The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-01-12
NEWS FROM IRELRND !
Antrim.

AT the Ulster aSsizeS, OH Dec. Is,
the jury acquitted John Murray and
David Bennett, charged with con-
spiracy, with James Niblock, to de-
fraud the Royal Insurance company
and the Alliance Insurance company
by setting fire to the premises of Alex
:ander and Bennett, at cambridge.
Mr.. French circulated memorial
for signature among the Irish men,
jbers, on Dec. IS, for a reprieve for
Thomas Mason, who was sentenced
to death at the last Belfast assizes.
Mason is a Wexford man, and a strong
feeling exists that the case is not one
in which the death penalty should be
carried out.
Armagh.
On Dec. II the funerals of two
extensive Armagh merchants, Messrs.
Joseph Gillespie and Thomas Foster,
took place. Mr.. Gillespie was one Of
the largest seed merchants in the
North Of Ireland, and Mr.. Foster car
ried on very extensive business as
a timber and coal merchant.
Mrs. Eliza Jackson, wife of Robert
Jackson, living at Lissarage, near
Tandragee, died on Dec. is.
.....--.. Glare.
The Right Rev. Monsignor White,
Dean of Killaloe, and Parish Priest
of Nenagh, died on Dec. 10, of in
huenza. Dean White was born in
lula, in the CO. Clare. just seventy
two years ago. He was educated at
Maynooth College. He passed through
the higher course Of the Dunboyne
Establishment, and was ordained q
priest forty-seven years ago. He min
.istered as curate for different terms
of years in the parishes of F'eakle,
Bodyke,. CarrigaboIt, Newmarket-on-
Fergus, and Ennis, all in the County
Of Glare. From Ennis he was APP
pointed parish priest of MiltownlnaI-
bay. The late DR.. McRedmond pro-
IIlOLou IT'LL " tAO Q11 1ol VI xAuk OSAl,
and appointed him vicar-general.
Cork.
The high sheriff Of Cork having
received the writ for Mid-Corl fixed
the nominations for Dec. 31st, and the
polling for the Sth Of January.
An Irish journalist has just passed
away In the person Of Mr.. John Leahy,
Of Queenstown, whose remains were
inferred on Dec. 16, at the cemetery at
Churchtown, some three miles from,
Middleton. Deceased, who had attained
the age Of seventy-six years, was con-
sidered the oldest journalist in Cork
county. A native Of Middleton, he be-
came connected with the Cork and
Dublin press upwards of thirty years
ago.
Dublin.
His Grace the Archbishop Of Dub
lin, on Dec. 10, opened a new wing OF
utst, National Maternity hospital
HOLES street, and made an interesting
speech dealing with the negotiable
distribution Of the government hos
pital grants in the city.
Mr.. Boland has asked the secretary
of state for foreign affairs whether he
IS aware that the Irish trade mark
was registered on Dec. s; and whether
with a view to making the design OF
the mark known in places abroad
where Irish goods bearing the mark
are likely to obtain a sale. he will give
facilities for the display of the design
in the various consular Offices.
On Dec. II, Mr.. Henry G. Lynch
Of Seaview House, Donnybrook, while
riding a bicycle in the city, collided
with a dray. He was knocked down
and one OF the wheels passed over one
Of his legs, fracturing it badly.
Donegal.
1t is worthy of note. that when the
late jeremiah Curtin went to the
North Of Ireland to pursue his study
of Gaelic and FOLKLORE, he made his
center of residence at Gortalark, in
the parish of Clochaneely, Co. Done
gal, exactly the same place chosen
for the Ulster Irish College. which
opened its session last summer. Those
of the students who went through the
country in quest of stories often came
upon the tracks Of Mr.. Curtin, who
was we'll remembered by old narrators
in Meenaclady and Tory Island. Myth
ical and early historic tales dealing
with the giant Balor, Lugh lam-fada
and Cuchulain are widely known in
this part Of Ireland. and Mr.. Curtins
aabors We're richly rewarded.
Down.
the months mind of the late Very
Rev. John Lowry, P. P, v. F., Leitrum
Castlewellan, was celebrated on Dec
H. in Leitrim Parish church. Right