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Show I a Truly Gallant Captain. I At " 3 m- pn Tuefida' morning p. I ji'ilony. Clarence place, watchman I ,',n l'"'ir,i ,;li, yioam travvIfr King Fish- I er anchored in T he Liffey at the city ff (,u'ay. opposite Petersen's, reported at ('..ii'-P'3 feet police .station that a I fchrt time previously while watching I ,',11 d'H-k li" lizard -H splash about forty f virf? "r f'ver, and immediately E after wan! saw a man floating down, t jje threw nut a line but the man did n jv ,-a:ch it. He then shouted at the1 ? t0p of li 1 f voire for help, and called on ., ,-api.in t come forward. . . j-,.. captain stated to Sergeant 13B he was in his bunk when he heard Je shout for help, and came on deck ,,iirp. He saw .the man struggling in tl',r wat-r. and jumped into the river. I, ali'iut ten minutes struggling villi :1t- In;ln underneath the jetty, .till thr (hief engineer threw a rope to tht-ni. and pulled both of them out. They were then taken 'to Sir Patrick j Mill's hospital, where they were exam-j.;,ri exam-j.;,ri i.y Ir. Jolly, resident surgeon. nbt, ..-onounepd the man dead and the cttr'!H':' "'-'thing the worse for his im-wisin. Tit.- ny wonfr, Dr. Louis' A. Byrne, h. m inquest at the" hospital that aft- I "' rr..o!i with reference to the death' of th man. The coroner explained that hi, io !k present they had not beeen eM,. :o discover the identity of the decks' de-cks' ! Th" captain had jumped into . th.' v.' ' '" i" 'he pluckiest manner pos-fih'. pos-fih'. ird '-frtainly there was nothing ! h.- iihr. coroner) could say that f ': v-"ii: i 1" too much in reference to the t;,.' I ' ll ivior of the captain. It was '; v"t bis fault if they did not succeed in j ,-!v,i:g the man's life. He did his duty, ard )- 'the coroner i hoped the authri-iis authri-iis uoiiM reward him. I IT r.itnek Maloney. watchman, and l i C, i!'!-s H.-' kford. captain of the King Fisher, cave evidence, and Dr. Jolly !' stated -hat the man was dead when I ln-ontht to the hospital, and tht death I I -li:" to drowning, if Th.- jury returned a verdict in ac- i .niaii.v with the medical testimony, and add-d a rider expressing a hope 'hat th- Humane society would recognize recog-nize aptain Heckford's gallant at-i tetiii 1 t rescue deceased. j i Industries and Irritable Action. j In giving judgment at the Limerick i quarter sessions in the case of Martin Whit- against the National Telephone ompatiy for damages for the erection 1 of telephone poles along the avenue to nallv,. lough mills, now in the occupa- tk'n of Sir Thomas Cleeve. County 1 nun Judge Adams said the plaintiff was entitled to recover, and would get a d"'-i-"P for sixpence on the 'title with costs. But he hoped that although the !f plaint iff had triumphed it would not. i resul-' in an. industry being interfered ; with. They had little industries enough i there, and they had Sir Thomas Oleeve. i ' whose .hief occupation was the start- j ;, ing of new industries. He distributed i it.-0,nno a year in wages, and had 4.000 employes and -it would he a fearful 1 ;i thins. -herefore. if his telephonic com- j nium.ation with the mill at Bally-i Bally-i eloueh, where he had established a chocolate factory, should be stopped, j Magistrates Smartly Fined. At Milling. Kent; on Monday, Mr. "W. j Sofrr YVhitsun. magistrate of the di-1 di-1 visi. n. was fined 25 and cos.ts for ob-': ob-': structing an inland revenue officer in' the execution of his duty. The officer ; M -'luck shooting was taking place at j Ad.1ir.gton park, the defendant's resi-J resi-J dence, and when the. complainant asked I if two of the guns were licensed. he defendant threatened him and ordered him out of the park. The defendant f denied the alleged threats, and said the . complainant got in the line of fire. The t h'n. h inflicted fines of 50 shillings and five pounds, respectively, on two of the party for carrying a gun without a li- cense. . . . Lost in the Irish Sea. i - "ii reaching Holyhead on Tuesday. ; 'artam Thomson. Royal Mail steamer ; Mimstn-. reported that when about a j mil. and a half west-northwest of the J Sn,t;h stack he observed the masts of ? n sui'k.-n schooner. Undoubtedly the ; vessel sank in the severe gale which i pr.-vaih d in the channel on Monday ; fieht. A Trinity steamer went out on : 'I Tuesday, hut failed to find any trace. j "f her. and it is feared that the crew 1 "'ust have perished. !j The Coal Tax. r M'. Ritchie, chancellor Gf the ex-1 ex-1 h'-fjii. r. on Tuesday ereeeived a depu- ! 