Connecticut western news., 1885-04-22
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A GREAT KIOr IN CORK.
The Mob and the Police Fighting After the
 Princes Visit.

The Prince of Wales arrived in Cork on We'd | nesday. The railway station and the streets I in the vicinity were crowded with people | awaiting the arrival Of the royal party. When the Prince and Princess emerged from | the railway station they were greeted with | cheer after cheer. During their progr ss in | the parade, workmen and boys ran alongside
 their carriage and kept up the cheering to drown the misses of the Nationalists, who | lined the entire route, and made continual | hostile demonstrations. The conduct of the Leaguers aroused these loyalists to 8 high pitch, and they made the streets echo with | their shouts of welcome.
 John O'Connor, Nationalist member for Tip perary, marched at tue head of 8 procession Of Leaguers, who closely followed the royal pro- | cession and sang "God Save Ireland" every time the loyalists or their band started up | "God Save the Queen" or "God Save the Prince of Wales"
 At one point Nationalist threw an onion at | the royal carriage. The missile struck one of | the footmen, wLo chanced to be in such a po- | sition that he shielded the Princess Alexandria | from it. Many stones were thrown at the people who followed and cheered the royal carriage, and the police several times fired at
 the roughs. No injuries are reported. The Prince of Wales betrayed some feeling
 when he replied to the address of welcome presented by the magistrates of Cork. He | sad he was glad to hear the expression of | loyalty to the British Constitution and to the Queen which the address contained, and hoped that every person possessing influence | in Ireland would exert it to avoid dissensions
 which would interfere with the object and pro- | gress of his pleasant tour through the coun- try, and unite to promote the welfare of the Irish people.
 The Prince and Princess soon after the con- clusion of the procession went to Queens town.
 Immediately after the procession was over 8 meeting of the Cork National League was
 held. The mee ing declared that the loyalist attempt to get up fictitious demonstration of welcome in honor of royalty had proved fail ure, and passed 8 resolution congratnlatlng John O'Connor who managed the hostile dem onstrations, for the victory he had achieved for the Nationalist cause.
 In the afternoon 8 detective arrested 8 man who was throwing stones st the loyalists pro-
 cession. A mob speedily formed and attempted
 to rescue the prisoner. The detective fired his
 revolver, but without hitting any one, and suc-
 ceeded in taking his prisoner to police court, where he was promptly released on bail fur
 nished by the Mayor of Cork.
 Aft, r the mass meeting the Nationalists scat
 tered throu1h the city in parties numbering from 50 to 500 men. Doors and windows were
 smashed, flags and decorations were torn down
 and heaped upon blazing bonfires, and many gun stores were broken into for the purpose of arming the mob. Policemen, when encountered singly or in small squads, were attacked and beaten unmercifully with their own truncheons. In many cases the police rallied and charged desperately upon the mob, but they were in- variably surrounded and repulsed. The police then resorted to the free use of their revolvers and bayonets. It was hand-to-hand fighting of the most desperate sort, the police standing back to back and receiving and inficting ter
 rible injuries.
 At midnight the streets were practically in poss, ssion of the mob The policemen who remained uninjured could uot attempt to do
 more than maintain their positions and fight
 on the defensive. In addition to attacks frOm
 the crowds in the streets, the police were ex-
 posed to volleys of stones from windows,
 houset ps, and other points of vantage. The
 belief at midnight was that the streets could
 not be cleared without the use of artillery,
 and it was reported that owing to the apathy
 of the Mayor, leading tizens had teegraphsd
 to Lord Spencer requesting that the military