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Show - Eatest Trisft news . CITY OF DUBLIN. Dublin Weekly Freeman, Aug. 12.) Jan.es Harris, Pitt street, and John Mt-Mahon were each fined 5 by Mr. Drury in the southern police court on "Wednesday for taking bets in the tt reets. The MoFt Rev. Dr. Clancy, bishop of Klphin. delivered an interesting' sermon ser-mon on the Dominican order ;it the c lebration of the feast of St. Dominic on Friday at St. Saviour's church. f . The lord chief baron continued the business of the city commission on Thursday, and had to deal with two rases in which deaths of children were aliened to have- arisen from neglect. The boxing match between Jem Roche (Wexford) and Charles St. Clair (Brooklyn) for the championship of Ireland, came off on Monday night at Korlsfon terrace, when Roche won in th tenth round. At the half-yearly meeting of the BleKsiugton Steam Tram company on Tuesday the chairman congratulated the shareholders on the improvements in the half-year in receipts and saving on expenditures amounting to 364. On Tuesday in the northern police court, before Mr. Mahoney, Thomas Dunne, 107 Great Britain street, was :ined 23 for selling buttermilk adulterated adul-terated with 34 per cent of water, over and above the 25 per cent allowed for churning purposes. " Reference was made to the effect of the drought on milk nt the southern T'-vlice court on Wednesday, when a number of summonses by the corporation corpora-tion food inspector for supplying adulterated adul-terated milk came .up for hearing. Mr. Drury adjourned them. On Saturday at th rolroe court. Mr. Swlfte sent forward for trial at the -ity sessions, Mr Hugh O'Neill, an ex-collector of rates in the employment of the Dublin corporation, on charges of embezzlement and falsification of rates. The amount involved in the charges was stated to be about 150. f At the north Dublin union board of ruardians" meeting on "Wednesday, a report on the state of the house was read, furnished by Mr. Saunderson, local lo-cal government board inspector, in which he stated that the sanitary condition con-dition of the hospital could not be considered con-sidered satisfactory until sufficient sanitary accommodation and baths had been provided. At the police court on Thursday Mr. Swifte had before him a number of milk contractors to the south Dublin union who were charged with having supplied milk of poor quality during the month of June. Evidence was given for the defence to show that the dry j summer had an injurious effect on the produce of dairy cattle and the sum- j mouses were dismissed. i On Saturday evening a fire broke out at the temporary buildings at Adelaide road used as a laboratory by the college col-lege of science. The building was of wood and corrugated iron, and the fire, which spread with enormous rapidity. w;is extended to the timber stores of Mr. Adams. The fire brigade was quickly on the scene, but owing to the inadequate pressure of water nothing oould be done to save the two buildings build-ings mentioned. ALL AROUND IRELAND. Dublin Weekly Freeman, Aug. 12.) Ballaghaderreen annual athletic ? ports were held on Monday, and proved highlv successful. . The Longford Agricultural Society's show was held on "Wednesday, and proved a great success. The crops in the north and in other parts of Ireland have been seriously damaged by the recent storms. On Monday evening a dairyman i.amed Connor was accidentally di owned in a quarry at Crumlin, where he had gone to bathe. The annual show of the County "Wicklow Agricultural Society was most successfully held in Rathdrum on "Wednesday, The half yearly meeting of the Belfast Bel-fast and County Down railway was held on Thursday in Belfast. The directors' di-rectors' report was adopted. At Midleton (County Cork) on "Wed-j "Wed-j r.esday a farmer named Michael Mul- cahy was sent for trial on the charge of having murdered his wife. A fierce fracas between civilians and tnilitary has occurred in County Donegal. Done-gal. Three soldiers were injured. Four arrests have been made. Feis Tire Ecghain at Toomebridge, which was concluded on Tuesday, is described as the most important Feis yet held in the north of Ireland. At a meeting of the executive of the Town Tenants' association held in Dublin Dub-lin on Thursday, correspondence was read from 12" urban centres. A man whose name is unknown was accidentally run down and killed at JCildare on Monday night by an excursion excur-sion train returning from Cashel. On Tuesday the officers of the French fi et were entertained at various functions, func-tions, including a luncheon given by the Royal Yacht Squadron club of Dublin. The Relfast magistrate on Friday guv his decision in the case in which a local club was prosecuted, it being the first case of the kind under the r.ew act. The death took place at an early hour on Thursday at the Convent of Mercy, Ballina, of Sister Mary Xavier, whose eolden jubilee was celebrated only a, few months ago. j On Monday the Archbishop of Phila- j delphia visited the Christian Brothers' j schools, Thurles. His Grace was pre-pented pre-pented with an address, to which he eloquently replied. "While alighting from a tram in Cork, on Monday, a man named Timothy O'Shea. got knocked against a pole and received a severe scalp wound. The Venerable Archdeacon Kilkenny, D.D.. P.P.. V.F., Claremorris, has been unanimously re-elected chairman of the County Muyo committee for agriculture agricul-ture and technical instruction. A young Scotchman named John Porteous, ted 20, of Kilmarnock, was bathing at the West Strand, Portrush, when he got beyond his depth, and was carried