Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-18
EXCITEMENT IN IRELAND.
JOHN DILLON, EDITOR o'BRlEN, ANC
OTHERS ARRESTED.

They Are Charged with Conspiracy tO
Defraud LandIords-sIore Arrests Ex'
pected What the Newspapers Say
Sale of the Late Fred Archer's Bleoded
stock-Foreign Flashes.
LONDON, Dec 1s-At Loughrea, Ireland
Thursday. while hundreds of tenants weri
paying their rents to the Nationalist commit
tee, inspectors of police arrested John Dillon
Matthew Harris, and David Shelly, m'mber
of parliament, and William OBrien, editor
of United Ireland. They were charged will
conspiracy TO defraud landlords, and th'
magistrate remanded them for week TIL,
police seized the money and books in tn
hands of the trustees.
Dillon struggled with Inspector Davies fol
the possession of the rent money seized by
the latter. The four gentlemen arrested CAV,
bail in goo each 1t is remored that the pc
lice have been instructed to pursue similar
course in the case of other Nationalist rem
collectors. The National league leaders hav,
decided to continue the present tactics, ant
several of them will leave Dublin for various
parts of Ireland for the purpose of receiving
rents
Mr.. Dillon obtained a cross-summon
against Inspector Davies for assault It i
rumored that the management of United
Ireland Thursday hurriedly moved portion
Of the plant from the offices of that paper
The news of the arrests created the great
est excitement in Dublin, but there We're EC
disorders
Mr.. Healy has applied to Judge Munroe
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fifty tenants of the Creagh estate in Cork
The application is made on the ground that
when leases fell in 1860 the rents were in.
creased 400 per cent. Judge Muuros re-
served his decision.
Commenting on the arrests The Daily
News says: I'VE alphabetically state that En-
glish Liberals can have nothing whatever 10
do with outrage, dishonesty, or resistance to
law. The government will be driven from
one arbitrary act to another Lord Hart
ington gave the ministers the cue at the
Unionist conference, and they have taken it
There can be.only one end to such policy, but
much trouble will precede il"
DUBLIN, Dec. Is.-The Freemen's Journal
in an editorial published Friday, says that it
does not believe that any movement against
the rack-rent will induce the English people
to consent tococrcion. The paper appeals t.
the people to falsify the malignant predic-
zion that the arrests of the leaders in the
campaign against rack-rents would induce
outrage
The Express says: The limit of forbear-
ance has passed. The government had no
alienation unless it would stultify itself he
fore the world
BELFAST, Dec. tS-The News Letter com
menting on the action Of the government in
arreSting MesSrs Dillon. O'Brien, Harris, and
Siiehy, f0T acting as trustees in con lucting
the plan If campaign against rack rent,
says: Tie result; woul,l have been deplcr
able if the government was weak enough to
allow men who had just been ordered to find
securities for their gooI behavior to set the
law at defiance
The Belfast Morning News says that it
hopes the government viii grant the arrested
men fair trial and leave the country to de
eide between the leaders of the rent move
ment and their intended victims in the IN