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Show risi Home Rule Bill Goes To King For Signature I CROWN FQHCES BURN VILLAGE FOR REVENGE Ballinales. County Longford. In Flames After Attack On Police SEARCH FAILS TO j L REVEAL DE VALERA Dispatch From Ireland i ells ; TJ How Farmer Was Slam I By Officials 1 LONDON Dec. -'" 'I" l"sh Vl home rule bill assughtlj niomneo '.v the house of I. Til-, was dopted bj the house of coimnons today. ' i -rho measure now needs onlj the royal denature to be ome a law bbbbbb LONDON", Dec 91. The Press noetation's Dublin correspondent quotes a dispatch from Tulski Coun-fnji Coun-fnji .' ty Roscommon, is saying ih.it crown H?-:J forces burned the villa of Ballina- Ilee, County LoDKford. early this morning morn-ing as a reprisal for the rodent at' ark on the police barracks there In which gsjsjj one constable was killed and three IjAV wounded. Shops md housi a v. en llspatcl states, sonv fgH farmhouses burned and stock shot. The m9H raiders commandeered end fortified IkuI the schoolhouse and most o the. In J-BK habitants fled, according to the dls- !uH patch. DE VALERA SOT N BOARD ISOt'THAMITuN, England, lec. 21. Thorough sea re h w made of lh steamer Acuultanla which arrived here thla morning, but no evident was found to lend color to recent rumors - jm that Famonn d- valera, "president oi jjjf the Irish republic," was aboard the sTOi; ol MURDER i" jj LONDON, Deq. 23 A dispatch re- Wm cefved by iht Central Ncwi from Tra- I lee. says that because a farmer named O'Connor was found to be, possessed of a summons to a Sinn Petal court, he was placed in a military lorry and taken away by forces of the crown T :5 Shortlj afterwa di I i u! throi i Into the i oad, shol Tin J moans of tb. man attracted attention and he was removed to al farm house am! .. prtesl was-sum- Imoned. According lo the .dispatch, an offi- 1 cer barred the priest from entering KjH the farm house, but permitted two Wtfls armed rm-n to go Inside When the fttfSBF entered, three shots were heard, anu UflB when finally the priest was permitted i MffjlS to enter, lie found 1 I'Conndr dead ORK BISHOP RJEPL1 1 IS Djfl! NEW VORlf; Dec. 21. Bishop Kan-, HNS icl f'oahlan. of Cork, replying to tnc BB cabled protest of the Ano-rican a- r12 elation for recognition of Mm Irish re- -yH public, against excommunication of i . Irishmen who ambush British crown 9 forces, declared th.a it was 'scanda-l 5SL j lous for the association to defend ih- ! ''T J louch-and-run ambushers," and asked f why 1 h Irish republli had nol been fl reeof-iitz. 1 1 I ihi !C5J In lls reply, the b!sii..t termed as "npnsense" the association's charge jfjM that he Was using his spiritual aulhor- - IS ii. 1 1 1 rest of I British t II w.t .ill I ' MINDS 1 -; DUBLIN, Dei 21 the Jrl iaaa waymen. in conference here today, de- cided unanimously to abandon then , rQB strike ugainsi the carrying of muni- fH lions and return to work. The men i voted to carrj ill the traffli offered, V. provided -'ii Lhc met ur restored I V their forrn-r posltlmis, |