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their adherents, schismatics, apostates, 
and persons who have been excommu- 
nicated or placed under an interdict. If 
an excommunicated person be buried in 
a church or in a consecrated cemetery 
the place is thereby desecrated, and 
wherever possible, the remains must be 
exhumed and buried elsewhere. Fur- 
ther, Christian burial is to be refused to 
suicides, those who have been killed in 
a duel, notorious sinners who die with- 
out repentance, those who have openly 
I'.eld the sacraments in contempt (for 
example by staying away from Com- 
munion at Easter time to die public 
■scandal) and who showed no signs of 
sorrow, monks and nuns who are found 
to have died in the possession of money 
-or valuables which they had kept for 
their own, and finally those who have di- 
rected that their bodies should be cre- 
mated after death.” 
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By a Supreme Court decision, Mi- 
amisburg, O., can erect a city build- 
ing upon the site of the old ceme- 
tery at Canal street and Central ave- 
nue. The Lutheran and Reformed 
•churches claim the cemetery, and 
William H. Pausing enjoined the 
municipality from removing the 
bones from the cemetery, and was 
upheld by the Common Pleas Court. 
The Circuit Court reversed the lower 
court, and the Supreme Court upheld 
the latter in a decision just handed 
down. The Probate Court valued 
the property at $2,300. 
* * * 
A suit for $200 damages has been 
filed in the United States District 
Court at New York by the Farnham 
Sand Blast Company against the 
Greenwood Cemetery Corporation of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. The firm claims 
they are the owners of a patent 
water-proofing and finishing process 
for bricks and stones, and that the 
cemetery owners have been using it 
in spite of protests and warnings. 
The process, it is alleged in the com- 
plaint, was invented by Neal Farn- 
ham, a member of the company. 
* * * 
Judge J. H. Slover of the Circuit, 
Court at Kansas City, Mo., has under 
advisement the case of M. G. Manly 
against the Troost Avenue Cemetery 
Company, involving the question of 
whether non-Episcopalians may be 
buried in that part of Forest Hill 
Cemetery concerning which the suit 
was brought. St. Mary’s Episcopal 
Church sold some lots to non-Episco- 
palians and got into a controversy 
with the Cemetery company as a 
result. 
It has recently been ruled at Alton, 
111., that the two Catholic cemeteries 
at Alton would be required to pro- 
cure burial permits from the city 
clerk of Alton in compliance with the 
city and state health laws. Mrs. S. 
Demuth, the health officer, is required 
to report the number and causes of 
deaths. As the Catholic cemeteries 
are outside of the city limits, it has 
been supposed that they were not re- 
quired to secure permits from the 
authorities. 
* * * 
The City Council of Los Angeles, Cal., 
has adopted an ordinance prohibiting 
burials outside of those portions of Ev- 
ergreen and Rosedale cemeteries now in 
use for such purpose. The purpose of 
the ordinance is to prohibit burials in 
ground which is owned by the corpora- 
tions adjoining the cemeteries. 
* * * 
A bill has been filed in the Chancery 
Court af Clarksville, Tenn., seeking to 
restrain the directors of the Greenwood 
Cemetery Company from declaring a 
further dividend on the company's stock 
and to compel them to refund a dividend 
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, la., 
is receiving proposals for the erection 
of a receiving vault and is ready to 
let the contract as soon as a satis- 
factory proposal is received. C. W. 
Dwyer is superintendent. 
The Woodlawn Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Spokane, Wash., will develop a 
modern lawn cemetery on a 120-acre 
tract about a mile and a half from 
the city limits. Olmsted Brothers, 
Brookline, Mass., will make the plans 
for the grounds on which it is pro- 
posed to expend $150,000. 
The late George Tod, of Youngs- 
town, O., has bequeathed a tract of 
230 acres for the establishment of a 
cemetery. An association is to be 
organized to carry out the provisions 
of the will. 
The trustees of the City Cemetery 
at Vincennes, Ind., are considering 
the enlargement of the cemetery. 
S. L. Sackett, of Kansas City, Mo., 
and W. D. Lane, of New York, have 
bought a 100-acre tract at Chickasha, 
Okla., and will establish a modern 
lawn cemetery. Twenty acres will be 
laid out at once and opened for in- 
terments. 
The new Elmhurst Cemetery, a 
137-acre tract at Joliet, 111., is pre- 
paring to develop on an elaborate 
of five per cent which was declared last 
October, it being claimed that the com- 
pany is an eleemosynary corporation, 
rather than a corporation for private 
benefit. The complainants are B. H. 
Owen, a large stockholder, and a num- 
ber of lot owners. 
* * * 
Whether or not the Park Commis- 
sion of Bellingham, Wash., has the 
authority to sell lots in the recent 
addition to Bay View Cemetery with 
perpetual care contracts is a question 
that is agitating members of the 
board. Pending investigation by 
City Attorney McFadden, no sale of 
lots will be made. If the board 
finds that it has no authority to sell 
the lots as proposed, it is probable 
an effort will be made to get the au- 
thority from the next legislature. 
* * * 
The Undertakers’ Journal of London 
publishes in tabular form on a large 
sheet a list of all the cemeteries in the 
metropolitan area of London, with a 
schedule of charges, hours, location, and 
other information useful to undertakers. 
The list includes fifty cemeteries. 
and beautiful plan, and has engaged 
O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, to lay^ out 
and develop the grounds. The asso- 
ciation is incorporated at $150,000, 
and has the following officers : Presi- 
dent, J. B. Mount; vice-president, H. 
W. Spencer; treasurer, Robert Adam; 
secretary, J. W. Campbell. 
Rose Hill Burial Park is being laid 
out at Indepehdence, Mo., by the In- 
dependence, Mo., Cemetery Co., of 
which Ezra Dawes, of St. Joseph, 
Mo., is president. City Engineer H. 
H. Pendleton is making the plans. 
The old City Cemetery, at Seven- 
teenth and Jefferson streets, Louis- 
ville, Ky., is to be improved by the 
city. 
The Highland Cemetery Co., Kan- 
sas City, Mo., has been incorporated 
by G. F. Upton, P. J. Ivers and D. 
L. Hunt. 
The Belvidere Cemetery Co., of 
Easton, Pa., has added a two-acre 
tract. 
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, 
N. J., has let the contract for the 
construction of an elaborate entrance 
from a design by J. O. Bunce, archi- 
tect. It is also planned to erect a 
chapel and receiving vault in the 
spring. When this is completed it is 
the intention to abandon the present 
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