The Irish standard., 1914-02-28
; NEWS FROM IRaANOX

liam Hegarty.-Jan. 20, at 261 Lecky
road. Derry, Anne Jane, wife of VII
siam McDaid, baker.-Jan. 20, at L.
came! House, Neville, Edward Ela,u
Jan. "a, at II Abbey street, Derry,
Catherine, eldest daughter of the late
Patrick Conwell, formerly of Killy-
begs.-Jan. 25, at Glentown, Urney,
Mary Henderson.-Jan. 25, at Great
James street, Londonderry, John Kill
son.-Jan. rs. at 80 Sloan's Terrace,
Derry. Annie, daughter of James To-
.and.-Jan. 25, at Is Mary street, Lon.
dcnderry, Alexander Hasson, horse.
dealer.
Donegal.
Died.-Jan. %, Mrs. Mary Jones .
West End Terrace, Buncrana.-Jan.
~, James D. Condor, The Mall House.
Ballyshannon.
The Guardians of the Infshowen I'm.
'on have granted approximation al.
lowance of SO IS Cd to Thomas Gal.
agher, the late porter of the work.
house.
The death has taken place in Ard.
ara, of ex-Head Constable Hugh Tor.
ney, who for forty-two years had
been drawing a Royal Irish Constabu.
larry pension. He was born In 1877 as.
sisted In taking the first census in
ls4l, was in charge of the stores a,
k1llybegs during the famine years,
and left the service in 1872. He was
the Oldest R. l. c. pensioner.
Down.
Bangor Urban Council has elected
Messrs, John McMeehan and Richard
fegan as chairman and vice-chairman.
respectively. In cambridge the Urban
Council selected Messrs. Robert Shoot.
er and Richard Hale as chairman.
On the evening of Jan. "a, the depu-
ty coroner for South Down. held an
inquest in Canal street, Newry, touch
ing the death of child named David
Mcllroy, aged three and a half wears.
who died that morning at his parents
residence, Chequer, Hill, Newry, as the
result of burns by falling into a basin
OF boiling water. DIR. Smart described
the extent of the burns. The cause of
death was exhaustion, the result OF
scalds, and the jury returned a yerdic,
accordingly.
Fermanagh.
Died.-Jan. II, in Dublin, Felix N.
Durham, formerly of Enniskillen, and
late headmaster Of Barack Street
School, Strabane, aged 81 years.-Jan.
4, at Strand street, Enniskillen, John
Fitzpatrick, aged So years.-Jan. 20, at
the Royal Hotel, Enniskillen, Rose Nc.
Williams.
On Jan. ~, before Judge Kenny and
a Dublin city jury verdict of e5 and
costs was granted against w. C. Trim.
BILE. proprietor of the Imperial Re-
porter" Enniskillen, at the suit of
John E. Collum, Billyue, Enniskillen.
for libel.
The late Surgeon Humphreys, of
Clareview, Fermanagh, left estate val
ued at s3,747 los I'd. The testator
left his estate upon trusts for his
daughters, stating that his son, John
st. Clair Blennerhasset Humphreys, is
already provided for by settlement.
A carpenter named Thomas Martin,
of Hollymount. Maguirebridge, had a
thumb and two fingers blown off one
of his hands, on Jan. 26, through the
exploding of cartridge which he care
lessly threw into the fire, thinking it
had already been discharged.
The death of Mrs. James Duffy,
Drumreask, Derrygennelly, more IA
miliarly known as 1.-THE Coach Road"
sewers a link with the days of stage
coaches, when railways were unknown.
The deceased and her husband for
long years kept car mans inn" in
their house at Drumreask. About
thirty-tive years ago Mrs. Duffy and
her husband gave up the spirit license
The deceased had arrived at the ripe
old age of IS years, and was possessed
Of all her faculties to the last.
Kerry.
The death took place recently at
Hove, of Rear Admiral John Edward
Stokes, who saw service in the war
with Russia and in China, aged IS
years. Rear Admiral Stokes was the
last surviving son of late Robert Day
Stokes, Of Tralee. He entered the
navy in 1851, and retired as captain
in 1898, and was promoted to the rank
of rear admiral three years later.
An official from the Congested Dis.
trists Board has been attending in the
Trinity College Estate Office, Caher-
civeen, for the purpose of comparing
the entries and payment of rents in
the tenants passbooks with those in
the estate books, in completion of the
purchase Of the Trinity College estates
by the Congested Districts Board.
The death has occurred, to the deep
sorrow of the clergy and people of
Kerry, of Very Rev. Denis Brosnan.
president st. Brendan's Seminary, Kill