The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-10-13

She is a vessel Of close upon 10000
tons burden, and is the twelfth which
has been built for the Union Line by
Messrs. Harlan & Wolff.
CORK.
On the evening of Sept. 81, meet
Ing was held in the Munster Arcade.
Cork. FOR the purpose of presenting Mr..
Denis Murphy with testimonial on
the occasion Of his marriage. The pre-
sehtation, which took the form of a
handsome suite of furniture, was made
by MI. Hanley, and was appropriately
acknowledged by Mr.. Murphy.
speeches of complimentary nature
were delivered by Messrs Acheson and
Aherne, on behalf of the buyers. and
by Messrs. NJ. Scanlan and Philip Nc
Auliff on behalf of the Junior portion
of the staff.
DOWN.
In Newry, on the evening of Sept.
Is, the freak of drunken man had q
fatal termination. A young man
named Daniel M'Donnell, of Boat
street, Newry, was being taken home
by his brother, as he was under the in
fiuence of drink. Escaping from his
brothers custody, Daniel, with all his
clothes on, jumped into the canal at
the Ballybot bridge, to "have a SWIM"
as he put it; and, once in the water,
swan about for short space, till. a
quay laborer named Burns, seeing that
ApDonnell was becoming exhausted,
went to his assistance. Mcdonnell
sank, and no more was seen of him un-
til his lifeless remains were brought to
the shore by drag, shortly after
wards.
DUBLIN.
A pathetic scene was witnessed at
the North Wall, Dublin, on Sept. 10,
when about forty young Irish ladies
embarked to join the community of
the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate
Word, in San Antonio, Texas. The
young ladies came from different parts
OF lreland-Dublin, Kerry. Cork, Linn
rick, Waterford, Tipperary, Galway,
Mayo, Queens County, and Kildare,
the majority of them being members
of the Confraternity Of the Children
Of Mary, Haroldscross, Dublin. The.
party sailed under the charge of Sis
ter Mary John Baptist, of the Mother
House, San Antonio; and the young
missionaries were seen off by their
parents, relatives and friends, with
mingled tears Of joy and sorrow, and
with the best wishes of the large
crowd of spectators, among whom
were good many priests.
GALWAY.
A congratulatory address, beautiful
ly inscribed and Illuminated, was re-
Gently sent to Mr.. B. Madden, late
of Prospect, Caltra, Ballinasloe, by his
friends in that district, on his leaving
his native place, to take up his resi-
dence in Cairo, Illinois, where he has
inherited real estate and a business
valued at a large amount. The adj
fdress is signed by the Rev. P. Dona-
CHER, P. P, as chairman of the COM
mittee; NJ Connolly, vice-chairman;
NJ. Donoghoe, treasurer; M. Ward
and p. McGrath, secretaries, and by
large and influential delegation of Mr..
Madden's former neighbors and fell
low citizens. AS Mr.. Madden was
obliged to leave for the United States
at short notice, the address,-appro-
priately framed,-was sent to him by
express.
KERRY.
| On Sept. 10, while man named
Patrick Hennessy, assistant engine
driver in the Pembroke street cream
cry Of the Manchester Cooperative So
Getty, Tralee, was engaged in shifting
the betting his coat got caught in. it
and he was whirled round, sustaining
some ugly cuts on the head. Forum
ately the machinery was not going at
full speed at the time, and the assist
ants were able to release him before
he had received any serious injury
DR.. J. Il. Hayes bandaged up the
wounds, and the man is progressing
favorably.
LIMERICK.
At the last Pallaskenry Petty Ses-
sions, the police opposed the renewal
Of Edward Kennedy's license, on the
ground that he had refused to supply
bread, bacon and rice to an emery
ency-man named Francis Storey, on
three OCCASIONS, Mr.. Moran, solicitor,
appeared for the APPELLANT, whose de-
fence was that Storey had been sup
piled with other goods, the articles
mentioned being out of stock. The
application was finally granted, Mr..
Kennedy undertaking to supply goods
to Storey in future.
MAYO.
At meeting of the Mayo County
Council, on Sept 10, a letter was re-
ceived- from Sir Patrick Coll, Chief
Crown Solicitor, calling on the council
to ut once remove the huts erected at
A1derry, for the tenants who had been
evicted some time ago, by the Marquis.
of Sligo. If this was not done the
Crown Solicitor intimated that he
would, without further notice, apply
for writ of injunction. MI. Dixon,
county surveyor, reported that the huts
were erected on a piece of waste land,
OIL the roadside, and were no obstruc-
tion whatever. On the motion of Mr..
Doris the council declined to interfere
with the huts.
MONAGHAN.
In Monaghan, on the evening Of
Sept. 1S, thoroughly representative
meeting was held, for the purpose Of
establishing branch of the United
Irish League. The meeting was held
in the Christian Brothers School,
given for the purpose by Most Rev. DR..
Owens. The hall was well filled, and
among those present were many of
the merchants of the town q frrnat