The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-05-10
NEW WORLD ITEMS.


Gift for Creighton Llbrary.-Dr. J.
M. Scott, surgeon to st. James Hos
pital, Butte, Mont, has given $4,000
to the John A. Creighton Medical Col
lege for the purpose of founding a
medical library. Dr. Scott is an
alumnus of Creighton, having attended
the arts department in the nineties,
graduating from the medical depart
ment in 1903
Irish Pageant this Week.-Owing to
the immense amount of work con-
nected with the production of the
Irish Historic Pageant it was post
poned until last Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, May and 8, at
the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory.
Organizer of German League.-A
well-known western farmer and con-
tributor to several German news
papers, C. Wehrens, has been ap-
pointed travelling organizer for the
German Canadian Catholic Volks-
vereiR Qeague).
Officials Honor Catholic College,
Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, Mayor
Mott of Oakland, and Mayor Monohan
of San Jose participated in the auto
mobile parade held in Alameda County
MAY 8 for the benefit of the golden
jubilee fund of st. Mary's College,
Oakland.
Mail Carriers in Headed
by their own bands, 5000 letter car
riers Of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Newark, Bayonne, Yonkers, and
surrounding post Offices marched up
Fifth avenue, Sunday, April q, to St
Patrick's Cathedral, New York, where
they participated in memorial services
for the departed members of Uncle
Sans ''army in gray" Father Child.
wick, who was chaplain Of the battle
ship Maine when she was blown up
preached the sermon.
To Honor "Irish Brigade" Colonel
Percy Maggie, of Harlem, has been
working for the past ten years to have
an appropriation granted and an as
ISOLATION appointed to erect monu.
ment in New York City to the memory
of Meagher's Irish Brigade and Cor
coran's Legion. Last year the bill
went through both the Assembly and
the Senate, but was vetoed by Gov
ernor Dix. Colonel Maggie has now
prepared another bill for this enter
prise
Cardinal to Attend Federation.-Car
dinal Gibbons will attend the Conven
ton of the Federation of Catholic So
cieties in Milwaukee in August. He
will Pontifcate in the Milwaukee Ca
thedral Sunday, August 10th.
Retreat for Davenport CIergy.-The
spiritual retreat of the clergy of the
diocese of Davenport, Iowa, will begin
at ST. Ambrose College, in that city
June 10th, and end on the goth.
Prize Won by Catholic Editor.-P. ]
Coleman, associate editor of the Ro
sary Magazine, Somerset, won the first
prize of $500 for the best poem or
"The Battle of Brooklyn" submitted
to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts ant
Sciences last October. Contributions
had to be submitted under monde
plume. There were seventy-two com
petitors from all parts of the United
States.
Father Foley Appointed PASTOR
Rev. M. ]. Foley, editor of the Western
Catholic of Quincy, Illinois, was re
Gently appointed by Ri. Rev. James
Ryan, D. D., Bishop of Alton, ILL.,, tt
be rector of the Church of the I'm
maculate Conception at Pitts1eld, Ill
Guiana Cathedral 5urned.-The Ca
thedral of the Immaculate Conception
served by the Jesuit Fathers, at Brick
dam, British Guiana, has been de
stroyed by fire. 1t was the most i'm
posing edifice in the whole of thu
colony: the loss is $150,00O.
Butte's New ParochiaI School,
handsome new school has been opened
in the Sacred Heart parish, Butte
Mont, with a capacity for 900 pupils
Winnipeg Federation Protests.-Th'
recent meeting of protest by the exc
cutive officers of the Manitoba Fedora
ton of Catholic laymen was ATTENDED
by delegates from the various par
ishes OF winnipeg and ST. Boniface, a
well as eight Catholic priests from
the parishes of Winnipeg. The meet
ing was held in st. Mary's school OF
Sunday evening, April goth, 1913.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted protesting against the aC
ceptance by any Catholic of a port
folio in the Manitoba government unit
a satisfactory settlement of the schoo
question. Mr.. ]. e. Bernier, to WHOM
a portfolio had been offered, wa
warned by the resolutions that hi
acceptance would be a violation Q
the principles for which the Catholic
have stood for the past TWENTY-FIVE
years.
Campaign for Girls Home.-In Mi
waukee on April 90, Campaign" 70
a $4,000 Catholic Working Girl: