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Show J au$t Trisb news ALL AROUND IRELAND. (Dublin Weekly Freeman, Sept. 23.) Sir Daniel Dixon .was elected for North Dcjfast by a majority'of 474. f- Tlie Protestant association suffered a defeat in Belfast in the election of alderman al-derman for the Wood vale ward. f The chief secretary offers Mr. Ma-penis Ma-penis an unsworn investigation before two independent persons into the alleged al-leged outrage at Drumdoe. On Friday night the house of William Wil-liam Graham, Church street, Oooks-town, Oooks-town, was broken Into and a sum of money abstracted. The police are Investigating' In-vestigating' the matter. f At a meeting of the Cork Industrial Development association further arrangements ar-rangements were announced for the foi incoming exhibition and conference.) " ' ' ; i The Irish Forosty society held their I annual excursion on Saturday, when Coollattin Demesne and Woods, the seat of Karl Fitzwiliian, was visited. At Itaphoe petty sessions on Friday a number of Nationalists and Orangemen Orange-men were on trial for a riot on the right of the. ll'th of August. They were 1 all returned for trial. A lew days since a farmer named1 Michael Scanlan of Tennekilli, neari Clin, was thrown from his horse, and j while on the ground was kicked by the animal, sustaining severe injuries to the "head. f- At Tuesday's meeting of Armagh guardians, there were four applicants for th position of assistant master. Mr. T. McCartney, one of the assistants in the clerk's office, was unanimously appointed. A sum of 1.265 has been subscribed 1 toward the erection of a statue to the memory of the late Sir James Haslett, M. P., Belfast. It is proposed to place the statue in front of the city hall, Belfast. Bel-fast. f At Dungarvan on Sunday, the inter-county inter-county athletic contest between Tip-perary Tip-perary and Cork resr' . in a win for Tipperary by ten p The scores were: Tipperary, 50"(J rn-. Cork, 40 point?. A man was prosecuted u Cork police court on Monday for having, as alleged, al-leged, obtained by false pretenses entries en-tries for dogs at a drag hunt. The prizes offered not b?ir.g jwuid, the accused ac-cused explained that he lost the money oil a game of bowls. The Cork Coisde Ceanntair has appointed ap-pointed an influential deputation to wait upon the Cork county council in reference to the rule making it compulsory compul-sory for candidates seeking appointments appoint-ments under the council to have a knowledge of Irish. ' : ' At the Cork, police court on Thursday. Thomas Gilchrist, a bandsman in the First Gordon Highlanders, was sent for trial charged with having ftttempt-jd ftttempt-jd to commit suicide on the 4th of August Aug-ust last, by shooting himself through the right arm. f A largely attended meeting was held I in Portumna on, Sunday, which was addressed by Mr. John Roche. M. P., and Mr. Reddy, M. P., in support of the Gahvay political prisoners' fund. A resolution on the subject of hunting in the county wa.s passed. The Dublin Industrial Development association at its meeting on Monday had before it some proposals for ex tending the operations of the association. associa-tion. Foreign made prayer books, Irish ,-11 tobacco, and the labor .bureau were among the subjects discussed. f At the morgue on Tuesday the city coroner held an inquest on an infant, named Redding who had' been placed out at nurse with a Mrs. Tennant ot Monkston. The jury found practically that death had resulted from want of proper, care and .food. Tennant was nested on "a 'charge of manslaughter. Hamilton J. Livingstone, formerly rate collector in Newry, has arrived there in custody, having been arrested in Toronto charged with misappropriation misappropria-tion of nine hundred pounds, trust of an estate of which he was sole executor. execu-tor. On arrival accused was formally charged, and remanded until Thursday. Thurs-day. .' On Friday; at Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh. Fer-managh. Hugh Creegan, a laborer, was I again before the magistrates on a I charge of killing a man named John I Gardiner on the 23th of August. The f case if what is known as "the Far- I managh mystery." Evidence having j "been given, the case was adjourned. I An iiKjuest on the constable who committed suicide at Ballindine. near Clarrmorris, on Wednesday, was held on Thursday, at which a verdict was returned that he committed the terrible terri-ble act while temporarily insane. It is suggested that his mind was affected by a love affair. A motion was passed at the Macroom "Hoard of Guardians on Saturday condemning con-demning the action of those members of the Cork count y council, who have expressed an intention of moving to rescind the resolution making it compulsory com-pulsory on all persons seeking official positions under that body to possess a knowledge of the Irish language. On Saturday at -Cork a young man named Leslie, who had been employed In the Fermoy postoffice. was prosecuted prose-cuted for obtaining goods by false pretences pre-tences from a number of traders in the City of Cork. He was remanded, the prosecution stating that there were other charges' to be preferred against him.- The Cork Coisde Ceanntair of the Gaelic league pasfed a strong resolu tion of protest against the action of certain members of the Cork county I ' ouncil In Keeking to rescind the reso- ' Union making a knowledge of Irish eompulsoty for those seeking appointments appoint-ments -under the council. In a circular letter read in all the hurches in the- diocese of Kerry on Sunday the-Most-Rev. Dr. Mangan refers re-fers to the claim of Maynonth college, , and also to the question of university education and the fund for Catholic scholarships, for which he appeals for support. An interesting prosecution took place on Wednesday in the county Antrim, when the York street Spinning company, com-pany, of Belfast, were summoned by Fishery conservators for causing the destruction Of fish in the river Six-milewater Six-milewater by the discharge of a poisonous poison-ous liquid from their works. A fine of 10s was imposed. A representative