Widnes Examiner. — 1887-08-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IRELAND.  A man named Cornelius Neill was killed on Cork Quay on Saturday, owing to the explosion of a barrel of whisky, to Which some boys had set fire with a match.  A farmer named Custy -was fired at on Sunday afternoon, at Ermaghmore, near 'Ennis, and, it is stated, was fatally wounded. The outrage was agrarian.  A Killarney telegram states that Mr. Buckley, vicepresident of the Killarney National League, has been granted 30s. a -week for a month by the guardians, on account of his being an evicted tenant. -  On Saturday an attempt was made to wreck the day mail on the Irish Great Northern Railway, near the 'Cillich Station, by placing large stones on the line at the same spot where '3O years ago a train containing the Earl of Enniskillen and other Orangemen was thrown off the line by a similar outrage, and the engine driver and another were killed, the passengers having a miraculous escape. The 'house of Michael Cahir, an extmsive farmer of 'Ballybone, was fire,i into on Monday night by moonlighters, the shot! coming through the parlour window, shattering a lamp into fragments, and striking Mrs. Cahir in the face. The farmer recently discharged a herdsman from his employ, and this is -the supposed reason for the outrage. No clue to the perpetrators has been found. _ _  Mr. Blaine, the Republican candidate at the last election for the Presidency of the United States, has arrived in Dublin from Belfast, with his wife and 'daughter, after sojourning in Perth with his counntryman, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, proprietor of the great American steel manufactory. He purposes spending some time in Ireland, to have a quiet look round, in order to see for himself the condition of the country. In a few days he will proceed onth, visiting cork and Kit. larney. Quartermaster Armitage, Sixth Brigade North Irish Division Royal Artillery, stationed at Dungannon, committed suicide on Monday. He had been ordered to see the commanding officer; but, instead, he went to a druggist's and purchased some cyanide of potassium, which is used for cleaning gold lace, and drank a glassful, dying a few minutes afterwards. He had previously -written a note to his wife, saying that he had committed a serious crime, and could not meet the commanding officer.  In the Vice-chancellors Court, Dublin, on Saturday, a suit involving £250,000 was heard. A merchant, named James Carlisle, formerly of Belfast, died sometime since, leaving a very large amount of property. There were a number of claimants, the principal one being Mrs. Cherry Moore, a woman 75 years of age, the wife of a labourer living in :New Brunswick, who claimed, as sister and nearest relative of the deceased, to be entitled to the bulk of the property. The executors having expressed themselves satisfied as to her identity, the ViceChancellor said there was no occasion to make further inquiries, and, on the application of her counsel, a sum of £5OO was allowed to her on account of the enormous fortune to which she was entitled.  On Monday, an extensive fire broke out in the Chandler's premises of Messrs. Lambert, Bryant, and Co., Grafton-street, Dublin, and owing to the inflammable nature of the contents spread rapidly. The fire I eventually communicated itself to the adjoining premises of Mr. Robinson, photographer, and the whole block of buildings, including Mr. Gertz's jewelry establishment, the Singer Sewing Machine Company's warehouse, a public-house, and a pianoforte warehouse, were more or less destroyed. Business in Graftonstreet was entirely suspended. The fire brigade soon. arrived, but, abandoning all hopes of saving the burning building, devoted their attention to stopping.the fire from spreading to the adjoining premises. In a short time barrels of oil began to explode. The flames gradually became fiercer and fiercer till one by one all the floors had fallen in. At half-past three the brigade had the fire greatly under control. The damage done was very great.