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Church for u.<. .j WO. <_• . uo/.lliC . OtU.CS undetermined, but from the ! ssue as national, best compose their m offered for ihu ' .Collin . .ixbt .(1 L>lV .Siull u> 1 !, • i is rea^onauly inferable that difficulties outside of a political con ness in this elem iivv were very , . ui H:beru.aus in.t; rnment is t(ii appoint the del- vention. The chambers of commerce confident that i\u .,iicss would win i ...ibo, iuious vote of confidence >e) the convention is to be and other industrial interests in Ire News from Ireland and that South l.o..^.oid would strike in ... ..jiison, pledging him ui. helu behind closed doors, and the land, with their expert knowledge, per a great blow for Ireland. their i against the insidious at chu T...an is to be appointed by the haps might also better adjust their tack muuu .-.n liim for exercising his rown; (f) nothing but special war special claims in the harmony of a Defence of Realm Act. right, as a member of the Corpora considerations would induce the Gov committee than in the chaos of an At the Petty Sessions' Court in GOD MADE THE FLAG OF WATERFORD. tion, in supporting the conferring of a ernment to take up the settlement of open debate. Longford, Pat. Gowan, Bawn, was fined merited honor on Count Plunkett. the Ir:sh Question at this time. IRELAND. 7s. 6d. for demanding a price over Given Both Desire and Opportunity. Petition Against Partition. A fair and impartial analysis of the that laid down by the Food Control Given the desire for settlement, and Thousands of people in Dungarvan The Countess Marckievicz. foregoing provisos will convince the By Rev. P. A. Sharkey. ler for potatoes, contrary to the pro The Sligo Corporation have adopted the power to settle, there is nothing town and district have signed the pe unprejudiced mind that the proposal inherently impossible of settlement in visions of the Defence of the Realm a resolution proposed by Councillor to allow a convention of Irishmen to God made the dag of Ireland, tition against Partition. The list will Act the Irish situation. Conditions can be remain open for signatures at the Reilly, and seconded by Councillor adopt a constitution for the govern His angels wove each fold, Monson, calling on the Government to laid down by which every legitimate And wrapped around our sireland Town Hall for several days. ment of their country is illusory and interest in Ireland will be adequately KINGS. treat Countess Marckievicz and the deceptive, for the following reasons: The Green and White and Gold. Irishmen, sentenced for the rebellion, safeguarded. . But, even with these It crowns old Ireland's mountains TIPPERARY. (1.) It excludes all means and •op conditions assured, will a settlement The Late Dean Scanlan. as prisoners of war. portunity for the adult population of By Heaven's supreme decree; A resolution of regret at the death be reached? The decision rest entire The New Movement. Ireland to give free and unrestricted . Above the graves of Ireland's braveB of Very Rev. Dean Scanlan, V.G., P.P., LEITRIM. ly with the extremists. If these, Re It waves serene and free. Rev. Father Culligan, C.C., Silver- Birr, was passed by the Munster Coun expression of feeling and opinion. publicans or Reactionaries, believe mines, who presided at a Sinn Fein cil of the Clerical School Managers. (2.) - It limits representation to cer themselves assured of support outside Though Britain's brutal laws have meeting in Nenagh, said that the mem Great Rejoicing. tain public bodies, professions, inter » banned There was great rejoicing in Car- of Ireland,, support from America or bers of every , new movement in Ire QUEEN8. ests, and classes, which in the major from England, support greater than The Gold and White and Green, land were called felons and criminals. rick-on-Shannon over the result of the ity of cases are either under Govern i, God's angels wove its every strand, South Longford election. Tar barrels their numbers or their claims merit, General Rejoicing. ment control or susceptible to its in they may remain obstructive and re And lo! its glimmering sheen CLARE. were lighted on the hills, and the fluence. v Is, seen upon the mountain tops The triumph of the Sinn Fein can Drumlin A. O. H. Band, with a crowd calcitrant, they may refuse all com didate for South Longford has been (3;) It in no sense can be a repre promise, they may frustrate every at- v In folds of golden gorse, Clare Farmers' Protest. of young men, paraded the streets, and sentative body with a mandate from hailed with delight throughout the cheered Joseph McGuinness, Archbish tempt .at settlement. It is, therefore, Where white buds washed in dew- The Clare Farmers' Association has the people to speak for them, since its drops county. When news of the victory op Walsh, the Bishops -who signed th^ now of value to canvass Irish opinion passed a resolution protesting against arrived there were processions, bon members will be