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Show j Cate Trisb neu$ j! I CITY OF DUBLIN. ; (Dublin Freeman, July 9.) ' ; On Monday in the Chancery Division, Dublin, Mr. Justice Barton made a -consent a rule of court in the , case of Lord de Freyne v. Fitzgibbon and the "Free man's Journal." The plaintiff abandoned all claims for damages. 1 The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided on Monday over a large gathering in the Round Room, Rotunda, at vrhich a rrst interesting exhibition was given of the methods employed in teaching the female deaf-mutes in the Catholic institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Cabra. 4 The il 'jii" Irish Constabulary (All Ireland) Athletic Ath-letic mxt'ing '00k place at Ballsbridge on Saturday. The quaru mile championship of Ireland was won bv J. MTven.i hi 51 2-5secs. A special meeting of the shareholders of the Grand Canal company was held on Thursday for the purpose of electing a director in room of the late Mr. A. F. ; Dillon. Mr. Lourenee Waldron, M.P., was elected to , ; the vacant position. The action .against ihe owners, of the steamship Cloughmore by the relatives of four of the crew, who lost tlifir lives when th ship foundered off Tory Island, Is-land, for dama ges o i the ground of alleged negligence, j , terminated on Monday in a verdict for the plaintiffs, : with damages, amounting in the aggregate to GoO. I (n Monday in the Xorthern Police Court, a.tram- 1 va.v motorman named John Malone, was sent for trial I t" ,llfl commission on a charge of having caused the I dnat, ,,f Teresa Hancock, aged six years, of Strand- ville Avenue, Xorth Strand, by knocking her down with a tram. .' t On Monday the city coroner held an inquest on a ; I'oy named James Richard Cannon of Lower Gardiner sirect who died in Sir Patrick Dun's hospital, following follow-ing injuries received in a vat of boiling water in Dublin Dub-lin City Distillery, South Great' Brunswick street. The jury found that the fatal scalds were accidentally received while in the discharge of his duties. A resolution was adopted by the Royal Irish Acad-1 Acad-1 ; rniv f Music at its annual meeting on Wednesday re- pre; ting the government did not hold out any ii'nme- j diate hope of' granting them the premises at present I '"I 1)V the College of Science or providing other suit- iable itremises. It was iecided to again approach the Ion! J leutenant on ihe subject. I A child named Ethel Diamond, aged 6, residing at i tnc 'rth Strand road, was playing with other ch.il- 1 iron i the .vtreot Saturday when its clothes caught fire, am, rushing into the house, was badly burned I nbout the face. Lack, and arms before the mother, who j yiis ako burned about the arms, could extinguish the fifucs. The child was brought to Jervis street Hos- l"ta1' whore it was treated by Dr. D. Gray, house stir- goon, and Mr. Martin, who detained it a patient. ALL AROUND IRELAND. 1 Dr. Biggs, a well known educationalist, was f drowned at Enniskillen on Thursday. Ij A demonstration in celebration of the Wolfe Tone Anniversary took place in Cork on Sunday night. . ? The foundation-stone of the proposed artisans' mvelhngs at Kingstown was laid on Thursday afternoon by Mr J. J. Kennedy, J.P., chairman of the Urban I council. I , f . I A Freeman's Journal representative has had an in- Je"ncw with President Roosevelt, who thinks that 1 home rule cannot be long denied to Ireland. (,acllc. students will be glad to learn that it is pro-I pro-I Vod to lslle a series of reproductions of Irish manu- I' scripts contained in the Bodclian Library. ; At l5ie cIose of the academical year, Rockwell col lege was honored by a visit from his Lordship Mon-. Mon-. ! K'?nr Leroy, Superior-General of the Holy Ghost Or- j der. i ; I he interest centered in the doings of James Gill, the Newry steeplejack who has defied the law for the j I'1 to-night .increases every day. He was the reci- i . 11K.'ut V1.1 Ihur-.v of a few more placards congratu- I ' Jatmg him. I -,. ; . lor driving his motor-car ia a reckless manner I . V 1('fat ' spw dar.perous to the public, Mr. Thomas Murphy of Rathangan, county Kildare. was fined 5 I j j ln the Dublin Police courts on Wednesday. t . " . TjV 1nT Aoriation says: The King's bountv of I ibrt'c pounds ha been revived by Mrs. O'Loughlen, ! I Tv,j of " Pnjriiw-driver at Limerick, who recentk ! presented her husband with triplets. At 1no Galway quarter sessions on Saturday de-; de-; crees for rent were granted against a number of ten ants on the Kilmacduagh estate of Mr. Walter Shawe-"v,or Shawe-"v,or whosp 'Mt son. Captain John Shawe-Tavlor i v:'s secretary of the land conference. ' ; I A " -! I' -J- rap,;(lff of the Irish hierarchy was held on Wed- j vrhy at Maynooth. His Eminence Cardinal Logue V" slVl'(1- au important statement on the education j question and a series of resolutions on the exclusion' ot t atholics from appointments were adopted. ' : ' '.' ! . Saturday night. Mr. James Hegarty, 'r ' I Rathhfarnani,. ex-president of the . Irisk National ! Jeacners Organization, was entertained at dinner by' his colleagues and presented with an illuminated ad- I firf,ss and a silver tea and coffee service. - ! . 