The Irish standard., 1918-04-06
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pounds-an increase of 29,94O pounds
over last year. The dividend was Is
per cent. Very Rev. A. J. Considine,
Arm, v. F., was reelected director.
Rev. M. j. Porteus presided at a
farmers meeting in Manorhamilton,
when J. J. O'Sullivan, agricultural in
structor, appealed for increased tillage.
F. E. Meehan, M. p, said the people
were living on the verge of famine,
and there were not enough ships to
bring food, even if the war were over.
J. N. Dolan said that if the Depart,
ment were in earnest, the neighboring
waste lands would be allotted to the
men who had no land to till.
Galway branch, National Union of
Railwaymen, passed a resolution pro-
testing against the expectation of dead
pigs and other essential food stuffs
from the city; calling for the cooper
alton of other bodies to form Food
committees to conserve supplies; and
asking all trade and labor bodies to
join in the formation of Trades
Council for Galway.
a Fenian Centre" for Sligo, has died.
Leitrim Co. Council adopted a reso-
luton demanding that powers be con-
ferred on the Irish Exploration and
Development Co. to acquire the neces-
sary lands to start the construction
of the Central Ireland Railways, stip-
ulating that the liability of the rate
payers of the Co. Leitrim should not
exceed sd in the pound.
When a discharged soldier named
Roache was bound to the peace at
Castelar, for threatening Mr.. Kilroy,
coachbuilder, defendant said complain
ant had a S. F. flag floating on his
premises, and shouted as witness
passed by, up the Kaiser!" whereup-
on he retorted, BLAST the Kaiser;
come into the field and I'll settle you"
Two young men named James
Kearns and Michael Mclaughlin of
Smutternagh were charged at Boyle
on Monday with conspiring to intimi-
date the owner and occupier Of Drum
doe House with view of compelling
him to abstain from using the lands.
The prisoners, who denied the right of
the court to try them, were sentenced
to two months Imprisonment in de-
fault of giving bail They were sent
to Mountjoy prison with the other
prisoners.
The following are the defendants
against whom the Miss Ffolliotts Of
Hollybrook, Boyle, are seeking an in
junction in the Court of Chancery:
Batty Shannon of Mount Gaffney,
farmer; Philip Heally of Gorterlough,
farmer; Thomas Candon of Ballinafad,
publican; Timothy Mccormick of Bal
linafad, farmer; John Brennan of Bal
laghboy, farmer; Pat Slein of Ballagh-
boy, farmer; Michael Shannon, senior,
of Aghanagh, farmer; John Fitzmau-
rice, ex-sergeant, Royal Irish Constab-
ulary, and publican, of Ballinafad;
Batty Koran of Ballaghboy, farmer;
Martin Smith of Aghanagh, farmer;
Owen Lyons, senior, of Ballaghboy,
farmer; Bartholomew Ganly, of Gull
sheegarrymore, farmer; Patrick Walsh
of Cuilsheegarrymore, farmer; and
Patrick McDermottroe of Ballaghboy,
farmer, all in the County of Sligo. An
injunction was granted against all ex-
cept John Fitzmaurice.
On the application of Edward Mar
tin, formerly of Abbeyview, Lavagh,
Ballymote, Justice Wylie on Monday
granted an interim injunction, limited
to fourteen days, restraining Francis
Keane and others from ploughing up
and taking possession of the plain
tiff's lands at Ballymurray 1t was
stated that cattle and sheep were driv-
en- off the land and two of the defend
ants served the applicant with notice
to hand over a portion for conacre
and he refused to comply. On the
18th ult. about twenty entered the
lands with bands, ploughs, horses, and
one of them, Joseph Berreen, with a
Sim Fein flag, said he was taking
them over in the name of the Irish
Republic.
A McCabe, B. Brady, E. Killeen, P.
Roger, T. Langan. P. J. Fairy, and B.
Keaney of the Ba1lymore district, who
had been sentenced to a weeks i'm
prisonment for contempt of court after
being remanded on bail in connection
with the alleged communicating of a
farm, returned home and were met by
large crowd with bands and escorted
to the local Sim Fein Hall. Mr.. Nc
Cabe, in the course of a speech, al
legged that while they were being taken
from the Sligo courthouse to prison, a
policeman hit him in the eye with a
baton because he demonstrated with
him as to the ill treatment of the pris
oners, all of whom had been hand
cuffed, and he intended to take the
matter to court to show how prisoners
were treated.
The death has taken place at the
age of So of John Flynn, at Ballinag
leragh, to which he returned three
years ago, having spent 33 years in
Kimberly, South Africa. He was the
most active worker for the establish
ment of the Christian Brothers Col
lege in Kimberley and was president
of an Irish Association which he