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Show j catesf Irisb I2ew$. m I At Monday's meeting of the Dublin I corporation a report of the public I health committee was adopted by I which they were authorized to pay 1 1 cii.imO, 'he amount of the arbitrators' I flWrd in reference to the acquisition I of the Montgomery street and Purdon I street scheme for the housing of the 1 working classes. I At a public meeting held on Friday I at the Mansion house, Dublin, under I I the presidency of the lord mayor, a I national defense fund was started. An rno'uraging letter was read from his ' grace the archbishop, and the speakers ' included Messrs. John Dillon, M. P.; J. j p MacNeill, M. P.; J. P. Nannetti, M. I p; W. Field, M. P.; Alderman Hen- 3 riessy and Mr. Alfred Webb. j x deputation, representing the Dub-i Dub-i lin corporation, the Dublin county I council and otr 1 i:blic bodies within I the Dublin mot rot- iitan police area, I waited on Wwii'-f.'! iy on the chief sec-I sec-I rctary and urv-i tha reduction of the 1 tax which the Metropolitan police dis-! dis-! tricts were expected to contribute toil to-il ward the maintenance of the police. I The chief secretary admitted that the cost of the police in Dublin was very 5 hiph. and that the rate was very high, f He promised to give his attention to ; tli subject, and to place the wishes of i tlie deputation before the treasury. f rastlebar New Church. Sunday, be- Jng Rosary Sunday, was the first an- i nivcrsary of the dedication of the Cas- tlehar new church. A charity sermon I was preached in aid of the debt by the , vrnowned Jesuit preacher. Father Ber- nard Vaughan. Special trains arrived 1 j!i Castlebar in the morning from Cas-I Cas-I tlcrca. Westport and Ballina, and con-I con-I veyed a great number of all classes in ;i the community. All wended their way f toward the beautiful new church. At n:30 the Rev. P. O'Flaherty. C. C, ! ascended the altar to celebrate the an-b an-b niversary mass, and immediately after 1 the first gospel the Rev. Bernard 7 Vaughan ascended the altar " and ! prea'-hrd a sermon from the gospel of I the day. ) & Apple Blossoms in October. Dalkey, so favored in its climate and scenic condition, has distinguished itself this year by producing apple blossoms in October. The tree in question is blooming bloom-ing in the garden of a Dalkey fisher-i fisher-i man named West. Early in the month ' of August it was bearing apples of fair 1 size. These, however, met a prema- ture end at the hands of youthful dep redators. The tree, which is quite uncultivated, un-cultivated, gives promise of further de-; de-; velopment. A Child's Skull Crushed. A melan-; melan-; choly accident is reported from Feoha- i nagh, County Limerick. Two little girls, daughters of Mr. John Long, wore driving a donkey and cart when the animal bolted and the younger child was thrown out, a wheel of the cart going over her head, inflicting I fatal injuries. Limerick and the Pope. At the meeting meet-ing of the Limerick corporation, the mayor. Mr. J. F. Barry, presiding. Councillor Ebrill proposed a resolution, whic h was seconded and passed unanimously, unani-mously, congratulating the pope on the celebration of his papal jubilee, and (S that the resolution be signed, sealed M and forwarded to Father Ring, O. M. I I., for transmission to his holiness. j Crimeless Limerick. His honor, Judge Adams, opened the Michaelmas quarter sessions at Limerick on Thurs-k Thurs-k day. y. The high sheriff, addressing his hon- I or, said that, as there was no criminal 1 case to be heard it became his pleas- 1 ing duty, for the second time during I his Term "Of "office as "high sheriff, to I present his honor with a pai rof white gloves, the traditional emblem of the i peace of their city. 1 His honor thanked the high sheriff j present his honor with a pair of white gloves. He was glad to think that the city of Limerick is in the same peace- anli and-orderly condition in which it ! .had been during the long period of nine years in which .he had been -county I court judge in Limerick. j White Gloves at Sessions. On j Wednesday the' quarter sessions for I the Drogheda division of Louth com- I menced before County Court Judge W. ! H. Kisbey. There being a crimeless I calendar, the sheriff presented his hon- ( or with the customary emblematic 1 white ploves. His honor said that was ' the fourth time within the last twelve months that he had the gratification j of receiving in Drogheda similar I tokens. L Alleged Fraud on Catholic Girls. f An important case was heard on Fri- I day at Lisburn petty sessions before I Mr. T. D. Gibson, resident magistrate. I An a pent named Henry C. Wall of Mill town, Belfast, was put forward in custody, c harged, as alleged, with hav-I hav-I ing tin the 24th and 2fith ultimo obtained i money by false pretenses from a num-.j f ber of Catholic servant girls in