The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-11-24
CONNAUGHT.

Quarter Sessions, on a charge of at
tempting suicide. 1t was stated that
on the wall over a bed upon which he
lay he had written in blood the words
I'll cut my throat
On the report of the auditor, Mr..
Eliss, showing that the accounts were
kept in an unsatisfactory manner, the
L. G. B. suggested to the Management
Board of the Galway Co. Hospital the
advisability of removing the clerk, Mr..
S. ]. Leonard, from Office, and notice
of the motion in the matter was given
by Mr.. M. M'Neill, J. P.
To Ballaghadereen Diocesan College,
M. Duff and Co. have contributed s200
and John Dillon, M. p, $50.
The question whether a medical Of
f1cer appointed by Board of Guar
dams, subject to l.. G. B. sanction, can
recover his salary in the absence Of
that sanction, has been reserved by
Judge Doyle at Ballinnobe Sessions in
an action by DR.. Coghlan, Foxford, for
Health.
At the Sligo Quarter Sessions, II
young men from the Gurteen district
named Owen Tansey, Bernard Bren-
nan, John Finn, Patk. Mulligan, Joe
Tansey, Matt Brennan, Domk, Murray,
Jas. Grady, Mich. Sharkey, John M
Dermott, and Patk. Roddy. appealed
against the decision of a Crimes Act
Court sentencing them to IA days. i'm
prisonment for alleged unlawful as.
sembly on the night of the E. Clarke
election. His Honor upheld the mag
istrates' decision, but allowed defer
dants out on their word of honor to
be of good behavior for six months.
BY fifteen votes to three Castlebar
D. C. rejected a motion for the re-
scinding of resolution of April last
year condemning the rebellion; and a
resolution was passed expressing con-
fidence in the Irish Party and con-
graduating the Irish Convention on
the unanimity marking it's delibera.
lions.
Rev. John Kilkenny, who died in his
seventy-eighth year in Chicago, was a
native of Ballyhaunis, and a relative
of Ven. Archdeacon Kilkenny, of
Tuam.
There was crowded attendance in
st. Patrick's Hall, Boyle, on Sunday
night when the members of the Sligo
Gillooley Hall Dramatic Society sue
cessfully staged Mr.. Edward McNulty's
famous comedy, "The Lord Mayor"
All the parts were ably sustained by
the various artists, who showed his
trionic talent of very high order for
an amateur combination.
J. T. McGrath, Kilmanagh, French
park, and Patrick Beirne, Lissergool,
received the extraordinary sum of ESQ
each for two sows at the Castlerea
pig fair on Monday. The prices were
the best ever obtained in the district.
Farmers offered potatoes for sale
at Cd. and I'd. per stone at the Castle
rea market on Saturday, but the po-
lice being present. cautioned them
against selling under Cd. per stone.
This created a deadlock in the mar
ket and the potatoes remained unsold.
Oats sold at from Els. to 23s. per
barrel; hay Is. Cd. to 3s. Cd. per cwt.;
eggs, 29s. per 1870.
Arrangements are being made for
the holding of ar Aeridheacht in Bun
ninadden at an early date in Novem-
Der, and prominent speakers will ad.
dress the meeting, which will be held
subsequently.
The business of the Mullaghroe
Court on Thursday occupied only five
minutes, and consisted of only two
police cases for lights" and case
for alleged assault which was marked
mo appearance"
There was good demand for forward
stores at Gurteen fair on Tuesday, but
poor animals were drug in the mar
ket. Springers were in keen demand
and changed hands at high prices.
A Requiem Mass for the repose of
the soul of the late Thomas Ashe was
celebrated in Gurteen Parish Church
on Wednesday last in presence of a
large congregation. A large crowd
of Volunteers marched to and from
the Chapel wearing crepe armlets and
Sim Fein colOrs.
Preaching at a Mission in Gurteen,
Rev. Father Lawrence, o. S. F. c.,
said. though Ireland is cursed with
old bachelors, it is free from divorce.
There was no civilized country so ma
terialistic in regard to marriages as
Ireland, where money and land were
considerations in regard to them. He
advised early marriages, and said the
blame of late marriages was with the
parents.
Thomas Mulligan, young man, was
fined Ell and costs at Tobercurry on
charge of reckless driving. It was
stated that, having no experience in
motor driving, he took from outside
the post office a motor mail car, ca.
reered madly on it for about a mile
having several hairbreadth escapes
and in trying to avoid a policeman
crashed into a wall causing extensive
damage to the machine, through the
wind-screen of which his head was
driven.
Although it is over two years since