The Irish standard., 1895-08-10

! OF the National Federation, and has
taken part In the Nationalist agitation
for the past fifteen years. He was for
! two years chairman Of the Tullam0re
| Town Commissioners, is a licensed
trader, and proprietor Of the Charleyille
Arms Hotel, Tullamore.
LIMERICK. sa Ia
| Not for a long time has greater
gloom hung over Limerick than that
! which was everywhere apparent on July
5th, when report gained currency that
a tragic occurrence had taken place
within the walls of Laurel Hill Convent.
Like wildfire the awful news spread
through the city that on the previous
| day, with two exceptions, every inmate
of the institution--cor1munity and pn-
pils-had been Frustrated from the eff
fects of some irritant poison, supposed
to have been contained in a custard
that had been served at the regular COM
munity dinner. Two of the nuns died
the next evening, and several others
| were in a serious condition. On the 9th
there was another death in the convent,
the victim being Miss Josephine O'Flynn,
aged Is, daughter of Mr.. O'Flynn, Of the
| firm of E. & P. O'Flynn, builders, Water
course road, Cork. 1t is supposed that
bad egg had been mixed in the GUS
| tard, which stood over for one day, and
! that thus the poisonous germs had time
! to develop. The Rev. Mother and one
other num- neither of whom took any
| custard, were the only ones not affected.
A lay sister, Sister Mary Joseph CAT
| frey, was one of those first attacked,
and shortly after the poor lady. expired,
| having received all the consultations of
| the Church at the hands of the Most
Rev. DR. Q'Dwyer. The next victim was
! Mother Billot, an old French nun; and
| then followed the death Of Miss O'FlynE
At last accounts all the other patients
were progressing favorably toward con-
| valesence. Il VEL
| An old man named O'Rourke, a native
of the parish Of Dromin, near. Bruree,
! was buried a few weeks.a at Holy
| Trinity Churchyard, Dromin. He had
! attained the advanced age of 102 years.
1t is curious fact that he was bed
ridden for almost half a century before
| his death.
The Most Rev. DR.. sO'Dwyer, Bishop
| OF Limerick, and Mr.. F. G. NJ. Kennedy,
j. P, have become annual Governors Of
| the CountyLimerick Inf1rmary.
| Patrick Barrel, a policeman, was in
| dicted at the Limerick Assizes for forg-
! ing a receipt for Fl 6s., and foraUttering
| the same, knowing it to be forgery.
He had been messnlan at the Doom Bar
rack He was sentenced to six months
| Imprisonment from the date of his COM
initial, on the 25th of February, and or
| dered to be kept at hard labor for the
unexpired period. sS.f'>s.
DOWN.
In Newry, early on the morning Of July
9Th, horrible accident occurred at Ed
| ward Street Station. The guard (AGoses
Trimble) was standing between the rails.
upon one Of which was a goods train and
upon the other an engine shunting to get
! out Of the way of the former. He stepped
| in front Of the shunting engine, which
passed over him, completely severing the
body at the lower part. The deceased
| was over twenty-five years engaged on
the railway was married, and leaves a
wife and two children to mourn his sad
| death. .r ss54 sa nj.
A very popular appointment to the com
mission of the peace has been made in
| Down. Mr.. John Gill, OfsLisbane, Saint
field, has been created magistrate. Mr..
Gill is we'll known as a staunch Presby-
terian Home Ruler and an able and fear
less advocate OF the farmers cause.
III. DERRY.
The counting Of the votes for the cleo
ton Of poor-law Guardian for Derry
Division took place on July Sth. Mr.
Bernard Hannigan, J. p. the Catholic
candidate, beat Mr.. G. Lindsay, the Union
list, by thirty-one votes.
Mr.. Arthur McAuley, PortgIenone, has
been sworn in a Justice Of the Peace for
county Londond derry. q.
On July 9Th, Young man named
Flanagan, plumb residing at Lecky
Road, Derry, and q fellow-workman
named Crockett, were travelling to Bum
crana, on the Tough swilly and Letter
kenny Railway. At the junction near
Burnfoot the train separates, one. section
going to Letterkenny and the other to
Buncrana After the stoppage, and when
the train had well started. both young
men found themselves in the wrong
I train. Crockett jumped out first and got
his head severely cut. Flanagan, VINO
followed, was more unfortunate. 81 He
turned lover, and, falling under the car
riage wheels, one 81 his legs was cutoff.
He was removed to the Derry I'M PRIMARY,
and It Is feared his jrries may prove
fatal. ss8:s sl
DONEGAL. III iss1S
John Herdman, Of Rutland Bar
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