The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-06
IRELAND.
Importsnf Events Occurring In that Cn.
fortunate Country During the Past week.

Import.nt Events Occurring In that Un-
fortunate Country During the Past week.
A farmers house at Portadown has been ma
iciously burned
The Monaghan anti-League Association has
issued manifesto calling on loyal men to COM
bine for mutual defense and to combat the
hateful teaching of the Land League.
The Land League meeting which Was to be
held in Boris in Ossory. Sunday, was prohib-
tied. The military and police were present to
enforce the prohibition.
There was riot Saturday in Dublin between
soldiers and civilians. The police separated the
combatants.
The Gazette declares County Limerick to be
in disturbed state.
At Cork, on the police ordering disorderly
crowd to disperse, q volley was fired at the pc
lice from revolvers. A policeman was snot but
not mortally wounded.
A party of nen attacked the police patrol at
Cork, and q policeman was shot in the leg.
Several of the assailants were wounded. Nc
arrests were made. There we're several serious
affrays between civilians and soldiers in Dublin.
The Home Rule Members of Parliament held
meeting in the City Hall, Dublin, and a reso-
luton was carried, pledging members to con-
suit together on important questions, and to
abide by the decision of the majority. A reso-
luton was also adopted binding members to sit
in opposition to every Government that refuses
the Just demands of the Irish people, especially
nell, ON coming out from the meeting, entered
his carriage, the crowd detached the horses and
drew the carriage through the streets.
The Boycott Relief Fund has now reached
E14,0
Several notices have been posted at Olona-
kitty, threatening Bence Jones, or his EN-
ployes, or any person furnishing him with sup
plies, with death.
The Land League have closed the subscrip-
ton to the Parnel Defense Fund, as ETA, 900
have been collected.
Five hundred troops have been sent to differ
ent parts of Ireland since Christmas day.
One hundred soldiers patrol the roads In the
Parsontown District nightly.
After much trouble and delay, a jury was
finally secured to try the Traversers. The Jury
consists of eight Catholics, three Professionals
and one Quaker.
When the jury had been constituted the At
torney General opened the case for the Crown,
in firm but moderate tone. He said the OBJ
ject of the conspiracy in which the Traversers
were engaged was to cause the social excom-
munication of a number of persons, and to
make their lives not worth having. He point
ed out the absurdity of the idea Of parceling
out ireland among population of five millions
which would only add to the misery of that un-
fortunate country He severely condemned
the policy of the Land League, which, he said,
| advocated the freedom, yet brought all its pow
er to bear in the coercion of private individuals
The government, he said, was bound to insti-
tulc PiOteeulLSs W put uoWH Inc WlcheO dSl-
tation.
The trial is in progress.
THE examination of an army corporal,
charged with drilling the members Of Fenian
| organization, is in process before Magistrates
| of Limerick.
Respecting the trials of the Traversers, a cor
respondent of the London Times, writing
| from Dublin, says:
''The first day of the State trials was re-
markable only for gloom and dnllness. Those
| who expected that the city would be full Of ex-
| citement, that thousands would assemble in the
| streets, and that the Court would be besieged
| by an eager crowd clammering for admission
| were sadly disappointed. There has not been
the slightest manifestation of public feel
ing beyond the gathering of about two hun
| dred persons of the lowest classes on the quay
in the vicinity of the courts. The absence oi
| any sympathy with the cause, or interest in tht
proceedings on the part of the respectable citi
| Zens was very significant, and presented tc
those who remembered the O'Connen trial l
Tery striking contrast"
Fresh cases of '.Boycottine'' are continual,
reported from ireland.
large meeting was held at Craughwell
County Galway, to protest against the Stat,
| prosecutions.
Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, President O.
| the Board of Trade, received letter from
| stone, and John Bright If they continue to op
| pose coercion.
| Patrick Hennelly, arrested for the murder o
Lord Mountmorres, belongs in Divery Village
few miles from the spot where the murder wal
| committed
The constabulary guard Hennelly's father Al
| Clonbur