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Show 'Catestlrisb m$.ns Mr. Conor O'Kelly, M. P.. has received re-ceived an official intimation that Lord . Ashbourne has removed his name from the commission of the peace. ' The lord bishon "oT Ossory has appointed ap-pointed the Rev. John Costigan, C. C . Callan, to the pastorate of Kilmacow, rendered vacant by the lamented death . of the Rev. Thomas Kennedy. I It is announcedthat Mr. Lehane, ! national school inspector in Boyle, has I been appointed examiner in Irish all oer Ireland. The vacancy in the Gal-! Gal-! way district win be filled up by the. appointment of Mr. Henry Mahon. . Mr. John P. Hayden, M. P., was, on Thursday, releaser! from Castlebar iail by order of the lord lieutenant, the cause alleged being ill health. Mr. Hay-den's Hay-den's sentence would not have expired till the 7th of March. A destructive fire broke out on Wed-I Wed-I nesday night at the Shannon biscuit factory. Limerick, the extensive buildings build-ings being almost completely burned down. The damage is estimated at 10,000. The body of the woman found in the Blackstaff river, near the goods department de-partment of the Great Northern railway rail-way terminus, Belfast, has been identified identi-fied as that of a married woman named Mary Dorman, who recently resided with her sister at 16 Roumania street, Belfast. On Friday Mr. Justice Andrews, in his charge to the grand jury of King's county, in opening the assizes at Tulla-more, Tulla-more, said he was happy to say the returns re-turns showed a continued decrease in the cases of intoxication. On the whole, I the county was in a satisfactory state. There were only nine bills to be investigated investi-gated by the grand jury. At the Drumeondra petty sessions on Fiday a man giving his name as Thomas Matthews, and an address in Church street, Dublin, was sentenced to six weeks' Imprisonment for having burglariously entered the premises of x-duicK omunen, near Glasnevln. Fran-ch Fran-ch Malone. Glenruid, Cabinteely, was fined 10 for having failed to notify the fact that his sheep were affected with scab. At the Kingstown urban council meeting on Monday. Mr. Stanislaus Murphy wa selected secretary to the urban council by 14 votes, as against 7 votes recorded for Mr. M. A. Manning. Mr. D. F. Condon was appointed accountant. ac-countant. There were sixteen candidates candi-dates for the position of secretary, and the same number for that of accountant. account-ant. At LoughglynniCunty Roscommon, on Friday, Messrs. John Fitzgibbon and Patrick Webb were each sentenced to be imprisoned in Sligo jail for a term of two months. At the end of that term the accused should enter into sureties to be of good behavior, each in the sum of 100, with two sureties of 50 each, pr in default they were to be detained in prison for a further period of two months. Both the , accused ac-cused gave notice of appeal. Detective Sergeant Byrne arrested at Queenstown a man named Joseph Ty-non. Ty-non. who had a ticket in the American "acMuna ior i'nuaaeiphla, on the charge of larceny. It subsequently , transpired by the prisoner's admission that he opened a letter addressed to his father at Mountmellick, and took a check which it 'contained. The accused ac-cused was taken before Captain Att-ridge Att-ridge and remanded. --The --The case of the crown against Mr. James Lynam, United Irish League organizer, or-ganizer, and Mr. Thomas Grainger, chairman of Mountbellew guardians, for unlawful assembly and inciting to boycott, has been abandoned by thf crown. The defendants were twice tried on that charge at Ballygar, and the bench being evenly divided the cases were adjourned. No reason is assigned for abandoning the prosecution. At the Wetmeath assizes on Mondav, before the lord chief baron, John Joseph Jo-seph Reynolds, late cashier of the Moate branch of the National bank, j was charged with embezzling certain ! sums, the moneys of the bank. The I jury, after a short absence, found the accused guilty of gross negligence, but not guilty of fraud. The lord chief baron said that was a verdict of not guilty, and the accused was discharged. On Thursday a very destructive fire broke out in the stores erected by the Congested Districts board near Clare-morris Clare-morris railway station, in which the i carpenters employed by that board car- i men mujk., ana damages to the extent of 1,300 was done. How th fire, originated is not quite clear, but certain it is that it was in no way ma- j licious. On Thursday Messrs. Bruen and Heard, resident magistrates, sat at the court house, Templemore, to investigate investi-gate the charges of alleged unlawful assembly against a number of men who took part in a meetirg held at Kir-wan's Kir-wan's Cross