The Irish standard., 1896-05-16
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ANTRIM.
\ Il al monster meeting Of Nationalist, un.
! der the auspices Of the Belfast branch
Of the Irish National Federation, was
ANNOUNCED to be held in St. Mary s5aa I'll
Ton the Sth Of May, for the purpose q
sustaining the Irish Parliament
airy % party, + & and OF furtheTine
i the & interests of the Nationas
cause. Messrs +: John Dillon, N. Up s..l'.
chairman Of the Irish Party, and Michae
Davitt, N. r, had promised to be pres;
ent. The meeting was expected to be
one OF the largest and most representa-
| tive ever held in Belfast. ~ e.
* M ..5 ARMAGH.
| On April 18th, the Il prisoners, John
Steenson, John M'Entaggart, Henry M,
AIeasy, and Patrick M'Anally, who were
arrested In connection with the murder
of the old man Edward Toal, IN Ready
were brought before Mr.. n. y. Town
send, r. NJ, in the Ready police Darrack
The police requested a remand Tor elgh'
| days in order to make further inquiries
l GuO LliC ISludIu VQS aASSo. =.
An arrangement has been come to II
the case OF the Arrlag h Township Inn
provement bill. Instead of a few clauses
lonly. the whole of the provisions Of the
Towns improvements Acts, are to be put
lin force by the new: bill. The existing
Town Commission has been suspic1ously
ready to accept the change.
'.3r% CARLOW.
The conservation Of Rt. Rev. DIR. Foley
as Coadiutor. Bishopgof the Diocese OF
kildare and Leighlin, will take place on
Trinity Sunday, May 3lst, in the Cattle
dral, Carlow.
The vacancy in the presidency OF 81.
patrick's College, caused by the eleEa-
tion of DIR. Foley to the Episeopacy, has
been filed by the appointment to that
position Of the Rev. John Foley, Profes-
sor of Theology. Il
49, CAVAN. &
At the last Bailieboro' Quarter Ses-
sions, before Judge Waters. man
named Michael Brennan sued Sergeant
Tipping, Of Mullagh, for $50 damages for
assault and malicious prosecution. From
the evidence given OH behalf OF the
plaintiff, it appeared that ON January .
there was a fair IN Bailieboro' and a
show in the Market square. The defend
ant was On temporary duty IN the town
in the evening, and in front of the show
gave plaintiff push and knocked him
Oh the street, AS lle got up he called
him drunken blackguard and knocked
him down again. For the defense, five
constables were examined, and swore
that a noisy crowd had collected in front
of the show, and that the defendant
pushed through the people, and, believ-
ing that the plaintiff was the center OF
attraction, pulled him to the edge of the
crowd, gave him push and told him to
go home. The judge held that the SER
geant was not justified in pushing or
pulling the defendant, particularly as
the crowd was not disorderly, and he
gave a decree for FL and costs against
the policeman. @
...s CLARE.
At the Ennis Quarter Sessions, Judge
Keely heard several actions against Mr..
Standish O'Grady Roche, High Sheriff OF
Clare. brought by farmers in Caher, East
Glare, claiming damages for wrongful
seizures made by the Sub Sheriff, Major
Cullinan, last month, on the holdings of
several tenants, against whom DEGREES
had been obtained The estate belongs
to Mr.. P. ,Dwyer, whose brothers, John
and Michael, had been lately fired at;
The first case was at the suit OF John
MInerny, the amount claimed being flG'
for mich COW, which he had loaned
10 Michael Horan, one of the writted.
tenants. In this case a decree for f6 rs I'd
was given James Naughton was award
ed Is lis Cd, and Edmund Nugent f9 in
similar cases.
CORK. .s
!. On April 10 a very strange affair was
reported to the police in Middleton, arts
ing out of their Investigations of body
which was identified as that of John
Kennedy, a car driver, of Middleton, who
was conveyed to the mortuary attached
to the Middleton workhouse. On the pre-
vious evening the deceased drove a local
police constable named Bradley from
Middleton to the Ballincurrig police sta
ton. In the ordinary course Kennedy
should have returned at 9 o'clock. About
o'clock next morning the car and horse
came into Middleton without "a driver,
and subsequently the deadly body
of the driver was found. lying
on the public road at Ballin-
wiling, two miles from Rathcor-
mac, and ten miles from Middleton. The
deceased had no business in that part
of the country; and no satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION is Forthcoming as to why he
went there.
On the morning Of April IS it was re-
ported at Butteyant police. barracks that
woman named Ellen Walsh, of Bally-
vo,lrneen, aged 45, had committed sui
eide by drowning in the river Aubeg,
close to the town. The deceased had left
her home the previous night, nothing
unusual being perceptible, in her de-.
r1eanor, and she was not seen until ~
o'clock next morning, when the body
was discovered by her brother after "a
long search. She had been for some
time past suffering from mental de-,
rangement, and it is thought that while
suffering from such an attack she. COM
mitted suicide. a ,: rs .,Y.. 4
!. At the regular meeting Of the Cork
Chamber of Commerce and Shipping, on
April %, Mr.. Crosby proposed: THAT
the honorary secretary be requested to-
communicate with the postal authorities
Of the United States, and urge upon them
thesdesirability for forwarding all CORE
sponde1ice for Ireland without imposing
The; condition that all letters or newspa-
pers should be specially marked Queens
town for the route Alderman Julian
seconded the resolution, and said the
matter complained of was undoubtedlys
a great grievance. The resolution was
unanimously agreed to. Hex n,
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