LUSITANIA TORPEDOED OFF CORK HARBOUR NEARLY 1,500 DROWNED

Sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th Our representative learns from a Cork gentleman who was in Kinsale yesterday that a farmer who lives on the land nearest the Old Head of Kinsale reports that about 1.15 o'clock yesterday he heard two shots, and on looking seawards he noticed a large steamer.

Her bows went up in the air, and as far as he could judge about ten minutes later she heeled over on her side, and sank very soon after.

About four o'clock the steam trawler Daniel O'Connell, that had been fishing eight miles southwest of the Old Head, came on the scene and picked up two of the ship's boats which were about the spot. Those contained 65 passengers, mostly women and children, all of whom were in a deplorable condition.

The trawler was taking those survivors to Kinsale, but was intercepted by a government tug, which took them to Queenstown. Great excitement prevails in Kinsale, but not a single passenger has arrived there.

Longford Journal 8 May 1841 Father Matthew spent Sunday and Monday last at Clonare and Kinnegad, and enlisted into his ranks about 8,000 teetotallers. He was as usual attended by the lame and blind, and persons inflicted with disease, but they returned to their homes with all their infirmities as they came; yet his votaries would have it believed that he performed various miracles. The teetotal band of Mullingar was in attendance on his reverence.

A most notorious character named Donoghoe, who was convicted at the January Quarter Sessions of Mullingar for violent assault on a policeman named Graham at Ballinafid, in which he broke the constable's collar-bone, was on Thursday liberated from gaol, by order of the Lord Lieutenant, although from the nature of the assault, he was sentenced by the Assistant Barrister to 18 months' imprisonment. It should be borne in mind too that the charge on which he was apprehended by Constable Graham at the time he assaulted the constable was for a previous assault of a very violent nature.

Of the 18 months' imprisonment awarded him by the Assistant Barrister, he has not served quite four of the number. So much for the sympathisers of the Castle.

Freeman's Journal 6 May 1794 Skinner's Row, Dublin.

Last night, the new levies of the Skinnerownian Carmagnols highly gratified themselves while the inhabitants of the metropolis were preparing to celebrate the defeats that the French have lately received by illumination.

At nightfall this hired mob paraded the streets, calling out for lights to illuminate the windows, and in such houses as their commands were not instantly complied with, they broke the windows.

Being gratified in this way, they afterwards ran round the town calling out "no lights", breaking the windows of those that did not immediately put them out. . .

Numbers had their windows broken by this new sans culotte corps on this occasion, who, we hope, will send in a bill of their damages to the Revolutionary Tribunal of the Row of Skinners.