The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-07-25
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Immigrants from 1925 to 1907
From the year 1926 to 1909, there
came to the United States from Ger
many 5,358,265 immigrants; from Ire
land 4,193,7 S0; from England 3,042, 1855;
from Austria Hungary 2,918,064; from
Italy 2,S74,592; Norway-Sweden, 2,329,-
1O9; Russia Poland 1928, 109; France
46S,348; Switzerland 235,S07; Scotland,
4S4,230; Asia $3.50; Holland 173,41S.
Llthuanians in Chicago-Chicago
has $4,000 Lithuanians and claims to
be the largest Lithuanian city in the
world. The claim could probably be
substantiated, for Lithania itself is,
generally speaking, a land of farms
and small villages, though Libau is a
city of considerable size.
Ground has been broken by Rev.
Thomas j. Broydrick, rector of st.
Martins Church, Baltimore, for a new
convent for the Sisters Of the Bon
Secour The building will be of
pressed brick and stone.
South Bend Physician Converted.
DIR. Charles M. Butterworth, dis
tinguished physician and first medical
supervisor of the city of South Bend,
Ind, died recently, but was baptized
and received into the Church shortly
before his death.
Regina to Have New SchooI.-The
contract has been signed for the cree
ton of new separate school in Re
gina, Sask., Canada. The building
will cost in the neighborhood of $685.
900. Provision will be made for the
addition of four more rooms as soon
as the attendance at the school de-
mands it. This is the third separate
school to be erected in the city in re-
Spouse to the rapidly increasing Cath
Ollie population. 1t is a little more
than a year ago that st. Joseph's
was completed.
New Canadian CoIIege.-Recently
the cornerstone of the new Regiopolis
College, Kingston, Ont, was laid by
Archbishop Spratt, in the presence
of a large concourse of people. The
members of the Holy Name Society
paraded and attended the ceremony.
Catholic Home for SaiIors.-The
Station of the Pacific Reserve Fleet
of the u. S. Navy at Bremerton, Wash
ington, is to have Catholic Home for
Sailors. The Catholic population num-
bering sixty families has provided a
most desirable piece of building
ground, valued at $4,000 and COM
handing an excellent view of Puget
Sound and the Navy Yard and turned
it over to a committee. The home
to be erected on the property will be
known as the Robert Monaghan"
Home, in memory of Ensign Monag-
han, a native son of the state of Wash
ington and a Catholic, who gave up his
life to rescue his wounded command
ing officer from the enemy on the
bloody battlefield of Apia, Samoa, on
April 1, 1899 Right Reverend Ed
ward J. O'Dea, Bishop of Seattle, has
given the project his warmest APPROX
al The home will cost one hundred
thousand dollars.
Jew Lights Church Cross.-A Jewish
business man of Akron, Colo, recently
gave Rev. J. L. JULY of Fort Morgan,
who attends the mission, the money
necessary to line with electric lights
a large cruciix in the new church of
st. Joseph. The incident is probably
unique in the history of the Church.
Mayor and Governor Praise Sister
hoods.-The new st. Francis hospital
at Beech Grove, Indianapolis, was de-
dictated Sunday, July 5, by the Rt. Rev.
Joseph A. Chartrand, Coadjutor Bish-
op of the diocese of Indianapolis, as
sisted by members of the clergy of
the city, in the presence of about
twenty-five hundred persons. Imme-
diately after the dedicatory ceremon.
les and sermon by the Bishop there
were addresses by Governor Ralston
and Mayor Bell. The Mayor thanked
the Sisters in the name of the city
for erecting the hospital. The Cover
nor said it is only another evidence
of the service rendered to society by
the good Sisters of the Catholic
Church, who were found, he said in the
front lines of every field where the
spirit of mercy and the hand of char.
ity are needed.
Toronto Man Made Papal Knight
Mr.. Thomas Long, of Toronto, Ont.
has been made a Knight of the Order
of st. Gregory the Great. Mr.. Long is
Vice-President of the Collingwood
Shipbuilding Company, President OF
the London and Canada Loan Com
pany, and a director of other concerns
while he is also connected with the
College Heights Association as ar
active member of the executive. He is
a member of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church, a Governor of the Catholic
Church Extension Society of Canada
and is charity worker of note.
New ParochiaI School in Detroit
Right Reverend Bishop Foley laid the
cornerstone of the new Holy Rosary
school on July 4. When completed
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