The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-23
EUROPE.
Matters in Ireland Looking Rather
Squally.
Matters
AN ENCOUNTER BET WEEN THE LAND
LEAGUE AND THE POLICE.

LONDON, Nov. 21.-Five persons have been
arrested near Loughrea, in the county of Gal
way, for assisting to reinstate family in a
house from which it had been evcted. Two
of the nen arrested, O'Halloran and Pindar,
are secretaries of branches of the Land League.
Another prisoner is widow who was arrest
ed for taking forcible possession of the house.
ii were remanded for trial and bail was re-
fused.
New YORK, Nov. pa Loughrea Ireand)
dispatch says: Great excitement prevailed
there yesterday, owing to the arrest of the
parties who reinstated the widow Dempsey.
ana the authorities are anable to hire car.
rlages to transport the prisoners away from the
Brldewell, against which, it is feared, the mob
would make an attack A meeting was held
in the evening condemning the Government.
1t is believed O'Sullivan will be arrested to-
day.
While Land Lacquer was addressing the
people from cart at Ballina, county Mavo,
to-day, the police attempted to arrest ;him for
opstructlng the street. A sanguinary fight en-
sued and several OF the police were wounded
but they arrested the Land Lacquer.
The Plague in Russian Prison.
LONDON, Nov. 22-A despatch from Kief
reports great outbreak of typhus in prison
there where number of Nihilsts are con-
fined. Two hundred of the $50 prisoners are
stricken with the fever
Ireland and the Cabinet
/ LONDON, Nov. 22.-The London correspond
ent of the Manchester Guardian says: sit may
be stated with confidence that the cabinets
resolution to further prorogue Parliament I'M
til the I'd of December was unanimous, aud il
must be distinctly held to imply that should
the state af Ireland become worse the cabinet
Will be prepared to consider measures for re-
preston
Nihilists Again Causing Terror in Russia.
New YORK, Nov GA Paris dispatch
A ,har of CT nj rcu
have just appeared upon the walls of St. Pet
ersburg, some in the most frequented parts of
the city. They proclaim in flaming characters
the beginning of a fresh revolutionary move
ment, teside which all former agitations
will be considered puerile and insignificant.
The ominous warning is given that the throne
of Alexander will be vacant before the dawn
of another year. Viglant search was made
by the police to discover the source of these
placards, and many houses thought to contain
secret printing establishments have been WIS.,
tied Several arrests have taken place, and
more are expected. The people live in con-
slant fear of falling under the ban of suspic-
ion, and between the plots of the Nihilists and
the descentS of the police are in a state of ter
ror. Thus far the police seem to have been UNI
able to discover the leaders of the conspiracy.
Foreign Notes.
1t is probable that Right Hon. John Duke
Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief-Justice of the
Common Pleas Division, will succeed Chief
Justice Cockburn.
A Berlin despatch says the Socialists, in
view of the violent means of repression en-
poyed against them will abstain from voting
at political elections.
Calcutta despatch states reports of, re-
volt OF tribes in Northern Cashmere are con-
ating against the rebels be obliged to retire
general rising will probably epsue.
The report that party of armed men tarred
and feathered Gardner, Galway landlord,