The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-19


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assaulted y young j man named John
Roche, on the 10th OF July, In the house
Of man named Thomas Awkward, a fish,
9erman, by striking him on the head with
a bar of iron. The force of the blow was
such that the iron bar broke. Roche tell
on the. floor, and for some days his life
was In imminent peril. Evidence having
been given the mag strates sentenced
Phelan' to two months imprisonment
with hard labor. VI. '.I.s
KINGS COUNTY.
"A man named Michael Lea was arrest
ed on September 18th in Clara, charged
with firing his sisters dwelling hOuse. 1t
apepars that Miss Lea aWoke some time
after midnight and saw flames leaping up
from behind a uncovered shed in the
yard, and her brother, It is alleged, stand
ing beside it. She shouted Fire, and in
her nightdress ran to the police barracks
at the other end of the town and sum
moned assistance BY the aid of the po-
lice and neighbors the fire was extin-
guished after an hours work, the dwell
linghouse narrowly escaping. The al
legged lncendiary was discovered in a back
yard about hundred yards away and
was placed under arrest, and returned for
trial to the quarter sessions IS
LIMERICK. j
The death is announced, on September
18th, of Mr.. Stephen Hastings, j. p, faith
er of Mr.. Stephen Hastings, solicitor, of
Limerick. The deceased gentleman had
reached the ripe old age Of Is years. Mr..
Hastings occupied the mayoral chair in
the year 1873. For 40 years he remained
member of the Limerick town council,
and till the day of his death occupied the
position Of President Of ST. Johns Con-
ference Of the St. Vincent de Paul Socie
ty, of which he was a most efficient mem
Der. In the days of O'Connell Mr.. Hast
ings was a leading upholder of that great
Irishman's principles and took active
part in the celebrated Gavin, Ball, Rus
sell, O'Brien and Potter contests, In all
Of which he was an influential fighter.
Among the poor of Limerick his loss will
be greatly felt.
At the last meeting of the Limerick
Corporation, Mr.. Mcmahon, who, some
weeks ago gave notice that he would
move that the mayors salary be in
creased from 1850 to $500 per annum,
asked leave to withdraw the motion,
which permission was given by the coun-
Gil.
Mr. Garret Curtin, one of the Cherry
III (oe Qon fu3r
to call them years ago. died in Mallow
street, Limerick, at an advanced age, on
September 18th The brothers were in
separable, and the deceased is said to
have bequeathed large sum of money
in charity.
LONGFORD.
A serious fire recently occurred at
Balynahon in the house of a poor woman
named Anne Burke, in the Green Lane,
and soon assumed alarming proportions.
The first on the scene were Constables
Lally and Scully. A delicate boy named
Michael Burke, about twelve years of
age, was in bed, and on the arrival of the
constables they found the bed in flames.
At great personal risk they succeeded in
rescuing the lad, who was in an uncon-
scious state. They also succeeded in re-
moving every portable article of the poor
woman's property from the burning
house. In an adjoining house lay an old
woman 104 years Of age, who was car
ried out of the house by Constables Ma
guire and Feenaghty.
AT meeting Of the Ballymahon Board
of Guardians, on September 18th, Mr..
Floods notice of a motion to resctnd the
resolution to amalgarnate the Ballyma-
hon Union with Longford and Athlone,
adopted on theS15th Of August, came up
for consideration. Major Fair, L. G. B.
Inspector, and Rev. Father Pinkhan1,
Adm, were in attendance. Col. Digby
proposed as an amendment to Mr.. Floods
motion that the resolution agreeing to
amalgamate be allowed to stand. Ten
guardians voted against amalgamatton
and twelve for it, and it was accordingly
declared carried for the second time.
!. LOUTH.
Very Rev. Francis Doyle, o. S. A.,
Drogheda, ON Friday, September goth,
celebrated the f1ftieth anniversary of his
conservation to the priesthood. There
was solemn high mass Of Thanksgiving
in the Augustinian church, which was at
tended by large number Of the mem
bers of the order. During the day Fa-
Their Doyle was presented with an adj
dress and purse of one hundred sover-
eigns from his friends in Drogheda.
On the night of September 18th an ac-
cident occurred to a hunter named James
McBreen, by being run over by an en-
CINE at the Great Northern Railway sta
ton, Drogheda, which proved fatal next
morning, the injured man dying In the
Workhouse Hospital, after the amputa-
ton of his left leg.
The many friends and acquaintances Of
Mrs. Thomas Tighe, Of Tighestown, will
read with deep regret the announcement
of her death, which occurred at 'Tighes-
town Cottage" on the 10th of September
The deceased in her last moments was
comforted by the presence Of her son,
Rev. D. A. Tighe, pastor of the Church
of the Holy Angels, Chicago, and her
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Tighe, also of
Chicago, whose affection for their mother
prompted them to make almost annual
visits to her during the declining years OF
her life.
II, MAYO.
/, A sad accident occurred recently to a
young man named Patrick DOnlon, OF
Ghilka, about four miles from Balm
tubber. He was proceeding to his work,
carrying his scythe with him for the pur-