Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-05
FOREIGN.
The Distress i'm Ireland.

House Irish Relief Fund Committee publish
extracts of letters received from Catholic
Archbishops, testifying to the efficiency of the
committee and the impartiality which char
acterizes the distribution of the funds.
DUBLIN, February 4th.-Lord Mayor Gray
and the corporation and civil officers of
Dublin will present petition of the corpo-
ration in favor of reproductive public works
and an amendment of the land laws at the
bar of the House of Commons Friday.
BOMBAY, February 4th.-A subscription
has been opened here in aid of the Irish dis
tress. One native banking firm subscribed
81, 000 The committee consists of both Eu-
ropeans and natives.
PARIS, February 4th.-The Bishop of An
gers has issued an appeal to parish priests
to collect subscriptions, to be applied in aid
of the distress in Ireland.
LONDON, February 4th.-At meeting of
the Dublin Mansion House Committee yes
terday, Lord Mayor Gray stated that at the
rate at which they had been expanding it,
the fund on hand would not last more than
four weeks.
Railroad Accident in France.
New York, February 4th.-A special
says: The train from Paris, which left
Lazure station at 6 o'clock for Argenteuil,
came into collision in dense fog with train
of the Circular Railroad at Clichy, Leyallois.
The engine of the latter train crushed into
the rear carriage of the Argenteuil train,
and smashed it to pieces. The engineer lost
both legs, and his stoker was killed on the
spot OF the passengers seven were killed
outright and over forty injured. Five first
class carriages of the Argenteuil train were
telescoped and heaped over each other.
Won Moitke and the Proposed Increase
Of the German Army.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 4th.-The GoloS
publishes an article on the recent letter of
Count Won Moltke, in reply to correspond
ent who requested him to use his influence
with the Emperor for reduction of the
army, in which the Count suggests that ma
lions must be educated in the belief that
even victorious war is national misfortune,
and by implication justified the proposed
increase of the German army. The article
says: Russia cannot remain inactive in the
face of the ornaments of the rest of Europe,
but will also increase her army"
The Forthcoming Queens speech.
LONDON, February 4th.-The Times, in
leader ON the Queens speech, says: Foreign
affairs will probably be briefly dismissed
Anxious attention will have TO be paid to af-
fairs in Afghanistan. Great Importance will
also be attached to any announcement re-
speeding South Africa. The Queen cannot
fail to refer with becoming sympathy to the
distress in Ireland, but the feeling which
may find expression in the royal speech will
be independent of any passing phase of the
Irish political discomfort. There is no rea-
son to suppose that the present agitation will
have any different fate from the preceding
ones.
At Home Again.
LONDON, February 4th.-The Empress of
1ofS - -
New Treaty.
THYETMYo, February 4th.-The Burmese
Government has empowered its Embassy to
negotiate new treaty with England.
Moors Seek the Protection of Spain.
MADRID, February 4th.-Four Kabyles
chiefs have arrived at Malaga from Morocco
to present a petition on the part of several
thousand Moors, asking to be placed under
the allegiance of Spain. 1t is expected that
they will come to Madrid to confer with the
Ministry. They declare that if Spain de-
clines to extend protectorate over them they
will ask protection from France or England.
kOhistan Opposition.
LAHORE, February 4th.-Six leading Ko-
histan chiefs have collected a force to oppose
the British nominee for the Governorship of
that district.
The Bayarian Parliament and the Army
Bill.
! BERLIN, February 4th.-The Bavarian Par
Lament is decidedly against the Army bill
The Tekke Expedition.
| VIENNA February 4th.-A st. Petersburg
correspondent writes that General Skobeloff
Will only command the Tekke expedition if
the force be fixed at 100 600 men, which the
Minister of War has hitherto refused to ac-
cede. 1t is possible that General Gourka
will be appointed.
Reception 10 Grant in Havana.
HAVANA, February 4th.-1'he reception to
General Grant at the Vice-regal Palace last
night was a splendidly arranged affair The
elite of Havana society and many transient
and resident Americans were present The
Palace was elegantly decorated with flowers
and illuminated.
FiendisII Atrocify-A Family Massacred.
LUoAN (Ontario), February 4th.-About u
o'clock last night masked men entered the
dwelling of the somewhat notorious Donnelly
family, and murdered the father, mother, one
son and niece. A boy named Conner, the
only other inmate, took refuge under bed
and escaped. The band then set fire to the
house, which, together with the murdered
bodies, was totally consumed, Another son,
residing about three miles from the home
stead, was called to his door about the same
hour and shot dead. The township is wild
with excitement
SECOND DISPATCH.l
LUcAN, February 4th.-For some time past
incendiary fires and other misdemeanors have
| been of frequent occurrence in this neighbor-
hood and the Donnellys were suspected As
a consequence there was an intense feeling of
enmity against them throughout the town
ship. A vigilance committee was formed
some time ago by the-settlers, as a means of
protection from these outrages, which, with
other precautionary measures, failed to bring
about remedy. The last fire was on the
Ryder farm, on Thursday the 18th of Jan.
uary, and old Donnelly and his wife were
arrested at the time on suspicion of being i'm
| plicated in the burning. Their examination
was still pending, and was to have been closed
to-day; but the morning light displayed the
CHASTITY spectacle of the remains of the in
mates of the Donnelly homestead almost
| burned to a cinder, after having been hor-
ribly hacked with knife. 1t appears that
about twenty men were engaged in the bloody
work. The boy Connors belonged to the vii
lage, and was staying in the house over night
When the attack was made he crept under a
| bed without being discovered. When the
murders were committed, the house fred
and the gang decamped, the boy emerged
from his hiding place, started for the village
and informed the authorities. The persons
murdered are James and Judy Donnelly,
Thomas, the youngest son, and Bridget, q
niece. About the same time (midnight) an
other party called at the residence of William
Donnelly. another son, three miles distant
from his fathers house, and awoke him. His
brother John, being in the house, arose and
went to the door, when two shots from re-
volver We're fred, killing him. The bodies of
the murdered family were almost burned to
cinder, the old man and girl lying close to-
gether in the northwest corner of the house.
The old mans skull was broken. Mrs. Dom
nelly is lying in one of the middle rooms.
and shows evidence of being beaten to death.
The son hes in the front part of the house.
1t would appear, from the large clots of blood
on the outside of the door, that he was
killed outside and thrown into the burning
building. There is yet no clue to the perpe-
traitors of this wholesale murder. A jury
has been summoned, and an inquest will be
held at once.
Delayed by Snow.
MONTREAL, February 4th-The train from
Halifax, with the Viceregal party, has been
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