Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-22
WHO THE ARRESTED LEAD
ERs ARE.
cast Of the Nett Orders TO Refrain
from Armed Resistance.

The following cable dispatch was
received by the Irish World from the
Dublin Land League headquarters:
DUBLIN, October 5.--William
.O'Brien, editor of United Ireland,
was arrested an hour ago just as he
was entering his Office, 80 Lower Alb
hey street, because ofan article written
by him denouncing Gladstone as
seized with a devil, and bent on draw
ing thepeople into open rebellion.
james j. 0'Kelly, M. p, another
Of the Executive Committee that has
Just been arrested, had just come to
Ireland. He spent the whole Of last
night in conversation with Dillon,
Lalor, Justin Mccarthy, the Rev.
Harold Rylett and others, and was
resting at the time of his arrest at the
Imperial.
Rylett, Il. NJ. Healy, M. P; Arthur
| O'Connor, M. administrator Can't
we'll, Of Tipperary, Jordan and Walshe,
Of Mayo, are said to be marked for
attention next. Do not be surprised
at anything-even the cold-blooded
slaughter Of the people.
Egan exposes the plot Of the Glad
stone government to begin bloody
work in Limerick. Soldiers are un-
der orders to fire at their discretion.
Egan ~telegraphs Forster that the
damnable plot will be carried out at
his own peril. Nothing short Of abso-
lutte slaughter will precipitate matters,
and every effort of the Land League
will be made to avoid all pretext for
such slaughter. The people are
obeying the League proclamations no.
bly,. They will not be trapped into an
outbreak.
William 0'Brien was for several
years a writer for the daily press Of
London. The United Ireland, of
which he is the editor, is declared to
be not the organ of the Land Leauge,
but it is owned by members of the
League aud it has a very large circu-
lation. 1t is a weekly, but Mr..
O'Brien was making preparations to
issue it daily.
James j. O'Kelly is a member of
parliament from Roscommon and one
of the executive committee Of the
Land Leauge. He was formerly a re-
porter of the New York Herald, and
represented that journal in the Vir-
ginius expedition to Cuba, where he
was taken pris oner, and on one occa-
sion was led out to be shot. He spent
several years in the United States,
where he published a book entitled
"Mambyland." His opponent in the
Roscommon election was King Har-
man, with one exception the largest
landowner in Ireland.
Arthur O'Connor is said not to be a
relative of I. p. 0'Connor, who has
Just arrived IN this country. His
work has been of such a nature that
little is known oil him among the
members of the Land League in this
country.
Harold gRylett is a Presbyterian
minister of Antrim. He has been
distinguished as an organizer in the
Land League movement. He ran for
member of Parliament in Tyrone, but
he was, defeated, it is said, through
the personal popularity OF his oppo-
nent. He has been the most CON
spicuous Land League worker in the
north of ireland. His views are ultra.
His often expressed belief is that every
man is born with an inheritance in
the land.
T. NJ. Healy, member Of the Par
lament for Wexford, is the youngest
leader in the movement, EXCEPT
Joseph Quinn, Secretary Of the Land
League. He came in this country
with Mr.. Parnell, as Secretary. He
is said to be able to talk longer on any
given topic than any other man in the
movement, and his abilities in this
respect made him very useful to Mr..
Parnell when the latter was employing
his distractions tacticsin Parliament.
His style Of oratory is described a.
bitter and sarcastic.
Administrator Cantwell is a Catho.
lie clergyman. He was one Of Arch
bishop Croke's counsel. In a speech
in a Land League meeting in Dublin
last week he said that ifit really came
to a life and death struggle, as from
present appearances seemed likely,
Tipperary, which he respected, would
be first to take the field. He hoped.
however, that such a state Of affair:
; would not come to pass.
Joseph Walsh, of Mayo, was one oI
: the traversers. His brother is already
. in Kilmainham jail. JOsegh has just
. arrived 10 Ireland from Australia
where he is credited with accom-
plishinga very important work, having
organized a League in almost every
l city and town in that country.
John Dillon, ns NJ. p. for Tipperary
as was his father, John II. Dillon, thu
!, Irish agitator of 1913. The latter wa.
. a law partner of Richard 0'Gormal
= in this city. The sOn accompanied
e Psrnell to this country in January
0 1880.
!, He has just turned his thirtieth
! year, but looks much older. He wal
: educated in the Catholic University
founded by Cardinal Cullen in Dub
:, lin, and studied for the medical pro.
O f%ession. On the birth of Mr.. Parnelli
= agitation he took a deep interest il
the movement, and, overcoming a DIFF.
fdence that at first hindered him, be
came an active advocate Of the Land
League schemes, Upon Parnells ar
rest he succeeded to the chief execu
. tive function. His residence is a
a BallaghadreeD.
p COurffng at the Gate,