 population? How does the
Irish World account for the apathy and
indifference manifested by the sons Of
Erin in the national metropolis?
The sutfragette, Theresa Garnett>
who used a whip on Winston Church.
hill, member of the British cabinet, last
week in Bristol, Eng, is now in prison
expiating for her unwarranted assault
on one of the most progressive states
men in the United Kingdom. His as
sailant is described as we'll dressed
woman who evidently moves in the
highest circles Of society. The Eng
fish women are starting the wrong
way to obtain the right to vote like
men. They must use other arguments
than horse whip If they expect par
Lament to grant female suffrage.
A verdict Of acquittal in the STEM
he'll murder case in Paris was render
ed last Sunday morning after a pro-
tracted and sensational trial during
which the judge acted as the prosecutor
of the defendant. Trial by jury in
France, judging from the report of the
Steinheil case, is similar to the old
state trials in Ireland which Lord
Denham pronounced to be "a mockery,
according to the Code Napoleon, any
one on trial is supposed to be guilty
until proved innocent. In the United
States, one is presumed to be innocent
until found guilty, and the Judge on
the bench only rules on points of law.
Raymond A. Patterson, the WASH
ington correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune, and who was quoted in our
last issue as saying that Mayor Gaynor
Of New York would probably be the
Democratic candidate for president in
1912, died last Saturday at his resi-
dence in Washington. He had estab-
lished reputation for accuracy of
news and was reliable as a correspond
ent Of the Tribune for 25 years. He
graduated from Yale with President
Taft, who acted as one of the honorary
pallbearers at his funeral. He was
brother of Robert w. Patterson, the
present editor-i chief of the Tribune,
and his death is deeply regretted by
the newspaper men Of the whole coun-
try.
1t is said that REV" Francis Schlat.
ter, the divine healer" who recently
passed in his checks, left a fortune of
100000, acquired by imposing on SIM
pie people who thought he possessed
supernatural powers and could cure
them Of bodily and mental infirmities.
The impostor was neither a minister
nor a doctor and had not a drop of
German blood in his veins, despite his
name, which was assumed. It il said
that he was an Irishman, perhaps from
Ulster, who had a few Scripture texts
and had the gift of CAB to make the
most of them. He preached an oily
kind of piety. got his audience inter-
ested and then healed" the sick among
them and managed to "heer' himself
financially at the same time. schlatter
was the prince of fakirs and eclipsed
all the other impositors in his line of
business. OF what avail is his ILL.,
gotten wealth to him now?