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Show j THE tATESiSEISK NEWS - ' Antrim. f At Belfast on the 17th ult. Patrick I 5 viiTiit was remanded for the murder i f his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jane Mc- ; fnd'ess, aped 70. During a row he I : v nocked Mrs. MoCandless down and I 't ticked her. inflicting such, injuries that I i ath ensued a few hours later. Nu- i t was also aroused of having as-f as-f Suited his daughr-in-law on the' I game occasion.., .... s Thomas Miliken was proceeding ii) f'ed the horses at the North of Ire- ,'nr) paper mill, Ballyelare, on March s he found the dead' body of Robert 'i vcXinch in the mill dam. McNinch fls unmarried and an employe in the f jnil'l, and was a young'man.. - At a meeting of. the Belfast harbor - .1,'mnii'iSi"'nerf: lately it, was decided to ! , roceed with the construction of a new I vine dock, 750 long, 9G feet wide at I fh" entrance and 100 feet wide at the I bottom The depth will be thirty-two i " t frn, the blocks to ordinary high 1 water level, and some four feet six I indie "ill be allowed for the blocks. 1 Vl iere will be a fitting out jetty 600 feet I i,,.iir and the estimated cost of the f 1,'nlirV work is 290.000. ' . : I Armagh. i puring the early hours of the morn - j; jnc ,,f March, at Derrytrasna, near : I Lurfran, the splendid male and female js, fi'ii'Is situated in that part of the ; i parish called Seagoe, of which the Rev. I lid ward McCarten is parish priest, i I were destroyed by fire. That the burn- i ! ing was not accidental there is too j much evidence. The police were early on the scene, and as a result of their investigations a large bottle contain- i ing ha'f a pint of paraffin oil was dis- (-overed in a field near the school, where it had been thrown by those setting set-ting lire to the premises. i Mrs. Mary Mackin of Tullnavall, Cul- Ily'hanna, died on St. Patrick's day. She was the widow of Nicholas Mackin and a sister of Rev. J. P. O'Callaghan, curate at Dungannon. At Hlundellsgrange, on March 16. a farmer named John Hamill, who was highly respected, was found lying across the fireplace in his kitchen, ter- 5 ribly burned, and dead. He was in I poor health and was subject to fits, f He was strictly temperate.. . Cavan. S Thp death of Patrick McCabe of i Cionkeefy. at the age of S6 years, is f regretted by a large circle of relatives I and friends. Deceased was a nephew I of the late Dr. McCabe, bishop of Ar- i I dagh. The chief mourners at his fu-1 fu-1 neral were Bernard McCabe. son; Mrs. fitzsimmons. daughter; J. Reilly, son-it son-it in-law. and T. McCabe and B. McCabe, courins. ..j At a meeting of the Knockride East j branch of the United Irish league, held on March 8, the following were elected . I to represent it on the divisional execu- live. M. O'Reilly, Rural District Coun- ; i cilor J. P. Mclntyre. M. McCormick. J. I German. P. Farrelly and John Mc- Breen. the secretary. Dr. Mark Moore of Cavan. Feb." 24 accidentally took an overdose of morphia mor-phia and died from its effect. He was aged 3f years. On Feb. 28 a farmer who resided at Eailyduffy, named Thomas Brady, at ii tended the market and went home in usual health. After arriving-at -home lie sat down to rest, and in a short time died. Heart failure was the cause .of death. Mr. John Brennan, farmer, who lived within a mile of Arva, was found dead ! a short distance from his own house .on if Feb. 23. - The - night" trag dark" and "i stormy, lie missed his way and died from exposure. Mrs. Johnson of Tycosker, aged SO years, went out to fodder cattle Feb. -i. Her husband, on going out to see what detained her, found her dead in ; j the garden. Carlcw. I n March 12, at Beaumont Convales-j Convales-j cent home, Drumcondra. Dublin, died 1 Very Rev. J. Phelan. Rathvelly. Re- mains were removed by train to Rath- v!!y, where solemn requiem services : I wpre he'd, after which the interment i J was made. Both ceremonies were large-t large-t i ly attended. . i 1 1 The Church of the Holy Name, ITp- Prr Beech wood avenue, Ranalagh, suf- I fered rather seriously from the recent Ftorm. At an early hour in the morn- i I ing. when the storm was at its highest, ! residents who were deprived of thir sleep owing to the noise of the howling wiivi wf-re startled by the ringing of a I ! le!l, which was heard in the hurricane. I ; Investigation revealed the cause of the If beli ringing. The belfry tower which I ; surmounted the building had suc- c-umhed and was lying at the northern f sid f the church. It was lifted out -' f its position, and did considerable ! damage to the roof of the building. .