The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-11-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BOYCOTTING IN COUNTY CLARE. Notices have been extensively posted throughout West Clare calling on merchants, farmers, artisans, and labourers to "band themselves together for the purpose of boycotting the Lower Shannon Steamship Company's steamers." The writer of the notice goes on to say that the company in qnestion was composed of landlords, and that whenever Balfour or his Government required the services of its boats the company was willing to accommodate them. Under such circumstances the traders are asked to hunt down such a wretched company. The movement is not likely to be successful, inasmuch as the people of all the towns at which the steamers call would have to get their goods by road, and this would entail double the present coat of carriage.  On Monday a motion by the Conservatives in the Dublin Corporation to reduce the Lord Mayor's salary from 0,000 to £2,000 was negatived.  It is stated that the Irish Executive have decided to suppress all the brancnes of the National League in county Kerry. I understand that Mr. Gladstone has definitely arranged to visit Dublin, and will be present and speak at the inaugural banquet to be given by Mr. Thomas Sexton, M.P., as Lord Mayor of the city on the 2nd January.  AT Kilrush before a Special Court under the Crimes Act, four young tradesmen, namely J. Cunningham, Thos. Calligan, G. Devers, and S. McMahon, were charged with being present in a riotous crowd on Sunday week at Kilrush, when seventeen prisoners were being removed. Cunningham was sentenced to one month's hard labour, McMahon to six months, Calligan to one naoath's imprisonment, and Dever to seven days' imprisonment. Notice of appeal was given in McMahon's case.  A private investigation was held at the Police Barracks, Woodford, this week as to the arrest of Mr. Roche and others for attending the midnight meeting on Oct. 15, and they were admitted to bail. They will be tried under the Crimes Act at Woodford. It is understood that warrants have been issued against a large number of persons, including Mr. Rowlands, M.P., and Mr. Dennehy, secretary to the Lord Mayor of Dublin. At a Crimes Act Court at Woodford Mr. Egan and a man named Devine were sentenced to a month's imprisonment for conspiracy. BETWEEN ten and eleven o'clock on Sunday night a party of five moonlighters visited the residence of Peter Weery, at Creeve, about eight miles from Athlone, and fired several shots into the house. A police patrol of two men heard a noise of firing, and pursued the moonlighters and called upon them to surrender. The moonlighters replied by firing on the police, who returned the fire. The moonlighters then fled in various directions, but it is believed some were wounded by the fire of the police, as traces of blood were subsequently found, and a pistol covered with blood was picked up at the scene of the fusilade. Weery's house was similarly attacked some time ago.  AT a meeting of the Armagh Branch of the National League on Sunday night, under the presidency of Mr. Mane, M.P., a resolution warn adopted, by a majority, to the effect that no hunting should be allowed in the district whilst Mr. O'Brien was in prison, and that the lands should be poisoned.  JOHANN Mon, the Anarchist agitator, has been arrested at New York for a speech he made, urging vengeance on the Governor of Illinois and the judges and jury who tried the Chicago anarchists. A COMMUNICATION has been received from the Home Office intimating that the sentence of death passed upon Mary Wharrie at the recent Notts and Lincolnshire Assizes for the murder of her illegitimate child, had been respited, with a view to Wharrie being sentenced to penal servitude for life.