Show ThIS ItOf IX CATHOLICS Collucrntloll nfTtorreNrw nlnmtnja xt St Inul ST TAUI Dec 27Thie city was the scene this morning of an event of more than ordinary Interest to Catholics In the consecration of three new LiLbope with nil the august rites and imposing ceremonies cere-monies of the lloman Catholic Church The ceremony was con ducted by Anhbishop Ireland pg shIed by the Most Rev Thomas I Grace The priests on whom the rites were conferredwere IlcvJohn Shanley of St Paul llcv James McColritk of Minneapolis and Rev tJt fhbr B Cutler of Winona The lopal brief which I were read by a resident bishops I notary in fI til full flntiu Latin and then in Eng 1Ish appointed Jlishop Shanley to the Sco of Xorth Dakota while BLshop McColrlck goes to the plocismof Duluth and Bishop Cut ler will have charge of the DIocese of Wlnoua I The doors of St 1VU IH Cathedral I were thrown open at 9 oclock and before 10 over 3003 thronged the edifice Sixteen bishops were lu the procession in the ranks of which figured also nearly oOO tln priests 11 was a superb and 1 JJIIItnSMVE SPECTACLE Kev A T Walter Elliott of ICcw York delivered nllr Eliot cou raUon sermon It elaborate and was an > cal Irmol1 I WI scholarly review of the alms and ends of Catholicism 2fonCathoHcs Ctholclsm ent afllrm that the Catholics Will anml th1t eventually devour this land and 115 liberties and Its government but the men who fnrl11ent made Catholic bishops wer distinguished obstacles themselves as removers of ottnell to truth and a reloer tlia not look like It Clcsiug magnificent exordium Ute larned preacher passed 1 on thesuliject agnosticism whIch J 0 denounced as the jreatest enemy ol our times not that he deprccato thought in religious affairs Cr from IL The modern soldier of the crof to should not be ovcrdrilled The perfect soldier is n machine1 said some one to General Grant am Jiat great warrior had rtpliedYt15s btlt the American machine will a thinking attachment a remark more true of THe AMUIK AN lATIIOIltf The fate of Catholicity In I the Unit ed States would depend ujxu whtlherit purified politics sanctl led the family and elevated man hood Was tie American State progressive The Catholic Churcl taught that a tnti religion la len holly progressive I Did til ler can postulate human dignity anti quality Catholicity taught that man was after a divine model am all were equal 1 in their esscntln I cliaraLterlslics I 1n 3 Americans love nUIligence Catholicity demanded I I far i was a religion of end said irineipKs In closing the speaker 521 do not clievo you have ex hanged you r places as distinguished iilcsts for those of obscure bishop Do nct Ink into men of rullle mere olllcUU Do not become what our enemies falsely accuse our blsh 016 of being chief clerks in the Iottco ecelesiistiial employment jureau lead your people In all t good works of religion and morality amid philanthropy all that helps to make men both citizens and nelgh hors better len as well n Chrfi Inns The true bishop is 1 the cople8 bishop Muktlicufn 11111 Slits roiTLVM Ore Dec 27 AtM 1 At-M oclock this morning the Union aclficsteamer Orcyoi ran Iiitoani tink the UritUh ship CHuiVcAcinV on the Columbia river ten miles below nlII Charles Austinand Matthew Till coloutf sailors on he ship were asleeji In the forecastle fore-castle of the Can JftKeuag and scm cut in two by the sharp bow oC be Oregon when it fnctraled the side of tlm ship AnotherKiilorwas nJIy injured 750110 of thepa < ben el and but one of the crew of Hit regun were hurt The captain I of lie 2cm VcAcnric says his ship I was at anchor with all lights properly Isplayed flu Can JtcKciaie was valued at SO000 and the damage to he Oreyon will amount to S10o Whir Mniiltal > n niil Use f I OMAHA Dec 27 Managers fohlcrand Shelby of the Mnnitola tailroad today allirmed the renew al lof Iratllc arrangements with the Union Pacific at Butte Montana which was broken off In November through a misunderstanding after hen in force ayear The renewed ontnitt goes into cflVct tomorrow anti coven jossenger and freight busIness east nod west t Sfenlris 101 CITY or Mnxic 3 via 1 Galvcstoti > ec 27It is stated the inter Oceanic and the Mexican railroads wllll iwl rthghitatud pawielsgerraec Work on Ito Inter Oceanic road Io i bell vlgorou ly pushed The Hue to Vera Cruz will be completed at au early date |