Government- ap Grow, and streamlets wend their anti-partition petition, Count Plunkett, in America, to place on record the at the stoppage of racing in Ireland. The fires and a display of Republican flags. pointees, and consequently care will titude of Irish-Americans toward this course. Bishop O'Dwyer of-Limerick, and Fath be taken that a majority ^rill repre resolution emphasizes the injury to er O'Flanagan. convention, in order that irish aims horse breeding and the number of t sent the Government. (Sod made the flag of Ireland, KILDARE. here may be defined, lest extremists, people that will be thrown out of em (4.) The inclusion of the miscalled ( • No puny human hands Body Found in River. deluding themselves with false hopes, ployment. People of Naas Rejoice. Sinn Feiners is a specious semblance plan to defeat its purpose. No elabo •!'• ^Can tear from her, our sireland, A body taken from the Shannon at of generosity,, since among their brav The love for which it stands— The result of the election was re Athlone, has been identified as that rate inquiries are necessary. , Catego LIMERICK. ceived with great rejoicing in Naas. est and most gifted are those con rical answers to the following «three The White of Erin's virgin love, of Driver John Wyn'ne, aged twenty- demned to imprisonment, whose voice The Republican colors were flown five, of Drumshambo. He had been questions would give all the informa „ Forgiving times untold, Killed1* by Passing Train. and influence would be as useful and And bridging by His will above from several houses and a tar bar missing since March 24. tion needed: Mr. D. Flynn, an extensive farmer rel was lighted on the Fair Green. potential as were the voice and influ (1.) Are you in favor of a.conven The deathless Green and Gold. ence of the warring Boers who were of Knocksouna, Bruree, was killed at MAYO. tion of the Irish TnTlreland determin God made the flag of Ireland; a railway crossing on his land by the Serious Motor Accident. iirvited to council in South Africa. ing the plan of the future Government* • He made her sons to be Limerick to Cork train. A serious-street accident occurred Triumph of Unselfish Politics. (5.) A convention chairman ap of Ireland? The warders of their sireland, near Leeson Street Bridge, Dublin, The Mayo News, referring to the pointed by the Government would to (2.) If that convention be arranged j N A nation pure anil free. CORK. when a motor car, driven by Mr. P. South Longford election, writes: "It all intents and- purposes be a govern on a basis as equitable as is consistent | Today no tyrant's bluster McCann, solicitor, of Naas, collided is the most magnificent triumph of mental instrument, having in his hands with the present .exigencies of war, Shall cloud the Easter Dawn, P'Brien Not to Retire. with an outgoing tramcar from the pure and unselfish patriotism over the the whole machinery of the conven will you abide by its decisions? •Beneath God's flag we muster, Persistent rumors have been in Nelson Pillar to CJonskeagh. The mo worst elements of political corruption tion, the formulation of rules and pro (3.) If the British Parliament le Our cry "Sinn Fein awaun!" circulation in Cork to the effect that tor car was smashed, and Mr. Mc and chicanery that, perhaps, Irish his cedure, the uses of arbitrary power galizes these decisions, will you loyal I Mr. William O'Brien has decided to Cann was thrown violently on to the tory can record. Irish hearts all over without responsibility, and by reason ly and whole-heartedly co-operate with DONEGAL. retire, from the Parliamentary" repre pavement, ^sustaining very severe in the world will rejoice at the glad tid of the secrecy surrounding the pro the* Irish Government thus consti sentation erf the city, and that the juries to his head. He was conveyed ings. ceedings, the authority to suppress tuted? Famine Threatened. question of finding a candidate to con to St. Vincent's Hospital. His con free discussion and bar public criti Information Necessary for Convention. Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., after a tour test the seat has been exercising the dition is serious. Lace Instructress Appointed. cism, so essential to a constructive This information is necessary to the of Northwest Donegal, said that he minds not only of Mr. O'Brien's fol Miss O'Halloran, Newport, has been deliberative body. members of the convention. It is no was convinced of the necessity for lowers, but also of" the Redmdndites appointed lace instructress by the We therefore regard the proposal I WICKLOW. less essential to the vast body of non- prompt action in providing maize and and the Sinn Feiners. Inquiries failed Mayo Technical Instruction Commit as an insidious pretense, impractica Irish opinion in America, for if Ire flour to millers and merchants to pre to elicit any confirmation of the . ru Presentation to Bank Clerk. tee. ble in its operation, and, because" of land ceases from being a cockpit for mors. vent