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Show Cat est Irish I Frank McCarthy, assistant to the ' city engineer, was fatally injured on Thursday while superintending the landing of a large boiler for the Cork exhibition. Portion of the wooden cas-; cas-; ing fell on him, fracturing his skull. It has been finally decided by the county council of Leitrim to erect a monument to the late Mr. Owen Mc-I I Cann (their late chairman), in the cen-; cen-; ter of the town of Carrick-on-Shannon, as a tribute of respect to his memory. He was always in the brunt of the battle bat-tle for Ireland's cause. On Thursday Dr.John P. McCarthy died at his residence, Bridgemount, Abbcyfeale. after a somewhat painful illness, at the early age of 54 years. Dr. McCarthy had been' twenty-nine years J medical officer of this dispensary district, dis-trict, when he was obliged to retire, in consequence of ill-health, some five or six weeks ago. A dispatch from Belfast on Tuesday says: This forenoon a suden death occurred oc-curred at the Carlisle Circus. It appears ap-pears that a gentleman named Francis Leonard, Castleton terrace, Antrim road, principal clerk of the customs, took a weak turn in a tram car, and before medical assistance could be procured pro-cured he died. The body was after-awrds after-awrds removed in the ambulance to the Royal hospital, where it was identified. A dispatch from Clonmel on Saturday ; says: I regret to announce the death j of Mr. John Hunt, D? C Lanally, father fa-ther of the late lamented Rev. T. Hunt, 1 nf tlllKHr. U ,,0f ,,1 forM. I fer and was one of the oldest and most respected members of the Clonmel board of guardians, figuring in many a heated debate in the old days when the Nationalists were lighting the Tories and ex-officios. A warm-hearted patriotic pa-triotic Irishman, he lived a long life and died honored by all. A dispatch from Limerick on Monday Mon-day says: Three men, named Michael Mclncrney, John Grimes and Michael Bunce, were today arrested on a charge I of assaulting Sergeant Albert Cud-worth, Cud-worth, Lance-Corpora I Greene and Privates Pri-vates Charles Ridley and William Mc-Grady Mc-Grady of the Yorkshire light infantry. From depositions made by the soldier-3 it appears that they were drinking last night in the Xational hotel when Mc- Inerney made some expressions in reference ref-erence to the uniform worn by the military. mil-itary. Subsequently Mclnerney returned re-turned with a. ' crowd, which included Grimes and Bunce, and an assault was committed as alleged. This morning they were brought before Mr. Bourke, J. P., and remanded to petty sessions. -3 On Monday, shortly after S o'clock a. m., Mr. Laurence Redmond, Rain street, Wexford, reported atthe George street police barrack that his house had been burglariously entered during the night and that considerable sum of monej 10 19s lid, the property of the St. Francis Tontine society, of which he is secretary and treasurer taken away. neao. wonsiaoie jueonara ana sergeant Donovan, visited the scene of the burglary bur-glary immediately, and. it was found that an entrance must have been effected ef-fected through one of the front windows win-dows of the house, in Which some glass was broken. The money which was made up of silver and coppers in a deposit de-posit receipt, for 7, was kept in a drawer in a large box in the parior, to wheh were attached two locks. These locks were broken asunder with a chisel j 'apparently. The police continue to make ' diligent investigation in connection with the daring affair, but up- to the present no arrest has been made. At a meeting of the Limerick harbor board on Monday,. Alderman O'Brien, locum tenens for,, the mayor, presiding, a resolution was received from the Belfast Bel-fast harbor commissioners expressing the opinion that the time had come for I parliament to reconstruct the Irish lights board on a representative basis: and asking the representatives of the principal Irish ports to consider the matter with a view to a consultation on the subject. The secretary, Mr. Boyd, said he believed there was no representation represen-tation from Belfast, Cork, or Limerick, on the board. The harbor engineer said that the board was originally composed of Dublin men ,and the idea was that the representation should be widened. After some discussion .the secretary was directed to write to Belfast for further fur-ther information as to the lines of reconstruction re-construction on which they proposed to go. Irish butter-in England has had to suffer from many competitors, legitimate legiti-mate and otherwise. First of all there Is the