The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-01
NEW WORLD ITEMS

= colIeoe Jubilee.-St. Viator's Col
lege at Bourbonnais, H., will observe
its golden Jubilee next year.
Catholic College chosen.-The Jesu-
# University of Santa Clara, Cal, mas
haen designated by the War depart
ment as reserve officers training
camp.
coIored Catholics. st Monica $
Church in Chicago has been given 10
the pastoral care of the Techny fa-
thers of the Divine Word, who VIII
have charge of the colored CathoncS.
Died Before InVestiture.-The Rlgnt
Rev DR. Donald Chisholm, OF Heather
ron Nova Scotia, who was recently
made Domestic Prelate, died before
his investment, as such, could take
place.
New Hospital opened.-The mag
nifcent new hospital erected by the
Sisters OF Providence at Moose Jaw,
Sask. Canada, has been formally
opened and dedicated. The hospltal
contains l25 beds.
Volunteer for Service in Army
Eighty-fve priests in the Archdiocese
Of New York have volunteered TO
serve as chaplains in the army. Car
dinal Farley has so far selected OF
their number eighteen
Immense Parish. - st. Stanlslaus
Church in Chicago, now fifty years
old has as parish 1000 families
and an enrolment of 1000 children III
its school Nine priests are IN the
parish and Ga Sisters. It's Easter
Communions numbered 14,341.
Fire Destroys convent.-While fire
men became lost in the thick fog
which blanketed Chicago Monday OF
last week, fire destroyed St. Flor1ans
residence, d Catholic Church nome
driving twenty Sisters into the street
and causing loss of $1,000.
Successful Campaien.-A successful
campaign to raise funds for the worn
of St. Vincent de Paul Society has
lust been closed in Rochester, N.
Commenting on the campaign the
Rochester Evening Times pays trlb
ute to the fine work of the Catholic
charitable organizations in Rochester
which, it says: have been eminently
successful in avoiding that rigid insti
tutionalism which lacks the blessed
touch of personal sympathy.
Church In Buenos Aires.-Buenos
Aires, the capital of the Argentine
Republic, is beautiful city OF about
100000 inhabitants. It's Cathedral
is Grecian edifice fronted by twelve
Corinthian columns. The Archdiocese
dates from 1920. The city has TWEEN
ty-two canonical parishes and 30 Other
churches.
Chain Prayer Denounced. - The
peace prayer chain which has beer
sent to many persons in Baltimore
in the last few weeks, is denounced
by the priests of the city as insincere
and an insidious attempt to further
the enemy cause. Cardinal Gibbons
and priests of the Archdiocese have
urged Catholics to break the chair
and destroy copies of the prayer.
Last Rites Under DifficuIties.-II
order that the last sacramentS of the
Church might be administered to {
badly injured man, fire department
life-net was used to hoist a prizes
three floors in an elevator shaft in {
downtown building in New York city
few days ago William Mcdonald
a chauffeur, fell head downward int
the shaft, but his legs were caught by
the descending elevator and wer
crushed so badly that amputation wa!
necessary in the hospital afterwards
Mcdonald received the last rites while
suspended head downward in mid-air
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Funeral of John Crimmins-In st
Patrick's Cathedral, New York, Sol
emn Requiem Mass was celebrated
for the late benefactor and philan
thropist, John d. Crimmins. AS tn,
funeral cortege proceeded the bell
and chimes of the Cathedral and tn,
New York churches were rung. TIL,
orphans attended; Cardinal Earle,
presided. In the sanctuary wer,
Bishop Shahan, Bishop Mcdonnell an,
many prelates. Mgr. Mooney, V. G.
sang the Mass. About SO priests al
tended.
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Bishop Burke's JubiIee.-Rt. Rev
M. F. Burke, Bishop of the Diocese O
st. Joseph, Mo-, observed the thirtt
eth anniversary of his consecratio]
on October %. He was born in Ire
land in 1S45, and was brought t
America early in life by his parent
who settled in Chicago. He was edr
Gated in that city and at Notre Dam
University, later completing his thee
logical course at the American Co
lege, Rome, where he was ordaine
in 1875. He served in the Chicag
Diocese until 1887 when he was cor
secrated Bishop of Cheyenne, Wye
from which See he was transfers.