famine. Mr. P. L. Browner, Hibernian Bank, its lack of democratic honesty, -fore English politicians, there should be doomed to failure. Hi- ( . Wicklow, has received a presentation Margarine Instead of Butter. neither support nor tolerance here for Fatal Driving Accident. The Master of the Swinford Work As Americans, we assert and be DERRY. on his transfer to Newbridge. N mischievous agitators seeking then to While returning from Mallow with house reported to the Guardians that lieve that in doing so we are in har convert it into a cockpit for intransi- a load of manure, Michael Church, mony with sound public opinion in Demand Wage Increase. WEXFORD. he had to pay 2s. 6d. per lb. for but geant Irish factions. farmer, fell from his' cart and was ter, as the officers- and attendants America; and that, if England be sin To show sympathy with the Rus Derry carters, who receive 27s., have killed. cere, in the words of Lloyd George, demanded an increase of 5s. a week. Jubilation in Ennlscorthy. had declined to use margarine, an ex sian people and to give what aid they cellent supply of which he was get that she "woyld not forget that restitu may seek in counsel, an American KERRY: There was great jubilation in En- tion and reparation began at home," niscorthy over the result of the South ting from Cork at 9d. per lb. The Commission has been dispatched Dy ANTRIM. use of margarine was ordered to be she will concede v to the Irish people j! Vote of Sympathy. Longford election. Tar barrels burned President Wilson to Russia. The set continued in the house. the right to elect their own represen tlement of the Irish Question now is Belfast Hospitals Committee. Listowel Guardians passed a vote in the market square, Turret Rocks tatives, that those representatives Councillor Audrews has been ap of-sympathy with their colleague, Mr. and Vinegar Hill. Hundreds of young scarcely less important to the success GALWAY. shall have the right to elect their own ful prosecution of the war than is the pointed Vice-Chairman of the Belfast J. J. Foley, on the death of his mother. men paraded the streets and placed chairman, and conduct their proceed a Republican flag on the Father Mur adjustment of difficulties in Russia. Hospitals and Dispensaries' Commit Professor Steinberger's Will. ings in the light of day, frame the gov tee in place of Dr. Allworthy, resigned. DUBLIN. phy '98 monument. In Ireland, as in Russfh, men en The late Professor Steinberger, Uni ernment the people of Ireland want, grossed^ in the problems among which Refused to Pay Fine. versity College, Gal way, who left £8,- and that the constitution which the$ they live are apt to lose their perspec Big Price for Hogs. Mass for the Martyrs. 475, left two contingent annuities of may draft for the government of Ire M. J. M'Andrew, Bangor, sold three Mass for the repose of the souls of Michael Hore, Seawood Avenue, tive, are apt to exaggerate inconse £200 each for the erection and main land will be. promptly accepted and quential differences, forgetting that pigs ih Manchester for £90. James Connolly, Michael Mallin and Wexford, was convicted at the local tenance of the new Catholic Cathe enacted by the Parliament of England. the world is at war. The people of Sean Houston, was celebrated on May Petty Session^ of making statements I Ml' calculated to cause disaffection, and, dral in Galway. Opinions of Other Leaders. Ireland in their existing confusion !•>';$1 Port Dues Increased. 13 in the Dominican Church, Tallaght. Among the many prominent New At a recent meeting of the Belfast The people walked in procession from on being fined 21s., with costs, de need advice/ and aid almost as urgent clined to pay, and was removed in Yorkers who have given the' result of ly as our Russian allies. A deputa I Harbor Commissioners the port dues the Church carrying Republican flags, custody. their study of the propositions are and rates were raised 20 per cent. and were attacked by a large force tion of eminent Irish-American Pres DISCUSSION OF, THE Father Wynne, Judge Cohalan, Sen byterians is about to go to Ireland to This increase on last year's basis will of police at Mountpleasant Square. ator O'Gorman, Judge Goff and W. mean an additional revenue of over The Superintendent of Police was CARLOW. place at the disposal of their Ulster PROPOSED IRISH Bourke Cochran, none of whom ex brethren their wisdom in all matters £21,000. struck with a hurley and received a press unqualified approval of the meas bad wound. The Inspector was Bonus for Surveyor. upon which their counsel may be The Carlow Urban Qouncil have CONVENTION. ure. Father Wynne sums up his con sought. This is an auspicious begin DOWN. knocked down but his injuries were clusions thus: slight. There were no arrests. granted a bonus of £25 to Mr. P. P. ning. In wishing these patriotic and Carbury, Borough Surveyor. How Lloyd George's Proposal Is Taken Restraining Influences Needed. self-sacrificing gentlemen God-speed, Death of Sister