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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08

At the request OF Right Reverend
Bishop Byrne Of Nashville, Tenn, the
Dominican Fathers CT St Joseph's
Province have taken charge OF st.
Mary'3 parish, Johnson City, Tenn.
and will make it the headquarters OF
their missionary labors in that
state.
The Reverend s. r. Brockbank, O.
p, formerly OF the Dominican Con-
vent, Minneapolis, and a member OF
the missionary band engaged in
preaching missions throughout the
Northwest, has been appointed pas
tor of st. Mary's Church and director
of the missions. lie comes to John
son City directly from HIoustcn
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08
DIES IN EXILE
FATHER BARcELO, OF. SONORA,
MEXICO, BURIED AT DOUGLAS,
ARIZONA.

The Reverend Angel Maria Barcelo,
sixty-five years OF age, whose deatlris
attributed by bis friends to broken
heart because Of his exile from Son
at Douglas, Ariz., On April 3. Requiem
Mass was celebrated by the Very Rev
NJ. Portela of Sonora, and the service
was attended by five other priests,
four of them eXiles from Mexico.
Father Barcelo, realizing that his
death was near at hand, sought permis-
sion from General Gales, military
governor CT Sonora, to return to
Granados, his birthplace, but permis-
sion was refused
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08
CHURCH DAMAGED

Crossed electric wires caused a fire
in st. Raphaers Church, Madison,
Wis, near the state capitol, on Sun
day morning, April 2, destroying the
pipe organ. valued at $4,000, and
damaging the building to the extent
of $4,000 Tic loss is covered BY
insurance.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08
$50 AoDED TO THE FUND
THROUGH THE CATHOLIC BUL-
LETIN-NAMEc OF THE DON
oRS.

1t is very gratifying to note the
number Ct people outside the City OF
st. Paul who are taking a practical
interest in the completion cf the
Chapel Of the Blessed Virgin in the
new Cathedral. This is evidenced b.
the steadilyincreasin2 number Of con
tributions made to the fund each week
through The Catholic Bulletin. Since
last issue We have received a total Of
sixty dollars, from The following con
tributOrs:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08
NEW DOMINICAN PARISH

BISHOP BYRNE or NASHVILLE
CALLS DOMINICAN FATHERS
TO ST. Mays PARISH, JOHN
CON CITY = FATHER BROCK
BANK, Q. p, FORMERLY CT
MlNNEApCLi APPOINTED PAS
TOR AND DIRECTOR OF MIG.
SlCNS.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08

ST. Vincent de Paul, patron CT our
Society, was born OF peasant parent
age at Puoy, Gascony, France in 1876,
was ordained a priest in, 1900 and
died in 1860. Very early in his
priestly career he began giving mis-
sions to the humble country folk and
villagers Several learned Paris
priests soon Joined him in this work
and conferences of charity were wide
~ established Ills love for and SYM
pathy with the poor was the passion
of his long life NJ de Gcndi. who
became his patron, was General Of
the gaIleys of France and the poor
galley slaves became objects Of ST.
Vincent's care and charity His work
grew rapidly and branched out in
many directions Assisted by the veal
thy, he established schools and SEM
inaries; and his retreats held every
Tuesday at St Lazare. were attended,
during the last twenty-five years Of
his life, by mere than twenty thousand
priests and laymen. The great Bos-
suet attended them and Richelieu
made generous contributions to the
different works originated by St Vim
cent The Sisters Of Charity, at first
the Daughters Of Charity. sprang up
under his care The zeal for and
growth in good and holy work fostered
by him ccnlinaed for years after his
death.
The Beginning Of the Society
In 1893. Frederic ozanam, with
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08
CHARITY

AN ADDRESS BY j. C. NOLAN,
PRESIDENT OF THE PARTlcU-
LAR COUNCIL OF THE ST. VIM
CENT DE PAUL SOCIETY, BE-
FORE THE GUILD OF CATHOLIC
WOMEN AT ITS REGULAR MEET
ING LAST MONDAY, IN THE
WILDER CHARITY BUILDING.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-08
PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH MGR. LEWIS DEAD

