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Show 1 i I : ; j The Latest Irish News. I 1 I Diblir Weekly Freeman, July 4. I i Nuns Leave Workhouse. 1 At the weekly meeting of the Gran-1 Gran-1 . 8rd hoard of guardians, Longford, on 1 ! jiomlay, Mr. Patrick Slacken (chair-$ (chair-$ ! nian) presiding, a communication was I I read ,rom the hsPital nursing nuns ; requiting the board to be good i enoiiph to receive the keys from them before 1 o'clock, as they were leaving j hospital at that hour. In connec-(j(,n connec-(j(,n with this the chairman read the following letter he had received from the Most Rev. Dr. Hoare In reply to a request to allow the nuns to con-l con-l t;nue in the hospital until provision be made for the care of the patients j I there: I I My IVar Mr. Macken I beg to ack-! ack-! i nowieilue the receipt of your letter of i1 vcsieriiay. I have written to the nuns in the hospital today that they, are to remain until 1 o'clock on Monday next. I am. faithfully yours, J. HOARE. I Juno 17, 1903. j A resolution was then proposed by Mr. Ponnellan, and seconded by Mr. Bartley. deeply regreting the depart-i depart-i nre of the nuns, censuring the conduct !! of tiie local government board, and declaring: de-claring: "We now absolutely refuse to carry out any improvements until justice is done to the nursing sisters, anil ve pledge ourselves never to yield until we have given them back . to the sick poor." I J Tlif resolution was carried, Mr. I J Meredith Johnston, J. P., dissenting I I to certain clauses in the resolution, I j but agreeing in the expression of re ! I gret at the departure of the nuns from i I the workhouse hospital. f An order was made that the matron v !; wait ti)on the nuns to receive the keys. f Subsequently a deputation proceed- ed to interview the nuns with the J view of inducing them to remain some j further time in the hospital, and it f I was sngested that the trained nurse 1 1 I now on temporary duty should be sent ' I away, and the appointment of an ad- I ditional nurse proposed to be made to- !' 1 day. should be postponed. ; On returning the deputation stated I the reverend mother could not give I any undertaking of the nature re- : quired. ! : It was then decided to appoint a temporary trained nurse. I Presentation to the Rev. John Bannon, I S. J. If f On Thursday night the members of i ! Men's sodality of Our Lady, Help of j f Christians, attached to the Gardiner j street church, made an interesting j I presentation to the Rev. John Bannon, j j S. J.. n the occasion of his jubilee I I in the priesthood. The presentation j I twin the form of an address and a c'.;iM"'o, and the representatives of J the Sodality all joined in heartily con-1 con-1 j raiulating their spiritual director on ; I t:? completion of fifty years' glorious f I service. j I Enthusiastic Welcome Home. I Belfast, Friday Night. I Mr. Joseph Devlin. M. P., was to- I i night the recipient of a great popular I I demonstration from Belfast On ar- I riving at Balmoral station Mr. Devlin I was greeted by a number of promi- f 1 nent .Nationalists on nis return to nis j native city. A procession comprising j. j nine hands and many thousands of j I Nationalists was marshalled near the I j station and during his progress I through the Falls district was joined j I by immense numbers of people, who j I delayed remarkable enthusiasm. Ad- i I dressing a vast audience in Smithfleld. I I Mr. Devlin, who was received with ! f great cheers, expressed his delight at seeing such a great crowd gathered I I in historic Smithfield. He thanked I them with all his heart for the splen- I did greeting which they had given I J him in his native .city that night I I (cheers and "You are worthy of it"). I Cork and Dublin had welcomed him, I but it was not a disparagement of j I Cork, and it was not a disparagement of Dublin, to say that here in Belfast I j m a .pre-eminent degree lay the deep- J esi affections ofhis heart (cheers) j here in this city, where from his boy- : I hood un tr nnw his fallow ritizpns j had been wonderful in their kindness and splendid in their generous appre- f c:ation of what he endeavored to do f for the cause of Ireland (cheers). I J Coming back to the city and the peo- I Pie whom he loved (cheers) he could j 1 not but feel deeply touched and proud I that thev had been good enough to I I come in such magnificent numbers, I $ 8-d give him that great and enthu- I I Elastic welcome (cheers). That night I te brought to them the message I f "hich he delivered in Cork and Dub- I and that was that while they in j I Irtlan i stood together, while they l j Maintained their ranks undivided, I 'tbi'C- they displayed a spirit of visi- I I "le organization, and fighting capa- j I c".v for the interests of Ireland, that f. tw(.r,:y millions of our race scattered . j -om .ow lork to San Francisco ana I J Irom Xcw Orleans to Canada would I I stand by them until the last vestige of s insh landlordism was rooted