The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-10-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BRIEN ON PRISON TREATMENT. Mr 0. 'Brien writes to the Freeman's Janina/ as follows, respecting the death of Larkin, the Woodford prisoner :—" There are circumstances connected with the prison treatment of poor Larkin which ought to sink deeply into the public mind. I cannot believe but that when fully realised they will evoke a cry of horror. A young man, 'offering for days from a wasting disease, is locked up at six o'clock iu the evening in a cold, bare cell, without fire, nurse, or warm drink, and left to shift for himself during all the agony of that chee: less night. The warder, peeping in upon him at two o'clock in the morning, finds him sitting on the bed doubled up with pain, and trying to moisten his parched lips with water—the doctor having forbidden him the smallest portion of port wine or brandy. The unfortunate youth says that he feels 'weakly.' The warder can do nothing but tell him to lie back and go to sleep. It was a pathetic piece of advice. He lay hack, and went to sleep—a long one. When the warder came next he found a corpse. Larking was one of the most powerful and athletic youths of his parish, an only son. So wasted, broken, and changed was he, by the prison system (and his was only imprisonment without hard labour), that his own father was ready to have deposed on oath that he could not identify the body, and so were hie old companions who came to bury him. Could human words add a touch of horror to this ?"  AN encounter is reported to have taken place between the police and a party of moonlighters at a place called Shronederragh, near Headford, about six miles from Killarney. The police were am. bushed in the neighbourhood, and a body of men who carried arms appeared in sight. The police called on them to surrender, but they responded by firing, after which they fled. Two arrests were afterwards made, the prisoners being named Moynihan and Murphy. Moynihan was afterwards discharged, and Murphy was remanded. NEARLY four tons weight of Irish wnollen goods were shipped from Dublin on Saturday by the Irish Woollen Manufacturer,' and Export Company to Boston. This is the first large shipment made by the company, which was some time since atm tecl by Mr. Davitt. A similar quantity of goods will be sent each week until the end of the year. The first shipment is in part fulfilment of an order received from a single firm in Boston. A POLICE patrol, numbering about six men, met a similar number of armed Moonlighters near Barraduff, close on the bounds of the counties of Cork and Kerry, the other morning. Shot were discharged, one man being wounded and arrested and committed to goal on remand. The object of the Moolight raid was for arms. A POOR RATE collector for the Union of Clifden, co. Galway, went on Saturday, accompanied by a bailiff named Feeny, to seize some cattle for rates due by tenants on the estate of Major Brown at a place called Manning. The moment the bailiff attempted to seize the cattle he was attacked by the mob with sticks and stones. He immediately ran, and escaped without serious injury. The collector also ran when the bailiff was attacked. The matter has been reported to the police, and it is expected that a prosecution will ensue under the Crimes Act.  Pr is stated that upwards of 500 branches of the National League held meetings in Ireland, on Sunday. THE Union, a Dublin newspaper, states that since January Ist the National League has received £31,000, of which the miserable sum of £4,700 has been doled out to the entire tenantry of Ireland, leaving a balance of £26,300 unaccounted for.  TR; Mitthelstown Board of Guardians held its last meeting with barricaded doors. The Board ordered the workhouse porters to securely fasten all entrances, as they apprehended an invasion by the police. No constables, however, put in an appearance. It was suggested that the use of the board-room should be be given to the National League. Despite the espionage of the police several meetings of the National League were held on Sunday on the Kingstown estate at Mitchelstown, Kilietig, Bally giblin, Shraharla, and other places. The meeting cf the Mitchelstown branch was held in the barricaded house of a tenant of the Kingston estate, anti was very largely attended. Armed police bodie•, patrolled the roads adjacent to the town.  The Lord Mayor of Dublin has written to several of the "suppressed " National Leagues asking to be enrolled a member. An Ennis correspondent states that meetings of branches of the National League are being held in the district in defiance of the proclamation and despite the vigilance of the police. An inquest was held this week at Rathdowney, Queen's County, concerning the death of Patrick Meagher, a farmer, whose mutilated corpse was found the other day on the roadside, and who was supposed to have been murdered. It transpired that the deceased was driving home with a party of men on a car, which came into collision with another car. The deceased was caught between the wheels and crushed to death. The jury found a verdict of accidental death, and condemned the inhuman act of the men, who finding the deceased dead, left him on the roadside. . _  At the Cork Police-court on Monday two men, named Donovan and Kelleher, were tried under the Crimes Act and sentenced to two months imprisonment each for unlawful assembly an the night that Mr. William O'Brien was conveyed to Cork Gaol.  AT. an early hour on Monday morning some clothing, apparently belonging to a ycung woman, was found on the banks of the canal near Stoke-oe. Trent. The canal was dragged by the police with the result that the body of a young woman Wfal found in the water. She was subsequently identified as Elizabeth Lawton, aged about 20, dOllleS.tIC vant, and shesupposed to have committed suicide on Sunday night. A CORPORAL of the Royal Marines, named Hugh M'Sheffery, aged 23 years, stationed on toe St. Vincent, at Portsmouth, met with a shocking death on Monday. He was on a visit to an officer servant in the Scots Greys, stationed at Presdon Barracks, when the then took a couple of horses for exercise, and the horse M‘Blt4fery was riding bolted. M'Sheffery attempted to slip out of the saddle, but in doing so his head struck against lamp-post, and he died shortly after admission t,, the hospital.