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Show Cafes! Iris!) Hews EVICTIONS 'ATTcastlerea; Poor Tenants Turned Out Amid a Downpour of Rain. Incidents filling three columns of the Dublin Freeman are similar to those we publish from that paper this week, to give our readers an idea of the coercive co-ercive means employed by landlordism to crush the spirit of the Irish race. Ed. I. M. C Castlerea, Tuesday. The evictions on the De Freyne estate es-tate were resumed this morning. Yesterday's Yes-terday's operations were carried out in fine weather, while those of today in the very reverse. The country on the way to Curraghokhill Is a best of a wretched description, but in a downpour down-pour of rain it is a great deal more so, and it was under such conditions the eviction party set out shortly before 10. The Regan home on the laneway was iu occupation of the emerge.neyrnen, with the customary police guard, while the victims of yesterday's work ; watched the police and the bailiffs pacing pac-ing along to put some of their neighbors neigh-bors in the .same unhappy position. The first house visited was that of Owen Madden, but there was only Mrs. Madden Mad-den at home, as the husband had been in Eneland for u hnnt two vears. en deavoring to earn bread for his helpless help-less little family of six like himself.. Another member of his family has left Ireland and is now in America. The ages of those at home range from 4 to 12 years. The cottage is a very small one, while the nine acres of land is in keeping with that of the surrounding district, and that is to say that it is of j poor quality. The yearly rent is 8 16s, and the arrears amounted to a year I and a half, while the hanging gale was added. The costs in this case reached the appalling figure of 40, so that to satisfy the claim made upon her in order to get the liberty of returning to the humble home, Mrs. Madden should have been prepared to pay a sum of 40, plus two years' rent (17 12s.), or a total of 57 12s. "Pay up," said Mr. Wyndbam. Poor Mrs. Madden was utterly ut-terly unable to do so, and she had no alternative. In a pitiless rain the woman, wo-man, with her little' ones, was compelled com-pelled to leave the ; house, which, wretched and poor c as it was, served her as a home. This terrible eviction was witnessed by a few dozen girls and three or four men, while the majority of the adults are harvesting in England. Eng-land. An additional element of sadness in the case of Mrs. Madden is that the only beast on the holding a bullock-died bullock-died a week ago, and misfortune coming com-ing on misfortune, two pigs died a few days ago. It was stated that a special appeal was made on her behalf, but there were at anv rate no results. The sub-sheriff was not present today and had deputed one of his bailiffs to act in his absence. The rain was still falling heavily when the police and bailiffs marched to the houses of Martin Mar-tin Doherty and his step.-brother, John Coleman, which are about 100 yards past Mrs. Madden's. The holding is a joint one of twenty Irish acres, and for this each brother pays a rental of 9 yearly; The land is mostly flooded,, and this morning a boat might almost have been rowedaover a great portion of it. The rent claimed to effect what some would call a settlement was two years In each case, and costs amounting amount-ing to 40.' Martin Doherty is a young man of powerful physique, and lived with his wife and five children, of ages from 7 years to '8 months. The same weather conditions prevailed when the official demand - for possession was made. The money-was not, of course, forthcoming,' as it .was an utter impossibility im-possibility for the Tpoor tenant to have such a sum, and forthwith the emer-gencymen emer-gencymen proceeded to take out the furniture. The dresser, with its articles arti-cles of delph, and here and there a neat little ornament, was placed t on the road, and then followed the tables and chairs and the bedding, all of which were quickly drenched with the downpour; down-pour; but there was more than the mere furniture to be removed. . There was a little mite of. humanity, 8 months old, sleeping peacefully in its cradle. It was to make its first acquaintance with British law and Irish landlordism. landlord-ism. The poor child was conveyed in its cradle outside and on to the roadway. road-way. The torrents of rain still descended, de-scended, and the weeping mother followed fol-lowed her babe, and, leaning against the old homestead, looked sadly at the work which was going on. The clearance clear-ance did not take long, and, without a glance at Mrs. Doherty and her family who clung around her for protection Wyndham's warriors trudged on In the slush of the boreen to John Coleman's Cole-man's house. .The scene here was not dissimilar, only that in this case there was no infant, hut, instead, feeble John Coleman, tottering in his 84th year, on the brink of the grave. The old man and the little babe his grandchild will preserve the continuity of the system. The little child was helpless, and none the less was the octogenarian, who for years past has been afflicted with a tremor which prevents him from raising rais-ing as much as a. cup of tea to his mouth. ' Your representative spoke to him, and the old peasant said: "I have been here now for over sixty years, and have always tried to pay rny way, and now in my 84th year I am thrown on the: world." With halting halt-ing step and with a feebleness only to be expected in one of his age, he staggered stag-gered along, while the effects of the household were brought from their thatched covering to the street. The brave young girls outside were struck with horror at the tragedy being enacted en-acted before their eyes and with one accord they vigorously groaned the police po-lice and bailiffs while this eviction was proceeding, and before it had concluded con-cluded a car was seen approaching, and in 'a few minutes Mr. Denis Johnston John-ston was observed. One of the first to welcome Mr. Johnston was Mr. John i Cullinan, M. P., who. as on yesterday, traveled around from house to house to watch the progress of the evictions. From All Over Erin. The solemn consecration of the new Catholic cemetery for St. Mary's parish, par-ish, Drogheda. was performed on Thursday by Most Rev. Dr. Gaffney, bishop of Meoth, with all that wealth of ritual observance with which the Catholic church surrounds her sacred rites. , Thursday night a destructive fire broke put at Clonard printing works, Belfast. All the local fire brigades were quickly on the scene ,and a. big effort was made to subdue the flames, which had gained considerable headway. A considerable portion of the valuable machinery and property was destroyed, and most of the. building Avas com pletely gutted. The damage, which is considerable, is covered by insurance. .Lord Justice Walker, In opening the summer assizes in. King's county, congratulated con-gratulated the grand jury on the comparative com-parative absence of crime in the county. coun-ty. There were only five cases to go before them, and none of which was considerable. The number of cases was something under the usual one. He saw no reason in the depositions and returns before him to conclude that the county was not In a satisfactory condition. con-dition. ! In Belfast custody court on Thursday, a man named Samuel Ogle was fined 40s and costs, and ordered, in addition, to find a bail of 100, and two sureties in 50, or in default six months' imprisonment. im-prisonment. His offense was one of throwing stones at members of a procession pro-cession escorting T Mr. Joseph Devlin, M. P., from the, railway station on his arrival in the city. . , T .At a great conyentioa of the United I Irish league for Xorth and South .Sligo, held on Monday in' the town hall of Sligo, Mr. Michael Davitt delivered an important pronouncement on the land I question, In which he outlined pie position po-sition and policy of the national organization. or-ganization. He entered a powerful justification jus-tification of the methods of the league. The convention adopted with enthusiasm enthu-siasm the' resolutions of the Limerick convention. . - On Saturday the first of the joint executive ex-ecutive county meetings in response to the manifesto of the national directory of the United Irish league was held in the town hall, Limerick. Alderman Stephen 0Mara presided. Eloquent addresses were delivered by Mr. John Redmond, M. P., and Mr. Willliam O'Brien, M. P., and important resolutions resolu-tions dealingvwith the landlord and government combination were passed. A fire with very serious results broke out in the new premises of . Mr. P. Coyne, Ballinlough, through, it is stated, the explosion of a lamp, and immediately it had taken root, spread in all directions, and before any effort ef-fort could be made to impede its progress prog-ress had the premises completely guilty. guil-ty. Two adjoining houses. Messrs. Kelly's and Kenny's also suffered con- .1 .i T.I, .1 rr-rt .in J Vwl n.lt.iKililr is that were it not for the efforts of the Rev. Father Roynan, C. C, and the Rev. Mr. Murphy, as well as the policemen and most of the townspeople townspeo-ple who had arrived on the scene, the two houses would have also followed in the ruin of the Coynes. The premises prem-ises of the later were insured, but not to such an extent as to cover the loss sustained. 