The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-09

! The Longford Urban council have
| adopted a resolution asking the local
| government board to sanction a scheme
for the improvement of the water sup
ply of the town.
On Thursday Chief Warder Oliver
| Carson, Belfast prison. was assaulted
by a prisoner, and had to be removed
! 10 a hospital, where he lies in a very
precarious condition.
At the meeting of the Cork District
| Lunatic asylum on Tuesday a letter
| was read from the lord lieutenant
| relative to the Youghal auxiliary
asylum. An important resolution was
| adopted in connection Herewith.
DR.. P. Coffey, late assistant r. NJ. S.
Limerick asylum, has been appointed
| resident medical superintendent Of the
! marlborough asylum at the salary OF
$3.50 per annum and allowances
valued at e15O.
/ At Monaghan petty sessions on Tues
day, Thomas Meehan, Kildoagh an
old offender, who, members of the
! bench stated, had spent q fortune in
fines. was mulcted in zoe and costs for
! drunkenness.
Mr.. Martin Broderick, a member of
! the Thurles District Council, was ar
rested at Thurles on a charge of having
set fire to his own house at Borrisoleigh
and with attempting to defraud an In
surance Company.
! 1t is announced that the following
| have been appointed Commissioners of
Justice Ross, in the room of Mr.. James
| MorelI, resigned; and Mr.. Richard
| Bagweu, D. L., in the room of Mr..
Justice Gibson, resigned.
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At Elphin Petty Sessions on Thurs
day Francis Walsh and his wife, who
reside at Carrantogher, near Elphin,
were returned for trial charged with
| having in their possession on the oath
July a quantity of metal and a mould
for the purpose of making counterfeit
coins.
On Thursday a Local Government
/ Board Inouiry-the first of the kind
held in Ireland-was held at Tullamore
| into the question of the salaries of the
medical officers Of the dispensaries in
the Union.
At North Dublin Rural Council on
Wednesday letters were read from a
from Lord Howth's agent calling at
tention to the sanitary objections to
the encampments on the Hill Of Howth.
A man named William Donnelly
! died at the Royal Victoria Hospital,
Belfast. on Wednesday from the effects
| of injuries received on that morning by
being knocked down by a traction
engine.
on Wednesday the annual show of
the horticultural Society of Ireland
was given in the grounds of StHelen's,
Booterstown, the residence of Sir John
Nutting. Bart. The show was the
! largest and finest the society have had
I for years.
! On Wednesday morning an old Curl
osity shop in Ferry quay street, Derry,
occupied by Nfrs.Semple, an old woman,
collapsed. Mrs. Semple was rescued by
Sergeant Dougherty, who noticed that
the house was going to fall.
On Thursday the Waterford Board
of Guardians adopted a resolution in
favor Of the Party Pledge. the chair
man stating that in moving the resolu-
ton. he did so to try and induce Mr.
| O'Brien TO refrain from committing
lOllN HI a pOlAllCdl SIllSe.
The Mullingar National Teachers as
sociation has adopted a resolution as
serting the right of teachers to attend
any gathering of a non-political char
acter, which does not interfere with
their school work, and hoping for the
withdrawal of the recent circular of the
board on this subject.
Mr.. Thomas Higgins, ]. P. paid a
visit to the political prisoners in Galway
Jail. and found the majority of them in
perfect health. In the minute of his
visit he says the case of two of the
prisoners calls for immediate attention
of the medical officers, and also ex-
presses the opinion that political pris-
oners should not be compelled to take
exercise with the ordinary criminals.
At the meeting of the Rural District
Council of the South Union on Wednes-
day, the Resident officer of the Crumlin
district reported three fresh cases of
| enteric fever. In the discussion that
followed. the outbreak was attributed
to badly flushed drains. AS a result
of the outbreak. so pounds had during
the month been paid to the Cork street
hospital for the treatment Of the cases.
In declaring the Clonmel Feis open
on Sunday, the Bishop of Waterford
said one would search in vain in the
history of modern times for a social
revolution as great as the Gaelic
/ League had accomplished in Ireland
and attributed the. success of the Gaelic
League to the fact that it appealed to
the souls Of the Irish people.
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The Marquis Of Sligo, replying to a
memorial from the tenants states that
while he is willing TO sell to them fo1
! payment without delay, in cash, he
sees no possibility of money for the
purposes of a sale being available soon
and thinks that the proposed meeting
for the discussion of terms of purchase
would serve no useful purpose at pres
ent
On Sunday last a very interesting
handball match came off at the Kan
turk ball court, between Messrs. Johr
Roche and Dennis Conway who were
pitted against two rising young players
Messrs. D. Singleton and 2. Corner
The rubber, which was won by the latter
by four games to one, was for a stake
Of FIVE pounds.
: In the Belfast Custody court OF
| Tuesday, a man of respectable appear
ance named James MCluskey, wa:
charged with having assaulted a MAJ
named Donald Moore by cutting hin
on the throat with a knife. The wound.
ed man not pressing the charge, tht
prisoner was put under his own rec
or. .izance to be of good behavior il