Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-03-19
TElE
0'DOnOvan Rosa Creates
q Riot In Canada.
He Escapes from an Infu-
rated Mob.
TEA CULTURE PRACTICABLE IN
THE UNITED STATES.
Secretary sherman on the Silver
Bill.
lsrsciAL DISPATCH 10 TIE 9oLD HILL
DAILY NEws.l
A Rios over o'Dopovan Rosa.

A Riot over O'Donovan Rosa.
ToRoSro, March 1s.-0'Donovan Rosa
arrived here this forenoon. Having been
forewarned that his reception might be
uncomfortably warm II ho travelled ~ far
~ the regular station here, he jumped of
the train while In motion at the round
house. fell In the mud and came within q
foot OF being run over. Ho was only &C.
o~ompanied by one co-patriot. but there
were . number Of hard looking characters
scattered about tho train, who were sup
posed 70 compose his body guard. He was
spirited away In q cab, and thus escaped
the Orange mob which Was awaiting his
arrival at Younge-strect Station. He kept
himself scoluded all day. At Z this oven.
lug Eve companies Of the Queens Own
and four Of tho Tenth Royals were mus.
tered calmly In the drill shed. 100 yards
from 81. Patrick's Hall. where tho lecture
Was 10 DO delivered. Ono hundred police
guarded the hall. A mob Of 1000
men blocked the orner OF King and
James streets and completely filled East
Market square. Rossa got up stairs In
the hall without being recognized and
began TO speak at 8 o'clock, upon ''Ireland
and Her Trials and Triumphs." There
wero but about one hundred and fifty PEG.
pie present. mostly young Irishmsn and
Hibernians. The moment the gas was
turned on In tho hall the mob outside
opened fire with stones, and . perfect
shower was rained In the windows until
the lecture closed at 9:30. Not . pane OF
glass was left. Rosa stopped several
times, and ono OF the audience proposed
that they should charge down stairs and
out. This was overruled, however. and
the audience waited In darkness for tho
mob TO dispense. At 1915 Rosa stole
quietly out on TO King street and passed
unobserved into the crowd. and the
audience got out In twos and throos after
him. Al this hour (midnighD the young
Britons arc marching through the streets,
but Rossa's whereabouts arc kept q pro-
found secret. Pistols were not used.
though thoro were hundreds OF revolvcrs
In tho crowd. A number Of persons were
arrested for throwing stones.
Later.-At 1910 the Young BritoDs At
tackled Cosgrove's tavern on Queen street.
Cosgrove 10 . prominent Irish Nationalist.
Tho hotel windows were riddled, and iire
from revolvors was begun from the inside
and vigorously returned by the rioters.
The police charged tho mob with batons
and . brisk eng agemcnt cnsued. Another
mob opened q fusilado on Collins tavern
II the corner of Queen and Esther streets,
where nossa is believed TO be harborod,
and fighting il going ON there now.
mobs. and the Mayor has gone 10 the
scene. Tho militia 10 awaiting orders In
The drili sheds. fonr men arc repoINa
sno.. an ~, u s1,onJs ~ A.. womnJ.d rsn
them of 70 avoid arrest. several police
men were badly hurt, one OF them, Worth,
very seriously. Al n luz .ro in,lin.
In tha bsct strssts' Eighty militia arc re.
tanned on duty In case Of q renewal Of the
struggle. hoSsa bandoned ihe collins
~, ~ ~. hssn conyev.I n Weston.
seven miles of.
Nxw YoRx, March ia Toronto dis
patch says that until 8 o'clock this morn.
ing the tumult which origin1,sd NJ ppn,
ivan hossa's lecture last nisn. commune
In iuil blast. his whereabouts ho" ne
unknown 70 the general puphc. slhe
companies OF troops ana y nunarvh
policemen guarded NJ. fatricks Hail.
noar which was . mob oil T,OOO.
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INV $3.50
NEw ORLEANS, March lS.-The supreme
co,,, Ait. r,or,iny was crowded with