The Irish standard., 1912-10-05

hands received the previous day. The
injured boy, who is IL years of age,
and an only son, was sent to the
mountain after cattle, and in a mole
of. the gable of a house built in con-
nection with the carrying on of some
copper mining operations there, he
found a tin box containing four de-
tonators, which he put in his pocket,
On going home he got hairpin and
while in the act of removing the cap
of one of the decorators it exploded.
the left hand was terribly injured.
the thumb and first finger being
blown off, while the fingers of the
right hand were also injured, but not
very seriously.
Kildare.
A meeting of the tenants on the
congested part OF the Aylmer estate
In County Kildare was held on Sep
TENDER 1, at Allenwood on the poor
est part of the estate. The object of
the meeting was to point out the ne
cessity for the acquiring of certain
untenanted lands for the purpose Of
migrating tenants of the uneconomic
holdings on the estate. There are a
large number of tenants on the es-
tates whose holdings are uneconomic,
and some unrest exists in the dis
trict owing to the fear that this UNI
tenanted land, which covers a couple
of hundred acres, and another farm
of 100 acres, which is at present &C.
cupied by a migrant front Mayo, will
not be distributed AMONGST the ten
ants.
Lonsford.
Great excitement prevailed in Edge
Wortstown district on September Q,
owing to the Coercion prosecutions in
that town when thirteen men were
returned for trial to the Winter AS
sizes for unlawful assembly on the,
occasion of the recent demonstration.
The people feel very indignant over
these proceedings, as they consider
they were the aggrieved party, and
not the police, in the fierce baton
charge against them when proceeding
with band parade, as they thought
they had right to do, over road
maintained at the peoples cost. This
police plot was carried out with the
greatest secrecy, and the utmost pre-
cautions were taken so that the Sc.
cret should not leak out until they
had their Capture" made. A number
OF police left Longford as early as 3
O'Clock on September 2 and in many
instances the residences of the pris-
oners We're visited before the latter
had left their beds. The cases. 1t is
thought. will be heard in Dublin next
December, as the venue for the Win
ter Assizes has been the Metropolis
for some years past.
Limerick.
On the morning of August %, the
dead body of q man was found on the
six-foot way of the Great Southern,
and Western Railway line, in the vi
entity of Ballnvara, some two Or
three miles on the Cork side Of
Knocklong. The deceased was idcnti-
fled as John O'Grady, of the farming
class, residing at Darranstown, His
thigh and shin were broken, and the
head covered with blood. He was in
the village of Elton on the previous
evening. which he left about O'Clock.
and in proceeding homewards is pre-
sumed to have got on the line at a
point between the Morning Star river
and Ballinvara, and was run down by
train.
Sligo.
Rev. Father McKeon C. c.. presid-
ing at public meeting at Cloonloo,
on Sunday. said that the improve
ment of Ireland's prosperity was due
to the splendid services of the Irish
Party. and he hoped that when they
met next year the religious question
would have entirely disappeared.
Westmeath.
Harry w. Smith. of Boston, Massa-
chusetts, who has settled at Mullingar
with a view of hunting the West
meath country, is, says the STANDARD,
delighted with the friendliness of his
reception. He has brought over
twenty American thoroughbreds, but
he has also about dozen Irish hunt.
ers, and the contrast between the twa
types is exciting good deal of dis.
cussion among Irish sportsmen.
Sign Of tho Cross.
Customs cling. When a flash of
lightning rips through the air and re-
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