The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-12-16
AMERICAN NEWS.

late Rev. Augustine TOitOn, the nFst
colored priest ordained for the United
States, died the other day at her home
in Chicago, at the age OF eighty-hVe
years. Mrs. Tolton was born a slave
in Kentucky, and was taken to Han
nfbal, Mo-, where she married Peter
Tolton, also a slave. The lotions
removed to Quincy, ILL.,. in 1861.
Augustine attended st. Peters School
and the local Franciscan College. BY
the assistance of the pastor OF St.
Peters, Father McGirr, and the Fran
ciscans, he was sent to Rome ABOUT
1880, where he entered the famed
Propaganda College. Ordained priest
he returned to Quincy in 1887. On
November %, 1889, he took charge OF
the Colored Catholics of Chicago, hold
ing his first services for them in ST.
Marys Church. Through the dona-
ton of $4,000 from a Mrs. Anne
O'Neill, he was enabled to erect st.
Monica's Church, in Dearborn Street,
of which he was pastor until his death
from sunstroke, on July 9, 1897.
Father curran's Athletic cIub.-Rev.
7. J. Curran, rector of Holy Saviour
parish, Wilkesbarre, Pa, with the aid
of Rev. Matthew P. Boland, his first
assistant, has organized an athletic
club among the young men OF the
parish, starting with membership
of one hundred. The purpose or the
organization Ia to improve social con-
ditions for the young men. The lawn
on Worrell Street adjoining the pas
toral residence will be used as an out
door gymnasium.
Monsianor Day Honored.-In honor
of Monsignor Victor Day of the Cathe-
dral, Helena, Montana, reception was
given some time ago preceding his
departure for his old home in Bruges.
Belgium. Former Mayor r. r. Pur-
cell acted as chairman and addresses
we're made by number of those pres
ent, and fine musical program given.
A purse of $4,000 was presented Mon
signor Day for the expenses OF his
trip, the presentation being made by
the Rev. Father Carroll. Monsignor
Day has been connected with the
Cathedral parish since 1893, and has
been in charge of the parish since
1894, succeeding the Rev. Father Pal
ladino, the pioneer Montana priest.
A Newspaper In Shorthand.-In Brit
IT, q
paper, the Kamloops Wawa, circulat-
ing among several tribes of North
American Indians. The unique feature
Of this journal Is that it is printed in
shorthand. Some years ago the Rev.
J. NJ. LIE June, a Breton missionary,
arrived in British Columbia to take
charge of territory some fifty miles
square. He found the great obstacle
to his work to be the absence of any
means of written communication, as
the natives had no written language
of their own. His repeated efforts to
nary methods failed entirely. The
missionary was acquainted with the
simple French Duployan shorthand
and then conceived the novel idea OF
teaching the Indians to write their
own language Theoretically by means
of the shorthand characters. He
adapted the stenographic signs to the
Chinook language, and the experiment
proved a complete success. There are
today three thousand Indians able tt
write and read their own language by
no other means than shorthand
"Wawa" means talk" in the Chinook
hence the title of the little newspaper
which has been the natural outcome
of the missionary's undertaking.
Death of Madame Bonaparte.-
Madame Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
widow of grandson of Jerome Bona
parte, brother of the first Napoleon
and granddaughter of Daniel Webster
died at her home in Washington, D
c., recently. She was seventy-twt
years old and was born in Boston, hel
maiden name being Caroline Leroy Ap
pleton. Nine Bonapartes mother was
a daughter of Daniel Webster.
Rector of New Orleans Cathedral
Archbishop Blenk has appointed thu
Very Rev. Canon Peter Scott, recto
of the St. Louis Cathedral, to take thu
place Of the Right Rev. J. M. Laval
who will assume charge of the Parish
of st. Vincent de Paul. Canon Scott
was born September 9, 1870, in Poz
zolo, in the Diocese of Cortona, Italy
and was ordained to the holy priest
hood June 8, 1895. He arrived il
New Orleans October IL, 1895, and wa
assigned to the position of assistan
priest at the st. Louis Cathedral. Il
1899 he was transferred to st. Mary
Church as Secretary and Assistan
Chancellor of the Diocese; and in 100
he was made Chancellor of the Die
cese and rector of st. Mary's Church
In 1903 he was named Canon of tn
st. Louis Cathedral. Canon Scott vii
continue to be the Chancellor of tn