The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-11-09
Armagh.

Vice President of Maynooth college.
DIR. McRory is the Professor of Scrip
ture and Oriental Languages in the
College, and enjoys the high dlstinc-
ton. which falls to few of being APP
pointed to discharge the duties OF
that Chair before the termination of
his own course as q student at May
nooth, and acted as Lecturer during
the last illness of his predecessor, DR..
Charles Macauley.
A distressing accident occurred
about two miles from Cavan, on the
road to Butlersbridge, on october Z,
whereby girl named Tierney, from
the Cloverhill district, was killed. Inc
deceased was cycling from Cavan,
and at Coollboyogue met car, ana
it appears she slackened speed. me
bicycle swerved across the road, COM
ing in contact with the vehicle. The
driver, in endeavoring to avoid the
collision, ran the car up onto the
ditch. with the result that 1t over
turned, pinniqg the girl underneath.
On arrival a doctor pronounced life
extinct
Cork.
On October William G. Wood, So.
Mall, Cork, sold for Michael Lyman
So his interest in part of the lands OF
Grange. containing twenty-six acres
with small residence and offices
thereon. held in fee-simple, subject to
an annuity of a16, Poor Law Valua-
ton. EGG. The competition was very
keen and Michael O'Sullivan, Clona-
kitty Junction, was declared purchas-
er at $500 and fees (over tifty-one
years purchase on annuity.
Donegal.
There being no criminal business at
Donegal Quarter Sessions, Judge
Cooke was presented with a pair Of
white gloves, and he congratulated
the Grand Jury on the condition Of
the county.
Derry.
A farmer named Robert John Guy,
Crievedonnell, near Derry, died sud-
denly on October 9. MIR. Guy, who
was fifty years of age and felt In good
health, went out to the fields at 3
O'Clock in the morning and returned
after o'clock for breakfast. He was
just going forward to the table to
partake Of the meal when he sud-
denly collapsed and expired.
Dublin.
The annual tribute to the memory
of Charles Stewart Parnell by the
people of Dublin and the provinces
was paid on October 6, when very
large gathering of Irishmen visited
Glasnevin cemetery and participated
in the customary ceremony of plac-
ing wreaths on the grave of the pat
riot and on those of other Irish pa
triots whose remains are inferred in
the cemetery.
Fermanagh.
Replying to Mr.. Crumley in the
House of Commons, Mr.. Birrell said
II evicted tenants or their representa-
tives had been reinstated in their for
mer holdings or provided with other
holdings, and % had been provision
ally noted for consideration in the
allotment of untenanted land, as &C
quired by the Estates Commissioners,
who would deal with those cases as
rapidly as possible.
Galway.
Mrs. Bridget Heaney, Belmount,
Midtown, died at the extraordinary
age of ia years. The records show
that she was born in the year of 1898.
but she herself held that she was born
two years earlier and was 116 years
old.
A fishing boat belonging to the Con-
gested Districts Board was caught in
a squat on the night of October s
and swamped. The crew of five fish
ermen named King, Davis, Mulvoy
Cottingham and Cannon, we're drown
ed. The men had started from Ros-
sodelisk. Cleggan.
Limerick.
A fatality occurred at the Limerick
docks on October II. A number OF
men were engaged at some repairs
to the Harbor Commissioners bred.
ger. "Erin go Bragh," and amongst
them was one Lawrence Doran, %, OF
Dublin, and rivetter by trade. HI
was working on "the ladder anG
some other men were engaged at NOV.
ing crane on the top of the quay
wall towards the East End. The
crane slipped from the quay and. top.
ping over on Doran, crashed on hi.
head with great force, killing hin
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