Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-08
A TRAIN FIRED UPON

A Sensation is Caused in tha Ra.r Coach of an Express Train by a M m Firing q Load or Duckshot Through the Windows.
 CHICAGO, H., March 7.-The Cincinnati express train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road was fired upon by an un- known man near Rose Lawn, Ind, yesterday afternoon. He took deliberate aim at the rear coach and sent two loads of duckshot crashing through the windows. The train was running st high rate of speed at the time. The terrified passengers sprang frem their eeats as the shot crashed through the windows and sent shower of broken glass flying all over the car. Several of the pas sepgers were slightly cut in the hands and face by broken glass. The railroad company has sent out officers to hunt down the mis- creants if possible.
 ocean steamers.
 NEW YORK, March 7.-Arrived, Greet- land, Progresso; Nubia, Calcutta; General Whitney, Boston; Lahn, Bremen.
 LONDON, March 7.-Sailed, steamer Aller, Southampton, for New York.
 DR. o,REILLX INTERVIEW The Treasurer of the Irish National
 League Expresses His Views Re-
 Earding the Rupture fin the League.
 DETROIT, March 7.-The Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, treasurer of the Irish National league, when seen this morning relative to the reported rupture in the league, said: "That report sa- vors very much of the atmosphere of Ameri- can national politics which is normally very dense in the city of New York. know little about the merits of the case, which they claim to be under controversy, but believe it to be their own manufacture. I am positive MT. Sullivan is not looking for the presidency of the league and I am equally positive that MT. Egan is not unreservedly committed to any one candidate as yet. The candidates have heard canvassed so far are such men as ex- Mayor Donovan of Lowell, Col. John At kinson of Detroit Hugh McCaffrey of Phila- delphia, John Boyle OReilly of Boston and Edward Malone of New York. The election, however, may fall outside any of these." "I served with MT. Sullivan from the in- ception of the league to the convention in 1884, and he made an exceptionally fine ex- ecutive. At the convention he received an unanimous ovation. both from the delegates of the Irish National league in Ireland and those of the Irish American league here. He was unanimously reelected, but he firmly de- clined, and do not zee that entering the Blaine campaign or being "Blalne shout- CT" was any more out of the province of his rights and duties as an American citizen than WAS tEe part that General Collins took in the other side in the same campaign. It should be remembered that while Sullivan was president of the league he never opened his mouth on American politics, thing l would like to say in f-vindication, which I do not consider any oHcial of the league to-"
 stWhat is your opinion of the charge that Sullivan and Egan scheming for their own political endss"
 q would like to characterize that state ment as low, ignorant, malicious, thoroughly trashy and untruthful stuff. No one who knows these gentlemen can take any other view. The assertion that Father Dorney is their tool is preposterously absurd He is not one likely to be made tool of by any man. know him very we'll, was in college | with him, and he is one of the biggest heart. ed, biggest bodied and biggest brained men in America D