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Show Cafes? Irisb ntmXaA At the meeting of the Cork county council the election for county and rural district councilors and guardians was fixed for the 2Sth of May, 1902. At the County Louth Assizes on Wednesday, Peter Sandys of Malpas-town. Malpas-town. a large farmer in Mid-Louth. was sentenced to three years' penal servitude servi-tude for setting fire to some ricks of hay and straw. During a dense fog the Kingstown mail boat Ulster, Captain Thompson, collided with a dry dock opposite the landing stage at Holyhead, on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, and subsequently went aground. The passengers were prompt ly landed by boats. At Monaghan Assizes cn Thursday a young woman named Jane McGlynn was indicted for the willful murder oi her little boy, aged 8 years, by drowning drown-ing him in the Ulster canal on the , night of Sept. 26. The hearing of the : case occupied seven hours and resulted i in the acquittal of the accused, who was accordingly discharged. At the Clare Assizes on Wednesday the trial was resumed of George Lilian, Madame Emily Lilian and Mabel Lilian, Lil-ian, known as "The American Herbalists," Herbal-ists," who were charged with obtaining obtain-ing money by false pretenses. After-a After-a protracted hearing the jury disagreed dis-agreed and the prisoners were remand-: remand-: ed to the Summer Assizes. A Kilkenny correspondent says that ! Colonel Knox, J.P., the officer com-j com-j mandi'r.g the Kilkenny militia, met I with a serious accident while driving a ! motor car through High street, Kilkenny, Kil-kenny, on Thursday. One of the wheels came off the machine, which completely overturned, throwing the gallant gentleman with much force on the flagged pavement. He was immediately imme-diately rendered unconscious, but has sir.ff sufficiently recovered to enable his being removed to the residence of Dr. James Butler, where he is at present pres-ent progressing satisfactorily. A somewhat serious situation has been caused in Derry in consequence of a dispute between Messrs. Hugh Stevenson, Stev-enson, one of the largest baking estab lishments in the city, and their em ployes. The result has been that th-. men have been locked out, and a number num-ber of non-union bakers have been imported im-ported from Belfast and Glasgow. Beds have been provided on the prem-I prem-I ises by the firm, and the newcomers - remain indoors, a force of police being constantly on duty in the vicinity oi the bakery in William street. On Thursday the land commission at Dublin granted an application, under section 5 of the act of 1881, by the landlord, land-lord, Mr. Balfour, to resume possession posses-sion of an acre and a half of land on which Mellifont abbey stands, in order that he may vest it in the board of works for preservation as an ancient monument. At Dublin, the hearing of the charges of unlawful assembly, of intimidating George Thompson, of riot, and of assaulting as-saulting the police, preferred against Mr. R. A. Corr and the seven other defendants was resumed on Friday before be-fore Messrs. Bruen, R. M.. and Heard, R. M., constituting a special court under un-der the coercion act. Mr. Corr was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor, and to three months In default of bail. Messrs. LougTinane, Keefe, Cahill and Troy were sentenced to three weeks' Imprisonment, and Messrs. Dwyer and Thomas Maher to two weeks, all with hard, labor.- The charge against William Maher was dismissed. Mr. O Mahony, counsel for the defendants, applied that the sentences sen-tences should be increased in order to admit of appeal. The magistrate refused re-fused the application. On Wednesday at petty sessions of Termanfeckin, near , Drogheda. the crown prosecuted in two different cases against the captains and owners of two steam fishing trawlers for illegally fishing within the prescribed three miles limit at Clogher Head. Both the vessels were employed by the City of Dublin Steam Trawling company. One of the vessels, named Hibernian, was cleverly captured by the Clogher Head coast guards, who, donning the garments gar-ments of fishermen, and obtaining a I PiIot yawl, set out for the vessel, the crew of which mistook them for harmless harm-less pilots on the lookout for incoming vessels. The cast guards, coming alongside boarded the trawler, and called upon them to surrender, which they did, and steamed to Clogher Head pier, where their nets and fishing gear were removed. The bench imposed a fine of 100 in each case on the captains cap-tains and owners of the steam trawlers together with the sum of 27 10s costs incurred. On Thursday a collection was made throughout the