The Portland daily press., 1882-05-20
IRELAND's TROUBLE.
Alleged Confessions of One of the
Assassins.
THE REPRESSION BILL PASSED IT'S
SECOND READING.
Michael pavitt on the Situation.


| yesterday Michael Davitt said he did not ques-
| ton the honesty of Parnell. He Davitt)
| could give no information as to the future ac-
| tion of the Land League. A meeting OF the
| leaders of the Land League is to be held short
| ly, at which the whole situation wi be dis
cussed and the future movements of the
| League determined upon. He said the new
| repressive legislation of England will prove
measure for the better encouragement of secret
| societies. 1t Is really aimed at the Land
League movement and is intended to prevent
| free political discussion, political meetings and
| political organizations. This would leave the
| government face to face with the power it pre-
| tends to be anxious to grapple with, namely,
the societies. In my opinion no power that
can be welded by the English government
will be able to crush the secret organizations,
which will, after the suppression OF the Land
League movement, be regarded by the victims
of Irish landlordism as the only power that
can defend or avenge them / have hope, nev-
ertt eless, that the outrages will not continue,
but L am afraid to say what may happen when
the Irish people are confronted by this horrible
additional coercion policy, Davitt says ne does
4 not intend to comply with the conditions of
his ticket of leave, and said SO to the governor
of Portland prison when the order for his re-
lease arrived. He says: 81 have received a
number of kilograms asking me to visit the
United States at once, bus owing to the double
crisis on this side / feel it my duty to remain
with my old colleagues"
Alleged Confession of One of the Muir
derers.
DUBLIN, May 19.-The Dublin Journal pub
fishes an eight-column story, anonymously sent
and bearing London postmark, protesting to
be the confession of one of the assassins. 1t
intimates that the crime was conceived as an
answer to the appointment OF Cavendlsn, Dy
the Irish assassination society having branches
throughout the kingdom. Over twenty per
sons are said to be implicated in the crime, all
of whom have now escaped to England in vari-
GUS DISCUSSES. The writer says they attended
the funerals of the victims.
Debate on the Repression Bill.
LONDON, May 19-The debate on the gov
ernment's repression bill was resumed in the
Commons to-day. Dillon emphatically de-
nouncedsthe bill.
Mr.. Gladstone denied that the bill was the
outcome of English resentment. 1t was not
founded on the Phoenix Park disaster, but was
contemplated long before its occurance. He
desired that it pass unaltered in its main
lines.
Mr. Parnell also spoke. His remarks were
most moderate.
The bill passed its second reading by vote
of 1888 against 45
General Notes.
DUBLIN, May 49, The report is general
throughout this city that the murderers have
escaped in the garb of priests, and are now on
their way to America
The city police are now armed with swords.
They have not carried such weapons since the
Fenian disturbances. A Sheffield firm sent
knives to Du olin to order just before the Ph9'
AS the steamship Wisconsin, which arrived
at New York on the 18th, sailed from Queens
town at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning, May Z,
all the passengers, including the man Turner,
who was taken into custody at New York, re-
ported at the company's office the previous
evening. Hence it is impossible for the assas-
sins to have been on board.
LONDON May 19-Thomas O'Connor, an
Irish-American, was arrested in Chatsworth
Park at midnight last night on charge OF be-
ing there unlawfully.
In consequence of anonymous Fenian threats
the guards at the government establishments
at Plymouth have been doubled.
Mr. O'Shea, member of Parliament for
county Glare, writes to the London papers af-
firming that despite the denial of Forster they
had been in frequent communication, and that
it was Forster who suggested the best plan for
O'Shea to quietly visit Kilmainham jail
The examination of General Curtis on
charge of collecting political assessments in the
New York custom house is progressing.
Commissioner Mcbride, of Long Island City
has absconded with $4,000 of the City's
money.
Land riots have broken out in southwestern
Russia. Two houses of mobiles have been sack
ed by peasantry.
A long deferred report of the Arkansas Sem
aL6 committees vi tuo otte0 tfodcuhCh WALL ohO"
that according to the books the treasurer's de-
ficits are about $114, 900 ard the auditors about
$4,000.
At Waxahatchic, Texas, Thursday night,
fire destroyed % buildings Loss estimated at
100000.
DIR. 81. W. Kendall, who was shot while pre-
pairing to rob grave at Onondaga, Hill, N. Y.
Thursday night died last night.
A fire in Leadville, COL, yesterday destroy
ed property valued at 100000. Two bodies
have been taken from the ruins.
Foreign Notes.
peir at Queenborough, England, and
brgantine alongside were burned yesterday.