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Show The Call on-Mr. Sexton, . : , hc Dublin Weekly Freeman,' (From -me Marc.h . W03.- thf, meeting of the Langley Moor ,mcO branch of the .United Irish ' le'of Oreat Britain on-Sunday, teaFp. icKenna presiding. Minutes JIr'(irmf j Correspondence was read con" general secretary, Mr; .J. F. j nTrien Arrangements were made cmoking concert on tonight (Sat- 1 a ?v) Feb. 28. The secretary pro-U pro-U pd the following resolution, which '1Pc adopted: "That we(-the members, Tthf Lnnsley branch, beg tojofn with ho re'iut now being made of Mr.' Thomas sexton, to again enter parliament parlia-ment convinced as we are of the.va.l-m, the.va.l-m, ' .,0-iHtance he can render the lUr1"h par,v durinS the . debate on the l;,nd question." . Meeting of the Irish Party. A meeting of the Irish party was held in committee room 16,;at 1 o'clock tori" to-ri" v J- Redmond, chairman, pre-kM pre-kM tnere were also Present i-an'ain Uonelan. Messrs. Abraham, p,,nv isoland. Campbell; Cogan Con-' inn "-n ;m. Cullinan, Delany," Dillon, Jwha". Duffy. Feld, French, Flavin, Havdi-n. Jordan, Joyce, Law, Lundon, M.Vcaph. McGovern, McKillop, Mur-nochan. Mur-nochan. Murphy, Nanetti, Nolan, J. F. o Rri"i K. E. O'Brien," O'Mara, M. Kean O'Dowd. C. O'Kelly, J. J. O'Kel-iv O'Kel-iv o'Malley. O'Shanughnessy, Power, Reddy, Redmond, Roche, Shee, Sullivan." Sul-livan." Vheehan. Tho result of the ballot for private nirnibfi".-' bills having been announced, th following arrangements regarding the party measures were made: 1. A bill to amend the law of conspiracy, to be introduced by Mr. O'Dowd, who obtained ob-tained the sixteenth place. 2. Laborers' Labor-ers' act amendment bill, to be introduced intro-duced bv Mr. John Dillon, who obtained ob-tained the twenty-sixth place. 3. Town tenants, Mr. Kendal O'Brien, thirty-fipcond thirty-fipcond place. 4. Loval government amendment act.. Mr. William Duffy, thirty-third place. 5. Catholic disabilities disabili-ties remove! bill. Dr. Ambrose, who obtained ob-tained thirty-sixth place, 6. Jury acts' amendment bill, Mr., James O'Mara tvho obtained fiftieth place. The next meeting will be held next Tuesday at 1 o'clock. Mr. John Dillon, 351. P. We regret to learn that Mr. John Dillon has been ordered by his doctor to go to a warm climate immediately, and take two months' absolute rest . from work. Mr. Dillon will, if allowed, return to Ireland to attend the funeral of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, and. will then leave immediately for Egypt. The Case of Colonel Lynch. To the Editor of The Weekly Freeman: Sir ir this should meet the eye of any friends ana weii-wisners ot Air. Arthur Lynch in Ireland or abroad, we desire to inform them that a petition is ; being promoted for his release. The i signatories - already include numerous ! clergy and ministers of all denomina- j lions. Professor Herford, Professor j Sully, Dr. Spence-Watson and many other professional men. Upwards of 309 persons are engaged in the voluntary labor of collecting signatures sig-natures on Mr. Lynch's behalf, and the numbers of such workers is daily Increasing. In-creasing. ' Any friends desirous of assisting, either with their influence or their means, are invited to communicate (by letter only, please) with Mr. Arnold de LiFie, Xetherton, Dudley, Wore., England, Eng-land, who will be happy to give any further information on the subject. Signed on behalf of the Lynch petition peti-tion committee. ARNOLD DE LISLE, Secretary. Ij (Editor of The .Banner." TCetherton, Dudley. Wore.,; Feb. 21, '03. Northern Farmer's Windfall. Mr. William Ha we, farmer, Ballybay, County Monaghan. has just received the welcome intelligence that he is sole heir-at-law to the late Mr. John Hawe,, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia, whose estate is valued, at over 50,000. The intimation, which is genuine, wag made to Mr. Hawe, who resides at Con-finlough; Con-finlough; a small village hear the town of Ballybay, by Mr. Luca s Dickson Gray, J. P.. Monaghan, who was requested re-quested by the South African courts to make the necessary inquiries. The" King and Ireland.. The Portsmouth correspondent of the Evening News telegraphs that the repairs re-pairs to the king's yacht are now near-ing near-ing completion, and the 16th of the next month has been fixed as the date on which the royal vessel is to try her engines, en-gines, she