The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-06-15
!: NEWS FROM ireland
Antrim.

Queens College, Belfast, is to have
a fete one of these days for the pur-
pose of providing a recreation ground
for the students. This seat of learn
National School of Belfast, concern
ing which the Health Commission is
now inquiring. 1t is without play
.-roud for its scholars. The object nj
which will be, as matter of necessity,
out in the suburbs.
Armagh.
Mrs Alexander Ritchie residing in
the townland of Cavanpole, convent
ent to lyman. Co. Armagh, died sud-
denly on May Is at her residence from
= apoplexy.
Carlow.
On May 49, Right Rev. DR.. Foley,
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, as
sisted by the Rev. Laurence Brophy.
Vice-President and Dean of Carlow
college, conferred minor orders in
the College Chapel on T. R. Black
we'll, Los Angeles; j. Gallagher, Los
Angeles, and P. j. Killian, Wilcania,
and on the following day raised to the
dignity of Sub-deaconship j. Boland,
Kildare and Leighlin; E. Pr Moriarity,
Pittsburg: j. B. Cronin, Kansas City;
E. McCauley, Fillmore; j. Deenihan,
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H. Lynch. Brooklyn, and j. Burke,
= Los Angeles.
Cork.
The death occurred on May % of
Rev. Mother Austin, Presentation Con-
vent of the Holy Cross, ListoWel.
The deceased lady was "a years Of
age, and had been Nun for 81 years.
She belonged to Dublin family and
was a niece of the late Rev. Father
Mahoney P. P. Listowel.
Mr.. E. Morrssey. merchant, Brosna.
who in his day was great athlete,
and winner of the three and twenty
five mile championship of Ireland, died
recently at his residence in Brosna.
Mrs. Mary Healy, aged ~ years,
= died suddenly at her residence Wag-
gets lane, Cork, of heart failure, in
duced by an attack of indigestion.
Mrs. Ellen OMahony who had
reached the good old age of ninety
dence, Reenagreena, Glandore. She
was possessed of all her faculties to
the day she died.
Glare.
A quantity of hay owned by farm
err named James Mcmahon, of Bally-
woughan, near Kildysart. was fired re-
Gently causing the adjacent heather
to blaze and seriously threatening the
destruction of large grouse cover.
Had it not been for the police, who
managed to keep the blaze from
spreading, immense damage must
have been done. Eight stacks of hay
have been destroyed in the district
within a short time, and serious anxi-
ETY. is felt.
Ernest Carruthers, a young man of
sixteen years of age. residing with
his mother in Derry. on May 18th. in
fit of dependency. brought on Ivy
nervous shock by being run down
by a vehicle some three years ago,
cut his throat and died almost in
stantly.
A bridegroom, aged "a years, was
married for the third time recently at
Banagher. Co. Derry. his bride this
time being 80 years of age.
Dublin.
Mr.. James Moran. solicitor, 80 Low
er ormond quay. Dublin. has been
. appointed a Commissioner to admin
lister oaths in the High Court of JUS
tice in Ireland.
death which caused general
regret all over Ireland wherever he
was called in the line of his duty
as valuer, was that of Mr.. James F
Office. which took place in Liverpool
on May 10. Mr.. McGettrick was on his
way to Canada, where he had intend
ed spending a few days in pleasure
He was taken suddenly i'll on board
the steamer and on the arrival Of tic
vessel in Liverpool he was conveyed
to the hospital, where he fingered
without gaining consciousness unit
May IS.
Down.
At sitting of the Royal Commits
sion on Congestion, held at Castle
wellan, Co. Down.. on May 10, i'm
portant evidence was given by Tho
Rev. r. j. Murphy P. P, Lower
Mourne: Mr.. Charles E. Greene, Down
Poor Law Union; Rev. Father Don
nelly. P. p. Ardglass; Rev. Father