'ati.n from the coal exporters of the 1 nited Kingdom on various matters i concerned with the coal tax. The right honorable gentleman stated that he 1 1 "mid not make any definite statement with tegard to trie retention of the li if'sent tax on coal exports, prior to th" iftroductior. of the budget. It was t w:; ;. d ,,ut to Mr. Ritchie that a preee- I d. )! existed for an earlier intimation, j tr Mi. lia.'l Hicks Reach having stated if 'as' yar before he brought forward j: !i's loidget Hiat he did not intend to 5 ret. the tax. Mr. Ritchie there- t;..n r-marked: "Oh. well, you may It '" on s-lliiig." He further said, in '. "d to a suggestion that he might K'V" a hint in view of contract, "Don't si"" '' '' on a reduction." The minis- ;? ier d-idin.-d to reopen the question of :, ii..: -cX.. n-.iion ,,f certain classes of ; V:e-l.:e!g.-t contracts. .... (I Death of Mr. O'Donohue, J. 1 the death occurred on Sunday at his 1 t' s;d ;i. ... Halllinahower court. Athlone, I "f 'diaries fi'Donoghue. .L P., second I so., ,,f Danied CTDonoghue, the "''"""clinc of the ;ien's. County Ker- l ''. a Md former parliamentary represen- j w.v. 'm- the borough of Tralee. j if '";!.: - rixinochue was born in Kerry : ;'i v... and succeeded to the West- n. .statoS ,,f his uncle. Sir John j V.: j -. j-itiiur. after the death of the fi '.- wife.. Madame O'Donoghue. in r J' ' These estates are the t; ' at.d most valuable in County If 'ev;..,,.;,,!,, and are scattered over II s. . ,,i (lf tne county, in 1892 II '' "'i .;i.,ch;ie contested the parlia- P !""'ar . oi.stituency of South West- II tie.", ,n Illo 'anipUite interest, but If vv.. to. 1 by Mr. Donal Sullivan, - ' ing representative. Since the fo' ,M of the 1'nited Irish party I'. ' ''Honoghue was several times in- x ''! by th- chairman to enter parlia- U s medical advisers, however, I !'''. -liv-d int,, from accepting any of ft " ff' V9. Outside the Irish party " 1 'loiiohue was among the tirst H : -en:;.Tie Nationalists in Ireland, 1 "'d ad times in (dose touch with J.1" btsb party, of which he was a very su. porter. He was president of H 1ri' S-cith Westmeath county council, i 1 r . "I ,,f th Athlone board of guar- B u-l district council. His grand- i ':('h''. ir John i;nnis, and his uncle, 6 S:'' Jor.t, Knnis, jr.. represented the 5 '"-to. -i, ,-, .tnjone in jiarliament for g ' . 'Kt'-at number of years. Mr. g " Tio,,, ,.!-,.,,-, j;. sui-cpprte ny his broth- ' M r. Florence O'Donoghue. Little- g j',1!: ho.i,. County Westmeath. His H '''t'st brother. (Jr.iffrey. the O'Donoghue ft ",r 1i" ;iens. lias extensive estates in M ' "rk and Kerry. 1 Wreck Off Cork. 1 A teiogVHm waK rPceiyed on- Thurs-f Thurs-f f3y that the London schooner Helga, l sm Francisco to Cork, was if. i,V rf !,t Rj,HyeToneen. The crew have Vl lr Ur' VPSS('1- hut are standing by j: J ln 'heir boats. She may be got j " Ht high tide. . The Helga has a " '"rEn "f "heat. '-stfr-Two tugs arrived in Queens-Thursday Queens-Thursday afternoon having in ,, 'hreo boats containing the crew, 'heiing twenty-three, and, the Cap-nn Cap-nn and Mrs. Fergus'on, of the Lopdoh i tip r which went ashore same morning at Ballycroneen bay. . Sfon!eSSel Was in dangerous con-City con-City Building f Accident. den? omfraLm?rn,lD8 a rious'accl- tended fo-f-1---4.116 nevv hS in- comm; ecte3 "on"th' Sounds of the house ffl edupati. Marlboro rani IK Lhe 1kelet0 of the building -is , 5 L !' nS to ''option and the 1 fee? nd 10 a heght f forty Inl on .ii ar. surround by saffold- kn- aK6 employed at the build- ?vt' t i ab0,Ut 10:30 yesterday morn-hMnn morn-hMnn yu f them were startled bv a, nS the crash of bteaking timber ana the crjes of men in distress ?Jnef the men immediately rushed Z dlfectlon from whence the cries proceeded and found that ooraion of i the scaffolding had given away and cftat some of the men had fallen to the pround. a distance of thirty feet be- lOW- without waiting to inquire the i eause of the accident, they immediate- j y Sent for the ambulance, and the four ' injured men were conveved to Jervis Street hospital, where they were attended at-tended to by the resident staff. The injured men aret James Xaylor. mason. ma-son. 27 Thomas street; John Ivors, laborer, la-borer, 30 North Anne street: John Regan, Re-gan, laborer. 30' Upper Tyrone' street, and.Micbael Carey, mason. 23 Svnott row. |