Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-11-25
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events Culled
From Exchanges.

James Thornton was sent to Jail
for fourteen days by the Drogheda
Petty Sessions Court for assaulting
Constable Friel.
DR.. Heffernan, of Ballina, has
been appointed Medical Officer to
Knocknalower Dispensary district
in Belmullet Union.
The Carrick-on-Shannon Guar
dams accepted with regret the
resignation OF Mrs. NJ. McGreevey,
schoolmistress for forty years.
The death is much regretted OF
the Very Rev. Canon Hunt at May
nooth. He was seventy-five years
Of age and was ordained In 1862.
William Haughton, of Ferns,
County Wexford, has begun the
making OF writing inks, and already
he has met with considerable sue
cess.
The Urlingford Education Com
mittee has elected Father Healy, of
Johnstown, as its Chairman, and
Thomas Harrington as Vice Chair
man.
The flax and corn mills, with their
valuable machinery, of George Kane,
situated at Articlave, near Castle
rock, County Derry, were destroyed
by fire.
Secretary T. Stallard announced
at a meeting in Kilkenny that
ST. $50 had been collected for a
memorial in that city to James
Stephens.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out in Newry. The cause Of
the disease is attributed to the long
drouth and consequent stagnant
state of the sewers.
At Athy Petty Sessions recently
Patrick Lawler, of Baconstown, was
fined $40 for unlawfully entering
the lands of the Duke of Leinster
with a gun and dogs.
The Ven. Archdeacon Hutch,
d. D., was unanimously reelected
Chairman of the newly-appointed
Old Age Pensions Subcommittee for
Middleton, County Cork.
Mrs. King, sister OF the late Col
lector P. J. Lydon, was appointed in
her brothers place rate collector
for Clifden district at the meeting of
the Galway County Council.
The identify of the young woman
whose body was washed ashore at
Newcastle has been established. The
name is Mary Cunningham, and she
was spinner in cambridge.
Between sixty and seventy at
tendants, nurses and patients belong
Ing to the Tyrone and Fermanagh
Asylum, near Omagh, are at pres
ent in hospital suffering from
typhoid.
The Very Rev. Father Cassidy,
V. G., presiding at an Irish language
revival in Ennistymon, said 1t
would be almost criminal of the
Irish people to- give up their native
language.
Four candidates presented them
selves for election as Secretary to
the County Meath Agricultural So
ciety in room of James Davis. Pat
rick Duffy, Clerk of Petty Sessions,
was elected.
Much regret Is felt in West Linn
erick at the death of John O'Regan,
national teacher, aged fifty-one. He
succeeded his late father as principal
teacher of the Ballingarry national
school in 1895.
AT a meeting of the Carlow
County Council James P. Morrow
was elected clerk to the County
Surveyor. There were four appli-
cants, w. A. Griffin, John Doyle,
James O'Reilly and ]. p. Morrow.
The death is announced of Miss
Kitty Higgins. formerly of Abbey
side, at her brothers residence at
Cappoquin. Her demise is mourned
by large circle of friends and rela-
tives, both in Ireland and America.
A carter named Richard Ryan, OF
Tipperary, died under painful cir
cumstances at the Workhouse Hos
pital. While grooming his horse
the animal kicked him in the stom-
ach, causing internal injuries, which
ultimately proved fatal.