The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-28
NEW WORLD ITEMS


Crimmins, Catholic banker and phil |
anthropist of New York, sent 1mme- |
diately on receipt of the K. Z. letter |
of appeal check for $1,000 toward |
the war camp fund
Catholic State.-Colorado is now
one of the four states in the united
States where the Catholic population
is larger than the membership OF all
the other religious denominations
combined.
Judge cornet Dead.-Judge Nicho-
las Cornet, aged "a, prominent Cath-
Ole iurist of Lawrenceburg, Ind, and
member of the Joint Land Commls-
sion of the Panama Canal Zone, is
dead.
Meaqher of the Sword.-Two nieces
of the famous patriot and soldier,
Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, Misses
Helen and Katharine Meagher OF
Helena, Mont, have completed their
musical studies at the Chicago Con-
servatoire of Music. Miss Catherine
is supervisor of music at Helena.
ST. Bede's College Jubilee.-St.
Bede's College of the Benedictine Fa-
theirs, Peru, ILL.,, will celebrate the
twenty-fifth anniversary of its founda-
ton on Thursday, August 16, with sol
emn services. Ri. Rev. Andrew Hin
tenach, o. S. B., formerly Arch-abbot,
now in Erie, Pa, is the founder of
the college.
Polish Nuns ChapeI.-Most Rev.
Archbishop Glennon otticiated on
Wednesday morning, July II, at the
dedication of the new $150,000 Chapel
and building of the Polish Franciscan
Sisters at 3419 Gasconade street. st.
Louis, Mo.
Priest a Rotarian.-Rev. Charles P.
Ratio, pastor of ST. Charles Borro- |
meo's church, Louisville, Ky, has
been elected to membership in the
Rotary Club. His election was made
possible by a change in the rules OF
the club, permitting the membership
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish re-
ligions.
Gives $4,000 Tract-Frank E.
Holahan, secretary of the Plan and
Scope Building Committee of the
Bronx On " Catholic Big Brothers
Movement, states that a prominent
BronXite called upon him and agreed
to give to the committee a large plot
of land, worth in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
Detroit Catholic Bureau.-Catholics
of Detroit, Mich, have completed
the organization of society which
is to be known as the Bureau of Cath
Ollie Societies. It's members will take
care of Catholic children who are
brought before the juvenile court;
will look after mothers pensions, and
will do social service work for the
benefit of Catholics in general.
Effort BaIked.-A group of minis
tiers attempted to arouse sentiment
against the establishment of an hos
pital by the Sisters of Mercy at Ba
tavia, N. Y. The effort failed, how
ever, and many Protestant people
contributed literally to the Sisters
new venture.
Catholic ducation.-Catholic high
er education in the United States
is making satisfactory progress. In
this educational year, thirty-three OF
our principal Catholic universities
and colleges had 1852 instructors,
2O662 students. They have in their |
libraries 1,O01,313 volumes.
New HospitaI.-A modern fire-proof
hospital has just been completed at |
Deer Lodge, Mont, for the Sisters of
Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas. The |
building is a model of the most ad- |
Vanced ideas in hospital construction. |
Considerable historical Importance is |
attached to the completion of the new
hospital, as it is erected upon the site |
wherein was built the first hospital |
in Montana.
To Have Officers Training School. |
The Santa Clara University, Santa |
Clara, Cal, is to have unit in train |
ing for the officers reserve corps.
Col j. F. Donovan, retired, dean of |
the engineering department, will be |
professor of military sciences.
Young Jurist Dies. = James G. |
Sweeney, former Supreme Judge of |
Nevada, died in Oakland, Cal, Friday, |
July 6. His death was caused by per-
nicious anemia, resulting from over
work. Sweeney was the youngest
Supreme Judge in the United States. |
He attended st. Mary College in Oak |
land, and later studied law at George
town University at Washington, D. c. |
He was a native of Carson City,
Nevada, and was but forty years old.
Church Burned.-St. Mary's Church
at Eau Guile, Wis, was burned to the
ground in an electrical storm which
passed that section early July S. |