Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-12-06
IRELAND.
Record of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events cuiIed
From Exchanges.

Luke Burke, of Maree, who was
thrown from a car in Galway died
at the County Hospital.
James Dillon died in Ballinrobe
Workhouse Hospital, aged 1O4. For
over fifty years he sold pins and
thread on the streets.
The death took place at a private
hospital in Dublin of Arthur Knox
Molony, aged eighty-one, Of Caher
Murphy House, County Clare.
The Loughrea Guardians have
elected Miss NJ. G. McCulla, of
Woodlawn, to the position of night
nurse in the Workhouse hospital.
The death has occurred in st.
Patrick's Hospital, Cork, of Rev.
Father Scannell, of Castletownbere,
who was very popular in West Cork.
Carlow Rural District Council has
adopted a housing scheme involving
an expenditure of $250,0O0, and pro-
viding for 255 cottages with allot-
ments.
The tender of Messrs. Isaac Cope
land, Belfast, has been accepted by
the Omagh Urban Council for the
erection of new Town Hall at a
cost of $4,000.
There were only three criminal
cases at Armagh Quarter Sessions
before Judge Green, who cungratu-
lated the grand jury on the peaceful
state of the district.
The Sligo Corporation appointed
J. Kivlehan to the position of poor
rate collector for the Borough of
Sligo by sixteen votes, against three
recorded for Joseph O'Beirne.
The two brothers, Patrick and
Peter Lalor, who are charged with
the murder of John J. Byrne at
Coolderry, were at Abbeyleix COM
mitted for trial to the Assizes.
John Quincy, brother of the late
representative for North Cork, Pat
rick Quincy, was returned unopposed
to represent the constituency as a
member of the All-for-Ireland party
The wife of an Omagh laborer
named Alphonsus Treacy has. given
birth to twin sons. This brings the
number of the Treacy family up to
fourteen, all being sons and all alive.
During coal mining operations near
Stewartstown the miners struck a
three-feet seam of coal, at distance
of fifty-three feet from the surface
The coal appears to be of q good
quality.
The Killala District Council, on
the suggestion of p. Gilmartin, a
flax mill owner, passed a resolution
asking the Department of Agriculture
to establish flax market at Ballina
or Killala.
The death has taken place at the
Convent of Perpetual Alteration,
Wexford, of Sister M. st. Alphonsus,
daughter of the late ]. Cullen, Dun
cormack, County Wexford, and niece
of Very Rev. Canon Doyle, of Ferns.
John Spellman, a Galway farmer,
was found lying on the roadside
near New Inn in an unconscious
state, as the result of fall from
bicycle. He was removed to his
home at Carran, where he sue
cumbed to his injuries.
Patrick McKeown, a jar5ey who
drove John Mitchell, has died in
Newry, County Down. Before the
construction of the Great Northern
railway he was driver of the South
'ern mail between Newry and Dun
dalk.
A verdict of death from heart
failure due to exposure was returned
at an inquest on Patrick Kennedy,
aged fifty-five, who was found dead
on the fiagway in Henry street, Tip
perary. Deceased was member of a
well-to-do family and years ago was
an extensive butter exporter.
Rev. John Kavanagh. of Corey. has
been the recipient of an address and
presentation on his departure for
Sacramento. Very Rev. w. Canon
Rossiter presided at the ceremony,
and T. j. Doyle read the address,
Father Kavanagh expressing his
gratitude in most cordial terms.