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Show 1 1 cafesf Irish Hews 1 1 ' . Belies of Sarsfield's Rade. I a Brophv. 4 Lock quay, Limfer- ; JIr;a written to Mr. A. Killeen, as- ' lrl!' Vnnvn clerk, offering to present 1 eis!.at!1p new museum, which it is pro-it pro-it 10 , t0 crc-et in Limerick, some inter- !TP z relis. ivhjch are supposed to yt' from the second siege of Limerick, t cp consist of a horseshoe and the t" of a horse's bridle, both of an- i " nt pattern. They were found in the !a ot the Shannon at Killaloo. ten or- hp'1 during excavations, and are I ,:''ved to have belonged to one of the wses in Sarsiield's famous ride from t V?ne-i--k to blow up William's guns f , Ballvneety. It is known that the ?' Lh cavalry crossed the Shannon at St Jr , I Ki!lal"e. 10.000 Fire in Portadown. I Th0 largest drapery: establishment in I Tnrtadovn, owned by Messrs. James: I t-ipniins & Co., was destroyed by fire ( 1 r'irly 011 Sunday morning. Mr. Flem- j I fop was the first of a fine block j I If four-story buildings which occupied J a prominent and commanding position j fn High street. The fire appears to I j, jVP originated in the ware rooms, and I -jvas discovered shortly after 3 o'clock. I I several of the assistants emerged, from ! I building wrapped in blankets', and vere taken into the houses of sympathetic sym-pathetic neighbors, where they were provided with clothing. It was about 4 o'clock when information of the outbreak out-break reached the fire station. When the brigade arrived the fire had com-I com-I plote possession of Messrs. Fleming's drapery establishment, and had secured ; j strong hold on Mr. Montgomery's 1 jondoa tea house. Mr. Fleming's es-I es-I tablishment was completely burned to the ground. Mr. Montgomery's shop : i was seriously damaged by the fire, and : ctock rendered almost worthless by ater. The total damage done Is rotiehly estimated at between 7,000 and I'in.Wio. The insurance companies affected are the Liverpool, London and J i;iob. the Guardian, Yorkshire, and j ; Manchester. At 8 o'clock the fire was I subdued, and an hour afterwards the! 1 brigade retired. j I Nenagh Murder Charge. At Nenagh petv sessions on Monday, I before Captain Poe (in the chair), I Lord Dunalley and Messrs. J. Harty, S. G., O'Parker Hutchinson and James O'LetPry. Mr. 11. P. Sheill, D. I., applied to have the original su-;ties of Dennis Hayes Gibbons, wh-i i. i of four men who J stand chargc.J wu the murder of James Coreorvi, estreated himself on .rn and Jarr j'cCormack and Patrick Pat-rick Ryan in 2. each. Mr. Sheil! said that previous to tha I death of Corcoran all the defendants ; were admitted to bail, but on the 10th I of January, Hayes failed to app?r and a warrant was issued for his arrest. ar-rest. The usual certificate was mad?, and he now ask 1 to have the recognisances recog-nisances estreated. Mr. Dudley, solicitor, urged on the iipiii h to have the amounts l educed, as Ha;, es surrendered thirty-'x hours after the petty sessions on the 10th of January. j Mr. Pheill Hayes was since admitted to bail, though he was refnrned for trial on the capital .harge. b.it he was an-ested yesterday on the informations ! of one of his present sureties th.it he hp!ipved he was about to absL-ond. The magistrates ordered the recog-; recog-; nisances to be estreated Hayes in 10 and the sureties in 5 ea.h. Hayes was committed to prison to await the Nenagh assizes, except approved sure-i; sure-i; ties were forthcoming jn the sum of 100 each. Fire Bells at Malahide. Shortly before 5 o'clock on Monday morning a serious fire was discovered to have broken out In th haggard of I Mr!' McMahony'Y&l1' WaHs.'Ialatiide; on the borders of the demesne of Lord Talbot de Malahide. from whom Mr. MrMahon holds over 200 acres. The alarm was given to the police at Mala-hide Mala-hide barracks, and Sergeant Kennedy and Constable Lambert, with some ' other men. turned out. Between twenty I and thirty men in Mr. McMahon's serv-I serv-I Ice were also at the place in quick I timp. The fire was then raging at its I full extent. It originated in . a corru-f corru-f cated iron shed, fifty feet wide by sixty feet long and twenty feet high. This was stored with 200 tons of un-I un-I threshed oats, thirty-eight tons of hay. f and about seventeen tons of straw, all I of which were in' a blaze. Portion or, i