The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-21

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Reasonable Project ForestaIled.
The government learned last month
that the Orange clubs in Ireland were
expecting large consignment of
arms from Germany. One thousand
rifles with bayonets arrived in Bel
fast on Tuesday on steamer from
Manchester in cases marked "electri-
cal fittings" Detectives promptly
seized them. Government officials say
they are fully informed of the plans
of the Orange clubs to resist home
rule.
church-qoers in Liverpool.-In ten
years the population of Liverpool has
increased by $4,000, but its church
going population has dwindled in the
same period by 10000.
Relief Work in connausht.-Con-
gested Districts Boards, of the county
Roscommon, Ireland, having pur-
chased the property upon which the
town of Castlerea is situated, have
transferred the management of the
property to body of local trustees.
In addition to the advantages of buy
ing out their homes and places OF
business, such of the tenants as have
no land are to get the grazing OF a
COW and calf in the demense pastures
at sos. year. The remainder of the
demense is to be converted into a
Peoples Park, Agricultural Grounds,
and Sports Grounds.
Titanic Victims from IreIand.-Mr.
+. P. Farrell, of Longsford, who repre-
sents the Irish victims of the Titanic
disaster, having written to the Public
Trustees pointing out that the rela-
tives of the Irish third-class victims
of the Titanic disaster had received
in all G2,131 out of the G43,0OO sub
scribed by the public, and asking for
further grant out of the G28,OOO as
vet unallocated, has received reply
stating that the Irish cases were in
vestigated by committee at Belfast,
the Lord Mayor of that city pres1d-
| ing, and that they had been dealt
with ION precisely the same lines as
all other British dependents" 1t is
added that there is no available sur
plus for dealing with claims other
than those strictly within the scale OF
administration Mr.. FarrelPs answer
to this was again to point out the dis
parity of the G2,131 granted in Ire
land to the $4,000 subscribed. He
hopes that some of the contributors
to the fund will take the matter up.
The Present Lord Ashbourne.-Lord
Ashbourne, Irish Lord Chancellor IN
the last three Unionist Governments,
died suddenly in London on May ~.
His successor is a convert to the
Catholic Church. Moreover, he has
long been a fervent apostle of the
Irish language movement, a propa-
gandist of the more practical and sin
cere kind, for he took the trouble to
master the idiom and apply it. He is
described as literary Nationalist.
Swiss Pilgrims Honor Mary.-TWen-
ty-three hundred pilgrims from Eur
| ich, Switzerland, recently went to
Maria insiedeln, the famous Swiss
Shrine of Our Lady.
Destructive Fire in Hungary.-In a
great confagration, laying waste the
city of Pressburg, in Hungary, ten
thousand people were rendered home
less and the ancient Capuchin mon
astery was destroyed.
Catholics in Montenegro.-Cat Catholics
enjoy relatively greater liberty in
Montenegro than in the other Balkan
states. King Nicholas much favors
the Catholic body and has even made
Concordat with the Holy See.
There is a Catholic Archbishop at
Antivari, who has also the title OF
Primate of Servia; his name is Mgr.
Dorbrihich.
Spanish Catholic League Active
The League for the defence Of the
clergy has been instrumental in send
ing to prison for three years, six
months and twenty days and in haV-
ing fine of 800 pesetas levied upon
certain director and editor of La
| Protesta.
Spain Honors CALIFORNIA; Pioneer.
| A statue of bronze and OF heroic
size, which is to perpetuate the mem
ory of Father Junipero Sierra, will be
erected in a public plaza named for
him in his native city Petra, Spain,
and will be unveiled on November "a,
the second centenary Of his birth.
The event will likewise mark the sue
cess of the twenty years activity OF
Father Serra's great-grand nephew,
the Rev. Francisco Torrens. also a
native of Petra, who will at the same
time publish life of his famous rela-
tive.
Vatican Accepts Spanish Law.-The
Papal Nuncio last Sunday informed
the Foreign Minister that the Vatican
would accept the new Spanish law
taxing church properties of all kinds.
PortuqaI's Legation Abolished
Last month the Chamber of Deputies
of Portugal abolished the Portuguese
Legation at the Vatican.