Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-15
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
A LIVELY ROW AT ONE OF DA-
Wits MEETINGS.

Chair Legs Welded with Effect-The
ROughs Bitterly DenOunced--The Phoe-
nix Park Murderers-SeveraI Arrests in
Dublin-WhOlesale Charge of COnspir-
acy-Informers Getting in Their Work.
DUBLIN, Jan. 13, 8 A. M.-There were
a number of arrests here last evening and
this morning under the crimes act. A
number of persons arrested had arms in
their possession. The arrests were effected
in various parts Of the city. At o'clock
this morning the prisoners were still being
brought in. They are principally. of the
artisan class.
10 A. Mt is positively stated that
Que of the prisoners is a member
of the municipality who was ar
rested at midnight in his own
residence, ON the south side of the city,
and conveyed to College street station
be privately examined to-day before Mr..
Curran, a Divisional Magistrate, and pos
sibly afterwards arraigned at the Police
Court. The police are reticent regarding
the causes of the arrests.
p. M.-The arrests in Dublin were to
the number of fifteen. The prisoners are
to be charged with conspiracy to murder
morning were made in consequence of
secret information received last week that
number of persons belonging to secret
societies had held a special meeting in
Dublin and resolved to assassinate GER
tain of the active members of the Dublin
police force. Two of the conspirators &.
turned approvers. The member of the
municipality arrested is Mr.. Carey, a
well known and prominent nationalist.
He had been previously arrested under
Forster's coercion act. 1t is not believed
that he is connected with the assassination
party. Carey and twenty others, who are
charged with conspiracy with other per-
sons not yet arrested, to murder govern
ment officials, have been remanded. 1t is
understood that the arrests are the result
of private Investigation which has been
conducted during the last six weeks at
the Castle. The police have fruitlessly
searched various places in the city for
arms and ammunition. The Magistrates
refused bail. Carey said conspiracy
was on the bench and threatened
an action for false Imprisonment.
Seventeen of the persons arrested here
to-day had been examined at private in
vestigatiOn at Dublin Castle. Some Of
them had signed dispositions, others were
not asked to sign, and some were not
sworn. Several of them have been impris-
Oned under FOrster's act on suspicion Of
DelnR concerned III murders cOmmlLUeu
here, two of them for the Phoenix Park
crime. The knives used in the Phoenix
Park murders were found behind the
house of one of the prisoners. The
authorities finding that there was no
chance of bringing home the guilt to any
of them, decided to group all the men
alluded to by the informers in a general
charge of conspiracy. II is rumOred that
five of the accused will be examined next
"a c "
A riot occurred tonight in Anne street,
where the police and marines were
mobbed.
The knives supposed to have been used
by the Phoenix Park assassins have been
found to fit the cuts in the clothes of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke. The
authorities are convinced that they are the
identical weapons with which the murders
were committed. Efforts are being made
to procure description of the purchaser
of the knives i'll the Strand at London.
The pG'jce have clue to the purchaser Of
the rev Diver with which the attempt was
made on Judge Lawson's life.
LONDON, Jan. 14.-The ObserUer's Oub-
lin correspondent telegraphs that the
knives which are supposed to have been
dsed by the Phoenix Park assassins were
found near the premises of Mr.. Carey. a
member of the Dublin municipality, who
was arrested on Friday night and ar
raigned yesterday with twenty other per-
sons on the charge of conspiracy to nlur
der government officials.
Mr. Davitt appeared before the meeting
at Wo0lham last evening to deliver an
address on the Irish question, When he
commenced to speak he was hauled down
by an organized gang present, who at
tempted to storm the platform, but were
repulsed with chairs by the occupants of
the platform. A free fight ensued. in
which oh In Ioorc Ill
used, and many persons were hurt.
Mr. DaYitt called the disturbers a row.
ardly crew, and declared that il twenty
men would follow him, he would clear the
hall of the gang. He thereupon advanced
toward the latter for that purpose.
but was restrained by the
police present Addressing his
said they were miserable, contemplate,
cowardly dogs. When they were sitting
in tayerns,he said he was fighting the Brit
ish Government. They were drunken
blackguards and were a disgrace to the
name OF Nationalists. If ireland were
made up Of such she would earn the con-
tempt of the civilized world. He said he
had Travelled throughout England, and
Englishmen, although his enemies, had
given him hearing. ''What q spectacle
for the English" he exclaimed, twas af-
forded by these professors of blackguard-
ism at time when Ireland Is asking for
self government" The police finally
succeeded in removing the disturbers
from the hall. A vote of thanks to Mr..
Davitt was then passed and the meeting
shortly afterward adjourned.
DUBLIN, Jan. 14,-Earl Spencer. the
Lord Lieutenant, has replied to the repre-
sentations III favor of Patrick Higgins. one
OF the prisoners under sentence of death
for the Huddy murders, that the law must
take its course.