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Show tatzsi Irisb He I Lord O'Brien has received a letter from the lord lieutenant, enclosing a subscription of 25 towards the expenses ex-penses of the international boat race, to be rowed at Cork next July. On Tuesday, at a United Irish League convention in South Monaghan, il-John il-John McKean, Kingstown, was selected" select-ed" as the national candidate in succession suc-cession to Mr. James Daly, who has retired from parliament. Mr. McKean received 82 votes; Dr. O'Neill of Coatbridge, Coat-bridge, 39 votes, and Mr. McGuire, 14 votes. Ai MuIIingar on Monday two soldiers of the West Riding regiment, named R. Wrorth and J. Goodwin, were remanded, re-manded, charged with having on Saturday Sat-urday evening maliciously broken the window of Mrs. O'Sullivan's Jewelry' establishment in Greville street and stolen therefrom a quantity of jewelry. jew-elry. Mr. Conor O'Kelly. M. P.. was on Monday released from Castlebar jail, where he had been Imprisoned for a month under the crimes art. Mr. John O'Donnell. M. P., reached Sligo on Monday to undergo a term of imprisonment impris-onment under the same act. A meeting of the Irish party was held on Monday in committee room 16, Mr. John E. Redmond presiding-. Resolutions Resolu-tions were passed expressing admiration admira-tion of the conduct of the M. P.'s and other coercion victims, and cordially weleoming Mr. Conor O'Kelly on his release from jail. At Callan. County Kilkenny, on Monday, Mon-day, J. P. Walsh, secretary of the- local ftranch of the U. I. L., was returned fo trial under the Whlteboy acts. The principal witness against the accused was a Sergeant Sheridan, who admit- I ted that he lied to the accused in order to obtain nis signature. On Wednesday, before Mr. Justice Johnson and a city common jury, the case of Cullen v. Reilly was heard. The plaintiff. Miss Anne Cullen, who resides re-sides with her brother, w"ho is a farmer farm-er near Edgeworthstown, claimed 500 damages for alleged, breach of promise of marriage from Thomas Reil!y, a farmer residing near Streete, County Westmeath. The jury awarded the plaintiff 20 damages. Two young men named McConnell and McGurran, who resided in Innis- . keen, an island on Lough Erne, about two miles from Enniskillen, have been I missing since Wednesday, it appears that they visited Enniskillen on that day. and as the lake was completely frczen, they walked across it. It is said that they left the town in the evening. The body of McConnell has been found. All attempts to recover the body of McGurran, who was in company with him. have, up to the present, proved futile. On Tuesday morning a man named John McGarry, aged 65, was shockingly-burned shockingly-burned in his house at Ballynichol. near Portaferry, the dwelling being also consumed. He lived alone. The deceased's house was discovered burned to the ground early on Thursday morning. morn-ing. Upon the police effecting an entrance, en-trance, his dead body was found in a corner, one leg being completely burned off at the knee. It is surmised he fell asleep, leaving a lighted candle near his bed, which ignited the bedding. On Monday night Mr. John Neill, publican, was found dead in the Old Kenmore "Wood, about half a mile from Kenmore. Mr. O'Neill, who was not in the best of health for some time past, attended the funeral of a friend on Monday. At 8:30 o'clock Mrs. O'Neill informed some friends that her husband hus-band had not returned from the funeral. fu-neral. A search was made, and resulted re-sulted in the finding of deceased in the wood, a short distance from the public road. Death is attributed to failure of heart's action. At a special court at Ennis on Saturday, Satur-day, before Mr. A. Newton Brady, R. M., George Lillian. Mme. Lillian, and their daughter, Mabel Lillian, who have been traveling for some years through Ireland as the "Lillian Herbal company," or "American specialists," were against brought up in custody on remand, charged with obtaining money j piicuoo, ortcttLi linear were examined, who deposed to giving money to the accused to cure them of various ailmtnts. The accused were further remanded, ball being refused. ! The Press association's Jersey correspondent corre-spondent reports that on Mondav at noon Miss Emma Chadwick. daughter of the Protestant bishop of Derry and Raphoe. was seen standing by the side of tie Jersey railway station, and as a train approached she appeared to step in front and was knocked down, receiving re-ceiving injuries which terminated fatally fa-tally on Tuesday morning. The inquest in-quest was opened the same afternoon, when the evidence showed that' Miss Chadwick, whose health had broken down through overwork, Vas -sent to the island in November for rest. The deceased left a will, dated this month. On Monday tho dead body of a young woman was found on the strand between be-tween Muckross and the Wand, a few miles to the south of Clonokilty. Intimation Inti-mation having been given to the police Acting Sergeant Boyle and Constable Jones went to the scene, with the workhouse work-house officials and a coffin, and had the body removed to the Clonakilty courthouse. The remains have been identified as those of a young woman. Kate McCarthy, daughter of a small farmer, residing at Agha. near Court-mecsherry. Court-mecsherry. it appears her mind had become unhinged. She had been missing miss-ing from her home since last Sundav week. An inquest was held in Tralee on Frl-t Frl-t the body of a w-oman named ZS' J?ohtlnna Nolan- a&ed about 50 who died in the Workhouse hospital on the previous evening.' On the 7th. inst she was found lying unconscious on the?'a er table of tfe Great Northern L i'"1? outside Gortalea station, sta-tion, and was brought into Tralee. and had since been under medical care but she never recovered consciousness ' The i Jury found. In accordance with the nudical evidence, that death was dul hat fr Un f the braIn' and add that there was no evidence to show how tho deceasedj-eceived the injuries T iJT1 Zas hed on Monday at Limer ck touching the death of a Miss Houfsteller. stated to be of Swiss or" Sin who was discovered on Saturday in her room at Woodbine cottage New street, sitting, a chair, having apparently appa-rently been dead for some days A young girl who went on errands forth-deceased forth-deceased called on Thursday, but receiving re-ceiving no answer, repeated her 'visit next day, but without result On Saturday Sat-urday an entranr-a ,.