BRIEF OF HIS HOLINESS POPE
BENEDICT XIV TO THE DIRECT
oRs OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE
PROPAGATlON OF THE FAITH.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
GREAT RUSSIAN DRIVE HALTED
MONTENEGRO SUES FOR PEACE
ENTENTE TROOPS NEAR ATHENS
Gar Rushing Up Reinforcements for Second Phase of
Campaign---Losses Placed at Notwithstanding
Great Fortress of Lutsk in VoIhynia Triangle
ITALY DECIDES TO ABANDON THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN

London.-MontenegIo, beaten and
overrun by the Austrian legions, sued
for peace and agreed to lay down
her arms. Vienna reported King
Nicholas surrender as unconditional.
Announcement of this first break in
the ranks of the Allies was made by
Count Tisza in the Hungarian Pariia-
ment and was received with great re-
joicing in Budapest. The Joy was re-
Elected in Berlin.
Austria offered a separate peace
by the terms of which Montenegro
cedes Mount Lorcen and Austria guar
antees Scutari, now in Albania, to
Montenegro.
Montenegro declared war on Austria
on Aug. Z, 1914, and on Germany five
days later. The peace negotiations
therefore will include the conclusion
of a peace with Germany.
The Montenegrins invaded Bosnia
and Herzegovina, cooperating with
the Serbians. They were poorly
equipped and were unable to make
much progress, but retained a hold on
a small portion of Austrian territory
until only a few weeks ago. At no
time did the M~ontenegrin army ex-
coed SO, 900 men.
The Austrian invasion of Montene-
gro began shortly after the Austro-
German drive against Serbia.
A Berlin dispatch contains the first
intimations of the landing of Allied
troops near Athens. The dispatch is
one giving the opinion that the En-
tente Powers intend to use extreme
means in forcing Greece's hand and
calls up in evidence the landing of
Allied troops at Phaleron, five miles
southwest of Athens.
The Serbian government fed across
the Adriatic and the new capital is to
be established in Brindisi, Italy, where
40 members of the Serbian cabinet
have arrived from Scutari, accom-
panied by diplomats of the Allied pow
ers accredited to King Peter, Vienna
declared.
Italy has abandoned all plans of
participating in the Balkan campaign
and is preparing to evacuate Albania,
according to the Austrian advices.
Victories by the British relief col
m advancing along the Tigris have
again driven the Turks back, this time
to Essian, six miles from Kut-el-
Amara, according to an announcement
in the House of Commons by J. Aus
ten Chamberlain, Secretary for India.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
FOREIGN

Inc conservative party has re
nominated General Menocal for the
Presidency of the Republic OF Cuba
by a vote of 40 out Of 100.
Edouard Fabre, famous long-dis-
lance runner, enlisted in the hospital
corps of the Canadian expeditionary
force at Montreal.
Prince Eitel Friedrich is reported
to have visited his uncle, King Con-
stantine of Greece, on a special mis-
sion for the German Government.
A wireless call for help was re-
ceived at Viga, Spain, from the Bel
gian steamship Lille, which reported
that she is afre 1876 miles off Viga.
The Stefan Agency that
a subscription of 81, 200, 900 lire has
been made to the new Italian national
loan by National Insurance Institution.
Damage of $500, 900 was caused
when the Grand Canal burst it's banks
at Edenderry, Kings County, Ireland.
No lives were lost.
Elvizio Crivelli, editor of the Swiss
newspaper II Ragno. was fined 300
francs and cost at Lugano for pub
fishing a scurrilous poem on Emperor
William.
Direct passenger train service be-
tween Berlin and Constantinoplo was
~inaugurated.
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WAR BULLETINS

