The Irish standard., 1901-07-13
LOUTH

LOUTH.
On June 10, in Dundalk, an elderly
woman named Jane Lawless, wife of q
respectable workingman living in. Will
liam street, cut her throat during fit;
Of insanity. She was found dead, two
or three hours after committing the
deed, by her husband on his return
from work. The deceased and her hus-
band were of the farming class, the
latter having held large farm in mid
Louth until bad times and the pressure
of the rent-office compelled him to give
up his holding and come into the town,
where he has since worked for his
bread as Aborer. During the earlier
and happier period of their lives the
couple had the misfortune to lose one
of their children, fine boy, by drown
ing, and the shock of the occurrence
unliinged the mind of the mother, and
she was for some time confined in an
asylum.
MAYO.
At the C1aremorris sessions, on June
II, Jeremiah Hoyne and his son Pat
rick We're brought up, on remand, on
the charge of alleged swindling. Mr..
Malachy Kelly, crown solicitor, prose
cuted, and Mr.. Burke, solicitor, defend:
ed the accused. Inspector Carbery, in
the course Of heightened deposition,
stated that so far back as 1899 he re-
ceived complaints regarding the junior
defendant, and he then communicated
with the Kilkenny police. He subse-
quently wrote to defendant for o.
stamp-pad, and enclosed a postal Or
der. He received reply from, senior
defendant, whose handwriting he now
recognized. On Oct. 81 he wrote for a
rubber stamp under an assumed name,
and enclosed postal order for 2s. 3d.,
the number of which was 1,118: That
order was cashed, as well as a number
Of others, the elder prisoner protesting
to represent the firm of Van Houten, in
London, which was not true. The son
had enlisted in the Kilkenny militia.
Complaints had come in from all parts
Of Ireland, and from all classes and
conditions Of men and women, includ-
ing several solicitors. Several other
witnesses having been examined, in
Guiding Recruiting Sergeant O'Gorman.
who enlisted the Junior defendant, the
defendants were committed for trial
to next assizes Of county Mayo.
SLIGO.
Mr.. O'Dowd has put the following
question on the House of Commons pa
per, for the chief secretary: "To ask
whether he the secretary is aware
that Mr.. Chas. Phibbs, of Doobeg
House, county of Sligo, has been under
military and police protection during
many periods between the years 1881
and 1893; whether he was in the habit
of supplying cars for the conveyance
of his own escort; and if so what has
been the amount of car hire for these
years, and from what source has this
amount been drawn"
| TIPPERARY.
The late Mrs. Margaret Bourke, a
wealthy Catholic lady, who died last
October has by her will left valuable
beQuests to the church, to the poor Of
Clonmel and to the various charitable
institutions. To the poor women Of
Clonmel she leaves $4,000 and shares
in the Waterford & Limerick railway;
for the reduction Of the building debt
SIS. Peter and PauIs, $500, and the
building debt Of the Friary, f2OO; to
the st. Vincent de Paul society, Clon-
mel, $500: for free breakfasts to chill
dren attending the Sisters of Charity
schools, G1OO; to the sick poor visited
by the Sisters, f10O, and for the MAIN
tenance of IL orphans in their Orphan
age, 5000; to provide free breakfasts
for poor children attending SIS. Peter
and Paul's Christian schools, E200; do.
Presentation schools, 91OO; do. st. Ma
ry's Christian Brothers schools, E20Oi
to the diocesan fund for invalided
Catholic priests, $500; to the Carrick
street Vincent de Paul society, f100
and a yearly rental of ELI; to the Mercy
Convent, Carrick, for the poor and or
phanage, f4OO; for free breakfasts at
the Christian Brothers and Presenta-
tion schools, 91OO each; to the Little
Sisters of the Poor, Waterford, f20O;
to the Good.Shepherd Convent, Water
ford, $500; to the Mater Misericordiac,
Dublin, $500; to the Hospital for the
Dying, Dublin, $500; to the Convent of
Refuge, Drumcondra, $500; to st. Ma
ry's Blind Asylum, Dublin, f4OO; to the
Blind Asylum, Dublin, {, and various
other donations in Clonmel Mrs.
Bourke belonged to the family which
founded the Bourke Asylum for old
men in Carrick.