The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-04-20
AMERICAN NEWS.

Fathers of Holland have charge OF the
missions of Borneo; there are Ia
priests and lay-brothers.
Canadian Catholic Judge.-Charles
J. Sutherland, Barrister, of Meaford,
Ont, has been appointed to the county
court bench as successor to Judge
Holton, of Grey county. The new
Judge is a Catholic as was the late one.
New Sisterhood in Columbus Do
cese.-The Bishop of Columbus an
nounced the arrival in his diocese OF
a community of Sisters. whose work
will exclusively be the nursing of the
sick poor in their homes, and visiting
the needy and helpless.
Father Chadwick Officiates at Grave.
On March the End, Very Rev. John
P. Chadwick, President of st. Joseph's
Theological Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.
Y, and chaplain of the Maine at the
time is was sunk in the harbor of Ha-
vana, performed the last rites over the
bodies of the victims recovered from
the wreck. Father Chadwick accom-
panied the bodies from Cuba to Wash
ington, where the public funeral SER
vices were held.
Catholic Women Form Federation.-
The Catholic women of st. Tammany
Oh houn nroonizn6
society to work in conjunction with
the Catholic Federation. The first
meeting of the Board of Managers of
the new organization was held few
days ago at Vaudeville, La, all the
pastors of the parish together with the
Rt. Rev. Abbot Paul, o. S. B., of ST.
Benedict, La, being present. At the
state convention of the Federation of
Catholic Societies, April "a, state
federation of Catholic women will be
inaugurated, and at the national con-
vention in Louisville, KY, next sum-
mer, final steps for the organization of
a National Federation of Catholic
women will be taken.
Large Request to the Poor.-The
will of Henry A. Harmon, of Detroit,
a non-Catholic, filed for probate, leaves
$500 each to the Protestant Orphan
Asylus, st. Vincent Orphan Asylum,
Home of the Friendless, House of
Providence, Woman's Hospital, Home
of Art. Father Van Dyke is to get $500
Hospital, the S. P. G. c., United Jew
ish Charities and the Detroit Museum
to be distributed in charity as he sees
fit, and the decedent's clothing and
room furniture go to the Little Sisters
of the Poor.
Addition to Baltimore Industrial
SchooI.-That great Industrial School,
st. Mary's of Baltimore, in charge of
the Xaverian Brothers is to have a
100000 tower, 120 feet high, with a
great clock, of four dials feet in
diameter each, with two 1000 pound
bells and an 800 pound-quarter bell,
which will ring the Angelus automati-
cally, and the De Profundis at 8
o'clock at night The tower will be
S5x20 feet, have reception-room,
double stairway leading to Office and
other rooms, and be surmounted by a
flag-pole of steel As feet high, capped
by copper-gold plated, foot cross
Celtic Studies at Illinois University.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians of
Illinois may install in the library of
the University of Illinois a collection
of Celtic literature and manuscripts
at the suggestions of Edmund J.
James, President of the University
Recently the university established in
it's curriculum a course in the Celtic
language, one of the few in the United
States.
Cardinal Appoints Marist Chaplain.
Cardinal O'Connell has appointed
the Rev. Henri de la Chapelle, s. NJ
chaplain-general of the New England
Brigade of the Franco-American vol
unteers.
To Safeguard Catholic Riehts.-His
Honor Justice Beck of the Supreme
Court of Alberta Western Canada, is
the chief figure in movement recent
ly started for the purpose of safeguard
ing Catholic rights and directing Cath
Ole interests in Alberta. There will
be central bureau at Edmonton with
a paid secretary in charge.
requests for Catholic Purposes.-A
legacy of $4,000 is left to Mgr. Henry
A. Brann, rector Of st. Agnes Church,
New York, in the will of Mrs. Mary
L. Lawrence, filed recently. Mrs. Law.
renee was the widow of Brian Law
renee, merchant, and Henry A.
Brann, cousin of the clergyman who
filed the will, said that the estate
amounts to over 100000. Other be-
quests are: Catholic Protectory, $780,
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