Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Lord Cavendish, Chief Secretary fel
Ireland, and Under Secretary
Burke, Attacked BY AS
sassins.

And Slain Just as They Had Entered
Upon Their Mission of Peace.
Predictions and Comments of the
Press--Denunciations of the
Butchers.
ASsAssINATED.
DUBLIN, May 6.-LOrd Frederick
Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke
were shot dead this evening in Phoenix
park.
| LATER PARTICULARS.
LONDON, May Ga later telegram
from Dublin says it now appears that
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under
Secretary Burke were stabbed ard not
shot. They were both strolling in the
park about half mile from the city
gate, and quarter of mile from the
chief secretary's lodge, when a car
drove up containing four men, two of
whom jumped down from the car and
attacked Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Mr.. Burke,
sTABBING THEM BOTH SEVERAL TIMES
in the breast.
The victims struggled hard for life,
and in the struggle became separated,
their bodies being found ten PAGES
apart.
The tragedy occurred about 7:10
o'clock in the evening and in broad
daylight. The bodies were first dis
covered by two young gentlemen who
were riding bicycles through the park,
and who Immediately gave the alarm
to the police. Surgeons soon reached
the spot, but the police were already
conveying Burke's body away to the
town, where examination showed that
LIFE WAS EXTINCT.
The upper part of the body was per.
forated in a shocking manner and pre-.
sented CHASTITY sight. Proceeding fur
ther, the medical men reached the
body of Lord Frederick Cavendish,
which was being conveyed away from
the park on a stretcher. The body of
the chief secretary displayed the same
dreadful wounds, in addition to which
his left arm was also broken and torn
as if he had put it up to protect his
breast. Lord Frederick Cavendish
was quite dead. The bodies were taken
to the Stevens hospital, where they will
remain until an inquest is held.
The locality of the outrage is terri
bly, marked with blood. The spot
where the body Of Lord Frederick Cav
endish was found was perfectly del
luged, while Burke's lay in a pool OF
blood. 1t is said that after the act
the murderers Immediately drove off
There seems to be
NO CLUE TO THE AsSASSINS,
at present, but the police are taking
the most extraordinary measures tC
discover the perpetrators. A large
quantity of notes and gold coin, besides
their gold watches, were found in the
pockets of the victims, which showed
that the object of the crime was moi
robbery.
Great excitement prevails through.
out Dublin, and widespread indigna-
ton is expressed over the event. The
telegraph offices are besieged for the
latest news. Owing to the lateness of
the hour Of the arrival of the news in
London nothing of the outrage is as
yet known among the general public.
at the London club and other late
West End resorts, the news of the as.
sassination was received with feeling
Of stupe6cation followed by expressions
of the bitterest resentment.
THE NEWS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, May 6.-The Sun says
There is something appalling in the fol.
ly of the crime which was committed
last night in Dublin, and by which the
bearers of the message of peace and
good will were UNANIMOUSLY done to
death. The effect which this act will
have, and is, perhaps, meant to have
on the policy of Cancellation will be in.
calculaby harmful. Nor should we be
surprised if it entailed the downfall of
the Gladstone ministry in the very
hour when it merlted the highest es.
TEEN and confidence. 1t is probable
the crime was
THE WORK OF MISCREANTS
who saw in Gladstone's cOnciliatory
policy ruin of their clandestine schemes
and who determined to paralyze it al
/ WIZ NOoO VI VIC OOOul1y buc 6COuUuI6lS
pretend to serve, and by the butchery
OF men who came on a blessed GRAND
of deliverance and pacification.
Never in the whole course of their
history have the prospects of the Irish
people been brighter than they looked
only rwenty-four hours ago. That
these prospects are very deeply over.
cast by this detestable crime commit.
ted yesterday, cannot for moment be
doubtful to those conversant with the
difficulties which already beset Glad
stones path. The calamitous conse-
quences Of the tragedy we cannot as
yet begin to measure, but when we
think of the huge power for evil
which circumstances have given the
authors of this bloody deed it seems to
US that something like a curse has
overshadowed Ireland"
/ UNCALLED FOR.
CHICAGO, May GA number of in
terviews held with prominent Irish
men tonight developes the fact that