Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-12-09
IRELAND.
Record of the rlost Important of
the Recent Events Culled
From Exchanges.

The Clare County Council elected f. j.
Carroll veterinary inspector for the Ennis
district.
The death of Mrs. John G. Poole oc.
Cured at Corey, County Wexford, No
vember 81.
The Irish Transvaal Committee has APP
pointed William Redmond, NJ. p. CO.
Treasurer with John O'Leary and Miss
Maud Come.
At the last meeting Of the Rathdown
Board of Guardians the appointment OF
Sylvester Byrne as Master of the Work
house was confirmed.
The Dublin Independent has added a
Gaelic department to its weekly edition.
The good example will soon be followed
by other leading Irish journals
Among the deaths deeply regretted in
Dublin is that of Mrs. Kate Gibbons, the
beloved wife of John Gibbons. Secretary
of the Operative Bakers Society.
A serious fire recently broke out in the
Wexford military barracks. Two new
recruits, Breslin and Ward, had a narrow
escape from being burned to death.
The death of Patrick Nugent in Dublin
caused deep sorrow among his very large
circle of friends. His funeral occurred
November "a, and the remains were in
tered in Glasnevin.
At special meeting of the Board of
Managers of the Galway General Hospital
a resolution was adopted calling for the
appointment of Sister Mary Bernard
Ryan to the matronship.
The Wexford County Council has taken
steps to secure the restoration of many
evicted tenants. They are being con-
Quoted under the guidance of LORD
Plunkett and Cardinal Logue.
Two men, named William and John
Hickey, were committed for trial at Cal
bslly, County Limerick, charged with
numbering their step-father, John Graf
ton, by injuring him during quarrel.
The death rate in Dublin has of late
become very high. For the past four
months the returns of mortality have been
greatly in excess of what they have been
at any time during the previous ten years.
Patrick J.. Walsh, aged eighty-two years
and one of Dublin's highly esteemed resi-
dents, passed to his eternal reward No
vember 81. His funeral occurred with
high mass and the interment was in Glas-
nevin.
Patrick Fortune and Miss Katie Muir
ply, the third daughter of James Murphy,
were united in marriage at the Catholic
church, Baltinglass, the home of the bride,
by the Rev. Father Breen. The groom is
the youngest son of the late Thomas
Fortune, of County Wexford.
Major Hare, Justice of the Peace, was
charged at the Newtownbutler Petty Ses-
sions with feloniously shooting at man
named Grue, who was tresspassing on his
land. The defendant, who denied the
accusation. was returned for trial at the
Assizes and was admitted to bail.
At the meeting of the Thurles Urban
Council LawlerJ. Ryan said, as the esti'
mate for providing water supply for
Thurles was $4,000 and the Councils
borrowing power was only $4,000, the
scheme could not be carried out. II was
decided to let the scheme fall through.
1t is understood that Lord Gosford in.
tends to go TO the Court of Appeal with a
number of his cases recently tried al
Armagh by the Chief Commissioners. He
alleges that the courts have taken into
consideration the question of occupation
interest in a number of true value cases.
The lecture, with songs and selections
interspersed, in memory of the Manches-
ter martyrs. conducted by the Dublin
Celtic Society, was a great success, the
Workmen's Club rooms being crowded.
The proceeds were added to the fund for
erecting a memorial to Allen, Larkin
and O'Brien in Manchester.
At meeting of the Wexford Guar
dams, James codd presiding, a circular
was read from the All-Ireland Committee
Irish Financial Reform League inviting
the board to send delegates to the APP
preaching conference in Dublin. James
Codd, A. Ennis, James Hore and William
Sears were appointed to represent the
board.
Owing to an outbreak of fever some
time ago in Sligo county the harmless
lunatics had to be removed from the up
per hospital of Sligo workhouse to make
room for the large number of fever pa
tients sent in. This was only a tenn
porary arrangement, and as such was
agreed to by the Local Government Board
Inspector. On the recovery of the fever
patients the upper hospital was disin-
fected
Coroner Frost held an inquiry in Ennis
on the body of man named Kenny, an
army pensioner, and lately engaged as
Sheriff's Bailiff in the town, who had
died very suddenly. 1t seemed that
Kenny was chatting with neighbor
about the Beers wrecking of the armored
train, as reported in the daily papers.