Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-10-21

keuneuy was al once conveyed 10 the
barracks, where he died in short time. /
An outrage has been committed on the
Killyon national school-house, about four
miles from Birr. No fewer than GAO
panes of glass have been broken. !
The premises were seen by the police on
patrol at / O'Clock on the previous night |
and they were then all right. Some of
the neighbors say that they heard the
noise of glass breaking at about midnight.
This is not the first time that this build
ing has been attacked.
At the quarterly meeting of the Cork
County Council, ]. ]. Howard presiding,
Thomas Seaman, of Bandon, was co-opted
a member on the motion of Mr.. Crowley.
of Dunmanway, seconded by Mr.. Long,
of Queenstown, in the room of John
Walsh, who had been unseated some
months ago on petition. The election
was made unanimously, as Mr.. Griffin, of
Ballinaice, Labor candidate, who was
proposed was afterward withdrawn.
Several disorderly scenes occurred at
meeting of the Portumna District Council
on Tuesday. Three men came to protest
against the selection of sites OH their land
for laborers' cottages. A motion was
proposed to expel one of them named
Walker, and on his refusing to leave there
were loud cries to expel the planter"
Several rushes were made to eject him
by force. Eventually the motion was
passed. The police appeared on the
scene and Walker went out quietly.
At the meeting of the District Council
for the Roscommon division of the Ath-
lone Union p r. Kelly, solicitor for the
Council, asked to be furnished with in
structions for preparing the memorial for
presentation to the Lord Lieutenant to
have the Quarter Sessions for the rural
district of the county held in Brideswell.
After some discussion it was resolved to
hold a special meeting on that day week
for the purpose of resembling the resolu-
ton previously passed in favor of holding
the Quarter Sessions in Brides well.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted by the Mullingar Town
Commissioners at their meeting OH the
motion of James Allen, seconded by
Francis Stafford: "That we desire to
record our hearty approval of the manly
and patriotic action of the Westmeath
County Council in asserting their rights
as the peoples representatives to the
possession of the courthouse, and of their
gallant effort to hoist thereupon the ma
tional flag of our country, and that we
give them all the support in our power to
continue their struggle"
The Most Rev. DR.. Browning, Lord
Bishop of Ossory, laid the foundation
stone of the new church of St. Kieran on
Sunday the sth inst. Special interest
to the sacred functions of the
day from the fact that the site is that of
the mother church of Ossory, the first
diocese formed in Ireland. The revered
parish priest, the Rev. Thomas Phelan,
has been making heroic effort to raise
the required sum to start with the build
ing of the new church, the old one,
relic of penal times, having been con-
demned as dangerous TO the lives OF the
people. The Rev. Father Hayden was
the preacher at the ceremonials.
A cattle dealer named Thomas Brysou,
of Maghermore reported to the police that
he was robbed at Shanrea, near Limavady,
of the sum of S79. Sergeant Stokes and
Constable Robinson placed a man named
BOYD under arrest. On Thursday morn
ing a rumor was circulated that an anony-
nous letter was found on the Roe bridge,
which stated where the money would be
got, and mentioned Mrs. Campbell.
Tie police at once interviewed Mrs.
Campbell, who lives next door to Boyd,
and she handed them purse containing
XII, which, she stated, she had picked
up that morning at the front of the house,
between her door and Boyd's. The police
then arrested Nancy Boyd, wife of the
male prisoner, charging her with taking
the lost purse knowing it to have been
stolen. The prisoners were brought be-
fore Robert Douglas and remanded for
eight days, bail being accepted for the
female prisoner.