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GENERAL SUMMARY. Lowno.v, July 2
Beach, Ross, Perkins, Termer, Bubear, Kemp, and Matterson entered on July 2 for sculling competition. Lord Colin Campbell, defendant in the divorce case Campbell v. Campbell, applied to the Court on July 2nd to have struck from plaintiff's petition a paragraph charging him with adultery with persons unknown, . The Court reserved its decision for a fortnight, and in the meantime will read the whole correspondence and all affidavits snbmitted by Lord Campbell in his cross suit to substantiate his charges that Lady Campbell had been guilty of adultery with the Duke of Mvrlborougb, Chief Commissioner Shaw, and others. The peasantry of Servia refuse to pay taxes, and are in a state of riot. Eight persons were Instantly killed on June 30th by an accident to the mail train from B 'ifast to Dnbl.u, The train while going at a high we of speed_ loft the rails, and; knocked down a bridge. Twenty persons were wounded, and the train completely smashed. The accident was duo to the expansion of the rails by the excessive heat. The driver and guard were arrested, but are held blameless. The express train on thoStuttgart-Berlin Railway ran into a local train near Matzbargh on July Ist demolishing a large cumber of persons. Mine are known to have been killed. None of the express passengers were fatally hurt, Patti appeared in a concert on June 220 d at Albert Hall, London, fi»the first time since her marriage, She was warmly t-ceived. One of Pasteur’s patients innocalated for rabies died on Juea 24th. AMERICAN SUMMARY.
The Grants having discovered the extent of Lord Cairn’s dissipation refuse, so the story goes, to give him the hand of their daughter, Adele. The engagement is broken off In the case of n " Field v Labonchere, of Li= - . , for libel, which was called on on 28th, the Attorney Genera l , in behalf of the defendant, withdrew the plea of justidcition and expressed regret for publishing the article. He also stated that he and Hir Henry James, Field's counsel, had agreed upon the amonnt to be paid by Labonchere in satisfaction of costs, and asked the Judge to discharge the jury. Field refused all compromise. The question of subsidising mail route via Van dourer, British Columbia, was debated In the Lords on June 22nd. I The noted spiritualist H me died in London or* Jone 22 aged 53 Abbe Lizst, heretofore reported as dying at Wiemar, has recovered his health. The mate of the British barque Arklow, who was picked up at sea in an open boat and brought to .Queenstown, has disappeared. The reached man bad said that the Arklow was sunk in collision on May Bth. He left a note stating that his heartrending story of collision was false and added “ I left vessel for reason which I will hereafter explain.” Twenty-four men were killed and sixteen entombed aliveon June 21th by an explosion In a colliery at BochvlUe, France. A despatch from Paris, of Jane 24, says a group of Parisian finaneers has advanced 25.000,000 francs to the Panama Canal Company.
The papers are full of accounts of destructive riots at Belfast, lasting with more or less violence from June 20th till July 11th. On the Bth a mob of Orangemen wrecked a number of honses of Catholics, severely Injuring some occupants. There was also tconble in the Orange districts of Monaghan. On the same day at Lnrgan several militia were wounded and houses wrecked. One hundred houses in the city, two of which they burned, were broken into. Whisky stores were pillaged, apd they [ drank themselves into a state of deeporaI tion. Some raa about the streets crying ont, “To hill wid the Pope. ” The police used buck shot freely, and many of the rioters were severely wounded. At night the mob made an attack on a tavern kept by a Catholic named Duffy, which they wrecked after overpowering the police. la this affair chief Police Officer Carr
waa wounded. A remarkable feature
daring all the days of the rioting was the manner ia which the women and girls goaded the men on to fi-bt, offering .hem apronfull of fresh stones, and when en* treaty failed using savage threats. The females were actiev’y engaged in looting too, and when Daffy’s place as well as McKenna's and McOloskey’s and seme
stores on York street were wrecked, scores of women and children were em-
ployed all the time the riot was going on c*rrylrg off wines and liqnors in Jugs and backets. Men, youths, mad girls drank until they fell helpless in the gutters, the girls’ acting with greater fury during the orgie than men. After sacking various taverns the
rioters fired them. A reporter on one of the daily papers gives it aa his opinion that the mob was composed of the very scum of Belfast. “ I saw the trends ” he writes “ hurling rocks at the gallant firemen who were imperilling their lives in attempts to save dwellings from destruction, I saw a dozen ruffians during the night of the tenth sneaking aa ay from the wrecked and burning buildings ladden with loot.” 1 uring the rows on the 9th Gladstone and Parnell were both burned in effigy, and a dummy labelled “ Home Buie” was also burned. At one time the situation became so desperate that Mr Mathers, local Orange leader, j publicly declared that unless the I authorities did their dnty, he and th mends of Orangemen *wonid taka charge of the town. Mathers was on the point of carrying oat bis threat when the military appeared. Before this the mob drove a force of 150 policemen Into the barrasks, and then attacked the building* The police fired, killing five persons, one a barmaid, who was looking oat of a tavern window at the fighting, and another woman a widow with three children. Several Proteatant clergymen tried to disperse the mob, but their efforts were unavailing. The mob con* tinned firing atones while they were speaking, and one divine was hit by • rock in the 4Coe. At midnight on the 10th a mob of Orangemen raided • pnbllchonse kept by a Catholic named O'Hara, and after sacking it reduced It to ashes. The podoe were beaten back in this fight, and forced to take refoge in the barracks. Scores of rioters were , wounded. It is known positively that i six men and women were killed. I Twenty rioters, who received ballet wounds were lying In one infirmary, i Old officers say they never knew a mob show greater vicionsness, violence, pluck, and determination. Despite their desperation, the rioters boded missiles with regularity and precision, aa if they had been drilled in stone throwing. When the men in front had exhausted their ammunition they would retire to receive