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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
MEMORIAL TO COLORED PRIEST
MOVEMENT TO ERECT A MoNU-
MENT OVER THE GRAVE OF FA-
Their TOLTON, THE FIRST COL
oRED PRIEST IN THE UNITED
STATES.

Captain l.. G. Vale, colored, chief
of the Negro Roman Catholic Bureau
of Chicago, was in Quincy, ILL.,, lately
and visited the grave of Rev. August
Tolton at st. Peters cemetery. He
went back to Chicago to raise fund
with which a suitable monument will
be erected over the last resting place
of the first Catholic Negro priest in
the United States.
Father Tolton was born in Brush
Creek, Rails County, Mo-, April 1,
1854. He came to Quincy with his
mother when he was seven years of
age and after working in a tobacco
factory for several years, attended ST.
Boniface School, where he learned to
speak the German language. Later
he went to st. Peters School and re-
ceived his first education in the clas-
sizes from the local priests. Through
the efforts of Father Michael Richardt,
he was enabled to go to Rome in
1880, and complete his studies at the
College of the Propaganda, where he
was ordained on April "a, 1886, by
Cardinal Parocchi. He was assigned
at once to take charge of the colored
population of Quincy among whom he
labored with heroic zeal until Novem-
Der %, 1889, when he went to Chicago
and held services in st. Mary's Church,
later in a church of his own which
he dedicated to st. Monica. He was
in charge of this church when he died,
July 9, 1897, in consequence of sun
stroke. The remains were brought to
Quincy and buried at st. Peters GENE
terry.
His grave is unmarked and Captain
Vale feels that there should be a
stone on it. His memory is revered
by a large number of Negro Catholics
in Chicago and Captain Vale wants
the stone to be paid for entirely by
Negro contributions.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27

University. To-day, the teaching staff
numbers about eighty, and in all the
branches of it's activities the Univer-
sity gives instruction to over thirteen
hundred students Twenty-Five years
ago it began with Divinity Hall; at
present the University edifices are
seven in number, the newer ones:
Mcmahon Hall, Gibbons Memorial
Hall, Graduate Hall; and the Martin
Maloney Chemical Laboratory are
among the finest in the country. The
University site in Washington covers
SO acres, adjacent to the National
Soldiers Home.
The novitiates of seven religious
communities: the Dominicans, the
Franciscans, the Paulists, the Marists,
the Sulpicians, the Holy Cross Fathers
and the Apostolic Mission House have
been built around the University.
The original edifice of Divinity Hall
has developed into fifteen stately
buildings that scarcely suffice to shell
ter the ever-growing activities of the
University.
The exercises of the celebration will
open at 10 A. M. in st. Patrick's
Church, Washington, there being now
no religious edifice on the campus of
the University capable of meeting the
demands of the celebration. Cardinal
Farley of New York will celebrate the
Pontifical Mass; Cardinal Gibbons, of
Baltimore, Chancellor of the Uniyer-
sity, will preach the sermon, and Car
dinal O'Connell, of Boston, will de-
liver the opening discourse of the
academic exercises. The Apostolic
Delegate Archbishop Bonzano, is ex-
pected to conclude the academic ex-
ercises with Benediction.
The academic exercises will take
place at. 3 P. M. in the New National
Theatre, and Cardinal Gibbons will
preside. Honorary degrees will be
conferred on a number of distin-
guished Catholic laymen. President
G. Stanley Hall, of Clarke University,
Worcester, Mass, will represent the
Association of American Universities
on the programme, while Very Rev.
JOAA SoNoAouSA' " p w. AACoAuOhI VI
Notre Dame University, will speak in
the name of the Catholic institutions
of learning.
The Alumni will hold their reunion
and banquet on the evening of April
Is in the new Dining Hall of the
University, and the two following days
will be devoted to welcoming to the
University delegates of other institu-
tons of learning, and all friends and
visitors.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
CHRISTIAN BROTHER DEAD
BROTHER ANTHONY WAS A
NOTED NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF MANHATTAN COLLEGE, NEW
YORK.

Brother Anthony, President Emeri-
tus of Manhattan College, New York,
died last week at st. Vincent's Hos
pital in that city, in his seventy-ffth
year. Brother Anthony was born near
Rochester, N. Y, his family name being
William w. Byrnes, and he entered
the Order of Christian Brothers in
1858. His teaching career had extend
ed to many cities in this country and
Canada.
Brother Anthony was president of
Manhattan College for ten years until
1883, when he went to Buffalo as head
of ST. Joseph's College, where he re-
manned about four years. He then
returned to New York and for a time
was again head of Manhattan and also
had charge in France He returned
to Buffalo to teach in st. Joseph's
Collegiate Institute for two years and
then returned to New York.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
CONVERTED At DEATHS DOOR
Mr.. SAUNDERS OF THE ST. LOUIS
PoST-DISPATCH EMBRACED THE
CATHOLIC FAITH THE DAY BE-
FORE HE DIED.