the shed coliansed about 5:30 o'clock, j e and it was then found impossible to ; rnpp with the fire, so that the men I rould only look on. Mr. G. B. Stuart ! district inspector, visited the scene in I the forenoon, and made a minute inspection, in-spection, but it was then impossible to assign any cause. The steward was sbout the place late on Sunday night, j ; and then found everything in order. Policeman's Horrible Act. I A dispatch from Mullingar on Wed- j ripsday says: Information reached her today of an extraordinary incident I that occurred a few days ago at Bal-I Bal-I linararey police barracks. It appears that on Saturday last Constable Greer, I 'ho has about seven years service ; ' the for.-e. was barrack orderly. On tho pntrancp of a patrol off duty he f left ;hn dayroom. and his comrades noti.-r.s tra. ps of blood along the floor. Hp was followed to his room, when it was found that his uniform about th naist and legs was saturated with - j ViUo. Tpdical assistance being sum-f sum-f j mr.nod. Dr. Keane was quickly on the I I scpnP. and an examination proved that fhn unfortunate man had. with a pair of sriovp, severely injured and mu- tiiattfi himsflf. Sereeant Talty, who ? as in charge of tho station, tele- frarhd fnr police aid to Millingar. and after their arrival the ininred man remnvod to th e Westmeith re',mty infirmary. wh"-e hi in'uries, 'hi. h had bopn dressed by Dr. Keane in th- first intane were further af- tended to i,y the resident medical staff, j -ie v.a examined bv th surgeon to 'V- instiiutinn. Dr. W. H. M'ddlefon. r.. and nr. j. Tillon-Kellv. .T. J nn vpsT.-rday Messrs t t). Sullivan. ; M.. and Owen 'Wirkham. J. P.. , r- att-itld the infirrnary. snd on ; r. Diilnn-Kellv's pvidenno that he insane hf. was committed to the dis-l dis-l -et lunatic asylum. flare Farmer Drowned. n Friday a farmer named Patrick Hannon. r cionlara, was returning r"ni Limerick, after delivering milk, a J'-'inet which he was driving, the night beiiiE v.-ry dark, walked into the Grand '"tal at an unprotected spot near Cap-raviiia Cap-raviiia bridge. Man, animal and car must have gone to the bottom at once, r;i p(j.,, Hannon never rose again. lis body was found. and a n,1't distance away the jennet, also 'irownerj. stin attached to the car. The : . fatality has been heard of in the reality with deep regret. ' Airship in Limerick. A dispatch from Limerick on Tues-y Tues-y says: Considerable interest was VHfd tddy by the evoiutions of an "''snip or kite which was launched i"ni Ul" roof of the Theatre Royal by atr i F' roi'- now fulfilling a the-aeHi the-aeHi Pna?ement in Limerick. The "nnt Plrut'ture, which resembles a So SF:al. hat, has a superficial area of ia p ixty square feet. Mr. Cody's t,r, w'ar-kite. which has been ' offi r under the notice of the war "1 'f "f)f)'(e feconnoitering purposes, has I vac!"Uare feet of canvas. The kite I yardsmanoeuvrei at an altitude of 100 I he ,'' a,1( experiment seemed to j De most successful. ! tk Irish Minerals. ; 1 tp w fPartment of agriculture and k i takpn . inRtruction for Ireland have 1 t'iod nfK.uPS t0 rIace on vlew for a 1e" I 01 tnree months at the Imperial in- 1 ion or T"0"'. the" extensive collec-stones collec-stones Jh R? "1,neral ad building nCtw h Srmcd one of e most Ww l fLan(i valuable ot their ex-Thi ex-Thi llG re(ent exhibition in Cork. theVarfiV1 VU enibra samples of terioif l and excellent building ma-IfnH ma-IfnH ",d !llarb,es in which Ireland th iluularly rich' and il is expected thoL I opportunity of examining hose SPlGS Wil1 be of advantage to wh.o are concerned in the many rS , buildinS schemes now in prog-Tfw?i prog-Tfw?i on and elsewhere in Great tti ? i "v. he beauty and excellence of iVnn granites, saidstones and lime- black marble and the other ornamental o!reSi. the country are well known, fT-v?! n Phwn at the department's exhibit at Cork excited the admiration or all who saw them. The exhibit also inc udes specimens of clays, cement-making cement-making materials, and fine sands. In the mineral section of the exhibit are a series of prospectors' samples of the : metalliferous deposits of the country I and samples of Irish coal and other : minerals now being worked. The de- partment of agriculture will, we are informed, take steps to place the fullest full-est information on the subject of this exhibit at the disposal of