from the j soil of Ireland (cheers), until Eng- I I land recognized that there never j I Co'i! ' bo peace, and that there never 1 1 ouli be contentment in Ireland un-1 un-1 1 l" people were restored their jj r;t"hts (cheers). j Relighting the Bonfires. j I The old-time custom which, still pre- f I Ta"S in many parts of the country of i pirating St. John's eve by the I ? I'Shting of bonfires was observed in jf Dublin on Tuesday by two commem- I I 2!!ativo gatherings the assembly on f 1 I'cnoc'k mountain, organized by the I f Jndrum and Sandyford branches of I I e Gaelic league, and the Ceine f I j-tam held in the grounds of the Ar- I i ne Industrial School, under the au- EPic?R of the Lady President and f embers of the committee of the I I Grianan Stall at Juverna. The chief 1 1 fraction of the latter celebration ; as the presentation of Dr. Douglas 1 1 ?de's little play "The Tinker and 1 1 Fairy," which was first produced !''"" ' ' I j I u th.-. I at the garden party given by Mr. Geo. Moore in connection with the Oirea-chtas Oirea-chtas of 1902, with the author himself in the part of the romantic tinker. Contrary to expectations, the play was not produced in the open on Tuesday, Tues-day, there being some difficulty about arranging for an open air perform-i perform-i ance. The performance was given in the theatre of the institution and was witnessed by a large audience. Miss Flanagan, as the Fairy, acted her part with ability, and Mr. Cathal MacGar-vey, MacGar-vey, as the Tinker, was also very good. The fairy music, which was specially arranged for the play by Signor Esponito, was sung by the St. Mary's place choir, under the direction direc-tion of Mr. Vincent O'Brien, and add ed consiaeraDiy to the attractiveness of the play. At the conclusion of the play Dr. Hyde was called before the curtain. In a short Irish speech he thanked the audience and expressed the hope that that would not be the last Gaelic drama that would be produced pro-duced there. He hoped and expected that that place would be as Gaelic as any part of the country, because the Christian Brothers were always working work-ing to make Ireland Gaelic. He thanked Miss Flanagan for her splendid splen-did acting, and he was not forgetting the Tinker (laughter). Where was the place in Dublin or its environs that; did not know Cathal MacGarvey? (Applause). Disorderly Limerick Jarvies. At the Limerick petty sessions on ! Friday before Mr. Hickson, R. M., and Mr. Poole Gabbett, several cases d.fciiu&i. jaives ol aisoraeriy conauot, etc., were heard. In some of the cases the offenses occurred during the Colleen Col-leen Bawn fete week. Michael Mor-rissey Mor-rissey was summoned for disorderly conduct and furious driving. It was proved that the shaft of the car struck a lady and knocked her down. For the first offense the defendant was fined 10s and for the second 40s or a month's imprisonment for disorderly conduct. James Culhane appeared in custody to answer six charged, viz., allowing his horse and car to obstruct ob-struct the cars and passengers going to and from the Fete drunk, disorderly disor-derly conduct, assaulting Sergeant Murphy, and knocking down people in the street, and also knocking down a horse, and further disorderly conduct. con-duct. Mr. Forrest (High Constable), in answer to the Court, said he did not intend to renew the man's Uppiikp TVTr Counihan, solicitor for the demense, said the defendant appeared to have been mad with bad drink, or else he would not have so misconducted himself. him-self. Mr. Hickson said the man appeared ap-peared to be a savage. For two offences of-fences he would have to pay fines of 40s, or be imprisoned for two months. In respect of four other offenses, including in-cluding the assault on the sergeant and knocking down the horse he would have to go to jail for a mont'i for each offense in all four months without the option of a fine and two months in default of payment of two fines of 40s each. Mr. Counihan appealed to the Bench to give the defendant the option of a fine, as he had not been previously charged. Mr. Hickson said they declined to aiLci lucii uetiaiuu emu mej also uc- clined to give leave to appeal. A jarvey named Herbert was fined 20s for disorderly conduct at the Colleen Col-leen Bawn Fete. Mr. Moran, solicitor, appeared for the defense. John McCormack was fined 20s for a like offense. Release of Mr. McHugh, M. P., Mr. P. A. McHugh, M. P., who was recently imprisoned for contempt of court, was released from Sligo jail on Saturday morning. The following order was made on Friday by Mr. Justice Ross for Mr. McHugh's release, and was sent down to Sligo by the evening train. The order was made privately, and no further fur-ther announcement of the fact was made: "Estate of Lancelot O. Weir, owner; exparte John J. Simpson and Charles 19th June, 1903. -On reading the order or-der in this matter dated ISth April, 1902, directing that' an attachment should issue against Patrick Aloysius McHugh