The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
ONAGHAN..

MONAGHAN.
Mr.. James Orr, Q.lC., So Mountjoy
square. Dublin, has been appointed
County Court Judge for the counties Of
Monaghan and Fermanagh. ia place Of
the late Mr.. Barron, g. Mr.. on
was called to the bar in 1857 and ap-
pointed @. G. ID 1884: He went the
Northeast circuit, was Senior Crown
Prosecutor for the counties Of Armagh
and Down. and also counsel for the
Belfast Corporation and the Great
Northern Railway Company.
QUEENS COUNTY.
On the morning Of June l2th. Mr..
Thomas Breen, IL. g., Slat, Wolfhill,
and Mr.. VIM. Lyons, Luggacurren,
were released from Kilkenny jail after
undergoing a term of two months i'm
prisonment for conspiracy, inflicted on
them bv Removables Miller and joyce,
and subsequently confirmed by County
Court Judge barley. The criminals
were met at the jail by the mayor and a
nun Der of friends.
The Queens County assizss opened
at Maryborough on July Sd.
ROSCOMMON.
A series of disgraceful attacks on
Mr.. Jasper FULLY received their quietus
in the Exchequer Court, Dublin. on
June 1ltb, when two gentlemen named
Smith and Quinn were fined e3O each,
and ordered to pay costs OF an attach
ment motion which Mr.. Tul]y was
forced to invoke. A. more energetic
and unselfish man there is not in the
West of Ireland than Mr., Tul]y. No
Irish editor has undergone more terms
of imprisonment for his principles than
he has.
TIPPERARY. t.r
A meeting, including both Parnellites
and anti i arnellites, was held on Sun
day, June 9TH, in Latin. County Tip.
perary, to condemn the action Of those
who had seeded recentiv from the
Smith Barry Tenants Commission.
TYRON ). 3D..
The election fer coroner for East Ty-
rome came off On June 18th, there being
three polling stations in the constitu-
ency, viz, Cookstown, Dungannon and
Aughnacloy. The candidates were Mr..
John Malone, solicitor, of Cookstown,
Nationalist, and DR.. Theodore D.
Browne, of Benburb, Tory. The latter,
though late in the field, left no stone
unturned to win the election. There
we're fifteen polling places in Cookstown
and from early morning the voters
poured in from the country in hundreds,
the Nationalist from remote places
turning up remarkably we'll. The polls
closed at four o'clock. and shortly after
wards the numbers polled in Cookstown
were totted up, when it was found that
Mr.. Malone had majority in the dis
trict of 557. Later on returns were re-
ceivel from Dungannon and Angina
cloy, showing majority in the former
and minority ia this latter. TIE esti-
mated result, declared unoficiall7 and
admitted by the Tories, give Mr..
Malone q majority of 308.
.- WESTMEATH
In looking through the Irish census
it is fact worth recording that in
Westmeath, Glare, Cavan and R9scom
mon only one Jew mas been registered
in each county. The total number OF
the Semitic race in Ireland, registered
properly as such, amounts only, roughly
speaking. to 1900. Of this total, Dublin
has 1914. At last census the number
in Dublin was only Az.
WEXFORD. ~ -.
On June 18th Mr.. James Redmond,
vlctualler Corey and Mr.. Andrew
Motor were released from prison, the
former from Kilmainham and the lat
ter from Dundalk, ON the expiration OF
the term OF imprisonment imposed on
them at the last Wicklow assizes. AS
will be remembered they, with othersa
were tried on two occasions at Wicks
low, the first resulting in disagree
mant Of the iurv. and the latter in their
conviction. The charge against them
was that of having entered into a cod
spiracy to prevent the *"Planters" on
the Brooke estate from remaining in
their farms, and on this charge they
were sentenced to six months i'm.