The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-19
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Convent Damaged.-The Convent of
st. Anne de la Pocatiere, Quebec,
Canada, was almost totally destroyed
by fire recently.
Catholic Ladies' Convention.-TLast
week, the Catholic Ladies of Column
bia held biennial convention in To
ledo, Ohio. Their organization has a
reserve fund of 100000.
A Noted Observation-Disclosures HUI
bert, professor of astronomy at the
Christian Brothers College, st. Louis,
observed eighty-four spots on the sun
on July "a. Ten days previously |
Brother Hubert observed one spot on |
the sun. This spot, which had diam
eter of $4,000 miles, began to break |
up into smaller spots.
Estate to charity.-A number of
Catholic charities in and around Bos-
ton are bequeathed almost the entire |
estate of Mrs. Ellen Dunno of Salem, |
Mass, who died on July 13. The |
estate is estimated to be worth |
$4,000.
Home for Catholic GirIs.-Right
Reverend Mgr. Arthur J. feeling, ID.
D., of St. Mary's Church, Lynn, Mass,
is to erect at his own personal ex-
pense a splendid home for Catholic
young women.
A Kentucky Shrine.-Thirty years
ago, a shrine of Our Lady of Per-
petual Help was erected and blessed
in the Cathedral of Louisville, KY.
Since then the shrine Shas been con-
tinuous object of pilgrimage.
oblate Priest Decorated.-Rev.
Louis Adolphe Fortier, o. M. l., for
merly of Saint Sauveur, Quebec, Can,
chaplain on the French battlefield, has
been decorated with the Military
Cross.
Mother Superior Dead. = Mother
Mary Fabian, who had been several
times reelected to three-year terms
as head of the Sisters of Mercy in
Connecticut, died on July 20 of heart
disease at st. Joseph's Convent, Hart
. ford, after a months illness. Mother
Fabian, whose name before her VOWS
was Kane, was born in Darien, Conn.
She was fifty-siX years of age.
Master Re-Appointed.-Richa J.
Hennessey, Milwaukee, Wis, has been
re-appointed Master of the Fourth De-
Kpir IF hnc
province of Marquette, by Supreme
Master John H. Reddin, Denver. Mr..
Hennessey was appointed two years
ago to succeed Judge Michael s.
Sheridan.
Joyce KiImer Injured.-Mr. Joyce
Kilmer, the brilliant young Catholic
poet and writer, was painfully injured
on July &c in an accident at Suffern,
N. Y, when he was knocked down
by an Erie railroad train. He was
on his way from his home in Mahwah
to New York and in his hurry to
catch the train he attempted to cross
the tracks in front of the speeding
train. The pilot of the engine struck
him with full force and he was
knocked down. He was hurled ten
feet through the air and landed on
his side, breaking several ribs.
Elected Mother Superior.-Mother
Clarassine, of the Sisters of Loretto
and until recently the head of Loret-
to Academy at Pueblo, Colo, has been
made Mother Superior of the Denvers
great Academy ''Loretto, Heights"
The Loretto Sisters of Kentucky were
the first religious order to take up
work in the State of Colorado.
Camp ozanam for Boys.-The St.
Vincent de Paul Society of Toronto,
Canada, has established a Camp
Ozanam for boys at Pickering, Ont.
The Society is also considering the
establishment of holiday camps for
little girls and for mothers with
infants.
A Catholic PoIk.-Hilliard Polk, of
Monrovia, Cal, great-great-grandson of
Colonel William Polk, of the Revolu-
ton, who was a brother of Ezekiah
Polk, grandfather of President Polk,
has been appointed a cadet at West
Point. He is a Catholic and a great
nephew of Major General Leonides
Polk, of Civil War fame, who resigned
the Protestant Episcopalian bishopric
of Louisiana to fight for the Confeder-
acy.
Church Reopened for Services.-St
John Catholic Church, near Columbus,
Ind, in which services had not been
held for twenty years and around
which timber and weeds had grown
in wild profusion, has been redeemed
and Rev. C. P. Baron is now holding
services in the sacred edifice, the first
time in twenty years. Good women of
the vicinity, by cleaning the building
and identifying the surrounding
grounds, made it fit for divine serv-
ices again.
Pianist Visits Bishop.-While en-
route to his summer home in Califor-
mia, Paderewski, the great pianist,
made a trip to Green Bay, Wis, to
visit Bishop Rhode, with whom he has
enjoyed friendship for several years
duration. The Bishop entertained Mr.