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Texas Pastor Dies.-Rev. George |
pastor of Bay City and mis-
sions, Texas, died on Friday, Decem-
Der IL, at Cuyomel, Spanish Honduras,
whittier he had gone for the benefit |
Of his health. Father Montreuil was
4 priest of the Ogdensburg diocese,
formerly in charge of the missions of
Long Lake, Blue Lake and Newcomb |
IN the Adirondacks, New York. His
to seek a southern climate Com
mended by Bishop Gabriels to Bishop
Gallagher of Galveston he went 10
Texas in April. 1911.
Catholic Journalist Dies.--Eugene
Geary, writer OF delightful verse,
who was for the last three years
editor of trade journal. died at the
Harlem Hospital, New York, recently,
in his fifty-third year. Fie was born
in Ireland and came to this country
in his youth. AS a newspaper man he
had had a wide experience. He was
sent abroad by newspapers on several
occasions to interview Tennyson,
Swinburne, Rossetti, and other famous
men Of letters. He was an authority
on Shakespeare and lectred at Co
lumbia and Fordham Universities on
the dramatists.
McDonalds of Nova Scotia.-Few
Nova Scotia families have an ancestry
brighter with distinguished British
military service than the family Of
the McDonalds, of Antigonish, of
which the late Dr. Mcdonald, affec-
tionately known as DR. .Bills's by the
people of the Eastern Counties, and
also Dr. Dan" Mcdonald We're mem
bers. BY a descendant we were shown
photos Of three members of the
family. One was of Lord Mcdonald,
Lord of the Isles, who at one time
was Acknowledgement, Commandant
Of the British. Another officer, son
Of the above, Donald Mcdonald, and
brother of the old DR.. Mcdonald of
Antagonist, fought at Waterloo. And
there is still living in Australia, at the
age of So, brother of DR.. Bill
Lt-Col Archibald Mcdonald, who is
the oldest medical officer in that Com
monwealth, having been attached to
the Australian forces for over fifty
years of service.
New Baltimore Morsienori.-A
Christmas giftfrom Pope Benedict XIV
to the Catholics of Baltimore, and
particularly the Southern section Of
the city, was announced recently in
the appointment of Rev. James P.
Holden, pastor of ST. Jerome Church.
and Rev. John T. Whelan, pastor of
ST. Mary Star of the Sea, of that city
to the papal household with the title
of Monsignor.
Prominent Boston Catholic Dead
| William Summers Pelletier, father OF
District Attorney Pelletier, died re
Gently at his home in Boston, Mass.
at the age of eighty-nine. Always q
| devoted Catholic Mr. Pelletier was fo1
| years a close personal friend of the
late Archbishop Williams. AS a young
man he was superintendent of the
Sunday-school in the old Cathedral 81
the Holy Cross. In 1853 he organized
the Catholic Friend Society, the worl
of which was taken up later by the
ST. Vincent de Paul Society He was
a member of the Handel and HaydI
Society for many years and the
liable Irish Society. He was mem
Der of the Boston Oratorical Society
the Catholic Choral Society. one o
the founders of the Home for Desti
tute Catholic Children on Harrison
Avenue, the Young Mems Catholic
Association of Boston and the Catho
lie Union, of which he was for Ion!
time secretary He never sough
public Office and served but once ii
such capacity. This was as mem
Der of the school committee in the oil
town of Roxbury, just before it wa
annexed to Boston.
Death of Wisconsin Priest.-Th
death of Rev. Father Amos P. Johns
C. S. Sp., an assistant priest of Notr
Dame parish, Chippewa Falls, Wis
occurred recently. Father Johns wa
born in Kansas thirty-three years age
His family was of Welsh-Irish descent
He came to Northern Wisconsin whel
he was about twenty years of age
and for time worked in the woods
Being taken i'll, he was brought to 81
Joseph's Hospital, Chippewa Falls
about twelve years ago. There he be
came acquainted with Father Rebel
the hospital chaplain, who inspired
him to study for the priesthood. Upol
his recovery, he went Immediately t
Pittsburgh, Pa, where he complete,
his classical and college course at TIL
Pittsburgh College of the Holy Ghos
Fathers From Pittsburgh he wa
sent to Europe, where he finished hi
theological studies and was ordaine'
a priest in Paris, two years ago, HI
became member of the Congregation
of the Holy Ghost, and, upon his re
turn to America, taught for one yea
in the Seminary of the Holy Ghos
Fathers, at Frendale, Conn.