 Its first editor put the paper on a short hiatus the next fall to care for victims of a cholera outbreak.The paper's use of the word "telegraph" predated the invention of the communication device by over a decade.As one of the first Catholic newspapers in the nation, the "Telegraph" was sold in cities throughout the country's middle section, including Louisville, Kentucky, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.