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Show I The struggle on the De Freyne and Murphy estates is being carried on with as much vigor as ever. On Friday last Mr. J. p. Farrell. M. P-. arrived from London and relieved Mr. W. J. Duffy. M. P.. who has been doing most excellent work amongst the tenants for several months past. Mr. Farrell's experience ex-perience since his arrival on the estate has been a novel one. Not a yard can he walk or drive nor a person can he speak to without having two, and sometimes ten, policemen in attendance. attend-ance. The officiousness of these "guardians "guar-dians of the peace" is not confined to j watching Mr. Farrell's movements. They pay constant visits to the tenants, j urging them to pay their rents, and pointing out to . them the dangers of eviction, etc. Despite these and other forms of seduction tried on them, the vast body of the tenants are as firm ; as a rock. At Frenchpark coercion court on AVednesday, Michael Raftery, Thomas Mahon and John McCormaek were each sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, imprison-ment, without hard labor, on a charge of unlawful assembly at Fairymount on Dec. 26. On Sunday last Mr. J. P. Farrell, M. P., drove out to Fairymount and addressed ad-dressed the congregation after last mass. There were twenty-four policemen police-men and a special notetaker present. Several private meetings were afterward after-ward held. The tenants on the Murphy estate have received notice that their agent will attend at Ballaghadereen on the 7th of May for the usual receipt of rents. On Thursday, at a very early hour, a number of bailiffs arrived at Abbey-feale Abbey-feale by car from Newcastle West. Immediately the lot holders and other tenants on the Ellis estate, against whom civil bill decrees had been obtained, ob-tained, were apprised of the unexpected unexpect-ed visit by some early observer, with the result that every precaution to render ren-der any effort at. execution anything but an easy task was resorted to, and all seizable effects rendered invisible in a few minutes. The bailiffe, however, posted a large npmber of eviction-made-easy or caretakers' notices on the notice board at the police barrack before be-fore leaving, similar notices having been served on the tenants by registered regis-tered letters. No attempt was made to realize any of the decrees. A good deal of excitement prevailed on the estate when the bailiffs' visit was announced. At the quarterly meeting of the Ca-van Ca-van county council, Mr. P. McManus; chairman, presiding, on the motion of Mr. Lynch, seconded by Mr. Kenna, the following resolution was adopted unanimously: unan-imously: "That we, the county council of Cavan, take this the first opportunity opportuni-ty of protesting in the strongest possible possi-ble manner against the uncalled for action ac-tion of the government in proclaiming this county, one of the most peaceable in Ireland, as was shown at the quarter quar-ter sessions just held at Cavan, Bally-connell, Bally-connell, Bailieborough and Cootehill, where there' was not a single case, but that which wasof the most trifling description, de-scription, the judge himself emphasizing emphasiz-ing the fact; and we also condemn the Unwarrantable PTnpndltnro of the rmh- lic money in drafting large numbers of policemen into (certain districts, thereby there-by increasing the rates upon an already al-ready overtaxed, but peaceable and law-abiding law-abiding peopled". ; At-the. ame';meeting of the Cavan county council, arising oul.of a presentment pre-sentment for rfor extra police in the county, i s.., ' Mr.-'Maguire, MrV, proposed that it be nor passedJheT district in which those police were located was crimeless, crime-less, and he'skV'.no reason for their being drafted therei' except to carry out evictions in the near future on the Morley estate by the syndicate of land jobbers who got possession of it.. He. therefore, thought it an injustice that the county should be taxed for such a purpose. Mr. McKenna, in seconding the proposition, prop-osition, .said the action of the government govern-ment in aiding this syndicate by giving them ( extra poiice to carry out their crusade against the tenants on the Morley estate ,ias a gross injustice deserving de-serving of the Condemnation of every fair-thinking man. r The rpr6posfti6h- wasK carried unanimously. unani-mously. .- ; .- ' i Last Sunday a meeting of the United Irish league was announced to be held at Killarne, near Gurteen, County Gal-way, Gal-way, to protest against the action of a local grazier., who had prosecuted Mr. Nevin, the league treasurer of the Gur-! Gur-! teen branch, and had refused to give up I his farm at Killr.ane. At '12 o'clock, after last mass, the crowds began to assemble In the village, vil-lage, and all cars were stopped by the police and the occupants' business asked. Some were turned . back. At 1 I o'clock a brake-ioad of young men was seen arriving, and about thirty police assembled on the hill leading to the village, and- as . the brake was in the centre the horses were seized upon by the police. A row took place, but the hurlers of Monivea. as they proved to ; be. having come to play a friendlv ; match with the Seahana club, forced themselves in, after about twenty min- utes' pushing and waving of hurling sticks. During the day the police diligently dili-gently patrolled the district, but no meeting was held. A meeting of the League, however, took place early on Sunday morning about two miles from the village, before . the police 'had assembled. as-sembled. ' 1 ; Coercion has again appeared