1 ho ?aso r'f the Corporation of Belfast vs. the Re-demptonst Re-demptonst Fathers of Belfast was before the Court of J Junes Bench. Dublin, on Thursday, on appeal. The ! 1 matter arose in respect, to arrears of poor rate 'and 1 municipal rates. It was arranged to drop the present proceedings with a view of having the question decided rM by the IIoUj;e of Lords. Tannual meeting of thTMaynooth Union was held on lhuia?- ,Ther(l was an unusually large atlcnd- I . "I"'''- Ihe Bishop of Ross read a paper on "Woman's i ,Tln the T"dustrial Revival." and the Very Rev I Dr. Hogan one on '-The Altitude of Protestants To-I To-I Catholics." An important discussion followed I the latter. The report of the Council of the Bar 6f Ireland i tho Judicature and Development Grant, (Ireland) i ' Bilk In states that no further reduction can be r lnae ln 1ne Supreme Court Judiciary without eri- j ously interfering with the efficient administration of s kusiiiws in mis countrv. ! - I A .Toung woman named Sarah Dobertv. aged "7 of I Posnett street, Belfast, who was admitted to 'the j Jl3-al ictoria Hospital. Belfast, on Fridav, suffering ! Srom burns a11 over the body, caused by the upsetting 1 of a Parraffin lamp, died in that institution. She was f a smoother in the employment of Mr. Robert M'Bride. I A pathetic, incident occurred on ioard the Cam- J pania .which arrived in Queenstown on Friday after noon from New York. Amongst the passengers was Colonel Emmerson, the New Tork World's war cbrres-i cbrres-i pondent, who, it will be remembered, was reported to have been shot by Russians in Manchuria, the colonel having been, it was stated, mistaken for a ppy. While - fit pea tme of the messages rpceived through the Mar- ' coni wireless system was the news of the death of Col- onel Emerson's brother. The news naturally much affected af-fected the colonel, and the deepest sympathy was expressed ex-pressed towards him by the passengers.' On Thursday evening a, pleasing Irish entertainment, entertain-ment, accompanied by a large bonfire, was given on the grounds at Greeninount, Cork. The night being clear and fine, a large crowd attended, and were entertained to a. varied while yet comprehensive programme, embracing em-bracing items of Irish dancing and singing by clever youths. The band of the Greenmount Iudustrial School was-also in attendance, and discoursed at intervals in-tervals appropriate Irish selections. : The Cunard mail steamer Campania, from New York, arrived at Queenstown on Friday. During the passage the Cunard Daily Bulletin was published every morning, and contained a variety of short news messages received from the Marconi stations at Cape Breton, Canada, and.Poldhu. Cornwall. Th;? issue of the Bulletin for Wednesday last contained news from Poldhu, 1,000 miles distant, that Mr. Benn had been elected for Devonport, and a message from the Canadian Cana-dian station, 9o0 miles distant, stating that Colonel Emerson, the correspondent for the New York World, was ; reported to have been accidentally shot by the Russians. Colonel Emerson's brother was a passenger on the Campania, and the sad news came as a shock to him. Messrs. Brown, Corbett & Co., Belfast, have purchased pur-chased the Killoweu distillery, Coleraine. The present pres-ent buildiiitr will be re-modeled, enlarered and brought up-to-date under Ihe superintendence of Mr. C. A. Doig, of Elgin, N.B., the noted distillery architect and j engineer. When completed which will be in the early autumn the new owners will commence operations, it being their intention to distil pure malt whiskey, which will be the only product of the distillery, and for which purpose they will use nothing but home-grown barley. j An alarming outbreak of fire which. threatened to have very serious and destructive consequences occurred oc-curred at an early hour on Sunday at Midleton gasworks. gas-works. Shortly after midnight an employe of the gasworks gas-works noticed that from one of the buildings of the concern known as the meter house flames were issuing, issu-ing, and, realizing the awful consequences that might ensue to life and property, he caused a public alarm to be raised through the town by a night watchman. All the available police, under Head Constable Nolan and the local fire brigade, under Mr. John Lawton, superintendent, super-intendent, turned out, and were quickly on the scene of the conflagration, which in the meantime had assumed as-sumed wide proportions. The difficulty of grappling1 with the outbreak was at once apparent, but undaunted by any prospect of danger all worked energetically and unceasingly until eventually they succeeded in subduing subdu-ing the flames, not, however, until the meter building was entirely destroyed. This structure