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Show " Eatest Trisft news ij - -' CITY OF DUBLIN. " i (Dublin "Weekly Freeman, Oct. 1.) " Patrick Brannock. Carlingford road, Druncondra, I died of exposure at Thurles on Saturday. 1 - A painter named Ducie fell from a lamp in front of I a house on the North Wall and was killed on the spot. 1 The first week in May has been decided upon for the ! - Dublin Feis next year, and Sunday, March 12, for the demonstration. ' At the biennial meeting of the Independent Order of j Foresters (Hiffh Court, south of Ireland), which was j held on Monday at 73 llarcourt street, ihe report stated ' that ihe number of members had increased by orcr 100 f per cent fcince the last meet inp:. j j The jury found a Terdict of death of shock and as- phyiiation at the " jquest on John Fslin, house painter, ! whope dead body was found in the smouldering hayloft I back of 2 Leeson Park on Sunday night ,after an out- break of fire. Xo information transpired as to why or I how the deceased o. into the loft. I I Mr. John O lary resided on Thursday at a mcet- ing in the Mansit n House in furtherance of the project- I rd pilgrimages to J :menoy next year. Letters of sup- Iport wero received, and suggestions were made that the trip might include places near Fontenoy, like Ilamillics 1 end LouTain- A strong committee wa3 appointed to make the necessary arrangements. I A case of considerable importance to trade unionists I was heard before Mr. Drury in the Southern police j court yesterday. James MaeXamara sued the Amal- j gamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners to recover j 100 as accident benefit. The society raised the point I of "no jurisdiction," and Mr. Drury said he was con- M rained to decide in accordance with the point raised. I The plaintiff's solicitor said he would appeal. !ALL AROUND IRELAND. Quecnstown harbor is reported to be teeming with Ee at present. ! A' Dublin pickpocket got six months' imprisonment I at the Wicklow petty sessions, i 4 . I Cork Feis was opened on Friday by the Very Ker. 1 Father Augustine, O. S. F. C. The body of one of the men drowned in the Shannon cn Sunday night has been recovered. The local government board ha3 issued a circular recommending the vaccination of tramps. A man named John Hunt was cut to pieces by the mail train on the railway between Moydrum and Tully. Arrangements are being made for the establishment of a branch of the Town Tenants' league in Roscommon. Roscom-mon. The venerable Archdeacon Coady delivered the opening open-ing address at a successful feis held in Castlecomer on f Sunday, On Sunday morning a serious fire broke out in Bel- I fast, resulting in the gutting of extensive business j " premises. I A local committee has been formed to make arrange- I ments for the establishment of a carpet and rug factory 1 in Clones. According to the Tress association, the Dublin grand Orange lodge has announced that it is unalterably opposed op-posed to devolution. 4 I John Conroy, owner of a threshing machine, was I killed while attending the engine on a farm near Maryborough Mary-borough on Monday. Active fetps are being taken in Ivilrush for the holding hold-ing in that town of a great Nationalist demonstration on the 9th of October. On Sunday a public collection was made in Belfast in aid of the parliamentary fund. The result was preeminently pre-eminently satisfactory. On Tuesday at Castlcmartyr petty sessions a man was bound to the peace on a charge of having "bahed"' occupiers of an evicted farm. - The Sligo division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Hiber-nians has protested against the language of the Protestant Prot-estant bishop of Flpin in his address at Boyle. : On Sunday a splendid temperance hall was opened in Grange, County Sligo, by the Most Rev. Dr. Clancy. Mr. T. W. Russell, M. P., delivered a vigorous speech. The return of Mr. Conor O'Kelly, M. P., to North Mayo, after his tour iu America, was marked by a Xa-lionalist Xa-lionalist demonstration on Thursday in Claremorris. On Thursday evening a man named Denis Gallagher, I ' who lived in the Fintown district, was accidentally I thrown out of a cart and killed almost instantaneously. 