BITTER LAND FEUD RECALLED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 10

BITTER LAND FEUD RECALLED.

DEATH OF LORD DE FREYNE. The death, which occurred recently at Frenchpark House, Roscommon, Ireland, of Lord Do Freyne, recalls one of the bitterest land feuds which ever occurred in Ireland, and also a romance of the British peerage. Lord De Freyne, who succeeded n-is father, the first baron, in 1868, when he was 13 years of ago, owned nearly 38,000 acres, including 33,120 in Roscommon. The peerage is a British one. Tho feud between Lord Do Freymo and his tenants commenced in 1902, when the tenants on the Frenchpark estate, with the contrast betweett their condition and that of the tenants on the neigh bowing estates, purchased by the Congested Districts Board, entered into what was known as the Associated Estates Combine, paid their rents into the account of the trustees of tho association,.and defied the landlord. . Wholesale Evlcilons. Hundreds -or evictions followed, and tho Sheriff was kept busy oh the estate for weeks, an army of poliec being located in the district. Several of - the more prominent officials engaged for the tenants wero prosecuted l and imprisoned. Then followed Lord Do Freyne's famous action against the members of the Irish party for influencing his tenants from paying him rent. This was finally withdrawn. Tho Land Act of 1904 brought a cessation of hostilities. In 1905 Lord Do Freyne signed the agreement with the Congested Districts Board to sell to them on terms agreeablo to all conccrned. As soon as the announcement- was made known an immense bonfire was lighted l on a hill, and almost immediately answering signals were, to bo seen from all tho surrounding hills. Search for Missing Heir. The new peer is the Hon. Arthur Reginald French, whose disappearance in 1905 was tho sensation of the year. After a search lasting over weeks it was found that he was serving as a private—or "enlisted man," as ,it is termed—in the United States Army. Ho lauded in-New York on January 16 of that year, and it was understood by some of his fellow-travellers that he was going to New Mexico to join his uncle, Captain French. His own thoughts, however, were at first turned' to the North-West Mounted Police of Canada. Three days later he suddenly left his 1 hotel, leaving bis luggage there and his rooms still Nothing more was heard of him, and it was fear- ■ cd that he had been robbed and "shanghaied," or perhaps murdered. His uncle, hearing nothing of him, proceeded to Denver, and cabled to the i British Consul-General, who asked tho j New York police to circulate his dc" , seription. Ho was found at Fort - Slocum, on Long Island Sound,- just ( D-dtside New York, where ho was serving , in tho well-known Bth Regiment, He , tiad enlisted for three years, and told in interviewer ho liked at. Fort Slocum, le said, was a fine [Mace. The men were rood fellows, and tho officers "knew r ;heir business." "How unfortunate that the only woman I rho win bear with your Ways usually s lores you with hers I" j Warner's Bust-proof Corsets! Do you i: inow that every Warner Pattern is dc- c iignod by an expert in Human anatomvp ii 3ne who knows exactly where to pla'co h :he boning for support without aimoyinp | h jressure. Wellinston Draoers.—Advt. ' | v