The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-13
THRILLING NEWS FROM IRELAND,

! A week ago the FREE TRADER cangratua
ted Its readers from the Emerald Isle on the
happy turn affairs had taken in that country
through an apparent change of programme on
the part OF the British ministry. Forster had
resigned, the policy ofcOercion had been aban.
doned, the imprisoned Irish members of parli.
ament were released, the suspects turned loose,
back rents were 30 be RENTED, and generally
instead of coercion apolicy decentralization was
to be inaugurated.
BY fatality winch seems to have pursued
Ireland as an evil genius since the days Of
Cromwell. all this hopeful outlook to-day is
reversed. As if in derision of the idea that
peace anesquiet, material prosperity and com
fort could ever again be the portion OF that un-
happy island, the swees dream that had open
ed upon It for a day wns quickly changed into
a hideOus cloud of despair by crime which
has thrilled the world with horror Earl Cow.
per as Lord Lieutenant and Forster as Chief
Secretary-installed as MINISTERS OF coercion
and vengeance-had been withdrawn, and Earl
Spencer as Lord Lieutenant and Lord Cayen.
dish as Chief Secretary had been sen, in their
place as ministers of consultation and peace.
They had arrived in Dublin on Saturday and
by appropriate ceremonies had been indicted
into Office at the castle, and then Lord Caven.
dish had started in company with under secreta.
ry Burke about O'Clock IN the evening-still
broad daylight-to walk to the chief Secreta.
ry's residence IN Phoenix Park to dinner. The
evening was pleasant and hundreds were stroll.
ing about through the inviting grounds Lord
Cavendish and his companion had walked to
within hundred yards of the Phoenix Mo
nument when four men IN slouchcd hats drove
up in car and two of them alighting at once
attacked the two pedestrians with long knives.
There was short, sharp struggle, but IN few
seconds both were mortally wounded and the
assassins Jumping INTO the car drove rapidly
out of the park through the Chapelizod gate.
The first to arrive on the spot were couple of
young men on velocipedes who at once report
ed to the police that they had Just passed two
men lying on the ground badly hurt, and on
Fastening to the spot the police discovered
luty WclC iIoiu ShVChuIsh anu MI. burke,
both being already dead. Nine CHASTITY wounds
were found on the body of the former and sew.
en- or eight on the latter.
Of course the news rapidly spread and crea
ated the widest CONSERVATION in the CITY, The
murder had occurred within sight of the chief
secretary's lodge, to which LORD Spencer had
Just gone down to dinner.
Who were the assassins? The men have
been traced to an inn twelve miles no. Invest
o. Dublin, where they stopped TO take drink,
but beyond that the strange car and its occu.
pants seem 10 have vanished into mid air. The
region beyond is rough, broken and wooded
in which to hide or through which to escape
was mere question of endurance. 1t is true,
half dozen of arrests of suspicious persons
have since been made, but with no probability
that any are of the guilty parties.
What could have been the motive? Surely
the land league and its friends could have had
no part in it, tor it was manly through the
fundamentally Of Parncll and the league lead
.cr> thri the COVER men WAS induced iu ustI
tute its change OF programme tor Ireland
None, therefore, are more prompt and unques
tionably sincere IN their denunciatlon of tn,
crime and in deploring 1t as an overwhelming
calamity.
l Was 1t the result of a Fenian conspiracy
! The Fenians indeed, whose aim is TO achiev,
, the independence of Ireland, and who car
hope for no success except through continued
: violent agitation, would have motive for at
tempting to illustrate Gladstone and Parnell'.
scheme of Cancellation, but were they so sense
: less as to be unmIndful of the storm of indig
: nation and adherence against their organlza
'lhon and cause the crime would evoke through