The Irish standard., 1917-07-07
Sir George Askwith having arranged
to arbitrate, q laborers who struck at

to arbitrate, q laborers who struck at
Belfast Electrical Works for an in
crease Of IS. week. decided to return
to work Employees of Messrs.
Hughes, Dickson and Co., Ltd, flour
millers, Belfast, struck on Friday for
an increase, but some have returned
to work.
Charged with the manslaughter of
John Beattie, a child of 3, a young man
named Thomas Hall, Isoline street,
Belfast, was, at "a Special Court at
Comber, committed for trial at the AS
sizes. David Beattie, Halloween street,
Belfast, stated that Hall had suddenly
crashed into witnesses sidecar, in which
he was conveying his wife and child.
The child was found dead.
The Court of Appeal reserved judg-
ment in the case in which VIM. Orr
builder, Belfast, appealed against the
decision of the Kings Bench refusing
an application to stay proceedings in
the action brought against him by Ag-
mes Carlisle, aged Is, of Belfast,
through her father, ]. Carlisle, to re-
cover damages for alleged assault.
At Derry Quarter Sessions, Judge
Todd referred in sympathetic terms to
the death of C. O'Doherty, solr. The
practitioners also paid tribute to de-
ceased.
The pupils of the Ward School, Ban
gor, were entertained by Maud Lady
'Claremorris at Bangor in celebration
at the anniversary Of the Battle Of
Juteland, in which her SON, Com. the
Hon. e. B. S. Bingham, (prisoner of
war; gained the VIC.
A verdict of suicide whilst of I'M
sound mind was returned at an inquest
at Carduff (Carrickmacross) on an
old man named Martin Holland, of the
farming class, whose dead body was
found suspended by rope from tree
in garden adjoining the residence of
his sister, with whom he lived.
At Belfast Matilda Stafford, who
pleaded not guilty, was charged with
the alleged murder Of an infant male
child, and was returned for trial. Ac-
cording to police evidence prisoner ad-
mitted that she had left the infants
body under a hedge, and said when
she tied cord around the child's neck
she did not know what she was doing.
An open verdict was returned at an
inquest at Belfast on child named
John Beattie, who was killed as re-
suit of collision between his fathers
motor bicycle and sidecar and an
other motor bicycle, ridden by Thos.
Hall, Belfast. DR.. Adamson said death
was due to shock following fracture of
the base of the skull. Thos. Hall was
subsequently charged with manslaugh-
ter and remanded to Comber, bail be-
ing allowed in two sureties of $50.
The Rt. Rev. DR.. Day has appointed
Rev. G. A. Robinson, Magheraculmo-
ney, to the canory and examining
chaplaincy vacated by Archdeacon
MacManaway.
Strabane R. D. G. selected w. Ran
kin, J. P, and D. Craig, chairman, and
V. c., respectively Dungannon Guard
ians similarly reelected R. Newton, J.
P, and T. H. Shannon, J. p, with T.
G. w. Marshall D. " c.; and the R. D.
c. J. R. Ersl1ine, ]. P, and j. Richard
son-all Unionists, the Nationalist
not attending, as on former occasions
they were excluded from office.
The dead body of Patk. Coyle, spirit
merchant and farmer, has been discov-
cred in ditch near his residence, Lis
nalong, Rockcorry. He was at work
on his farm when last seen alive.
The death has occurred at the Mater
Hospital, Belfast, of B. M'Mackin, a
prominent member of the Belfast Vol
unteers. Deceased was a student of
Queens University, and had a distin-
guished record. He was arrested after
the Rebellion in 1916.
J. G. Wood, formerly N. S. T., Tyhol-
land, Monaghan, has received a COM
mission in the Army. The deaths in
action are announced of Sgt. P. Ma
guire, Inniskillings; Cpl. Jas. Mcguire,
Munster Fus., and Pie. M. Mcguire,
R. I. F., while Pie. P. Treanor and J, ].
Benson are reported wounded-all
Monaghan men.
The death has taken place at the age
of SO, of VIM. Waddell, late secretary
of Greenwood, Ltd, Belfast, and for
merly of the Northern Wing" and
Morning News" Deceased was a son
of the late ]. Waddell, linen merchant.
Monaghan, and brother of the late J.
Waddell, Q. c., Dublin.