immediately adjoined ad-joined one of the gasometers, and an explosion appeared ap-peared imminent. Very fortunately the fire was kept from reaching the gasometer. A BELFAST SENSATION. Mr. David Henderson, director of the Elm and Olivet Oli-vet Homes for Children, situated in Belfast and at Ballygown, county Down, was found dead in bed on. Mond- morning, having been asphyxiated by gas. Deceased, De-ceased, who was well known in religious and philanthropic philan-thropic circles throughout the United Kingdom, had been summoned by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and was to have appeared on Monday Mon-day before the magistrates to answer the charge of cruelty. The affair has created a tremendous sensation. . It seems that Mr. Henderson lay down on the mattress mat-tress on the floor, and with some tubing brought the gas beside him and breathed it through a spray attachment. at-tachment. The deceased belonged to Dundee. 1 I MOTHER GONZAGA DIES IN CORK. After a life of 'sanctity i thifty-ohe years of which were spent in pious labor in the Holy Sisterhood at the South Presentation convent, Cork, Mother Gonzaga passed peacefully away on Saturday night last. Zeal for souls and love of prayer were Ihe chief characteristics character-istics a career of abiding self-denial and unbroken devotion to the interests of the poor children amongst whom she labored, and for whose welfare and progress she so studiously labored. f WOLFE TONE ANNIVERSARY IN CORK. The anniversary of Theobald Wolfe Tone was cele-' hrated in Cork on Sunday night by a demonstration to which four of the city bands took part, and a meeting on the Grand parade, at which Mr. J. J. Crowley chairman of the Cork Young Ireland Society, presided. There was a large attendance, and the proceedings were most enthusiastic. HUNTING UP THE OLD SOLDIERS. W ar office circulars are being extensively circulated throughout Ireland inquiring from army pensioners whether in the event of the mobilization of the army they would be willing to serve in the home defense and requesting the pensioners to send to the war office the names and addresses of any ex-soldiers or others who would be agreeable to so serve in that contingency. The circular has caused considerable commotion. IRISH NUNS FROM MEXICO. Two Sister of the Mercy Order from Silver City, Xew Mexico, U.S.A., arc at present visiting Ireland for the purpose of getting young ladies who wish to devote de-vote their lives to the services of. God as Sisters of Mercy on the foreign mission to accompany them. Any young lady wishing to communicate with the' sisters may apply to St. M; Peter, at .13 Upper Gardiner street, Dublin . DEATH OF A XUX AT KILLARNEY. - . The obsequies of Sister Mary Bcrchmans, of the -Presentation Convent Killarney, who died on Saturday evening,, took place on Monday morning, amidst every mark of profound and general sorrow. The deceased lady, who was 45 years of age, was received re-ceived into the. order twenty-five' years ago. She was daughter of the late:Mr.' -Timothy Counihan, Lought-foder, Lought-foder, Casfleisland, assistant county surveyor. IRISH ORDINATIONS IN ROME. The 24th ult. hailed in the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and also the conferring of Holy Orders on many of the Irish sfudents pursuin" their studies in Rome. -' In the Church of St. Apollin-are. Apollin-are. which was tastefully decorated, for the solemn occasion, oc-casion, his grace .Archbishop Ceppetelli, Patriarch of Constantinople and. Vicegerent, raised the following-To following-To Tonsure F. Sexton (Ardagh) and D. O'Brien (Limerick). Tq Ostiarate and Lector P. Maloney (Cloyne), P. Doody (Ossory), and D. Cohalan (Cork) To Exorci?t. and .Acolyte M. Costclla (South Africa, rf' &WG,a7)'' T' R Ful,cu (Down aild Connor), D. O Neill (Dunedin), E. Ke'ohan and M. Egan (Wa-terford), (Wa-terford), M. O'Donohue (Kildare), J. O'Reilly (Meath), S Ivinkeade (Limerick), T. Molloy (Raphoe), J. Martin (Armagh) and-M. IFSweeney (Dublin), To priesthood ' Rev. D. Laverty (Down-and Connor), and Rev. H MGivern (Dromore). 1 ' ROCKWELL COLLEGE, CASHEL. At the close of the academical year, Rockwell college col-lege was honored by a visit from his lordship Monsignor Leroy, superintendent general of the Holy Ghost Order Jie was accompanied by the Very Rev. L. Healy C S Sp., provincial, and the Rev. Father Roonev. C S Sp ' procurator general of the Holy Ghost Order in Portugal.. Portu-gal.. Ils ordship revived, a very enthusiastic welcome from the students. The college grounds were brilliantly decorated, banners waving gaily in the breeze. The college band discoursed appropriate music, and the boys cheered enthusiastically as his lordship marched from the entrance gate to the reception hall. In the evening an entertainment was given in his lordship's Iionor. t J he splendid music of the college' orchestra, nnder the direction of the Ret. Father Miller,' C.S.SfC earned his lordship's highest praise. - . |