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...class he would have joined in the first place. In 1885 Dennis Dougherty went to Rome's North American College where he took his doctorate, was ordained a priest. In 1903 Dr. Dougherty, who had become professor of dogmatic theology at St. Charles, was offered the bishopric of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. A hasty search of maps in the seminary failed to show where this diocese was, but Father Dougherty said: "I will go." Nueva Segovia turned out to be north of Manila, with nearly 1,000,000 nominal Catholics, and Dr. Dougherty did not need...
...crocodile only to be crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Cagayan-flows the Rio Grande de Cagayan, biggest river of the Philippines, due north through 200 miles of rich farming country. The typhoon passed, the rain stopped and then came calamity. The Cagayan began to rise...
...telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After aerial surveys the Red Cross reported some 1,500 square miles inundated in Nueva Vizcaya, 2,000 square miles in Isabela; homeless, 80,000, missing, 1,000, known dead...
...Managua the newspaper Niicva Prensa, organ of the defeated Conservative Party, heaped special praise on Admiral Clark Howell Woodward, supervisor of the election. "Admiral Woodward returns to his country with a tranquil conscience" said Nueva Prensa, "sure of having maintained . . . the honor and impartiality of the United States...
Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...