for his contempt of court as therein stated, it is ordered that the sheriff of the county. Sligo and the governor of his majesty's prison at Sligo, do discharge from their custody cus-tody the said Patrick Aloysius McHugh, Mc-Hugh, now a prisoner in said prison under a writ of attachment dated 5th June, 1903, in pursuance of said order of 18th April, 1902. Signed John Ross." His Lordship made the order of his own motion, no application having been made to him in court to do so. Found Dead in a Furniture Van. On Monday morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock Constable Johnston (187 C) found a man lying in a furniture van at Rutland place. The constable took steps to have him removed from the van, which is the property of Mr. Hill, of Bachelor's walk, and to have him conveyed on a hackney car to Jervis street hospital. On arriving v at the hospital he was examined by Dr. Falls, who pronounced him dead. The deceased, de-ceased, who was aged about 50, has since been identified as Michael White of 2 Hardwicke lane, a horse trainer. He had been in hospital for some time. Alleged Wife Murder In Belfast. A dispatch from Belfast on Saturday, Satur-day, says: About four o'clock this morning a quarrel arose in a lodging house in Millfield, between a man named Edward Murray and his wife. The unfortunate woman died shortly afterwards, It is alleged, as a result of the injuries received. Constable McKenna, Acting Sergeant McHugh, and Constable Kirk were immediately on the scene, and communicated with Head Constable Magauran, who placed Murray under arrest. Accused was subsequently brought up in the police court. The head constable deposed that he entered the lodging house, 127 Mill-field Mill-field at 4:55 this morning. In a room upstairs there were three beds, on one of which he saw the dead body of a woman, whom he subsequently ascertained was the prisoner's wife. She was lying on her back with her feet hanging out towards the floor. There was an old rug covering the body. She only wore a chimese, while feet and legs were covered with blood. The prisoner appeared to be asleep, and lay by her side, while at his back toward the wall was a child between two and three years of age. Witness wakened the prisoner, and charged him with having murdered his wife, when he said: "It was done accidentally acciden-tally by a small touch of my toe. I asked her to make thp horl nn1 cha was dilatory in doing it. and I gave her a small touch of my toe in the lower part of the abdomen. I did not means to do it. I had to lift her into bed twice afterwards. She was very drunk." Prisoner then looked at the child and exclaimed, "Oh, dear! oh dear! what will become of my daughter daugh-ter at all at all?" A few feet from the prisoner's bed was another bed, where a man named Edward Quin and his wife and child were lying. Prisoner Pris-oner spoke to him and said, "Ned, what am I going to do? Did I ever think any of the name would do this? God knows I did not intend it?" A large portion of the floor of the room was covered with partially clotted blood. On the wall there were also blood stains, while the same stains were on the prisoner's trousers, boots and shirt. The prisoner was remanded. Potato Crop Ruined in a Night. A correspondent, writing from Gra-nard Gra-nard on Monday, says: Consternation has been created in the West in consequence conse-quence of a severe frost which occurred oc-curred a few nights ago and almost completely ruined the potato crop. In the low-lying lands and moors the ravages of the blight are most noticeable, notice-able, acres of what was a promising crop some time ago being blackened and burned to the ground. Old farmers far-mers state that in their experience nothing so disastrous since the famine fam-ine of '47 has ever occurred and altogether al-together the outlook for the poor of Ireland is very black. Strike in Cork. The Cork coalporters' strike still continues. The Federation men. who arrived from Liverpool on Sunday, were on Monday engaged in discharging discharg-ing the vessel Yorkshire. The work proceeded slowly. Two sympathisers of the strikers were arrested during the day on a charge of having attempted at-tempted to assault the- imported men. A large police force was on duty in the vicinity of the vessel, and prevented the strikers congregating. Yesterday the carmen and storemen employed at Mes'srs. Harley and company's stores struck work, so that no coal could be delivered by that firm. . The imported men are being housed and fed in a vacant store on Patrick's quay. Honoring the Patriot Dead. In accordance with the usual custom, cus-tom, the Wolfe Tone anniversary was nhserved in Dublin on Sundav hv nlac- ing floral tributes upon the graves of Anne Devlin at Glasnevin, Robert Emmet Em-met and Oliver Bond at St. Michan's, Church street, and the vault in which ixrd Edward Fitzgerald lies in Wer-burgh Wer-burgh street. Viceregal Motor Car on Fire. A dispatch from Ballina on Saturday