Italy is Withdrawing her troops from
Albania. Her patrols at Avlona have
been ordered home. 1t is understood
that Italy has decided to send no
aid to the Allies in the Balkan cam
paign.
Piraeus, the port Of Athens, five
miles from the Greek capital, was
occupied by a Franco-British force.
The Paris Petit Journal has sug-
gested that a statue of Brand Whit
lock, American Ambassador to Belgi-
UNI, be erected after the war in recog-
milton of his help to the peoplN.
Persia is reported to have & ,clared
war against Russia and England.
Italy has abandoned all her pans
of participating in the Balkan cam
paign am is preparing to evacuate
Albania. according to advices received
in Vienna.
The Spanish steamer Belgica has
been sunk by a submarine. Twenty
three of her crew have been rescued.
The Danish steamship Skinfaxe,
Baltimore for Sv~endborg, taken into
Kirkwall for examination, has been
released.
Col. Maurice de Wattenwyf and Col.
Egli, both members of the Swiss Gen
eral Staff, have been charged with
treason.
The National Railwaymen's Union,
one of the strongest labor organiza-
tons in Great Britain, deied the Gov
eminent to enact the CONSUMPTION bill.
The wrecking of the Demir-Hissar
bridge v the Struma River by the
French was accomplished over the
objection of the Greek troops guard
ing the bridge.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
SPORTING

Following up his victory over DR..
Roller, Robert Frederick, alias
Stranger Lewis" accomplished the
unexpected by downing Wladek
Zbyszko, the young Polish Hercules,
in one hour twenty-seven minutes and
seven seconds.
Freddie Welsh, the worlds light,
weight champion, defeated Eddie Nc
Andrews in n of the ia test bouts
ever staged in Philadelphia.
A San Francisco golfer has so train
ed an Irish terrier that the dog will
retrieve golf balls driven from a tee.
1t is said that the canine caddie is
so proficient that he will retrieve at
the rate of 100 balls an hour without
losing a single one.
Coach Hillman of Dartmouth may
use Harry Worthington, the broad
jump champion, on the Green one-mile
relay team this winter. Worthington
has done close to so seconds for the
quarter.
George L. Lyon, "a, of Durham, N.
c., amateur champion trap shooter,
died in Albuquerque, N. M, of tuber-
culosis.
Steve Yerkes, former second base
mar of the Pittsburgh Feds, has been
purchased by the Cubs. The price is
said to be $4,000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
GENERAL

Heavy property damage has been
done in Belgium by the overlooking
of the River Scheldt, caused by the
Holland floods.
Pittsburgh is suffering from a short
age OF laborers, employment for near
ly 5000 skilled and unskilled laborers
going begging.
Portland, Me-, is requesting bids for
a temporary loan of $3.50, 0O0.
Temperature of two degrees below
zero was recorded at Cincinnati.
Four persons were seriously injured
when an Illinois Central passenger
train jumped the track near Pisgah,
Iowa.
Captain Alfred Matson, civil war ma
val veteran, died at his home at
Marshfeld, Ore.
The Panama Canal is expected to he
open to small craft in a short time.
Life belts specially made for chill
dren UP to y years of age were car
ried on the steamship MuIamar when
she sailed from New York for An
tilla, Cuba.
A slight earthquake was felt at
Yuma, AriZ.
Fire destroyed the high school
group of buildings in Chicopee, Mass.
A nigh wind was raging. The loss
was estimated at $780, 600.
Col. r. M. Powell, the last surviving
member of Hoods Fifth Texas Bril-
gade of the Confederate Army, died
of pneumania at his home in St.
Louis.
About LOO employees of the Corn
Products Refining Co., at Argo, H.,
will receive an increase of 10 per cent
in wages.
The Duke of Connaught is suffering
from an attack of grip at Ottawa,
Canada.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

