Irish Affairs

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 119, 31 March 1891, Page 2

Irish Affairs

(PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION). London, March 29. While Kis Honor the Judge was sum* ming up in the cose of those concerned in the recent not at Tipperary, an over* heated flue in the County Court fired, und before the flames could be subdued the building was gutted. All the occupants escaped from the burning building, tho Judge haying a particulary narrow escape, as he had only just evacuated the chair when the glass roof and a quantity of molten lead fell with a crash on to the i Bench. : ; Mr O'Kelly. Parnell's agent, is con« ferring with the President' of the Clan-na-Gael on Irish affairs. Messrs Dillon and .O'Brien, wh.6 were ' confined in cells attached to the County Court during the trial of the Tipperarjr rioters, were safely removed when the Sre broke out. " : / The flag flying from the Cour tho us* remained intact to the last, aad fell amid a scene of wild enthusiasm. The trial of those charged with being concern. -d in the Tipperary riot concluded yssterday. Tin* jury acquitted Breen, Bivemed and Keating, and disagreed ill the ca<es against Dalton and Gill. , March 30The supporters of Mr Parnell to-day -toned the followers of Mr McCarthy afc Rasky. a small village in the vicinity of Sligo, where Mr Parnell is carrying on the campaign. The police fixed bayonets, but were powerless to protect Mr iVloOarthy, who filed to Sligo, horly pursued by a large number of his opponents, who? continued throwing stone. Mr John Pinkertou, M>P. for G-alway, received a nasty wound on the head front a stone. ; |