- I J A reminder of the great storm of ! i Feb. 26 in Tullow is the absence of the I j cross on the spire of the Catholic f I chun h. It was blown off and was II found dashed to atoms at the base of 1 1 the tower. It was designed by Augus- tine Pugin, and erected by Father Noil No-il ,?-ri. the late P. P. Abbeyleix, during ; tlu. episcopate of "J. K. L." It was the j ii Prst raised after Catholic emancipa-; emancipa-; I tion. The people of Tullow were proud I of its history and now regret that they l nave been deprived of it I Clare. I Thomas O'Gorman of Buncraggs I nous..; Knnis. a well known magistrate if and bi-o-.her-in-law of General Thomas I ' !'y-K?nny, was found dead in bed j rii March 14. death being attributed to I heart disease. t , Mi( ha :l Killcen of Clonfeigh, a.prom-,nrr,t a.prom-,nrr,t member of the old Ennis board of 'i"rdians. being vice chairman for J'rs. died suddenly on the 12th ult. 'rum apoplexy. M' j-ihn S. Frost of Rosmamher married to Miss Catherine Kirby, 'allyhooriare. County Limerick, in the yoniinicari hurch, Limerick City, Feb. Father Hanly officiated. Cork. nn March IS, as a train was ap-M ap-M oai hmg the Church Cross station, .'" niiah Gainey, a passenger, son of a rmo,. residing at the Marfsh, Augha-'Un Augha-'Un f(11 out an(J crushed to th. ne Was about IS years of age. Tho trial of Andrew Moore for the niurdor f lhe Rey Wlniam Bell, a jo'esiant. minister of Kilmeen, on YiZ' V 1302, c"mmenced at Cork on the 'n ult. The prisoner is not more than J -0 years of age. I. Jv -'ohn Kelly, 100 Great Britain street, - c,Pi '. died at Cork March 4, as a re-'li re-'li t of an accident. Some bricks fell I mm while working in Goulding's j Ul''n on Ash -Wednesday. slit h GnhooIy. a riveter on the steam-1 steam-1 hr i ariposa- under re-pair at Rush-o, Rush-o, il dock- Cork-- fel1 down the hold the vessel March 6, and was: picked P n an injured state. He was at I pj,' removed to the Queenstown hos- I . I ' I Anrt 1erry- I r,e r1P"' Moore, while working at a I Broth y heillff ected for Linster I "s, shirt manufacturers, in Der- 'SfledUHeSavthe BtrUcture and was dren aVes a wife and six chil- SdamaLStr?rwhich createii so : and whioS at, Lilnavady Junction, Re, TbanL nro8 the breakage of the had terribf Ctl,ng the Elob Iands. has iandij5, to be abandoned. ! laborw f are' bg made- Tor all the w L11 and their families. Land acres Thd' tenf of 'nearly Soo ttf' The , damage done is very ex-S ex-S l W quertlonable whether chfimg Und ;fl00ded ever be -re- 21asain' In more tha" one instance in-stance farmers had to take a boat and row away from, their, homesteads. !kVIarC4 David NlUt of Cortnas-kea Cortnas-kea met with a sad accident while celebrating cele-brating a wedding. Nutt naa a dynamite dyna-mite cartridge in his hand, which he intended to discharge when the wed-aing wed-aing party was passing, but the cart- udge exploded prematurely, snattering ! the right hand. Nutt was conveyed to the Londonderry infirmary, where L'r. Cooke, house surgeon, cut off the shattered remains of the hand froa I the wrist. . Donegal. John McGinley of Falcarragh, the merchant, died recently in Davos Piatz, Switzerland. Mr. McGinley wai highly respected throughout northwest i Donegal and in Derry. In the latter ! place he learned his business with the I la, ll' J- Black- He was a brother of Rev. D. McGinley, curate at Cashel-more Cashel-more and P. McGinley of the Belfast bank, Armagh. He had gone to Davos for his health. Daniel McLaughlin, aged 30, of Cla-ragh, Cla-ragh, while driving a car in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Ramelton on March 13 was accidentally thrown off and injured so badly that he died. Mr. James Toland. solicitor, died died March 3, aged 40 years. Me was a native of Buncrana. His demise was deeply and widely mourned. Mr.. William Holmes, Ballybogan, Lif-fordhas Lif-fordhas been appointed a magistrate of the county of Donegal. Mr. Holmes' appointment gave satisfaction to friends and acquaintances. ? Francis McBride.'aged 80 years, was found drowned on Drumnatinney late ly. He resided in the place named, which