4 Mr. Green and Mr. Lane, fishery inspectors, opened an inquiry at Dunkineely, Donegal bay, into the com plaints of the line and net fishermen against the trawl-i trawl-i crs. j The Fcrmoy board of guardians has refused to consider con-sider a tender from a landlord offering as a site for a dispensary a riot of land which is part of an evicted farm. A brother and sister named Michael and Elizabeth Crotty of Ballingrane, Counly Cork, have been arrest-rd arrest-rd on a charge of alleged assault on a farmer at a hheriflfs sale. Sir Horace Plunkctt, speaking in Portadown on Thursday .advocated the promoiion of fruit culture in Ireland and the improvement of the condition of exist- j ing manufactures. I One of the features of the successful Gaelic feis held in Cork on Friday and Saturday was the large number of competitors from the schools of the Cork Coistc Ccanntair district. An Irish lady has been appointed art master of the Clonmcl Technical school, an objection by Ihe department depart-ment of agriculture to the appointment being disregarded disre-garded by the committee. At Limerick revision sessions on Monday Judge Adiims again complained that thousands of illegal I claims had bocn lodged, and condemned the illegal prac tice of filling up c laims by proxy. At the Limerick revision sessions on Friday Judge Adams stated that a Catholic curate who Tesided with a parish priest in a house of which the latter was resident resi-dent tenant was not entitled to a vote. The Banbridge National Teachers' association has 5 j passed a resolution protesting against the stringency I of the regulations issued by the commissioners of na- tional education in reference to evening continuation 1 schools. I , The arrest of some French visitors in Derry is said 1 have connection with a charge of forging a bill in t France. One of those at first detained, M. Millfln, has - released with apologies from the police for their I -f: . mistake. f - ...... . . . . At the distribution of prizes at St. Joseph's college, Ballinasloe, the new wing was opened. The Most Rev. Dr. O'Dea, bishop of Clonfcrt, said that the students had passed in QZY per cent of the subjects for which they were entered. 4 Artilleryman Hodge, who is charged with the murder mur-der of tho boy, Mathew Hayes, on the night of the recent re-cent disturbance between soldiers and civilians, was at the magesterial investigation Thursday returned for trial to the winter assizes. The death is announced of Mr. Frank J. Corbett, son of Mr. Martin Corbett, Xenagh. The deceased was an official of the Indian government, and passed away while acting as under secretary of the board of public works of the Bombay presidency. Maurice Rouayne met wilh a sad death on Friday while engaged stacking corh at Knockglass, Ladybridge, County Cork. He fell from the upper rung of the ladder lad-der on which he was standing and sustained such injuries in-juries that he succumbed almost immediately. Meetings of the United Irish League in various parts of the country on Sunday voiced the popular feeling feel-ing against exorbitant landlord demands. A meeting at Clanmorris dealt with a recent circular by Mr. Rutt-ledge, Rutt-ledge, the agent. The West Waterford executive also met on Sundav. An impressive ceremony took place at Letterkenny on Friday. In commemoration of the twelfth eentena ry of St. Eunan, the lard bishop of Raphoc (the Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell) laid the foundation stone of tho new college. Important speeches on the education question were delivered. The poor law reform commission sat on Thursday in Roscommon and heard suggestions from Mr. John Fitzgibbon. chairman county council; Mr. Mapothcr, chairman Roscommon union, and other Roscommon, Castlerea and Strokcstown witnesses as to improvements improve-ments in poor law administration. . . On Thursday Mr. Christopher F fiery, county coroner, coro-ner, held an inquest at Rush on the body of Mr. Walter James Matson, which was found on the shore off Rush, and at the inquest a verdict was returned of "found drowned." The coronerconveyed an expression of sympathy sym-pathy to the relatives of the deceased. On Monday at the Cork revision court a voter applied ap-plied to have his name placed on the list in Irish characters, char-acters, instead of English. An interesting discussion ensued, which resulted in the revising barrister refusing refus-ing to grant the application on the ground that the law precluded him from acting otherwise. On Friday an inquest was held in Carrickmacross by Mr. Thomas Dignam, coroner for South Monaghan, regarding the circumstances touching the death of a respectable farmer and dealer named James Marron, Mullacroghery. After evidence had been given, a verdict ver-dict of death through heartailure was returned. On Saturday the annual meeting of the Philanthropic Philan-thropic Reform association was held at Kilruddery castle, cas-tle, under the presidency of the Earl of Meath, when the questions of street trading by children, day industrial indus-trial schools, domestic service, workhouse reform and other subjects of social reform were'discusscd s.t length. On Thursday at the Cork union a resolution protesting pro-testing