cheap and nasty compound, made heaven knows where, and vended as good Irish butter; and sometimes the compound, whilst .being cheap, is not Iaou, uui uii tiie contrary, ratner palatable. pal-atable. Yet it is not butter, and certainly cer-tainly not "Irish butter." Denmark's competition with the Irish" butter trade ! is too well known to call for description, descrip-tion, but Xew Zealand has also entered the lists, and has now, been followed by Siberia. At all events great consign- 1 ments of Siberian" butter are arriving in the London markets, and the inevitable inevit-able result. Will be another drop in the I rices for-the butter from Ireland. Death of a Remarkable Centenarian. On Wednesday there died at Cara-bane, Cara-bane, four miles from Castlerea. a wo- man named Mrs. Ellen Egan, who had attained the remarkably old age of in years. -The deceased, who belonged to an ancient and respected family in the parish of Ballintubber. was of a strong and robust constitution, and was able to perform household work, even milk ho00!!' U t0Ta few vveeks Previous to her death. Excepting that her eyesight eye-sight failed about two years ago she 1 retained all her faculties to the 'last ' of"?0,1-1! relate man-v stirring events of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth cen- ! iui. Rne could repeat with a rather I vivid recollection many incidents of that stirring period, and the excitement excite-ment created in the country by the landing of the French at Killala. She took a pleasurable interest in telling how herself and two other girls stole auVayabout seven miIes distant to see the French soldiers passing from F i-enchpark to Elphin on their way to , the battle of Ballinamuck. The vener-, vener-, able lady used to converse freely on ' later events-the repeal movement and i the memorable election of O'Connell i for Clare, and would relate many har- j 1 rowing tales of the sad Scenes w it-nessed it-nessed during the famine years of 4G and '47. All these events she could re- I number as distinctly as if thev onlv occurred yesterday. The deaa-rt Passed peacefully away in the presence of her children, grandchildren and I great-grandchildren. During her long life she was never known to be seri-ously seri-ously in.. She was a faithful and 1. j oted member of the Catholic church ad in her latter days her spiritual I wants were assiduously attended to by vuKev- James Martin, P. p., BalMn-itubber.. BalMn-itubber.. The interment took place S- whS" uat r-v 'andOn Wednesday, before Justice Boyd, in the case of the. Land Commission vs. Tayt vice already' haagood.0 SI SfrelS annartnoSf ldinff the "defend' w hlhPlL l tne, Joining mainland in ?, , lr,e onl' Proclaimed district ' nlre and Under the rule all the subtenants sub-tenants should be served by registered ; letter and 'then the writ should S : posted within four.days on the nearest I police barracks. The registered ttK were served o SaturdaySJan! 4 Owing to the number 'of them, and the fact that they had to be checked, the solicitor so-licitor was unable, within office hours, to send down to the civil bill officer until the 6th. It turned out that in that districts letters were only delivered deliv-ered three times a week, and the officer did not receive them until the Sth. On the 8th he was engaged in a seizure, and in the seizure there was a rescue, and the officer had to apply for police protection. By the time all that was done he was unable to effect a posting on the police barracks until the 11th, which was three days late. Counsel asked for an order to deem the service had good. The rights of the sub-tenants were admitted, so they were not going to be ejected. Judge Boyd made an order deeming tne service already had good, and directed di-rected a service of the copy of the order or-der by registered letter. County Antrim Sensation. An inquest in-quest was held at Crumlin, County Antrim, An-trim, on Monday, on the body of the Rev, Alfred Beiton, vicar of Brinsop. Herefordshire, who was found dead in the Packenham Arms hotel, Crumlin, on Friday. Mrs. Relton said deceased left-homel in her company for Hereford on Wednesday. They separated to make some purchases, and arranged to meet . for tea at 4 o'clock, but she did not see -him alive again. Her husband was 56 years of age, and had for some time suffered from insomnia, and occasion- i ally took sleeping draughts. , Police Sergeant Bea stated that in , the bedroom in which deceased was , found there was a bottle which contained con-tained chlorodyne and a small bottle of laudanum. He also found a letter addressed by deceased to his wife, in which he asked