Show NEWS by telegraph to the lawsl NEW naw may 23 captain irving of the steamer celtic was found at the office of the white star line this afternoon and was requested to give his sto story r of the collision he said 1 I have nothing to tell the press mr ismay agent of the line has my official report as well as that of captain perry parry of the britannic and can give you yon such ashene as be desires concerning them I 1 presume they will differ in material respects gnu and it will require the judicial ludi cial mind to determine lust just what is or what is not the exact state of affairs the agent lay below quarantine the official OFFICIAL LIST of the wounded and killed is as follows killed james finbury rin Flu bury jane robinson james greenalch adam johnson the last two are missing they are supposed to have been killed injured win lalor pat burkell slizabeth wayne wright mary grit grif nth george arthur robinson george ricketts bob mooney michael dona ban and mark allen the che general impression is that mr johnson and greenalch were in their berths at the time of the accident and their bodies are under tinder the water Lo LONDON DoN may 2 in the commons this afternoon sir james ferguson parliamentary secretary for the foreign office intimated that no reply had been bee n received loom the united states government to lord Salis burys dispatch of march relative to the fisheries dispute similar measures he said would be adopted for the approaching fisheries season as were in force force last baison saison eason the government would use their powers with moderation HAMILTON ontario may 23 mr obrien met with a reception here which throw threw everything that has occurred up to the present time in the shade ache an he was helped out of the eaphis ear his eyes rested upon such an extraordinary tra ordinary night as is in said by the citi son not to have been seen in this town in many years there under und erthe the scorching raysol ray of the sun with their hats off was a vast body of stalwart men packed backed so ae closely together that a pas sage cage could not be made tor for some time la IR vain did mr kilbride and his other friends in the throng strive to make a WO way and stop the shaking of hands with mr obrien finally the procession of carriages moved and proceeded to the royal hotel they were salute WITIE WITH CHEERS along the he whole route A meeting was kold held at 8 in the palace rink on jackson street about a mile from the hotel outside the hotel a large crowd had bad gathered only a few of whom were we r e antl anti obrien begged th the e indulgence of the audience on account of his condition and proceeded to speak with wit hauch such force ashe as he had covering la in the main the same ground which he hb its has heretofore covered in his speeches afar after mr obrien sat at down the chairman read a cablegram of s sympathy mpa tk from mccarthy sexton realy healy mon dulon and biggar goor a collins an englishman Eug lIshman who also addressed 2 dressed the meeting astonished THE by the bitterness of his attack on lord lansdowne frederick walters president of the iron Mou union J H racy and adward williams all englishmen and wm win berry an Orang orangeman emang made speeches after which a resolution condemning lord lansdowne Lacs downe was passed A crowd of several hundred collected la in jackson street opposite the rink lust just as was the case at kingston while the meeting was going on they were orangeman orangemen Oran gemen aen but the chief of police drove them away and allowed no one to stand on the block what he did probably prevented a riot for had there beba geen auy any attack the men who at the depot in the forenoon and who were on hand in hundreds marching up and down on the side streets would bave hav done edone terrible execution 0 briens body guard in Ramil hamilton top was an organized reality all weve well aware p this but the worst was to come another attack was made upon obrien this time with firearm sand again there was a marvelous mar veloda escape this escape however being accompanied by a wound in the wrist of one of OB faithful com companions obrien was sitting bitting down after having ha i ng made a vigorous speech in return tor for the vote of thanks passed and i DENNIS KILBRIDE was on his bis feet engaged in a like task just then a man was observed on the platform leaning over and whispering something in OB ear it was noticed that obrien shook his head as thou though in dissent the man still persisted half of the audience now rose to their feet peering over each other others heads beads and anxiously striving to catch a glimpse of what was going forward ion on the platform the chairman tried to quell the anxiety by asking the audience to hear mr kilbride but a crowd of 2000 people primed with the angry feelings that have since the two successive attempts on obrien at kingston and toronto were not easily quieted down they had bad noticed that the man had wh whispered eredio to obrien and they were evident evidently y determined to see WHAT IT MEANT the man again made a silent appeal whatever it was and again mr obrien shook his head still one more appeal was made and this time mr obrien seemed to acquiesce the first sign of commotion was when mr obrien got up and left the platform this thin was