The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-12-07


Over cur nations fray.
CORK.
A great crowd OF Cork citizens, in.
Guiding the Mayor and some members
Of the Corporation, welcomed DIR. Tan
ner home on his release from prison
Cases connected with the police MUIR
der of Daniel Donohue. in Timoleague,
were heard at Coercion Court in that
town recently. Two constables prose
cuted two brothers named Dempsey for
assault, rescue, resisting, and obstruct.
ing the police on the night Donohue
was shot. Patrick Dempsey was SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment,
and Daniel to a fortnight. The former
appealed,
Father Mccarthy, P. P. who was re-
leased a few days since from Cork Jail,
was the object of an ovation on his re-
turn home. Sit thousand people
marched with him to Clonakilty, where
addresses were presented by the Town
Commissioners and Board of Guardians
The police unsuccessfully attempted to
introduce Government notetakers to the
meeting. Subsequently 2, 600 people &C.
companied Father Nc Carthy to his
own parish, and the hills en- route were
ablaZe with b0nfires.
DERRY.
The last issue of the Gazette contains
schedule of twelve purchases under
the Ashbourne Act by tenants of their
holdings, all the cases being on the es-
tate of the Rev. Henry E. Wright, in
Derry county.
There was panic a few days ago
among the 5000 work girls employed at
Tillie and Hende1son's great shirt
factory in Derry. A gas pipe having
burst, a cry of fire arose. The girls
rushed to the doors and windows
screaming, and frantically crushing
each other. At the lower windows they
broke the plate glass, aud tried to crush
through the iron bars. Manv lives
would have been lost, but that several
citizens hurrying to the place tore away
the bars, and relieved the terrible pres
sure AS it was, few of the girls were
seriously hurt.
DONEGAL.
The finishing touch was given to the
Donegal evictlons few days ago. The
work of incendiarism was not res0rted
to until it seemed that all the visitors
and all the representatives of the press
left the scene of action and that in
darkness the deed of darkness might
be perpetrated. In the evening the
agent of the Olphert estate, Hewson, of
Dromahair, Leitrim, accompanied by
five emergencymen, set out upon their
work of desolation. Under the en-
couraging protection of the armed
forces of the government the atrocities
of this evening were perpetrated. The
"parafln brigade effect their first win
dication of Flaw and order" in the
of Drumnatinny, where the
farm holdings are much more comfort
able and the dwellings more substantial
than on the other townlands of the
Olphert estate. The tenants offered a
very fierce resistance to eviction in the
early part of this year, and the houses
had to be literally besieged before pos
session was secured. Subsequently all
The eyicted families retook possession,
and on refusing to leave, again guards
Of armed policemen were placed upon
every house with q view to starving out
The inmates. and Twas in the townland
Of Drumnatinny that Mr.. COnybeare,
NJ. r, and Mr.. Harrison became ''cri-
minals' for the helnous crime of hand
inR a loaf Of bread to one Of the families
thus Desieged. The band Of incen-
DIARIES, BY their late action, have re-
rived the recolle ction of those events.
The homeless families found the crow
bar at work on their once happy dwell
lngs, and the flames redd eniDg the sky
EorT mites around The agents wn
hand ileid The houses. and 9 red glare
from M burnIng houses lighted up the
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