Carroll. by Ireland's American Frie.nds—A LOUTH. But another factor complicates this one cannot help regretting that the . The death has occurred in the Con Handwriting on Wall. Wide Range of Opinion Expressed question of representation. Most of Irish in Ireland have not now by their vent of Mercy, Newry; of Sister Mary Many Clarifying Suggestions Of Against Partition. The Carlow Nationalist regards the the Republican leaders are in jail. The side the leaders of iHsh thought in Teresa Carroll, for sixty-four years defeat of the Irish Party in South fered. wisest of them all, Professor John this country and in Canada. Mr. connected with the Order.. She was a The Droglieda Board of Guardians have unanimously passed a resolution Longford as the handwriting on the McNeill, the man who, failing to pre Michael J Ryan, of Philadelphia, the sister of the late Mr. Vincent S. Car wall. * As was to be expected the proposed vent the Easter Rising, yet succeeded leader of the Nationalist Party here; roll, Dundalk. endorsing the protest made by the Bishops against Partition, and calling conventiop holds the center of the in restricting it to Dublin, has just Supreme Court Justice Cohalan, the upon the public' bodies to do like KILKENNY. world's sta^e in spite of the innumer completed the first year of penal ser leader of the Young Ireland move ARMAGH. wise. able other political issues that raise vitude to which he was condemned ment; Justice Keogh, Mr. Victor Her- Put Country Up for Sthe. their threatening heads for adjust for his political activities. His re berfef fex-Senator O'Gorman, Mr. Bain- The Partition Peril. MEATH. In no part of Ireland was the tri ment discussion. It is becoming evi straining influence was never more bridge Colby, vand countless other The Nationalists of Armagh are umph of Irish Nationalism over job dent as the (lays go by that the status sorely needed in Ireland than at this Irishmen .of distinction are available vehement in their opposition to Par Protest Against Partition. bery greater than in old Ossory. The of Ireland must be surely and definite moment. A party deprived of its lead in this crisis.' The sending now to tition. They are determined not to Mr. C. Plunkett Coghill, J.P., Frank- Kilkenny People, voicing the opinion ly determined before the cause of de ership in a convention, no matter how Ireland of pil American advisory com be cut off from Ireland. The people ville, Atliboy, writing against Partition, of all true Irishmen, remarks: "If mocracy can command the hearty and great its numerical strength there, is mission adequately representing* Irish attribute the Partition peril to Red states: "As a Unionist, but above all Ireland acts on the lead given by effective support required to concen a party without real and effective rep opinion in this country would be mond's subserviency to the English an Irishman \yho loves his country, I South Longford, a stern account will trate the energies of the civilized resentation. As Mr. Redmond has deemed a gracious and a friendly act Liberals. trust you will include my name as be exacted from the politicians who world against the autocracy and inso stipulated and Mr. Lloyd George has by the Irish people, would be of in one who protests against the proposed put their country up for sale. There lence of Hohenzollernism. The tenta promised that the convention will be calculable aid to the success of the MONAGHAN. Partition of Ireland." would be no Partition if there were tive draft of the convention plan has truly representative of all shades of convention, and would be the means no Partitionists. The Partitionists are aroused bitter opposition on the part Irish opinion, the adjustment of this of bringing the Irish Question to a Body Found in River. Compulsory Fodtk Regulations. the men who betrayed their trust. of many of the most able, earnest and difficulty is doubtless now under con speejiy and a permanent solution. ^ The body of Philip Marron, Peaste Mr. II. J. Hanbury was fined £2 at sincere friends of the Irish cause, Who sideration by these statesmen. was found in Loughferf lake. It is be Trim for selling oats- at a price ex ROSCOMMON. can discern it nothing but a scheme The Southern Unionists, the only re lieved that the tody was in the water ceeding the maximum fixed by the by which England hopes to "save, her maining Irish party, return two mem No Such Thing as Poor for at least three weeks. Marron had Food Controller. " Death of Mrs. M'Dermott. face," as the professed propagandist bers to Parliament. In-so-far as they Soil under our methods of been for several years in San Francis The de^th has taken place at her of the rights of the weaker nations. are .Unionists, their sentiment coin- co and returned to Ireland recentiyT WESTMEATH. residence, Rooskey, of Mrs. Patrick The principal counts of the indictment cides-with the Ulsterites, and they are farming. "SAN MUCK" I McDermott, mother of Sister Mary against the plan as given by the Com-, in