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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The condition of Bishop O'Reilly of Baker City. Ore.. v. ho is ill of 'typhoid I in the hospital at Portland. Ore., con-I con-I Unties to imorove, although he is still j serious'j- ill. j Some time ago Bishop Granjon of I Tucson, Ariz., wrote to the president of the Manjuctte league, detailing the ! hardships and naeds of the Indians of his diocese, and making a soecial request re-quest for a chapel for the Moouis. The .bishop's appeal met with an 'immediate 'im-mediate response and the SI. 000 asked for has been given to the Marquette league, the donor stipulating that his name remain unknown. -' I Rev. Father Joseph Rieard, the Santa Clara college astronomer, Sail Jose, Cal.. announces that the group of sun spots under observation for the past few weeks has disappeared. He predicts its reappearance on the western west-ern rim of i he sun. Nov. 10. while the solar disturbance which began on Oct. 20 has increased and has traversed one- third of the solar hem is-ihere. I Bev. D. J. Lenihan has been com- ' pelled, on account of ill health, to re tire from the missionary band of the Dubuque archdiocese.' f j The priests of Porto Rio are united j in the belief that they are about to I lose Bishop Bb.nk. who in December next will have presided over that diocese dio-cese for six years, through his appointment appoint-ment to the rank of archbishon. The belief is that a meeting of bishops will soon be held in New Orleans, and that a recommendation will be made to the Vatican for the elevation of Mgr. Bleiik to the Archbishopric of New Orleans. Or-leans. 4 The dome on the oreat cathedral in Monterey, Mexico, fell Oct. 1!7. crushing the church into a hean. The edifice was one of the landmarks of Mexico. j It was built in 1792. As far as learned. I no one was injured by the collanse of the dome. 4- There are thirty-two free scholarships granted by the Naverian college in Louisville, Ky one for each, church in that city. These entitle the pastor of I every church to give one scholar of his parish a free tuition in any of the three college courses. f Another . sin of Catholic progress from Porto Rico: A new Catholic paper. pa-per. La Verdad, has been established there (in San Juan), which has received the approbation and blessing of Bishop Blenk. E! Ideal Caolico, the Catholic weekly first in the field, is published at Pone. ; ; 'r - -- Rev. Peier F. O'Reilly, a cousin of the Rt. Rev. Bislion.Contv ?wi re cently at Whitensville. Mass. Dr. O'Reilly was' pastor- of St. Patrick's church at that place. He was 44 years of age, and was born in Taunton. Mass., where Bishop Conaty made a i short visit before, leaving for Europe. His death was doe' to heart failure. Bishop Beaven of .Soringfield, Mass., s officiated at the, funeral, at which there was a tremendous outnouring of people. |