the State of Ireland

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 37, 15 September 1887, Page 2

the State of Ireland

MOEE >MUEDER&^ By Electee Telegf^ph v — fMBUTIsB's TKIKGBAMS.I :; f ; London, Sept ember '• l 2. . Lateste reports of. the riots at Mitchelltown show that the casualties were, exaggerated. . . One personi waa killed, two are dying,. and 50 were injured, most of the latter being policemen. ■ •_. '■■■'. -■^- :■'■{■ ■■-■J. A serious affray has taken place in County (Jlare, Ireland;' between a party of Moonlighters and the' police. In the. course of the fight the head constable of Ennis waa killed- Thepolice finally suooeeded in arresting; eight of the Moonlighters. ■ ' . . September 13.A dozen Moonlighters were about to murder a farmer for taking a farm from which the former tenants had. been evicted, when they were surprised by the police, a party; oi 'whom i had been lying in an> bush. After a desperate fight seven of them were captured, but not before several" of the police had been severely wounded, and one killed. ; ; :^ ■ ' September 14. The debate on Irish pffairswa* con* tinued in the House of Commons last night, when MrDillpii demanded lenient treatment for "Irish political prisonera. The rhiei Seoretary for Ireland stated tha£ the Government declined to. i&is* tinguish, between the inciters to prime and the actual criminals. Mi* Parnel] bitterly denounced the barbarity of the deoision of the*Gorernroenf , who he declared would be responsible for the con.-. sequenojß; if the Irish people retaliated.