against any attempt to deprive Catholic clergymen clergy-men of the control of national schools was opposed. After considerable discussion the further consideration of tVj motion and of another suggesting the abolition of 7ie board of national education was adjourned for a month. On Tuesday the annual meeting of the Irish Agricultural Agri-cultural Organization society, limited, was held in the Antient Concert hall, the president, Lord Monteagle, in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Sir Horace Plunkett. the chai rman, the vice president, the Rev. Father Finlay and other gentlemen, and a number of agricultural topics were discussed. The Irish Reform association publishes a report .explanatory .ex-planatory of the suggestion as to devolution contained in its former report. It advocates the handing over of the control of Irish expenditures to an Irish -financial council, half elected and half nominated, and the devolution de-volution to a statutory body of such parliamentary business bus-iness as parliament itself may judge expedient. 'A meeting of the tenantry on Lord Talbot de Mala-hide's Mala-hide's estate, who have already agreed on the terras on ; which they will purchase their holdings, was held on i Friday at Malahide to discuss questions still unsettled. They resolved to allow the sporting rights to the landlord land-lord for his life, to take the opinion of each tenant individually in-dividually on the landlords' offer as to arrears,' and to ask the landlord to sell to the estates commissioners, that the evicted tenants may be reinstated. On Saturday an inquest was held in Cork on the body of an old woman named Ellen Kclleher, aged about 90' years, who died at the South infirmary on Friday night as the result of injuries and shock caused by being knocked down and rolled over by a float in Cook street, Cork, on Friday. Dr. J. P. Higgins, resident surgeon at the infirmary, gave formal evidence of the reception of the deceased after the occurence. Death, in his opinion, opin-ion, was due to shock caused by the accideSv The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical fes"-tiniouy. On Thursday morning at 10 o'clock a particularly-shocking particularly-shocking accident oceurrred in the Brownlow Arms hotel, Lurgan, whereby a young woman named Julia McGlynn, aged about 21 years, was seriously injured. It would appear that the victim was in the front bar of the hotel boiling beeswax and turpentine for the-purpose of floor polishing, when the saucepan, overflowed, and in attempting to quench the flames, the girl's'elotb-ing girl's'elotb-ing ignited, and before anyone came to her assistance she was badly burned about the face, arms and body. The patient is progressing as favorably as can be expected. The bhow of Irish fruit and conference of fruit growers, to be held in the Royal Dublin society's premises prem-ises at Ballsbridge on the 19th and 20lh of next monlh, should prove of considerable value to the increasing class of people directly interested in the fruit industry in this country. Fruit growing in Ireland, like the raising of eggs and poultry, has never been takeii in hand with sufficient seriousness or determination, except ex-cept in one or two districts. It is generally looked on as a minor business,' not worth bothering about very much. But there is a vast amount of money now spent on fruit in these countries, and the consumption of apples, pears, plums, etc., is certainly increasing' all round, even amougst the poorer classes. The show and conference will be a timely opportunity for Irish growers grow-ers to exchange opinions and compare notes. They .will be under the aiispicese of the agricultural department. The want of a residence for the nuns of the Order or ihe Little Company of Mary, and who are in charge of St. John's hospital, has been long felt by the friends of that invaluable institution, and it w-as in accordance with that feeling that so many of them were present today to witness the foundation stone of the new building build-ing being laid by the bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwycr. Twelve o'clock was the hour fixed for the ceremony, and despite the inclement weather, there was a large attendance of the laity and clergy. A platform had been raised for the visitors, and the bishop, in canonicals, and attended by Father Griffin, administrator of St. John's, and the acolytes, discharged the ceremony with a silver trowel, on which there was a suitable inscription and which was presented to Dr. O'Dwyer by the contractor, contrac-tor, Mr. Gough. On the'stone was a Latin inscription, which will be visible Horn" the square,: set-as t will be in the handsome front of the convent. |