in response to a request several times made to him which he bad already refused it was the ides idea of some officious and meddlesome man a plan which he had tosane to save OB life the plan was to leave the rink by a narrow alley then reach stand jump into a carriage in waiting and drive to the hotel it it was the first time during the tour t that bat he did not go out the ordinary way and the plan well nigh cost him his life la in the carriage which was a covered one BESIDES OBRIEN were mcmahon and roche of tile the local branch of the and dennis kilbride Kiib nde on the drivers seat were john nelson who held the reins and tip obrien As they whit whipped ped up the horses and faced for the hotel ote I a crowd suddenly appeared this cro crowd d proved unfriendly for no BO sooner had obrien and his friends taken their places than they set up the usual hissing and groaning which atter afterwards ter wards proved to be a concerted signal to a group of firemen who lurked around the market building in market square the men who hissed and groaned followed the carriage and as ft ft wheeled into market square there was a sudden click the horses pranced and a FLASH OP OF LIGHT suddenly overspread the group of buildings where the men lurked the reins dropped out of john nelson belsons Nel sons 2 8 hands and with the exclamation on oh my god im shot I 1 I 1 he fell forward on the seat crash crash crash quick as lightning and through the bright flashes of flame sped the bullets from two revolvers until ei eight shots had bad been fired obrien stretched forward to look out and as he did so a tall whistled by his face and passed through the opposite e window without harming anybody T P obrien nel sons companion who had been dazed now grasped the reins and lashed the th horses through the square into james street and down to the hotel corner of james and marrick here there was a HOSTILE CROWD who again hooted as the party within tried to open apen the door but could not mr mcmahon lumped jumped over the door and drawing a revolver held the crowd at bay while obrien aud his friends were making their exit from the carriage in the same unaccountable way As the party stepped into the eor corridor of the notel hotel a volley of rotten eggs was hurled at them but no one was hit chief mckinnon and his men now rushed up but all was over nelson was taken to the city hospital dr james white extracted the bullet he says the wound is dangerous it is in the left wrist no arrests were made when mr obrien reached his room he was SMILING AND CHEERFUL and nobody to ta look at him would have supposed he bad just escaped from the last of a series of attempts to take his life As this dispatch is being written there is a great deal of excitement in the streets fire crackers and powder are being exploded in all directions and firearms fire arms are discharged a kind of preliminary celebration of the queens birthday AUSTIN texas may 21 24 the chief of police bolice arrested a man in this city last as t night suspected of being one of the train robbers it is reported he has made some startling disclosures which will involve well k known wa men and implicate at least one officer as having planned and engineered the whole affair from the beginning PARIS texas may 24 news was received here yesterday of the troubles that has caused four deaths and which is likely to cause more bloodshed over in the chocktaw nation two weeks ago two men named wilson full blooded choctaw indians were killed in a row over the election of a deputy sheriff since the killing the sheriff elect has beell beeb missing and on friday tho the boft bodies of three men were jorud near Doab Doi ville kville one of which Is supposed to be that of the newly elected sheriff his friends all well armed are searching for him apa and there are tears fears of an outbreak CHICAGO may 24 2 ralus rains the past a st few days through throughout oat the nort northwest e 8 t have extinguished most of the forest fires which have been so destructive of late LONDON may 24 A dynamite bomb exploded under the police court coart at hepburn durham county last ni night ht parti partially alIX destroying the building the outrage is attributed to strikers LONDON may 24 sir algernon Barth with M A conservative and proprietor of the morning post in an address to his constituents last even ingvaid ing said that after the recess the government proposed to force the passage of the irish crimes act amendment bill within the specified period whether or no all the amendments to the bill were disposed of PA isMay 24 in view of the failure of all combinations to effect a settlement of the ministerial questions president grevy has recalled M floquet and appealed to his bis patriotism to form a cabinet floquet asked for twenty four hours to consider the matter mo may 24 the one hundred mile bicycle race for the championship ot of america was run ran on clarksville Clarks ville belt road today to day there were sixteen entries six of whom failed to make a start the ten tea men who started at this morning were rhodes of boston whittaker of chicago crucker crocker of newton massachusetts frazier Fraz ler of smithville N J brooks of bloss bury pa nielsen of boston mccurdy of lynn hollingsworth of rushville led ind ashinger of omaha and munger of