'At the adjourned meeting of the County Borough council of Belfast on Monday the minutes of the special i committee re the purchase of the street tramways were confirmed. This confirms theoffer of 180,000 for the undertaking,' the existing company to retain the amount of their invested sinking fund, 28,600. It was stated that the offer amounted to 12 Is 3d. per 10 share. The company's lease does not expire until 1907. In case the company accepts the offer, the date of transfer is to be the day upon which the royal assent is given to a bill confirming con-firming the agreement. The purchase resolution was carried by twenty votes to thirteen majority, seven. A young man named Hugh M'Kiggin was drowned in Lough Erne on Tuesday Tues-day while bathing at the rear of the military barracks, Enniskillen. He was a good swimmer, and was returning to shore when he was observed to throw up his hands and disappear un der the water. Andrew McManus im- mediately dragged the spot with a net, but without avail. With the assistance as-sistance of a man named Edward Carney Car-ney he placed a pole in the water, and by its aid the latter descended to the bottom and brought up the body. Dr. Wilson and others endeavored to restore re-store consciousness by artificial respiration, res-piration, but without success, deceased having been submerged for over twenty twen-ty minutes. A serious fire, involving the loss of thousands of pounds, occurred in Bal-lina Bal-lina on Saturday morning, when the extensive provision and general warehouse ware-house of Mr. Mullen was completely gutted. The volunteer fire brigade rendered ren-dered excellent service in preventing the outbreak extending to the neighboring neigh-boring shops, and the captain of the brigade (Mr. E. E. Atkinson) sustained serious Injury by a heavy beam falling on his head. Mr. H. O'Rourke, solicitor, solicit-or, also sustained severe injuries by falling a distance of twenty feet into a cellar through a skylight, while engaged en-gaged in endeavoring to check the progress of the fire. -- Great regret was expressed in Drogheda on Thursday when it became known that Mr. Peter Connolly had passed away. The late Mr. Connolly, who was a member of a very old and highly respected Drogheda family, was brother to the late Rev. Walter Con nolly, a distinguished priest of the Meath diocese, and held the important office of town clerk here . for many years. A very ardent Nationalist, he took his share in all the stormy political po-litical happenings of which Drogheda in his day was the scene. The summer assizes for Westmeath, Leitrim, for Xorth Tipperary were opened on Thursday. In Mullingar only one serious case appeared on the calendarthat cal-endarthat of Thomas Lipsett, the former clerk of the County timerick asylum, who was charged with the embezzlement em-bezzlement of funds amounting to about 700. He pleaded- guilty and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. At Leitrim there were only three cases for trial, in one of which James Doherty is charged with the murder of his son. Mr. Justice Madden pronounced the state of the county to be satisfactory. In orth Tipperary there was but one case for trial. Mr. Justice Johnson said the state of the county was not unsatisfactory. $ The retirement of Mr. M. McGrath from the important office of postmaster postmas-ter of Kingstown, has not been allowed to pass by his colleagues in the principal prin-cipal office and sub-offices of the district dis-trict without a tribute to his great personal per-sonal popularity. Mr. McGrath has had a long official connection with the postal department. He has been for twenty years at the head of the Kingstown Kings-town district, and no more efficient, courteous, or popular officer has been in the service of the postoffice. Among his brother officials, as well as the public, his retirement is a matter of unfeigned regret. To Mr. McGrath, however, it is a matter of considerable gratification that in withdrawing from the service he carries with him the good opinion and warm wishes of all classes in Kingstown. His colleagues have presented him with a massive marble clock, a pair of handsome bronze figures, and af silver inkstand. The training ships Alliance and Enterprise En-terprise arrived in Queenstown on Friday, Fri-day, and fired a salute on entering, w hich was answered by the Spike battery. bat-tery. There are now .three American training ships in the harbor. Independence Inde-pendence day was celebrated by the crew and boys of the Monongahela on Friday in a fitting manner. All were off duty, and at 11 a. m., a twelve-oared twelve-oared cutter race took place. Four boats competed. Cutter No. 4 won. Prizes of 10 were given by an enthusiastic enthu-siastic American staying here, named Colonel Tvler. who ulso rnntrihuto largely to a special dinner to the boys on board, who had what they termed a good time, and appreciated Colonel Tyler's thoughtful action. On Wednesday, about 11 o'clock, a policeman named Constable P. J. Scott was drowned in a bathing hole about a mile outside of Macroom. The deceased de-ceased was accompanied by another policeman named Constable Kelly, and the latter just approached the hole only to see his comrade grasp as it were for support, and at once disappear disap-pear beneath the surface. Unhesita-tinly Unhesita-tinly though he was attired In the heavy unwieldy garb of the force, and though he was unable to swim. Constable Con-stable Kelly plunged into the' hole which is reckoned to be about ten feet deep, in hopes that his drowning friend would rise once more to the surface but unfortunately he was disappointed' Clerical and medical aid arrived with commendable celerity, but only to find life extinct. The deceased, who hails from Killareny.