Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-01
SPORTS SPILL BLOOD.
Gallic Games Wind Up With Bloody
and DiSgraceful Riot.
MANY ARE INJURED AT LIMERICK,
Queer Telephone Interruptions in an
English Church.
SOCIALISTS DON'T USE MUCH RED LIGHT
'rnr nuNLAp,s GABLE ooMpANY.1

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LONDON, September 30.-At Limerick a
series of Gallic sports was inaugurated and
wound up in bloody and disgraceful riot.
There were several games going on in diff
ferent parts of the city and under different
managers, who soon developed into rivals,
and rioting was the result. At the railway
station, which was crowded with excursion
| lists, the first demonstrations were made,
| When mob of boisterous toughs began fight
| ing over the respective claims of the factions
they represented the excursionists became
| frightened. Stones and bricks were thrown and
| a tumult almost unparalleled here for vicious
ness followed. Windows were smashed, car
riages were wrecked and a number of persons
seriously injured. The station master and
other railroad employees were dangerously
wounded. There were no police present, so
matters were left entirely in the hands Of the
combatants, and skulls were cracked with the
utmost fury At New Pallas station stone
bottles we're flung at the mail train, severely
injuring two men. The railroad company has
announced that 1t Will run no more excursion
trains.
A telephone had been placed in the London
Christ Church, when the opening prayer was
interrupted by cries Of Hello, hello, are you
there? Then put me on to Christ Church. No,
don't want that church" Then a gap was
made in the TIE Deum by the sound of process.
sion. The clatrer of the feet was followed by
wrangle between two subscribers who were
Joined by mistake and the operator at the ex-
change. After a babel of voices and
misunderstanding as to which voice
subscribers the words of the Apostles Greed,
y believe in God. the Father. Almighty, Creator
of Heaven and Earth" came through. and the
service was heard to the end in the regular
way. Several visitors, and among these some
clergymen who were present at the service,
condemn the introduction of the telephone as
desecration of holy building and as putting
premium on ideness. Fears are expressed
that church attendance by telephone on the
part of the wealthy members of the congrega-
tion will very seriously interfere with the
success of the collections.
General Boulauger Is going to avenge himself
in a characteristic manner upon the people in
high places who used him and now discard him.
man who has seen the manuscript of the
Sybarite warriors history of his political
career, which he entities Lies Vraies Coulisses
de Boulangism" saws that the most piquant
part of it Will be the letters of eminent and
notable people of the old aristocracy, society
and politics to Boulanger, written while they
were cajoling him and bargaining with him for
the overthrow of the French Republic.
President Reichs, of the Icheralbach Orphan
Asylum at Nurnberg, has been arrested for
immoral practices. The demonstration in the
asylum Is so great that the Government has
decided to close the institution
Dispatches from Belgrade say that the bomb
that exploded under the carriage of the youth
full King Alexander was deliberately aimed at
His Majesty. and the official explanation that
his carriage drove over a cartridge accidentally
is laughed at BY the public. The incident is
considered significant.
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The Socialist demonstration which is being
held at Berlin failure so far as the illumina-
tions go. Only the suburbs of Weissendorf
and Nixdorf show few lights in the windows
Several jollitcation meetings are being held in
the beer halls. All the banished members of
1885. the Masons and strikers have returned,
and among them are the leaders Behren and
Kesler.
The Berlin Post claims that it has the highest |
authority for making the announcement that !
Prince Adolph, the intended of Princess Vic
toria. will succeed to the throne of Lippe Det- |
mold, while other magnates will not be recog- |
nized.
The Executive Committee of the Amalga- |
mated Railway Servants, of Dublin, ::has de- |
clined to send to America a hundred of the men |
who took part in the abortive strike on the |
Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford line.