The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-02-04

| town clerk whom he called Slaves Of
Rome" The police, however, of whom
a large number had been drafted into
kept the crowds moving, and Ruthvens
address, which was of the f1lthiest and
most scurrilous kind, proved a fiasco.
The only real sign of popular excite
place on the evening of Jan. IS, when
he was recognized by crowd of fac
tory girls coming out from their work.
| Ruthven, however, got to the hotel with
out any experience worse than boot
ing. 1t is thought the Tories brought
him to Derry for electioneering pur-
poses.
KERRY.
On the night Of Jan. -, near Killor-
| glin, three persons were drowned by be-
ing carried, with a horse and car, into
stream which is 10 feet below the
road 'Ald which was enormously swoll-
en- by the rain. The victims were Thade
Teahan and his wife. Kathleen Teahan,
and Ellen Cahill. The owner of the
vehicle, Timothy Cahill. of Droum,
| husband of the deceased woman, and
his servant man, John Shea, barely es-
capped with their lives. They were pro-
ceeding home to Rossbeigh when the
storm overturned the car, precipitating
the occupants into the water on the
| roadside. The bodies were recovered
| shortly after The unfortunate VIC
tins were all more or less advanced in
years, and 1t is a noteworthy circum-
| stance that a daughter Of Teahan's
| was drowned while bathing at Ross
| beigh last summer. when her sister
narrowly escaped the same fate At the
coroner's inquest on the deceased, the
jury returned verdict Of accidental
drowning. and added a rider condemn
ing the grand jury for allowing the place
to be unprotected at such sharp turn,
where the road is on steep grade. The
coroner made statement that IL he
could get evidence that it was the fault
of the grand jury, he would have them
all indicted fof manslaughter.
KILKENNY.
At the last Kilkenny quarter sessions.
before County Court Judge Fitzgerald,
an action came on for hearing in which
William Maxwell Kenealy, of the Kill
kenny Journal, processed P. j. O'Keefe,
solicitor, OF the Kilkenny People, and
p. Lennon, Parnell street. Kilkenny, to
recover ego damages for assault and
battery, and for interfering with plain
tiff when taking notes of lecture de-
livered in Kilkenny on the 18th of No
vember by John e. Redmond, M. P,
entitled Irish Leaders, From Swift to
Parnell." Plaintiff was forcibly eject
ed from the lecture hall on the occasion,
for admission. O'Keefe denied the as
sault totally. as also did Lennon, and
they produced number of witnesses
ON their side of the case; but he
awarded ,e10 damages, with costs. Mr..
M. J. Buggy solicitor, prosecuted, and
Mr.. ]. Harte, solicitor, defended.
LIMERICK
| During the recent severe storm in
Limerick trees were smashed or up
rooted. houses partially unroofed and
masonry dislodged, while in the city
public property was injured to an ex-
tent not experienced for a long time
past. The sheds at the Limerick mar
kets were lifted bodily from their posi-
tions, and smashed and broken against
the walls Of the enclosure. The tide,
which was at the spring, rose beyond
the quay level temporarily submerged
the roadways, the waves breaking over
reported to have been damaged by the
abnormal rush of water.
MAYO
The Castle" authorities have evil
IDENTIFY given up the policy of coercion"
in Mayo as a bad job. There was no at
tempt to suppress the great National
league meeting held on Jan. at Balm
robe, over which Rev. Canon Hennel1y
presided, and the doctrines of the
league were uncompromisingly preached
by Mr. OBrien, Haviland Burke, Conor
O'Kelly and other speakers, with the
unanimous and enthusiastic approval
of the audience. The people Of the west
of Ireland are determined to put down
famine and feonious landlordism; and
they recognize in the league the great
instrument by which that object can be
accomplished
ROSCOMMON.
The convention held on Jan. II at
Roscommon, under the auspices OF the
party headed by John E. Redmond, to
select candidates for the local govern
ment elections, was in many ways an
interesting neutrality-suspicious. alike
for what it did and what 1t refused to
do. 1t had been intimated that Mr..
Redmond would himself attend the con-
vention and make a strong effort to get
the O'Conor Don and some other Union
lat landlords selected as candidates for
the county councils, to be returned by
the Nationalist voters. Mr.. Redmond
evidently thought better of the matter.