Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-11-18
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events CulIed
From Exchanges.

The town or Ballymote mas been
lighted for the past few weeks with
electricity.
Damage estimated at over $4,000
was done by a fire which broke out
In the premises OF Messrs. Redmond
& Co., Merchants Quay, Newry.
As an evidence Of the seasons
mildness, mushrooms are being gath
cred in basketsful at Middletown and
other places in County Armagh.
A prominent figure in commercial
circles in the West Of Ireland has
just been laid to rest in the person
of Mark Waldron, of Ballyhaunis.
BY the Chairman's casting vote
Miss Kate Power was elected matron
of Carrick-on-Suir Workhouse, her
opponent being Miss Agnes Bourke.
An outbreak OF scarlatlna that has
occurred at cambridge is spreading
to serious dimensions. Over forty
patients have already been removed
to the hospital.
The death of Mrs. Fealy, wife of
John Fealy, of Listowel, has oc-
casioned deep and widespread regret
throughout North Kerry, where the
family is highly respected.
Pierce Morrissey, of Coalbrook,
has been appointed Petty Sessions
Clerk for Killenaule district. The
other candidates were NJ. P. Mutually,
of Ballycullen, and Henry Hemphill.
At a meeting of the Kilrush Board
of Guardians 1t was stated that since
the old-age pensions came into eff
feet the expenditure for outdoor
relief has been reduced about one
half.
Mrs. Agnes Cullen, an old lady
residing at Shroughaun, was acct
dentally knocked down by a cyclist
while walking in Tullow. She has
since been detained in the local
hospital
The Knappogue police protection
post, which was established about
four years ago in connection with
the trouble that has arisen over the
Harris Martin case, has been dis
continued.
1t is understood that the Rev.
John Clarke, of st. Peters, Drog-
heda, has been appointed by Car
dinal Logue to Clogherhead, County
Louth, in succession to the late Rev.
John Clarke.
At a meeting of the Waterford
County Council DR.. Maloney, of Dun
garvan, was elected on a final poll
by fifteen votes to fourteen for DR..
Dennehy, of Lismore, as Coroner for
West Waterford.
John McNerlin, seventy-three. of
Killymill, County Derry, was found
in a flaxhole in an exhausted state,
and conveyed to the Limavady Union
Infirmary, where he succumbed to
cerebral hemorrhage.
John Conner, James Conner and
James Murphy were returned for
trial to the Assizes at Tralee,
charged with having assaulted and
grievously wounded Sir Morgan
O'Connell, of Killarney.
The Magistrates at Omagh Quarter
Sessions passed a memorial to
abolish the Lack Petty Sessions dis
trict in County Fermanagh, AMI to
extend the boundaries of Omagh and
Dromore districts so as to include all
the townlands in County Tyrone for
merly in Lack district.
One of FermOy's oldest citizens
has passed away in the person of DR..
John Roche, at the age of eighty
five. DR.. Roche was admitted to the
profession in 1859, and a few years
later he was appointed Medical Of
ficer OF Fermoy Workhouse-a
position which he held for upward
of forty-four years.
Mrs. Margaret Clarke, Postmis-
tress at Ballinea, was accidentally
drowned in the Royal canal near
Mulingar. She was walking along
the canal bank when she would have
appeared to have stumbled and fallen
into the water, and she died imme-
diately after being pulled out by
some men who were attracted to tue
spot.