Ripley Dunlap Saunders, dramatic
and literary editor of The Post-Dis-
patch, st. Louis, Mo-, died on the oper-
ating table at st. Johns Hospital on
March 16, and was buried from the
New Cathedral.
Mr.. Saunders, who had been Pres
byterian, recently embraced the Cath
Ole faith, and the day before he was
taken into the hospital, he was
baptized by Rev. Francis Gilfillan of
the New Cathedral
He was stricken while at work in
The Post-Dispatch Office March 6, and
it was decided an operation was the
only thing that could save his life.
The surgeon discovered the ailment
was cancer and he died while under
the influence of an anaesthetic.
Mr.. Saunders was born in Ripley,
Miss, December II, 1856. The greater
part of his life was passed in news
paper work in st. Louis and at one
time he was editorial writer on The
Republic.
While Mr.. Saunders was active in
the newspaper field he found time to
do much other literary work, and two
of his works were published. The
first of these was John Kenadie, .
published in 1902, and his latest book
was entitled, Colonel Todhunter OF
Missouri"
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DIOCESE OF LEAD.

Deadwood: The Very Rev. R. F.
DUDE, pastor of st. Ambrose Church,
and former Vicar General of the Do
cese under the Right Reverend Bishop
Busch, has been appointed Admins
traitor of the Diocese of Lead during
the vacancy occasioned by the trans
fer of Bishop Busch of st. Cloud. He
will have charge until a new Bishop
of Lead is appointed.
The Deadwood Pioneer Times" of
March 16, announcing the administra-
ton of the Sacrament of Confirmation
at st. Ambrose Church, adds: I'm this
connection it has been stated that
this is the last class to be confirmed
for six years as a new Bishop will
not be appointed during that period. .
We need scarcely add that there is
no foundation for this statement.
The Diocese of Lead will not be with
out a Bishop for six years. AS a
matter of fact, a new Bishop will be
appointed in the course of very few
months.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
LAETARE ME- DALIST
MISS MARY v. MERRIcK OF WASH
INGToN, A BED-RIDDEN SOCIAL
WORKER, RECEIVES DISTIN-
GUISHED HONOR FROM NoTRE
DAME UNIVERSITY FOUNDED
THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY IN
1891.

On the fourth Sunday of Lent of each
year, Laetare Sunday, the University
of Notre Dame, Indiana, makes known
the name of the Catholic layman or
woman distinguished in some field Of
Catholic endeavor, to whom it awards
the Laetare Medal as mark of recog-
milton for services to Holy Mother
Church.
This year the honor goes to Miss
Mary v. Merrick, Washington, D. c.,
the founder of the Christ Child So
ciety. Miss Merrick is the daughter
of the late Richard T. Merrick, an
eminent lawyer and orator. At the
age of fourteen she received an injury
which so disabled her that she has
since been unable to stand, sit or walk.
Practically her entire life has been
spent on rolling chair by which she
moves from room to room in her
home. She is totally incapable of
locomotion in any other way and in
her chair is taken to church and for
her daily outings. On this bed of
pain Miss Merrick conceived and car
ried out the idea of the Christ Child
Society which was founded in Wash
ington in 1891. The original purpose
of this Society was to prepare cloth
ing for and distribute gifts to the chill
dren of the poor and to make at least
one child happy on Christmas Day.
In a few years the Society took more
definite form and branched out into
other lines of activity such as the
establishment of sewing classes, chill
dren's libraries, Sunday School classes,
settlement work, visiting nurses, sum-
mer outings, industrial instructions,
etc.
In Washington, D. c., the headquar-
tiers of the Christ Child Society, there
are about eight hundred members in
GLIDING many titled ladies from all
parts of the world, whose husbands or
fathers are members of the diplomatic
corps at the National Capital. A
branch of the Christ Child Society
was organized in st. Paul a few years
ago.
Besides her exclusively social &C
tivities, Miss Merrick is the author OF
Life of Christ, a series of lectures
for children, and translator of Nine.
de Segur's Life of Christ for Chill
dren" She has developed method
of her own in the physical, moral and
religious care of babies and growing
children.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
CHURCH WINDOWS TAXED
APPRAISERS DECIDE THEY CAN
NOT COME IN FREE OF DUTY.