inquirers. It Is Intended to open the exhibition about the middle of February. Three Persons Suffocated. A dispatch from Abbeyfeale on Thursday says: This morning, Hannah Han-nah Kelly, general farm servant, and her two children John, aged 11, and Mary, 8 who had been living in a cottage cot-tage belonging to a laborer named Barry of Cratloe, midway between Athea and Abbeyfeale, were found dead in a room which is nothing more than a recess extending from the kitchen to the rear of the cottage, and measuring about five feet square, and from six to eight feet high. Deceased retired to bed in their usual health last night, and on Bary proceeding to call them this mornirg he found the door of the room closed and its inmates dead. There was a window at the hick which was closed, while apparently to more effectively exclude the cold a cloth had been fastened on it, thereby removing all means of ventilation. Deceased De-ceased had slept in the same rrora, ! which was originally intended for do-I do-I mestic utensils, during the past month, and did not complain of having experi-i experi-i enced any ill effects. An inquest will I be held tomorrow, but med'eal opinion has ascribed the deaths to asphyxia or suffocation. District Inspector Cruise, Abbeyfeale and a number of police have visited the scene. Clare Shooting Affair. A man named James Bourke, son of a farmer residing at Ballyear, was brought up at the constabulary barracks, bar-racks, Ennis, on a charge of firing with intent at two men named Pat McNa-mara. McNa-mara. a postman, and Martin Nolan, a signalman of the Great Southern & Western railway at Ballyear station, on Tuesday night. It seems that the two men were proceeding from Newmarket to the station about 8:30 p. m. to meet the mail train, when at a paint about 300 yards from the station, two run shots were fired from the side of the road. Fortunately neither of the men were struck. The police have been busy making inquiries into the occurrence, oc-currence, and as a result Bourke .vas arrested this morning. He was remanded re-manded for a week. -Q On Saturday last a respectable and well-known resident of Willbrook, Rathfarnham, named Myles Redmoii. aged about 53 years, died suddenly at his residence. The deceased attended to his business as usual the previous day, and only complained of his illness ill-ness a short time prior to his dearii. He leaves a vlfeand family. The coroner cor-oner 'does "hot "consider ah" iilqii-2st necessary. nec-essary. t The body of a man whose name jg unknown,' un-known,' was found floating in the Lif-fey Lif-fey on Saturday. The man was apparently ap-parently about 40 years jf age, five feet eight inches in height, with dark hair, turning gray, and a fair moustache. mous-tache. He was dressed in a black serge jacket, coat and vest, gray stripped trousers, and wore a stripped cotton shirt. The body was much decomposed. $ Oh Saturday last Mrs. Patrick Byrne of Templeogue, aged about 55 years, j died suddenly at her residence. Tern-; pleogue. She was in her usual health the previous day and night when retiring re-tiring to bed. but on next morning when called to breakfast she was found dead by her husband. She leave3 a family also. The sudden death of these two respectable residents in the parish has caused extreme regret. -sfGrly .swshrdlu hrdlu hrdul hrdlud At Monday's meeting of the corpora-I corpora-I tion a resolution was carried abolishing the custom of nominating a lord mayor j in September. In future the nomina- tion and election will take place simultaneously simul-taneously on Jan. 23 in each year. At the Dungarven petty sessions on Saturday a prosecution was heard at the suit of the board of agriculture and technical instruction against the master mas-ter and owners of the steam trawler Glockanice for illegal fishing within the prescribed limits between Helrick ! head and Waterford harbor. The defendant de-fendant in the summons was the master, mas-ter, J. Tolinson. The owners of the vessel were Messrs. Morley, D. L.: J. Portland, V. G. D. Goff, J. P., Water-ford, Water-ford, and J. Grellick. director, Milford. Evidence having been given by the crew of the department's boat Helga. as to the position of the trawler, the court inflicted a fine of 25, half to be paid by the owners of the trawler. An interesting case, that of Dockrell vs Peter and