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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
CONDITION OF IRELAND,
Consul Piatt's Report How the English
Government Enforces Emigration.

Consul Piatt's Report How the English
Government Enforces Emigration.
Washington Special to Courier-Journal.
The most interesting of consular reports on
the condition of the Irish, which the State
Department is about to publish, is that of
John J. Piatt, the poet, our consul at Cork
He SAYS, among other things: ut may be set
down as a fact that there is always distress
ing poverty in the western and southern
parts of Ireland-a rocky and mountainous
seacoast region, where, remote from larger
towns great number of people live on
very small agricultural holdings in dwellings
of the poorest kind, fit only, but hardly fit,
for the brute beasts which in many cases
make part of their household 1t is life
of distress year in and year out that these
people live. This may be given as the nor
NAL state of things OF course, under the
political and social conditions of
the last few years. with dis
couragement of all kinds of enterprise
throughout the country, with many evic-
tions and hardships including loss of en-
ployment, which have resulted, the normal
state must have become much worse. Add to
this partial butvery serious falling off in last
years potato crop, which is the staff of life
in good years. of the Irish. 1t is perhaps,
not an ignoble trait in the Irish poor that
many of them would starve and they do
starve, rather than accept the humiliating
hospitality of public charity establishments.
Besides this resort with the dolcd out pittance
of the relieving officers, for which the prop
erty-holders in the town and country are
taxed lareely-if may judge by the So
called poor rates which | myself pay on the
house occupy as my residence, amounting
to nearly quarter of its valuation'-besides
this, l say, the only present help for many
of the suffering poor is from voluntary con-
tributions. As for the prospect of the anne
Iteration of the present aggregated condition
of chronic distress, it may be presumed that
the spring season, which is here already
manifest$ with weather favorable for plowing
and planting since the latter part OF Febru-
ary, will tend to mitigate the evil. Many
out of employment will find something to
do in renewed farming operations, and lib
eral-minded men here and there, seem to be
showing a disposition to make employment
for such as are willing to accept it, Still
long period must elapse before the earth
itself will offer any direct help and supply
the defect of last year and at best, the situa-
ton in the more afflicted localities must
remain very bad. Meanwhile it may be felt
that there is some prospect of amelioration
of the chronic distress of Ireland. Mr..
Gladstones land act is comforting large
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Delaney Says Cayeudish and Burke Were
Murdered by Brady and Kelly, and
He Witnessed the Deed.
He Claims to Have Saved Judge Law
sons Life by Risking His Own.
Consul Piatt's Report on the Condition of
Ireland-The Berlin Gazette Reluct-
antly Apologies to MIR. Sargent
TWO MORE.


Delaney and Caffrey Plead Guilty and Are
Sentenced to Be Hanged.
DUBLIN, May 2.-Patrick Delaney and
Thomas Caffrey, two more of the men
charged with participation in the murder of
Cavendish and Burke, were arraigned for
trial this morning They created sensation
in the courtroom by both pleading guilty to
the charge against them, and both were sem
fenced to be hanged on the I'd of June. Be-
fore Caffrey had pleaded guilty he was in
formed by his solicitor that the crown
gave no hopes of mitigation of the sentence
of death which would be passed upon him.
When Delaney was called upon to plead, he
said; 81 am guilty of being in the park at the
time Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.
Burke were killed. but 1 did not commit
MURDER 1 plead guilty" The
Judge explained to him that
this really amounted to plea of
innocence, Delaney then formally pleaded
guilty. He said; Il was brought into this
thing foolishly, at first. not knowing what it
was. was forced from my work to go to
the park. We had to obey the orders of the
society or take the consequences When
got in the park could not get away. I saw
the murders committed, but took no part in
them. l went to the park on Kavanagh's
car He speaks the truth and so does Corly
the murders were committed by Joe Brady
and Timothy Kelley and by nobody else.
saved Judge Lawson's life at the risk of my
own. was put on to shoot him by Mullett
and Brady, and the only way to escape the
task was by calling the guards attention"
Judge O. Brien, in passing sentence on De-
laney, said he had duty to perform. He
attempting to shoot Judge Lawson, pitied
him because he showed some feeling for his
wife and family. The prisoner would see to
what misery they had been brought by the
wicked system of conspiracy. When Cof-
frey was placed in the dock his face wore
smile The consequence of pleading guilty
was again fully explained to him in open
court but he persisted in his plea. On be-
ing asked whether he had anything to say
why sentence should not be passed upon
him, Coffrey replied in a loud, clear voice:
"All have got to say, standing on the brink
of the grave, is that did not know what
was going to happen until twenty minutes
before the murders were committed / was
bound to go to the park under pain of DEATH"
The judge, in passing sentence, said there
were no means of judging as to the truth of
the prisoners statement, He did not decide
that it was necessarily wholly untrue.
The sentence of Delaney will probably be
commuted to life servitude
Joseph Harton, awaiting trial, was finally
accepted as an approver He will confirm
the evidence of the two Careys against thir-
teen prisoners in KiInainhan jail, charged
with conspiracy to murder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
CIvIL-sERvICE RULES.
The Cabinet DevOtes a Special Session to
Their Consideration.