detroit the last named rode a tricycle estered to break the one hundred mile record crocker took the lead with mccurdy and whittaker close behind rhodes and brooks brought up the rear the first lapof lap of 17 miles was made by nielsen in one hour and five minutes nielsen finished first at 4 05 making one hundred mills dalles in six hours and 47 minutes rhodes second at 43 crocker third at 4 08 whittaker fourth and fifth coming in ill neck and neck in 4 09 whittaker broke down in the last two hundred f feet beet HAMILTON may 24 the hamilton spectator in its account of what oc burred last night asserts that shots were fired from OB carriage before the attacking party touched a trigger speaking of this matter obrien said it was the meanest and most malign maliga statement yet et made in your opinion tow how will this statement affect the remainder of your tour so far as it relates to the canadian cities which I 1 have yet to visit it may have the most dangerous and alarming result seeing its downright false falbe hood it must be written with some purpose of inciting an attack in montreal I 1 feel perfectly at ease at the tb thought ought ii obrien laid in bed till midday acting on the advice of his physicians threatening LETTER NIAGARA FALLS may 24 william obrien arrived this evening from hamilton ont on his way to montreal today to day in hamilton the following in glatter letter was handed banded to him it was posted at east syracuse N Y may 19 and had traveled to all the towns where mr obrien had visited reaching him at hamiltom hamilton Hamil tog EAST SYRA SYRACUSE Cusic N Y may 19 1887 piece of advice wm WA obrien OJ Briera t you black hearted irish tool if you ever make your appearance in kingston or ottawa your blood will turn cold take my advice and go back to your irish home signed ta F R 11 this letter said mra brien portends something dangerous I 1 do not as a rule care much about threatening letters but the man who wao wrote it Is lust the sort of fellow who shot at me last last night 11 SANTIAGO DIE DB CUBA may 24 owing gotlie to the neglect of the government in not enforcing vaccination isolation and dis infecting severah smallpox small pox foci feci have already been reported in this city they have been the means of spreading the disease and we the anticipated epidemic is upon us today to day it is estimated there are fully cases within the city limits proper tile the death rate is OSti estimated mated to be as high as 60 per cent due to the fact that some out of a population of are wholly inoculated by vaccination owing to the rapid spread of the disease fiew new foci are being established in this city in localities hitherto not affected it is feared thousands will be swept away unless some effective measures are adopted 24 executive board of the national association of builders left this evening after issuing au an address to the builders and traders exchange of chicago and all a affiliated bodies ot the national association and to tile geneevi public an entirely new method of dealing with workmen is evolved and the course ot of wholesale wole sale lockouts advocated and a complete cessation of work in all the building trades of chicago the answer to the demand lor for saturday pay is lally endorsed by the board tire the question is stated to nave have been inconsequential in itself had it not been preceded by a long series of usurpations by the trades union after POM cow mending to contractors in other cities the course pursued by the chicago builders the board beard proceeded to enumerate the encroachments encroach ments that are arc to be conquered from employed emp loyes the first is Q abe concession by which unions are able to prevent workmen not members from obtaining work the other encroachments encroach ments are the arbitrary power of walking delegates restricting the number of apprentices and the requirement that jie foremen shall be union men all or Ur anches auches of the national builders association are advised to assume the same game attitude as the chicago men if the issue is forced the address closes axy by suggesting gesti all that every exchange throughout ou uh the country ADOPT THE PLATFORM given with the advice for the erea creation tion of a bureau of record where any and all workmen may put themselves on record as assenting to the chicago exchanges principles of individual liberty and by and through which such men maybe may be kept at work and protected after a certain time steps will be taken to make such workmen members of the national builders Buil dere association thus instituting for the first time a union wherein employer and ern em aloye shall be joined and their interests considered in common as they should be harrisburg pa may 24 in the suit instituted by the attorney general against the anthracite coal combination judge Sigi simonton onton today to day handed down an opinion refusing the preliminary injunction ID unction ag against ainest the company in advance of the final hearing of the case ROME may 24 the pope in an allocution yesterday referred to the re lilious peace with prussia which the tb pope said he had made every effort to attain continuing the pope said thanks to the equitable and pacific sentiments of emperor william and his bis councillors the pr prussian assian government |