says: Their Excel encies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Dudley, Dud-ley, attended by Mr. H. Featherston-haugh, Featherston-haugh, assistant private secretary, arrived ar-rived in Ballina this evening from Bel-mullet, Bel-mullet, traveling via Bally castle and Killala. Their Excellencies put up at the Moy hotel, and in the evening visited vis-ited the Ballina Boot and Shoe factory, as also the shirt factory, with which they expressed themselves highly pleased. Their Excellencies left here for Bundoran at five o'clock. A luggage lug-gage motor belonging to the party, ti-V, i time i.afnininr frrm "RolTmillof took fire on the road and was rendered useless, with the result that two horses were commandeered to bring the remains of the vehicle to the Ballina Bal-lina railway works. The luggage, it is understood, was saved. Gordon-Bennett Race. Arrival of the , English Cars. The English racing cars for the Gordon-Bennett race have arrived in Dublin, and from their construction and dark green color could be easily distinguished driving through the city daily. The chief feature of these cars is that while the maximum speed at-tainaole at-tainaole is limited to about 80 miles an hour, the cars are so constructed as to be very quick in starting and stopping. y means oi a special clutch they can be started at top speed so that there is no loss of time in changing gear, and the car gets into its top speed at once. The cars are capable of going over the whole course without change of gear. Serious Assault at Drogheda. At Drougheda Petty Sessions on Monday two men named Francis Mc-Guirk Mc-Guirk and Patrick Brennan were charged with having seriously assaulted assault-ed John Elliott on the 11th May last. Elliott, it was alleged, was going home in company with his brother, when they met the accused, one of whom said, "Here are the planters." Elliott was immediately afterwards struck with a stone. Dr. Adrion said the injured in-jured man was in the hospital for some time under his care. He was suffering from an incised wound over the left temple. There were indications indica-tions of erysipelas. McGuirk was ordered or-dered to be imprisoned for two months and to find bail at the end of that time, while Brennan was fined 10s and costs and ordered to find bail for his future good behavior. Mr. Justice Boyd has granted an order or-der for discovery of documents in an action brought by Mr. John Mortimer Hutchinson, of Dublin, against Dr. Michael Mi-chael Walsh, of New Ross, and Dr. N. J. Meehan, of Wexford. The plaintiff plain-tiff claims $25,000 damages for alleged false imprisonment, and for wrongfully wrongful-ly and maliciously causing the plaintiff plain-tiff to be detained in the House of St. John of God at Stillorgan. Maynooth College. Tuesday's proceedings at Maynooth college were unusually important. The bishops had to fill the vacancy in the vice presidency caused by the nomination nomina-tion of Dr. O'Dea to the See of Clon-fert. Clon-fert. His eminence Cardinal Logue expressed the general sentiment when he said that the feeling of satisfaction at Dr. O'Dea's elevation must be tempered tem-pered with sorrow in Maynooth for the loss sustained by the college. As Cardinal Losrue reminds thp Maynooth is not merely a great Divinity Di-vinity school, it is also a great Arts school. In its junior houses there are more arts students than in all the queen's colleges put together. The Arts school has a staff of twelve competent com-petent professors, three more than are engaged in Arts work at Belfast. It has all the elements of a successful constituent college of which any university uni-versity might be proud. ' Cardinal Logue, we are glad to see, strikes no minor key in speaking of the work done in Maynooth in general education. educa-tion. If he were in a sporting mood, the cardinal says, he would pit the three or four best art men of Maynooth May-nooth against the best men of any university in the country. His eminence emi-nence would certainly have no reason to doubt the result if they had only to meet the products of the Royal university. uni-versity. But sound as is the work at present it would inevitably gain, if not in value, certainly, in prestige and superiority to the sneer of the secularists, secu-larists, if it were embraced in a National Na-tional university. It would be a misfortune mis-fortune if the Arts men of Maynooth were to be excluded from the influence of the university by objections that have no real root save a desire to prevent pre-vent the priesthood of Ireland from effectually throwing off the unjust reproach re-proach of being an uneducated priesthood, priest-hood, a reproach too lightly accepted by many. In appointing Dr. Mannix to the vacant vice presidency the bishops have devolved responsibility upon another of the younger generation genera-tion of Maynooth men who has given proof of great powers of organization and fruitful ideas of. advance. The Maynooth union owes