The Cabinet Devotes a Special Session to
Their Consideration.
WASHINGTON, May "A special meeting Of
the cabinet was held to-day, to consider the
civil-service regulations, now awaiting the
Presidents ACTON. All the members were
present except the Attorney general. The
session lasted about two and one-half hours,
and the regulations as presented by the civil
service commission were agreed to without
substantial change, although it was deemed
advisable to change the mode of expression
of certain rules There was one question
which the cabinet found difficult to decide
the custom which is now observed
in making appointments in several of
the executive departments, and which, in the
Treasury, has the force of law and that is to
distribute them among the States and Terri
tories upon the basis of population 1t is
questioned whether strict adherence to this
rule would not, in many cases, hamper the
administration of the civil service and ma
jority of the members of the cabinet incline
TO the view that appointments under the
new civil-service rules should be made
strictly upon merit, as determined by COM
petitive examination, regardless of the resi-
dence of the successful candidate A decision,
however, has not yet been reached by the
cabinet upon this point.
Dorman B. Eaton, of the civil service COM
mission, said this evening that one of the
clauses of the civil-service law provides that
appointments shall be distributed among the
States and Territories in proportion to popu-
lation as far as practicable. But as this
clause comes with several others under the
common head of provisions which are to be
carried out only as far as good administra-
ten of the law will permit, he did not think
it would prove a source of much difficulty.
He said, further, that it should be borne in
mind that the law had nothing to say with
regard to the proportion in which
the several States and Territories
are represented in the appointments already
made, and the present representation of
States and Territories would not be taken
into consideration in determining future APP
pointments AS the law refers solely to APP
pointments hereafter to be made, so that the
provision of the law referred to relates to
appointments, not to examinations, of
course, examinations would be made he said,
with view to supplying the appointing
power with proper material. The President
will approve the regulations as soon as they
shall have been altered to meet the views of
the cabinet.
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proprietary rights upon farmers, much
larger than that class enjoyed three years ago.
The operations of the act in the matter
of fixing judicial rents are, however,
being but slowly carried out, and it is esti-
mated that it will take some years before the
rents of all farmers are fixed for the statutory
term of fifteen years. In connection with
the benefits thus conferred on farmers, the
laborers' position is being somewhat i'm
proved, and further legislation on behalf of
laborers is promised in the near future. This
will tend still further to lessen the causes of
Irish distress, and prospects of its ameliora-
ton may be regarded as hopeful. These re-
suits it will, even under the most favorable
circumstances, take some time to bring out,
and meanwhile distress III Ireland will more
or less tiuctuate with good and bad harvests.
With regard to the effect Of the existing state
of things upon emigration from Ireland, [
have been led to the conclusion from careful
inquiries on the subject that the tide of emf
grafton this year from the south of Ireland
Will be quite up to the average OF late
years. What proportion of emigrants will
seek the United States as the land of their
adoption, it would be impossible to say
with certainty, but undoubtedly the United
States is preferred by the Irish themselves,
and thither those who emigrate with their
own means and at their own discretion will
go. For sometime, however, the English
government has been endeavoring to direct
the flow of emigrants from the United States
to Canada. In furtherance of this movement
the government has this year made a firm
stand against opening up public works for
the relief of distress in Ireland, and it has
confined the discretionary powers of the poor
law boards to assisting paupers to emigrate,
or relieving them by admitting them to the
work-house. Outdoor relief is in all cases
denied where applicants enjoy health, and
where their only complaint is hunger
through want of employment. This course
is adopted by the government with the full
knowledge of the fact noted above, that the
Irist poor have the strongest objections to
entering warehouses; and that many of
them will almost suffer starvation rather
than break up their homes, miserable as they
are, to seek the shelter of work-house."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
A REVOLUTIONARY GRANT.
The Purchaser of Old Soldiers Land
Wants His Patent Issued.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-Samuel II. Ruggles
of Circleville, O., has filed with the clerk of
the District Supreme Court an application
for mandamus upon the Secretary of the
Interior and Commssoner-general of the
Land Office to compel them to issue to him
patent for $50 acres of land situated in Ohio
between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers,
and on the northwest side of the Ohio river
The petitioner represents that he has an
equitable interest in the land, which is
within the territory reserved by the State
of Virginia in her deed of cession to the
United States of all that tract OF
country within the limits of her
charter being to the northwest of the Ohio
river. Aquilla Norville having been soldier
of the United States in the revolutionary
war, Virginia line, the register of the land
Office of the State, on May Is, 1888 issued to
him a military warrant for 200 acres of land
in consideration of three years service as
sergeant in the Continental line. After the
passage Of the act of Aug. 10, 1880, enabling
officers and soldiers of the Virginia line to
obtain titles to certain lands lying north
west of the Ohio, Aquilla Noryille, on Dec.
"a, 1914 made and recorded in the office of
the principal surveyor of the reserved dis
trict an entry of this tract of land, and had
the same surveyed. On June 27, 1924, Aquilla
Norville died entitled to the land, but before
obtaining patent The petitioner claims
that he purchased the land from the heirs of
Noryille
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
A Gard from the Handels Zeitunp.

