The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-08-22
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1oiSA, 10 ScOtcu street,
with John Cooney, John johnson.
Robert Mcconnell and Arthur Nc
Connell, went out on the Lagan in a
boat, and when opposite Harland &
VOLTS, Toner went to change seats
With Cooney, when the boat leaned
over to one side, the water came in,
and all fell into the river. The two
McConnells We're drowned, Arthur's
body being subsequently recovered.
ARMAGH.
On Sunday, July 26, King Edward
and his household attended service in
the private chapel ut AIountstewart,
the officiating clergyman being Rev.
Oliver Goldsmith, and the sermon be-
ing preached by the Rev. DIR. Alexan.
der. In the afternoon the king and
queen. accompanied by the marquis
OF Londonderry, left by motor car for
Clandeboye, the seat of the dowager
marchioness of Dutferin,- passing
through Ncwtownards. Having re-
manned some time at ClundebOye the
party went for Il motor drive, and sub
sequently returned to AIountstewart.
CARLOW.
The baroness De Robeck, whose
death on July 10, is announced, was
the daughter of the late Mr.. William
Fitzwilliam Burton, Of Burton Hall,
County Carlow. Her mother was Il
daughter of Sir John Power. On July
IS the remains of the deceased lady
We're removed from Gowran Grange,
for interment in the family burial
ground at NIondlins. The coffin was
conveyed to ST. Davids church, Mas,
where it was met by the venerable
archdeacon of Kildare and the Rev. Il.
w. Clover. The shops Of the town
We're closed and all the windows shut
tered during the funeral proceedings.
The report of the directors of the
Cork, Bandon Il South Coast Railway
company for the half year ended
June 80 recommends payment OF Il
dividend at the rate of x per cent.
per annum on the ordinary stock
(Which will absorb G1,SO0), placing
f1,500 in reduction Of suspense ac-
count and carrying forward 1,53S
los I'd to the next account.
A new goods store is being con-
structed at kinsale. Mr.. L. J. OBJ.
Croker having received the appoint
ment Of Irish traffic manager Of the
Great Western railway, resigned his
position as general manager, and Mr..
John Il. Kerr, who has been the COM
pany's engineer for the last twenty
years, has been appointed to succeed
Mr.. Croker.
DOWN.
On July % Il melancholy accident
occurred on the Dublin road near
Newry Two women named Mrs. Nc
Gennity and her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Rice, were returning to their home i'll
Faughiletra in a cart, Mrs. McGennity
driving. and all went well until the
Aghayallogue railway bridge was
reached, when the mare in the cart
started to so at a rapid pace, Mrs.
McGennity lost control of the reins,
and Mrs. Rice, in jumping out with a
view to recovering them, fell i'll front
of the cart and the wheels passed over
her leg, causing Il severe fracture.
Mare and vehicle then disappeared
and We're next heard Of when they
made their appearance at Mrs. Rice's
house, no person being then in the
cart. The inmates of the house i'm
mediatcly instituted a search and
found Mrs. NIcGennity lying dead on
the roadside with terrible fracture
of the skull, and further on they came
on Mrs. Rice with her leg broken. An
inquest was held Oh the body of the
deceased Mrs. ALcGennity, and a, YER
dict of accidental death was returned.
DUBLIN.
Under date of July %. the Press
association states that Mr.. William
O'Brien, NJ. F., had undergone a slight
operation for an affection of the throat
and had been ordered abroad for some
time.
It's last semi-annual report shows
that the Hibcrnian bank has had an
other successful half-year. The COM
plant of the shareholders is that they
are getting too small a dividend Of the
profits shown. The board has funds
to pay a per cent dividend and carry
forward larger balance than Il year
ago. But it sticks to the old scale Of
dividends and thus dsappoints eX-
pectatiOns that We're not unreasonable.
The old trick of ''bank touching"
familiar years ago in America, was
recently worked successfully in Dub
lin. On July % a gentleman belonging
to the city went to a bank in O'Conncll
street to make a deposit. He was
standing at the counter when a re-
specially dressed man, who was ac-
companied by neatly attired young
woman, asked to be directed to Il GER
tain department of the bank. The
requisite directions We're given. but
while the gentleman was pointing to
the required portion of the bank the
stranger must have appropriated an
envelope which lay on the counter.
and which disappeared. and in its
stead was placed an apparently sim