much to Dr. Mannix, the college itself will owe more; and the already large debt of Maynooth to Cloyne will be increased by the selection. The bishops adopted another resolution resolu-tion on Tuesday that will increase the efficiency of the college. They resolved re-solved to establish a college museum of an ecclesiastical and educational character. The museum is now a recognized rec-ognized institution of the kind and is a valuable educational aid; and it is important im-portant that the students of Maynooth, May-nooth, who will be called on in later life to take such an important part in the educational work of the country, should be familiar with its equipment, management, and use. But, quite apart from its educational character, it is desirable that there should be a National home for the remains of Irish ecclesiastical art that have not J yet reached other hands. If a museum mu-seum had been opened in Maynooth a nunarea years ago many of the chalices, chal-ices, pyxes, crosses, and other sacred objects now in other and less reverent rever-ent keeping would not have passed out of Catholic hands. The past ten years have seen a rapid development of professional studies at Maynooth. Philosophy, Canon Law, Higher Scripture, Scrip-ture, has each in its turn engaged the attention of the bishop and the college authorities so as to make the instruction instruc-tion complete. The arts faculties have not been neglected. Classics, mathematics mathe-matics and science have all been more amply provided for; and the college has invited and secured the co-operation of the best lay talent available in the work. We are all the witnesses of the big stride made in the Gaelic studies within the college. In fact the original impulse of the Gaelic revival came from Maynooth, and the name of Father Eugene O'Growney will never nev-er be forgotten in that connection. All thesft are evidences that thp erand old college founded by Grattan's parliament par-liament is fulfilling the hopes of its founders. It is renewing its youth to take full advantage of the new era in Ireland and to help in the realization of the best hopes that are stirring amongst us today. The college has a great place and a great function in the life of Ireland; its guides and directors di-rectors realize their responsibility and are alert not merely to fulfil, but to an- . ticipate duty, and be ready for its accomplishment ac-complishment hour by hour. Such an institution cannot be shut out from the national organization of education in Ireland. On Saturday evening, about 5:30 o'clock, Mrs. Mary E. Guinness, Te-bradden Te-bradden house, Whitechurch, was re turning from a garden party in her carriage with her daughter, Miss Guinness, Guin-ness, from the direction of Dundrum. When nearing Sandyfort Hill crossroads cross-roads a gentleman who was riding a motor bicycle collided with the horses and carriage, with the result that the two horses attached to the carriage bolted and ran away. The carriage was upset, and Mrs. Guinness sustained sus-tained some injuries about the body and head, and the coachman and footman foot-man were thrown off, but were not much injured. Miss Guinness escaped with a few scratches. The carriage was smashed, and, after running some distance, the horses were stopped by a young country postman named Doyle. The motor bicycle was broken, but the rider a gentleman named Kelly, from the city, it is stated, escaped es-caped with slight injuries. The local doctor attended Mrs. Guinness, and found her suffering from shock and injuries about the body ad head. It would be Impossible to exaggerate the significance of the demonstration which took place in the streets of Dublin Dub-lin when Mr. Joseph Devlin, M. P., was welcomed home from his long and arduous ar-duous labors in the United States on behalf of the Irish cause. It was an endorsement of the cause itself, but it was especially and most markedly a tribute to the man. Mr. Devlin is comparatively com-paratively unknown, personally, in the Irish capital; but the Dublin people felt that, for his superb work amongst our brethren in the republic, he deserved de-served their deepest gratitude. And so he does. Since, twenty years ago and more, Michael Davitt opened his little office in New York to organize the Land League on the other side of the Atlantic and to spread its principles, princi-ples, no man from Ireland has gone I through so much labor for Ireland amongst the western exiles. An oratory, to cost $5,000, is to be added to the Redemptorist church of St. Alphonsus, Limerick. The donor is anonymous. The design will be Goth ic, in keeping with the style of the church, the principal feature of the work will be four red marble pillars from the Midieton quarries. It is satisfactory sat-isfactory to find that the growing popularity pop-ularity of Irish marbles is evident at home. The use of Irish material in such a case is a sermon in stone in support of Irish industrial progress. |