is a mile outside of Falcarragh. Mr. McBride was seen on Thursday and was met by several on his way; home at Ballyconnell. It became very dark soon after and it is surmised he lost his way at Durmmatinney road and walked on until he reached the strand. Down. A strong branch of the United Irish League has been formed at Kilmegan. in East Down. The Nationalists of Dundrum are giving the branch every assistance in their power. Already more than 120 members have been enrolled. en-rolled. The quarrymen in the employment of Chandly & Co. of Newry, who went out on strike about six weeks ago in consequence con-sequence of having received notice of a reduction !n their. wages, have agreed to return to work on the firm's terms. "" Dublin. Stephent Hanley, aged 30 years, a carter in the employment of Messrs. Flower & McDonald of Ringsend, the coal merchants, died suddenly at hia residence on March 6. "Josepr Lubeiof Dublin, father of Rev. H. J. Lube, died on March 16. An army pensioner named John Murphy, Mur-phy, who had been staying in the housa of Mrs. Hickey of Church street, Dublin, Dub-lin, for some years, was found dead in bed on March 19. . Mr. John Nolan Rathgar, died Feb. 16, aged 81 years. Mr. Nolan was a native of Carlow and a member of a family which gave to the church Father John Nolan of Kildare, and the Very Rev. E. W. Burke of Bagnals-town. Bagnals-town. He was a man of wonderful physique, most retentive memory and on incidents in O'Connell's time he was a mine of information.- Galway. . .The death occurred recently at Ca-heritstrane, Ca-heritstrane, Tuani, of - Thomas Mc-Hugh, Mc-Hugh, for forty-five years "postmaster at Caherlistrane. He was 76 years old. s . . , . . A branch of the United' Irish League was organized in Ballygar on March 15. "Officers were chosen as ' follows: President, M. Clarke; vice president, P. Kelly: treasurer, J. Brarinelly; secretary, sec-retary, John Crehan of Cloneyou. Demonstrations were held in Galway March 9 over the unopposed election of Mr. Devlin as member of Galway. The Nationalist Independent - brass band and the Foster Street fife and drum band paraded the streets, followed fol-lowed by large crowds of people. Kerry. A young man named Leahy, son of a respectable farmer of Ahane, Brosna, was found dead on Winter's mountain, in the Rockchapel. district, on March 16. Deceased and a companion were returning from a visit in County Limerick, Lim-erick, and were proceeding by a short route over Milleen mountain,' an extensive ex-tensive bog tract, when they lost their way. Leahy, becoming exhausted owing ow-ing td the inclemency of the night, perished per-ished from exposure. ,At a meeting of the Scartaglin branch of the United Irish league, held on March 8, the following additional committee com-mittee members were appointed: Rural Ru-ral District Councilor John Reidy, Jeremiah Jere-miah Crowley, Philip Connor, Daniel Murphy, Michael Crowley, Michael O'Connor and John Tangney. Mrs. James Kelly, late principal teacher in Clashnagarrane Female National Na-tional school, died .Feb. 17 at Ballina-managh, Ballina-managh, Killarney, deeply regretted. Kildare. Siter Marv Louis Bertrand, eldest daughter of the late J. Keenan of Yeo-manstown Yeo-manstown House, Naas, who was in the 22nd year of her age and third or her religious profession, died in the Convent of the Holy Faith, Glasnevln, on the 9th ult. . William Murphy of Leixlip, known as the Leixlip guide to the Salmon Leap and other places of interest m the district, was found dead in bed on March 19. A next door neighbor, Margaret Mar-garet Dempsey. and :anoter...t? Campbell, noticed that Murphy did not rise as early as usual on that morning, which aroused their suspicions and the author! ties were notified The latter , forced an entrance and found Murphy lifeless. He was a native of Leixlip. Mr. John Nolan. Rathgar, DiiDlin. died Feb. 16, age 81 years. He was related to Rev. John Nojan. pastor of Kildare. '' Kilkenny.. The annual meeting of the Kilkenny City 'executive, of the United Irish league was -held-in the -town hall on Sunday.' March 15 Mayor P. Hoyne presided. Delegates attended from the four branches of. the league Rev J-Carroll, J-Carroll, curate at St. Canice's church, was chosen president and Mayor Hoyne vice President. Town Councilor Thom-as Thom-as Walshe the secretary, and Treasurer Treasur-er