Widnes Examiner. — 1888-09-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IRELAND.  A prisonetqn Fertnoy Bridewell, Michael Flynn, tempted suicide in his cell, on Saturday by tearing the steel tip ot his boot, and hacking his -throat, indicting 'Serious wounds.  The E. rather Kennedy. of Meelin. county Clark, was arres'ted at that place, on Monday, for having held a m,,-,eting of a suppressed branch of the National 'Leaguo of Duhallow. He was conveyed to Cork Gkol. t aineeting on Monday of the Roman Catholic clergy oF the deanery of Drogheda, over which Amhbishop Logue presided, a resolution was passed calling for the release of Mr. John Dillon on the ground that-his health :s breaking down. • •  - „ On Saturday, two constabulary inspectors visited Labasheeda, and told the publicans that'they would be prosecuted for refusing to sapply goods to the constabulary, and that their license certificates would be. opposed at the next sessions. Mr. Flynn, who has unloosed a fortune'in America as a money changer, returned to Ireland a 'few months ago. During the past week he drew.£6ooont of the bank, und spent the day drinking in several public-houses. He was locked up for drunkenness -sod awoke to find that 'he had lost notes of the value' c:f  On Sunday morning, n *roman • named Mary Jew Phillips was found lying trairder&l in a house of 'bad repute in Robert',street, wliich is ono of the worst districts in Belfast. The body had been wounded by sumo sharp and heavy ;instrument, and on the police arriving a man named Arthur /4:1110w:en, who had previously been imprisoned for assaniting the deceased, was arrcsted for wilful murder.  In Dublin. em 'Monday, Mrs. Lice S. Arthur, Vidow c,f the late Dr. Thomas. Arthur, of Tmmore, recovered £5O damages from Miss Margartt Arthur, of Waterford, her sisterin-law, for Shtnder. 'The defendant had, in the presence of &large number qm,ple, accused the plaintiff •1f having mnrdered her husband—at one timeralleging starvation and at another poisoning. She die not defend the netisn.  The Central News Wekfcrd correspondett, writes •hat Mr. John Redmond, M.P., and Mr. William RedM.T., were Arrested •at Ross, county Clare, on Monday, land were brought. before Mr. Kennedy, R.M.. charged with taking part in a conspiracy to compel Capt. Thomas Walktr not to let certain lands, formerly in the occupationuf Jas. Clinch. 'The offence alleged was stated to have taken place on Snly 22nd last. Heavy bail was imposed.  An extraordinary fracas between riderc at the Tramore races is reported. In the Count' Plats a desperate race took place between ware and i'ride•of the Valley for the last half-mile: bct the riders, Messrs. Joesph Wider and 'Harty. lest their tempers 'Coming up the straight, and commenced belabouring one another with their whips, Mr. "Widger receiving an mgly cut right across the face. The whipping continued till the riders dismounted, and on getting into the weigbing-room the whips were again brought into play, and the two men, fought determinedly until separated. '  The funeral of Mr. T. J. Murphy, ,r. leading local Nationalist, who 'fled to:America in 1667 to escape arrest owing to his r.onnection with Vine Fenian movement, took place on Sunday in Cork, and was verYlargely attended by the Nationalists of the city. Mr. aJ. Doran, architect, Queenstown, delivered a short iaddress over the grave, and said that when he saw the men calling themselves Nationalista by whom Ireland was represented he exclaimed with T.'S:rondo! "God save Ireland." Ireland would never gain her ir ,dependence by any amount of subserviency or eloqueno A police sergeant named .Macrodau, was seriously injured in wpublie-house in Blarney on Saturday night. He entered while some re en were singring Nationalist songs and speaking in tine< unplimentazy language of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Ho accused them of singing disloyal songs and uttering • defamatory language of the authorities, and proceeded Ito take their names. While doing so he was struck Pll the head with a glass, and received is dangerous won nd. An extra force of police was drafted intmthe villa e. Several of the men were placed under arrest, but a rith the exczption of two were subsequently released.