New YORK, May 2.-The editor of the Han
dels Zeitung called at the office of the Asso-
ciated Press to-day, and left the following
card:
Mr.. Sargent's letter was translated from the
consular reports to the State Department, by
Mr. Meyer. Mr.. Meyer, later, stated that the
absolutely accurate as could be. Never saws
he has Information that the hosiery manufac-
turers OF Germany are moving to secure the abo-
liton of the prohibitory legislation against pork
They are alarmed lest action be taken by the
next United States Congress imposing duty on
hosiery which will exclude it from the United
States. This would be a disaster to the industry
in Germany, where, II the measure is passed by
Congress- thousands of operatives in Germany,
without other means OF gaining a livelihood
would be thrown out of work, and millions of
dollars of capital be wasted. OF the 81 500, 900
worth OF hosiery annually imported into The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
THE BERLIN GAZETTE's APOLOGY.
1t Convicts the Paper of Gross Misrepresen-
tation of Minister Sarpent,s Rannrt

1t COnvicts the Paper of Gross Misrepresen-
tatiOn of Minister Sargent's Report
LONDON May 2.-The Times publishes
special from Berlin which undertakes to ex-
plain the misunderstanding, or misrepresen-
tation, on the part Of the North German Ga
zette in respect to the republication in New
York paper of Minister Sargents report to
Secretary Frelinghuysen upon the pork ques-
ton. The point of the special correspond
ents explanation is that what was published
day before yesterday by the North German
Gazette was in reality the report of Mr.. Sar-
gent to the State Department. 1t was printed
in order to show that the North German Ca
zette's late personal attack, which Mr. Sargent
would have been justly entitled to consider
gross infringement of the newspaper upon
his privileges as a foreign ambassador was
based upon an incorrect translation by the
New York Handels Zeitung of Mr.. Sargents
report The North German Gazette, in re-
producing the report prefaces by para
graph which the Times's correspondent char
acterizes as a weak and transparent attempt
upon the part of the management to excuse
their unwarrantable attack This is the only
excuse vouchsafed by the Berlin paper, and
tits the general opinion here that while the
apology is humble enough, it must be re-
garded, nevertheless, as entirely inadequate,
since it convicts the North German Gazette
of gross misrepresen tation of the truth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
THE KENTUCKY TRAGEDY.
The Unexpected Happens, and Thomp-
son Is Indicted for Murder.
A Growing Feeling that the Crime Was
Little Less than AssassinatiOn-Other
Criminal Notes.
THE HARRoDsBURG KILLING.
An Indictment for Murder Returned Against
Congressman Thompson

An Indictment for Murder Returned Against
Congressman Thompson.
