The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-09

Sisters High SchooI.-At Spring
field, Mo, the Sisters of Mercy Will
open a high school.
Editor OF Spanish WeekIy.-Ci NJ.
Garde. S. J., will edit the Revistas Cat
tolica, "a Spanish Catholic weekly, pub
lished lat Las Vegas, N. M.
President of Y. M. NJ. u.-Mri Mi
chael J. Slattery, of Philadelphia, was
reelected president OF the Young
Mems National Union.
CoIored Sisters Work.-A commun-
ity of colored Sisters in Baltimore |
conducts an academy for negro girls |
and an orphanage III which there are |
ninety destitute children. They also |
teach in parochial schools in Balt- |
more and Washington, Missouri, Kan |
sas, and Cuba.
Preventive of Disease.-Owing to
the continued spread of infantile par
alysis in Philadelphia, Archbishop
Prendergast has, at the request OIL the
health authorities, given orders that
no gatherings of Catholic children I'M
der sixteen years of age shall be per-
United in churches whether for Mass
or Sunday school until further notice.
The Church in British Guiana
The new mission field, British Guiana,
assigned to the care OF the jesuit
Fathers of the New Orleans Province,
is some ninety thousand square miles
in extent and has a population OF
about 100000 souls. The Catholic
population is about $4,000, which is
served by twenty-siX churches and five
mission stations. There are seventeen
priests.
Marianists Teach High School.-The
Brothers of Mary, otherwise the Soci-
ETY. of Mary of Paris, officially des1g-
mated by the Roman Curia as Marian
lists to distinguish them from the Mar
lists, have been selected for the facul-
ty of the West Philadelphia Catholic
High School for Boys, now being
erected at Forty ninth and Chestnut
streets.
Chicago Pastor Dead.-Rev. Domi-
nick Egan, for thirty years pastor OF
St Stephens Church, in Chicago, died
recently at Mercy hospital. Father
Egan was born at Cork, Ireland, 70
years ago and was educated at May
nooth College. He was ordained in
this country at the age OF %, and had
charge of Harvard, H., parish for
more than twenty years.
Newark CathedraI.-All of the stone
work of the new Cathedral of the Sa-
cred Heart in Newark, N. j., has been
completed and contractors have be-
gun the interior work. When the edi-
flee is finally turned over to Bishop
O'Connor, it will have cost approx
mately million and a half dollars.
Priests Slayers Taken. = Hunted
within the Arctic circle, Eskimos ac-
cused Of numbering Father, Laroux
and Father Rouvier, Catholic priests,
in November 1913, have been captur-
ed by a party commanded by lnspec-
tor Lanause of the Northwest Mount
ed Police, according to word received
at ottawa, Canada, from Nome, Alas
ka The prisoners are reported to
have confessed.
Press Agent a cathoIIc.-It IS not
generally known that Richard F. Ham
ilton, who died in Baltimore last week,
and who was better known as "Tody
Hamilton, the greatest8press agent
that ever lived was a Catholic He
was born in New York city in 1847,
and studied at Fordham College. At
forwards he went to work in news
paper Office which gave him the train
ing that brought him into such great
success as publicity agent for Barnum
and Bailey's circus.
Submarine Designed by Catholic
The submarine Holland, designed
and built for the United States Gov
eminent by the late John P. Holland,
the Irish Catholic school-master, has
become the property of the people of
the city of New York. 1t was present
ed to an historical society by DR.. Peter
J. Gibbons, who purchased it from
junk dealers in Philadelphia, who
were about to destroy it for it's iron
and steel. Elizabeth, N. j., the city in
which the boat was built, and one of
the several that applied for it's pos
session, waived it's claim in favor of
New York.
Mrs. Rttman Honored.-Word has
just reached the Chicago Office of the
Women's Catholic Order of Foresters
to the effect that Mrs. Rose D. Ritz
man, high chief ranger, was unan
imously elected president of the Presi-
dents Section of the National Frater-
nal Congress lately in session at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Nebraska A. o. n. Meet.-The An
cient Order of Hibernians, of Nebras-
ka, held the state convention on Sun
day, September 3, at the Henshaw no.
tel, Omaha, commencing at p. m.
State President Rev. M. A. Shine, of
Plattsmouth, Neb., presided. A large
number, many of them coming from
out in the state, were in attendance. A
banquet was given in the evening.