that if he died from an I overdose of a sleeping draught his body should not be removed to England for burial. A brother of deceased's having said there was nothing in the state of hi3 brother's affairs to cause him to take his own life, the jury returned a verdict of death from an overdose of sleeping draught taken by misadventure. A Western Myste-y. At Kilclare, near Carrick-on-Shannon, a young man named Patrick Doherty. who lived with his father, was found dead a few yards from the house, with a hullet and nthpr! wounds on his body. It was at first stated that deceased had shot hims'f and lumped from the window of his bedroom, but at the inquest the doctors ! . who performed the postmortem exam- j . ination stated that the wounds could not have been self-inflicted. The direct ' " cause of death was a bullet wound in ' the heart, and the jury found accord- " inglv addin" that there was no evi- - dence to show by whom the wound was - inflicted. The father has been arrested I on suspicion. Late on Monday evening an inquest ' -i was held at Mrs. Forde's public house, Kilclare touching the death of Patrick -Doherty, who was supposed, according r to the evidence and statement of his I tatner. James Doherty. to have committed com-mitted suicide, at midnight on Saturday. Satur-day. The postmortem examination disclosed dis-closed a terrible series of facts, ijid the father has been arrested on th'e caoital charge, and is at present in Sllgo jail on remand. The medical evidence showed that there was a whole series: of shocking cuts and bullet wounds on the head face, wrist, throat, chest, lunes and heart, and that death resulted result-ed from syncope, following the wound in the heart. The jury found accordingly. James Doherty, the accused in the Kilclare tragedy, in which his son lost his life, was brought before William Jones R. M.t at the constabulary bar-racks., bar-racks., Carrick-on-Shannon, on Monday, Mon-day, and remanded back to Sligo jail awaiting further evidence. I Dreadful Accident at Guinness's. The Easter Monday holiday has been marred by a dreadful occurrence in Dublin, which has brought death into three households and death of the most sudden and appalling character. At 7:13 o'clock on Monday four laborers, labor-ers, named Henry Tobin, married, aged i 38, of 36 James' street; Joseph Ber-mingham, Ber-mingham, aged 29. of 1 Rainsford avenue; ave-nue; John Coffey, of 2 Reginald street, and Patrick Hogan. of 22 Reginald street, were engaged, under the supervision super-vision of a foreman, William Owens, I married, 5 Maxwell street, aged 26, in taking down a concrete floor in one of Messrs. Guinness' malt houses in Port- ! land street. Suddenly during the oper- , ations the. floor, which to the workmen ' engaged beneath was a ceiling, broke in sections and came down with a ter- ' rible crash, amid a cloud of dust and flying blocks, under which Owens, Bir-mlngham Bir-mlngham and Tobin were instantly buried. Coffey and Hogan, who for- i luuateiy escaped, raised the alarm. The readiest assistance was immediately given, and Owens was the first to be . dug out of the ruins. He was uncon-I uncon-I scious, but alive, and was immediately lifted into Guinness' ambulance and conveyed to Stevens' hospital. There JDr; HaJlahan, the resident surgeon and the staff were ready to receive him,, only, however,', to find that the poor, fellow had expired on the way. Bermingham . and " Tobin were next reached by the band of rescuers, but in their cases there was no room for hope. The nature of the injuries thev received re-ceived was of a horrible character, so as to show even the most inexperienced that their death had been mercifully sudden, . Crimeless Mayo. His Honor Judge Dane, K. C. opened the criminal sessions ses-sions here. There was only one bill to go before the grand jury. Hls honor, in addressing them, said that he understood there was only one bill to go before them, in which a man called William Mills was charged with having, on the anniversary of the patron pat-ron saint, committed a larcenv of a 1 J rifle. He (his honor) was sorry that : the grand jury and the petit jury were I brought here today for such a petty ,.case. He was also sorry that, owing to the extreme shortness of the long . Panel jury, they were brought there so .often, under the existing licensing j lavvs those publicans who are rated ! under 15 .are exempt from serving on ..juries, although they are paying large . rates for large holdings. h B I The grand jury found a true bill , against Mills. He pleaded guilty and was let out on his own recognizance to come up for trial when called upon |