The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-01-05
I. NEWS FROM lRELRND
Armagh.

a cardriver, near Ready, County Ar
magh, ON July II, and was sentenced
to death. y
Antrim.
At meeting Of the Ulster Unionist
Council, in Belfast tho conduct of Mr..
Thomas Sloan, NJ. p, for South Bel
fast, In supporting Mr.. Lindsay Craw-
ford against MT. Moore, K. c., Unionist
candidate for North Armagh, during
the recent contest, was under consid-
Grafton, and it was unanimously re-
solved that he be expelled from menu
bership Of the council.
Edward McGuinniss, Of Lisburn. was
found guilty Of having set fire to a
dwelling in Bow street, Belfast, on Aug.
II, and was sentenced on Dec. u to
four years penal servitude. - :
Clare.
The hearing Of an action in court of
DR.. Sampson, Scariff, CO. Glare, who
sought to recover one years superan-
nuation as retired medical officer of the
Mountshannon dispensary and of the
scariff workhouse. was begun on Dec.
II, in. the Nisi Pruis court, before JUS
tice Gibson. No decision has yet been
rendered.
The Industrial Association has de-
cided that in consequence of the
mayors attitude as regards the Mum
ster-C onnaught exhibition he should no
longer be, president Of the associa-
''o e'- ::co.k
During. the week Of Dec. large
captures of mackerel We're made on the
Southern coast, varying from $4,000 to
1000, for. which very remunerativc
prices were paid; 15s was the ruling
price before mackerel in any consider
able were taken, but this has been re-
duced to 12s per 100 as result Of the
glut. .... T.,
The tenants of the Goodwin Young
estate, at; castletownroche, have con-
cluded negotiations for the purchase
of::their: holdings. All the tenants are
non- judicial, but up to 1901 were in
receipt Of voluntary reduction of IS
in the 6 which, in 1902 was increased
to IS, and this has been made the
basis Of the present sale. The terms
now are-20 s-4 years purchase on the
rents as reduced by Is in the 6, 4 per
cent, interest on purchase money until
completion Of the sale, the hanging
gale to be wiped out as well as a half
years arrears which the landlord al
lowed to-, accrue during the past twelve
months. and the present half-year's
rent to be paid in cash. less a reduction
of SIS in tho s..
..:e., Dublin.
The emigration returns for the year
still show increase, though the season
is practically over. Down to the end
Of November there was an increase Of
4,514 as compared with 1906. All the
provinces contribute their quota, but
Ulster, strange to say, furnishes the
largest proportion. The total number
of emigrants to date is 1858. About
six hundred more may be expected this
month, so that will exceed $4,000 for
the year. Eight years ago it had sunk
to $4,000, so that little or no progress
isFbeing made in the work Of reducing
the outflow. About SO per cent of the
passage to, America are booked in that
country. and n per cent Of the emf
grants go thither.
on.Dec. Patrick Joseph Geoghegan,
was drowned in the river Off the
Pigeon House, Dublin. The deceased,
who was % years Of age, lived with his
father at rs Meath street, and had been
in the employment Of the Corporation
as a carpenter.
The crop Of flax grown by Mr.. John
Porter, Drumnahare, Loughbrickland,
has yielded 81 stone per bushel. The
seed sown was Dutch flaxseed, i'm
ported by. Messrs. James Mcmahon &
Co., seedsmen. cambridge. Mr.. Porter
is an expert grower of flax, having for
several years secured the gold medal
and certificate at the cambridge Agri-
cultural show. He never yet, says "The
cambridge Chronicle" had to seek in
struction from the "itinerant instruc-
tori of the Down county council or the
department of agriculture. how to SOW
faxseed, where to buy his seed, or how
to ret it.
Derry.
James Sweeney, a mason's laborer
on the morning Of Dec. 9, made an
attempt at suicide by cutting his throat
DR.. McMonagie bound up the wound
and he was taken to the 1nfirmary in a
precarious condition. He was married
and had been depressed owing to want
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