some time ago. On the application of District Inspector White an adjournment was granted till the 5th of March. During the progress of the pig fair in Kilrush on Wednesday, a member of the local United Irish league, named O Donnell, was arrested, charged with inciting the boycotting of the holder of an evicted farm. Mr. O'Donnell was at once brought before A. M. Harper I R. M., and after the hearing of police evidence, he was sentenced to three I months' imprisonment, in default of i giving bail. Mr. O'Donnell's application applica-tion for an adjournment to obtain professional pro-fessional assistance was refused - While feeding a donkey in a shed at the rear of Coates street, Belfast, on I Juefda-V evening, a boy named William Llain was killed instantaneously by the roof of the building suddenly giving way. The unfortunate lad, who was only 11 years of age, was dead When ex- tncated, his injuries being of a shocking shock-ing character. Two horses in the stable sta-ble were partially buried by the woodwork wood-work and falling beams, one of them "'6 severely injured. ' On Thursday Denis Curran died at Lngr,U Stella within three miles of Cahirciveen, at the patriarch- f lV"farS' havin en born on the 1st of March, 1800. This old man was of the respectable farming fha ,d.ayter" at Clahanelinehan,. in the vicinity of that town, but some years ago he removed to the residence of his daughter. a Mrs. Clifford, at Corrlgrour. He was at the first cattle ta!5 vu n Cairciveen. established by 13th nfrnr' D,aniel O'Connell. on the 13th of December, 1814. being then nearly 13 years of age. Colonel Chamberlain, inspector general, gen-eral, has directed that all recruits in future fu-ture in training at the Deublin depot before being appointed to counties shall become swimmers and thoroughly acquainted ac-quainted in the natation art and the who mav IT, d? f resCuing Persons ln ger of drowning. ,!?a Yle;v to is very useA.1 and important instruction being imparted to the men. arrangements have been made with the corporation authorities for the use of the Tara street swimming swim-ming baths for them when convenient. It is also understood that instructors from the- force will Immediately be appointed ap-pointed who are qualified in the art of i ' 'ZTZZIZZZZ' . in .in swimming, and no doubt its introduction introduc-tion in the service- will be found to be attended with much advaitage to the public service. ' We understand thit the D. M. P. recruits at Kevin street have been granted similar opportunities opportuni-ties at the baths. ,,. $ A tragic occurrence took place at . Fivemiletown on Friday, when Mrs. Moore, wife of David Moore, leather i merchant, attempted to cut her throat with a razor. She drew the blade across her throat but failed to sever the windpipe. Dr. Bleakley was immediately im-mediately summoned, and skillfully bound up the wounds, but the unfortunate unfortu-nate woman is still in a. serious condition. condi-tion. The doctor having certified that her minrl was .affected she was con veyed to Omagh asylum on Saturday. It is stated that for some time past Mrs. Moore had bsen in a despondent state of mind. At Killenaule petty sessions on Friday, Fri-day, before Dr. Heffernan, J. P., Anas-tatia Anas-tatia Williamson, aged 35, was brought up on remand charged with having stolen 30 from the residence of Mr. Charles Blackmore, M.C.C., Mortles-town. Mortles-town. Accused had been a servant in Mr. Blackmores employment, and the alleged theft is said to have been committed com-mitted in November, 1900, since when she had been absent from the district. Her name appearing in the newspapers newspa-pers in connection with a similar charge, and being also in the "Hue anl Cry," she was arrested in Dublin and was now r- '"-rned for rial to the Clonmel As. . -s. Two men, named John Turtle and Edmund ilagee, jr., were charged at the Ballymena court house on Saturday Satur-day with feloniously assaulting a farmer named Thomas Gingles, Kil-waughter. Kil-waughter. Lame, on Friday night, near Ballymena. The deposition of Thomas Gingles was to the effect that after attending at-tending Ballymena fair on Friday, while riding home his horse was stopped by Turtle. Mr. Gingles was thrown off, and subsequently struck by a weapon, being knocked into a ditch. While there Turtle and Magee attempted' to rob him, but were disturbed dis-turbed by the arrival of two men. The prisoners then made off. Turtle and Magee, who were identified by Mr. Gingles, were remanded for eight days. On Saturday Randall Hamil f Springwell court, was charged at Ballymena Bal-lymena petty sessions with attempting to commit suicide in a cell of the police po-lice barracks on the previous evening. The evidence showed that after the prisoner