meeting of the citir 7-ens of Limerick was held on Wednes dny to express appreciation of the services ser-vices rendered to the city by the Very Rev. Dr. O'Riordan, who has just been appointed Rector of the Irish College I 5n Rome. Speeches were delivered bv the mayor, John Adams, and Lord Emly. j ' ' Replying to a vote of thanks at the Limerick county committee of Agricul- t ture and technical instruction on Wed- I Tiesday. Sir H. Plunkett said the chief difficulty the department had to meet i was to reconcile local with national I difficulties, and he was glad to say 1 that every year that passed over, their joint labors for this reconciliation be-i be-i came more and lnore.easy. He was as-! . I finished to find liitle difference if opinion between the department and the Limerick, county committee, 'and he hoped as time went on they would be more helpful to each other. -t The Limerick County Council have refused to act upon the report of. the local governing board "recommending an increase in the county surveyor's salary of 300 pounds a year in consequence conse-quence of the additional duties involved in-volved by the adoption by the council of direct labor in the maintenance of the roads. ' Steeplejacks are at" present employed pointing the clock tower (170 feet high) of Lurgan Parish church. On Friday, while John Sullivan, who was attending attend-ing on the steeplejacks, . was standing on the topmost scaffold, it began to slip, and were it. not that Sullivan, with great presence of -mind.--sprang through onevof the holes in the tower, he would have met with a "very serious accident. The Templepatrick police having informed in-formed Mr. John Murphy, watchmaker and jeweler. High street, Antrim, that his brother,, Daniel, was lying in an unconscious state on the roadside I leading from Dunadry. to Templepatrick, Templepat-rick, Mr. Murphy proceeded with all possible haste and had his brother conveyed- in a carriage to- their home in Antrim, but "the latter expired a few minutes after arrival. t On Monday. Joseph Nabney, laborer, aged SO years, of Gertrude street. Belfast, Bel-fast, was admitted to the local Royal Victoria hospital suffering from shock, consequent on immersion in the river Lagan. It is stated that Xabney leaped into the water from the Queen's bridge, but he was able to swim, and was rescued without any difficulty. He At a meeting of the County Monag-han Monag-han committee of Agriculture and technical instruction, held in the court house, Monagharf on Monday, centers were fixed for instruction in agriculture, agricul-ture, buttermaking, domestic -economy, woodwork, etc. Rev. Brother Power mentioned that the Monaghan school of agriculture would re-open on j the 23d of October, and, as there were j ten entrance scholarships to be com- j peted for on that day, he; hoped the I smart boys in the county jvould come j forward and ' compete. ' A resolutfoii i was passed, inviting tenders if or conveying con-veying the manual instruction and I other equipment from one center to another. On Tuesday a special court of petty sessions was held in the courthouse, Monaghan, when a young man named James Sherry, Pound Hill. Monaghan, was charged with being a, dangerous lunatic. It appeared that Sherry had only a few days ago been discharged from prison after undergoing a term of eighteen months' imprisonment. On Saturday night last, while the Salvation Salva-tion Army were holding an open-air meeting at Monaghan, Sherry dashed into the crowd and knocked down all the preachers, men and women. Since that he had threatened to kill different members of his family. Dr. James Henry, Monaghan, certified that Sherry-was Sherry-was insane, and he was committed to the Monaghan and Cavan lunatic asylum. asy-lum. . -- ' At the meeting of the Cork district lunatic asylum on Tuesday a letter drafted by the bishop of Ross was approved, ap-proved, which answers the objections made by Dublin castle to the appointment appoint-ment of nuns of the Mercy order to take charge of the Youghal auxiliary asylum for the treatment of harmless lunatics. His lordship deals with the matter fully in his letter. - At the meeting-of the County Donegal Done-gal technical committee Monsignor Mc-Glynn Mc-Glynn directed.. the attention of Sir Horace Plunkett. who happened to be present, to the deadlock which exists in the county owing to the refusal of his department to sanction the appointment appoint-ment of persons to certain positions because they were born within the, county.- Sir Horace Plunkett held out no hope at present of a change in the rule, but said if the county council's general council passed a resolution asking ask-ing that the. rule should be rescinded the matter would be considered. At a nieetiif g. ht the governors of the Tyrone county hospital on Thursday a letter was read , from Rev. James O'Kane, P. P., submitting a claim on the part of the priests of the Cappagh parish to some consideration for the great amount of duty they were called on to discharge in the Omagh county infirmary. He suggested that the committee com-mittee should allow put of money other than the government grant a moderate sum, say. 40 per year, that of this a, sum of 15 be regarded as contribution contribu-tion from the Cappagh parish, and that a salary of 25 be alone paid annually. The consideration of the matter was postponed owing to" the condition of the hospital funds at present. The request was. however", sympathetically received. At an inquest in Dublin on Friday on the body of Matthew Johnson, private in the Nineteenth Hussars, who while resting on the "field at the military maneuvers in County Longford on Aug. 14 received fatal injuries through being run over by a sun carriage, it was stated he was apparently asleep, having been up all night, and that the men taking part in the maneuvers were out of bed four or five nights before the accident. The coroner said it was un warrantable that men should be obliged to work night and day, and the jury, who Returned a verdict of death due to rupture of the liver, added a rider that to work men all night as well as day was unnecessary and cruel. |