the j town. ? It appeared that the prisoner visited the houses where the girls were em-ployf.f, em-ployf.f, and producing some religious lectures representing "The Sacred H- art"' and "The Blessed Virgin," he asked them if they had heard what the parish priest announced on Sunday, Sun-day, "that every Catholic maid in a house not of her own religion should have one of the pictures, and that they 1 nH3 been blessed by the pope." Prison- .5 er also paid there was an indulgence i for having them. He offered the pic- ;5 tu.es for two shillings each, or the two j i for ihree shillings. To one of the girls j s h" said that Father McCashin had sent ; the pictures down and employed him ,n Fell them. She gave the man the thrpe shillings, thinking it was for the ( collection and that she would get both 1 the pictures and the indulgence. I Father McCashin, parish priest, ex- t aiimied, said that on Sunday, the 21st t ultiMio, he made several announce- I nicjits, one of which was that the j pi iests would be going round for the J tol.er collections. Up to the night of I t:,e 1st instant he had no recollection I d seejns tne prisoner previous! y, and I "' had not given any authority to J either collect or to sell pictures. No U announcements were made concerning -.1 ic'-tures. H s 1 geant O'Sullivan having given ev- I id'-nce as to the arrest of the prisoner. I The chairman said the case was a 1 very difficult one. as every lawyer there I woul, admit, and in his operations the 1'i'iPoner had displayed great shrewd -I 'I'ss. On the evidence of the girl I mith he (the chairman) would send I the pi;soner forward for trial to the I quarter sessions. I Miss Mary O'Brien, who was secre tary and clerk of the Mitchelstown loan fund, has been arrested 'on the sorn information of Mr. F. C. Scarr, auditor of the loan fund board of Ireland, Ire-land, for embezzlement of the funds and falsification of the accounts of the Mitchelstown branch. The prisoner will be tried at Mitchelstown on Saturday Satur-day next. Assault on a Priest. An extraordi- l nary incident took place on Saturday I afternoon at College green, the Rev. I Maurice Ryan, O. S. A., of the Augus-ij Augus-ij tinian church, Thomas street, being it violently assaulted by a man who gave I I his name as Peter Gartland, Island I -Moyle, Cabra, County Down, and who f t stted he was a farm laborer. It ap- I I pears that when Father Ryan was I I Passing through College green, near its J I junction with Grafton street, he was j 1 assaulted without the slightest warn-! warn-! I ifff by Gartland, who caught him by f back of the neck and becan to i 1 strike him with his fist on the side of I I the head. Father Ryan was thrown to 1 lhe ground. A crowd quickly gathered, ana Constable Edward McElroy (06 B) was also promptly on the spot. The constable proceeded to arrest Gartland, who violently resisted "being taken into custody. He struck the constable in the face with his fist. Some civilians came to the assistance of the constable, consta-ble, whose movements were impeded by the fact that he Wore his cape. With the aid of a civilian he removed the eape, and he was then more at liberty to deal with Gartland. The latter was eventually overpowered, after he had made several ineffectula attempts to again assault Father Ryan. Another constable came to Constable McEIroy's assistance, and they conveyed Gartland Gart-land to College street police station, where a charge of having assaulted Father Ryan and Constable McElroy was "entered against him. Gartland. who gave vent to frenzied denunciations denuncia-tions of priests, calmed down after a time and was taken to the police courts in order that the charge against him might be heard before one of the magistrates. mag-istrates. Killed by a Falling Tree. An accident acci-dent occurred on Wednesday on the grounds attached to the St. John of God's convent. As a man named Patrick Pat-rick Lyons, aged 60, employed at the convent as gardener, was engaged in cutting down a large tree, it appears one -of the branches fell upon him, Killing him instantaneously. Gallantry Rewarded. The Royal Humane Hu-mane society, having concluded its investigation in-vestigation of 236 cases of gallantry in saving life brought under its notice last month, has now issued its final list of awards, the following being from Ireland: Tesiimonial on vellum to Samuel Boyd, tailor, Bangor, County Down, for his plucky jump into sixteen six-teen feet of water at Bangor on Aug. 15. when he rescued a boy who fell from the pier while fishing. Testimonial to Joseph Devlin, fruiterer, Ballymena, County Antrim, for his rescue of a boy from the river there on July 20. Testimonial to Daniel Mahony, Douglas Doug-las road. Cork, for his gallant action in jumping into the Lee there on July 20 and rescuing Michael Miller, who had taiien in. Testimonal to Edward Ryan, plumber, and