Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-04-14
PRESSING THE LEAGUE.


5totous Scenes at Various Towns In Ire
Land on sunday-The League Meetings
Stopped by the Authorities . Several
Collisions Occur in Which Many Persons
are Fiurt-O'Brien's Defiance.
hHRUsH, April 8. On Saturday night
some policemen who were trying to pre-
vent the erection of a platform for the
meeting announced to be held Sunday were
pelued With stones by a mob and were COM
PEELED to charge the crowd. Many civilians
were badly injured.
flr. Tanner, member of Parliament, held
meeting outside Macroom at o'clock
Sunday morning He there burned copy
OF the Government proclamation at Q %
M, the advertised hour, he attempted to
hold another meeting, when the police re-
moved him from the ground There was
only slight excitement
About 5000 persons belonging to the
various league branches of Kilrush as
sembled at $50 O'clock p m. There was
large contingent on horseback. The police,
led by Magistrates WEIGH and Irwin.
charged the crowd, injuring many. A
number Of triumphal arches were torn
down. Father Glynn, of Kilmihill, was at
tackled by two policemen with rifles A
farmer felled one policeman to the ground
with a blackthorn stick
riot being imminent the Berkshire regi-
ment, with fixed bayonets, led by Captain
Lynch, charged the crowd and many
persons We're badly wounded Order
was somewhat restored on the
crowd being appealed to by priests
and Messrs. Redmond and Chilly, nemb ers
OF Parliament. Mr.. Redmond then at
tempted to organize the meeting which had
been heretofore announced, but was pre-
vented by Magistrate Irwin. Mr. Redmond
protested that the Governments action in
proclaiming the meeting was illegal, and,
together with the priests, advised
the multitude to dispense Ten persons
We're seriously wounded with batons and
bayonets and two mounted policemen were
injured with stones. There are three seri-
GUS cases in the hospital. The town was
quiet throughout the evening.
ENNIS, April 9.-Messrs Davitt, o. Conner.
Rev. Mr. Cory and other league leaders
left Carmody's Hotel in Ennis at 2
O'clock Sunday afternoon and drove
ten miles into the country, followed
BY eighty hussars under Colonel Turner
By preconcerted arrangement Mr. Con-
don, M P, remained in town to hold the
proposed meeting in an unoccupied store
This programme leaked out and Gordon of
soldiers was placed around the building
The doors of the building had been barri-
caded, but soon gave way to sleGge-ham-
mers in the hands Of the police. This
aroused desperate resistance on the part
OF the people present, and many were
injured, including reporter of the Irish
Times Fifty persons We're arrested,
among them MI. Dunleavy, editor of the
Clare Independent Mr.. HaIpin, poor law
guardian, was also there Rain is falling
in torrents Cavalry and infantry are pa
trolling the town. Tie men arrested were
afterWard released.
LoUGHREA, April 0.-Mr. O'Brien held his
meeting. While the police were dispensing
the people Mr.. O'Brien spoke ten minutes.
He called the police towards for not arrest
ing him instead OF ll-treating the people.
Mr.. O'Brien left the Bishops residence
at p No., followed by crowd
numbering 1000 persons, and took
his way toward a field outside the town,
where platform had been erected. He
was met by an imposing force of police
and military, which barred the way,
MIR O'Brien then called to the people to
halt and addressed the magistrate to
the following effect: II wish to hold q
meeting 70 tell the people the truth about
English rule in Ireland, but no meeting will
be held it it has been resolved to disperse
the people forcibly. The magistrate replied
that he could not allow the meeting to be
held. Mr. O'Brien then insisted upon his
right to hold the meeting, saying that he
took all responsibility upon himself, and
asked the magistrate that it force be used to
use it upon him, not upon the people Along
colloqny between the two then ensued, Mr..
O'Brlen insisting that his arrest would end
the meeting, and that if any other action
was taken the responsibility would rest on
the police. The crowd then advanced to-
ward the platform and the police imme-
diately attacked them, knocking down
those who resisted. Only Mr.. O'Brien and
two clergymen were left.
Stones now began to fly and the police
brought their batons into requisition. At
this critical moment Father Meagher, in a
few well-chosen words, begged the crowd
to desist from violence, but his efforts were
only partially successful. The police then
pressed upon the people and cleared the
field, several civilians receiving scalp
wounds in the operation
At 4:3O o'clock Mr.. O'Brien addressed q
meeting at Temperance Hall A few
clergymen and about twenty of the leading
Nationalist were present Police arrived
on the ground after the meeting had closed
kANTURK, April 9.-Several hundred men
with National League cards displayed on
their caps paraded here yesterday.
In accordance with the announcement of
aleague meeting Messrs. Healy and Flynn,
after considerable trouble in eyad-
ing the police, attempted to adj
dress a crowd of people that had
assembled in the town. They failed, as the
crowd was Immediately dispersed by the
Police In the meantime, however, sue
cessful meeting had been held two miles
outside the town.
The proposed league meeting at Rams
grange was postponed for week on &C
count of the presence of formidable DO
lice force
Three thousand persons assembled at
Midtown Malbay, but dispersed quietly on
the advice of the leaders when the police
threatened to charge.
Messrs. Tanner and O'Shea addressed
meetings at Macroom later in the day,
evading the police
To Pay the Mexican Debt.
CITY OF MEXICO, April 9.-General Diaz
yesterday issued an Important financial de-
cree providing that 20 per cent of all Gus
toms duties after May shall be payable in
special certificates, to be issued by the
national treasury and sold by the bank of
Mexico and its agents. Any merchant or
importer failing to pay the required proper
ton of customs duties in such certificates
will be punished by fine in twice the
amount he failed to pay. This decree is
issued in compliance with the terms of the
loan recently effected in Europe, by which
interest on the new debt is guaranteed by
one-tifth of the custom house receipts
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Nearful Endemic of Measles.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 9-The Wabash
valley is having frightful epidemic of the
measles. In this city the number of new