The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-03-18
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A As1Iei, tue couil Ol Mig Dencn
changed the venue to Belfast for the
trial OF the action. The defendants
asked that the Venue be made to
Downpatrick; but the court, regarding
belfast as neutral place, fixed on
the county Antrim.
While on Il visit to IL friend, OIL
February Is, w. Il. Adams, ii farmer,
from Drumrow, near Ballymena, WAS
killed i'll fire. Which broke out. dur
ing the night in his friends house.
ARMAGH.
In Armagh, on February Is. fer
NAL magisterial inquiry was opened
i'll connection with the alleged poison
icg case i'll which Sarah Anne Pear
sons and Agnes Black are charged
with the murder of an old woman
named Alice Pearsons, at Mullalisa,
on June 81 last. The investigation &C.
cupied three days and, OH the 2lst,
the accused We're returned for trial to
the Armagh assizes, on the capital
Charge. The prisoners-Sarah Ann
Pearson, daughter-in-law of deceased,
and Agnes Black, daughter of decea sed
were arrested in Montreal and
Wallsend, respectively. The alleged
object Of the crime was to get the
amount of an insurance on the life of
tho 1naAo cod INC 1.ix,
birth to a child in Armagh Jail since
her arrest.
CARLOW.
In Carlow, on the evening of Febru-
airy 10, public meeting in support
of the Gaelic League, and which was
also an earnest demonstration in IA
vor of the proposed National exhibit
ton, was held in the town hall. Pre-
vious to proceedings the band Of the
Carlow Workmen's club played an ex-
cellent program, which was received
with much favor.
CLARE,
In Dublin, on February 20, in the
court Of Kings bench, before the
chief justice, Justice Madden and
Justice Boyd, the case of George
O'Callaghan Westropp VS.. the County
Council of Glare and Scariff Rural
District Council, came up, OH an ap-
plication by the defendants, for an
order that, Notwithstanding the direc-
ton of the judge at the trial Justice
Andrews), by which he directed the
jury to access damages at Cd. for the
prosecutor, that judgment be entered
for the defendants with costs, and
that the said direction be set aside as
instruction on the facts and find
ings. The court reversed the judgment.
CORK.
Most Rev. DR.. Browne, bishop of
Cloyne, has approved of the design for
the memorial monument to the late
lamented and patriotic Tom Barry, of
Killavullen.
On the night of February 20 seri-
GUS fire took place at Colonel Bells,
The Strandhouse, Fermoy, the entire
of the out-ofices, with the exception
Of eight box-stalls and a cattle shed,
being burned. The residence and live
stock We're with difficulty saved. All
the farm produce, hay, straw, oats, po-
tatoes, as well as the implements, were
destroyed, the total damage being esti-
mated at E1,OOO. When it is taken
into account that, beyond a few buck
etsful, there was no water available,
it is wonderful how anything escaped.
DERRY.
On February 10 severe gale passed
over Derry and the northwest coast.
The passengers who embarked at Der
~, on Saturday night, to join the An.
Choir liner Astoria, bound for New
York, had a very unpleasant expert
ence. The liner was due at Tough
Foyle on her outward voyage about 9
o'clock on Saturday night; and the
river tender Samson left Derry to meet
her, having on board As passengers;
but the storm was so severe that the
Astoria did not venture into the Tough
but kept in the open sea all night.
DONEGAL.
In the court Of Kings bench, Dub
lin, on February IS, in the breach of
promise case of ErsEine VS.. McNaugh-
ten, Mr.. Patton instructed by Mr.. Pat
rick Maxwell, solictor) applied for an
order to refer the matter of assessing
damages to the sheriff of the county
of Londonderry.
DOWN.
At cambridge petty sessions, on
February II, before DR.. William
smyth, j. P. (chairman), presiding,
and Samuel G. Fenton, J. P, the town
clerk stated that the period Of adj
journment of number of prosecu-
lions for riotous conduct expired that
day. The proceedings in question
arose out of an attack made, at Ban
bridge, on the members of two hurting
clubs, when proceeding to the field to
play a match, some time ago. The
town clerk said the adjournment
seemed to have had a good effect, and,
perhaps, it would be we'll to let the
cases stand for another six months.
DUBLIN.
The legal petition for the winding
up Of the Irish Independent News.