THE IRISH QUESTION.
MORE RIOTS. STONING POLICE AND BARRACKS. London, Nov, 30. It was intended to hold a meeting at Limerick in honour of the Msnuhester martyrs, but’the authorities “proclaimed” the meeting, and a riot ensued and the mob stoned the barracks.
Two hundred police repeatedly charged the crowd and eighteen rioters received severe injuries. A meeting for similar purposes was sue. cessfully held in Dublin, 12,000 people attended.
Davitt savagely attacked the Government for its treatment oi Ireland. The Fenians in the south of Ireland are becoming active.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 74, 1 December 1887, Page 2
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89THE IRISH QUESTION. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 74, 1 December 1887, Page 2
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