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Show Police Ruffianism in Ballaghadereen. A dispatch from Ballaghadereen on Wednesday says the fight between the tenants on the associated estates and the landlords goes on steadily. The people were never better organized nor mote determined to put an end to landlordism in the west. They have . absolute reliance on their own power of combination, and while determined to carry on the light for free homes, they are equally determined that so far as they are concerned, there will be no violence of any kind. But their enemies are of a different way of thinking the police, whose sole business busi-ness in this district seems to be for the purpose of collecting rents for landlords land-lords and harassing the unfortunate people who are doing nothing more than what they have a perfect right to do. For the past couple of weeks a number num-ber of little boys in this town, whose ages range from 8 to 14 years, turn out about 9 o'clock each night and parade pa-rade the streets, playing tin whistles and timing the music on a small homemade home-made kettledrum. Last night when passing the hotel where Messrs O'Don-nell O'Don-nell and Johnston are staying, these boys raised a cheer, and Immediately they did so a number of policemen, who were stuck in all the nooks and j corners in the vicinity of the hotel, ' rushed out and batoned the poor little . fellows without mercy, and scattered the little crowd in all directions. Several Sev-eral little boys were severely hurt, and one young man named Heally, who stood near his own house, was strucK several times on the head. He was brought to Dr. McDermott's place and his wounds were dressed. Rumor has it that he is seriously ill this morning. Later on, the brass band, accompanied accom-panied by nearly the whole adult men of the town, paraded the streets several sev-eral times, cheering for the League and its leaders, but the police remained in their holes when they saw that they had men to deal with who would stand no nonsense. |