The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-07

degrees. without the necessity of leav-
ing the State. Competent educators
will be secured and the work will be
supervised by Rev. j. Frederick Nc
Donough, rector of Blessed Sacra-
ment Church and Secretary of the
Diocesan School Board.
An Irish TraiI.-At a meeting held
resentatives of , automobile clubs,
business firms, chambers of COM
MERGE and prominent citizens from
Bradford Montour, Wyoming, Luz
zerne. Columbia, Dauphin and other
counties of the State organized to
build trail along the Susquehanna
River from Harrisburg TO the New
York state line at Sayre. The trail
will be named after General Sullivan,
an Irish officer under Washington in
the revolutionary war
| united effort on the part of the Cath
Ollie societies of Detroit, an OrganiZa-
| ton to be known as the Bureau of
Catholic Societies has been COM
pleted. The object. of the bureau is
10 take care OF the juvenile court
dren: to look after mothers pensions,
together with social service work for
the benefit Of Catholics in general.
ceeding the expectations of the most
optimistic friends of the great do
cesar institution and closely APP
preach a goal deemed visionary only
n few years ago, the munificent sum
Of 93,674.S9 was realized in the 1916
collection for the Philadelphia Theo.
| logical Seminary of ST Charles Bor-
romeo. This was announced last Sun
| day evening at the reading of the an
| nual report in the Cathedral chapel,
at which the Archbishop presided
Has consecrated 81 Bishops.-At-
| tending and participating in the con-
| secration of Mgr Russell as Bishop
of Charleston, in the Baltimore
| Cathedral. were Cardinal Gibbons,
consecrator, l. Bishops, over 40
MOnsignori, $50 priests and 800 semi
narists. In the auditorium of the
Cathedral the religious orders were
| represented In his episcopal career,
| Cardinal Gibbons has consecrated 81
Bishops
Catholic Hospital Wiiled $4,000
| Providence hospital, maintained by
Sisters Of Charity, receives $4,000
| by the will of Peter Refer, who died
at his home in Huron, Ohio. Mr.
Refer, who dropped dead soon after
viewing a monument to his memory
that he had erected in a cemetery
| began life as section laborer forty
years ago. He invested his earnings
in real estate that in later days
brought big returns.
Father Murray Dead.-Rev. Bernard
P. Murray, siXty-two years old, fol
tWenty-eight years pastor of ST. Der
nard Catholic Church, Chicago, died il
the rectory on March %. He was bor1
in Ireland and came to America il
1856. Father Murray formerly was
secretary to the late Archbishop
Feehan and was chancellor O
the archdiocese when appointed t.
st. Bernard. He was graduate from
st. John College, Fordham, n. Y, an(
st. Mary Seminary, Baltimore. HI
was ordained by Cardinal Gibbons il
1881.
Father ketcham's JubIee.--Rev
William H. Ketcham, LII. D., Director
sions at Washington, on Tuesday
March Is, completed his twenty-five
years as a member of the holy priest
hood. In the March number of thu
Orphans Record, appears very abb
and interesting article written by on
of the prominent priests of Oklahoma
which deals chiefly with what Fathe
= Ketcham has done for Indian mission
work in Oklahoma and for the de
velopment of that diocese.
Purse for Bishop.-Rt. Rev. w. T
!, Russell, who was cOnsecrated Bishol
of Charleston, S. c., on March JIG
officiated at his first Pontifical func
ton when he consecrated the new al
tar in the old chapel of st. Mary
Seminary, Baltimore, Md. Following
the ceremony he was guest of homo
at a dinner given at the Seminary
when a purse of $4,000 in gold, tn
offering of the priests of the archdiC
cese, was presented to Bishop Russell
Bishop Corrigan made the presenta
ton. Cardinal Gibbons also made
short talk
Vicar Apostolic of AIaska.-At tn
private Consistory which was he'll
March % Pope Benedict announce
the appointment of the Very Rev
: Joseph Raphael Crimont, S. j., Pre-
fect-Apostolic of Alaska-which ha
just been made a Vicariate-Apostoli
-titular Bishop of Ammedara. Bisl
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