CINCINNATI, May 2.-The Commercial Ga
1ette's Harrodsburg, KY, special says:
THE grand jury to-day returned an in
dictment for murder against Hon. Phil. B.
Thompson, jr., for killing Walter H. Davis
on April 27. The return was made late this
afternoon. The witnesses named for the
Commonwealth are ]. P. Churn, K. c. Smith,
J. M. Wilson, r. E. Coleman and John
Maurter. Thompson will be re-arrested to-
morrow, Under the much-prevaling GUS
tom he will probably be let out of prison,
being nominally under arrest in charge of a
guardian whose salary is paid by the pris-
oner Then habeas corpus proceedings will
lead to preliminary trial to determine if he
can be bailed, and what the amount shall be.
The indictment creates surprise, though
generally approved. The defendant and his
friends expected it to be for manslaughter.
1t is expected that the prisoners brother, one
the counsel for Thompson. The sentiment is
growing that the killing of Davis is to be
classed as assassination. There is dispo-
sition to criticlse the conduct of Miss Buck
ner, upon whose statements to her cousin,
Phil. B. Thompson, it is supposed he made
his attack on Davis. 1t is said that when
Miss Buckner, some years ago, was in trouble
a somewhat similar charge was made against
Mrs Thompson.
Mrs Davis protests that justice has not
been done her husband, and that he was
good, loyal, kind husband as ever woman
bad. She asserts. over and over again her
immovable trust in the honor and innocence
of her husband. She says the testimony
against her husband was all concerted; that
Miss Buckner had sworn to have revenge on
her and her oath had been fulfilled.
Hon. j. c. S. Blackburn arrived tonight,
to assist in the defense of Thompson
There are witnesses who contradict Miss
Buckner with reference to Mrs Thompson's
drunkenness The implication that Davis
was fleeing to Chicago is wholly wrong. He
and his partner had sold their stock of
groceries in order to devote their whole time
to the whisky trade, and Mr.. Davis had
agreed to go to Chicago to close out branch
house, and was on his way to Chicago on this
business when he was killed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
The Prince of Wales on Dynamite.

LONDON, May 2-The Prince Of Wales, re-
ceiving an address at Oxford, yesterday, on
the occasion of opening the Indian Institute,
said the manifestations of loyalty were the
more acceptable when the whole civilized
world was shocked at the series of detestable
and cowardly outrages, which, happily, are
almost unprecedented in hiscory The Prince
to-day laid the memorial stone at the insti-
tute with Masonic rites Among the men of
prominence present were the Marquis of
Salisbury, Earl of Kimberly, Earl North
brook, Lord Canbrook and Stafford North
aOta
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
TELLER VS.. HILL.
The Secretary Does Not Intend to Answer
Mr.. Hill Personal Matters.