will then leave Portsmouth for a short run at sea, and on returning return-ing will prepare to embark the king, who. it is understood, will Journey in April is mentioned as a likely date for this trip, for which the channel squadron squad-ron will probably be appointed to act as escort. - ' Mysterious Belfast Shooting1. A dispatch from Belfast on Friday; frays: A serious accident occurred here j this morning and was reported to the j constabulary. It appears that while a young lady named Crawford was .reading .read-ing a book in a garden at the rear of h'-r residence she heard a shot and felt as if u, reci not iron had been thrust through her left arm. As the bullet ent right through the arm. Miss Craw ford's injury is somewhat serious. Should the police theory of the outrage prove correct, a touch of romance will be givvn to the affair. Accidents on Sea and Land. A di: patch from Belfast on Saturday The cross-channel " steamers ar- j riving at Belfast today report very hoist, rous weather in the Irish channel chan-nel ;,-t night. During the journey across of the Fleetwood steamer Mr. Frank Townsend, Bridghouse, Leeds, "uas Mown down the compantonway and so seriously injured that he had to be "enHjved to the hospital on the ar-ThHi ar-ThHi i.f the vessel. 'Hi'- body of a well-dressed . elderly ;w,:ii ir. was today - foutid underneath th- wharf at Londonderry quay. It is surmii-d she was blown into the har-"'' har-"'' nirinj- the storm last night. Strange Occurrence in Ennis. At 1!,- constabulary barracks, Ennis, Saturday, before Mr. A. Newton .'ddy, 1:. m., James Ross, civil en-gin.-r f)n the ordnance survey, was lrouht up on a charge of firing at, u'Ui intent to kill, Fanny Burnett and Ki' h.ud Curtin, a car driver, at Laf-Jor.i. Laf-Jor.i. Knnis, on Friday night. The ac-iiis.-d was not professionally represent-h represent-h 1'roin tne evidence, it appeared 'hat the parties lived in, the same house, j,nj pkOSSi returning honie on Friday night under the influence of 'trink, used some language towards -Vrs. curtin and Fatinv "Burnett which resented by Curtin. Some words Passed hf-tween them. Ross, it is al-"ped. al-"ped. f-,rf.,j two shot8 through' the 'losr-ij d,,nr of jli3 room, a splinter of ine door striking Curtin. on the ear. The prisoner was remanded. The County Clare Kurder. At the preliminary investigation by tl-Brhan confessed that he shot his Mlrush magistrate . on Wednesday orother fatally on Monday evening, "vas remanded to Limerick prison. , e ''oroner's jury returned a verdict o the effect that Patrick Behan died h!7 ""Pnot wounds inflicted by' his mother. The deceased had fixed his . ding for Tuesday. ..... , - : More Pay For the K. I. C. rnv ,''irc'ular has been issued . to the in? .1, ah constabulary, foire intimfit- that the government are about fice?s nHa,ii,ti0nal allowances to. of J Srcf ni men. The allowances are made v WhwvOn.. the,, report IStn th ith.e comssion- of - inquiry .t.Ki lalms nut before them. Head I ,fergeant3 and. acting ser-! Imnted a,harSe of Nations are to be week trl-Tre&Se of 2 killings per barrac.K ied.C?nstable8 livin out of dftiona Tand 4 Pene Per month ad-will ad-will aTi-0n ,duty fr0m arracks 'ceedinf th?d.ltl0nal daily Pay "ot -ex- ; ceeding thirty dayg Third.caSg dg , ancL pect0 set Increased allowances allow-ances also, and the men a number of omer minor concessions. Old Man's Awful End. A shocking fatalityecurred In Dublin o Ceh.Monahan' on Mnday pight at the victim einjan;oJfi -.man-named Bernard Marmion,' a. tinsmith' by trade. It appears that when some persons were passing by the house the cries ahdrshrteks ofr a woman, apparently in pain, attracted at-tracted their attention, and on looking up they saw smoke "issuing frqm a window upstairs and a woman in. a terribly excited ex-cited condition." As'the frorffdoor of the house was locked and barred at the time, a ladder was procured and a man named Peter Maguire ascended and entered by the window. ' He took the old woman ue; aown 10 ins ground ana ascended again, followed by another man, both making their way through the smoke, which was almost suffocating. On descending the stairs, just at the bottom, McGuire stood on something which he considered vas a heap or clothes, and' on putting his hand down he felt it was a man, apparently motionless. He managed to take the man to the door, which had by this time been forced open by a crowd of people, who