in the historic and supremely national borderland bor-derland of Cork and Kerry. The rural district of Millstreet was the first to practically proclaim its annrovnl r.f adhession to the principles of the I league in the great County Cork. The entire district, overlapping parts of Muskerry and Duhallow baronies, comprises com-prises four militant branches of the national na-tional organization viz.. Millstreet Dromtariffe, Cullen and Knocknagree! Mr. Rahilly, league organizer, Mr. J. J. Ccrkerry. J. P.. the patriotic chairman of the Millstreet council, and Mr. Matthew Mat-thew Fitzpatriek. D. C, a fighting and life-long Nationalist, have been favored with summonses to attend before the "Removxables" for their action in supporting sup-porting the league. Last Thursday Mr. James Lyman was served at his residence, 28 Carling- j ford Road. Dublin, with an order of ' court by Constable Behan, from Dublin castle, requiring sureties within fourteen four-teen days. He had no idea of giving such sureties, in default of which a warrant will be issued for his arrest in fourteen days from April 17, 7902, which will be on the 1st day of May. . Mr. Lyman, it will be remembered was tried and sentenced by the king's bench, sitting very much in the capacity capa-city of a petty sessions court. The ordinary or-dinary machinery of the law being found by the castle gang insufficient to secure a conviction against Mr. T.v- man on the flimsey charges made against him. the king's bench, headed by Pether the Packer, very prompty did the work. ' The "Report" is isuued at last by Sir Howard Vincent. Mr. Holmes, and Removable Re-movable Starkie. the three gentlemen who were asked last year to Inquire into the well-advertised grievances of the R. I. c. The committte, while rraming a conclusive Indictment of the R. I. C.. even on the tainted evidence placed before them, recommend an estimated es-timated . addition, in pay and allowances, allow-ances, of33.600 a year to the "Royal Incubators of Crime." and of 2,400 a yea- to tbA oot of the D. M. T. If the total increase of 36.000 per annum were capitalised, four other Dillon estates es-tates could be purchased that is to say. 16,000 families , or 80,000 human beings, relased from misery and degradation. degra-dation. ' Much curiosity was excited at the North Wall, Dublin, last week regarding regard-ing a large consignment of cases, which were vigilantly guarded by a number of peelers in plain clothes, who saw that the consignment was safely delivered deliv-ered at the R. I. C. depot in the Phoenix Phoe-nix Park. On inquiry a Press representative was informed that the cases contained nearly 100,000 rounds of Mortini-Henry ball cartridge for use by the Royal Irish constabulary. Perhaps this is another coronation gift forwarded free of all cost for the suppression of the league in the proclaimed counties. Friday night's Dublin Gazette announces an-nounces that the lord lieutenant has been pleased to appoint Alexander Edward Ed-ward Stawell Heard, Esquire (resident magistrate at iipperaryj, ana neiuy Turner, Esquire (resident magistrate at Clonmel), to be resident magistrates for the County of Waterford. These are the gentlemen that distinguished dis-tinguished themselves during their Tipperary regime, by sentencing to hard labor nearly all the persons brought before them under the White-boy White-boy and Coercion acts. t, PROSECUTION OF THE WATER-FORD WATER-FORD STAR. THE PROPRIETRESS PROPRIET-RESS SENT TO JAIL. SENTENCE SEN-TENCE BY REMOVABLES. On Saturday, before Mr. H. Turner, R. M.. and Mr. A. S. Heard, R. M.. sitting as a court specially constituted under the criminal law and procedure (Ireland) act, Mrs. Annie O'Mahoney was summoned by the police, as owner of the Waterford Star, and Mr. Henry Lynham as editor. The charges against the defendants was that they had, in a proclaimed district, between the months of November last and April in the present year, "published in their newspaper statements calculated to intimidate in-timidate John McGrath, John Mc-Kenry, Mc-Kenry, Patrick Hickey, David Barry and Edward Power, in consequence of their having, done certain acts which they had a legal right to do namely, to use and occupy as tenants thereof certain farms of land from which tenants ten-ants had been evicted," and they were further charged with having incited certain persons, unknown, to intimidate intimi-date other unknown persons who had taken possession of evicted farms. The court then adjourned. When the magistrates returned, after an absence of half an hour, Mr. Turner said the sentence of the court was that Mr. Lynam was convicted of the offense of-fense on the first count, and that he be imprisoned for two months in Waterford Wat-erford jail without hard labor. The same conviction and the same, sentence sen-tence applied to the second count, but term of imprisonment is to run concurrently. concur-rently. With regard to Mrs. O'Mahony. he said that they ordered that she shall find security to keep the peace and be of good behavior for twelve months, herself in 50 and two sureties of 25 each, or in default to he imnrisoned for two months in Waterford jail without hard labor. Mr. O'Mahony handed in a written request re-quest to have a case stated. Mr. Turner We consent to state a case. $ At the meeting of the Waterford No. t district council, Mr. W. Kearney. J. P., presiding, Mr. Thomas Power (Col-loghane) (Col-loghane) referred to the sentences recently re-cently imposed upon Mrs.. , O'Mahony, the proprietress, and Mr. Lynam. the editor of the Waterford Star, by two removable magistrates. The following resolution was