Leahy ere re-elected. E. T. Jieane was appointed assistant secretary and representative on the -national directory. direc-tory. - i . ... ' Kilkenny tcollege has. fallen on evil days not the flourishing .Catholic college col-lege of St. Kieran's. founded in ' 17S2 (which is now eminently successful under un-der - the presidency of Very Rev. Dr. Brennan), but the ancient College of Kilkenny so' lauded by Stainhurst, in 1584. which owed its origin to Piers Butler, Earl 'of Ormonde, and Ossory. It is now proposed to amalgamate this ; sixteenth-century foundation with the "Incorporated Society for Promoting 1 English Protestant Schools in. Ireland," and so will disappear one of the most remarkable, seats of learning in Ireland. Ire-land. ' Kings. Katherine T. Kelly, youngest daughter daugh-ter of Mrs. Kelly of Arranmore and the late John Kelly of Mount Erin House, Birr, died on March 18. I The death occurred on the 19th ult., 'at Cooraclevin, Roscrea, of 'Mrs. Kate Bergin, widow of Patrick Bergin of . Clonamahan, Roscrea, and last surviving surviv-ing daughter of the late Thomas, Tiquin of Kilcommon Mills, Shinrone. " S In Tullamore on March 19 a laborer named Conroy was arrested on a . charge of wounding ex-Police Sergeant j Hayes, presently in the employment of a Mr. Tarleton. Judge Andrews presided at the opening open-ing of the Assize for Kings- county, in Tullamore, March 2, when Peter Ryan, farmer, Cappencur, near Tullamore, was found to be of unsound mind. He was accused of having killed, his help, ! named Patrick Murren, 6n Feb. 13. ; After hearing evidence the judge or- i dered him kept in an institution for the insane during the pleasure of the lord lieutenant of Ireland. Previous to the sad event his mind was unhinged. Longford. Rev. William Gray, pastor of Abbey-lara. Abbey-lara. Granard. died on the 20th ult. at the age of 57 years. ; -$- " .. J. P. Farrell, M. P. for North Longford, Long-ford, was injured in the office of the Longford Leader, of which he is proprietor, pro-prietor, as the result of a gas explosion explo-sion on March 17. Mr. Farrell sustained sus-tained severe injuries about the face, particularly the eyes. One eye is seriously se-riously injured and the other affected. Mayo. County Councillor J. M. Delany, J. J. Waldron and J. Prenty have been appointed ap-pointed delegates to the coming national na-tional convention by the Ballyhaunis branch of the United Irish League. The death occurred on March lo, at the Convent of Mercy, Ballina. of Sister Sis-ter Mary Clare Brendan. . She was known in the world as Mary Agnes Egan. and was the second daughter of Thomas Egan of Glenisland, Castlebar and a sister of Rev. John T. Egan, assistant as-sistant rector of St. Rafael's church, San Rafael, Cal. Sister Mary was in the 29th year of her age and sixth of her religious profression. Meath. It is expected that Peter Gaughfan, who has served for nine years as assistant as-sistant to T. F. Jenkins, late clerk of the Oldcastle Union, will be elected the latter's successor. $ Thomas McAfee, who was recently chosen petty sessions clerk at Trim, has been appointed a commissioner- to administer oaths. -$- At the petty sessions held in Oldcastle Old-castle recently Margaret Lynch of Rose was convicted of having unjust scales at her stor,e.. The magistrates ordered that she pay a fine of 2s 6d and costs and forfeit the scales. Monaghan. Patrick McMahon of Shannbck" Mills. Clones, died on March 5 at the age of 73 years. 4 The death occurred on the 5th ult. of Thomas Finengan of Skeahorn, Clones. He was 74 years old. Miss Teresa MaguLre of Clones, County Monaghan, who for some years has been in charge of Lace classes near Spiddal,, County Galway, has re-tird re-tird from the service of the Congested Districts Board owing to ill health. Roscommon. Miss Catherine Kelly of Rockwood has been appointed assistant nurse at the workhouse in Cootehill, County Cavan. v ... . -.; - - - v-rr- In Roscommon a well known resident, resi-dent, to. whose, generosity the town owes .much, is prepared to offer to .a company, at a nominal rent a large mill, with commodious office ' arid an unlimited water supply,, for the pur-' pose of starting a bacon curing factory. fac-tory. The mill is situated a little over a mile from the town, and so confident is the owner that the project contains all the elements of