The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
RfDMONDS ARE
 GREAT LEADERS Distinction Almost Unparallel- ed in Parliamentary History FEUD IN IRELAND
IRELAND
FEUD
Two brothers And . Sister Become Demented At Practically the Same Hour in Irish
 Town

Dublin, January 7.-(Special)-Ths Redmond family to which the Irish leader John Redmond belongs has had distinction almost unparalleled in parliamentary history. &
 William Archer Redmond. who was selected for the representation of East Tyrone. an Ulster constituency, is the son of the leader of the Irish party. He bears the name of his grandfather, Who for many years represented Wexford in parliament. Already members of the family for three generations have sat in parliament-and for their native county of Wexford-namely, John Red mond andg his brother, William Red- mond, thier father and their great uncle.
 How a village feud, brought about through the people taking sides over the dispute between priest and a curate. led to outrages, was told at the hearing of a slander action brought here by John Smyth. Patrick O'Reilly and others against James Smith Bal lyhally farmer
 The defendant was secretary of the Drung branch of the United Irish league.
 One of the plaintiffs stated that eight or ten outrages were committed in Drung. The outrages included window breaking, breaking into Catholic chapel. injury to farm implements. toss- ing hay. burning fuel and destroying plants. The people in the parish took sides-some with the parish priest and some with the curate. resulting in bit ter feeling. The defendant won the suit ts
 A family of two brothers and a sis ter, named Kilcuilen,' the eldest 25, sud- denly lost their reason the other day in Mayo. The brothers were seen driv- Ing furiously in a trap through the streets of Ballina, and their extra aordi- nary behavior attracted the attention of the police. who placed them under arrest.
 Their strange answers and conduct aroused suspicious, and when doctor was called in the two men were de- clared to be insane. At their house, six miles away, their sister became sud denly demented about the time that the brothers were arrested. and she and the two men were removed to the asylum the same evening.
 A year ago another brother became insane.
 Lord Mac Donnell, addressing the Historical society of Trinity college, re- gently outlined scheme of devolution, In, xU1n ntph ba cat1 ha hod @ renee of Lord Dunraven.
 The proposed system had no parallel in our colonies. It postulated the main-' tenance of an imperial parliament and administrative functions controlling the executive and dealing with purely Irish matters; and the establishment of an Irish treasury, furnished with funds in the manner indicated in the Irish coun- cils bill; the continuance of the British treasury responsibility for financing land purchase, and the reasonable finan- cial recognition of the conclusions of the royal commission on financial rela- tions.
 From tariff reform. he said, Ireland had nothing to gain; but a great deal to lose. He believed Irishmen would not relax their efforts to procure that measure of legislative and administra- tive control which would enable them to manage the domestic affairs of Ire land free from English official med ding.
 The Irish people had been willing to live as subjects to the King, If only they were allowed to live in peace. They objected to being governed by foreign nation wtich had demonstrated its absolute unfitness to govern any people foreign to itself. They objected to being plundered and oppressed by men who never saw Ireland and had no interest In it's save the interest in 1t which freebooter has in the place he pillages. He added:
 But the English government has never forgiven the concession they had been compeled to make in 1T82, and had striven at every favorable oppor- tunity to recover by guile what they had yielded to force.