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KENTUCKY IRISH AMERICAN.
7
PROSPEROUS CAREER AHEAD
For the Catholic Knights nnd Ladles
of America Action of the Con
vention Is Upheld.
V
Last week there was a meeting in
this city of the Board of Directors of
the Catholic Knights and Ladies of
America, presided over by the newly
-elected Supreme President, Hon.
Charles O'Donnell, of Chicago, 111.
The business of the meeting was to
put into effect the recommendations
.adopted at the last national conven
tion and formulate plans for increas
ing the membership under the new
.administration. Thar this result will
be accomplished is evidenced by the
unanimous action taken upon all ques
tions coming before the board.
Supreme President O'Donnell is a
leading citizen of Chicago, and is
rery enthusiastic over the prospects of
the Knights and Ladies. He was
.here for several days, and expressed
himself as being very favorably im
pressed with Louisville.
This city is represented in the board
by Dr. William B. Doherty, Supreme
Medical Examiner; Mary E. Sheridan,
Supreme Treasurer, and T. F. Hen
ley, Supreme Trustee, all of whom are
so well known as to render further
notice unnecessary.
The Catholic Knights and Ladies
-of America is an organization which
was started in this city in 1890, and
has grown until now it has branches
in fourteen States. It has paid out
a large amount of money to benefi
ciaries of deceased members, and has
thus greatly helped many widows and
orphans. It affords cheap insurance
to poor people and often provides a
home and education for fatherless
children.
The fourth biennial convention was
lipid in St. Louis, and there were
about 125 delegates present. In 1892
two years after the order was estab
lished, a by-law was passed which
provided that one fourth of the money
paid into the widows' and orphans
fund should be diverted into a reserve
fund, and that the income on this
' uud-aliuuld " Ue-ac;uululaicUTOt-lcn
years, and that after that date al
members who were in the order ten
-rears should be given a part of the
j ,
income of the reserve fund, and at the
death of a member who was in the
orderenyears his beneficiaries should
jet notnly the insurance money but
should also be paid back all the money
such member paid into this reserve
fund.
Several years after this reserve fund
was created the State of Illinois passed
a law which forbade any fraternal
society from paying dividends to liv
ing members unless they were dis
abled or sick, and two years ago Mis
souri passed the same sort of a law.
A fraternal society can not do busi
ness in those States without a license
from the Insurance Department, and,;
a license was refused in both these
States to the Catholic Knights and
Ladies of America, but they were
allowed to do business until their con
vention should meet in St. Louis, with
the understanding that unless they
abolished this reserve fund they must
leave the State or their officers would
be fined or imprisoned.
As expulsion from those States
would have done a great wrong to a.
large number of the members, who
Would have lost their insurance, the
order, for its own growth and for the
protection of its members in those
States, was compelled to abolish that
reservn fund. Other States might
have followed the lead of Illinois and
Missouri, and difficulties would have
increased if the law had been left un
changed.
mi . I - a
ine money in tne reserve tund :s
yery helpful to the members just now.
During Mr, McGofFs term as Presi
dent, as he had promised a lot of new
members that only one assessment
would be made each month, he was
Compelled by his promise to allow
death claims to accumulate until its
deficit amounted to $14,000. Owing
to the difficulty of getting a license in
Illinois and the criminal prosecution
of the officers who were conducting
business there without a license, and
owing to the suit in Louisville of Mr.
Bell, publisher of the Catholic Advo
cate, for $17,000 damages, etc.. costs
y, and expenses accumulated against the
border uatil now they amount to about
$2,000. Mr. Bell got a judgment
against the order for $5,000 because-
it refused longer to observe a contract
which he had gotten from five or six
of the incorporators at the very begin
ning of its existence by which his paper
was made the official organ forever!
An appeal from that judgment will be
taken to the Court of Appeals.
By the order of the convention at
St. Louis and the direction of the Jef
ferson Circuit Court, Chancery Divis
ion, in this city, $14,000 of the reserve
fund will be used to pay all outstand
ing approved death claims; $2,000 will
be used to pay outstanding claims
against the general fund, and 87,000
will be set aside to procure a bonds
man in the Bell appeal and, if the
judgment should be affirmed, pay the
judgment with costs and interest.
