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Show LATE IRISH NEWS (Dublin Freeman. Sept. 12.) The funeral of Mr. J. I,. Carew, M. P., took place' on Saturday. A Feis was held at Dingle on Saturday. Satur-day. .Another was held at Fermoy on Sunday." - - Si- Thomas Lipton has decided to sell the three Shamrocks. - -'' - - Three servant boys who went boating' boat-ing' in the River Foyle are believed to have been drowned. John Cullman, a respectable farmer living near Ennis. committed suicide on Friday night by hanging himself. j .Sir Thomas Brown, chairman Kings-j Kings-j town urban district council, died sud-l sud-l denly on Monday morning. - At Belfast on Saturday, in the inter-I inter-I national lacrosse match between England Eng-land and Ireland. England won by seventeen goals to eight. f I A remittance of 2.000 toward the I Irish parliamentary fund has been re-I re-I ceh-ed from the United Irish League of j America. . .; . ' Mrs. O'Brifn. South Hill. Limerick, has -contributed her annual subscrip- i tion of 50 to the Irish parliamentary ; fund. J i Mr. James Wood, 'M. P., in a speech at Killyleigh. and Mr. T. W. Russell. ' M. P., in a letter read at the same ! meeting, denounced Mr. Chamberlain's i fiscal proposals, j . . .At the Curragh sessions Thomas W. I Cullen was remanded em a charge of having murdered Patrick Downes on the night of the 24th or the morning, of the 25th of August. f A young farmer while walking on the Midland Great Western line, near Mui-ligar. Mui-ligar. was knocked down by a goods train and shockingly- injured. At Loughrea, County Galway, a con- feren.ee. .was held, under the auspices of the Irish Workhouse association, in reference to the question of poor law-reform. law-reform. A derelict steamer, bearing the name i Progress, was picked up in a battered I condition off the north coast and towed i to Lough Swilly. Mr. Carnegie has promised to provide a sum sufficient to erect a free library in Portrush: on condition that the free libraries act is adopted. Two deaths have orcurred and a number of inmates lie seriously ill as a result of an outbreak of tvphoid fever in the County Clare asylum. A meeting op Monday of the residents resi-dents and OWnPl'9 rtf ' timnordt (n -c.-- glas and adjoining districts strongly approved of the proposed tramway and light railway from Dublin to Slane A meeting in support of the funds' of the Cork national , monument committee commit-tee was addressed at' Aghada. County Cork, on Sunday by Captain Donelan, M. P.. and Messrs. Lahiff and Owens of Chicago. In Belfast 'an' inquest was held on the body of Michael Brady of Hornidge street. Shortstrand, who was stabbed to death on Monday night. The jury found that tjie wounds were inflicted by Patrick Robinson, w ho is in custody charged with the murder. isews reached Limerick on Saturday that the bark Laura, in ballast from Limerick to Sanjeford. Norway, and owned by Messrs. McDevitt and McDonnell, Mc-Donnell, Derry, went ashore yesterday at Kilcredane, some miles west of Kil-rush. Kil-rush. The Laura was towed off by the Limerick tug. Huntsman, and has been brought back to Limerick for renairs Speaking at a meeting of the Bandon branch of the United Irish League Canon Shlnkwin. P. p.. v. F., president, presi-dent, said the tenants would have to be exceptionally careful before they made any bargain under the new land act. This was a serious question for the tenants, ten-ants, for they were about to undertake responsibilities which would be binding, for seventy years. ' I On Monday, at Tallaght petty sessions, ses-sions, held before Messrs. Patrick Mooney (in the chair) and Louis p Hatchella man named O'Connor, from Clondalkln, was fined 40s and costs with the alternative of one month's Imprisonment, for an assault on Constable Con-stable Galvin. R. I. c., Clondalkln, and Michael Carroll was mulcted in 21s or a similar alternative for an assault on the same contable. " ' ' . The death of Dr. R. Harrison Sup-Pie, Sup-Pie, J. P., occurred at Iris residence Fair street, Drogheda. on the evening of the 1st Inst. Deceased had been ail- ' ing for Upwards of a year, and during that -time was under the care of some eminent Dublin physicians. He had an extensive practice, besides occupying the position of dispensary medical officer offi-cer for the district. . He was educated at Trinity college. Dublin, and was a justice, of the. peace for County Louth. " A dispatch from Clare- on- Tuesday , ! says: Intimation was given here today I that Mr. William Healy, solicitor, had j been appointed to the clerkship of the I crown for Clare, rendered vacant by I the lamented death of the late John H. "Harvey. The news has given much ! satisfaction to the many