Andrew. Thompson, lamplighter, lamp-lighter, Cork, for their gallantry in rescuing res-cuing two men from the Lee on Aug. j 10. Testimonial and 1 to Patrick Carr, Belmont place, Dublin, for gallantly gal-lantly jumping into the Liffey on Aug. 8 and saving a boy who fell in at Custom Cus-tom House quay. Testimonial and 1 to Timothy Crowley. Ballineen, County Cork, for his pluck in rescuing a youth named Condell from the River Bandon on July 17. John Hosford also receives a testimonial for an attempt to save the lad. Testimonial and 15s to Thomas Stoney, Moss street, Dublin, for gallantly gal-lantly rescuing a lad who fell into the Liffey at George's quay on Aug. 5. Discovery of an Ogham Stone. Recently Re-cently Lord Walter Fitzgerald discovered discov-ered a stone in Donaghmore graveyard, near Maynooth, on which he perceived characters which he considered to be Ogham writing. He had the stone examined ex-amined by Professor Rhys, the well known antiquarian expert, who pronounced pro-nounced the writing to be Ogham. Lord Fitzgerald applied Friday to the Cel-bridge Cel-bridge district council to have the stone removed from the churchyard to Carton Car-ton demesne, and the application was granted, subject to the general public being allowed access to it. Drowning Accident in Limerick. A sad" drowning accident occurred at Limerick last night. Shortly after 7 o'rlock Michael Reynolds, pilot, discovered dis-covered a man, subsequently ascertained ascer-tained to be John Galvin, aged 54, carpenter,' car-penter,' of-Mungret, near the city, lying partly across a vessel and the quay wall. He took him off and handed him over to another man, who said he would take care of the deceased, who was in a dazed state. It is supposed deceased must have found his way to the waterside and fallen in. His body was found today. An inquest was held this evening, and a verdict of accidental acci-dental death returned. ' Accident at BallysTiannon. An accident acci-dent of a shocking nature has just occurred oc-curred about two miles from Carrick-on-Shannon. as the result of which a middle aged farmer named Thomas Guckian, of Gowel, a village situate about six miles from here, received such awful injuries that he lies at death's door in the county infirmary. Guckian had been in this town on business busi-ness in the afternoon, and when on his homeward journey the horse which he was driving became ' frightened and dashed along the road at a furious rate, and several pedestrians had a narrow escape from beins: run over. Guckian was thrown out of the cart and was dashed against the ground with great force. His thigh was broken in five places, and the bones were driven out through the back of his leg, cutting the main artery. Before the unfortunate man reached the infirmary he was unconscious, un-conscious, and slight concussion of the brain had set in. Doctors Brads haw and Delaney were in attendance at once, but there is not the faintest hope of Guckian's recovery. A farmer named Thomas Guckian of Aughakilconnel, near Carrick-on-Shan-non, died in the county infirmary on Monday night as a result of injuries received a few hours previously. The deceased was returning from Carrick-on-Shannon, when the horse driven by him suddenly bolted, throwing the unfortunate un-fortunate man beneath its feet andt bringing one of the cart wheels directly over his body. He was terribly injured. Paper Factory Burned. A fire broke out in the factory of the Leinster Paper company at Clondalkin early on Sunday morning. From 2 o'clock until after daybreak the conflagration raged with unabated fury, sending a column of flame far into the sky of such lurid brilliancy that it was seen from the outskirts of the city and from various places in the country for miles around. All day Sunday the fire was eating its way into the huge piles of material stored on the premises for the manufacture manu-facture of various kinds of paper, and darkness had fallen over the still smouldering ruins that before it was deemed safe for the men engaged in the hard task of subduing the outbreak to cease from work. The damage done was very great. . A Youth Crushed to Death. A dispatch dis-patch from Castlebar on Monday evening even-ing says: A shocking fatal accident occurred oc-curred here this evening, when a boy named Joyce, from Ballintubber, about 15 years of age, came by his death. He was driving a horse and cart through an archway leading from the premises of Mr. James Faulkner, J. P., when the horse gave a start and he fell back, coming between the wall and the axle of the cart. Death was instantaneous. Death of a Centenarian. A woman named Mrs. Collins, who resided near Markethill, county Armagh, died on Monday week at the ripe age of 104 years. The deceased enjoyed excellent health up to a few days before her death, and was. fairly active and in full possession of her faculties till the last. |