A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > New York http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=708 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=45471 Submitted by: Susan Article Title: The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator Article Date: February 25 1899 Article Description: News from the District of Columbia Article Text: News from the District of Columbia Fathers DOLAN and CURRIER will give a Lenten mission in St. Stephen’s Church. Dr. James Field SPALDING lectured on Hawthorne in Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, Feb. 17. On March 10, Rev. John P. CHIDWICK, U.S.N., former chaplain of the Maine, will deliver an address on “The Late War.” This lecture will also be given at Gaston Hall. The Reverend Fathers of the Redemptorist Order began a renewal of the mission at St. Augustino’s Church, Sunday, Feb. 10. Revs. A. LUTZ, William LINDNER and J. De LAAD, C. SS. R., conducted the services. The Rev. Elias YOUNAN, the popular Paulist preacher, will conduct the services during holy week. Rev. Francis BARNUM, S.J., librarian of Riggs Library and curator of the Coleman Museum, Georgetown University, lectured before the Catholic Club of New York city recently on “The Manners and Customs of the Alaska Esquimaux,” and he has gone to New Orleans, La., to deliver two lectures on “An Ethnographic Sketch of Alaska” and “Innuit Philology” in one of the courses of the Winter school there. With the selection of judges the past week and the appointment of committees, the arrangements have been completed for the annual Merrick prize debating contest, of Georgetown University, one of the principal events of the year. The judges secured are Senator John M. THURSTON of Nebraska, Congressman Robert W. DAVIS of Florida, and Seth SHEPARD, LL.D., Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. The Committee on Arrangements consisted of W. F. SMITH, 1900; J. P. Bernard DUFFY, 1900; Joseph LOBIT, 1899; Thomas J. CULLEN, 1899; George GREEN, 1901, and William P. APPLEGARTH, 1899. The members of the Reception Committee are Livingston J. CULLEN, 1899; David J. FLYNN, 1900; John William HALLIHAN, 1899, of Philadelphia; J. ENGLISH, 1900; James M. BELL, 1899, of Scranton, Pa.; Paul M. HEAD, 1900, of Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and Samuel M. DOUGLAS, of North Carolina. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com