The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

New YOrk.-Aside from the three
princes of the Catholic Church who
| will participate in the consecratior
| ceremonies of st. Patrick's cathedra
in New York on October 5, Arch
bishop Diomedo Falconio, apostolic
delegate and hoste Of chbiShops
and bishops from abroad and this
country will attend. Fifty-four have
already accepted the invitation OF
Archbishop Farley. Every archbish-
op and bishop in this country has been
invited.
Mgr Falconio will be the celebrant
of colemn pontifical vespers. Car
| dinal Vannutelli. of Rome, and Cardin-
al Logue, of Ireland, will be present
at the solmn pontifical mass in the
morning, at which the celebrant will
| be Cardinal Gibbans.
After the mass there will be a din
ner at Cathedral college, Madison ave-
nue. and Fifty-first street, for all the
clery. The programme also includes
| a requiem mass for all the priests of
the diocese who have died in the last
one hundred years and children's
service. The time for these and for
the reception at the Catholic club to
the three cardinals has not yet been
fixed.
Washington.-The national confer
ence of the Catholic Charities, the
purpose of which is to promote the
aims of the Catholic church in the field
of charities, was inaugurated here
Sunday. in the presence of Cardinal
Gibbons, Mgr. Falconi. Apostolic del
egate, archbishops, bishops and near
ly 500 daymen and clerygmen.
Cardinal Gibbons, honorary presi-
dent of the conference, was the central
at the public meeting held at night
which brought to close the oay
series of impressive ceremonies.
The Cardinal said that much good
would come from the work of the
conference for he believed that or
ganized charity ranked above all 9TH
ers in effectiveness.
Right Rev. Monsignor Shannon ont
lined the practical mission of the con-
ference as follows
ITO bring about exchange of views
among experienced Catholics active in
charity work; to collect and publish
information concerning Catholic char
tiles: to bring to expression a general
policy toward distinctive modern
questions: to encourage further level- |
opment of a literature in which re-
ligious and social ideas of charity shall
find dignlfied expression.
Sounding the keynote of the con-
ference in a sermon of the Catholic |
University Of American Archbishop |
BIenk of New Orleans arraigned the |
oppression of the poor.
There is in this fair land of ours |
as in others said Archbishop Blenk,
"many a field of blood, where men,
women, and children are but beasts
of burden with scarcely a semhlance
left of dignity of intelligent and free
human beings. The unfortunate vic
Tins of a suulless greed, they are driv-
EN- to dispair or to the most heart
rending degration. The Gcd of justice
finally condemns and probates of
vicious SYSTEM of work aud unjust
ssytem OF pay which are responsible
-or sugh in;uInar and iniG;li' JUS con-
1ition.
The oppressed. he added, look with
bitter and deep-seated Fatred on their
oppressors and store up in mernory,
he wanton provocations of the vulgar
flauting of hoared wealth.
Four these evils, the preacher found
cure of the true brotherhood of man
and in the substitution of .he love of
God for the inordinate love Of self.
Deadwood, s. D.-The firing of
,last at the 300-foot level of the
Jomestake mine at Lead. S. D., start
d a cave-in which continued to the
urface, making a hole in the heart
# the city fifteen feet wide and forty
eet long. When the dust had cleared
way, the Bertolero borading house
vas seen hanging over the edge of the
revasse, and the Campbell hotels
ack steps led into it.
Fright among the residents of Lead,
lost of whom live above similar cav
rms, was allayed somewhat by assur-
nee from the mining officials that
here was no danger of further cav ,
lg. :
The Homestake had hundreds Of ,
liles of tunnels under the city, and
ne slopes form immense caverns :
eaching, in the upper levels. well to- .
ard the surface.
Washington-Ther was falling i
IF in 1903 in fatalities on account of v
rip, amounting to almost one-third r
hen compared with the figures for t
90S, according to the census bureaus Il
lortality report In the area covered. Y