The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-01-21
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FROM IRELAND
ARMAGH.

Ready and district by the announce
Ment of the death of Sister Mary Evan
Selista Joseph Lawlcss, which oc-
Cured at st. Clare's Abbey, Ready, on
December 18th. The deceased lady,
who was in her SEVENTEEN year, be-
longcd tn Dundalll, and WAS protested
in NewlN She WAS one of the five
Sisters who, in 1870, founded st.
tlnir's convent in Ready. and during
the Whole period of her residence there
was held in the highest esteem by all
classeS in the district.
ANTRIM.
y Belfast dispatch, dated Dec. 9th,
slys:-Ne"s today reached the Belfast
owners of the total loss of the steam
ship Worlltield on Christmas eve Oh an
unknown rock or mine, near Hong
Kong, where the crew We're landed.
The Workticld, which was a vessel Of
several thousand tons, left Cardiff on
the Sth October for Japan With coal.
She was commanded by Captain
Broadhead, of Liverpool, but the ma
jority of the crew were North of Ire
land men.
At the inquest held in Bangor, on
Dee. 9th, the body of Mr. Andrew
Wright Belfast, who fell dead while
playing football, at Bangor. The jury
found that death was due to heart fail
ure
CORK.
On December Goth, an elderly gentle
man named Nicholas Purdon Stroute,
living at the Springmount, near Yong
hal, made an attempt at suicide, by
cutting his throat with a razor, DR..
NJ. Twonley, Yougllal, was summoned,
and rendered all the assistance he pos
sibly could; but the injuries were of
such nature as almost to preclude
hope Of recovery.
On Christmas eve, an aged woman,
Mrs. Mary Meaney, of Middleton, was
fatally injured at the Queenstown
Junction, by being caught by moving
train and crushed against the plat
form. She was on a visit to some
friends at the time.
CLARE.
The tenants on the Calrigoran prop
erty, having appointed a Committee to
negotiate with Lady FITZGERALD, for
the purchase of their holdings, took
advantage of the agents presence, at
Newmarket fair, to meet him and
Lady FITZGERALD. Headed by Rev.
Father Kennedy, the Committee and
some dozen of the tenants called at
Carrigoran, and in presence Of land
lord and agent put forward their re-
quest. Lady FITZGERALD gave a de-
cided refusal to sell at present, as the
money would not be had for the next
four years, owing to the number of
bargains already made. Father Ken
over the disastrous year. Lady Fitz-
Gerald would give the tenants reduc-
tion in the rents to enable them to tide
over the disasterous year. Lady Fitz-
Gerald again refused to make any con-
ceSSiOn.
CAVAN.
A schoolmaster named Francis Tul-
ly, was found dead on the roadside,
near Ballyhaise, on Christmas night.
The body bore marks Of violence, and
two men who had been seen in his
company, were arrested on suspicion.
They are Thomas Rotllwell, who had
been working at Drum, County Mon
Afghan, as carpenter, and his brother,
William Rothwell, a creamery mana
ger at Smeare, County Longford. They
were home on their Christmas holt
days, and intended to return on the
following Wednesday. Tully was re-
turned American. It is stated that the
police found letters, traced in blood,
on the whitewashed wall near where
the body was found.
CARLOW.
In Carlow on Dec. 23d the mortal
remains of Sister Mary Gabriel were
inferred in the Convent Cemetery i'm
mediately after the celebration of the
Solemn Office and requiem high mass
in the Chapel Of the Community of the
Order of Mercy, at which Most Rev.
DR.. Foley, Bishop of Kildare and
Leighlin, presided in the choir, at
tended by Very Rev. Monsignor
Bourke, p. P, v. f., Bagenalstown.
DUBLIN.
The Recorder of Dublin opened the
Criminal Sessions, at Kilmainham, on
Dec. 2Sth. There were only two cases
before the Grand Jury. John J. Ivy,
who pleaded guilty to obtaining money
by falsely representing that he was a
military officer, was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment.
During the Christmas holidays, Most
Rev. DR.. Walsh, Archbishop of Dub
lin, conferred Holy Orders on six stu
dents at All Hallows College. Rev.
Michael Edge (All Hallows), for the
diocese Of Auckland, New Zealand;
Rev. Martin Bowling (All Hallows).
Hobart, Tasmania; and Rev. P. Cana
van, o. G. c., Carmelite College, Dub
lin, were ordained priests, and the
Order of Deaconship was conferred on
Rev. Patrick Wade, o. G. c., Rev.
Felix McCaffery, o. G. c., and Rev.