Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-09-07
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events culIed
From Exchanges.

A company is being formed TO
work the electric light scheme for
Ballybay.
owen Duffy. Of Monaghan. has
been appointed Assistant County
Surveyor.
The unusual appearance of hail
stones in midsummer was witnessed
on August in West Wicklow.
Hundreds Of acres of land along
the course Of the Owenmore river
are rendered useless by flooding.
]. NJ. Darby, of Carlow, died sud
denly from heart failure. He leaves
a widow and nine children to mourn
his loss.
T. w. Delany was unanimously
reelected Chairman Of the Longford
Agricultural and Technical Instruc-
ton Committee.
James Mcguire, Of Cavan, and
Mr. McCaffrey, Of Tempo, have been
sworn i'm as Justices Of the Peace for
County Fermanagh.
Nicholas Cruddery, stated to come
from Kilanny, was seriously injured
while cycling near Louth. being
struck in the back by. the shaft Of a
cart
There was not a single case Of
drunkenness at the recent petty ses-
sions at New Ross out of large
district, which comprises a popula-
ton of up to 10000.
Much regret was felt in Galway at
the death of the Rev. Peter Newell,
of Castlegar. The deceased was one
OF the best known and most popular
priests in the West of Ireland.
Peter Byrne, Inniskeen, received
somewhat severe injuries to his
hands in a collision between a motor
bicycle and his car at Blackjack on
Thursday. He was removed to the
Louth Infirmary.
The result of the election for the
vacant Councillorship of the Dock
ward on the Limerick Borough
Council was: P. O'Flynn, 42S: T..
Cuddihy, son of the late Coun-
cillor, 1870; P. McInerny, 1872.
While a farmed named Thomas
O'Neill, aged sixty, was driving into
Limerick his horse SHE'D at a pass
ing train near Ballinanty, and when
he jumped off to quiet it he was
badly kicked. He died some hours
later.
The Lord Chancellor, on the rec
ommendation of the Earl of Meath,
His Majesty's Lieutenant of the
County of Dublin, has appointed
Charles Clifford, of Donnybrook,
and late Chief Locomotive Engineer
of the G. n. railway, Justice of the
Peace for County Dublin.
A mysterious early morning fire
occurred recently in Greencastle
Catholic church and the contents and
roof of the vestry we're badly dam
aged. but the fire brigade prevented
the fire extending to the altar. The
Sunday evening devotions took place
as usual. and when the church was
locked up everything was in order.
The Dublin dailies reproduced
photographs of two orphan boys,
and James Cay-...n-.aOf
Ardee, who have come inv q fortune
of 100000 and have started for
the United States to be educated in
one of the leading colleges there.
Their father was to have sailed with
his boys on the Titanic, but was
taken i'll and died a month after
ward.
The death of Timothy Gleason, of
Lisquinlan, which has just occurred,
recalls one of the earliest fights
with the authorities when the Gaelic
League was making its first struggle
for existence. Thady Gleason, as
he was better known, put his name
in Irish on his cart, and was prose-
cuted and fined. He sturdily refused
to pay the fine and went to prison.
The stand then taken by him estab-
lished a principle since respected.