The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-04-04
news FROM IRELAND.
ANTRIM.


fast, has reached another crisis; and I'M
less the matter be finally settled, four
thousand men will be involved in one of
the most disastrous strikes that has yet
taken Place. On March 9, the Belfast
shipwrights received official information
from Headquarters that, as the men, by
a great majority, had rejected the mas
ters' offer, and as Belfast was pressing
for definite instructions, another confer
ence had been arranged by telegram. AS
a result Of the conference the Employers
Joint Committee agreed to recommend
the masters to grant and the ship
wrights' representatives agreed to
recommend the men to accept,
an advance Of one farthing per
hour in Belfast from the 10th of
March, and further advance of one
farthing per hour in Belfast on July 18th,
and on the Clyde on July 18th. Mass
meetings OF the men are to be called to
decide whether or not they will accept
these terms. ..e
A very sensational occurrence took
place on March 18th in the vicinity of
Green Island, and was attended with
rather serious results. 1t appears that
six police constables and two sheriff's Of
ticers proceeded in the forenoon to
house situated on top Of the mountain
near Green Island, for the purpose OF
evicting tenant named Boyd, whose
farm had been sold in the Equity Court
some time ago. No sooner had the bail
ifs knocked at the door, which was
closed against them, than d number of
shots were fired out of the house, the
doors and windows Of which were strong
}y barricaded A grain of shot took eff
feet in the face Of one Of the bailitfs
named John Abercrombie. who resides
in Unity street Belfast. The nrearna.
used appear to have been loaded with
small shot. The police, when the first
shot was, fired, Immediately surrounded
the house and forced the door; but, on
entering the house Boyd proved to be
the only occupsHt. and was, of course,
arrested. ..
ARMAGH.
At Armagh Assizes on March 10, before
Judge Holmes. John Mccain was indict
ed that he did on the 9th day Of Janu~
airy, 1896, kill one John Brennan, at
Clea. The prisoner was a, servant to a
farmer named Patrick Kelly, at Clea,
near Ready. and irritated at being
reused to open the door of a stable, at
tackled his employer, and then the farm
er's wife, with spade. Brennan inter-
Tered for the womdn's protection, with
the result that his skull was smashed
in by the prisoner. Mccain was found
guilty, notwithstanding the plea of in
sanity put in on his behalf; and Judge
Holmes sentenced him to be hanged on
the 10th of April. The prisoner, on hear
ing the death sentence, did not appear in
the east disconnected.
The convent attached to st. Patrick's
church. Portadown, was visited by his
Eminence Cardinal Logue lately, when a
profession of religion took place. The
lady protested was Miss Clara O'Farrell,
daughter of Mr. A. X. O'Farrell Fox
rock, Dublin, who received in religion
the name Sister Mary Patrick.
CORK.
On Sunday, March s, a determined Eff
fort was made to wreck the mail train
running from MalloW to Tralee A large
stone was placed on one OF the rails, be-
tween BANTER and Millstreet. The, en-
CINE was somewhat injured and the brake
connection destroyed but the train was
not derailed. In connection with the at
tempt two women, named Margaret and
Eliza Falvey, have been arrested and re-
manded.
We deeply regret to announce the death
on March 10 of Mr.. NJ. r. Guider. Man
aging director of Messrs. Keene & Turn
bull. Cork Great sorrow is felt in the
city at the premature termination OF
what promised to be a career of more
tnan ordinary success. Death resulted
from pneumonia, from which Mr. Guider
had BEEN suffering only few days
The lord Justice have appointed MAJ
Martin Thaceray to be a resident magis-
trate for the County of Cork
" A respectable farmer named James j.
O'Gorman, residing at Ighternurragh,
sustained serious injuries at Middleton
fair, on March 9, and now lies in Midle-
ton hospital It appears that at the time
of the occurrence there was considerable
hustle in the streets, and his horse, taking
a sudden fright, dashed headlong through
the town The injured man was violently
out Of his car on to the road
way Medical assistance was at once pro-
vided for O'Gorman, when it was ascer~
tanned that one of his legs was fractured.
He was Immediately conveyed on car
to the Middleton hospital and placed under
the care of DR.. NJ. Lanton.
At a special meeting of the law and
finance committee of the Cork corpora
ton. presentments for maliscious injuries
were under consideration. The first APP
plication taken up was that in which
Thomas Burke, of Liscarroll a constable,
r. l. c., sought f400 compensation for in
jury sustained by him on the night of
July ii, 1895, at Barney street. in a riot.
The chairman suggested that they pass
certain amount, subject to the considera-
ton Of the legal aspect Of the matter by
the recorder. This was agreed to. and
ELS was granted, subject to the conditions
mentioned.
In Queenstown, on March H., Mr.. Will
lam Marsh, of the firm of Marsh & Sons,
auctioneers, put up for sale the interest in
the leases of the dwelling house, ship store
and premises, known as No. II, East
Beach, Queenstown. held under lease for
the term of SO years, from Sept. 20, 1856,
at the yearly rent of ESQ, and producing
an annual profit rent Of EOS. In the year
1886, when the so years lease was
granted. sum of about $500 was expend-
ed on the house. The attendance at the
sale was very small, and the bidding was
confined to three persons. The premises
were knocked down to Mr.. J. Houlihan
for the sum Of 1920.
DONEGAL. @
On the night of March 10, as man
named Patrick Ferry was going home
from the fair of Cresslough, he was as
saulted and fatally stabbed in severel