The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27

tablish home for working boys in San
Francisco.
Catholic Chief Justice.-Chief JUS
tice Morrissey, of Nebraska, recently
appointed by Governor Morehead, is
Catholic.
A Wealthy ConVert.-Mrs. Philip
Van Valkenburgh, whose fortune is
estimate at $1O,0OO,OOO, has gone to
Italy to aid the victims of the earth
quake. She has lately become a Cath
Ollie.
MiIwaukee's Catholic Statistics
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee con-
tains 1884 Catholic families. 1t has
35,30S children in it's schools and H.
O86 persons were baptized last year.
Donated Pipe Organs.-A Catholic
woman of Lock Haven, Pa, has pre-
scented new pipe organs to the Church
of the Immaculate Conception and st.
Agnes Church in that city.
Priest Wins Prize.-The Rev. w. A.
Watt, pastor of st. Stephens Church,
Portland, Ore, won first prize, an auto
mobile, in the popularity contest just
closed by the Oregon Daily Journal.
New $4,000 Church.-St. Johns con-
gregation, Glenwood City, Wis, is to
have new $4,000 church.
CANCEL Of the Prisons" Dead.-Moth-
er Philomene, long known as the IAN
gel of the prisons" and the spiritual
mother of the newSboys of New Or
leans, died on March 2 in the Convent
of Mercy on st. Andrew Street, where
she had ruled as Superior at different
times for period covering eighteen
years.
Daily MONDAY Mass.-Rev. Timothy
Dempsey, pastor of ST. Patrick S
Church, St. Louis, has inaugurated a
daily MONDAY Mass.
OF a Noted FamiIy.-Mr Omar T.
Hibben, a convert to the Church, a
cousin of John Grier Hibben, president
of Princeton University and son of
Rev. w. w. Hibben, who was presid-
ing elder of the Methodist Church,
Lawrenceburg, Ind, died February "a,
of heart trouble, at Cincinnati, O., the
funeral being held from st. Francis de
Sales Church Mr.. Hibben was vet
eran of the Civil War and was well
known in mercantile circles in Gin
cinnati.
Marist Missionaries Dead:-From
the Solomon Islands comes news of
the death of two Marist missionaries,
Father Berthet and Father Berteux.
The latter contributed to mission pub
LEGATIONS many interesting articles de-
scriptive of his life and work in the
difficult field he was called on to evan
gelize. Both priests had been three
years in the Solomon Islands and their
apostolate was full of promise.
New Hungarian Church, new
church for Hungarian Catholics is to
be built by Rev. Edmund Neurihrer in
Cincinnati. 1t is estimated that there
are about 5000 Hungarians in that
city.
Memorial to Pastoral magnificent
bronze and granite monument will be
unveiled on Memorial Day in Eliza
beth, N. j., in memory of Very Rev
Dean Martin Gessner, who labored for
forty years as rector of st. Patrick
Church, Elizabeth. The monument will
stand in Jackson Park opposite the
parochial high school.
Interesting Legal Case.-Catholic
educational institutions throughout the
country will be greatly interested in
the outcome of the case which has
been brought before the United States
Supreme Court by the Trustees of Sc
ton Hall College, South Orange, N. j..
which seeks to have the Supreme
Court pass upon the legality of the as
sessment on the institution for the
year 1911 amounting to $4,000. The
N6W Jersey SOuIL VI LIIOIS duu "A "
peals affirmed the assessment
st. Patrick's Day Parade.-St Pat
ricks Day was celebrated in New
York by big parade along Fifth Ave
nue., and in virtually all of the down
town hotels dinners arranged by Irish
societies we're held. The parade that
passed in review before Mayor Mitch
ell and the members of his cabinet al
st. Patricks Cathedral was one of the
largest of it's kind New York has ever
seen.
Home for Aged.-The new Home fol
Aged Women at 81 West Brookline
Street, Boston, is now ready for occu
pancy and was dedicated by His Emf
nence Cardinal O'Connell, on the Feast
of st. Joseph, Friday, March 10. His
5Eminence also celebrated the first
Mass in the chapel on that occasion
The home is in charge of the Sisters
of st. Joseph.
Founder of L. C. 3. l. Dead.-Mrs
William v. Woods, founder and first
president of the Ladies' Catholic Be
nevolent Legion, died at her home in
Youngstown, Ohio, on February 20, in
her sixty-fifth year.
TWO Priests Missing in NORTH