Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
KNOUTED TO DEATH.
Terrible Treatment of Prisoners Sus-
pected OF Plotting Against Car.
Question of Life or Death in Irelsnd-Evic'
lions go on in The Face of Starvation.
Money Needed by the League.
who Would be an Autocrat?
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LONDON, Oct. 4.-Advices from Rus
sin represent the cZar as taking new pre-
cautions for protecting his person.
None except the cabinet ministers are
admitted to audience without the pres
ence of an officer of the guard, and the
eastern custom of tasting food before it
is placed on the sovereign's table has
been revived after having been in dis
use since the days of the Emperor Paul.
The Russian autocrat seems suspicious of
everyone around him and even his fav-
orite advisors are said TO dread an inter-
view with him. The recent attempt TO
wreck q tram on which he was supposed
to be riding has greatly added to the
czar's irritation and mOroseness, and he
Is known to have given orders for the I'M
mediate deportation to Siberia of large
number of person arrested on suspicion
OF having been
CONNECTED WITH THE ACT.
Among these unfortunates are Two senti-
nels whose duty It was to guard the part
of the line where the obstruction was
placed. Sentenced by court martial to
be hanged, they have had their doom
COMMITTED to lingering death in the
mines. Three persons who were arrested
near the spot have been terribly
knouted, one of them fatally, although
there is said 10 be no ground whatever to
suppose them guilty of any connection
with the train wrecking. The two
others. half dead their lives spared for
the time in order that confession might
be extorted from them. The wife of the
peasant who died under the knOut went
mad when she heard of his fate. A
letter containing the particulars came bv
way of Zuredi and is from source of I'M
questioned authority.
The further statement is made that
the Nihilists are unusually alive and that
the friends of the victims of These mas
sacres 90 not mean that they shall go
uuayenged.
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE
is hard strained for funds. The English
Liberals give abundant and valuable
sympathy, but very little IN the way OF
contributions, and unless a considera Die
amount of money shall soon be forth
coming the work of the league will be
seriously crippled. The current eI-
penses of the league in carrying on the
struggle for home rule and III behalf OF
the native tenantry are very great.
New Tlpperary has cost ana is costing
many thousands of dollars, and upon the
contest with Smith Burrey ths result of
the battle against oppressive landlOrdiSn
largely depends. The landlords have
their own plan of campaign, aud that is
merciless eviction, supported by the
Irish constabulary and troops and, on all
the Blasquet islands, by ship of war.
Where tenants can t be got to take farms
of those evicted the land is to be given up
TO grazing. On the Ponsonby estate,
near Tipperary 400 head of cattle and
600 sheep are feeding. where lately from
1900 to 1900 people had their homes, and
the numbers of cattle and sheep are TO
be largely increased.
SUCH is THE FATE
of extensive tracts of Ireland now in
habited by thrifty farmers, shonld the
Tory plan be carried out. Her majesty g
troop ship Assistance hes just taken the
first battalion of grenadier guards from
Portsmouth to Dublin to give aid in
breaking down huts and turning aged
and in many instances half starved ten
ants on the roadside.
John Morley has written to one of his
friends giving his views of the prospects
of famine in ireland aud of the conduct
of the police of Tipperary. The noted
Liberal says that the distress is both
serious and pressing, and that it is i'm
possible to imagine the restitution which
prevails among many of the poorer cul-
tivators. He condemns in earnest words
the brutality of the constabulary and
adds that his visit to ireland has con-
WINGED him more strongly than eyer that
the Irish should have home rule and be
permitted TO manage their own affairs.
This month will see many of the people
on the Western coast OF Ireland deprived
of even their food of half rotten
potatoes, Mt present absolutely all that
many families have TO eat. Unless
assistance comes they may prolong life
on seaweed until disease, with its uu-
variable end, attacks their enfeebled
bodies. At present many already show
signs of insufficient food. Hunger Is
abroad and cold is soon to accompany
1t. PASTORS are pleading for their peo-
pie and picturing their condition in
language that ought to carry q thought
everywhere if famine is to be prevented.
1t Is matter of life or death, writes
Rev. P. Malloy of Glare. Ireland, and
now is the time, now is the only safe
time. Notwithstanding the restitution
of the tenants evictions continue, and
families are elected from their homes,
when Ia some instances actually suffer-
ing from hunger.