others, was commenced on Monday, before the lord chief justice and a city special jury- The plaintiff Is Mr. Morgan Dockrell, jr., a student of Trinity college, whose father, though a Dublin man, now practices as a doctor doc-tor in London. The defendants are the president and members of the Irish Amateur Swimming association. The plaintiff claims delivery of a gold cup and medals won at swimming championships, cham-pionships, and damages for their detention de-tention and for breach of contract. The de'ene is that the plaintiff was ineligible ineligi-ble to compete owing to insufficiency of residential qualifications. The further hearing was adjourrid. Ordinations at Carlew. On Monday morning at early mass in the Church of Carlow college, the Most Rev. Dr. Foley, bishop of KHdare and Leighlin, ordained to the priesthood priest-hood the Rev. Matthew O'Brien. His lordship was assisted at the solemn function by the Rev. L. Brophy. senior dean of the college. The missionary labors of the newly-ordained priest are reserved for the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. The Irish Sailor's Pluck. Recently a presentation was made to the master, officers and crew of the City of Dublin Steampacket company s steamer Louth; in recognition of their valuable services in taking ofTthe crew of the steamship Harold, which came ta erief during stormy weather in th frlsh sea last November. The presentations presenta-tions a fitting tribute to the gallant- ry "of the men of the Louth, but the catastrophe to the Harold was the oc-ct'fon oc-ct'fon o? another incident highly credible cred-ible to Irish sailors. The Harold, a SfaVlow steamer, coal laden, was abandoned? aban-doned? and lying in the track of the !r Wasine cross-channel traffic. Derelict aTfhe was she constituted a uerenci d realized' by Um-jt S'rnS chief officer of the JLolEnfn" Yarrow, when he sighted fer as a'ifarJ object in th sea a little after midnight on Friday morning. Nov. 14. jje communicated with his captain, and accompanied by Thomas Cullen, John Sweeney and William Gray, he put off in a small boat to tht derelict. The sea was rolling over her from rail to rail, and getting on board was a perilous task, but it was occom-plished. occom-plished. There were no lights on the Harold, and no oil could be found. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the strong breeze and the rough sea, and when it was by no means certain that the Harold would not suddenly founder, William Kearney sent off his companions to the Yarrow for a tow rope, and when they return! the four men hauled the Yarrow's steel hawser on board and made it fast. Throughout the night they took turns in steering. They were wet, cold and hungry, but they stuck to the dangerous danger-ous derelict. At about half-past 8 in the morning the tow rope was carried away, necessitating a second trip of the small boat to the Yarrow. Again a steel hawser was made fast, and at 11 on Friday morning the men had the satisfaction of anchoring off the breakwater break-water at Douglas, though it was much later before the men who saved the Harold had her safely in the harbor at Douglas. It was 3 o'clock on Friday before they could break the fast which circumstances had Imposed upon them. Their dogged gallantry for they took their lives in their hands when they left the Yarrow in order to remove the dangerous dan-gerous derelict is certainly deserving of official recognition. Mr. Wm. Redmond, M. P., Released From Kilmainham. Mr. William Redmond, M. P.. was released re-leased from Kilmainham prison on Tuesday. Mr. Redmond had served a little more than hajf the term of imprisonment im-prisonment to which he had been sentenced sen-tenced in default of giving bail. Other Prisoners Released. Tralee, Tuesday Mr. Harris, Rath-keale, Rath-keale, who was undergoing a term of three months' coercion sentence in Tralee jail as a first class misdemeanant, misdemean-ant, and six months additional in default de-fault of finding bail for a speech delivered de-livered at a United Irish league meeting, meet-ing, was unconditionally released this morning after the expiration of a three months' term. The release order came quite unexpectedly. Mr. Harris, who was accompanied by Mr. Flavin, M. P., and local Nationalists, left by the morning train for home. $ Tullamore, Tuesday Messrs. Reddy, M. P., and