friends in Clare of Mr. Healy, who is one of our leading solicitors. He is nephew-in-!law to the Most. Rev. Dr. McRedmond, lord bishop of Killaloe. - A dispatch from Limerick on Tuesday Tues-day says: An incident of a most extraordinary ex-traordinary character is renorted to have occurred on the Ennis road yes-terda-. It appears that a highly respectable re-spectable young lady was walking j along this popular promenade when she was seized by a man, who carried her j in his arms a distance of some fifty ' yards before her screams and the fear of meeting passers-by sornpelled him to release her in an almost fainting con-'j dition. The strange affair has caused quite a sensation, and the man is being be-ing sought for by the police. " j On Tuesday, at Fermoy petty ses-j ses-j sions. a man named Daniel O'Keeffe. a niember of the Fermoy urban district I council, was prosscuted on a charge that he, being disqualifie'd by law from I being a member of the urban district 1 council of Fermoy, having, within twelve months before his election in January last received union relief on several dates, had acted as a member of said council. The defense was to the effect that he received medical advice ad-vice only. A fine of 5s. with 20s costs, or in default seven days' imprisonment, was imposed. The Very Rev. L. Farrelly. M. P., -Aughrim. was the victim of a rather serious accident on Saturday morning. Whilst driving from his residence to Greenane for the purpose of hearing confessions in connection with a retreat re-treat in the parish, the bellyband of the harness of his horse gaveway. and the trap on which he was seated heel- ; ing back, the reverend gentleman was thrown on the hard road, partly on his face and the side of his head, ilis face was badly cut and bruised, and he was severely shaken. The reverend Kentleman was treated by Surgeon McArdle and Dr. Taylor. Rathdrum. and is making rapid progress toward complete recovery. I On Wednesday an inquest was held j by Dr. J. Nolan, coroner, at Carlo'w Graigue. on the body of John Brennan, a farmer, who the day previous committed com-mitted suicide by cutting his throat. Apprehended loss, owing to the diffi--uIty of saving some of his crops, preyed upon his mind of late. His wife missed him on Tuesday morning early and, on making a search, she found him lying on the floor with his throat cut. The jury found that he had committed com-mitted suicide while temporarily insane, in-sane, and they passed a resolution of condolence with his Avife and family. "t The efforts of Mr. J. D. Gribble. formerly for-merly of the Indian service, to discover discov-er the heirs of the widow of the late General Blake have created quite a sen-i sen-i sation in the County Longford. Some , 400,000, left by Mrs. Blake, is said to be in the custody of the British treasury. treas-ury. Applicants are coming forward in increasing numbers daily, and on fair and market days the hotel at j Longford where Mr. Gribble at present ; stays is besieged. The confident belief is that the rightful heir. to Nsllie Sheridan's Sher-idan's thousands will be found in the county. At Tuesday's meeting of the guardians guar-dians of Rathdrum union a discussion took place on the question of paying 4 4s a week to the substitutes of merl-ical merl-ical officers wHile the latter were on their holidays. '"Several guardians objected ob-jected to paying sueTi a sum, as it would be conceding to the terms laid down by the Medical association, and and ultimately it was decided not to give holidays to the medical officers except where they provided substitutes wno were willing to accept 3 3s a , week. It was pointed out that the doc-t doc-t tors could go on sick leave, in which j ease the guardians were bound to pro- I Vide substitutes, and one member said ; he would rather pay 10 a week than j give it to the Medical association. I At Coagh (County Tyrone) petty ses-i ses-i sions yesterday, before .Sir. William F. Lenox-Conyngham. K. C. B., and other oth-er magistrates. Mary Anne Coleman, Lurgyoe, charged her husband with assault. The defendant had been arrested ar-rested and allowed out on bail. It ap-I ap-I peared that the , young people had only j been married a few weeks, and that the I bride had never left her father's house. The defendant had come to her father's I house and assaulted his wife and other I members of her family. Both complain- j ant and her father said they would I like the case settled. Defendant said he had a house to take his wife to. The bride's father said he might kill her (laughter). Mr. Elliott, J. P., said the case would be adjourned for a month to allow a settlement, and he would advise the bride's father to let the young couple alone. |