The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-11
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o this week The AFFAIR at New Palas, where
. the people had organized IN formidable body
to resist evictions, eliminated IN what may be
called small battle on the ID Forster had
. posted a proclamation in the vicinity dcclar.
ing the assembly to obstruct the execution OF
writs as unlawful and on the 81 sent flying
column of nearly q thousand men from Dub.
lin to assist in making the evictons The
, soldiers found bridge they had to cross des-
royed, but by making dctour Of several
miles forded the stream. The people, who had
= assembled in large numbers greeted the troops
with groans and shouts. When the house Of
the first tenant to be cvcted was reached their
attitude became very threatening, whereupoH
two priests inerDosed and cntreated the peo-
pie to abstain from violence The priests in
Interference had a marked effect. The sheriff,
guarded by police, elected the first tenant
amidst indescribable groans and Kisses. Some
forty other evictions were thereupon made
without collision, though the bearing of the
spectators throughout was that of insult and
defiance. The owner Of the estate is one Hare
and has over 400 acres of land from which,
within twenty. five years, ne has evicted eighty
families, or over four hundred persons. He
has done nothing to improve his property and
has Just raised his rents 80 per cent above
government valuation. The case Is having
tremendous effect in frightening indignation
and excitement IN Ireland 1t is urged that 1t
is a most scandaous use of the British army
to aid an absentee landlord to collect rents
nearly twice as high as they should be,
The New Pallas outrage seems to have let
loose the demon of disorder IN hundred new
quarters Riots took place in Limerick Cork,
Killarney and Galway on Saturday. The pee
pie of the town Of Skull, acting upon a false
report that Father Murphy had been arrested
under the coercion act, wrecked sthe police
station, tore down telegraph wires, and cut up
the roadway. At Skibbereen the excitement
caused the wreckng of the house OF II car
owner who gave aid to the police; and matters
are redhot in the southwestern portion Of the
county of Cork. A force Of marines sent from
Bantry to Ballydehod were only saved from
annihllatlon by the intervention of the parish
priest, and were driven back under his pro.
lection to the place from which they started
by the peasantry, who gathered to the number
of several thousand, armed with spades, ham
mers, axes, sCythes, and other such weapons.
An attempt was made to wreck train contain
| ing body of troops in the same region. In
the town of Skibbereen the branch of the
Munster Bank was wrecked, probably because
the president of that institution is the present
Unpopular member Of parliament for Cork
county. The war does not seem to be confined
to the southwest either. Al DrOmore, on the
border of Ulster, baliif was beaten to death
on Wednesday, and collisions between the
military and peasantry are reported from all
parts of the island In one instance, when the
constabulary attempted to evict some peasants,
they threw hives of bees into their ranks and
the little fellows put the law officers to flight
Although Forster has not yet put IN execu.
ton his threat to suppress the land,league, he
is evidently moving in that direction. On the
| 3D., Timothy Harrington, proprietor OF The
Galway. Harrington was elected chief organ
izer OF the land league after the arrest of Da-
witt, and has for some time been attending
sherlfl's sales throughout the country on be.
half of the league Other arrests are Brady's
secretary of the Balinamore County Leltrim)
land,league, OBelrne, and two men named
Murray, all of Ballinamore, and Galloghy and
Reilly, of adjacent villages. Also, Michael
Ryan, secretary of the Menagh County Tippe-
rary) branch of the land,league and Michael
lIough, member of the same branch; and Far.
rell, chairman of the town commissioners OF
Mulligar West Meath and president of the
branch of the andeague, and Mr. Lutte sec
rotary of the branch
Archbishop Croke has returned to Thures,
county Tipperary, after delivering series Of
speeches on the land question, which the OPP
position journals say would have led to his
arrest if he had been other than Catholic
bishop, On his return to Thuries he was met
two miles from town by band of musicians
and thirty thousand people, with banners bear.
ing patriotic Irish inscriptions. The people
were with difficulty restrained from taking
the horses from the carriage and drawing it
themselves
The consideration Of the land bill IN the
house OF commons was postponed on the ID
until after the Whitsun holidays-ihe 18th
On the same day, while putting questions TO
the ministers, Thomas O'ConnOr was called
to order for using the word "mendacIous."
O'Kelly (home-rule membeD thereupon ap
piled the epithets "calumnious" and "lying"
to several members of the house, and his sns-
pension for the remainder of the sitting was
moved by Mr.. Gladstone and carrIed-lsS to
a. O'Kelly then quietly Withdrew.