immediately gathered upon the scene. The deceased toan was taken into . the open air,' Dr. Whitla sent for. and efforts made to restore re-store animation, ' but to no effect. The deceased's arm was burned, his head and chest were blood-stained, and part of his clothing completely burned. It has transpired that deceased was going to his bed and had a lighted lamp, which, -it is believed, exploded, knocking him down the stairs. Portion of the stars was burned, and were it not for the quick action of the crowd the house would have been completely destroyed. Fatal Jump Off a Hoist. : A dispatch from Belfast: on Monday says: This evening a shocking accident took place in Messrs. Greaves' Forth River spinning mill. Falls road. A boy named Dayid Boyd, aged 18. whilst ascending as-cending from one floor of the building to another, attempted to jump off a hoist in motion with disastrous results. The unfortunate lad died-before the arrival of the ambulance. Fatality Near Hagherafelt.' On Friday evening, the 20th instant, Dr. Mclver, coroner' : for- the county of Loughinshollin, held an inquest in the house of James Rafferty of Coolsara, Desertmartin, touching the death of Matthew Bradley, aged 67- years, a laborer, who met his death some time the ; night previous from the effects of burnsj Dr. Auterson,r; J. p., expressed, the opinion , -that deceased 'died from shock, the effect of burns accidentally "received while in a state of intoxication. ' The jury found a verdict in accordance with j the medical testimony, attaching no blame to any person. ' '." " 800 in Fines. At Carrickmacross petty sessions on Saturday before the magistrates whose names appear elsewhere In" this issue, (Nonstable Beggan charged Pat MeCabe, Cyloughvalley"''with'being: drunk. A similar charge was preferred by Sergeant Sweeney for the same day. Mr. McCabe This man I believe had paid 800 in fines. Chairman This man. is ., evidently a chronic ' drunkard. If he goes on any-longer any-longer like this he will find his way to the workhouse or to the lunatic asylum. It is no use fining, him He has got that craving for 'whisky which has become a second nature td him and he cannot stop it, 1 believe.it is no use in imposing a fine. When a drunkard has ' become chronic fines are no good. Eventually the bench agreed to impose a fine of 1. A Child's Sad End. A child named Elizabeth McNamara, living with her parents at 35 Pembroke cottages, Donnybrook, was admitted on Wednesday to the City of Dublin hospital suffering from burns. It appears from inquiries made by Inspector Byrne that the mother went out between 12 and 1 o'clock to buy vegetables, and when she returned in the course of a. few minutes before the fire with her clothes enveloped in flames. The mother at once wrapped the child in a cloak, and entering a passing pass-ing tram car took her to . the hospital. Dr. Benson, who treated the little one, states that, she was suffering from extensive ex-tensive burns on the body, face and left arm. She succumbed to the injuries about 7 o'clock the same evening. Horrible Accident. At noon on Monday a young fellow named James Lynch, aged 16 years, who resided with his parents at 42 St. Mary's road, Dublin, was run over by a railway waggon at the East Will siding, attached to jGoulding's manure works, and killed on Tthe spot. It appeared that some railway rail-way porters were engaged in shunting thirty-three wagSns onto the siding. As the wagons were being moved along the signalman noticed something on the line, and at once shouted to the railway porters por-ters and the engine driver to look out. Before the notice reached these people the first wagon had passed ver the object ob-ject that was seen on the track. Rushing to the place, the porters found the body of a boy in a terribly mangled condition. They took him from under the wagon and the corporation ambulance . having been summoned . the boy was taken to Jervis street hospital. There it was found that life was extinct. Why the boy was on the track has not so far been ascertained. ascer-tained. He was not in the employment of Messrs oouldlne- or the railway company. It appears that his people are employee: j by the railway company. It is also stated that the body had only recovered a short time ago from an attack of typhoid fever. Extraordinary Bigamy Case. (At the Cork police office on Saturday, Satur-day, before Mr. C. E. B. Mayne, R. M.. and Mr. R. Walker, Hannah Sullivan. Boreemana- road; a respectable looking I woman was charged in custody by Head Constable Kirby with bigamy, ' she having married a man named Tim- ' cthy Barrett in November, 1901, in I Cork, while her first husband, James Sullivan, whom she had married In the ; year '93. was still alive. 