St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-21
THE RENT WAR.
The Trustees Trick the Police Who
Were Watching the VandeIeur
Estate.

DUBLIN, Dec. 20.-Joseph Richard Cox,
Jeremiah Jordan and Joseph Edward
Kenny, Parnellite members for East and
West Clare and South Cork, respectively.
succeeded yesterday in totally hoodwinking
the police and in collecting and escaping
with all the rents due from tenants on the
Vandeeur estates in County Clare. They
went to Kilrush on Friday last. 1t was
known to the police that they went there
to act as trustees under the ''plan Of cam
paign' to collect from the tenants of the
Vandeleur estates the reduced rents re-
fused by the proprietors. The authorities,
however. could not ascertain the nature of
the arrangement to be carried out between
the tenants and trustees, and were led to
believe that the tenants were to assemble
at Kilrush on Sunday and hand in the rents.
The police accordingly were
KEPT ON THE ALERT
and were instructed to watch for the arri-
val of the tenants ami to arrest the trustees
and secure the money when it had all been
handed in. The trustees, after having Sc
cured the police Oh this track, appointed
three places of rendezvous outside the town
of KilruSh. and managed to have all the re-
belllOuS tenants instructed to 60 to the
proper places. On Sunday it showed very
hard in Kilrush. The trustees left their
hotels separately, went each to his ap-
pointed rendezvous. collected the rents. re-
turned unobserved by the police and closed
their business up without attracting any
suspicion on the part of the authorities who
continued to watch for the assembling of
the tenants at Kilrush, and finally concluded
that either the rig0r of the police arrange
fbo nf ho ctr hod
vented the arrangement from being carried
ont. AS result the trustees were enabled
to get away unmolested with all the rents,
and some of the County Clare authorities
are yet in doubt as to whether the Vande-
leur rents were certainly collected yester-
day, or whether the statement that they
were is net
PART OF A STRATEGEM
to throw the police off their guard against a
postponed collection. William Redmond,
Parnellite member of the house of COM
mons for North Fermanagh, was to-day
served with summons to answer charge
OF conspiracy for serving as trustee of rents
under the plan of campaign. A London dis
patch says: The Standard. assuming that
no rents were collected in Ireland yeSter-
day under the plan Of campaign, says:
1.-THE absence of rent collecting yesterday
in Ireland and the fact that the ParnelliteS
are con6ning themselves to heroic talk in
dicate that the campaign is ended" The
Standard interprets MIR. PaInelPs Sudden"
appearance in London as showing an in-
tentiOn OIL his part TO make virtue of ne
cessity by refusing to sanction the con-
tinuance of the campaign. 1.-The Parnell
ite leaders," the paper says, ''are not
likely to support William O'Brien's
hint to let loose the eXigencies of
crime" Mr.. Parnell is at Easten
Station hotel in this city. He is i'll
and confined to his room. He is unable to
receive visitors, and is obliged to avoid the
transaction of all business and is even pro-
hibited by his physicians from taking any
part in political discussion.
The proceedings against David Sheehy,
Parnelite member of parliament for South
Galway, for accepting rents as trustee
under the ''Plan of Campaign" at Temple
more, County Tipperary. have been aban-
doned.
THE LEAGUERS
are taking precautions to prevent another
coup like that at LOughrea. In some in
stances they are secretly appointing fresh
trustees. Mr.. Healy will represent Messrs.
Dillon, Diamond. Crilly. Harris and Sheehy
at their trial here on Thursday next. when
they will be called upon to answer the
charge Of conspiracy in receiving as tenants
trustees reduced rents which had been re-
fused by the landlords. P. A. Chance,
Nationalist member OF parliament from
South Kilkenny, writing to prominent
Nationalist concerning the arrests and seiz-
ures at Loughrea, charges the executive
with conspiracy, false Imprisonment, as
sault and battery, trespass. trover and
robbery.