The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-07-18
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ANTRIM.
On June %, Il shocking suicide took
place on the British steamer Lacka-
wanna, berthed at the Alexandra
wharf, Belfast. During the forenoon
pistol shot was heard from the cap
tain's cabin, and on entrance being
made, Captain Davies was found ly-
ing dead in pool of blood, having
shot himself with a revolver, which
was lying close by him. 1t seemed
as if he had put the weapon to his
mouth and fired, the bullet penetrating
the brain.
CARLOW.
At the annual meeting of the Car
low county council, Mr.. John Ham
mond, M. p, was reelected chairman,
and Mr.. Walter Morrogh Kavanagh,
d. L., vice-chairman of the council.
The secretary announced that Mr.
VIM. Burgess had been reelected
chairman of the Baltinglass rural dis
trict and Mr.. Patrick ]. Byrne, chair
man of the Carlow rural district coun-
Gil. AS Mr.. Byrne was ex-ofticio, a
member of the county council, Mr..
Patrick Kinsella had been elected to
represent the rural district council on
the county council. Mr.. Patrick had
olni Of no
district council.
CAVAN.
On June 18th, at her fathers resi-
dence, Ballyhaise, after q long and
painful illness, Miss Josephine NJ
Cabe, eldest daughter of Mr.. Felix
Meade, died at the early age of 20
years. On Saturday, June 18th, her
remains We're conveyed for interment
to Killdrumsherdina, the family bur-
ial ground. The funeral cortege was
Of very large dimensions.
We announce with regret the death
of Mr.. Matthias Farrelly, which took
place, after couple of days illness,
at his residence, Raffenny, on June
18th. The news of his demise was re-
ceived by the neighbors and friends
of the deceased with sorrow and deep
sympathy with his bereaved wife and
young fanny. The funeral took place
on the 18th, and the large attendance
testified to the high esteem in which
the deceased was deservedly held.
CORK.
We deeply regret to have to an
nounce the demise, on June 25th, Of
the Rev. L. M. O'Callaghan, G. c.,
Rathcormac, who died at Ballycotton,
where he had been recruiting his
health after very severe illness. The
remains wer conveyed by road to
Rathcormac church, where after high
mass of requiem they were inferred
in the churchyard. The weather was
exceedingly Indictment, and this. to il
considerable extent, prevented as large
an attendance at the funeral as there
otherwise would have been.
In Cork, on June Goth, Coroner
Blake held an inquest Oh the body Of
Thomas Twomey, butcher, Of 6
Kearney's Lane, who had died sud-
denly that day in the North infirmary.
Mrs. Twomey, wife of the deceased,
gave evidence that her husband was
So years Of age, and that he worked
III Mr.. Griftin's slaughter house. He
fractured his knee-cap last Corpus
Christi, and was detained in the North
intirmary. Dr. w. Il. O'Connor,
house surgeon at the North infrmary,
gave it as his opinion that deceased
had died from syncope, consequent on
dilation of the heart; and the coroner's
jury found verdict accordingly.
DUBLIN.
On the evening of June oath, a
heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by
torrents Of rain, broke over Dublin.
The lightning was very vivid, and
many of the thoroughfares were for
the time covered with several inches
Of water; but no accidents are report
ed. When the storm was at it's
height the Shannon, one OF the fleet
of steam barges owned by Messrs,
Guinness, which had taken u cargo
of stout on board at the company's
wharf, Victoria Quay, sank in the
Liifey, and her ueck-lOuu OF barrels
went adrift, but were mostly recover
ed.
Most Rev. Stephen Reville, o. S. A.,
bishop of Sandhurst, Victoria, Aus
tralia, is in Ireland Oh a visit, after
an absence of fourteen years. During
his stay in Dublin the bishop will be
the guest of the Augustinian fathers.
On June 18th, in the Nisi Prius
court, Dublin, before Justice Kenny
and city common jury, the hearing
Of the case of MCGOWAN VS.. Doyle
was conducted. The plaintiff, Miss
Margaret MCGOWAN, grocer, 3S Len
no street, sought to recover from Mr..
Christopher Doyle, pawnbrokers' sales
man, of 5 Cutfe street, damages for
injuries sustained by her on March
18th, by reason OF the alleged nrsli-
gence of the defendants servant. 1t
was stated that the latter, while drlv-
ing a pony and van, collided with the