The Irish standard., 1905-05-13

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house hospital in a. half demented
condition.
On April 18th, in the Nisi Prius
| Court, in an action for assault brought
by two people, husband and wife, nam
ed Dugan, of Balreash, against DR..
Finnegan, of Nayan, the jury found
a verdict for the male plaintiff with
ESQ damages, and they found for the
defendant in regard to the action by
the female plaintiff.
Queens County.
| We regret to announce the death
of Mr.. P. Morrin, a member of the
Mountmellick Town Commissioners,
and also of the Queens County Co.
Council. The deceased was sterling
Nationalist, popular among all classes
tor his large-heartedness and honesty
OF purpose. He was a man of most
kindly nature, always ready to give
practical help to those in trouble, and
upright in all his dealings. He passed
away deeply regretted by large cir
Gle of friends.
Tipperary.
| On April 18th, serious conflict oc-
| Cured at Ballinahone, near Thurles,
between two respectable farmers,
named Hayden and Gleeson, and their
friends, arising out Of dispute over
the grazing-letting of a five-acre field.
One of the Haydens (Patrick) was so
seriously hurt that he had to be sent
to Dublin hospital. The Gleesons
were arrested and remanded on bail.
The disputed field belongs to a Mrs.
Anna Long. The parties to the affair
were Denis, Patrick and John Glee-
son and Michael and Patrick Hay
den.
Tyrone.
Mr. John Shannon of Lisnaclin,
County Tyrone, who died on the 26th
OF January last, left personal estate
valued at f3,226 9s. I'd, and probate
Of his will of the 7th of April, 1892,
has been granted to his son, Mr..
Thomas. Henry Shannon, of Anna
cramp, farmer-power being reserved
to grant probate, also, to his widow,
Mrs. Mary Shannon. Testator left ESQ
tor his son Thomas Shannon, who is
otherwise provided for and he left his
farms at Linsnaduff and Drumfluigh,
to his son, Robert Shannon, and q
legacy of f150; and he left the in
come of his resduary estate to his
wife for life; and subject to her inter-
est, he left the ultimate residue Of
his estate, in equal shares, for his
daughters, Mary Elizabeth, Eleanor,
Anne and Annie Shannon.
Westmeath.
At meeting of the Athlone Guard
ians on April 18th, Mr.. R. w. Smith,
j. p, presiding, the medical officer re-
| ported that two patients, who had
been detained in the lever hospital
since the previous Wednesday, had
developed smallpox 1t appeared that
the two men, named Hogan and Bea-
mish, had been going around the
country selling tea and slept in the
same room at Mullingar as man
named Smith who had been a pas
senger on the steamer Nile from
Buenos Ayres, who was stricken with
the disease when he arrived at Null
lingar. The men Hogan and Beamish,
came to Athlone and they were
brought to the hospital. Special
nurses have been engaged for the
cases, and every precaution has been
taken to isolate the patients.
The belief in the fairies is not en-
ti1ely extinct in some parts of Ire.
land. A man named Connely, in CIV
ing evidence at the last Athlone Quar-
ter Sessions, in claim for compensa-
tion for the burning of a rick of hay,
said he saw figures cutting queer
capers about the fire, and took them
to be the "good people,"
Wexford.
At the annual meeting of the
County Wexford Gaelic League, held
in New Ross on April 18th, series
of important resolutions was adopted,
including one demanding a univer-
sity, which will be acceptable to the
majority of the Irish people.
On Sunday, May 2Sth, the founda-
tion stone of the monument to the
men of Ninety-Eight will be laid in
the market square, Enniscorty. Sir
Thomas H. Grattan Esmonde, M. p,
will preside at the ceremony. The
monument will be erected close to the
Duffrey gate, through which the insur-
gent pikemen dashed in pursuit of the
English soldiery, and drove them in
headlong flight to Wexford.
Wicklow.
The sea has lately wrought addition
al havoc on the Wicklow foreshore.
1t is stated that number Of houses
are threatened with destruction.
In the Court of Kings Bench, on
April 18th, before the Chief Justice,
Justice Johnson and Justice Boyd, in
the case of Maher and others against