Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-07-23
IRELAND.
Echoes Of the Most Important OF the
Recent Events Compiled from
Our Exchanges.


sioners.
Peter Igoe has been elected Chair
man of the Longford Town Commits
sioners.
DR.. Lane has been elected Coro-
ner OF the Barony of Keenaught,
Limavady.
AT special meeting Of the Cashel
Town Commissioners DR.. Laffan was
elected chairman.
The death is announced of Alex
ander McKillop, the Town Commits
sioner of Limavady.
County Inspector G. ]. Talbot, of
Leitrim, has been appointed to the
charge of the County Wexford force.
James Murphy, Of Tavanamore,
has been returned as Guardian for
the Creggan Upper electoral division.
1t was an Irishman, Mr.. Martin,
NJ. p, for Galway, that first brought
dumb animals under the protection of
the law.
The claims lodged with the Town
Clerk of Belfast for damages done
during the recent riots amount to
AI,4oo.
At the annual meeting of the Dun
dalk Town Board, DR.. Joseph NJ.
Johnson, the out going chairman, was
reelected.
Patrick Fennelly, Patrick Shelly,
Patrick Donovan and Marks Granger
are members of the Callan Board of
Guardians.
A seal was captured alive in the
quay in Galway City few days ago.
1t was six feet in length and weighed
one hundred pounds.
VIM. Hennessey, well-known as
"The Bard" and as a practitioner at
the Irish Bar, has died in the Whit
worth Hospital, Drumcondra.
A new burial ground for Catholics
has been sanctioned in Ballygoland
town land, Belfast Rural Sanitary Dis
trict. This has been needed for years.
In Ballaghaderreen division there
is so mnch distress among the people
that the Sisters of Charity are going
from one house to another every day
relieving them.
There is to be contest between
James Bergin and P. Condor for the
position of Poor Law Guardian for
the Graigue division of the Mount.
mellick Union.
AT the annual meeting of the Town
Commissioners of Rathkeale, John
F. Cosgrove, the solicitor, was, for
the fourteenth time, unanimously
elected chairman.
The Middletown Town Commits
sioners have reelected their Chair
man, Richard Fitzgerald. At meet
ing Of the Queenstown Town Com
missioners Mr.. Long was reelected
Chairman.
Henry Grattan Connolly, son of
Mr.. Redmond Joyce Connolly, Cliff
den, County Galway, obtained first
prize at the recent examination held
for solicitors apprentices. Mr.. Graf
tan has barely attained his sixteenth
year.
George Mannix, of Sallycross, Cork,
died recently in his rI5th year. He
was the eldest of large family, the
youngest of whom died last year,
from the result of an accident, at the
age of ninety-six. The deceased pre-
served his intellect unimpaired up to
the last.
The senior practicing solicitor in
County Galway is ]. N. Blake, the
crown solicitor, son of the late James
Blake, the solicitor of Ballinasloe.
Mr.. Blake was admitted TO the pro-
fession in 1864. Next after him as
senior in Galway comes H. ]. Con-
cannon, of Tuam, admitted in 1886.
The Tubbercurry 'oS Club did not
forget celebrating the birthday of its
patron, Wolfe Tone. The demonstra-
ton took the form of a torchlight pro-
cession, headed by banner bearing
the inscription, "In Memory of Wolfe
Tone" and also picture of him as