Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-13

tireleSS energy IN patrOllinS tne ulStulpeu
districts which has made the priests so much
liked by allimagistrates.
MANY RELATIVES IN NEW YORK.
Widow Strain, whose son was buried yes
terday, proves to have many relatives near
New York, among them son, David Strain,
mason at 80 East One Hundred and Twelfth
street, New York, and Rev. Hugh Strain,
Pennington seminary, New Jersey.
Attempts are now being made to repress
the wild window firing which has made
many streets unsafe to both friends and foes
of residents. Searches for arms are also
threatened on large scale, but are hardly
likely TO be carried out, as being too danger
ous at this time.
AMONG THE WOUNDED,
| find considerable number OF per
sons who have relatives in the United
States, and especially is this so among the
Catholics. AS the Belfast police regularly
bring up for trial all persons who have been
mentioned in the papers as suffering from
gunshot wounds during the disturbed peace,
the hospitals and private physicians have
! combined to prevent the publication of the
about their friends in Belfast will be reas-
sured to know that comparatively few of the
wounds are of dangerous type; also that
| great majority of the wounded have no near
relatives in America. | saw, to-day, a great
| number of persons, manly women, suffering
| from attacks made upon them while return
| ing from work. found the following who
| have relatives in America: Mrs Cosgrove
| and daughter, aged nineteen, who were
| badly beaten by a crowd of Protestant men
| and women while returning from linen
mill. Neither is dangerously hurt, but both
| had been savagely attacked with sticks and
stones They have brother and two sisters
in ST. Louis.
Cotter (married), Davis, a carpenter;
Kelley, a publican, and man named
| McGuigon were among those who were
beaten by the Protestants at the Island
works. McGuigon was anxious that brother
in New York should know that he had only
couple of ribs broken and that his face was
smashed. saw also Mrs. Devilyn and the
| widow of q man who was shot by the police
| recently. He has just been buried. His
daughter is Mrs. Hughes of No. 80 Kansas
| street, Chicago A boy named Gillian is
| among the cases of persons severely beaten
| on their way home from brick yard, where
they worked. He is now recovering Gillian
has a brother named DAILY at 92S Third street.
| San Francisco. Miss Becton was scand-
ously treated by a party of Protestant girls
while she was returning from her work at
linen factory. They jumped on her, kicked
her, stripped off her clothes and
cut her head with her own
scissors. She is now recovering from
her injuries, She has relatives named Gil
lespie and Pritchard in Boston. Another
Miss Cosgroves was badly beaten on her way
from work by crowd of Protestant men
and women. She had some cousins who are
servants in New York. The saddest case Of
all is that of the widow Strain, who was
| solely dependent OH her son Robert, a Pro-
1 testant He was shot without warning or
reason by the police. He had arranged to
take his mother to New York, where he
| worked previously, and was just on the point
of sailing when he was shot while stepping
across the street to meet a friend. The hor-
| rors as regards attacks upon work girls and
other inoffensive work people were pretty
| equally divided between the Protestants and
Catholics. Both sides have shown the ut
most brutality to women and boys as well as
to men.
AN INTERVIEW WITH A MAGISTRATE.
To-day had an interview with Protest
ant magistrate of many years service in Bel
fast. In spite of his religion and social posi-
ton he said: 81 regard the Protestants as
entirely in the wrong i'll this rloting. The
Catholics have done their utmost to keep the
| peace and to prevent the evaporation OF the
Orangemen. The priests, at great personal
risk, and by much eXertion have kept the
people from resenting insults,and night after
night priests have watched until daylight
the dangerous points, using the full influence
of the church to prevent outbreaks, and even
arresting rioters themselves, when necessary.
The Protestant clergy have not do ne this,
and have made no effort to keep the Protest
ants quiet; on the contrary the clergy have
walked in PROFESSIONS and funerals, thus
keeping up tine bad feeling Look at to-day's
funerals. The Catholics had only half O
dozen mourners and took a route through
the back streets in order to avoid giving cause
for fresh rioting. The Protestants had a reg
, ular orange wake with great crowds OF
mourners, two ministers passing through the
most dangerous part of the Catholic district
, as II In bravadO. The whole trouble has been
caused by q system of borough magistrates
| which permits men saturated with local pre-
iudices, to try criminals, and also impede
the action of the police when quick and sharI
, action is necessary. There are only clever
! | Catholic magistrates, as against thirty-tiyt
, | Protestants. AS the majority of the board de
| cides the punishment awarded the Catholics
have been out-voted. have seen magistrate!
frequently deal out punishment according tt
/. the street on which criminal lives-ien shil
4 | DngS 10 one; SIX months 10 announcer. Int
: riots were largely caused by the Orange re
. turn to the days of the old policemen, whel
. the whole force was composed of Orangemen
/ think this wrong. J. think the Catholic re
quest for the abolition of unpaid magistrate:
and the substitution of paid judges, respon
sible only to the crown and free from loca
and business prejudices, is perfectly proper
!. This would likely do away with one grea
O source of chatting between the two religious
q The Protestants would then depend less upol
A their friends on the bench, and Catholic
a would lose their sense of injustice. | thinl
|. that If the Catholics were let alone the,
g would not trouble the Orangemen in tn
y least"
ITS EFFECT ON TRADE.
The riots have been so entirely confined I
= certain portions OF Belfast, such as along tn
. Shank Hill aud GrosvenoI roads, that th
. general trade OF the city has been less al
q fected than may be expected, Many tourists
= however, avoid the city. There is also cor
. siderable loss IN the usual traue of the coun
- try customers, who are now afraid to come
= the city. Tho Belfast children have pickle
/, up the prevailing mania and have moe
:, riots as regular play. Pebbles fly betwee
% opposing parties. Some have even learne
- from their elders that when they are sun
| 10 ,rtx fol.