This still leaves in the reserve fund
$10,000 or $12,000, and if that is paid
into the new "emergency fund," as it
ought to be, the order can now go on
with a very low assessment against
the members and with great success.
The troubles in Illinois and Mis
souri over the reserve fund and the
Bell suit and other matters having
been now gotten out of the way, there
is no reason why the order should not
continue the remarkable growth which
it has enjoyed during the last two
years.
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Hon. Richard P. Bland, of Mis
souri, speaking ot the annexation of
Hawaii, said: "Shall we enter upon
a policy that requires immense navies
and standing armies that involves the
enormous taxation necessary to main
tain them? If we are to prosecute
this war for such purposes it will be a
SOME IRISHWAR NOTES
Col. Frank J. McGee, General
Commanding the Third Brigade,
National Guard of Pennsylvania, in
place of Gen. Gobin, resigned, was
appointed Brigadier-General July 1
by Gov. Hastings. His home is in
Wrightsville, York county. During
the civil war he served as Lieutenant
and Captain in the Seventy-sixth
Pennsylvania Volunteers. He be-
Captain of Company I, Eighth Regi
ment, in the National Guard, in 1872,
and Colonel in i88;.
Father John P. Chidwick, who was
chaplain of the Maine, and is now
chaplain on the cruiser Cincinnati,
was in New York last week on a visit
to his mother. It became known that
Father Chidwick would say one of the
earlier masses in St. Stephen's Friday
morning, and the church was crowd
ed. Father Chidwick was on leave
from his vessel, and returned Friday
to Newport News. Father Chidwick,
in talking of Key West, said that he
could not praise too much the Sisters
of the Holy Name Convent, whose
school had been turned into a hospital
for sick soldiers.
Col. Edward Duffy, of the Sixty
ninth New York, has a particular un
ruly private in his regiment. By way
of punishment he at different times
put him in the guard-house, set him
to digging ditches and had him in
heavy marching order for hours.
This had no apparent effect, and the
Colonel finally sent for the man.
"Look here, my man," said he, "if
you don't behave yourself I'll have
you sent home." Since then the former
unruly man has been the meekest
private in the regiment.
very practical advantages from the
constant attendance and practica
suggestions of Miss Curtis.
As Mr. Cosgrove, of Granard,
County Longford, was putting his
premises in repair some time ago one
of hts workmen found a lot of skulls
piled indiscriminately together. On
further investigation a button was
found bearing the French coat of
arms, and the inscription, "Repub
lique Vrancaise." The latter must
nave unaouutediy ueiongea to a
French soldier, and the skulls are
probably the remains of some ill-fated
patriots who met death while facing
the English steel. Although one
hundred years have elapsed since
these scenes have taken place, still
the memory of those departed heroes
are fresh in the minds of Irishmen.
A meeting of the Robert Emmet
'98 Century Society was held in Dub
lin lately. The following resolution
was passed by acclamation, amid
cheers for Belfast Nationalists: "Re
solved, That we, the members of the
Robert Emmet '98 Literary Society,
Dublin, assembled to commemorate
the centenary of the death of the
noble Lord Edward Fitzgerald, pre
sent our heartiest congratulations to
the united Nationalists of Belfast on
their great demonstration in honor of
the men of glorious '98, and strongly
condemn the ruffianism of the so
called defenders of civil and religious
liberty." The meeting closed with
the singing of "Who Fears to Speak
of '98," and hearty cheers were given
for Belfast and Cork".
On the one hundredth anniversary
of the first blow struck in the great
'
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Kentucky
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New Orleans, United States Armored Cruiser.
source ot disappointment to the
people who entered upon it in the
interest of freedom and not of slavery,
Such a policy as this is intended and
is urged by its promoters for the pur
pose of building up in this country
centralized power of wealth, with big
standing armies and navies to protect
this plutocratic control. When our
people complain, as the taxpayer will
complain, of the burdens thus im
posed upon them, plutocracy expects
to be able with military power to an
swer their petition, if necessary, with
an army of bayonets.
