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Show HIS GOLDEN JUBILEE. Rev. Father Itaronx Honored at Cadillac An Aged Curate. Special Dispatch to The Times. Cadillac, Mich., May 21. Today is the golden jubilee of Rev. Father Louis Alexander Alex-ander Baroux, aud it was observed this morning by the celebration of pontitieial high mass, aud in which Bishop Riehter and a large number of the priests of the diocese dio-cese participated. Father Baroux, who is 75 years old, came tj this country early in the' forties, and has had a most eventful career. He was the first missionary among the Pottawatomie Indians, with whom he labored for several years. Then he went abroad to raise money for the rebuilding rebuild-ing of his church of Notre Dame which had been destroyed by tire, but was ordered by the Vatican to proceed to Asia and establish a mission in eastern Bengal live hundred miles from Calcutta. Subsequently he faced the dangers of the great Sepoy rebellion, when his life was constantly in danger for several months. He was the only survivor of twenty-six missionaries iu that region, but after ten years returned to this country in 1859 and resumed his labors among the Poitawatomies, and for the last thirty years has labored as a missionary iu this state, always among the Indians, travelling continuously con-tinuously from point to point, and often enduring en-during great privations and hardships. |