town of Wexford on behalf be-half rt r-l. I i . .... me uinrniiiuonai exnioi- tion. Lord Mayor Fitzgerald and the Cork deputation were most cordially received everywhere, and a banquet was given in their honor last night in White's hotel. The chairman (Mr. Martin Mar-tin Pierce) was able to announce that 180 had been collected. The lord mayor thanked the people of Wexford most heartily for their generosity, exemplified ex-emplified in the manner in which they had subscribed towards the exhibition. The deputation were cordially received by Most Rev. Dr. Browne, bishop of Ferns, who wished the exhibition every success. An Inquest was held at Markethill, County Armagh, on Wednesday evening even-ing on the body of a plasterer, named David Edgar, of Lisnegat, who was I killed in a forge belonging to a man named Samuel Patterson. It appeared that deceased went into the forge under un-der the influence of -ink, and though twice warna. caught' hold of a mare lashed out with her heels, kicking the deceased with such violence right over the heart, that he was killed instantaneously. instan-taneously. The jury found thi? accidentally killed, and matter n ne Was t0 blame in the Longford countTntinues to suffer heavily from the causes prejudlc-Tnv affecting- the Trhh ,.irffJuai:ally j yuMiiun, mere It deease of 11.3 per cent during the decade covered by the last cer. sus, following a decrease of f over 14 per cent in the decade ending in 1891 Out of a population of 61,009 in ISRi only 46,672 are now left. Al Icreeas are" suffering from the same depression K Protestant population even more than are 1 iR- J chi'dren in the school fn 1891 'hVTr 15,per cent' an in 1891. but they form 45.3 per cent Parel wfT aged 5 to 20 as co-So co-So that tho 8 per Cent ,n that year, lation u r dec?;ase n the child popu- h 3tPhriP0f unatC,y much heater man in the adult population, a most unusual feature, and one that throws a dark shadow on the future of Long- ford. i The Land War in the West An Ath-lone Ath-lone telegram states that fresh batches of processes have been issued against members of the Associated Tenants 'combination on the estates in the west. Car owners refused to carry process serve; s, who were driven in "government "govern-ment transport cars. The tenants are defiant. j A number of summonses have been . issutd at Loughglynn against farmers I for intimidating a member of the dis-. trict council who ls alleged to have, paid his rent. Dennis O'Conor, son of the O'Coiior1 LJuii. iict arriru u uuiuucj ul cjcv.- ments on his tenants. The tenants on the Worthington es- j ate, near Ballaghaderln, have received ; : shillings in the pound abatement, and handed it over to the Associated Ten- ants' combination. j Moonlighters in West Clare Kilrush, Sunday evening. Considerable excitement excite-ment and sensation obtains here today to-day at the arrest of two young men of the agricultural class named Bartholomew Bartholo-mew Crowley of Tullaghowen and James IOustace cf Coolminga, on a charge of firing with intent Into the house, of a woman named Melnerney, who is farming a holding at Dysart. within two miles of this town. From the meager particulars obtainable it transpires that two constable.; . local force were on patrol in t l lr" ity of the woman's re.-M-ri, ,. . o'clock this morning. wh-r mounted on horses and disg-,,.. , rr'"' up without observing rh-;;, ,.1',?"i-; ,.1',?"i-; shots into Mrs. Mclnermn "-pi, ."l lice rushed up anil call. 4 surrender, but the motirih-in .,,'.,rT1 t!' dashed off. The constatMi:.,."." i.;'r;' but without effect, and ti... j ; ; , ' :r,"'. ers made a complete escaj..- '"'S'.: An inquest was held ,y t. city coroner in the r-cipl-T's IhursJay morning touching tii." 1 "? of Jane Walker, aged -t , ! sided at 41 Memel street. a-. ! h. ,? r"" I tended St. tVorg"' s-h ...u .i i-ji' a" ! past six months. It app-a:-. ,j t'.' about hali-past ft o'clock o:, ''Jt I ing of the isth ult. th" chj'.j .V I caught fire from one of th- . "V l crates anrl Mr n.irm in t . "f'I!J chant, of 69 Victoria street. r.,Pi'-first r.,Pi'-first aid. subduing the ftunv s v.-ilj.'fc'.'' coat. Constable Martin M-( ;:;,'.), sisted. but their efforts wo:-.. ,:l ,. 1" and the child succumbed from' 'rr1!R' following her injuries, in j;,-,,.K': hospital. No teacher v.;ts ; i. . ,')'.' : the time of the accident. T;... j",.'!'' after a short retirement. f..:i;Vl tV there had been negligence. ;: " l a culpable nature. ' On Thursday forenoon. :; r,.r j er's court. Belfast, the city . . ,;.' j an inquest into th- cir-ti!:;...,;l, .' tending the death of Willian !'.;; a ll-yar-old boy. residing ., 1 , -oar street, and who was kilU-d ; . ing in of a stable roof on th. ir , u t |