Great Britain and France made a de-
mand on Greece for the dismissal
OF the diplomatic representatives of
the Central Powers, the note beinq,
in effect, an uItimatum.
BY landing at corinth the Allies have
a line of bases almost surrounding
Greece-at SaIoniki on the east, at
Corinth on the south and at Corfu
on the west.
The British and French on the west
ern line continue their artillery
dueIs with the Germans. Paris re-
ports the shattering of German
trenches in the region of Moulin
Sous-Toutvent.
The French General SarraiI has taken
supreme command of the Entente
forces at SaIoniki.
The British and the Russians in
Mesopotamia and the Caucasus re-
gIon respectively, are PRESSING the
Turks hard.
Premier Asquith dispeIIed all rumors
that the British Compulsory Mill.
tary Service bill might be with.
drawn as a result of the attacks Of
labor unions by announcing in the
House of Commons the intention Of
the Government to carry it through.
Emperor William has left Berlin for
the front
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
TURKS SUFFER sETHAcks.

London.-On each of the three prin.
clpal theatres in the Near East, wide
~ separated but interdependent, the
Turks have suffered serious setbacks.
In Mesopotamia the British relief
force marching to the aid of the army
locked up at Kut-el-Amara has driven
the Turks twenty-five miles northward
along the Tigris.
In Persia the Russians who recently
took the city of Hamadan have cap
tured the town of Kengavar, half way
etWee Hamadan and Kermanshah,
which is in the hands of the Turks,
Both places lie on the road to Bagdad.
n Russian success may seriously
affect the Turkish campaign in Meso-
potamia.
In h Caucasus the REINFORCED
Russians have launched a new often
sive on a 100 mile front. A ive-day
battle resulted in a defeat of the
Turks in the Kavardag region.
The British force which recently
started from Iami-Ali-Gherbi to the
relief of the As, British trooops
bottled up at Kut-elAmara, sixty-two
miles further up the Tigris, have
reached Orah, twenty-five miles from
kut-el-Amara, and is still advancing.
According to an official announce
nent the British attacked the Turks
above Orah and forced them to re-
treat further. At last accounts the
British were still in pursuit.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
AUSTRIAN CRUISER SUNK.

Rome.-KermanshaE, the so-called
capital of Persia, has been occupied
by the Turks.
The city is important commercial
ly, famous for it's rugs and carpets
and surrounded by a fertile wheat
country.
Unofficial dispatches from Berlin in
announcing the Turkish move sail
the Ottoman forces were warmly well
coined by the population.
A naval encounter is reported in
the Adriatic Sea and an Austrian
cruiser of the Novara type has been
sunk by the French submarine Fou-
cault, operating with the Italian fleet.
This is the first time recently that
any of the warships of the Allies have
been reported in those waters.
Austria has four scout cruisers OF
the Novara type, the oilers being the
Helgoland, Saba and Admiral Shaun.
They have a displacement of 1884
tons and carry in their armament two
1S-inch torpedo tubes and nine 49,
inch guns.
With the flag of the Dual Monarchy
flying over Cettinje the Austro-Hun-
garians are moving rapidly southwark
toward the fortified port of Antivari,
driving before them by force of num-
bers the soldiers of King Nicholas.
Montenegro is now encompassad on
all sides, except in the south, by the
invaders, and across the southern bor-
der in Albania, should they be driven
there, they will have to fight the AL
bantam tribesmen.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21

Berlin.-The great Russian drive in
East Galicia and on The Bessarabian
frontier has been definitely checked,
Vienna announced.
In the twenty-five days of contin-
uous fighting, which has come to be
known as the New Years battle"
contested on an eighty-mile front, the
Russian losses are estimated at 70, 900
men killed or wounded and 5000
captured.
No figures are given of the Austrian
losses, but they have been reported at
Several stages to have been "stagger-
ing"
Dispatches from Kiev say the Ger
mans are eyacuating Lutsk, the i'm
portant fortress in Volhyn.a, one of
the strongholds around which there
was desperate fighting, with great
losses. in the onward sweep of the
Germans last fall.
Further north, to the southeast of
Riga and south of Widsy, the Rus
slams surprised German posts in a
snowstorm and destroyed them.
The checking of the Russians in
their Galician offensive is admitted by
Vienna to end only one phase of the
movement, as the Car is rushing rein
forcements into the district, and end
less lines of troops and many big guns
are reaching the front.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
WASHINGTON