1 Mr, B. C. Galvin, solicitor for Mr. William Murphy, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the accused.- Head Constable j I Kirby applied for a remand for a week. Mr. Galvin said he would not object ; I to the remand, but this was a case in which the accused ought to be admitted to bail. Her case was the most ex- j traordinary one that, he thought, had yet come before the court Her first, I husband had' left the country and she had not heard from-him. for ;upwards , of ten years.' Before the; second, mar-j I riaee took place 'most careful -inquiries ; were made to ascertain whether he wm living or dead, and. as a matter of fact, the certificate of his death had been actually procured and sent to the accused. ac-cused. Not alone that, but Sullivan's brother stated to her that her husband had actually died in his house in Amer-. j lea. He (Mr. CJaJvin) was instructed ! th.at.it was under these circumstances j , the second marriage took place. The magistrate adjourned the case to that day week, allowing the accused out on a personal bond of 40, and two other sureties of 20 each. I Serious Fire7 at Lisbern. ' A fire resulting in serious damage broke-out on Monday on the farm of Mr. S. Magowan, Ballymacbrennan. ; The outbreak had its origin evidently in some outhouses and before the flames could be extinguished, owing to the limited water supply obtained from i two wells, the greater part of the buildings were demolished. .One cow, and many fowls were burnt to death, j and a considerable quantity of hay, ' oats, stfaw-and potatoes was destroyed.. ! A horse escaped by kicking the stable door open - . . ; ..The Story, of a Ring. In King's, bench court No. 2, before Mr. .Justice Madden, Mr. Justice Barton Bar-ton .and Mr. Justice Wright, the following fol-lowing 'was heard: Annabella Ferguson Fergu-son vs. ' Edward Rogers. This was an application by the defendant for a new trial... The parties reside at Derrygon-nelly, Derrygon-nelly, County Fermanagh. The action had been tried before Mr. Justice Johnson John-son and. a jury, which was for breach of promise of marriage, and ended in a verdict for the plaintiff for 175 damages dam-ages and costs. The defendant, a iarm- er, now asks for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence, which would have contradicted the plaintiff's evidence as to eorroboratloc of her statement of his having presented pre-sented her with a ring, which she had produced at the trial, and stated that he gave it to her in February, 1901. The defendant had examined the ring and was now prepared with evidence from the assayer of the Birmingham mint that the assay mark -on the ring in small "b" only came into existence there in July, 1901 It appeared that this was the: Birmingham assay mark, from July. 1901, till July, 1902. Mr. Justice Madden delivered judg- ment and said the plaintiff's evidence was corroborated by four witnesses her father, her mother, brother-in-law? and Dr. Kennedy. The defendant's case! was a point blank, denial of the plainn tiff's evidence. The case does not rest! i on the' giving or receiving- of a ringj j which might or might not be corrobora-4 tion. His lordship referred to the dates 'of the" appearance of the ring and j said if these people are getting up 'a false story about it possibly the dates ! given would have corresponded - better in their evidence. His lordship did not l regard this matter as so important as the defendant contends. He did not rest his judgment merely on. this inci- ' dent. On the whole case and on these grounds the .application of the defend ant must be refused with costs. Mr. Justice Barton and Mr. Justice Wright concurred. i Navan-Drotheda Waterway. A ceremony unique in the annals of Navan was performed on Wednesday in the presence of an extremely large assemblage of peopie from Navan and surrounding districts. This was The ! launching of the first Navan-built boat by Mr. James McCann, M. P.; also the opening of a free watherway from Navan Na-van to Drogheda and of the new graving grav-ing dock. a Shebeening in Londonderry.; : 1 At Londonderry petty sessions