Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-07-30
IRELAND.
Echoes Of the Most Important OF the
Recent Events Compiled from
Our Exchanges.


the Manchester Martyrs.
A great Sanitary Congress is to be
held in Dublin in August.
1t is intended to hold a flower, fruit
and vegetable exhibition at Galway,
on August IS.
Steps are being taken to connec,
Kilkenny with the rest of the United
Kingdom by telephone.
The Guardians of the Stranorlar
Union have ordered forty potato
spraying machines for the seven divis-
ions of the unions.
The Birr Town Commissioners have
adopted the petition to Parliament on
the subject of financial relations which
the All-Ireland Committee have
drawn up.
The tenants on the Parnell estate,
in the County of Wicklow, are making
arrangements to purchase their hold.
ings under the compulsory clauses Of
the land acts.
A committee has been formed for
the improvement of farms and hold
ings in Midtown district, Galway.
Prizes will be given to farmers for
improvements.
Owen Phibbs has given a site for
the erection of monument in historic
Carricknagat to commemorate the
memory of the heroes who died for
Ireland in 1898.
A fourth Local Government Com
missioner has been appointed in the
person of James H. Monahan, Q. c.,
whose father was Lord Chief Justice
of Ireland in the sixties.
1t is said that St. Patrick's well,
where the patron saint baptized the
converts, has been discovered during
the excavation for the electric railway
in Nassau street, Dublin.
According to D. F. Mckinley, Of
the Cola Island National School,
lBapbeg, every one in the parish
speaks Irish, and the priest usually
breaches in that language.
At a meeting of the Parnellites of
the Dublin Corporation, it was decided
by r6 votes to IS that Sir Robert Sex
ton, Conservative, would be that
party's candidate for the Mayoralty
of 1899.
Bishop O'Donnell, of Raphoe, who
had appealed against Judgment in a
case brought by firm of the Dublin
timber merchants, was unsuccessful in
his suit, the court dismissing the APP
peal with costs.
Great Britain bleeds Ireland finan-
cially for every FIVE hundred dollars
of taxable property to the extent of
forty-fve dollars. If Ireland were
taxed as England is the charge would
be only twenty-five dollarsl
The narow gauge line from Strabane
to Derry, promoted by the Donegal
Railway Company, is being actively
pushed forward by the London firm
who succeeded in obtaining the con-
tract. 1t is expected to be finished in
about eighteen months.
The old mills at Killavullen, the
property of G.. c. Foote, ]. p, of
Carrigacunna Castle, once famous for
its meal, and an old landmark of in
dustry in days gone by, has been de-
stroyed by tre. The mill had not been
working for thirty years.
A commemoration demonstration
was held in Lurgan graveyard re-
Gently when the grave of John Reilly,
who was shot three years ago by an
emergency man, was decorated with
A Celtic cross has been
erected by the Nationalist of Lurgan
and Virginia over his resting place.
At meeting of the Ennis Town
c ommissionersthe circular ofthe Local
Government Board asking the views
of public bodies as to the system which
they considered best in the new cleo
tons was under consideration. 1t
was decided to approve of the present
system of the annual elections Of a
portion Of the body.