was brought in for drunkenness drunken-ness he first attempted to strangle himself by tying his braces round his neck, and after they were removed made a second attempt with his shirt. Subsequently the prisoner was found with his inside shirt round his neck, half choking, and he made a fourth attempt with a boot lace. It was then found necessary to bind the prisoner's arms and legs to prevent him from carrying out his desire by other means. The accused was sent for trial to the next assizes in Belfast. The Freeman received the following extraordinary letter, written on government gov-ernment note paper, officially stamped with the royal arms: "Galway, Feb. 28, 1902. "Dear Sir I see by today's "paper that some of our M.P.'s are still anx-, anx-, ious for information about Thramp Ryan poor old Ryan! blind, deaf and lame! It may interest these M.P.'s to know that Thramp Ryan was and is a member of our detective1 force. I had the pleasure of a half-one with him lately in Limerick, and you can inform all whom it may concern that he is in the best of form, and is delighted de-lighted at having assisted at ridding, our force of Scoundrel Sheridan. This will be news to our chief secretary, who was kept in the dark, as well as yourself. Your mortal enemy, "ONE OF THE MINIONS. "Burn this." It is possible, of course, that the letter let-ter is intended in some foolish fashion as a practical joke, though it is not easy to find where the fun comes in. But having regard to the recent startling start-ling developments and disclosures ,n the police force, it is possible, too, that the letter is more or less leavened with truth. We give it for what it is worth, leaving to our readers to spell out the conundrum for themselves. On Wednesday last the bishop of Killaloe invested Mr. Hugh Bergin of Birr and 34 Gardiner's place, Dublin, with the insignia of the dignity of Camariere' di Cappa e Spada, recently conferred upon Mr. Bergin by his holiness holi-ness the pope. The rank includes the siyie and title of "Chevalier," and con-j con-j fers on Mr. Bergin the office of one of i his holiness' private chamberlains. Mr. Bergin is well known for his zeal and generosity in support of religious I movements. He was a prominent member of the national pilgrimage to Rome in the jubilee year. 'inconsiderable 'in-considerable excitement has been caused' in the neighborhood of Naas, j Kildare. by a series of burglaries which have been committed within the past week. On this day week a licensed and general business house in North Main street was entered from the rear, c nd a number of bottles of beer and porter por-ter consumed. A suit of clothes was taken from the drapery establishment on the same night. An attempt was I made to break into the house of Mr. James O'Hanlon also on the same occa-I occa-I sion. No clue was got to the perpa-trators perpa-trators of the house-breakings, and public feeling has been intensified by the commission of a daring act of burglary bur-glary at the League of the Cross rooms in the town hall. These were broken into late on Sunday night or ear'y on Monday morning, and a safe containing contain-ing some four or five pounds carried off. - The residence of Captain Hamilton Cellbridge, was broken into on Saturday Satur-day night between 12 and 3 a. -n., ar-d a number of silver forks and noons together with wearing apparel, trktn away. So far no arrests have been made. The court of appeal of Dublin gave judgment on Thursdav in tv,o r.a the Negnagh election petition, . after iff, T,hih Mr- Commissioner Fatchell had unseated the whole twenty-one members of the Nenagh Urban district council for corrupt practice-3. The king s bench had refused to quash this decision, and the unsettled members mem-bers appealed from it. The appeal was dismissed, with costs, and the original decision of Mr. Patchell affirmed? On Sunday morning at 9 o'clock a snS discovery was made on the Great Northern railway line, near Armagh Ar-magh station. A lineman named John Hall was horrified to find the dead bodv 1 of a man, terribly mangled and almost ' decapitated, lying quite close to the line, the unfortunate man's brains being be-ing scattered -"about the line. On in quiry being made, it was revealed that, the deceased man had b?en a patient in the Armagh county asylum, named Peter Loughran, a native of Lurgan, aged about 30. He had served in an English regiment for some time and was in the asylum for the past eighteen eigh-teen months. The poor fellow was missed last night about s , two keepers weie at on.-.. s. ht' :r,ij search for him, but fail..; t,, .;, ri It is surmised that whi! ' , . h'ir''. was walking down th.- r'"''', Lurgan he was struck f-..,.., '' either by the quarter to T .-. ' n!, ter past 10 train. ' |
