The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-03
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

PauIist Choir in City Celebration.
The singing in the public celebra-
ton of Christmas at Chicago was di-
rected by Rev. VIM. j. Finn, G. s. P,
of st. Mary's Church. The program
took place in Grant Park where many
thousands were gathered Thursday
evening about a huge Christmas tree.
Several singing groups and choral so
cieties were stationed at various
points in the park Father Finn, with
his boy choristers near him on the
balcony of the Chicago Athletic Club
and by means of long Illuminated
baton, directed these groups in the
singing of Christmas hymns and
carols. The entire throng in the
park sang the final numbers, Come
All Ye Faithful and America"
Monument for Texas Priest-The
influence for good which the late Rev.
Thomas Hennessy exerted during his
many years of labor in Houston,
Texas, will be commemorated by the
people of Houston, who have ap-
pointed a committee headed by
Mayor Campbell to raise fund of
$4,000 for a public monument to the
deceased priest. At the time of his
death Protestant ministers and Jew
ish rabbis We'd with his fellow
priests in paying tribute to his char
acter.
Guild for Deaf Mutes.-A branch Of
the Ephpheta Guild was organized III
Buffalo, N. Y, lately at the school
for deaf mutes directed by the Sis
tiers of st. Joseph. The object of the
Guild is sympathetic cooperation with
the faculty of the school, reporting all
deaf mute children who are known as
not attending a deaf mute school, as
sisting the nuns to dress and educate
those pupils who come from states
other than New York, for whom no
appropriation can be secured from the
state legislature.
Memorial to General Corcoran.-De-
cember % was the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the death of General Michael
Corcoran, of the Irish Brigade. Thurs
day, December 18, memorial meet
ing for the gallant officer was held
under the auspices of the Columbian
Assembly of New York. A memorial
tablet was unveiled to the generals
memory.
Able De L'Epee Honored.-The
anniversary of the birth of Able De
PEpee, inventor of the sign language
for deaf-mutes, was signally honored
in New York. James f. Donnelly,
editor of the Catholic Deaf Mute;
Edwin Hodgson, editor of the Deaf
Mute Journal; the Rev. Thomas A.
Calvin and ]. M. O'Donnell, supreme
financial secretary of the Knights
de. PEppee, all paid tributes in the
sign language to Able de PEpee. An
lode to de PEpee," written espe-
cially for the celebration by the Rev.
Joseph M. Stodelmann, S. J., editor
of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart,
was also read to the audience of deaf
mutes.
Senator RansdaII Reelected
United States Senator Joseph E.
Ransdall of Louisiana, his native
state, has been unanimously reelected
president of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress, an Office which he
has held since 1905. Senator Rams
dali is Catholic and knight of
Columbus. BY profession he is a
lawyer and has never taken divorce
case.
Fort Wayne's italian Church,
With the opening of st. Joseph's TIA
liam Catholic church, Fort Wayne,
Ind, for it's first service on Sunday,
December Ia, there was established
the first italian church in that city.
Priest Early at Rescue.-On Tues
day, December 16, an explosion of
accumulated coal dust killed many
miners, most of them strike-breakers,
in the Vulcan mine at New Castle,
Colo. Rev. J. P. Corrigan of Glen
wood Springs hurried to New Castle
at the first news of the explosion.
Among the first Of the rescuers, the
priest pushed into the smoking pit,
penetrating the entire mine in search
of victims to whom he might admin
lister the last sacraments.
Bishop Morris Wins Subtitle
Supreme Court of the State of Ar
kansas has handed down a decision
sustaining the appeal of Bishop John
B. Morris of Little Rock from the
decision of the Chancery Court OF
Sebastian County regarding the es
tate of Edward c. Brogan. Mr.
Brogan who died in 1910 left an estate
worth $4,000 in trust for school fo1
Catholic boys. The trustees of the
estate and some of the heirs tried tc
divert approximately two-thirds Of
the amount from the purpose speci
fed in the will. The chancery court
held that this procedure was Lawful
but the supreme court has reversed
the decision of the lower tribunal.
Four Extension" chapeIs.-Tht
letter carriers of Greater Boston
have made a donation of SSH to tn,
Catholic Church Extension Society
for chapel, an altar, and statue tt
be placed in some needy American
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