The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-14
THE LORD MAYOR CALLED DOWN.
Shanks, of Dublin, Aroused the Ire o
Director General Davis.

Shanks, of Dublin, Aroused the Ire of
Director General Davis.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, Oct. 49,
Dublin's lord mayor, James Shanks, is
persona non grata with the high gov
erning officials of the fair to day, par
ticularlY with Director General Davis
The trouble was caused by the lord
mayors i'll advised and discourteous
speech at the music hall banquet at an
early hour yesterday morning. 1t was
the most magnificent feast over given
in the West and was given in honor of
the national and foreign commissioners
and the general officers of the eXposi-
ton, the citizens Of Chicago who came
to the aid of the fair when it was neces-
sary to have money to complete the
undertaking, and all those who had
anything to do with making it sue
cess. Five hundred guests were present
at the table. but this number had
dwindled to half hundred, most Of
whom stood in a cluster around the di-
rector general, who was ting as toast
master, when the episode of the evening
occurred
The director general announced that
Mr.. Hovey's place on the programme
would be taken by Mayor Shanks, who
had evidently come primed to make q
discordant speech, although his name,
as he took pains to inform his hosts at
the beginning of his speech, was not on
the list. His first complaint was that,
through an unintentional oversight, the
name Ireland was not included in the
toast Great Britain and her colonies"
The director general felt offended
when the lord mayor also complained
that Ireland was not represented at the
fair with building OF her own and
courts of her own. When he said:
THE next time don't have the Mckin-
ley tariff" Colonel Davis, who is
staunch Republican, stood up and his
eyes flashed with indignation. He said
to his friends around him:
II will call MIN down for that"
When Mayor Shanks sat down nobody
applauded the sentiments, and the di-
rector general quickly arose. In firm,
but polite language, he informed the
lord mayor that it was no time or place.,
and i'll became him as a guest when
asked to respond for an American COM
missioner, to criticise American states
men. AS to his complaint that Ireland
was not represented as nation, it was
absurd as we'll as discourteous to the
exposition officers, because only nations
recognized as such by all the civilized
powers could be represented at the
Worlds Fair.
The lord mayor looked abashed and
made no reply.
The special committee recently ap-
pointed to consider the question of
keeping the Fair open after this
month has practically decided it in
favor of doing so as long as the weather
will permit and as long as the people
come in sufficient numbers to make it
profitable.
With parades in the city and at the
Fair, with vocal and instrumental music
with tributes of love and flowers for the
memory OF Columbus, with PATRIOTIC
spec ches and fashionable tableaux en-
tertainment, the Italians of Chicago
joined with the exhibitors and commits
sioners from the sunny kingdom in which
the discoverer was born, celebrated to-
day the four hundredth anniversary Of
the Genoese first visit to the new world
Indicted for Murder After Seven Years
SAVANNAH, Ga, Oct. ia special
to the Morning News from Arlington
Ga, says: The grand jury now in
session at Blakely has found true bills
against B. R. Lawrence, Ben Tallai-
ferro, Will Tallaiferro and G. H. Tallai-
rerro, all white, and Jim Foster, colored,
for the murder of Seaborn Sheffield,
which occurred about ono mile from
here seven or eight years ago and
has until recently remained a crime
shrouded in mystery. Ben Tallaiferro
| and Il. r. Lawrence were sons-in-law
| of the murdered man.
Ticket Omce Robbed.
MALVERN, Ark, Oct. 1a.-Ticket Of