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Show tomtTouse Railway Men Refuse to Trans-1 port Munitions, Another j Hunger Strike Is On , TOBBERCURRY, Sllgo, Ireland, May 26. The court house hore was burned early Monday morning, and Judge Wakely was unable to o,pen the quarter session today. One hundred armed men participated in the dc-j structlon of tho building with all records. rec-ords. Thoy picketed all roads in the i vicinity .while tho court house wauj sprinkled with petrol and the torch; applied. ! Railway Trouble. DUBLIN, May 26. A serious extcn-' sion of tho railway trouble here oc-! curred this morning when tho railway! men refused to transport war mate-' steamer and loaded Into a train by soldiers sol-diers after tho dockers had declined to , work. Tho supplies were destined for the west of Ireland and when the soldiers! tried to movo the tra'ln the signal men1 struck and all work was stopped. I Some steamers from Ireland to England Eng-land were held up, Including one on which there wero several hundred Am-j Orleans, owing to the men on docks re- fusing to load luggage. j Another Hunger Strike. DUBLIN, May 26. Another hunger strike Is on at Mountjoy prison. A visiting justice who saw the strikers today says that two men are in a very grave condition. Nine constables successfully wlth-( stood an attack by a considerable! force of raiders who exploded a bomb under the Lough George barracks In Galway and poured bullets . Into tho building more than an hour. The police po-lice responded with rifles and a fowl bombs. One policeman was wounded I slightly. J According to an Athlone dispatch! fer with the government regarding the Irish educational bill. Enactment of the bill Is expected "to be greatly facilitated by this action. Unitarian Resolution. BOSTON, May 26, Tho American' Unitarian conference adopted resolu-l tlons at its annual meeting here, urg-, ing congress to refrain from taking any action on the Irish question which might endanger the friendship of the United States and Great Britain. It also urged President Wilson to pardon par-don men who are now serving sentences sen-tences under war-time legislation for expression of religious conviction. Rev. Dr. S. A. Eliot, of Cambridge, Mass., was re-elected president. VIco presidents elected Included: 'William H. Taft, New Haven, Conn.; Charles A. Lory, Fort Collins, Colo.; William H. Carruth, Palo Alto.Cal.; -1 William H. Alexander, Edmonton, Can 1 BffBffBffBffBffl |