The Board of General Appraisers, in
a decision by Judge Waite handed
down on February "a, declined to grant
free entry on stained or painted glass
windows imported under the Tariff
Act of 1918. The protest acted on
represented importations made for
many Catholic and Episcopalian
churches as well as for regular i'm
porters.
Collector Malone assessed the win
dows at thirty per cent ad valorem I'M
der the provision for stained or paint
ed glass windows, or parts thereof. !"
They were claimed to be free of duty
under the provision for works or art,
including stained or painted window
glass or stained or painted glass win
dows imported to be used in houses of
worship, and excluding any article, in
whole or in part, nodded, cast or me-
chemically wrought from metal within
twenty years prior to Importation; but
such exemption shall be subject to
such regulations as the Secretary of
the Treasury may prescribe
Thomas M. Lane, of the law firm of
Curie, Smith C Maxwell, counsel for
the importing interests, said yesterday
the issue would be carried to the Unit
ed States Court of Customs Appeals.
Among the protestants in the case are
the Rev. w. A. Keyes, rector of St.
Joseph's Catholic Church, West New
York, N. j.; the Right Rev. John e.
FitzMaurice, Bishop of Erie, Pa, and
other Catholic and Episcopalian cler-
gymen in different sections of the
country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27

The Rev. Stanislaus Preusser, o. s.
B., of st. Johns University, College
vile, Mimi, died at st. Joseph's Hos
pital, ST. Paul, on March II, following
an operation for cancer. His funeral
took place from st. Johns Abbey
Church on Saturday, March 20, the
Right Reverend Abbot Engel, o. S. B.,
officiating.
Father Stanislaus was born at Writ
tenberg, January 20, 1853, and was
ordained in the old Cathedral of ST.
Paul on September 80, 1876, by the
Right Reverend Bishop Grace. For
several years he was missionary in
Stearns County, Mimi, and then be-
came assistant pastor of the Church
of the Assumption, st. Paul, where he
remained until 1888. Since then he
has been stationed at st. Johns Uni
versity, where he was Professor of
Music and Liturgy and had charge of
the publishing of the works issued by
the Benedictines. He was noted as a
musical composer and issued Yes
perale Romanum.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
Citation for Hearing VIII.


STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey, IS. In Probate Court
In the Matter Of Proving the Alleged
Last VIII and Testament of Bridget
Houlihan, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to All Whom II
May Concern:
Whereas. Rev. John A. Kane, of the
County of Scott and State of Minnesota.
has delivered to the Probate Court of
the County of Ramsey, an instrument
IN writing purporting to be the Last
VILE and Testament of Bridget Houli-
han, late of Ramsey County Minnesota,
decedent, and filed Herewith his petit
ton to said Probate Court praying
that the said instrument may be proved
ana admltted TO probate and that Let
ters Testimentary be granted thereon
1t Is Ordered, That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
appear before this Court on Monday,
the 9Th day of April, 1915, at 10 O'clock
a. M, or as soon thereafter as said
matter can be heard, at the Probate
the City of St. Paul, in said County, and
show cause, if any they have, why said
petition should not be granted and
said VIII admitted to probate and that
ton thereof in The Catholic Bulletin
according to law, and by mailing q
copy of this citation at least IA days
before said day of hearing, to each OF
the heirs, devisees, legatees of said de-
cedent whose names and addresses are
known and appear from the files of this
Court.
Witness the Judge of said Court. this
10th day of March, A. D. 1915.
E. W. BAZILLE,
(Seal of Probate Court)
Attest: +. w. Gosewisch,
Clerk of Probate.
Douglas, Kennedy & Kennedy,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
VANDALs ARRESTED
TWO YOUNG MEN WHO DESTROY
ED A STATUE BOUND OVER
TO THE COURT.

Vandals gained entrance to the
court at the Ursu1ine Convent, in Tiff
fin, Ohio, early last week and top
pied from its pedestal the beautiful
statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate
Conception, which was valued at sew.
eral thousand dollars, and was a gift
from a former patron of the convent
1t was broken into three pieces, and
is damaged beyond repair.
The statue was six feet high and
was of pure white Carrara marble. II
weighed 2,10O pounds and was mount
ed on base of Bedford stone.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
DIOCESE OF DULUTH.

