The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-06
OLD WORLD NEWS.

LOTu StlISI JuSIiSC nSSlSHS' doc
cause of ill-health, Lord O'Brien, Chief
Justice of Ireland, resigned last month.
Coal Fields in Tipperary.-Accord
ing to the report of the Department
of Agriculture and Technical Instruc-
ton, coal beds southeast of Thurles in
County Tipperary cover an area of
about $500 acres with an amount of
workable coal and culm estimated at
100000 tons. Efforts will be made
to secure a government grant for the
development of these coal fields in the
district of Slieverdagh.
A Noted English GeneraI.-The late
Sir Martin Dillon, G.. G. B., of
the British Army, served with distinc-
ton in India, China and Abyssinia.
Always a sterling Catholic, who never
yelled his faith, Sir Martin received
his first commission as ensign in the
Regiment seventy years
ago in his eighteenth year and his first
experience of war was in the Punjab
campaign of 1848-1849.
Gifts to Westminster Cathedral
The latest gift to this noble edifice is
the chapel of st. Paul. This chapel
held special appeal to converts and
many donations had been received
from converts for it's adornment, but
the collection was slow. Now lady,
who wishes to remain anonymous, has
come forward and placed in the Car
dinaTs hands sufficient funds to COM
plete the work with great splendor.
St. Joseph's chapel is also being COM
pleted in varicolored marbles. Above
the altar will be a triptych in gilded
bronze with relief of the saint. The
work will cost $4,000
Jesuit Son of Charles 1.-THE
"Unita Cattolica" publishes a lengthy
article announcing the discovery of a
number of documents which go to
prove that King Charles II of Eng
land had Jesuit son. Three anthem
tic documents in support of this state
ment have been found in the archives
of the Jesuits at Rome. Another docu-
ment, which is said to have been
brought to light, is third letter from
King Charles dated August 8, 1868, and
addressed to Father Olivia, general of
the Jesuits, in which the King ex-
presses to him his wish to become a
Catholic and congratulates himself on
the fact that his son, James de Ia
Cloche, has entered the Company of
Jesus.
Red Cross Honors Nuns.-The Eng
fish Red Cross has had conferred upon
the Oblate Sisters of the Assumption
four decorations in recognition Of the
Sisters great ambulance service in
Constantinople. The comforting was
attended with unstinted praise of the
work of the Sisters.
Australia's Maternity Bonus.-A re-
turn for the past twelve months shows
that claims under the Maternity Bonus
Act of Australia passed by the Labor
Government have been paid to the
amount of 607,915 pounds. Every
woman in Australia, on the birth of a
child, can claim bonus of five pounds,
but it was not intended or expected
that mothers in good circumstances
would claim the amount. Very many
of them, however, have done so, and
that accounts for so large an expendi-
ture.
Cremation Propaganda opposed.-In
Bavaria the propaganda of cremation
by extreme Socialists and others has
lately become so insistent that even
Catholics were in danger of being car
ried away with the movement; and
the Bavarian episcopate deemed it adj
visable to issue an explicit statement
of the Catholic attitude on the ques-
ton The opposition of the Bavarian
Bishops to the practice has been
strongly seconded by the Chief Rabbi,
DR.. M. Lerner.
Austrian Catholic VoIksbund.-The
general reunion of the Austrian Cath
olic Volksbund took place three weeks
ago. This popular Catholic association
of Vienna, although founded only
three years ago, already counts $1,000
members divided into 237 declarations.
The third annual general assembly
was held in the big city hall of Wen
ma, under the presidency of Count de
Trautmansdorf, Monsignor Piffl,
Prince Archbishop of Vienna, Herr
Won Weiskirchener, burgomaster of the
city, and numerous ecclesiastical and
lay notabilities. The Prince Arch
bishop eloquently exhorted the Cath
olics to unity.
Huge Bell for Rouen Church,
bell weighing nineteen and a half
tons is being cast at Annecy for a
church at Rouen, in France. The
Pope will, it is stated, stand sponsor
to the bell, which will receive the
name of Joan of Arc. It is just about
one-tenth the weight of the great bell
in Moscow, the largest in the world
The latter, however, was never hung
as it came cracked from the foundry
1863.
New Diocese in France.-A new do
cese-that of Lille-has been erected
in France. 1t is in the ecclesiastical
nrnvinne of Camhrai