The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-21

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Our Drogheda correspondent an
nounces the death of Mr.. Patrick
! Byrne, an old and venerable mayor
of that town, which took place at his
! residence, West street, at the advanced
I age of So. He held the mayoral office
in the year 1860, and was the eighteenth
mayor of the reformed corpora ton
! Until a few years ago he was president
! Of the Drogheda conference of St. Vim
cent de Paul. and held the position OF
president for about thirteen years.
On Saturday the remains of the late
rather Taaffe, p. p, TuiIy7llen. were
inferred IN the graveyard attached 10
the church which he was mainlZ n
strumental in building His Eminence
cardinal Logue presided at the obse-
quies.
On Wednesday an accident occurred
IN a new wing which is being CON
structed in the Convent of the Annun-
cation, Mullingar. While removing
sctavs from under a concrete roof il
suddenly collapsed, and Mr. Patrick
wins, Joseph Darsan, carpenter; and
Patrick Casey, laborer, were hurled to
the ground. Casey was only slightly
injured, but the others We're more seri-
ously hurt and had to be removed to
Westmeath infirmary.
On Tuesday the remains of the late
Very Rev. James Walsh, P. P. Kill
quade, County Wicklow. were inferred
in the little graveyard surrounding the
old parish church in which the late
venerable pastor omCiated for so many
years, in presence of a large concourse
o. mourners. A solemn office, followed
by requiem mass, was chanted in the
church at l1:30 O'Clock. His Grace the
Archbishop Of Dublin presided. The
Most Rev. DR.. Donnelly bishop of Ca
nea, was also present, and there was a
large attendance of the clergy OF the
diocese, and Of the deceased clergy
mans parisnoners.
On Sunday miniature green cones
OF the posters which were torn down
by the police in MalIow last Sunday
were found to have been put UP in the
glass tops of the public lamp posts CT
the town. This novel device for
spreading the light III connection with
the Gown labOrers' and artisans griev-
ances regarding the town commission
ers' proposed scheme of workmen's
houses. of which complaint was made
IN the destroyed posters referred to,
was also objected to by the police,
who removed the offending circulars
by climbing the lamp posts.
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At Balbriggan, on Wednesday, a la
borer named Michael Brady. aged
about 40 years, while employed along
with a mason named Patrick Bisset.
fell off the roof of the Hamilton Arms
hotel, which they were repairine
through ladder slipping. DR.. F. 3.
NoWlan arrived in about two minutes
and pronounced life extinct
Intelligence has reached Newtown-
ards Of sad drowning accident which
occurred on Monday nisht at Dom
aghadee. A woman, whose name is
saunders, had been. it appears, taking
her customary walk along the shore
about 9 o'clock, when she accidentaIIv
tripped over one Of the cobbles along
the shore wall and fell into the water.
When picked UP it was found life was
extinct. She was unmarried and about
10 years of age.
On Monday the Amalgamated Ship
Wrights' society prosecuted a man
named Andrew Berry for the misap-
preparation of a sum Of SIS odd
PLAINTIFFS money. The accused was
collector for the society in Messrs.
Harland & Wolf's shipbuilders' yard.
anu according to his own confession he
spent or lost the money on a drunken
spree. AS a result a large number of
members had been thrown out of bene-
nit. On the defendant promising to
pay the amount by instruments the
case was adjourned for twelve weeks.
.
Mr.. Pierce O'Mahony, speaking as
chairman of a United Irish League
meeting at Dunlavin on Sunday. said
that, though a. landlord, he was proud
to stand on such a platform. and to
advocate compulsory sale and pur-
chase as the only solution of the Irish
land question. He thought the land
lords time could be better occupied in
the way for purchase than
in complaining OF what they called in
Justice done them by the land act of
1881. Speeches were also delivered by
Atessrs. James O'Connor, D. H. Cogan,
j. j. Clancy and p. O'Brien. NJ. P.'s.
At Clonmel quarter sessions Edward
Pope, game dealer. appealed against
conviction obtained against him by the
Game Protection association at Clon-
mel petty sessions, when the magis-
trate inflicted a fine of G for selling
wild duck during the close season,
contrary to the provisions of the wild
birds protection acts. The case was
Of a most amusing description, live
luck being produced in court in sup
port of appellants contention that the
wild duck in question had been Matched
by tame duck. Sergeant Trow-
bridge, mess sergeant at the barracks,
deposed that he purchased
he birds from Pope as wild duck, and
hey were entered on the menu card
Is such. His honor affirmed the de-
:ision of the magistrate in filming de-
iendant 81, and allowed 81 costs.
A bog slip has occurred at the village
Of Rushestown. There are two villages
named Rushestown, known as Upper
and Lower. Lower Rushestown con-
sists Of about sixty families, all occu-
pyirig small holdings of from three to
four acres. On the southwestern side
If the village about 600 yards of the |
bog broke away, and moving at the |
ate of about twenty yards in the hour, |
descended on the village, and having |
crossed the public road and blocked up |
river that runs past it, settled down |
o a depth OF about twenty feet on the |
ands of Lower RushesSown. The oc- |
,upier of one of the houses had to flee |
or his life, leaving ali his effects be-
lind him AS many of the villagers had |
heir potatoes out, they will be prac-
ically ruined.
The clergy and laity in the north Of
Ireland will learn with sincere and
leep sorrow of the death of the Rev
Bernard McCartan, P. P, Hannahs-
own. Belfast. The sad event took
,lace on Thursday in the Mater In
irmorum hospital, in which Father
IcCartan was kindly tended and
lursed during his last illness. The