passed: "That we most emphatically protest against the stranglers of human liberty in Dublin castle who have revived the worst form of the coercion act in our quiet and peaceable and crimeless city, and that we are determined to sustain by every means in our power that fearless :id-vocate :id-vocate of the people's rights, the Waterford Wa-terford Star, in its fight against landlord land-lord tyranny and oppression." (Hear, hear.) . Mr..P.Gough, D. C, seconded the resolution. The chairman said that he thorougn-ly. thorougn-ly. approved of the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. The land commission have decided in favor of Colonel Nolan on the question of his submarine estate, and have generally gen-erally affirmed the principle that the landlord can demand additional rent from a tenant if he collects from the sea weedg. which are, admittedly not the property of the landlord nor situate within his holding. Colonel Nolan is to be congratulated on having been the first to give . the land commission an opportunity of coming to this iniquitous conclusion. On Wednesday, in Frenchpark courthouse. court-house. Mr. A. G-. W. Harrell, R. M , and Mr. R. L. Browne, R. M., sat under un-der the provisions of the criminal law and procedure (Ireland) act to hear summonses against tenants of the De Freyne estate for alleged unlawful assembly, as-sembly, etc. The court was crowded. The usual police evidence have been given, the defendants were asked if they wished to call any evidence,' or make any statement, and thev replied in the negative. After an absence of an hour, the magistrates returned into 'court. ' - Mr. Harrel said they considered that the justice of the situation would be met by a sentence of fourteen days" imprisonment without hard labor in each case. Mr. Raferty asked would they be alioweu. until Saturday, as tomorrow was a fair day at Ballagharderin. Mr. Harrel said they had to issue the warrant ai onco. . The .defendants were subsequently conveyed under escort to Boyle, and thence to Sligo Jail. J The hearing of the charge of conspiracy con-spiracy under the crimes act against Messrs. McDermott and Gormely, joint secretaries of the Bunnanadden branch of the United Irish League, was con-concluded con-concluded at Ballymote on Friday before be-fore Messrs. Smith and Harrel, R. M. The charge was one of having intimidated intimi-dated a man named John Dursean to surrender an evicted farm, and the case turned on an alleged threatening , letter sent to Dursean. Alexander Mc- Intyre. official assignee in the court of bankruptcy, was examined as an expert ex-pert in handwriting, and gave it as his opinion that the letter was written by McDermott. No evidence was called for the defense, and the magistrates sentenced each defendant to two months' imprisonment. An appeal was lodged. S- The farm of Dooherty, offered for sale at the court house here on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, has passed into the tenant's o r' lu Uie acuon or the south Roscommon executive of the U. I. L., who took up the tenant's case" from the start. A couple of days since negotiations were concluded privately with the vendor, and the fact of the tenant's succeeding in the matter is looked upon as a great victory in this locality.. The- veneralble archdeacon MLaughlin, and . Father O'Hara evinced their kindly zeal in the tenant's ten-ant's behalf, for which the thanks of the nationalists of Roscomm6n are due to them. , As a result of the league! conventions contests will only take place in seven out of twenty-two county divisions in Kprry. and It t auit- afe to sissum ' ' 'that the select of the league conventions conven-tions will in each of the opposed divisions di-visions be the elect of the people. The I nominations took place on Monday. In the other divisions the sitting members, an of whom are nationalists, have been ! returned unopposed Some few weeks back the Rev. Kava-naugh, Kava-naugh, O. S. F., author of the history of '98, was co-opted a member of the committee of the Waterford branch of the United Irish League. Father Kav-anaugh Kav-anaugh has arranged to deliver a lecture lec-ture at an early date under the auspices aus-pices of the league. On Friday in Glenties Mr. Hugh A. Law. son of a former lord chancellor of Ireland, was returned unopposed as the United League and Irish party candidate can-didate for the West Division of the County Donegal, vacated recently by . Mr. James Boyle, who represented the i division since the last general election. I Subsequently a public meeting was ! held in the grounds adjoining the Cath-' Cath-' olic chapel, the chair being occupied by the Very Rev. Canon James Mc-Fadden. Mc-Fadden. P. P., Glenties. The reverend chairman said the representation rep-resentation of West Donegal was now in the hands of the people, and not in that of the Connollys, the Hamiltons. or the Johnstons, and West Donegal would thenceforward return nationalists, national-ists, and their commission to Mr. Law was to make the. administration of English laws in Ireland according to the feelings and wishes f .t, I and if England refused t:3 - the government w as i. , ' '' 'W 3 and cut of parliament un;,i ".iC f made impossible f,,r tn. y'j' "!' 1 liament to govern lrHn:,,! i; N-. wishes of the Irish p.-. "'.'.!:is: t;. , Mr. Hugh A. Law. M ) j' loudly cheered, said Mm- ,' '" ";s Fadden had askci hire f.- ,, ?,''"n of political faith. v, ;;'.,!'' 'lf'.'-' faith was absolute and u- ' '"'': i ty to the Irish parliam-::',- !,,v-i . .. of heartfelt mil wh'.!. -i,.-.,-"'.' 'y r; divided loyal tv to tlu-:.- ;'n'1 ";r- Ireland. ' f |