fresh supplies from women and thus make way lor their comrades with new sap plies. Some of the stone throwing was quite extroardinary. The belter armed of the rioters carried what are called ‘‘Belfast Kidneys,” stones about 5$ inches long, 3$ inches broad, and weighing on an average 1$ pound. There were many boys among the rioters, and they were as desperate and plucky as the men. Fighting with the police continued till 10 o'clock a.m. on 10th when two troops of dragoons galloped np to the vicinity of Bower Hill police station, followed by about 300 infantry. They had been under arms for eleven hoars. The mob then dispersed, and when they rallied again found the troops bad cordoned all tne streets around the barracks. Realising the impregnability of the police position the rioters departed in sections, cursing tha Pope denouncing Home Bale and singing >ha Orange Lily, and Rule Britannia. The city was comparatively quiet on the afternoon of the 10th, and on the 12th the Government pat districts terrorised by mobs In province of of Ulster under martial law. The people living in the neighborhood wnere rioting began say that it waa caused by the police, under a mistaken impression, ‘molesting and cudgelling . ome orderly workman while they were leaving the foundry. According to this s'ory the populace were angry at the police for their or net and unjustifiable conduct and attempted to make them desist. When a conflict was imminent, so tha story goes, the mob offered to behave if the police were withdrawn bat not otherwise. Mr Childers was asked by Dr Ooban, VI. F. for Belfast, in the House on the 16th, If Government would taka steps to prosecute the police who shot down tha people of Belfast, and the reply was that the Government had the fullest confidence in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and was not informed that there had been any misconduct on their part. Gallagher, who was shot at Lurgan, waa a well-known local simpleton. Two men. Hart and Mason, were arrested In Belfast for his murder. Hie funeral took place on the 10th, protected by 200 soldiers. The process on waa jewed by a mob of Catholics. Andrew and Arthur Donnelly, leading Cat hole merchants were arrested on Jane 9th on a charge of firing from their windows. The mob wanted to lynch them. Several note occurred at Sligo on the evening of Jane 11, and quite a number of Protestants’ houses were wrecked. The trouble was originated by residents who were angry because somebody had destroyed nils surrounding the Archbishop’s palace* ! They gathered in thousands, and attacked , the houses of Protestants, and hooted and molested many persons. The windows of 1 every house in which it was known that a Protestant dwelt were smashed. The Country Clnb House, the Constitutional Club, Methodist Manse, the residence of the Gout ’ agatioaal Minister, and several ebaj a were attacked and wrecked. The Orangemen made no attemt to retaliate. The Mayor, a Nationalist, and several of the Magistrates penetrated to the front of the throng and tried to appease them, bat without avail. The Riot Act waa then read, and soldiers were ordered to clear the streete which they did at the point of the bayonet. Sixteen rioters were arrested. King Louis of Bavaria who had been recently deposed from his nominal throne on account of insanity, drowned himself in Straub erg Lake. H:a physician, DrGobbeu, who was in his company, attempted to rescue the King and was also drowned. There are evidenpas that a violent struggle occurred in the lake between the unhappy King and Dr Gubben, in the endeavor of the latter to rescue his patient, and many footprints cm be seen in soil at bottom of the .lake near where bodies were found Thera were also several braises on Dr Gabbeu's face which were probably made by the King’s finger nails. The King fc fore plunging into the lake divested himself of bis two coat# which were found on the banks and led to the discovery of the bodies. The Crawford Dilke case was In the court again on Juno 11th, on the issue of Sir Charles Dilke’s right to have the Q men’s Proctor re-open <t in order to enable the member for Chelsea to produce testimony in bisgown vindication. Crawl rd asked the court to refuse to allow th» Proctor to intervene, alleging that the only witnesses who would be pr oduced to contradict the confession of Mrs Crawford were Dilke himself, whom that confession implicated, and his servants. Crawford contended that unless it could be proved that the divorce was obtained by collusion, which was not alleged, the Proctor had no right to intervene. The Judge decided that the Proctor had a right to intervene if the fresh, evidence now offered by Fanny Stock and Sarah Gray was material, showing thst the plaintiff’s charges were untrue,— Tue Judge refused to make Mrs Crawford and 1 aly Dilke parties to Protor’a suit to enable them to be heard by floonml.
London despatch 's of June 23rd aa that in Egypt and Batmah the BMtia threatened with Increasing diffiou t’e= The campaign in the latter country as method of seating the Government is failure. Theebaw’a disbanded soldiers ar constantly attacking the British garrison Every attack has been repu’std bn the garrison is worn oat with u oessan duty. In Egypt the Dervishes an resuming activity, and the Sondtn hoidei is once snore threatened by clouds o rebels. From both countries com* urgent calls for reinforcements. A de spatch from Rangoon, June 29, says * force of British troops, with two batteries, had a severe fight with 1500 Burmese rebels, strongly entrenched nearTammuc, The fight lasted five hours, and the British, failing to dislodge the Burmese, retired. Peveral officers were killed and wounded. f Anxiety is felt on account of Russia a evident a tempt to renew the difficulties In the Balkans. A largo Russian force is embarking for points on the Black Sea. The town of Independence, Nevada, has been totally destroyed by fire. Archibald Forbes,-war correspondent, and Miss Lain Meiggs, daughter of General Meiggs, were married at Washington. Crop reports from all parts of the State of California promise an abundant harvest. The Tariff. Bill has been defeated In Congress. A second one will be submitted. Hanlan beat Hosmer, 3 miles, in a match rowed near Quebec. Advices from Chili mention bloody riots in that country on the occasion of the *, election. Over 50 persons killed at Santiago. The hospitals ■Hlrere filled with wounded.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1297, 24 July 1886, Page 2
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