Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-07-06
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events culled
From Exchanges.

ID. ]. Mcmahon has been unan
imously elected Town Surveyor by tn,
Listowel Urban Council.
j. II. Mitchell was elected by the
Tyrone County Council Assistant Sur.
veyor in Castlederg district.
! At a meeting Of the Kilrush County
Council Michael Mescall was unani-
mously reelected Chairman.
Twenty-Five cases of scarlet fever
were reported to Galway Board of
Guardians as having occurred during
the week.
John Carson, a young Kilkenny far
mer, died as a result of injuries re-
ceived by stabbing at Ballygerda, near
Thomastown.
An inquest was lfeld at Letterard,
Connemara, on the body of Patrick
Cameely. A verdict of found
drowned" was returned.
There being no criminal cases at
Macroom Quarter Sessions, Judge
Bird, K. c., was presented by the Sub
Sheriff with white gloves.
Michael Cody, of st. Mullins, six
miles from New Ross, was robbed of
$125, which was taken from a box
during his absence from home.
James Fogarty, who has passed
away at Thurles, had attained the age
Of 1902, years. Fogarty was in excel
lent health up to a couple of months
ago.
The death occurred in the Presenta-
ton Convent, marlborough, of Sister
NJ. Augustine Doran, daughter of the
late Thomas Doran, of Dublin, at the
age of seventy-four.
The death, at the age of seventy
seven, has occurred at Carrick-on-
SUR of James Mullins, Clerk of the
local union, position which he filled
for forty-five years.
A singularly tragic incident took
place at wake in Ballyclare, where
Agnes McMordie, aged about fifty,
was sitting talking with some people,
when she suddenly fell back in an
apoplectic fit.
At the meeting of the Newry Ma
tional Teachers Association a resolu-
ton was passed in favor of the estab-
lishment of a summer Gaelic school
at Omeath, and a similar resolution
has been passed in Dundalk.
At Mullingar Petty Sessions the Dis
trict Council summoned Lord Gre
vile, under the public health act, to
compel him to put the Fair Green in
the town in a sanitary condition and
to carry out certain Improvements.
Very Rev. Denis Flynn, President of
st. Finian's College, Mullingar, has
been appointed parish priest of St.
Mary's, Drogheda, in succession to the |
late Very Rev. John Curry. For a |
number of years Father Flynn was ad-
at Navan.
The death took place recently at
his residence at Taghmon of Patrick |
Ryan, in his seventy-seventh year. He |
had long been identified with the pub
lie and political life of County WEEK
ford, and was highly est emed for his |
straightforwardness, INTEGRITY and pa
triotism 1
At special court at Gort. NJ,
Shaughnessy, F. Burke. John Milan,
Henry Milan, Frank Hartigan, Bartly |
John Howard, John Corners,
Sr., and John Connors, Jr., were re-
turned for trial on bail to Galway AS |
sizes for the alleged intimidation of |
Patrick Kelly, of Killcrimple
The Bishop of Meath has decreed |
that the parish of st. Mary's, |
Drogheda, will include the whole Of |
Laytown village. The parish of Sta
mullen, which has hitherto included |
Laytown, has had added to it the
townlands of Shallon and Balgeen, |
in St. Mary's parish.
Largely through the instrument
tality of F. j. Bigger, of Belfast, a |
new motor boat has been provided for
service between Rathlin Island and |
the mainland, the previous boat hav-
ing been wrecked in storm last Oc-
tober. The boat was christened and |
blessed by Rev. Father Mckinley
In the trial OF Joseph and John |
Conroy, residing near Straide, County |
Mayo, who were indicted before |
Justice Boyd and a Dublin common |
Jury for alleged conspiracy, there was
a disagreement and the traversers |
we're bound over in their own recog-
nizances to come up for trial on re-
ceiving ten days notice.