The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-09

Request for the Josephinum.-The
Pontifical College at Columbus, O., will
receive a bequest of $4,000 from the
estate of Magdalena Balm, of Kenosha,
Wis. In addition to this Mrs. Balm
bequeathed $1,000 to the Catholic Or
phanage at St. Francis, Wis.
Miss Monroe a Catholic.-Miss Mon
roe. of Tacoma, Wash, a great-grand-
daughter of James Monroe, fifth Presi-
dent of the United States, has become
Catholic. The Monroes, for genera
tions, have been identified with the
Episcopal church.
Children's Day Home Dedicated.-
In San Francisco last month Arch
bishop Riordan dedicated Children's
Day Home, the gift of Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., of New York. 1t is
handsome three-story edifice.
ST. Charles College, MaryIand.-The
new ST. Charles College, near Cations
vile, Md, will be 16Ox64 feet. It's
right wing will be 144x144 feet; it's
left wing will be the Sisters house.
Total cost will approximate half
million dollars.
Irish Text Society for Chicago.-A
commendable effort is being made to
establish in Chicago sub-council of
the Irish Text Society, which has for
it's purpose the publication of import
ant works in Irish poetry and prose,
accompanied by English translations,
notes and glossaries.
Literary Editor Of Louisville Courier
journal a CathoIic.-The literary edi-
tor of the Louisville Courier Journal
is a devout Catholic, Anna Blanche
McGill whose name is familiar to the
current magazines as a writer of good
verse and equally good and also inter
esting fiction. She is social favorite
in the old southern city of Louisville
and~is noted for her philanthropy.
Father Chadwick to Bury Maine Vic
tims.-Very Rev. John P. Chadwick,
President of st. Joseph's Seminary,
Yonkers, N. Y, who was chaplain on
the battleship Maine when it was
blown up, has been selected as men,
Der of the honorary escort for trans
porting the bodies recently taken from
the wreck to Arlington Cemetery.
Father Chadwick oficiated at the
funerals of the victims recovered in
1898,
Pittsburgh's Deaf Mute institute
Statistics just published indicate that
the De Paul Institute for Deaf Mutes,
Brookline, Pittsburgh, Pa, ranks
fourth among all the private schools
for the deaf in the entire United
States.
Large Requests for Catholic Objects.
BY Mr.. Eugene Kelly's will $235,0O0
was devised to st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral; $4,000 to the St. Vincent de
Paul Society; $4,000 to st. Vincent's
Hospital, New York; $4,000 to his
Alma Mater, Stonyhurst College, Eng
land, to found a scholarship; $4,000
to the Propagation of the Faith; $4,000
to the Noyitiate of St. Andrew on the
Hudson; and $4,000 to a church at
Geneva, N. Y.
For Cleaner Mexican PoIitics.-The
Catholic societies of the City of Mexi-
CO are protesting against the use of
sacred subjects in political caricatures
The Mexican Herald, edited by a New
England Protestant, heartily COM
mends the Catholic societies in this,
and joins them in their attack upon a
feature of Mexican journalism which
even the yellowest of our American
yellows are happily without. The Of
tense is an old one in Mexico.
Aged Nun Dies.-Sister M. Josephine
Raphel, one of the oldest nuns at the
convent in Frederick, Md, died Feb.
ruary rs, after lingering illness at
the age of seventy-two years. She
was formerly Miss Mamie Raphel,
daughter of Stephen Raphel, Of Balti.
more county. She entered the con
vent fifty-eight years ago at the age
of seventeen and two years later took
the black veil. Two years ago she
celebrated her golden jubilee as nun
First Priest From Parish.-The con
gregation of the Holy Family Church
at Cahokia, ILL.,, is nearly two hundred
years old. For the first time in that
long period it has given a SON to the
Priesthood i'm Rev. William G. from
bley, who has just finished his studies
in Innsbruck, and was ordained priest
on the goth of February.
Proposed orphanage and industrial
SchooI.-Plans are being prepared un
der the direction of Bishop Nicer
schaert for an orphanage and indus
trial school for Oklahoma City, Okla
The total cost of the buildings to b.