success that he has promised to take half a thousand, or perhaps even a higher number, of 1 shares in the company which he suggests sug-gests should be started to carry out the work. Tipperary. During the passage of the White Star steamship Celtic to Queenstown from New York on March 6 F. J. Sullivan, a native of Tipperary, a third-class pasenger, jumped overboard and was drowned. During a United Irish League meeting meet-ing on Sunday, March 8, at Barnane, near Templemore, references were made to the holding of large grazing tracts in the district, who is boycotted. boycot-ted. The police attempted to disperse the meeting by baton charges. Several Sev-eral officers were seriously injured by a fusilade of stones. Many civilians had to be surgically treated. Extra police were drafted into the district. "Waterford. Patrick J. Commins, son of Patrick Kent Commins of the Quay, Water-ford, Water-ford, died n Nov. 15, aged 33 years. David Canty -of-- Johnstown, Yater-ford Yater-ford City, died March 5.' For some years he held a seat at the board of the civic council. "Westmeath. Michael Hannon of Cumberstown Cottage, Collinstown, died CV March 11. At Glasson, near Athlone, on the 12th ult., Dr. Patrick H. Fox, a retired major ma-jor in the Royal Army Medical Corps, was charged with attempting to murder mur-der James Bannon of Aughafin a farmer. Dr., Fox. had purchased a farm of 0 Oacres which the people thought should have been parcelled out as small holdings. His cattle had been interferred with on a right of way on which they were driven,, and it is alleged he stood on a fence and fired revolver shots into a party of ien, Bannon, who is alleged to have made use of the expression . "emergency man," having the bone cf his arm fractured. frac-tured. Bannon's condition is stated to be serious. The accused was remanded remand-ed in custody, bail being refused. . "Wexford. An old boatman named Edward Brett of New Ross fell from a gab-bard gab-bard into. the Grand canal on March 6 and was drowned Daniel .Dpyle of Commercial Quay, Wexford, who had attained the age of 85, died tm the 11th ult. He was the father of Joseph Doyle, a member of the Wexford corporation. At the monthly petty sessions held in tA'rthurstown on March 11 the following fol-lowing were fined for' road nuisance: John Walsh of Battlestown, Mary Treacy,' Johanna Keating and Patrick Egan, . ; ,.- ' - To Aid Ireland. Chief Secretary Wyndham. in the course of a discussion of the Lrish development de-velopment grant in the house of commons com-mons on Wednesday, in moving that 185,000 be granted annually for development de-velopment purposes in Ireland, said a genuine industrial revival was taking place in that country and added that he was authorized to announce that Lord Iveagh (Edward Cecil Guinness) Dublin and the Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie Cf Belfast (chairman of the Harland & Wolff Shipbuilding company) were prepared, pre-pared, in a spirit of patriotism and in view of the happier conditions pervail-ing, pervail-ing, to provide the capital necessary for developing the transport facilities of the country. This they proposed to do without going to the public for help. Mr. Wyndham concluded by saying: "There has been ncthing so hopeful, patriotic and businesslike in Ireland, since the eighteenth century"-" I The motion was adopted. I The details of the transport scheme i whiCh Lord Iveagh and Mr. Pirrie have I evolved have not yet been divulged. It is generally expected that the plans i provide for either a network of light railways or an extensive service of motor mo-tor cars for the benefit of the agricultural agricul-tural districts. Lord Iveagh has already ! spent 250,000 in transforming the Dublin Dub-lin slums into decent dwellings for the working class. An interesting report is current in Belfast, that, as an outcome of Mr. Wyndham's promised civil service economies econ-omies in Ireland, all recruiting for the royal Irish constabulary has ceased and that a considerable reduction in the existing ex-isting strength of, the constabulary is contemplated. A White Rose. By John Boyle O'Reilly. The red rose whispers of passion. And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream white rosebud With a flush on its petal tips; For the love that is purest and sweetest sweet-est Has a kiss of desire on the lips. |
