The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-05-12
A BLOODY DEED.
THE NEW IRISH SECRETARY AND HIS ASSIST
ANT FOULLY MURDERED.

Ant FoULLY MURDERED.
DUBLIN. Nav CA terrible tragedy oc-
Cured here tonight Lord Frederick Cav
endish, the new Secretary, and Mr.. Thomas
Henry Burke, the Under Secretary, were as
sassinated in Phoenix Park. About half-past
seven they left the Under Secretary's lodge
to walk over to the Chief Secretary's resi-
dence. When within one hundred Yards of
the Phoenix Monument they were attacked
by four men wearing slOuched hats. 1t is
supposed Mr.. Burke was first aSSaiied and
stabbed through the heart. Lord Frederick
Cavendish attempted to defend him. but he
too was stabbed bv the aSsassinS They re-
peatedly plunged their knives into the breasts
of their victims, and having cut their throatS
thew cot on a car and drove rapidly from the
park by the Chapelized gate. few minutes
afterward a man walking along the park
road found the bodies covered with blood
and at once informed the police, who had the
bodies removed to the Stephens Hospital A
slight examination was made, and it was
found that Lord Frederick Cavendish's arm
was also broken. The news rapidly spread
and created the widest excitement and con-
sternatiOn in the city. Lord Spencer and the
/ Viceregal party were Just going down to din
ner at the lodge when the news was sent to
/ them. Some members of the household were
at the opera at the Gaiety Theatre and were
/ sent for. When the cause of their departure
was known the excitement was intense ard
a proposal was made to stop the perform
! ance which was ultimately cut short.
Lord Frederick Cavendish only arrived in
/ Dublin this afternoon along with Earl Spen-
| Ger, the new Lord Lieutenant. He was
I present at the installation ceremony IN Dub
! lin Castle, and left there with Mr.. Burke, his
| fellOw-victim, early in the evening. 1t IS
stated that some lads riding bicycles in the
/ park saw the attack and the murders, which
were the work Of less than minute. Many
people were within a few hundred yards of
the scene of the assassination, but no one ap-
pears to have been near enough to interfere.
When the bodies were first found Lord Fred
erick Cavendish's lips were moving, as if he
were trying to speak, but he showed no
further signs of consciousness. 1t is needless
to add that the asSassinatiOns are attributed
to the Fenians, although this must be pure
conjecture The assassins were seen enter
ing the park on a car and driving rapidly
along the main road, and from all accounts
they must have encountered their victims as
they were crossing the road. Robbery could
not have been their object as nothing on the
bodies was touched.
PARNELL AND DAvITT ON THE AssAssINA-
TTOE-A RINGING MANIFESTO.
LONDON, May 7.-ParneII and Davitt have
spoken upon the assassination. Parnell said:
81 am Mortified more than I can express.
This is one OF the most atrOeious crimes ever
committed. Its effect must certainly be most
damaging 20 the interests of the Irish people
I have always found Lord Frederick Caven-
dish most amiable gentleman, painstaking
and strictly conscientious,int the fulflment of
his official duties. / did not share the disap-
pointmeHt expressed in Liberal Irish circles
regarding his appointment, as l anticipated
that principal reform of the present session,
such as the amendment of the land act,
would be under GladstOne's personal super
vision and believed the administrative re-
forms would be somewhat postponed. /
cannot conceive that any section of the peo.
pie Of Ireland could have plotted deliberate
ly against the life of Lord Frederick and I
am surprised the Dublin police, who had
been able to protect Mr. Forster, should ap-
parently not have taken anv steps to watch
over his successor during the few hours of
his official life IN ireland. There seems to
be an unhappy destiny presiding over Ireland
which always comes at the moment when
there seems some chance for the country to
destroy the hopes of its best friends hope
the people of Ireland will take immediate
and practical steps 70 express their sympathy
with Mr.. Gladstone in his most painful posi-
tiOn.''
DAvITT's DENUNCIATION.
Mr.. DaviCt said "No language can pos
sibly command can express the horror with
which | regret the murders, or nv despair at
their consequences. When heard of them
Saturday night | could not credit the news
l grieve to think when the Government has
just run a risk in introducing new policy;
when everything seemed bright and hopeful:
when all expected the outraCes to cease, this
terrible event should dash our hopes wish
to God had never left Portland. The crime
fatal blow that has ever been struck at the
Land League, but one of the most disastrous
blows which has been sustained bv the ma
tiOnal cause during the last century. It's Oc-
currence at this particular juucture seems
like terrible destiny. NV only hope is that
the asSassins may be discovered aud punish
ed as they deserve. It is wonderful how the
outrage could occur within a few hundred
yards Of the cOnstabulary depot"
THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE
The following manifesto of the Land
League was adopted this afternoon at hur-
Tiedly summoned meeting at Westminster
Palace Hotel
To the People Of Ireland:
On the eve Of what seemed bright futare for
our country the evil destiny which has apparently
another time. In this hour OF sorrowful gloom we
venture to express our profoundest sympathy with
the people Of Ireland in the calamity that has be-
fallen our cause through this horrible deed. and
with those who determined at the last hour that
archy and national distrust. We earnestly hope
that the attitude and action of the Irish people
will show to the world that assassination, such
has startled us almost to the abandonment of the
hope Of our country's future, is deeply and re!i-
giously abhorrent TO their every feeling and in
stinct- We appeal to you to show by every man
ner Of expression that amidst the universal feel
Ing Of horror which the assassination has excited,
no people feel so great detestation of the atroci
ty or go deep n sympathy with those whose hearts
must be scared by it, as the nation upon whose
prosperity and rev1vtng hopes II may entail con
sequences more ruinOus than those that have fall
ei 10 the lou OF ireland during the pres
ent generation. We feel that act that has ever
been perpet-ated in our country during the excit-
ing struggles Of the past fifty years has stained
the name Of hOspitahle Ireland as this cowardly
and unprOvoked assassination OF friendly stran-
ger and until the murderers of Cavendish and
Burke are brought to justice that stain will suly
our country rs name.
tSignedJ CHARLES s. PARNELL,
JOHN DILLON.
MICHAEL DAvTT-T.
BOSTON IRIsHMEN OFFER REWARD Fer THE
AssAssINs' ARREST.
! BOSTON, Mass. May, S-The following was
1 this morning cabled to Mr.. Parnell:
! reAard of SIS 600 E rOo9) is hereby offered by
/ the lrishmen Of Boston for the apprehension of
the murderers. OF any of them, of Lord Fred erIck
Cavendish and Mr.. Burke, Saturday, May g..
| On behalf OF the Irishmen of Boston,
| JOHN BOYLE o. REILLY.
PATRICK A. COLLINS.
A MOTHERS TERRIBLE INHUMANTTY-
/ Nancy Henry, young Eegr0 woman, 2S
! years old, was brought to Selma, Ala, on
! Wednesday, from a plantation thirty miles
! distant, and lodged in Jail, charged with kill
! Ing her son, boy ten years of age, by con-
] tinued ard iendishiy barbarous treatment
/ Ten days ago she commenced maltreating