The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-10
THE OLD DART.
Intense Excitement at Cork-Pros
poets of a Big Strike.
Armed Resistance Openly Preached
by the League.
Not Enough Troops in the Country te
Satisfy the Demand.
A Furious Riot in Progress at o;3o
O'Clock Last Night.

New York, June 9.-Private dis
patches to the World from Cork say
that intense excitement prevails in that
city and throughout the country. The
tenants ON the large estates. notably
those of the Earl eff Bantry, Duke Of
Devonshire, Lord Kenmare, Sir George
Colthrust, Lord Fermoytz, Earl of Cork
and the Earl of Egmont. and the Coun-
tess Of Kingston estates, at Mitchels-
town, are said to have conspired to
make a general strike. The league
branches are very active, and armed
resistance is openly preached.
Lieut.. Gen. Hamilton, the officer
commanding the Cork district, has
asked for more troops, and the detach-
ments at Fermoy, Mallow, Buttevant
and elsewhere will be reinforced at
once. The Sd dragons at Ballincolig
have been split up into half troops and
scattered in all directions over the
country. The forts on the Lee, Cam
den, Carlisle and Houlbowline have
been drained of men, and the guard
ship Revenge, lying in Queenstown
harbor. has been stripped of her ma
rines, and yet Gen. Hamilton has not
men enough to supply the demands of
the local magistrates.
Just before daylight this morning
fifty dragons from Ballincolig, and 300
men from the first battalion 200th foot,
I'd battalion rifle brigade and the army
service corps were dispatched by special
train to Skibboreen. Orders were also
telegraphed for the 107th foot laying at
Battevant, and the 25th foot at Fermoy
to send eighty men each to Schrele and
Ballydehob. AD engine was sent ON in
advance of the special, and four miles
from Skibbereen it was found that
number of rails had been placed across
the track and the culverts torn up, but
the train was stopped in time to avoid
run off.
Mr.. Warburth, the resident magis-
trate at Skibbereen, accompanied by
O'Donnovan, the Messrs. Swanton, one
of whom it will be remembered was
fired at on the Ballydehob road three
weeks ago, and the other magistrate,
met the troops who were reinforced by
the arrival of a body of constabulary
under inspector Frazer. The streets of
the town were filled with peasants and
the soldiers and police were hooted and
stoned at as they marched to the market
square. Meantime the news arrived OF
the riot at Ballydehob last night, in
which body of marines was compelled
to retreat under the protection of the
priests and soon the Ballydehob riot.
ers with an enormous mob from Schulz,
Dumanway, Bultevant, Bantry and the
districts around about marched into
Skibbereen. The priests however ad.
dressed the people urging them to dis.
perse.
Skibbereen is small camp, but it is
thought the worst is over. The priests
are exhorting the people to go to their
homes and many have left, but theiI
places are taken by new crowds. Bally-
dehob has hard reputation. Twenty
years ago "The battle of the Spuds, - in
which many lives were lost, was fought
there and during the famine the peas
antry there were compelled to eat theil
asses, and the people do not like that
page of their history to be cast up tt
them.
Cork, $3.50 p. ma furious riot i.
now in progress. Magistrate Stoke
has been severely injured and three
policemen badly wounded. The mount.
ed police charged the mob, and severa
persons were injured.