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Show tttttt f-ft i 4- : H (ATilKWW. I Archbishop Riordan officiated recently recent-ly at the ordination at St. Suloice in Paris, in Dlace of Cardinal Richard. The PoDe went to St. Peter's Cathedral Ca-thedral last Sunday to participate in thf reromnnv nf ircnarotinn !n tv. of two Italian Saints recently canonized. canon-ized. Thirty thousand people were present. Sister Mary JosephT60 years old, one of the founders of the order of the Incarnate In-carnate Word, is dead at Galveston, Tex. She was Lucine Fannie Roussin and entered a convent at Lyons, France, thirty-four years ago. S Rev. J. M. J. Smyth died at Mercy hospital, Chicago, last Sunday, after a long illness. He was the first pastor of the well known Catholic colon-y in Greely county, Neb., and, for many years was active in the work of colonization coloni-zation under the direction of the latf BishOD O'Connor of Omaha. Father Smyth was born in Ireland. He was educated for the priesthood at the Troy Seminary, NewjYork. The officers andMtrustees of the Marquette Mar-quette Monument association held their first meeting- in Chicago a few days ago. Among: those present were: Franklin.. Frank-lin.. McVeagh,. Governor rPeck of Mil- waukee, Peter White of Marquette, Mayor Maybury of Detroit, Bishop Davis of Michigan, Bishop Foley of Detroit, James L. Blair of St. Louis, William J. Onahan, Secretary Edward O. Brown of Chicago. The association, which has been Incorporated under the laws of Michigan, plans to build a national na-tional memorial to Father Marauette, the missionary priest and explorer. The island of Mackinac, at the foot of Lake Michigan, has been selected as the most appropriate place by various historical his-torical bodies and those most interested in this scheme. The park commission of Michigan, which has control of the greater part of this island as a state park, has dedicated a site. The monument monu-ment is to be of heroic size. The work of raising funds by subscription will be begun immediately. It is estimated that the statue will cost $25,000. J Of all the women census enumerators enumera-tors in tVta ctota ,f I i r,-,i. i C ' . Mary Rose Broughton of St. Vinnt's Institution for the Insane in St. ouis dated May 25, denying an assertion made by the Journal de Geneve that, writing to the Duke of Norfolk, he had denounced the temporal power of the Pope and the methods of the Roman congregations. The archbishop says no word ever escaped his pen or lips that was contrary to the ideas of His Holiness Holi-ness respecting temporal power. Rev. William J. Hamilton, a curate at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy of Brooklyn, N. Y., died Saturday of dropsy at his home, 1069 Jefferson avenue, av-enue, after an illness of a year. Father Hamilton was 40 years of age. When a boy he found employment in A. T. Stewart's dry good house and a clerk- 1.. jjiuaija x lines ornce. w nue serving as an altar boy in SS. Peter and Paul's church, the late Father Ma-lone, Ma-lone, the rector, took an interest in him and saw that he received a good education. edu-cation. H studied at St. Francis Xav-ier's Xav-ier's in New York, and later in the Grand Seminary of Montreal. He was ordained to the priesthood seventeen years ago and took his first charge at ei. Antnony s church in Greenpoint. From there he went to St. Peter's church. For four years he had served at the church of Our Lady of Mercy. The dedication of the Catholic chapel at West Point Military Academy last Sunday recalls the bitter controversy which was aroused over the efforts of the church to obtain Justice for Catholic Catho-lic cadets. The opposition was bitter, i and probably the projest would have failed had not the Catholics of the country been roused bv the Catholic press. oCngressmen did not dare resist re-sist the pressure brought to bear upon county, probably is the only one who will perform her duties while wearing the garb of a Nun. Sister Mary Rose serves in the Tenth Census district, under the direction of Supervisor F. W. Rauchenstein of Clayton. The St. Vincent's Institution is the largest insane in-sane asylum in the state of Missouri and contains within its walls patients' who have formerly occupied prominent .positions, both In the business and social so-cial world. One 0f the cardinal principles prin-ciples of the Institution is that the outside out-side world shall not be permitted to gaze uyon thei nflrmities of heir patients, pa-tients, and it was for this reason that the Sisters petitioned the AVashinston authorities to permit one of their number num-ber to take its enumeration. Director Mernam readily consented to the plan. Roberts, Kitchener, French, Kelly-Kenny Kelly-Kenny and the other generals who have done the best fighting in South Africa are Irishmen. And now comes Colonel Bryan Lahon. a Galway man, to swell the 'list ;by-leading the relief column that raised the siege of Mafeking. It is unfortunate that Irishmen who love their native land and hope for its ultimate ul-timate freedom cannot rejoice over the prowess of their countrymen. Boston Republic. The Osservatore Romano of Rome, prints a letter from Archbishop Ireland them ,and the special bill for the erection erec-tion of the chapel passed both houses, although two administrations had refused re-fused to allow it to be built. What good reason for refusing the request of the Catholics was hard to see. The Protestant Pro-testant cadets already had a structure of their own and the Catholics themselves them-selves proposed to pay for their own chapel .However, it is gratifying to know that he controversy is forever at an end. Archabbot BonifaceKrug, of ihe original or-iginal Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, is on a visit tr th Lnited States. He is a native of Ger- f many, but sailed for Baltimore with his I parents when a child, his father dying I on the way. In 1849, when but ten years I of age, he went tp St. Vincent's. Beatty, Pa., to study, and ten years later entered en-tered the order. In 1S63 he left for Italy and was made abbot at Cesena. where Pius VI. and Pius VII. were born", the latter a Benedictine. In March, 1897, he was made Archabbot of Monte Cassino. He will remain in this country, of which he was long a resident and citizen .for the next five months. The Benedictines in each province prov-ince are united in separate congregations congrega-tions and have no superior general, but at the request of Pope Leo tiey recently re-cently named a primate, through whom they correspond with Rome. The Abbot of St. Anselm's occupies this position. I |