Vienna is prepared to take up with
the United States the questions in
volved in permitting merchant ships
armed for defensive purposes to
leave American ports.
For the first time in a decade or
more, the Supreme Court was dis
qualified to hear an argument in Gov
eminent cases because only five mem
bers were present. Absence was
caused by grip.
The State Department was advised
that the reciprocity agreement be.
tween the United States and Brazil
had been extended by the Brazilian
Government to include the year 1916.
A study of neutral rights and duties
from the point of view of neutrals
rather than of belligerents is the first
task to be proposed by Secretary
Lansing for the newly organized Am
erican Institute of Internationa' Law.
The disastrous explosion on the E-2
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Saturday
has increased the feeling in congress
that the navy is not up to the minute
in the matter of submarine construc-
ton and operation.
Reports received by the Department
of Justice from an agent indicate that
the recent explosions in the powder
plant neal Wilmington, Del, were due
to accidents.
1t would take at least 27O, 900 men
to clean up Mexico as Cuba was clean
ed up. This was the viewpoint held
by members of the Army General
Staff.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
CAN EQUIP 100000 SOLDIERS.

Outfit Now in Store or Readily Pur-
chased, Says Quartermaster.
Washington. = Quartermaster Cen
eral Aleshire told the House Military
Committee that equipment for an
army of 100000 men was either in the
Government storehouses, or can be
bought in the open market in less
than three months. Equipment for
100000 is in army or militia depots.
and manufacturing concern could
easily turn out equipment for 300, 900
in 80 days.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21

Gold coin to the amount of $250,000
was withdrawn from the New York
~sub-treasury for shipment to Canada
The plant of the Asbury Park IN,
j., Press was destroyed by fire at a
loss of $1,000 600. One fireman was
badly hurt.
A Chicago Board of Trade member
ship was sold at $4,000, an increase
of 500 over the last previous sale
The national convention of the
opened in Indianapolis.
President Wilson has decided to ap-
point John J.. Sinnott to be postmaster
at Newark, N. ].
The New Haven Railroad will not
raise it's freight embargo for some
time, General Manager Bardo stated
at New Haven.
A report issued by the Kansas State
Department of Agriculture estimates
the area of wheat sown in Kansas
last fall at S,454,0 600 acres.
Six thousand garment workers,
mostly women and girls, went on
strike in Philadelphia for higher
wages, closing about $50 factories.
Restoration of order along the Mex
lean horde is demanded in a resolu,
ton introduced in the Senate by Sem
ator Gore of Oklahoma.
Manufacture of $500 freight cars
for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie a
road will be started Immediately at
the New Castle, Pa, plant OF the
Standard Steel Car Co.
A bill to regulate the price of gaso-
line was introduced in the House OF
Representatives by Johnson of Ken
lucky.
Henry S. Ames, vice-president of
the Mississippi Valley Trust Co., died
Of pneumonia in st. Louis.
Articles of incorporation were filed
at Dover, Del, by the American Chem
ical and By-Products Co., capital 3d.
10000.
After having been refused a 10 per
cent wage increase, 100 weavers at
the Lowell, Mass. mill of the Bay
State Cotton Corporation went on
strike.
Harry Baird, police sergeant, shot
and killed his two young sons, and
then himself at his home in Chicago.
He is thought to have been insane.
Lieut.. Rufus G. Fessenden, 6 feet
6 inches high, the tallest man in the
Boston Police Department, died in
Boston of pneumonia, aged 81.
Joseph COIN, a Rumanian, escaped
from the Matteawan, N. Y, State Hos
pital. He was to have been deported
in a few days.
A speed of PLAT knots Yves reached
by the superintendent Nevada in
one mile of her standardization runs
off Rockland, Me.
The gunboat Paducah, laid up fer
repairs at the Portsmouth, N. H.,
Navy Yard for several months, left
there for Guantanamo.
More than rs families were removed
in boats from their homes when the
Ohio river flooded it's banks at Evans
vile, Ind.
Miss Ida May Swift, daughter of the
Chicago packer, was married in Chi.
cage to Count James Minotto OF
Venice.
Gov. Willis of Ohio ordered the
withdrawal of the Eighth Regiment
from strike duty at Youngstown.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
KAISER DENIES SINKING PERSIA.
Declares to U. S. That All Her
U-Boats Were Elsewhere.