In a speech upon the annexation of
Hawaii, Senator Morrill, of Vermont,
said: "The historic policy of the
Republic of the United States for the
hundred years just passed, based as it
has been upon the sound doctrine
promulgated by Washington in his
farewell address with words of peren
nial wisdom against foreign entang
ling alliances, has taken root in the
hearts of the American people, where
it is treasured up as their political
Bible and can not now be mocked at
as merely an ancient tradition. Its
acceptance has made the nation great,
made it respected. If our fidelity to
the well-ripened statesmanship of the
Father of his Country shall be per
petuated for the next hundred years
as in the past, the honor, prosperity
and power of our Republic, it may
safely be predicted, will light and
lead all the nations."
At Ballycastle the potato blight has
already appeared, and the poor people
are panic-stricken.
Irish News Notes.
The people of Donegal are to be
greatly benefited by the extension of
the Donegal railway from Strabane to
Londonderry. The contractors com
menced work on the 4th inst.
An address in Irish was made by
Michael Cusack at the recent Vine
gar Hill demonstration. The sweet
language of the country was heard
with satisfaction by the people.
John C. Mahony, a merchans of
Kilrush, has been appointed to the
Commission of the Peace for the
county. The appointment has given
the greatest satisfaction. Mr. Mahony
has been a borough justice for a num
bsr of years.
ft J a
auccessiui speaking has been es
tablished on the telephone trunk ser
vice between Waterford, Wexford,
Dublin, Belfast and Cork. In Water
ford the subscriber can sit down and
talk to his friend in Cork, Dublin,
Belfast, Liverpool, London or Paris.
In the House of Lords recently the
examiners certified for second read
ing a bill confirming a provisional
order of the Local Government Board
for Ireland, enabling the Baltinglass
Guardians to compulsorily purchase
and for making an addition to the
existing burial ground.
Miss Curtis, who was recently
elected guardian of Carrick-on-Suir
Union, now holds the office of- chair
man of the Rathermack Dispensary
Committee. The union is deriving
rebellion of 1798 the men of County
Derry assembled to do honor to the
memory of the heroes who died fight
ing for their freedom. The men of
Banagher selected the majestic moun
tain of Mullagash as their rendezvous,
and on this platform, 1,600 feet above
the sea, a huge fire was kindled which
was visible forty miles away. The
mountain commands a view of the
whole county of Derry and overlooks
the beautiful valleys of the Roe and
Faughan. The proceedings were
marked by the intensest enthusiasm
and lasted far into the night, songs
and recitations being given at inter
vals. James Hugh Hasson delivered
an address full of fire and patriotism.
June 20 a large and enthusiastic
open-air demonstration was held at
Towneychrane Chapel, at the foot of
the Nephin mountains, North Mayo
bit. wiiuam u'urten, in the course
of a powerful speech, expressed his
gratitude for the genuine Irish cead
mille failthe. The terms of the ad
dresses and the extent and enthusiasm
of that meeting proved there was still
manhood left in North Mayo to insist
that they would stand no more of
those famines in the West, which are
the curse of the country and the ever
lasting disgrace of English rule in Ire
land. If the Royal Commission sug
gested by Mr. Russell came to the
Nephin district they would find that
all Mr. Gladstone's land legislation
had effected practically nothing in
the districts where men were most in
nfjed of protection from infamous
andlordism.
American
Will be a first-class weekly journal,
which will be printed and mailed on
Fridays, so that its city readers may
take advantage of the announce
ments it contains and be directed
where to make their Saturday pur
chases. This will result in great
benefit to our advertisers.
The Suteipii Price
Will be only $1.00 per year invari
ably in advance, and for this small
sum we promise to issue one of the
Britest, Cieanesi. Newsiesi
Irish American newspapers printed
in the United States. We will en
deavor to furnish our readers a fear
less, liberal and honest publication
one that may be relied on for its
every word.
Boys and Girls
Are requested to canvass for sub
scrip tio n s. A lis t will b e kept of all
subscriptions secured by each from
the first issue, so that when we an
nounce our list of premiums each
will receive due credit for what he
or she has done. Now is the time to
begin. Do this during the vacation
and secure a handsome prize.
Advertisers
Will serve their interests by sending
in their copy as early in the week as
possible. They will find that adver
tisements placed in this paper will
be productive of the best results, as
it will have a very large circulation
among the best class of our citizens.
Address all correspondence and business
communications to the
Kentucky Irish American,
Third and Green Sts., Louisville, Ky.

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