Lowry were released this morning. There were anticipations all day that Messrs. John O'Donnell, M. J., and Dennis Johnston, who are also imprisoned here, would be set at liberty. lib-erty. Up to the afternoon no order to this effect had been received. Messrs. Reddy and Lowry were accorded ac-corded an enthusiastic sendoff. It is believed that Mr. Reddy's Galway sentence sen-tence will not be enforced. Galway, Tuesday Mr. John Roche, M. P., was released from prison this morning. Mr. Roche had only served fourteen days of a coercion sentence of three months. He is in excellent health. Mr. William Hastings, Ballinasloe, was also released today from Galway jail. Mr. Hastings had completed his term of imprisonment. On Monday a telegram was received from Dublin by the governor of Tullamore Tul-lamore jail, ordering the immediate release re-lease of Mr. Reddy, M. P., and Mr. Lowry, county councilor, whose sentence sen-tence under the coercion act would not have expired for some time to come. Mr. Reddy was sentenced to two periods per-iods of two months' imprisonment on the 26th of September last by the removables re-movables at Ballymoe, but lodged an appeal against the decision to the quarter quar-ter sessions. When the appeal was brought forward at the quarter sessions ses-sions the sentence was confirmed. Mr. Reddy was sentenced to two months' hard labor, and in default of finding bail, to a further term of three months by Removables Newell and Dease, at Birr, in connection with the Birr sports on the 24th of September. Against this decision he appealed. Judge Curran, who tried the appeal, confirmed the sentence, but made the term without hard labor. This was on the 2nd of October last. William Lowry, chairman of the dis- , trict council, was sentenced to two j months imprisonment with hard labor, and in default of finding bail, to a j further term of three months, on the i 23rd of September last by Removables Newell and Dease at Birr. On appeal the sentence was confirmed by Judge Curran on the 1st f October. Stabbing Case at Letterkenny. A shocking stabbing case occurred at Letterkenny on Friday evening. Patrick Pat-rick and Hugh Hanlon, sons of John Hanlon, an old clothes dealer, Letterkenny, Letter-kenny, renewed a Falcarragh Fair quarrel on the Letterkenny Market square, when Hugh inflicted several horrible stabs on his brother Patrick, one ripping up the defending arm, and others gashing his head and neck so dangerously near the jugular vein that the doctor declines to certify recovery. Hugh was arrested and committed to Derry jail until next petty sessions. Railway Official Drowned. Mr. Jeremiah Coffey, district superintendent superin-tendent of the Great Southern & Western West-ern railway, Tralee, left Tralee by the 2:30 train on Saturday for official duties du-ties at Milltown and Castlemaine. In the latter place he met three clerical friends. Rev. Father Brosnan, C. C; Rev. Father Buckley, and Rev. Father Daly, Tralee, one of whom. Father Daly, was returning to Tralee. Mr. Coffey and Father Daly started to catch the train, which passes Castle- i maine station aoout s o ciock. ana when nearing - the village-, which is about 100 yards from the station, they heard the whistle of the train. Mr. Coffey, who must be close to 60 years of age, requested Father Daly, who is quite a young man, to run to the station and hold the train for him. Father Daly did so, but, though the train was detained some minutes. Mr. Coffey did not arrive. The night being very dark, and besides, Mr. Coffey be- j ing short-sighted, it is feared that he I walked straight over the quay into the river, which xvas at full flood at the time, and, being unable to swim, was drowned. The Body Recovered. Tralee, Tuesday The body of Jeremiah Jere-miah Coffey, district superintendent of the Great Southern & Western railway, rail-way, was found before noon today in the river at Castlemain quay, fifty yards from the spot where the de-; de-; ceased was supposed to have fallen into the river on Saturday evening. As already stated, Mr. Coffey was returning return-ing to catch the train at Castlemaine on Saturday evening, and requested Father Daly, who was with him, to run to the station and detain the train for him. In the darkness, it is supposed, sup-posed, he missed his way and walked into the unprotected river. |