oh Monday an elderly woman named Betty Hegafty was charged .with shebeening, .It appeared that on Sunday week the police raided the house and found nearly near-ly two hundred bottles of porter. The bottles were found concealed-all over the house, stuck in holes in the wall, under the stairs, stuck in the sleeves of jackets and even hidden in the clock. The water barrel in the yard, when drained, was found to contain bottles of porter. The magistrates senjf the old lady to prison for two months, in de fault of paying a fine of 10. Linen Trade.: . The decline of the linen trade has been so much the subject of serious concern in Belfast manufacturing circles cir-cles that active steps are about to be taken with a view to bringing the Ulster Ul-ster staple textile into more general use. Damasks and table linens. gener ally hold their own. It is, however, hoped that the making of linen fabrics for ladles' costumes may receive an impetus, im-petus, and with a view to this a great fancy ball is to be given early next month. All the costumes worn are to be of linen and the various business houses are displaying goods suitable for the purpose.. The. function is to be called the linen ball, and will be on the lines of the calico balls, held in England Eng-land during.' the last century to stimulate stimu-late the use. of Manchester prints after a depression in that trade, i - ' r f '. ' Automobile Races.v - ' In reply? to a deputation front the Kildare county council in favor of legislation leg-islation for the holding of the international interna-tional automobile race in the Midland counties of , Ireland, his. excellency the lord lieutenant made a most," sympathetic, sympa-thetic, practical and interesting speech. He practically . pledged the government that should any difficulty be experienced, experi-enced, which he did not anticipate, of securing the required legislation by a private member's bill, it would be .nade a government measure, and so relieved from the veto of the blocker. To thU end he urged that the unanimous feeling feel-ing in favor of the race in the district where it is proposed to be run should be embodied in resolution and submitted to" Mr. Wyidham. The speech of his excellency removes whatever . loubt might have remained on the subject, and it may be now assumed as an absolute ab-solute certainty that the race will be run in Ireland: Mr. T. O'Neill Lane's great "English-Irish "English-Irish Dictionary" is steadily progressing progress-ing to a finish; and, in fact, is at present pres-ent passing through the press. It will be a remarkable work for one man to have carried through single-handed. The author compiled the book in the British museum, in the first instance, and he then spent five years in various parts of Ireland where the language is still spoken. The amount of labor he has gone through may therefore be conceived con-ceived labof which it is very likely will never bring him much of a dividend divi-dend in English money. Mr. O'Neill Lane, however, would not care, after ail his trouble, -to be pauperised by his patriotic pa-triotic efforts, and so he hopes that all lovers of Ireland and its language will, by subscribing, co-operate with him in the great work which he has undertaken." under-taken." It is impossible to believe that his hope will not be realized. -The publishers pub-lishers are Messrs. Sealy, , Bryers and Walker of Abbey street. The meeting of the University College Col-lege Literary and Historical society, held on Saturday night, to discuss a pa-.per pa-.per on "Commercial Restraint," by j Mr. John E. Kennedy, drew a speech from the Rev. T. A. Fihlay, S. J. The paper, which had been awarded a prize. some months ago by the j -, was- an excellent historical sketch of the successive enactments against Irish trade," the cattle, the leather, lea-ther, the woollen trade- and the rest, down to 1780. The debate upon it was mair.ly concerned with the question how far our. present day backwardness in industries is due to these historical ! causes,- the general r tendency- being to aMrib-ote our shortcoming, to Hhe lack of industrial 'spirit which has resulted from the suppression of our manufactures. manufac-tures. Father Finlay's speech was remarkable re-markable in attributing our industrial weakness to the action of the British government since the unian, an Immensely Im-mensely ' strong argument in favor of j home rule. - v |