The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
IRISH WILL GO
 ROUND THE WORLD

Dublin, April s.-(Special )-The nation al leaders have planned another around the-world campaign to further the na- tion's cause.
 W. Archer Redmond, M. F., son of
 the national leader; R. Hazleton, who though unseated for North Luth. is still
 a member for North Galway; and Thom- as O'Donovan, a Belfast solicitor, will
 sail from Plymouth soon for tour | through Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
 Is interesting His mother was an Aus tralan his father and his uncle, William
 Redmond. won their political spurs in an Australian tour. William Redmond was
 recently elected to parliament and is of
 the third generation of Redmonds to serve In parliament.
 Mrs. Mary Murphy died recently at As eolas. Her death recalls tragic and thrilling episode in Irish political his tory. The dynamite scare, which con- vused England in 1883 and 1884. Mrs. Murphy was the mother of John Murphy, better known as whitehead" who was sentenced to penal servitude for life for
 being engaged in the manufacture of dynamite. Dr. Thomas Gallagher of Brooklyn, N. Y., and others shared a
 similar fate. The name of "Whitehead' was on everybody's lips at the time He served 13 years in prison and so harsh
 was the treatment that he received there that he was released from Portland prison August 22, 1S96 a nervous wreck Some I of the tory papers, while denouncing his crime, condemned the system under which he had paid such a terrible pen atty.
 Upon reaching his home town he pre- sented the appearance of a hunted anje
 nal, rather than that of a man, and ran to a covered car which was in waiting to convey him home, a short distance away. He disappeared. but later was found wandering aimlessy about. He subsequently, went to America, where he
 was detained in home, and was after wards removed to an asylum, in New York, where, 1t Is understood, he is con- fined at present.
 On last Sunday week at all the masses in Enniscorthy cathedral on Sunday ser mons were delivered condemnatory of the sale of English Sunday papers In that town A resolution to similar effect was passed on Saturday evening by the Trade and Labor League.
 The "mail" claims on what is de- scribed as "exceptional auth ority," that Mr. Birrell. whose health has been poor is about to retire from the office
 of chief secretary for Ireland to a position on the judicial bench. and that he will be succeeded by Winston Churchill The task of Incorporating
 the governments home rule scheme, it
 is stated by the Dublin newspaper, will
 be entrusted to MT. Churchill. Mir.
 Birrell denies that any change Is in- tended.
 The expansion In the cultivation of
 tobacco in Ireland was evinced by the
 fine samples of tobacco which were
 smoked by M. P.'s in the nationalist
 whips room at the house of commons.
 Pipes, cigars and cigarets were smoked
 by members of all parties as an ex-
 pression of good will. Heavy pipe to-
 bacco in plugs Is the chief Irish growth.
 Some remarkably high death rates
 have been registered in Ireland of late.
 The average annual death rate for the
 Dublin registration area and the 2l
 principal urban districts Is 22.7 The
 following table gives some of the high
 est and lowest death rates: