The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-08-10
AMERICAN NEWS.

Father DempSeyS Hotei-Fa tner
Dempsey's Hotel for Working Women
in St. Louis has 300 girls on it's reg
lister for the past year. Room rental
is from 70 cents to $3.50 week and
meals at from to Is cents.
Memorial for John Culinary Shea
A memorial tablet to DR.. John Gil
mary Shea, historian of the Church in
the United States, will be erected at
the Cathedral of Newark, N. j., on
October 18th. The University of
Notre Dame possesses his library.
German Sisters for Humbolt.-Eight
Sisters of the Order of st. Elizabeth,
from Germany, who are to have charge
at an hospital near Humboldt, Sask.,
Can, arrived in Winnipeg recently
and went to St. Joseph's rectory. This
gave rise to the rumor that the Ursu-
lines who are to teach in st. Joseph's
school had arrived. The latter, how
ever are not due until the end of
August.
Trinity College Honors Ex-Mayor
Guerin.-Trinity College, Dublin, has
conferred the honorary degree of LII.
D., on ex-Mayor Guerin of Montreal,
who went to Dublin as the delegate
of Laval University at the two hun
dredth university of the foundation
of the medical college of Trinity, and
also to represent Laval at the con-
vention of all the universities of the
British Empire to be held in London.
Chosen Library Trustee.-At a
joint meeting of the Board of Select
tees of the Public Library, held re-
Gently, Rev. Thomas F. McManus,
pastor of st. Lawrence's Church, was,
by a unanimous vote, elected trus-
tee of the Library. The late Rev.
Lawrence Morris, pastor of st. Mary S
Church, was a member of the school
committee.
New Home for Bishop Burke.-After
January 1st, Right Rev. M. F. Burke,
Bishop of the Diocese of st. Joseph,
will occupy the home formerly that
of G. D. Smith, as the Episcopal resi-
dence, that property having been pur-
chased few days ago by the Bishop
with the intention of having it some
what remodeled and changed so as to
serve the purpose for which he in
tends it.
New Officers of Ladies' Auxiliary, A.
o. 1.-THE Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Ancient Order of Hibernians in nation
al convention in Chicago recently
elected these officers: President, Mrs.
Ellen Ryan Jolly, of Pawtucket, R. l.;
Vice President, Miss B. A. Mahoney,
of Calumet, Mich; Secretary, Mrs.
Adelia Archer, of Columbus, Ohio;
Treasurer, Mrs. c. Connolly, of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
Town.-Among the officers who sent
in their designations from the French
army, says America, when it was Or
dered to turn the nuns out of their
converts, and generally to use force
of arms to drive from their country
these poor women, who had done SO
much good, was M. Trochu, whose
father was the famous defender OF
Paris in the year 1901. M. Trochu
settled years ago in Alberta, Canada
having had enough of the French gov
eminent and it's doings. His pioneer
work there has prospered exceeding
ly, for after a while he managed tC
surround himself with old comrades
in-arms, and when some years had
elapsed they succeeded in founding
the f1ourishing town which now bears
his name and which is situated about
seventy-five miles northeast of Cal
gary. French nuns have gone there
to teach the children, look after the
sick and make themselves generally
useful.
italian Sisters Enter Philadelphia
The Missionary Sisters of the Sa
cred Heart have established a house
in Philadelphia, paying $4,000 for the
property. Five Sisters have already
taken up their residence in the new
home which is attached to the parish
of st. Donate, and three others will
join them next month. The principal
work of the Order is the instruction
of youth, for whom they conduct day
schools, academies, industrial schools
and sewing schools. The orphaned
sick and aged are also cared for by
them, while they visit hospitals, pris
ons, and conduct retreats at theil
converts. They have missions il
eight States of the Union, and mum
erous houses in Europe and South
America.
Priest Will Study Leprosy.-Rev
Charles Keller, late pastor of ST. An
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