The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-14

and only unmarried sister of Lord
Lovat, chief of the great Scottish
Clan of Fraser, which is so extern
sively represented on this side of the
Atlantic, both in the United States
and Canada.
School Settlement Begun.-For
some years past, proposals to organize
School Settlement have been dis
cussed at Stonyhurst, England. In
January, 1911, the st. Francis Xavier's
Brigade Club for Working Lads was
started in Liverpool. The club has
at present about sixty members on
its books, and the average attendance
| is about twenty-five. This club has
been selected as the nucleus of what,
it is hoped, may grow in time into a
regular School Settlement. Archbish-
op Whiteside has given the project his
blessing and letters are being sent to
the alumni of Stonyhurst to interest
them in the cause.
Promotion for Edinburgh Catholic.
Mr. Richard Hoban, junr., member
of st. Ninian's parish, Edinburgh, has
been selected from among two hun
dred applicants to fill the vacancy OF
Chief Sanitary Inspector of George.
town, the capital of British Guiana.
Charities of Late Duchess.-By the
death of the Dowager Duchess OF
Newcastle, the London Catholic poor
lose good friend and the Church a
generous supporter. The Duchess
who was the daughter of Mr.. James
Hope, was related to some of the
most distinguished families in Britain
She devoted a great deal of her time
to the poor and founded the East
End Settlement, where she and a mum
Der of Catholic ladies used to pass
half the year in turns. She was also
a benefactress to numerous missions
and built fine Church for the Fran.
ciscans at Woodford Wells, near her
country house.
Historic Meeting PIace.-The re
cent meeting of the Convention of the
United Irish League of Great Britain
was in the Round Room of the Man
sion House, Dublin, which has been
the scene of many notable historic
gatherings The Rotunda witnessed
the Volunteer Conventions and the
great Home Rule Conference of 1873.
The Assembly Rooms, William Street,
was the place of meeting of the Irish
Bar to protest against the Union in
1899, and of the great Repeal debate
in the Dublin Corporation on the Re
peal motion of Daniel O'Connell in
1843.
No Bigotry in DonegaI.-The An
cient Order of Hibernians are more
numerous in Donegal than in any other
county of Ulster, yet a Protestant,
Mr.. Swift MacNeill has for more than
twenty years been the Parliamentary
representative for one of the cleo
toral divisions of the country, and was
elected every time without opposition
Princess CoIonna Convert.-A
telegram from Innsbruck to the "Kol-
nische Volkszeitung' states that at
Arco, Princess GuidObaldina Colonna,
a Protestant, has been received into
the Catholic Church.
st. Boniface Society.-The great
Bonifatiusverein, or st. Boniface So
ciety of Germany, met in extraordi-
logne, on June 8-10th. DR.. Bertram,
Bishop of Hildesheim and Count
Prashma, of the Reichstag, addressed
the meeting.
Archbishop of Vienna consecrated.
The Prince Archbishop of Vienna,
Monsignor Piffl, was consecrated on
June 1st., in Vienna, by the Apostolic
Nuncio, Monsignor Scapinelli.
Diocesan Apologist in Freiburg.-In
| the Archdiocese of Freiburg in Breis-
gau, in consequence of the continued
agitation of the Monists and Free
thinkers, the ecclesiastical authorities
have appointed diocesan apologist
in Rev. DR.. Huber, of Furtwangen, to
meet and repel, in writing. their press
or other attacks.
Dr.. Egan as Sponsor.-At the church
of the Jesuit College at Copenhagen,
our Minister to Denmark, DR.. Egan,
stood as sponsor at the confirmation
of the son of Count Szechenzi, the
Austrian Minister.
Centenary of VeuiIIot.-France is
celebrating this year the centenary of
the birth of Louis Veuillot, the great
French Catholic journalist, the foun-
der of L'Univers and the author of
sixty volumes among which is the
series, Melanges, in twenty-six vol
umes, the bulwark of French Catohlics
against the infidelity of Voltaire's
school,
italian Minister Condemns Masonry.
The Italian Minister of War, Gener-
al Spingardi, acting not only for his
own department but also for the Naval
Minister and representing the Govern
ment, has taken a bold, a startling
step. He has declared war against
Freemasonary in the army and navy.
Answering questions put to him in the
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