The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-01-22
NEW WORLD ITEMS

students.
New Diocesan 6oard.--Right Rev.
Bishop Mcdonnell of BROOKLYN, N. Y,
has formed a diocesan committee to
deal with the city officials in matters
affecting Catholic churches or institu-
tions.
100000 Annex for Sanitarium.-
Right Reverend Joseph P. Lynch, Bish-
op of Dallas, Texas, has laid the cor
ner-stone of the new annex to st.
Paurs Sanitarium, to cost when COM
pleted, about 100000.
ST. Patrck's Day orator.-Former
President Taft has accepted an in
yitation to address the Irish Fellow
ship Club of Chicago, Ill, on st. Pat
rick's Day.
Appointed Pastor of Cathedral
Mgr. Dugas has been appointed parish
priest of the Cathedral of st. Boni-
face, Manitoba, Can, by Archbishop
Beliveau.
Dominican Convent Planned.-The
Sisters of st. Dominic are soon to
locate in San Mateo, Cal, and build
convent and college there.
Non-cathoIic's Gift.-An unnamed
non-Catholic donor gave the handsome
sum of $4,000 to the Sisters Hospital,
Charlottetown, P. E. l., Can, last year.
Trappist Brother Dead.-Brother
Benedict Gillespie, a lay Brother of
the Trappist Order, died at the
Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsema-
ne, Kentucky, 'on December 20, in the
sixty-fifth year of his age and the
twenty-seventh year of his religious
life.
New Hospital opened.-The new st.
Joseph's Hospital at Mason City, Iowa,
was opened on Tuesday, January 4.
Archbishop Keane of Dubuque Off
ciated at the dedication ceremony.
The hospital building cost nearly
100000 The Sisters of Mercy from
Dubuque are in charge.
Two CoIored Sistcrhoods.-There
are two Orders of colored Sisters in
the United States: The Oblates of
Divine Providence, and The Sisters of
the Holy Family. They number
about four hundred members.
State Buys Church Property.-The
State of Pennsylvania has purchased
for $125,OO0 the property of St.
Lawrence's Catholic Church in Har-
risburg for the purpose of charging
the Capitol Park zone. The purchase
includes large brick church, the rec
tory, parochial school and Sisters
home.
Catholic Chinese Mssion.-The
pupils of the Catholic Chinese mis-
sion, Boston, were rendered their sew
enth Christmas dinner and entertain
ment, about fifty attending. Among
the talent were Miss Alice Sen and
her younger sister, who are daughters
of one of the pupils at the mission.
An address in English was delivered
by John Fong Ying, the mission
catechist, and the decorations included
Chinese banners, on which prayers
were inscribed in golden letters. They
we're brought from China by Mr.. Wing.
Appointed Cathedral Verger.-Rich.
ard E. Troy has been selected as
Verger of st. Patrick's Cathedral, New
York City, by Rt. Rev. Mgr M. T.
LaveIe, the rector. Mr.. Troy has
been active in the Cathedral for the
past eighteen years and is identified
with most of the mems societies in
the parish.
Indians Christmas Mass-Thirty
five Indians heard Mass in the domes
tic chapel of Gonzaga University
Spokane, Wash, on Christmas Day
The celebrant at the Mass was Rev
Alexander Diomedi, S. J., who thirty
nine years ago ministered to the
spiritual needs of the Indians Of
Spokane.
Little Sisters JubiIee.-Sister Anne
of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Of
New York, has received the specia.
blessing from the Holy Father on he1
fiftieth anniversary as a Little Sister
of the Poor.
Catholic Alumni Federation.-The
next convention of the 'Internationa
Federation of Catholic Alumnae" will
be in Baltimore. Cardinal Gibbons in
vited it.
SisterConvert Dead.-Sister Mary
Joseph, aged 81 years, one of thu
Oldest members of the Congregation
of the Sisters of Divine Providence
died very suddenly on Christmas da,
in Vinita, Okla, in the thirty-first yeal
of her religious profession Sister 10
seph, who was convert to the faith
entered the convent in 1878.
Stations for covington Cathedral
Early in September. Bishop-elect Bros
sart is to install new Stations of thu
Cross in st. Mary's Cathedral, Gov
ington, Ky. The panels, which are t
be among the finest in America, ar,
hoiuer made in Ifa1v aud orc ~ IL :.