The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-10-14

opinion between the department and
the Limerick county committee, and
he hoped as time went on they would
be more helpful to each other.
The Limerick County Council have
refused to act upon the report of the
local governing board recommending
an increase in the county surveyor 8
salary of 300 pounds a year in conse-
quence of the additional duties in
volved by the adoption by the council
of direct labor in the maintenance of
the roads.
Steeplejacks are at present employed
pointing the clock tower Q70 feet high)
OF Lurgan Parish church. On Friday,
while John Sullivan, who was attend
| ing on the steeplejacks. was standing
on the topmost scaffold, it began to
slip, and were it not that Sullivan.
| with great presence of mind, ssprang
| through one of the holes in the tower.
he would have met with a very serious
| accident.
The Templepatrick police having in
| formed Mr. John Murphy, matchmaker
and jeweler, High street, Antrim, that
| his brother, Daniel, was lying in an
unconscious state on the roadside
leading from Dunadry to Templepat-
rick, Mr.. Murphy proceeded with all
| possible haste and had his brother con-
veye& in a carriage to their home in
Antrim, but the latter expired a few
minutes after arrival.
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On Monday. Joseph Nabney, laborer,
| aged 80 years, of Gertrude street. Bel
fast, was admitted to the local Royal
Victoria hospital suffering from shock,
consequent on immersion in the river
Lagan. 1t is stated that Nabney
leaped into the water from the Queens
bridge, but he was able to swim, and
was rescued without any difficulty. He
was detained in the hospital.
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At a meeting of the County Monag-
han committee of Agriculture and
technical instruction, held in the court
house, Monaghan on Monday, centers
were fixed for instruction in agricul-
ture, buttermaking, domestic econ
omy, woodwork, etc. Rev. Brother
Power mentioned that the Monaghan
school of agriculture would reopen on
the 23d of October, and, as there were
ten entrance scholarships to be COM
peted for on that day.. he hoped the
smart boys in the county would come
forward and compete. A resolution
was passed, inviting tenders for con-
veying the manual instruction and
other equipment from one center to
another.
On Tuesday a special court of petty
sessions was held in the courthouse,
Monaghan, when young man named
James Sherry, Pound Hill, Monaghan,
was charged with being dangerous
lunatic. 1t appeared that Sherry had
only few days ago been discharged
from prison after undergoing term of
eighteen months imprisonment On
Saturday night last, while the Saliva
tion Army were holding an open-air
meeting at Monaghan, Sherry dashed
into the crowd and knocked down all
the preachers, men and women. Since
that he had threatened to kill different
members of his family. DR.. James
Henry, Monaghan, certified that Sherry
was insane, and he was committed to
the Monaghan and Cavan lunatic asy-
lum.
At the meeting of the Cork district
lunatic asylum on Tuesday a letter
drafted by the bishop of Ross was ap-
proved, which answers the objections
made by Dublin castle to the appoint
charge of the Youghal auxiliary asylum
for the treatment of harmless lunatics.
His lordship deals with the matter fully
in his letter.
At the meeting of the County Done
gal technical committee Monsignor Nc
Glynn directed the attention of Sir
Horace Plunkett, who happened to be
present, to the deadlock which exists
in the county owing to the refusal of
his department to sanction the appoint
Of -,
because they were born within the.
county. Sir Horace Plunkett held out
no hope at present of change in the
rule. but said if the county councils
general council passed a resolution ask
ing that the rule should be rescinded
the matter would be considered.
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At a meeting of the governors of the
Tyrone county hospital on Thursday a
letter was read from Rev. James
O'Kane, P. P, submitting a claim on
the part of the priests of the Cappagh
parish to some consideration for the
great amount of duty they were called
on TO discharge in the Omagh county
infirmary. He suggested that the COM
mittee should allow out of money other
than the government grant a moderate
sum, say, $40 per year, that of this a.
sum of &15 be regarded as a. contribu-
Ilon from the Cappagh parish, and that
salary of e25 be alone paid annually
The consideration of the matter was
postponed owing to the condition of the
hospital funds at present. The request
was. however, sympathetically received.
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At an inquest in Dublin on Friday on
the body of Matthew Johnson, private
in the Nineteenth Hussars, who while
resting on the field at the military
maneuvers in County Longford on Aug
IA received fatal injuries through being
run over by q gun carriage, it was
stated he was apparently asleep, having
been up all night, and that the men
taking part in the maneuvers were out
of bed four or five nights before the
accident. The coroner said it was un-
warrantable that men should be obliged
TO work night and day, and the jury.
who returned a verdict of death due to
rupture of the liver, added rider that
to work men all night as we'll as day
was unnecessary and cruel.
CITY OF DUBLIN.