The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-07-30
CLASH IN DUBLIN
AALTS HOME rule
Governments Plans for Amend.
ing Bill Have Been In
definitely Postponed.
RI01|MG IN DUBLIN CONTINUES
Scottish Regiment Which Killed Four
Persons in Encounter With Mob
Still Confined to Barracks
Feeling Runs High.

London. July 2S.-The first effect o.
the Dublin home rule tragedy has beer
to smash Premier Asquith's plans fol
taking up the amending bill. The pre-
mier announced that the question has
been postponed indefinitely. Irish
members are so exasperated over the
killing of four persons and the wound
ing OF many others in the clash be
tween the regular troops and the Ma
tionalist volunteers. that they are in
no frame Of mind to grant any con
cessions to Ulster. The Laborites and
many Liberals support them.
The government announced in the
house of commons that Deputy Police
Commissioner Harrell. who ordered
out the troops, had been suspended
and that his superior commissioner,
Sir John Ross. who expressed a de-
sire to share the responsibility, has
resigned his Office.
A special inquiry will be held, prob
ably by judicial commission. In the
meantime, the demand for the removal
of the Scottish Borderers from Dublin
has not been granted, largely because
an attempt to march them out would
be the signal for attacks by the mObs.
They will remain prisoners in bar.
racks until the anger of the people
has cooled. --...
The Nationalist members Of pariia.
ment held a meeting and showed more
animus against the castle than against
the government They consider Vice
roy Aberdeen's official family preju-
diced against the Nationalists.
More Rioting In Dublin.
Dublin, july 2S.-Rioting broke out
again but subsidized without serious re-
suits. The rumor was afioat that the
Scottish Borderers would entrain at the
Amiens street station. A great crowd,
for the most part from the slums, sur
rounded the station. The rioters
amused themselves by stoning street
cars. Six hundred volunteers paraded
through the streets, crowd of 1000
following them, marching In step and
singing.
Feeling runs high throughout Ma
tionalist Ireland and town councils
are adopting resolutions denouncing
the massacre" The soldiers of the
Limerick and Kilkenny garrisons are
confined to barracks and concerts by
military bands in several towns have
been Cancelled.
Troops Fire on Mob.
Dublin, July 27.-Three men and
one woman are dead and more than
sixty wounded persons are in a hos
pital as the result of battalion of
the Kings Own Scottish Borderers
firing into a mob in the streets of
Dublin. Seven of the wounded are en-
pected to die. Among them are three
women and boy of 10.
The ARRAY was the climax of a gun
running exploit of the Nationalist Vol
unteers who were being aided by a
mob composed largely of women and
youths. A consignment of rifles. said
to number 10000, was landed at noon
at Howth, nine miles from Dublin.
from private sailing yacht, the name
Of which had been painted over. A
woman, or a man in woman's cloth
ing, some persons say, commanded the
yacht. The Nationalist Volunteers cut
the telegraph wires. stopped travel on
the Dublin roads and, according to
reports, sent away most of the rifles,
together with 10000 rounds of ammu-
milton in motor cars.
Nationalist Volunteers March.
A thousand volunteers marched from !
Dublin to receive the arms but de-
clared they merely we're making a !
practice march Local police and the
coast guard tried to prevent landing |
but were driven of. Dublin author.
tiles sent sixty police, later reinforced
by 200 others under command of an
assistant commissioner.
Excited crowds fin tho streets of |
Dublin, some men carrying rifles. The
are confined 70 barracks to
prevent the people attacking them. A
street car In which . soldier was lid
inG was wrecked but the soldier es.
capped. Further rioting is feared i
Irish In America Aroused. /
Philadelphia, July E.-Cablegrams /
have been sent from this city to Dub
lin asking for details Of the killing |
there, BY British troops, Of four per-