- was last stationed at Drimoleague. He was only about 23 or 24 years of age. and was only four years in-the force, having quite recently re-cently come from the depot. The dlerctors oT the Munster and Leinster bank, limited, Dublin, announce an-nounce a dividend for the half-year ended June 30 last, at the rate of 11 per cent per annum, the- addition of 2,500 to the reserve fund, the placing of 5,000 in reduction of bank. premises account, with 4,55i forward. S A young man named John Power, son of a baker, committed suicide on Monday Mon-day evening in one of the lofts of his father's premises, North Main street. Cork. Deceased, who was 23 years of age, had been in a depressed state of mind for some months, owing, it was stated, to failure to obtain employment. employ-ment. He proceeded unseen to the loft and tied a rope to one of the rafters, getting the noose round his neck, and having to lift himself to get a drop. A collecting box in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary. Castlebar, has been robbed no less than twice during th past week. The amounts taken were small. On Monday night about 6s. was taken. On Saturday morning the thief again entered the church and succeeded in breaking open the box and extracting a sum of Is. 6d. It is supposed that the thief concealed himself him-self in the church overnight, or else came into the side entrance during the celebration of early mass and secured the spoil. $ A resolution was adopted at the meeting meet-ing of Balrothery board of guardians on Wednesday that a conference of members from the Balrothery, the North and South Dublin, the Dun-shaughlin Dun-shaughlin and the Drogheda Unions be held in Balrothery workhouse on the 30th of July, with a view to having an i eftort made to have the law regarding tramps amended. I James Crawford, 40, laborer, sustained sus-tained frightful injuries on Saturday by fallfng from the battlements of Balls bridge, Limerick, on which he Is supposed sup-posed to have been sleeping. Into the bed of the Shannon, a distance of twenty twen-ty feet. The tide was out. and when discovered Crawford was found to have had the scalp torn from the entire back of his head, nad his spine was fractured. frac-tured. His case is considered hopeless. hope-less. A tailor named Lewis Leary, residing in Skibbereen, was found dead in his bed on Monday morniner. Deceased, on Sunday evening, complained of feeling his heart beat very weakly, but soon after recovered his usual strength. After tea he took a walk, and retired in his usual health and spirits, but the inmates of the house, finding that he did not appear in the mornin- entered his bedroom and found him quite dead in the bed. Deceased was a man of about 30 or 35 years of age. io judge from the statement made I by the lord mayor of Cork at the meeting meet-ing of the executive of the Cork exhibition, exhibi-tion, the financial aspect of the undertaking under-taking at the present moment affords no ground for disquiet. From this point of view, the success of the project is, according to hi3 lordship, "absolutely "absolute-ly secured." It is a remarkable statement, state-ment, remembering how seriously the inclement weather militated against the attendance, and also how ridiculously inadequate were the means taken to advertise the exhibition. Months after the time some one has realized that the advertising question Is important; and recently a further sum of 150 was voted for the purpose of bringing the exhibition under the notice of the people peo-ple of England; 50 for each country is not a large sum, considering the amount of Ignorance prevailing in each country as to the exhibition. Exhibition of Irish Art Industries. In conjunction with the great Irish horse show, which will take place on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th of August, the Royal Dublin Society will hold an exhibition of Irish art Industries, at which prizes amounting, to upwards of two hundred pounds will be offered for the best specimens of lace, embroidery, wood carving, metal work and designs. The society affords every facility to those who desire to compete for the prizes, and in order that the competition competi-tion may he within the reach of all, even the poorest peasant, no charge whatever is made for entering articles in competition for the valuable prizes. As an additional inducement to enter work in competition at this exhibition, facilities are afforded for the sale of the articles exhibited. Potato Blight in Mayo. Though the weather for the past week has been all that could be desired by farmers as far as crops are concerned, yet the effects ef-fects of the long period of rain which preceded are making themselves apparent, ap-parent, even thus early, by the appearance appear-ance of blight in several districts In West Mayo. In many places particularly particu-larly in boggy land the potato crop threatens to be a total