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Show ! ... RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE; ' Items in Ecclesiastical Circles Briefly Brief-ly Told in Church Progress. Fourteen acres of ground have been purchased -by 'Archbishop Ryan, which will be used as an addition to St. Dominic's Do-minic's cemetery in Philadelphia. ': The .erection 'of a new church will .shortly be1" undertaken for the people of ' .Murray -City,' Okla., which has grown to be an important mission, there being some 200 Catholic men in the vicinity. f Catholics of Ethan, S. D., arc raising funds to build a new parochial residence resi-dence in that place. ... i -4- Priests cf the Davenport. Ia.. diocese have presented Bishop Shanley, who gave them their annual retreat, with a purse of $1,000 in appreciation of his services for the purpose of helping to rebuild the cathedral at Fargo, which was recently destroyed by lire. . -Rev. James Mershman of St. . Stephens Ste-phens church, Newport, Ky., who is tmakirig arduous - preparations -for the golden jubilee of his church, which oc-: curs next year. will observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordin-atiori ordin-atiori on Nov. 1 of this year. Mr. Neil' Flattery of Detroit has offered of-fered to defray :'the expense of furnishing furnish-ing the summer home given the House of Providence in that city by Messrs. Pardridge & Blackwell. "The Mexican-money, of the Pious fund, which Archbishop Riordan sold to the government, has begun to arrive at the local mint, says The Monitor of San Francisco, $30,000 having reached here from Mexico City and it will come 1 at the rate of $150,000 a day until the I entire amount, about $1,500,000,' has j been delivered. ' , ' 1 4. .'tdass -was celebrated on Sunday of last week for the first time in the history his-tory of Duxbury, Mass. The services were held in the anicent Duxbury hall. Duxbury is the second Pligrim town in New England, being settled a few years after the landing at Plymouth. It lsineluded in the parish of St. Peter's, Pe-ter's, of which the Rev. John J. Buckley is pastor. Fully 6,000 persons were present to hear President Roosevelt address the 2!o:y Name societi-;s. which met last Sunday at Oyster-Bay. A platform had been erected fr -the: purpose on a big lot in the rear of St. Do.ninick's church. The visitors we're strung out along tue road for a .considerable distance and the president drove through the line. The cornerstoneof St. Landislaus church, Natrona. Ta:. has been laid. It i is Romanesque in' style and built of ' b'ick and stone1.' - The cost npproxi-! npproxi-! mates . $ 45,000., ' - . , :v,V ! ."4 .' ' v - . . Coadjutor Archbishop. Moeller.oF V m-oinnati m-oinnati has issued a letter in which -he urges . the establishment - of : parish , schools where this Ms practicable throughout the diocese; and he further J - uiges that "these schools be -raised -to t ie highest possible standard, so that ' they niay.be not only ?qu,al but su- j perio.r to. the public schools. He has' ; appointed a school board and instructed gtnem.fo thoroughly organize and pei-. pei-. feet the Catholic -school system of the diocese. ' . A new church will soon be built at silent, S. D.. to replace the one which was destroyed last month by a cyclone. ! n will be one of the neatest in that! section of the "diocese. , Members of St. Raphael's congrega- ' 1 "on, Dubuque. Td., -,avo virtuallv decided de-cided uron building a new school. The j Present schools' facilities have become j inadequate. j The German Roman Catholic voung men s societies of Chicago held their semi-annual convention at Lakeside, HI. There was a large attendance. f The late Mrs. Hannah Mullins of .-Uaysville, Ky.. left a number of bequests be-quests to the Catholic institutions of the lovmgton diocese. St. Elizabeth .hospital pf Covington will receive $1.-ti $1.