The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-01-30

Mcfarland, G. c., deacon; Rev. Fa-
Their Carney, Sligo college, sub-deacon;
and Rev. =. Martin, master of cerc-
monies. In the choir We're Right Rev.
Monsignor Hanley, Z. p, Castlere:,,
and large body of the clergy. The
interment took place Immediately af-
forwards in the Convent cemetery.
SLIGO.
On Jan. the nominations of coun-
cilors for the East, North and West
wards of the borough of Sligo were
received by the returning officer, Mr..
John McGo, ern, in the town hall,
Sligo. In the East ward, Mr.. Collery,
j. F., and Mr.. Michael Kane were re-
turned unopposed. For the West
ward, Mr.. e. Connolly, labor candi-
date, and Mr.. John Finan were re-
turned unopposed. In the North ward.
Mr.. Il. McTernan and Mr.. John T..
O'Kelly, the outgoing candidates, and
Mr.. james Conway We're nominated.
TIPPERARY.
\ Tipperary dispatch states that
Count Moore died on Jan. 5 at his
residence, Mooresfort. from kidney
disease. Count Moore was born in
1910. and represented the borough of
Clonnel in parliament from 1874 to
1886. He entered parliament at the
early age of %. and was but 81 at the
time of his death. In 1879 he was
raised by Pope Leo NH. to the dig
mites of count of the Holy Roman
Empire and commander of the Order
of st. Gregory, and it was to works
of Catholic endeavor his best ener-
ges We're given; for the foundation
of the Cistercian Abbey of Mount st.
Joseph at Roscrea was largely due to
his generosity and zeal. Three years
ago he passed from the parliamentary
stage, having sat as Il Nationalist for
Londonderry for 1890 and 1900, and
since then his attention was turned
into industrial development channels,
and to some extent also towards the
Irish Literary revival.
TYRONE.
On Jan 1 and 2 the deaths of two
children under strange circumstances
occurred ut a place called Hollyhill,
some six miles from Strabane. On the
LIST, DR. Trimble was requistioned to
attend the eight-year-old daughter of
laborer residing at the place men
toned, named Catherine Giblin, but OH
his arrival the child was dead. Next
morning he was again summoned to
attend a second child of the same fam
lily named Hugh Giblin, a boy aged 4
years. He found the little lad suffer-
ing from, in his opinion, narcotic
poisoning. from the effect of which the
child died. The police having been
made aware of the circumstances, an
inquest was held before Mr.. John
Elliott. district coroner with the re-
suit that the coroner directed that Il
post-mortem examination be held and
the contents of the Stomachs of both
deceased children be sent for ANALYSIS
to Professor Barllie, Belfast; and,
pending the result of the analysis, he
adjourned the inquest.
WEXFORD.
At Il meeting of the County WeX-
ford United Agricultural society, held
on Dec. 23 last, II. jameson Davis,
EST, presiding, Wednesday, 10th, and
Thursday, 18th August 1904, We're
fixed for the society's great annual
show of 1904 to be held ut the county
show grounds. Enniscorthy.
WESTNIEATH
On Jan. 4 terrible fatality occur
red near NIoate. A young man named
William Calvin was driving a bread
van in the vicinity Of the town for
NIessrs. Egan, when the horse became
FESTIVE and ran away. In his efforts
to control the animal Calvin was
thrown from the van and his skull
was fractured by the horses hoofs.
Two men who were passing at the
time discovered the driver lying on
the roadside in an unconscious cOndi-
ton. He was conveyed into Moate,
where he was attended by Dr. Moore
head, but the poor fellow died in Il
few hours without having regained
consciousness
WICKLOW.
On Jan. 5 Mr. p. mcdonnell, re-
turning officer, sat in the town hall,
Bray, and received nominations of
candidates for election for East ward,
Little Bray ward and West ward, of
the Urban district. The result of the
nominations was that contests We're
to take place in all the wards.
On Jan. 2, while excavating for the
foundation of house to be built in
Ferrybank, Arklow, adjacent to the
historic bridge of the town, round
which the encounter between the Eng
lish troops and insurgents under Fa-
ther Michael Murphy was hottest in
the Kissing" of 1898, the workingmen
came upon a vast quantity of human
remains. The bones were but short
distance from the surface, but for
many years past the place has been