-o ..re Houfsteller being found as stated The 1 Vs in lndl&ent circumstances j and had been attended medically by Dr. Shanahan. A verdict was returned of death from natural causes. The little village of Mountcharles, in ! ban rfU.?y Donal- 19 to have a town hall of its own. A meeting of the citizens cit-izens has been held and an executive committee appointed to see that a suit- ! able town hall be found or built imme-diately imme-diately for the people's want. This is an example which might well be followed fol-lowed by other Irish villages, as at present the only halls available for public meetings or entertainments ar in the hands of local . landlords and I often a strolling company can get liberty lib-erty to ue them where a local commit- r tee. even for a charitable purpose, cannot. can-not. A sad coincidence occurred on Tuesday Tues-day at Cliftonville, near Limerick. A gentieman named Harris Seymour, aged 86, and his sister, Kate. . had been in ill-health for some time, me sister was unceasing in her attention ' to her brother, and. it is said, expressed a wish that she might die before him She passed away at fourteen minute past 9, and her brother six minut later. He was a gentlemna of mean.-: 1 and led a retired life for thirty years. The board of agriculture, in compliance compli-ance with resolutions emanating from the Glin Rural district council and the Limerick city council, have sent down to Glin two experts for the purpose of ascertaining whether coal exists in th' neighborhood of the culm pits at Clo-j Clo-j gough. which sixty years ago were suc-. suc-. cessfuliy worked by the then Knight of Glin. Three years since Messrs. Cas-sell Cas-sell and Gardener, Scotch mining experts, ex-perts, visited the locality, and satisfied themselves that anthracite coal was t be found in several places in the vicin i ity of the o!d culm workings. The re I port of the engineers from the depart- ment of agriculture is anxiously await ' ed by the people of the district and bv the representative bodies in the county V . On Tuesday morning an accident too;. place at the WaUrford terminus of th Dungarvan railway system durinr shunting operations. It appears amont the men engaged was a young shuntt ' named Hllliard, who, while engaged a I his work, slipped upon the rails i;. j front of an engine, the wheels of whicl. i passed across one of his legs, with th result that the limb was almost com pletely severed from the body. Th unfortunate man lingered on until t u fi'K-n, w tie 11 ne succumoeu to nis injuries in-juries in the county and city infirmary. infirm-ary. About h&'f-past 4 on Saturday even Ing a fatality of an extremely shod, Ing and sudden character occurred i Patrick street, Cork, near the Fath( Mathew statue. About that timo rran named Thomas Ho3ford. who if sids at 9 Charleville row. and is ?m ployed by Messrs. Nat Ross, carrier was driving a dray containing a !oa we'ghing about three tons throu,'' Patrick street, in the direction of Pa I rick's bridge, when he was observed t s'ip from the car to the ground, an " before assistance could he rendered t front wheel of the d-ay passed over h; hip. He was then seen to make an ef fort to avoid the second wheel, but hi attempt was ineffectual, and this wher also passed over his body and hea'' He was at onc taken to the North in firmary, but died immediately after admission. ad-mission. i Intelligence has reached Armagh o a shocking fatality which took place ir the townland of Rowan, which is abou half-way between Armagh and Keady It. appears that a well-known Kead. merchant named John Cheevers, wh had a public house and posting estab li hment in Keady, drove into Armagh in a high trap with a Vmmercial trav eler, who was going to the train, or Wednesday. He left Armagh alon about half-past 9 on the same night tr drive home, a distance of six miles. H' did not turn 1ir- on tt'ortnocflo,- nichf and on the next day his wife and fam ily. thinking that something had hap pened to him, set out in search for him After a long search his son, John Cheevers, found his father's horse and trap in a lane off the main road from Armagh to KeaLy. The horse w a dead, his neck being broken, and both shafts were smashed. On prosecuting the search further, he found his father about 100 yards away from the horse and trap lying near a ditch, quite dead 1 with a terrible gash in his forehead the result, presumably, of having been violently pitched out of the trap. Preaching on Sunday at special service ser-vice at St. John's cathedral, Limer- , ick, and which was attended on invitation invi-tation by the mayor and members of I the Limerick corporation, the Most Rev. Doctor O'Dwyer said he should like to speak plainly regarding a gross vice, drunkenness, which was rampant 111 meir town, 'iney Were beginning the Lenten season, and it was inconsistent incon-sistent with the teaching of God's law and the law of the church, that any in-du'gence in-du'gence destroying every glimmer of reason among the people should be continued. con-tinued. A stranger would hardly believe be-lieve there was any necessity for such strong language, but the figures he would give would surprise his listeners, listen-ers, as these figures had astonished and humi'iated himself. During the past year 907 men and women were convicted for drunkenness in the citv. and the majority of these were severa' times arrested, the total arrests for the yrar being nearly 3 000. Was it not a shocking and appalling state of things to have this abominable vice working havoc -all over the town? Until thi" torrent of liquor flowing over Limerick , . -.t-.-v. nuuiu 1 'main as it wa. a beggarly, wretched, filthy, im- ! poverishd city. Th town presently was bad onousrh. but it would be worse unless this vice was checked. |