The Irish standard., 1896-08-08

o'clock on the NO Ing 81 the 1 4ths the fine
National Hall at Sheepbridge was diseoV--i
cred to be on fire, and the people hurrying
tothespOt to render assistance We're just in
time to seethes retrat:ng figures Of several
Orangemen, still wearing their regalia, as
they made off In different directions, after
havingss done their incsudiary work. The
building was totally destroyed. The door
Of the nall had been stove in, and whatever
papersWere inside were made away WithSby
the incendiaries; and it. seems also clear
that the place was fired from within. "A
claim for compensation for malicious in
jury will be made.
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We regret to have to announce the death
of Christopher Bowling, one of the Irish
state prisoners who. some time since was,
released after serving twelve years penal
servitude. He was arrested on the oc-
casion Of the shooting of. Constable Cox, in:
Dublin, on the 18th of November, 1882,
and was convicted in February, 1883. He
was released in February, 1895. He suf-
fered severely while in confinement and
lest an eye while engagd In prison work in
Downpatrick Jail. His death took place
on July IL, ata'3 Margaret Place, North
Circular, road, Dublin. Mr.. Bowling was
almostsc0ntinuallyy in bad, health since his
release from prison. .,s:4.
/. In Dublin, on July 16, an American Wis.,
itor named, Kelleher reported to the police
that a gold watch, credit note for $166
and a passage ticket to New York had been
stolen from his room in a prominent city
hotel in which he had been staying. He
stated that he left the room on business,
and was only absent for about a quarter of
an hour. On returning he missed the ar
ticleS above mentioned. The police are In
vestigatsng the matter.
The deplorable Strike in the Dublin
building trade has. unfortunately, entered
on a new lease of life, owing to the rejec-
ton Of the masters terms at the hands of
the Carpenters \ and Joiners' association.
1t was hoped that settlement might have.
been arrived at, on the basis of these
terms, but the attitude. taken by the Car
penters' association is, apparently, uncom-
promising; and the outlook seems gloomier
than ever. It is worthy Of note that it Is
the large employers almost alone who are
holding out against the men. The employ
ers of the majority of the men have con-
coded the terms, and no less than $50 are
in employment, and these have consented
to a levy of So week per man in order to
increase the strike pay of the men still
out, who number 446, The society is at
present supporting, in addition to its mem
bers, 65 apprentice boys, who went out at
the. time OF the strike, and also q men
who were non union workers when the dis.
pute arose, but are now members OF the So
ciety.
: The new president of the Royal College
of Surgeons OF England, Sir William Mac
Cormack, is an Irishman.. He first came to
the front as surgeon during the Franco
Prussian war, when he served IN the Irish
Contingent at Metz, and subsequently. in
Paris during the siege, when he wrote his
t'Notes and Recollections of an Ambulance
Surgeon, I" which have been translated into
almost. every European Language. A short
period OF medical practice in Belfast pre-
coded his settling in LONDON, where he now
ranks, among. the most distinguished MEM
bers OF his profession.
A Southampton telegram states that a
lady passenger, by the Lady Martin steam
er, bound for London, while on the South
ampton docks, was passing to her ship,
when she was damned between a furniture
van and.a crane, and was 50 shockingly in
jured that she died soon afterwards. Her
name was Mrs. Mary ,Leno, and she was
bound from Dublin to London.
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