In that year, there was a poison plot that shocked the nation, so near to the Cardinal did it strike.
Ata banquet in his honour, hundreds of civic leaders and Catholic laity were stricken with a sudden lines. A deadly poison was found {in soup served the entire assembly. Several wito ate it, later died. The Cardinal, however, had not touched the preparation and was not ill As Cardinal, he continued his extensive programme of building. unequalled school system, a per~ petrated Roman Catholic church, and organization of the Associated Catholic Charities of Chicago were his most significant works.
The Eucharistic Congress in Chi-cage in 1926 was his reward. It was the most impressive religious cere many the country had known and brought more and more distinction to the Middle West's cardinal.
As a religious leader, he has had few equals—United Press.
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