The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-12

scented the police force of that city
with $500, in recognition of it's effec
tive work during the Eucharistic Con
gress.
2 On October II, His Emminence Car.
dfnal Gibbons dedicated the new col
lege church at Mount st. Mary's, En-.
+ mitsburg. The fund for the new edi-
, flee were subscribed by the alumni OF
: the college and hundreds of former
graduates attended the dedication.
, Right Rev. Bishop Hartley has is
sued an order in conformity with the
decree recently issued by the Holy
Father, under which children of the
2 diocese will be prepared for Holy
Communion between the ages of 6
and I, instead of - and IS, as here
tofore.
Right on the heels of the Euchar-
|, istic Congress comes the announce
ment that Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
of Montreal has given $4,000 to
Notre Dame hospital of that city.
Rev. F. Tondorf, S. j., states that
the seismographicaI observatory at
Georgetown University frequently re-
ports earthquakes before the govern
ment weather bureau at Washington.
On the 18th inst. the Bishop of
| Providence dedicated in that city the
Church Of st. Ann. Amongst those
present were the mayor of Providence
and the governor of Rhode Island.
Official figures recently given out
| by the Russian minister of the in
terror show the loss of the Russian
! orthodox or state church during the
! period beginning May 80, 1905, and
ending January IA. 1909 According
! to his figures, Catholics gained 233,-
| 600 converts. of whom 16S,OOO live
in Poland. Protestants gained IA
! 800, mostly in the Baltic provinces;
Mohammedans are credited vSth a
gain of 5000 in the eastern dis
tricts and the remaining converts
are mostly scattered. 3,4OO going to
/ the Buddhist, 400 to the Jews and
$50 to Siberia falling back into pa
ganlSm. These figures have aroused
opposition to the Dumas policy of
avoiding coercion of Russian subjects
in religious. matters. but that oppo-
sition seems destined to failure.
A Catholic population of 81, 900 is
recorded for the diocese of Louisville
There are seventy-nine priests with
fifty-four resident churches, twenty
five missions and thirty-seven paroch-
ia schools. School children to the
number of 6,826 are recorded. of
whom 1864 live in Covington.
An official report from Berlin in re-
gard to the receipts and attendance at
the Passion Play at Oberammergau
during the season just ended shows
that $4,000 visitors attended the fif-
ty-nine performances. The net profits |
were $351,6OO.
The Benedictines of Buckfast. Eng |
land, are rebuilding a large part of |
the Cistercian monastery, destroyed at
the Reformation" A few weeks ago /
Sir Robert Harvey presented them
with a chime of fourteen bells
Advices from Lisbon via the Span
ish frontier. of date October Is, says
Most of the foreign newspaper cor
respondents here have been arrested
on suspicion of being monks. Even
private houses are invaded by the
priest hunters
Bishop Davis of Davenport has an
nounced the appointment of Rev. Pc
ter Stahl as the new pastor of Rich
mond, Ia. This parish has been in
charge of a newly ordained priest,
Rev. Richard Landers, since the death
of the pastor, Rev. Edward We'll,
some few months ago. Father StahI
has been pastor of Harlan for some
time and has done good and efficient
work in upbuilding the parish. Faith
er Stahl will take charge of his new
duties on November g.
The new $4,000 Catholic church at
Oelwein, Ia, is nHaring completion
md the pastor, Rev Father O'Connor.
expects to dedicate it this month.
which will also be the twentieth an 1
11versary of his pastorate In that l
ime he has built two new churches '
md $4,000 parochial school. which l
employs six teachers and has some
700 scholars. The new church is the q
inest in that part of the state.
The new Catholic church at Mo- l
fridge. S. D., was dedicated with i'm q
posing ceremonies on October 10, five L
PRIESTS participating in the exercises.
hey being Father Dahlmanns of 4
aberdeen. O'Hare of Ipswich. Krebs s
f Bowdle ScheIl of Herried and g
\rowsky, the latter coming from |
Wisconsin to assume charge of the
hurches at Selby and Mobridge "
A movement is on foot at Nebraska "
'ity to raise a suitable memorial to o
he late Father Emmanuel Hartig. o. Il
. B., who was pastor in that city for
early fifty years.
A good deed is never lost He who Il
ows courtesy reaps friendship, and 81
e who plans kindness gathers love. W
Three inhabitants of Riese, the ma G;
We town of Pope Plus Y, were re- e.
eived in special uditnce recently. a.
hey had the very great honor of cl
taking their confession to His Holt CT
ess and of receiving holy communion
his hands ri
In his confirmation sermon at the m
assion Monastery. Baltimore, His tv
Cardinal Gibbons said: sc
The recent Eucharistic Congress was al
lie greatest gathering of Catholics al