no need of special .consideration. Literature tells why. Free. TYRONE. New Pastor of Rahan. Ethnea and Mary Alberta, Sacred mittee of the Friends of Irish Freedom But in-so-far as they alone represent , Mullingar Commissioners-have ex Heart Convent, Jersey City, U. S. A., —Dr. Thomas Addis Eihmet, Victor Episcopalian interests in Ireland, too 100 bushels of corn on The Republican Flag. pressed regret at the departure of and Mr. Henry J. McDermott, Inspec Herbert and James/K. McGuire, are groat tenderness cannot be shown in as follows: Iheir regard. Perhaps a separate lightest soil. You can raise At Trillick a representation of the Rev. J. Flynn, and congratulated him tor of Customs, New York. Republican flag was painted on the on his appointment as P. P. of Rahan Excluding from consideration the committee of the convention a com it on land we sell on terms door of the police barrack. . Vaccination Defaulters. intensive and highly colored state mittee consisting, of clerical represen Milling Accommodation. It was reported to the Castlerea ments which have beetr cabled to the tatives of the Roman Catholic prim you can meet. <* acy, of the .Episcara ian hierarchy, of FERMANAGH. At the Westmeath County Commit Guardians that there were over 400 newspapers, manifestly designed to in Kohler-Peet Co. 5, tee of Agriculture and Technical In vaccination defaulters in the Union, fluence public opinion in America; the Presbyter}* n assrmbly, and cf the and notices were ordered to be served other gcyern'rig bodies of non-conform •1211 McKnight Building; To Close Workhouse. struction, the * Chairman, Mr. R. J. also excluding the fervid declarations on ten of the oldest defaulters in each ity in Ireland could, in these days - Irvinestown Guardians have decided Downes, submitted a scheme for pro of Members of Parliament, there is Minneapolis viding milling accommodation in the of the districts with a view to prose but^one concrete proposal made by the when Christian m;i:y is as vital an to close the workhouse and hospital cutions in the event of their not com and to accept the Enniskillen Guar county. He pointed out that the Coun responsible Minister of the Crown that ty Council had, some time ago, voted plying with the law. Boyle Guard- dians' terms for boarding the inmates. can form a basis for any intelligible £700 for the purpose, to be used in \ ians made a similar order in the case comment. conjunction* with a similar grant, if j of Boyle No. 1 dispensary district, * Great Rejoicing. This proposal, reduced to simple given, by the Department, ' and the where there are 201 defaulters. terms, is: (a) That because of the There was great rejoicing in South latter had been acquainted of this. e of Saint Thomas failure of all attempts to arrive at a O.'FLl S?;.NCE g CONTROL® DIRECTION OF ARCHBISHOP IRELAND-.. Fermanagh over the election of Jo He drew up a scheme "as .a result of Irish Language Fund. seph McGuinness for South Longford. settlement on proposals which ema aintf Paul Minnosota a letter he had received from an of A Flag Day in support of the Irish nated from a British Government, the ft 11It CLASS BUILDi Bonfires burned and the Republican ficial of the Department. The Com language was held recently in Boyle AQMOBY flag was everywhere displayed. present Government invites Irishmen DOP.MITCrV mittee approved the scheme, and or and a very substantial sum* was real themselves to put forward their pro ized. Everybody wore the Republican dered it to be sent to the Depart- posals; (b) for that purpose, the Gov PfSIDBKE HAU. t; CAVAN. meftt. v flag. ernment proposes to summon a con vention of Irishmen to submit a con ADrtWfSTPATIQN CADG " ^ .'Mass for Martyrs. * LONGFORD. ?LI stitution for the Government of Ire . ' Anniversary Mass was offered up in lnnd w'th'n the Empire; (c) the con A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE Ranked as an Honor School by the War Department ^Loughduff Catholic Church for the re- Masses for M'GuinntfSs. Tricolor i- ISM ry Home. vention -v 11 be representative of the Collegiate Commercial Academic Preparatory frose of the 89uls of the men who died At a meeting held at Arda^h to for 1 Republicnn f'» "e displayed in lcca lo- pvn'n!; bodies, the churches Careful Mental, Moral and Religious Trainine . in Easter We'ek, 1916. The members ward the interests of Joseph McGuin the Mnl'i'1 and they are the t - "s the commercial ; Eight Hundred and Thirty Students From of Loughduff Corps of the Volunteers ness, a letter was read amid enthusi 'n hp f " "nise. A flas 1 ' s and/Siim F u Twenty-Five States Last Year. , had three large Republican flags, one asm from Father Avustine of ^u-c'' h wires ove*- of repress FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ADDRESS of which they left flying outside while Street, Dublin, in which he sa'd that came distr^' ' odies, an ' Very Rev. H. Moynihan, D. D. Pres. at Mass. all the Masses the F"- '
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