The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-09-28
EUROPE.
The Murder of Lord Mountmorres.

The Murder OF Lord MOuntmOrreS
New YORK. Sept. pa Dublin dispatch
gives the following particulars of the assassina-
ton of Lord Meuntmorres
Lord Mountmorres was murdered on Satur-
day night at Rusheen, within mile of Clon-
bur, County Galway. The scene of the assas-
sination was neck of land between Tough
Mask and Tough Corrib. The Viscount at
Saturday afternoon at the Court House of
Cloubur, and was seen to leave town about 8
o'clock. Half an hour afterward his horse
and carriage arrived at his residence, mile
distant, without him. This aroused suspicion
among his family. Sealch being made. he was
found lying on the side of the road il, pool of
blood, lifeless.. The police were at once sent
Tor and the body conveyed to Ebor Hall. the
family seat. Mountmorres received one bullet
IN the mead, penetrating the skull, three in the
neck ana Two IN the body, and any one of the
wounds was sufficient to cause death. He was
little known, except in his own neighborhood
and throughout Mayo and Galway He had
fifteen tenants with whom he had most unhap-
Ply relations. Quite recently he obtained
eJectment decrees against two of them AS a
ing OF Justices which he had been at
lending resolution was passed calling upon
the government to adopt coercive measures.
The Plot to Blow Up the Gear.
LONDON, Sept. 27.-Information of plot
to blow up the yacht Livadia was received to-
Gay from the authorities at st. Petersburg and
afterwards from the police officials of Geneva.
According to these advices the Nihilists had
deputied emissarieS to blow up the Livadia,
and three individuals left London few days
ago for Glasgow with two nitro glycerine
clocks to be placed among the GOALS,
which would explode at certain time. The
Goals on the yacht are now being removed for
examination and divers are examining the
vessels bottom.
A Turkish Frigate Ordered to Withdraw
or be Sunk
The Times correspondent at Geneva says the
Ottoman frigate Schliemeuich, which lies of
Dulclgno, will be summoned to withdraw or if
stroyed or sunk
The Sultan Will Fight.
LONDON, Sept. 2S-Yesterday the Prince of
Montenegro received an official intimation
from the Porte that an advance to Dulcigno
would be regarded as declaration of war.
ms must be regarded as tantamount to dec
laration OF war against Europe.
A Constantinople despatch says spirit of
reckless defiance is becoming more intense at
| the palace. For several days past the Sultan
| has refused to listen to any objections made by
his ministers to the policy he has adopted, and
he has issued an order that any official who
| Shall be heard expressing contrary opinion
| shall be dismissed and exied. Never before or
| since the time of ''Mohammed the Terrible
has such an order been issued
| Burning Barges on the Neva.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 27.-Fire broke out
today among large assembly of barges on the
Neva above the bridges. The barges, which
nous flaming masses floated down the stream
endangering ali the shipping in the river.
| There was, however, no further destruction of
| shipping.
| Norwegians Want Republic.
| LONDON, Sept. PA despatch from Copen-
hagen to the ST. James Gazette says the Swed-
| ish and Norwegian press are heatedly discuss
ing the agitation of section of Norwegians
for the repeal of the act of Union aud the es-
Enlistment of a Norwegian Republic. The
| Swedish journals maintain that the honor of
Sweden is involved, and that strong measures
should be employed if necessary. The rela.
tons between the King and the Norwegian
Storthing are very strained, "a large majority
having denied the Kings right of final vote.
Excessive Loyalty lof the Orangemen.
| A meeting of 500 Orangemen in Clifford
| county has passed resolution calling upon
the government to suspend trial by jury in
murder cases, and declaring that citizens OF
| the United States and other foreigners abus-
| ing the hospitality of the country by denoun c.
| ing the institutions of the United Kingdo m
| should be expelled.
| Execution of the Religious DEGREES.
! LONDON, Sept. PA Paris dispatch to the
Times says: Gambetta starts for Switzerland
| on tuesday Tor months stay. M. ConStans,
Minister of the Interior, has gone to the
provinces, after arranging for the enforcement
of the religious DEGREES. He will return in a
| week to see what has been done. He has de-
| cided to leave the Tribunal of Conflicts to
meet. as usual, in November. Its Judgment
whether the Jesuits dispersions are the act of
the executive and beyond the cognizance of
ordinary judges and amenable only to the
Council of State, is looked for on the 18th of
November. Meanwhile, Constans begins by
breaking up the orders like the Passionist
Fathers, which are not recognized by the
Vatican. He will next dispense the com
munities that are mostly composed of foreign
| ers, and will lastly commence proceedings
| against the orders not included in these two
categories, dealing with them piecemeal and
with selection of the communities least likely
| to evoke local sympathy.