Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
Political Social by Cable Correspondence Wo
RATEPAYERS UP IN ARMS
Extravaganza of Irish OfficehOlders
Has Gone the Limit.
DAY TO BE SET FOR KICKING
Two Men Die who Had Long Passed
the Century Marx - Bishop
Chadwick Takes n bride at
seventy-One.
BY THOMAS EMMETT.

DUBLIN. March 4-(Special to The BeeD
The extravagance OF certain office hold
ers. who have been wasting public money
Is likely to cause trouble. In various
towns and districts ratepayers associations
have been formed to protect the interests
OF those who directly provide the money
spent By public boards. The idea has
occurred TO the Limerick Ratepayers as
ISOLATION to establish a ratepayers' day,
when a public demonstration Will be held
with the object Of banding together all
who pay rates in the county, so that a
united effort may be made to put down
excessive and needless expenditures by the
county and district councils.
Lived More Than Century.
At Edenderry. Kings county. the funeral
has taken place Of an agricultural laborer
named John Green. who died at the re-
markable age of 1l3 Green was born in
1888 when the Irish rebellion was on. He
worked in Birmingham Manchester, Dunn
fries. Edinburgh and London. While en-
ployed in the latter place as a laborer
he witnessed the coronation procession Of
Queen Victoria in 1887. Subsequently he
tried life in the Anupodes. He worked up
to about twelve years ago. and then, bent
down by the weight OF a hundred summers,
he entered the Edenderry workhouse,
where he became a very popular figure
Peter Siane OF Boyle Roscommon, who
had never known a days illness and had
worked on his farm long after becoming
a centenarian, has just died at the ago
of los years.
Mary Brannigan OF Armagh, who is 1O4
years old recently voted at the city cleo
ton in that city.
Aged Bishop WEEDS.
Society people crowded the Church Of
st. Bartholomew to witness the marriage
of a septuagenarian bishop, Rt. Rev Dr.
George A. Chadwick, bishop Of Derry, to
Helen Jane Crozier Of Dublin. The cere-
mony was performed by the archbishop
Of Dublin assisted by Canon White. DIR.
Chadwick, who is in his seventy-first year,
is a leading Irish churchman and was
strongly in the running for the Irish
primary.
Trouble with Rich woman.
The Corey district council has served
notice to quit on Robert Farrell, the occu-
pant OF a laborer's cottage Farrelrs wife
IL said to have inherited 200 by the
death of a relative in America. The cottage
has been erected on the site Of the house
wherein Mrs. Farrell was born, and she
is not willing to leave 1t. One OF the
councillors, however, Said tnat II never
was the intention Of the council to build
houses for capitalists to turn them into
villas.
Criminals Begin In Youth.
Lord Justice Cherry does not hold with
those who assert that crime is an incurable
disease and that the only thing to be done
with criminals Is to punish them severely,
so as to deter others, In paper read
before the Statistical society ne maintained
that II we could get rid of Juvenile crime
society would soon be rid OF the habitual
criminal The habitual criminal, he said,
nearly always commences his career OF
crime when young. and the old established
form Of prison punishment only hardened
the boy in vice; certainly it very seldom
reformed him. The lecturer praised the
system of reformatories and industrial
schools. which have proved so successful
in ireland in saving many a youth from
life OF crime, and to this system is now
added the Borstal institution, which deals
with youths who have already acquired
criminal habits.
Queer Food for Fiah.
When two pike caught in the river Shan
non recently were opened one was found to
contain a new nail brush without a bristle
missing, the other a gold pencil.