Hibbing: Rev. Raphael Annecchia-
rico, who was driven from Mexico by
the Revolutionists, has assumed charge
of the Italian parish of the Immacu-
late Conception, formerly attended by
Rev. N. Gambini, who returned to
Italy after the earthquake which dew
astated the country some months ago.
Father Annecchiarico lived in Mexico
for eight years and is member of
the Order of Mercy for the Redemp-
ton of Slaves. He will also minister
to the Italian Catholics in the Range
towns. Since the departure of Father
Gambini the congregation of the I'M
maculate Conception parish has been
attended to by Father Zarrilli of Du-
luth.
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Thomas Talbot Miss Margaret Drew
will preside at the organ.

Thomas Talbot. Miss Margaret Drew
will preside at the organ.
Church of the Incarnation: "The
Passion Play of Oberammergau" will
be given in the Church of the Incarna-
ton, Minneapolis, as a stereopticOn
lecture, Sunday evening, March %, by
Reverend ]. M. Cleary. 1t has been
Father Cleary's usual custom for the
past twenty years to prepare his con-
gregation for Holy Week by present
ing on Palm Sunday, his account of
the far-famed religious drama of the
Bavarian peasants. 1t will be given
this year in connection with a sacred
concert. THE Palms" will be sung
before the lecture by w. u. Moffett.
Mrs. TIME Murphy Sheehan will sing
1.-The Holy City" with dissolving views
and she, with Hal B. Griffee, will rem
der 'The Crucifixion" as a closing
number.
Belle PLANE: Professor r. NJ
Lehnerts of the University Of Mime
sofa, delivered his lecture on the
Making of Minnesota" at Fraternity
Hall on Friday evening, March &c,
under the auspices of the local Coun-
Gil of the Knights of Columbus. The
lecture was illustrated with stereopti-
con views and was thoroughly enjoyed
by the audience.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27

Crookston: st. Vincent's Hospital
is now so crowded with patients that
an enlargement thereof will be neces-
sary in the near future.
Rev. E. Lemire of Red Lake Falls
gave the Lenten instruction last We'd
nesday in st. AIMS Church and Father
Trudeau will deliver the Lenten SER
mon in Red Lake Falls next Wednes-
day.
Father Junghans of the Josephinum,
Columbus, Ohio, has been assigned to
the Diocese of Crookston.
Red Lake Falls: The Congregation
of st. Mary's Church reioices over the
fact that the entire debt of the parish
has been liquidated. Rev. Father
Eugene, o. S. B., is preparing plans
for a new presbytery to be built in
the spring.
Warroad: Mother Mary Jeanne of
ST. Joseph's Academy, Crookston, pro-
cured last week number of recruits
for her convent in and about War
road.
A play by local talent was given on
st. Patrick's evening under the aus
pices of the Catholic Ladies' Aid.
Father Bossus will build church
at Malung this spring. Malung is To-
Gated about 10 miles from Roseau.
Badger: The Ladies' Aid is having
the interior of the church finished and
decorated.
Personal: Visitors at the Cathedral
residence were the Revs. Hugo Tell,
o. S. B., S. Bouchard and E. ]. Lemire.
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DIOCESE OF SUPERIOR.

Superior: A ten-day campaign for
the purpose of raising 100000 for a
new orphanage will start on Easter
Monday. 1t is the intention of the
committee representing "a hundred
parishes of the diocese to raise the
sum of $4,000 each day. The new or
phanage will be erected in Superior.
A parochial school, costing 100000,
will soon be started in the Polish par
ish of st. Stanislaus. 1t is planned to
have it ready for the opening of the
school year next September.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
SAINT CLARA COLLEGE.

The annual program in honor of
Saint Patrick was rendered by the
students of st. Clara College, Sinsin-
ava, Wisconsin, on the evening of
March seventeenth. On Friday even
ing, March nineteenth, Piano Recital
was given by Miss Grace Welsh of
the Graduate Class.
The Reverend E. S. Garesche, s. J.,
of Saint Louis gave a practical and
helpful address to the students on the
Lay Apostolate," Saturday afternoon,
March twentieth.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
REQUESTS TO RELIGION
$4,000 LEFT TO CHARITY BY Mr.
MAR or CHICAGO.