-ti ,! he,G,KHl Shhei-d institution of T vf ,Ja''k of N"fclwPrt. $1,000; St. John's Orphanage asylum, $.",00; St. Joseph's Jo-seph's Orphan asylum. ?2."0: the in-nrm in-nrm priests of the diocese. $200. and the seminarians of the diocese, $1,000. ft. Patrick's church of St. Louis was bequeathed be-queathed $2,000, the Sisters of the Visitation, Visi-tation, $1,200 and the Sisters of the Visitation Visi-tation of Tacoma. Wash.. $1,500. Mrs. Mullins also made bequests to Catholics Cath-olics in Ireland and in New York City. - Those in charge, of the movement to erect a new Polish church in Detroit announce that they have raised enough money, $8,000, to purchase the site. The Germans in the west are falling into line with the Catholic university. At its late convention held in Cincinnati Cincin-nati the Catholic German Staatsver-band Staatsver-band of Ohio passed resolutions favoring favor-ing the establishment of a German chair in the Washington institution. Father A. H. Walburg came forward with a subscription of $1,500. St. Lawrence parish, Cincinnati, is about to erect a' new school building, which will cost $50,000. . ' Parkstake. which is situated in the heart of a beautiful farming section of South Dakota,, will put up a new church soon at ari expense of over $25,-000. $25,-000. The country is settled by prosperous prosper-ous Germans. . It is worthy of ' note that vacation cooking and' sewing schools have been opened by the Catholic Woman's league of Peoria. 111. There is no charge made for the instruction given and the classes are open to all creeds and nationalities. Needless to say the lessons are exceedingly well attended and great credit is due the enterprising members of the Catholic Woman's league. The corner stone of the new Polish Church of St. Francis, Detroit, was laid on Sunday of last week by Bishop Foley. Fo-ley. The new church completed will cost nearly $100,000, and it is expected that it will lie completed in about a year. The present church will then be used for school purposes only. f Most Rev. Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco dedicated the new novi-I novi-I tlate of the Christian Brothers at Martinez. Mar-tinez. By the will of Abel Stephenson, late of Hillshoro. N. II., filed at the probate office in Nashua, : N. H., St. Mary's church,-Hillsboro, is- to receive a bell of the value of $500.' :''': The attendance at the. Western Catholic Cath-olic chautauq-ua-now in progress at St. Paul, Minn., is reported very good this year. ., . - ' . 4 - Plans have -been prepared ;for a . new chapel for the Convent of Mercy at Merion, Pa. . -f '. Two beautiful art statues of St. Aloysius and St. John. Berchmans. donated do-nated to St. John's ' church; Defiance, O., .by a generous parishioner, will be placed in position this month. 4 .. St. Anthony's church. Long Beach, Cal., was dedicated last Sunday by Bishop Conaty.. : : . ' - 4 The Catholic farmers of Iowa are greatly rejoiced over the fine returns they have. had from their crops. " .4 Archbishop Kane of Dubuque, la., has sailed for Europ3, accompanied by Mgr. O'Connell, the rector of the Cath- I olic university. The archbishop will not j return until Sept. 20. - ' 4 " ; ' An entirely new electric lighting system, sys-tem, complete in every detail, is being installed in St. Patrick's cathedral, New York. Each of the many pillars will hold sixty-four tjulb'lights.. AVflut 1,000 lights wil be placed about the altar and around the sanctuary. When the work is finished over 5.000 new lights will have been, erected in the edifice. The beautiful new church of St. John the Baptist, Payne, O., is approaching completion and wili be dedicated in the early fall. It is the most imposing edifice edi-fice in the town. I T A reform organization, made up of leading citizens,- has- been formed in Dubuque, la., called the Citizens' Alliance. Al-liance. The organization was formed at a meeting held at Stout Auditorium. The meeting took action .regarding the rioting in the recent- street railway strike. Among- the. sptakerg was Dr. Carroll, who appeared as the representative repre-sentative of Archbishop Keane. 4 - Supreme President of the Young Men's Institute F. J. Kierce has sailed for Honolulu tb visit the councils of the institute in the' territory of Httwaii, Damien council No. 563. Honolulu; Francis council No. 573. Hilo, and-Gul-stan council No. 578. Wailuku. Air. Kierce will spend probably a month in Hawaii. -4 , The Catholics of Ballard. Wash, have had the great pleasure of having the new St. Alphonsus church dedicated. - 4 St. Brigid's congregation. Pittsburg, Pa., is spending $6,000 ln refrescoing the church in preparation of its coming golden jubilee. .... |