The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-15
IRISH AFFAIRS.
A Number of Arrests Under the Grimes
Act-Destitution in the Western Districts.

Act-Destitution in the Western Districts.
DUBLIN, Jan. ia number of arrests
were made last night and this morning under
the crimes act. Some of the arrested had
arms i'll their possession. The arrests were
effected in various parts of the city. At
o'clock this morning prisoners were still
being brought in, principally of the artisan
class 1t is positively stated that one of the
prisoners is "a member of the municipality
who was arrested at midnight in his own
residence on the south side of the city, and
conveyed to College-street station under a
strong escort. The prisoners will be pr-
vately examined to-day before the Divisional
magistrate, and, possibly, afterward ar
raigned in the police court. The police are
reticent regarding the causes of the arrests
which number fifteen
The arrests were in consequence of secret
information received last week that num-
Der of persons belonging to a secret society had
held a special meeting in Dublin and resolved
to assassnate certain of the more active
members of the Dublin police force. Two
OF the conspirators turned informers The
- member of the municipality arrested is
Carey, well-kr5wn and prominent Nation
alist. He had been previously arrested un
der Forster's coercion act
Carey and twenty others charged with con-
spiracy, with other persons not yet ARRESTED
to murder government officials, have been
remanded. 1t is understood that the arrests
are the result of private investigation which
has been conducted the last six weeks at the
Castle. The police have fruitlessly searched
various places In the city for arms and am
munition
The police made a raid for arms at LINER
lex last evening
The restitution in some OF the western dis
tricts of Ireland is the subject of much con-
Germ to the nOOr- aw guardians The pOvarn-
ment is persistently urged to provide employ
ment by public works. In few instances
emigration is viewed with favor. A number
of people have applied to the Balliansloe
guardians for assistance to emigrate to
America.
riot occurred tonight on Ann street
where the police and marines were mobbed
Seventeen of the persons arrested to-day
have been examined at private investiga-
ton at Dublin Castle. Some of them had
signed dispositions, and Others were not
asked to sign and some were not sworn.
Several OF them had been imprisoned under
Forster's act on suspicion of being concerned
in murders committed here, two of them
for the Phoenix Park crime The knives
used in the Pmnix Park murders were found
behind the house of one of the prisoners
The authorities finding them there was no
chance of bringing home the guilt as to any
of them, but decided to group all the men
alluded to by the informers on a general
of the accused will be examined next week
as witnesses. The police have warrants for
the arrest of five other persons. The knives
supposed to be used by the Phoenix Park as
sassins have been found to fit the cuts in the
clothes of Lord Frederick Cavendish and
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
purchase of the knives in the Strand London.
lion InaFa al H.
revolver with which an attempt was made on
Judge Lawsons life.
Mr.. Davitts Spirited Response to a Mob.
LONDON, Jan. 14.-Mr. Davitt appeared at
Oldham last evening to deliver an address on
the Irish question. When he commenced
to speak he was howled down by an organ
lied gang who attempted to storm the plat
form, but were ropulsed with chairs by the
occupants of the platform. A free fight fol-
lowed, chair legs and brass knuckles being
the principal weapons, and many persons
were hurt Mr.. Davitt called the disturbers
cowardly crew, and declared that if twenty
men would follow him he would clear the
hall of the gang He thereupon advanced
toward the mob, but was restrained
by policemen. Addressing his OBJ
ponents again, Mr.. Davtt said they
were miserable, contemplate, cowardly dogs
When they were sitting in taverns, he said,
he was fighting the British government; they
were drunken blackguards, and were a dis
grace to the name Of Nationalist. If Ireland
were made up of such she would earn the
contempt of the civilized world. He had
travelled throughout England, and English
men, although his enemies, had given him
hearing. What a spectacle for the English"
he exclaimed. was afforded by these profes-
sors OF blackguardism at the time when Ire
land was asking for self-government"
The police finally succeeded in removing
the dsturbers from the hail. vote of
thanks to MIR. Davitt was then passed, and
the meeting shortly afterward adjourned.