Twenty thousand dollars is given to
charity in the will of Charles A. MAR,
filed for probate in Chicago recently.
His widow and five others will share
the remainder of his $4,000 estate.
Mr.. MAR died March 2.
requests of $4,000 are made to the
Little Sisters of the Poor and the
House Of the Good Shepherd. The
Little Company of Mary is given
$4,000.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-27
DIOCESE OF WINONA

Austin: The st. Patrick's Day tenn
perance demonstration was one of the
most successful in the history of st.
parish. The exercises
opened with High Mass in st. Angus
tines Church celebrated by the pas
tor, Right Reverend Mgr e. H. Dew
lin. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. James Donahoe, City Missionary
of st. Paul, who dwelt on the present
state of the liquor traffic in the United
States. After the sermon Mgr. Dew
lin assembled the pulpit and exhorted
all present to take the total abstin-
ence pledge for one year. The con-
gregation of more than one thousand
persons stood up and repeated the
words of the pledge. Other years it
had been customary to ask renewal
of the pledge only from the men who
compose the Total Abstinence Society,
but this year the pastor departed from
the usual custom in order that all who
wished to take the pledge might be
given an opportunity to do so. After
Mass the members of the Total Alb
stinence Society, to the number of
more than two hundred, formed in
line and paraded through the prin-
cipal streets of the city headed by
Tichy's Band and bearing the temper.
ance banner and wearing their regalia
The parade was witnessed by hun.
dreds of people, some of whom came
from quite a distance. At the close
of the parade dinner was served by
the members of the congregation in
the dining hall of the parochial school
and in the evening the dramatic club
of the parish presented Kathleen
Mavourneen" in the school hall.
Wabasha: The annual exercises OF
the Forty Hours Devotion came to q
close in st. Felix Church on Tuesday
evening, March %. The pastor, Right
Reverend Mgr. Wurst, was assisted BY
his brother, Rev. Louis Wurst, of To
nah, Wis, Rev. Peter Trierweiler oil
Durand, Wis, Rev. John Peschges Of
Winona, Rev. Arthur p. O'Moore OF
Kellogg, and Rev. ]. A. Cummiskey Of
Lake City.
Winona: The Forty Hours Devo
ton opened in ST. Joseph's Church OF
March 10, and closed the following
Sunday evening. The pastor, Rev. j
Meier, was assisted by a number Of
touchdown priests.
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Cathedral: Right Reverend Joseph
F. Busch preached his first sermon in
the Cathedral, Sunday evening, March
81, on Christian Self-Denial. The edi-
flee was crowded to the doors, and
several hundred people were unable to
gain admittance.
The devotion of Forty Hours was
opened with Solemn High Mass and
procession on Monday morning, and
closed on Wednesday evening, March
"a. The sermons were preached by
Reverend Joseph Willenbrink from
Princeton, Reverend James Watcher
from st. Augusta, and Reverend P.
Gerard Spielman, o. S. B., from st.
Cloud.
st. Joseph: On March II, st. Bene-
diets Academy was honored by visit
from Most. Reverend Archbishop Ire
land, Right Reverend Bishop Trobec
and Fathers Gibbons of st. Paul
After spending some time in viewing
the beautiful new chapel, the visitors
were conducted to the auditorium.
Here they were greeted by the stu
dents with a song of welcome, and
after an address by Archbishop Ireland
and few words of farewell from
Bishop Trobec, they proceeded to visit
the different departments of the Col
lege and Academy The Most Rever-
end Archbishop expressed his satisfac-
ton with the growth of the institu-
ton since his last visit.
At seven P. M. Miss Marjorie Red
mond of Butte, Montana, gave her
Graduating Recital in Piano before
a large assembly in the auditorium of
the college. Miss Redmond showed
careful training and pleased her audi
ence by her artistic rendition of the
different numberse.
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SPECIAL ATTENTION TO COMMUNION PHOTOS

Neil Hoke, son of Probate Judge
Hoke, and Clary Snyder, two young
men of Tifin, o., were arrested and
charged with the malicious destruction
of the statue One of them con-
fessed, and said they were drunk at
the time and thought it would be a
joke to carry the statue to the yard
of a friend living several blocks away.
In their attempt to dislodge the statue
it was overturned and broken. Both
were bound over to the court.
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PASSES AWAY
FOUNDED MONASTERY AT RRIGH.
TON, MASS.

Very Rev. Cornelius Thompson, C.
P, rector of Blessed Gabriel Passion
list Monastery, Brighton, Mass, died
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on March IA. He
was operated on for appendicitis and
was thought to be improving when his
condition suddenly changed and death
ensued.
Father Cornelius was born in Pitts
burgh in 1872, and was ordained April
20, 1895, at st. Paul, Kan Shortly
after he was sent to st. Joseph Mon
astery, Baltimore, where he taught
and later served as rector. Three
years ago he was appointed rector of
the Brighton institution and was re-
garded as one of the most capable
rectors in the Passionist Order.