failure this .year, because the blight has now found an easy prey in the weak stalks, the seeds of which were greatly damaged by the rain. Spraying is being carried out on an extensive scale, but it is feared that all efforts to check the blight, which has appeared exceptionally exception-ally early in the season, will be unavailing. un-availing. Cardinal Moran In Drogheda. His Eminence Cardinal Moran, archbishop of Sydney, arrived in Drogheda by the 3:30 train on Monday and was met at the station by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Segrave, P. P., V. G.. St. Peter s, in whose carriage he was driven to the presbytery. Fair street, where he re mains the guest of Monsignor Segrave. As his eminence was being driven into ; town he was accorded a musical grej ' ing from the tower of the memorial j church, erected here to the memory of the martyred primate, Oliver Plunkett, whose biography his eminence wrote when bishop of Ossory, by the playing! on the fine peal of bells of "Come Back to Erin," and "Home, Sweet Home," by Mr. . Edward i Lambe. His eminence subsequently ; visited the splendid church In question, in which he takes a special interest, as it was he who preached the sernon on the occasion of laying Its foundation stone, and had the opportunity , of seeing for himself the completeness to which what is acknowledged ac-knowledged to be a rare gem of ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical architecture has been brought. Clerical Appointment in Limerick. The Most Rev. Dr .O'Dwyer has appointed ap-pointed the' Rev. Edmond Russell, P. P., Killeedy, to be parish priest of Pirteen, in succession to the Rev. Luke Gleeson, P. P., who died recently. GIRL'S SUICIDE NEAR CAVAN On Friday evening word was conveyed to the Cavan police that a young girl named Milvany had committed suicide at Drumlee, about' half a mile from the town. She was found suspended by a short rope from the rafters In an outhouse out-house adjoining her dwelling. The unfortunate un-fortunate girl was abort 20 years of ; age) and had been in bad health for some, time past. It is believed that grief at her father's death, which occurred oc-curred a week ago, unhinged the poor creature's mind, and prompted the committal of the rash act. A LABOR DIFFICULTY. A labor difficulty has arisen in regard to the congested district board's efforts in County Donegal, and the result is a cessation of employment. Operations were begun six weeks ago on the lands recently purchased by the board In St John's Point. The work of fencing the' farm was first proceeded with. and. only those residing on the state were employed. The workmen were paid at the rate of 12s per wek. but after a fortnight's work they struck for 15s The board would not grant the increase, in-crease, and instructed their granger to dismiss the men, and nnplov I siders at 15s per week. Ki, ! "" j higher rate of wages Very f,'1 ,h" were available, and in ronq,,,,',,., n;'' " f works are to be stopped at th.. r.M(1 , j tho present week, when th'- nie- V fences are repaired. Th-iv a,-r ",'! tails as to negotiations, and it n ,' ' ' the dividing of the estat- inr. '-V j ments may bo long delayed. ' Th!- perimcnt was looked forward t,, X" Inegal with much inter-st. ;,n, th" I sudden check is regarch-d as pointing and discouraging for st;("' j ORANGE RFFFIAXS. A cvr.r.I-. i attack was made on undav ev.Mijr'l I upon the Very Rev. Canon lii-.-, L- V. F., and the superiornss of th-- c..n ' vent of Mercy and two companlo,, r.,' while returning from donee. ,,-,' paying a visit to th,- Uev. J. R... k p r., who. as tho public know. h;e- f,,-a f,,-a long time bc-n suffering fi-., ;, ', grave illness. Canon Rice ai: l ;v nuns left Cookstown early in t : i - ! ,.-and ,.-and from what occurred on tlie nw ,,,, journey everything points to tic :,t. tack having been arranged ; t h.'.jP return. The Canon and tic- s .i...s were driving in a closed c;irri,ii;i . while on the Dotuigh'-nry n-ad. - I.;. ( leads into the notorious village i.r lyhogue, the first part of the i,;,,,, was made. This consisted in ., , I being thrown, one striking !h-- i , i; "f panelling of the carriage and n ;.t ; . .. an indentation. A man on th. i ..;d was. seen to pick up ;i stone ;ln 1 th:-...-it with force afte r theocctu a n; e- tv. carriage. Happily the drive,- -. the horses into a brisk i m c .-i.. i- hard to say what might have ;:..,;. Further-along the road a. mm;,. ,-,f the usual Sunday scamps w.m. ,.. gregatcd, and as the carriage - -j they indulged in the most v...-hooting v...-hooting and hissing. It is to !. j t-ercly hoped that after this !at-M , burst some steps will be taken t., I tablish what has long been a dir.- t c j cessity in this notorious lo, j namely, a police barrack, and a" :. cicrit patrol along the roads, i ' j Rice does not so much feel th- ,t m. s j upon himself, as he has more th f. once come in for this particular kind of notice, hut he feels very mu. ti f,,.. ! the sisters, who are so oftn chII-I out on works of charity. |