Washington.-It was not a German
submarine that sank the British liner
Persia in the Mediterranean, accord
ing to the German Government, which
disclaimed responsibility in a tote to
Washington handed to Ambassador
Gerard in Berlin. Dispatches to the
State Department from Berlin said
that all the German submarine com
manders had reported since the steam
ship was sunk. None of the U-boats
was even in the vicinity of the spot
where the Persia went down.
Austria had previously denied any
knowledge of the sinking of the Per.
STA.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
Court Denounces Petitioners.

Judge Marchall in the Mercer Court
severely denounced a number of per-
sons who had requested a prison SEN
tence for A. A. Temple, of Trenton
Junction. who was fined $3.50 and costs
amounting in all to $254.68, for firing
a shotgun into a crowd of young men
whom he believed were playing
pranks on him last Halloween.
Justice of the Peace Nicholas Bin
der was fined 5000 and costs, mount
ing to $319.34 for extortion. 1t was
charged that he exacted a fee for
drawing a criminal complaint, for
which the county is supposed to pay
all expenses.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
COLONEL HOUSE HusTLlNe.
viii Hasten Journey to Report Find.
ings to President.

London.-That Colonel House is
anxious to return as soon as possible
to America is shown by the fact that
he has practically abandoned his plan
to make a side trip to Italy to visit
his closest personal friend. Ambassa-
dor Thomas Nelson Page. Colonel
House has likewise advanced the tim4
of his departure for Paris. After a
few days in Paris. Colonel House will
go to Switzerland. ]
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
GRIST OF NEWS
OVER The WIRES
Geographic and Cable Items
Recording a Weeks Events.
FROM FORTY-EIGHT STATES

Happenings in All Parts of the Union
decisive Battles in the World
War-Washington's Latest Gossip
Reports of Cropsand Business.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-21
s417,a75 Increase in R. R. Tax.

$417,375 Increase In r. r. Tax.
An increase of SALT 1851 in the
total tax upon railroad and canal prop
erty in the State for 1915 over that
OF the previous year is shown in a
statement filed with the State Comp
troller by the State Board of Taxes
and Assessments. This amount is
made up of $88,229.34 for local pur-
poses and $349 ,146.27 for State pur-
poses. The valuation of all such prop
erty increased &c. 09, 5S7.
The valuation placed upon this class
of property for 1915 was 1914, 947, $50,
the State tax of which amounted to
$5,011, 1893. 81, while that for local uses
aggregated $2,206, 321.51, or a total
of $7,21S, 221.32. In 1914 the valuation
was placed at 1884, 1913, 372, the total
tax of which amounted to Sc. $780,
SASH, divided into $4,662, 1884 State
tax and S2,12S ,092.17 local tax.
Since filing the original statement
showing the valuation and tax upon
railroad property last November a
number of the roads have appealed
to the State board, with the result
that the valuations and taxes for State
uses have been considerably reduced,
while the amount of taxes to be de-
voted for local purposes has been
nominally increased. In the aggre-
gate the total taxes have been re-
duced,
AS compared with the statement
filed by the board in November and
the final n after all appeals have
been disposed of the State board de-
2reased ths net valuation by $685.
977; the next State tax by Silt, Boob;
increased the next tax for local pur-
poses by $1,936.69, and decreased the
net total tax to ar amount aggregat-
ing $115,454.04.