out on a heavy tide and drowned. At Tralee, on Saturday, John Lillls, was remanded on the charge of embezzling em-bezzling different sums of money from Mr. Thomas Goodman, sub-sheriff, by I whom he was employed as head clerk. A sad affair is reported from Gilford, County Down. A married woman, labouring under temporary insanity, S saturated her clothes with paraffin oil, set them on fire, and burned herself to d-ath. . Mr. James Comerton. B.A., senior ienoe teacher at the Christian j Brothers' schools.. Cork, he been un- animously elected principal and teacher of science by the Limerick city technical techni-cal education committee. St. Jarlath's bazaar, to raise funds for the erection of an archiepiscopal residence at Tuam, was opened on Monday in the college" grounds by his grace the archbishop, in the presence of a large and fashionable attendance. The condition of the boy Kelly, who was accidentally shot at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening near the Steam Packet company's office, Cork, has not disim-proved. disim-proved. A deposition has been taken and the police are investigating the matter. f The archbishop of Tuam, presiding at a teachers', meeting in that town on Monday, criticised with considerable severity the recent action of the National Na-tional board; he also dealt with the tligo incident, and the use made of it by Belfast "loyalists." On Wednesday another meeting of the agricultural tenants on the estate of the late Sir John Arnott was held in reference to the half year's rent at present demanded in Bandou. Rev. M. O'Sullivan, C.C, presided. Subsequently Subse-quently a deputation of the tenants had an interview with the asent. Their excellencies the lord lieutenant and the countess of Dudley and Viscount Vis-count Ednan left the Viceregal Lodge on Monday morning and traveled to Maam Cross station. Their excellencies motored from Maam Cross to Inver lodge in the afternoon. The Portadown Urban Council have received an application from a Belfast lady for the position of superintendent of works at a salary of 35s a week. She is one of the fourteen candidates referred to a committee to report to a future meeting of the council, at which the appointment will be made. On Thursday the large steam yacht Argonaut, which is on a cruise round the British Isles,, having on board a hundred -and eighty passenger tourists, anchored in Kingston harbor, and some two hundred guests from the city were entertained at luncheon on board. In the evening the Argonaut left for Oban, f A fatal accident occurred in the North Yard of Messrs. Workman, Clark & Co., Ltd., Belfast, the victim being a plater's helper, named Henry M'Bride, residing at 57 Bentlck street. Deceased met his death through his head coming violently in contact with the handle of a bogey wagon. The death has just occurred of Mr. P. Barry. ex-T. C, Cork. Mr. Barry was for fifteen years a member of the local Corporation. He fought in the American civil war under General Sheridan, and was present at the battle of Bull's Run, where he sounded the charge. On Sunday a series of interesting and well-contested handball matches "were carried out at the Mountcastle Mills. Co. Kerry, ball alley. The principal match was one between Messrs. D. O'Connor and J. Flanagan, and Messrs. C. Curtain and T. Thompson. After a well-contested and exciting play, the latter two contestants won by a substantial sub-stantial score. A report reached Waterford on Monday Mon-day of the narrow escape from drowning drown-ing of three ladies at Tramore on that day. It appears that two of the ladies got out of their depth and their cries for assistance attracted the attention of the third, who went to their assistance. assist-ance. With difficulty they were taken ashore. - The Most Rev. Dr. Ryan, Archbishop of Philadelphia, on Wednesday visited his native town of Thurles, "and received re-ceived a public reception from the Archbishop and clergy of the diocese of Cashel and the people of Thurles. He was presented with an address from the Urban "Council of Thurles, to which he delivered an interesting reply. The conference held on Mondav in Killamey in connection with the Mun-Eter Mun-Eter Feis unanimously approved of a proposal to open a special fund, to be called the Ciste na Mumhan, for the purpose of saving the language where it is spoken in Munster. It was decided de-cided that next year's Munster Feis be held in Cork. A Rothesay telegram states that the Loch Fyne. a trawler, collided with the Port Bannatyne, fishing skiff, off Aran on Thursday, and that James Hogarth, over 70 years of age, who steered the vessel, was drowned. Two other occupants were rescued. One of the deceased's sons, Archibald Hogarth, sailed the Shamrock I in the America Cup Race. At a meeting of the Mid-Cork Executive Ex-ecutive of the United Irish Leairue on Monday, Mr. D. D. Sheehan. M. P. for the constituency, said that his explanation explana-tion for his absence from Parliament was that he was endeavoring to advance ad-vance Mr. O'Brien's policy, which he believed in, and that he believed he was doing better work for the country at home than he could do in the House of Commons. At the convention of the Irish National Na-tional Foresters at Motherwell, on Tuesday some heat was introduced into in-to the discussion by the suggestion of Mr. Brady, Glasgow District Organizer, that there was a brother in the Order for the purpose of disrupting it. He said he was prepared to stand by the assertion, but at the request of the Chief Ranger and' other delegates he agreed to withdraw the statement. Some changes were made in the rules of the Order. |