Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-07-08
IRELAND.
Record of the rlOst Important of
the Recent Events Culled
From Exchanges.

Robert G.. Mccormick and Agnes G.
McHugh, of Omagh, were welded
June %.
Michael Hoey died at his home in
Baltinglass, County wicklow, June IS, at
an advanced age.
Patrick Muldowney, of Kilmainham,
and Miss Mary Collins. only daughter of
the late Christopher Collins, of Dublin,
were united in marriage June %.
Justin Mccarthy has SO far recovered
from the effects of the operation for cat
aract that arrangements were made for
his leaving for the country on June 30.
At the usual fortnightly meeting of the
Caherciveen Board of Guardians TIE reso-
luton from the Dingle Board of Guar
dams anent the reinstatement of evicted
tenants was unanimously adopted.
The entries for the Cork Horse, Dog
and Sheep Show closed June 26, and con-
sidering the amount of entries already
received, which are largely i'll excess of
those of last year, it is expected that the
show this year will be an unqualified
success.
A serious fire broke out in the Upper
Market, Ennis, on Tuesday night, which
resulted in the complete destruction of
two houses and the entire contents of one
of them, the furniture in the second
house being saved The origin of the fire
can not be traced. The damage is con-
siderable, and is not covered by insur-
ance.
The question of the protection of hares
during the close season has been engag
ing the the attention of the Committee
of the Irish Game Protection Association,
with the result that they have secured
two convictions-one in the North and
the other in the West of Ireland. The
wanton slaughter of hares in the breed
ing season can not be too severely con-
demned.
Wednesday morning, June p, a sad
drowning fatality occurred on the fore
shore between kidney and Bray railway
stations. Shortly before noon a number
of young men were bathing, when a man
named Nicholas Molloy, of Bollinstone,
Roundwood, while in two feet of water,
was suddenly seized with fit or cramps
and was drowned.
The following will form the first of the
Irish team to do battle at Bisley in the
International match for the Elcho shield:
D. T. Braithwaite, J. M'Kenna, Sir H.
Thyme, and w. Milligan, DIR. Sellers, R.
Duncan. E. J. Rigby and J. Morgan will
be among the others chosen, two of whom
will be added by the Irish Rife Associa-
ton, and remaining two and reserve man
will be chosen when the team are at the
English trysting place.
At meeting of the Strabane Loyal
Orange Lodge, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted: That we.
the officers and members of the Strabane
Loyal Orange Lodge, observed with pain
and regret that Brother w. G. f. Nc
Cartney, NJ. P, voted against the church
discipline bill on May 10 last, and we
desire to record the fact that his action
on that occasion did not harmonic with,
but was repugnant to, our feelings on the
subject"
A slater named p Molloy, of BAHAMA
stoe, near Roundwood, went to battle on
the kidney side of the harbor at Bray,
and was only short time in the water
when he was seized with cramp. A
laborer named Doyle heard the cry for
help and plunged in the water at once to
his assistance. When Doyle caught hold
of him he brought him ashore, but by
that time he appeared to be dead. Re-
storatives were applied and everything
was done to excite respiration, but the
efforts failed.
At Limerick County Petty Sessions
James Duane, publican, of Ballysheedy.
was returned for trial on bail, charged
with shooting at and wounding two men
named Cornelius Guerin and Patrick Nc
Mahon with intent to do grievous bodily
harm. The evidence was to the effect
that on Sunday, June IL, defendant fired
on the two men without cause, wounding
them slightly with grain shot Defend
ant alleged that his house had been at
tackled, and that he fired, as he thought,
over the heads of the people.
William Simpson. who celebrated his
sixteenth birthday Thursday, was put
forward in the Belfast Police Court on a
charge of having stolen horse and van,
harness, and quantity of fish and ice,
the property of Patrick M'Aleavy. When
cautioned, he said, 81 took the horse to
Antrim; left the harness and fish and
ice in a field near Antrim; rode the
horse that night to Ballymena, and the
next day brought il back again and left
1t in field on the Shore road" The
Magistrates ordered a remand for week.
On Wednesday, at special court at
Ennis, John Mingel, an Italian organ
grinder, and his wife, native of Sligo,
were brought up on a charge of having
cruelty ill-treated their female child in
such manner as to cause its death. The
evidence was to the effect that while the
parties were camping" by the roadside,
on their way to Tulla, they had some
words, and Mingel pulled his wife from
car fhe woman falling on the child