The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-10-21
AMERICAN NEWS.

Teachers for the Phiippines.-Men
teachers are wanted for tho Philip
pine Islands by the Civil Service Com
mission at salaries ranging from
81 200 to $4,000. The school year is
from June to March. Examinations
will take place at Washington Dec.
9th and 28th.
Carmelte Nuns for Davenport
Davenport is to have q community OF
the Carmelite Nuns, which is con-
templative order. Cardinal Gibbons
has arranged with Bishop Davis for
the nuns to come to that city. Bishop
Davis has extended to them the use
of the house and property at 1905
Brady Street, adjoining the episcopal
residence The house is being re-
modelled and part of the grounds have
been enclosed with fence to provide
the privacy which the rules of the
Order demands.
New Academy Dedicated. = Arch
bishop Keane of Dubuque, Iowa,
blessed and dedicated on October 4
the handsome new Mt St. Clare
Academy, Clinton, Ia, erected by the
Franciscan Sisters, who formerly con-
Quoted an academy at Shelbyville, in
the Diocese of Louisville. =
Canadian Minister of Justice
CathoIic.-Hon. c. J. Doherty, Minis
ter of Justice for Canada, was born at
Montreal on the 18th day of May,
1855 He was educated at ST. Mary's
College and McGill University. He
was admitted to the bar in 1877 and
appointed Judge of the Superior Court
ten years later, He served as cap
tain in the 65th Battalion through
the Northwest rebellion. He is Pro-
lessor of Civil and International Law
in McGill University, and he resigned
his seat on the bench in order to
stand for Parliament
Brother buttons Work.-Major Jo-
seph Dutton (Brother Dutton) has
spent a quarter Of century on the
island of Molokai among the lepers of
that place. In all that time he has
never left his ocean-Washed home
and it is said that only once in all
these years was he seen to slowly
climb the side of the towering noun
tain behind the leper settlement. He
sat down and looked far across the
waters, after which he slowly came
down the mountain side, returning to
his work. The lepers have often won
dered what were his thoughts that
day. Was he just taking a last look
toward the land of his birth and love?
Philippine Bishop Returns.-Right
Rev James j. Carroll D. D., Bishop of
Nueva Segovia, in the Philippine
Islands, arrived in Philadelphia last
week and is the guest of Archbishop
Prendergast. He sailed from Manila
to San Francisco and was detained
in Chicago about six days, undergoing
treatment in a hospital Five months
ago, while on tour of his Diocese
on horseback, his horse took fright
and fearing to be thrown, he endeav-
ored to alight, but fell and broke his
thigh He spent one month in hos
pital in Manila
New Ursuine Convent.-The new
Convent of the UrsuliRe Sisters of
New Orleans, where the first house of
the Order in the United States was
established, will be a splendid series
of buildings, costing about $500, 900.
Officers of w. c. o. r. elected
At the recent convention of the
Women's Catholic Order of Foresters
the following officers were elected by
large majority: H. c. R., Mrs. Rose
D. Rittman; V. H. G. R., Miss Annie
y. Daily; H. S., Miss Helen T. Kelly;
H. T., Miss Margaret H. Dreatrick.
High Trustees-Mrs Anna r. Cannon,
Mrs. Mary A. Quirk, Milwaukee, Wis;
Mrs. Anna Korzeniewski, Mrs. Mar
garet FLIP, Miss Catherine Goggin,
Mrs. Margaret Galway, Detroit,
Mich; Mrs Josephine Desmarais,
Richmond, Canada. High Auditors
Miss Mary E. Brennan, Miss Anna
nGSuSI, ndLAO1AnS L AA1A1pS high
Medical Examiner-Dr. Anna Dwyer.
Valuable Library Destroyed
serious blaze, caused by an over
heated fireplace, badly Quilted two
rooms and destroyed the valuable Ii
brary in Father Arthur Clark's bun
galow at Mount Carmel, Dubuque, Ia,
recently. The priest himself had a
narrow escape from death, being
alone and asleep in the home when
the cracking of the flames and the
glare of the blaze awakened him. The
damage to the bungalow proper will
slightly exceed $500, although the
home is well covered by insurance
Father Clark's loss in respect to the
many valuable records and volumes
is irreparable.
Dedica%ion Of New ChaneI.-The