The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-12-17

Irish League. was held at sessiagh. about
seven miles from Enniskillen. The
meeting was the largest ever held in the
district Around the platform were Ma
tionalists. and Parnellites, all determined
to bury the Ratchet of discord, and re-
unite once more against the hereditary
enemies of the Irish people. The chair
was taken by FIR Gaughran.
GALWAY.
A new industry is about being opened
in Galway, that of working an immense
bed of granite covering an area of sew
eraal miles i'll extent. Theg ranite is the
property of Col. Arthur j. Ccurtenay of
Dublin, and that gentleman, who, with
an eminent engineer from England, re-
Gently came before the local town coun-
| ell, has obtained the consent of the COR
poration to lay down line of tram rails
| from the works to the docks or the con-
veyancc Of the granite from the quarries.
He has alsu received the promise of the
harbor commissioners to afford him every
assistance in their power to forward the
project so that the works will commence
| Immediately. A specimen of the granite
! has been examined by an eminent geo.
loGist, who has pronounced it to be the
/ best of its kind he has ever seen. The
i opening of the works will afford employ
+, ment to IL large number of the lahoring
class in Galway, who are just now, much
/ in need it,
| KERRY.
| During the terrific rain storm on the
Oath and 25th ult, Il serious accident oc-
Cured at LisDole, on the Tralee and
Dinele Light railway. A train, proceed
| ing from Dingle to Tralec was dcrailed
by a powerful gust of wind, and three
carriages We're thrown into a trench at
| the side OF the line. OF four passengers
two were injured and had to be medically
treated. The guard was also slightly
hurt.
| KILKENNY.
| On Nov. u, the nuns of the Presenta-
| ton Order were introduced into Kill
mascow by Most Rev. Dr. Brownrigg,
bishop of Ossory, from the parent house
in Kilkenny. About six months ago, the
| bishop purchased the site of the present
convent from a Protestant gentleman,
Mr.. Parker. 1t is splendidly situated on
| the side of a hill. within ten minutes
walk of the village, and has several acres
of good land attached to 1t.
LOUTH.
The death Of Francis Chadwick, one of
| the Oldest and most respected citizens of
Droeheda, occurred on Nov %. The de-
ceased was a brother of the late Most
Rev. DR.. Chadwick bishop of Hexham
and Newcastle, and emulated his sanity
relative in furthering the cause of re-
| ligion during a long life time Toward
all the churches in the town he was
munifcent benefactor and they will
long bear marks Of his great generosity.
LIMERICK.
| The talors strike in Limerick still
continues; and the industrial conditions
are now further complicated by a strike
of the cabinet makers employed at
Messrs. Cannock & Co. 8 establishment,
George street, who struck work on Nov.
70, as a protest against what they con-
sidered the arbitrary dismissal of one
of their body.
| MAYO.
| At Ballycastle petty sessions on Nov.
%, a man named Gilroy, son of a butch
er, who had taken an evicted farm, was
fined SIS and As I'd costs for assaulting a
young man named Mcguire, secretary of
the local branch of the United Irish
League. Both parties We're also bound
over to keep the peace.
| MEATH.
On the night Of Nov. o. in storm, the
fishing trawler Ellent and Mary went
ashore on the Carges Rocks, Balbriggan.
The crew consisted of three men and a
boy One of the men, Lawrence O'Toole,
lost his life. The others were saved.
The Ellen and Mary was the property of
Mr.. Dalton, instructor at the Ringsend
technical school and coXswain of the
Poolberg life boat. The trawler was
valued at about .cl.5O0.
MONAGHAN
| Most Rev. DR.. Carr, archbishop of Mel
bourne, arrived in Monaghan on Nov. 10.
on Il visit to Most Rev. DR.. Owens, bishop
OF Cloghcr. On next day, Sunday, his
grace was present in ST. Macartans
cathedral at mass. at which the Most
Rev. Dr.,Owcns presided and at the con-
clusion his grace gave benc1liction of the