Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-01-24
IRELAND. IA
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events Culled
From Exchanges.

Martin Leonard has been co-opted
member of the Sligo Agricultural
and Technical Committee.
At a meeting of the Dundalk Ur-
ban Council j. McEntree was elected
assistant electrical engineer.
For some months the Annaghone
coalfield, near Stewartstown, has
been successfully worked by John
Mentally, of Cookstown.
The back-firing of an engine led
to the destruction of Ballinode mills
in Monaghan, the property of Wilson
Jamison. The damage was $1,000.
The death occurred at Enfield OF
James Bourke, a wealthy farmer,
whose wife died only the previous
week, being inferred on st. Stephens
day.
At a recent meeting of the Kill
macthomas District Council Patrick
Cullinan, of Newtown, was elected
Chairman in place of Nicholas Fitz-
gerald, who resigned.
Patrick Jellico, a farmer of Bally-
colgan, near Edenderry, was found
dead in bed. He was in his usual
good health and before he retired to
bed recited the rosary.
The recent severe frost caused the
Shannon to be frozen over in the
vicinity of Carrick and hundreds of
small boys could be seen disporting
themselves on the ice.
The death occurred recently of
Mrs. Johanna Connolly, of Cashel.
Her son, Rev. J. J. Connolly, who is
on the mission in Illinois, was pres
ent at her last moments.
At the opening of the Roscommon
Quarter Sessions Sub-Sheriff Dignan
presented County Court Judge
Wakely with a pair of white gloves
as a token of maiden sessions.
The death has taken place, in his
seventy-seventh year, of James
Walsh, of Carriganima, near Mac
room. The deceased was prominently
associated with the Fenian move
ment.
At Derry Petty Sessions the Mag
lstrates passed a resolution express
ing deep regret at the death of
Alderman M. A. Ballantine, ex-Mayor
of the city, and extending their con
dolence to his bereaved relatives.
At a meeting of the parishioners
Of the united parishes of Clonegal
and Kildavin, held recently in the
parochial hall, steps were taken to
erect a memorial to the memory of
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| Darby Shea, a farmer of Cap
panacuss, near Kenmare, was
drowned in a swollen stream which
he attempted to cross. His body was
swept down the stream, and was
afterward found on the north shore
of Kenmare river.
Deep regret is felt for the death,
which took place on Christmas eve,
at the parochial house at Balla, of
the Very Rev. John McDermott, who
was much esteemed and revered by
the people of the parish during the
period of his jealous ministration
there.
At special meeting of the Leitrim
County Council to deal with the
question of the proposed extension
of the Cavan and Leitrim railway up
to the Arigna Valley, it was decided
to appoint a deputation to wait on
the directors of several railway COM
panies with view to their light
railway.
Mrs. Mary Doyle, the wife of a
small farmer living in Rossen, Gran.
ard, was burned to death in her own
house on Christmas eve. Her hus-
band and his niece left the house
two hours earlier to visit a shop in
Lismacaffrey. When .they returned
they found Mrs. Doyle lying on the
kitchen floor almost burned to death,
and she died in few minutes after
ward.