The Secretary Does Not Intend to Answer
Mr.. Hill on Personal Matters.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Secretary Teller in
formed a representative of the Associated
Press, this evening, that he does not intend
to make any general reply to Senator Hills
letter. and added that, although he found it
was full of errors and misrepresentation he
does not propose taking any public notice of
any portion of it that is local or personal in
it's character. He did not think the public
had any interest in those matters. He said,
however, as to the Yellowstone Park lease,
he took the advice of his assistant Joslyn,
and of McCammon, the law officer of the
department. and that the lease was, in their
opinion, in accordance with the law. Mr..
Teller went on to say that it
does not, as the Senator assumes,
give control of the park to the lessees; any
number of other leases may be made in
every respect as advantageous to the lessees
as this one; no exclusive privilege is given,
and no advantage is given in sites. The lease
covers sites for hotel and stage stations ag-
gregating ten acres. Others may II they de-
sire have the same. As to the rulings of
the department in favor of corporations in
the matter of land grants the Senator made
only general charge concerning matter of
which he could know no more than the gem
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03

The Times compositors strike at Chatta-
nooga is ended. Enough non-union men
were secured.
The cigarmakers of Reading, Pa, obtained
an advance of wages and no further trouble
is apprehended.
The Buffalo cigarmakers were granted an
advance of 81 and $1.50 per thousand except
by manufacturers George Sonneman and j.
Myers. Their hands, numbering 240, left
1t now transpires that the cigarmarkers
have made their demands in very quiet
way on the manufacturers for an increase of
wages, and that their demands have been
complied with by nine-tenths of the facto-
ries Only a few small concerns. are holding
ont
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
CRIME IN GENERAL.
Mrs. Belle Beauehamp Acquitted of the
Charge of Numbering Her Husband.

Mrs. Belle Beauchamp acquitted OF the
Charge of Numbering Her Husband.
BALTIMORE May 2.-The Suns Trenton
special says; "The jury in the trial of Mrs.
Beauchamp, for the murder of her husband,
returned verdict of not guilty. James A.
Hern, indicted as accessory, was acquitted
by order of the court. Mrs. Beauchamp said
to reporter: I can hardly tell you how
happy feel, because hope people will be-
lieve me innocent | feared would break
down sometime during the trial, but was
upheld by the consciousness that l was not
guilty. 1t was perfectly awful to listen to
the frightful Indictment. If a woman can
stand such an ordeal as that her nerve will
not forsake her in anything she has to un-
dergo 1t was almost as trying when the
Jury came back for further explanations,
but then, as have already told you, 1 did
not fear the result'h
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
Southern Sunday. School Association.

AUGUSTA, Ga, May AT the annual ses-
sion of the State Sunday-school Association,
President Shepard in the chair it was an
nounced that Mcnt Eagle, Tenn. had been
selected for the SouthernChautauqua Reports
from delegates showed an increase in Sunday
school work and number of scholars The
convention represents about 10000 scholars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
Interference with the Army Not Wanted

BERLIN, May I'm the Reichstag, Richter
introduced motion declaring against the
execution of private orders in military work
shops. Bismarck protested in the name of
the Emperor against the assumption that the
army can be required to even receive direct
condemnation from the Reichstag.
Richter then altered the motion so its de-
mands were addressed to Bismarck, instead
of the military administration. The Minis
ter of War decided the motion implied a
direct invasion of the powers of the Emperor.
Bismarck's action in regard to Richter's
motion in the Reichstag is not so much re-
garded as reprimand to the Reichstag as
reassertion of his prerogative as chancellor
over other ministers, especially the Minister
of War
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
Milwaukee shoemakers Idle.

MILWAUKEE May "A large number of
shoemakers are idle at present. claiming that
they cannot make living wages owing to the
extensive introduction of machinery. In
one establishment, where over twenty men
were lately employed, there are but half a
dozen working to-day. There is no organ
lied movement on tine part of the shoe
makers, and not likely to be. The changes
have come gradually, as three or four promi-
nent establishments have, one after another,
introduced new machinery. The men are
looking for other work, and take the situa-
tion philosophically. One who lost his place
tonight said he worked a whole week on a
case of boots and Shoes and made only $490.