The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-15
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Appointment of Gen. Torney Con-
firmed.-The Senate has confirmed the
Presidents nomination of Brig. Gen.
George H. Torney as Surgeon-General.
The General is Catholic.
American Offerings for Holy Land.
Rev. Godfrey Schilling., o. F. NJ,
u. S. Commissary of the Holy Land,
RENTED last year $21,6O3.6O, as sum
total of the Good Friday Offerings for
the Holy Places in the Holy Land
From the official report of the Very
Rev. Commissary we learn that the
distinction of sending the largest re-
rittance from the dioceses belongs to
Pittsburgh, viz: $3,22913. Next comes
Philadelphia, $2,S31.15.
Gifts to Charitable Society.-The
late Bernard Corr, of Philadelphia, de-
yised to fifteen Conferences of the ST.
Vincent de Paul Society in that city
$1,000 each.
Jubilee Of Visitation ConVent.-Janu-
airy 10Th, the Sisters of the Visitation
at Baltimore, celebrated their diamond
Jubilee, or 18th year of founding in
that city. The Baltimore house is
the third oldest of this order in the
country.
New Provincial of Notre Dame Sis
ters.-Sister Mary Agnes, of Baltimore,
has been appointed Provincial of the
Sisters of Notre Dame, by the Mother
General in Munich, She will reside
at Milwaukee.
Centenary of American Lazarists.-
In 1915 the Congregation of the Mis-
sion, or Lazarist Fathers, will observe
the centenary of the departure from
the Eternal City for the United States
of their brethren, who, under the saint
ly leader, Felix De Andreis, founded
the first permanent settlement at St.
Mary's Seminary, the Barrens, Mis-
souri,.
Catholic Schools Have Medical In
spection.-Medical inspection has been
established recently in the Sacred
Heart and st. Johns schools, Altoona,
PENNSYLVANIA. The medical inspec-
tors only point out the defects, leaving
to the family physicians the treatment
of the pupils.
Lectures by Archbishop keane.-
Under the auspices of the Knights OF
Columbus, Archbishop Keane, of Dubu-
que. will deliver a number of lectures
in Baltimore. His subject will be
Evidences of Religion"
Catholic Women in South America.
The League of Catholic Ladies OF
Uruguay held it's sixth annual Assem-
bly, at Montevidio last month. Mgr.
Isasa, the Apostolic Administrator
presided. The leading ladies of the
land took part in the assembly. The
Uruguayan Catholic women are en-
gagged in furthering juvenile works,
Catholic literature and instruction,
Catholic Journalism, Catholic fedora
ton. supervision of theatrical per-
formanes, revalidation of marriages,
etc.
Conversion of Colonel Dawson.-We
learn from the Lamp, of the CONVEX
sion at New Rochelle, N. Y, Of Lieu
tenant Colonel William G. Dawson, u.
S. M. c., his wife and four children.
Colonel Dawson and his wife were for
merly Episcopalians. Colonel Dawson
is a graduate of Annapolis.
x. C, Home in MiIwaukee.-The
Knights of Columbus of Milwaukee,
will add a 100000 building to their
present home in that city.
Sheridan's "OId Tom" Dead
Thomas Duffy, seventy-three years old,
Familiarity known as "Old Tom" and
one of the most unique characters in
Kenosha, Wis, died suddenly from
heart disease in that city last week.
Born in Cleveland, O., in 1910, Mr..
Duffy was a driver on the old White
water canal tow path until the open
ing of the Civil War, during which he
was the body servant of General Phil
Sheridan, whom he accompanied on
his famous ride from Winchester to
Cedar Creek.
AGED CarmeIite Nun Dies.-Sister
Ann of Jesus, in the world Sarah
Faherty, the oldest member of the
Carmelite order in America, died on
January rs at Baltimore.
Sister Ann made her profession in
1916, when she was twenty years old.
She was born in Galway, Ireland, in
1926, and came to Baltimore when
but a child. Declining offers of higher
offices in the order, she had chosen to
do the more mental tasks assigned to
her about the convent, which had been
her home for sixty-seven years. Her
death leaves Sister Joseph, who re-
Gently celebrated her diamond jubilee,
the oldest member of the order.
Church for coIored CathoIics.-Sun-
day afternoon, January 26, witnessed
the laying of the cornerstone of Phil
adelphias third church for Colored
Catholics, that of St. Catharine of
Sienna, at King and Penn streets,
Germantown, in the presence of a
gathering of nearly three thousand
persons. Archbishop Prendergast Of
Gn;a+od