The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-29
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HIBERN|ANs C0NC[AVE.
John Dillon and Other No
tables Send Gongratula-
tory Messages.
NEW OFFICERS SELECTED
Reunion Of Order Commend
rates One Hundredth An
niversary Of the Fight
of 'e8.
NEW OFFICERS SELECTED
Especial to "The Jersey City News.'1

Especial to 'The Jersey City News."l
TRENTON, June %, 1S9S.-Crowds con-
tinue to pour into Trenton to attend the
annual national cenclave of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians. The second days
programme started with a morning meet
ing at the Opera House, at which the fol-
lowing cable was read
All hail to the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians, which has by its union set
a good example to the Irish race.
JOHN DILLON.
Letters and kilograms of congratula-
lions were also read from Bishop Foley,
Rev. John B. Moran. of the Catholic
University at Washington; Patrick Ford,
of New York; William J. Barry, Of
Washington State; James Herman of Ohio,
and the order in Scotland and ireland.
Pending the report of the Committee
on Credentials the convention adjourned
to three o'clock. A military organization
from Boston and the Canadian delegation
arrived yesterday morning. They were
met by the State president, who, with
the State vice president and President
DAME Toomey, was the guest of Mayor
Sickel at his summer home in Spring Lake
last evening.
Bishop McFaul presided over the days
meetings. At the afternoon session,
after the Bishop had read the terms
agreed upon as the basis of the re-
union of both wings, he announced that
the next business in order was the seiec-
ton of officerssto serve until the election
of officers the latter part of the week.
Rev. E. s. Phillips, who was at the head
of the Board of Erin, nominated p. J..
O'Connor, of Savannah, Ca, who was the
head officer of the other wing when the
reunion took place. Mr.. O'Connor was
selected by reclamation.
A letter was read from Bishop Foley
of Detroit, in which he expressed his
pleasure at the reunion of the order, and
returned a check for over s219. the sum
by the order to found a Celtic chair at
the Catholic University at Washington,
D. C.
Mr.. shehan. of California, was appoint
ed chairman Of the Committee on Rules.
The Massachusetts, man on the committee
is State Secretary P. F. Cannon of Gin
ton and Mr.. Kelley of Massachusetts, was
put on the law committee.
The reports of the officers followed.
That of Rev. NJ. Phillips. of the b. of H..
was confined to explaining the cause OF
the reunion of the order, which, he said.
was to set al example to Irishmen in all
parts of the world and to commemorate
the one ~hundredth anniversary of the
fight for Ireland's freedom.
Mr.. O'Connor in his report spoke of the
attention the ladies' auxiliary should re-
ceive and the amount of good it has lone
for four years. The famine in the west
ern part of Ireland and the need of i'm
Mediate action by the Ancient Order of
Hibernians to relieve the same. and the
war between Spain and the United States
We're dealt with.
National Secretaries %o'sullivan and
Hayes and Treasurer Dundon followed,
the figures given being as published Mon
day. Messrs. Weadock, Quinn, O"Hara,
Bree are with Mr.. Reilly on the committee
on laws. Their report this morning viii
engage the attention of the convention
for two days or more.