Show ENGLISH METHODS r Editor Oiirien Robbed in the Streets of Kingston 1 Canadian City The Typical Big Orangeman With the Big Club Argues With the Irish Editor TlioLaiisdownc Influence Paralyzes the Police but Enthuses the Brickbat Brick-bat and Cobblestone LniisiIovMc Desperation KINGSTON Ont May 21At Ottawa Editor William OBrien paid a visit to the University where ho received an ovation and an address from the students Mr OBrien replied in a pleasing and flattering vein The party then drove to tho railroad station t catch tho 1230 p ir train for I Kingston where it was said tho Orangemen Orange-men were arranging to give another warm I reception to tho party Iu tho same car with OBrien were Lady McDonald wife of the Canadian Premier I B Crow Baker M P of British Columbia and Sir Leonard Tilley Lieutenant Governor Gov-ernor of NOv Brunswick Fifty miles out from here the Kingston reception committee met tho train and returned hero with the r party As tho train slowed up at the station sta-tion it was seen that a large crowd was assembled as-sembled there As Mr OBrien stepped out of the car 10 was in the much talked of Kingston the Kerry of Canada as it is called Kingston has a population of 150 of whom 5000 are Catholics There are only eight policemen and all of them in command of Chief Horsey were in waiting io tho surprise of Mr OBrien and party not a dissentient voice was heard in the storm of cheers which arose as Mr OBrien entered tho carriage The party wero driven to the Burnett House where a crowd assembled and cheered the editor Battery A of the Dominion regular artillery corps Fourteenth Prince of Wales Own Rifles was held in the armory for emergencies besides a largo uumberofspecial constables and tho ordinary police force tho crowd on arriving at tho skating rink where the meeting meet-ing was held found gathered around the building policemen armec with revolvers who moved up and down and forbade anybody any-body to block up the entrances to the hal OBrien in opening his remarks won at onco the Ulster Protestants who were listening and who form a large section of the population when he asserted that the Orange farmers in the north of Ireland wero as much oppressed as the Catholic farmer and Lord Lansdowno was championing cham-pioning the case of those despotic landlords who were causing this oppression My mission ho exclaimed is not to stir up strife but to blend tho Orange and the Green This sentiment at once won over the descendants of tho Ulster farmers They cheered as heartily as anybody else ngain when ho said We will so humiliate Lord Lansdowne in exposing his murderous policy in Ireland as to make Orangemenas veil as Nationalists at last believe there is only ono Lord Ho who rules above the cedars and tho stars Among other things OBrien said said I believe the few misunderstandings mis-understandings which have arisen between Protestant and Catholic Irishmen can very soon pass away I was 930 oclock when Dennis Kilbridgo began his statement Then tho first noise was heard outside of tho hal where several hundred men and boys had collected crying cry-ing God save the Queen nnd groaning for OBrien Every cheer that went up inside tho hall was answered by a loud roar The and angry response from without crowd outside was now swollen to immense proportions Tho meeting was brought to an end by a few remarks from Cnair nan J J Behan who told the audience togo lan to-go homo peaceably Then tho people started out OBrien being in tho rear OBriens friends however hurried him to ho front He stepped on the sidewalk wearing his usual tall hat The moment ho Orangemen on the other side of the street saw him they raised savage yells and cries of Thero he is and rushed across the street Cobble stones and bricks bo flying like hail Tho women jan lke hai fying soreamed and general confusion reigned Ah theyre at it again said OBrien in a tone of mournful regret more than of angerYes yes roared the mob there he is Drag him out here on the street Kill him Choke him Tear him asunder They almost al-most burst through OBriens body guard which consisted of tho American special correspondents and local officers of the National tional League A man changed hats with 5Brien as that worn by the latter furnished fur-nished a target for the mob and as the party turned into Wellington street another shower of bricks and broken stones came spinning through the crowd OBrien and friends bent their heads but received the missiles on the body D F Kcllog the Now York Sun correspondent and J M Wall representative of the Associated Press caught up with OBrien just on the stoop eading to the house of John Newman a Protestant on Midway street between Wil iam and Johnson streets Tho doors wero opened and showers of missiles again came across tho street The crowd surged around Wall and Kellogg who wero Hung to the ground and OBrien disappeared into Now mans house The door of Newmans house was barred tightly Wall and Kellogg with J J Behan Thomas Sullivan and J J Conwell of the Chicago News rushed around through the Vinegar Works on Ontario On-tario street for tho purpose of getting into I tho house by the back entrance The mob however intercepted them and they had to 5y for their lives The mob next rushed to tho Burnett House thinking OBrien was there shouting To hell with Home Rule Kill him Although OBrien was not there they fired a volley of stones at the windows and then groaned and yelled to f their hearts content J M Wall the wounded correspondent attempted to pass tho front of the 1otei but his bandaged ban-daged bead attracted the attention of the Orangemen who went for him with n rush He escaped down a side street and took off his bandages Tho Canadian Freeman an Irish Catholic organ was wrecked Two hours havo now elapsed since the first attack was made Nobody knew where OBrien was but he was soon discovered Peter Devlin who lives on the corner of Washington and William streets stole down to Chief of Police Horsey and said OBrien is safe with me Chief Homey with Mayor Carson and six policemen then went to Devlins house and brought OBrien to tho Burnett House The latter reached Devlins house in this way The alley way of Newmans afforded shelter just as Maurice Mau-rice Hogan changed hats with OBrien just as a stone struck OBrien on the back of the neck and just as a big powerful Orangeman Orange-man with a club was going to cleave open his skull The house of an Orangeman named Donnelly adjoined this alley on the other sido and OBrien got in there and was finally smuggled backwards to Devlins house while the Orange mob outside was yelling for his blood yelng protect von to the hotel said Mayor Carson I will call out the artillery lery You will claimed OBrien sarcastical I I wi I ly I dont want your protection now You n mob of demons five hundred strong outside saw that hall thirsting for my blood while i was addressing a peaceable meeting and you did not disperse them Where was artillery then Lansdowno and How your land winked at the efforts to murder mo in eorts Toronto and now Lansdowne and you wink at the efforts to murder me here I am not going to give yon the credit of having protected tected my lifo when you could have if you wished but didnt The Mayor said no more mThe policemen acted just the same as plcemen of the those at Toronto In tho early part evening they would not permit any OBrien ito to wait on the outside of the hall and onl to American corres said Move on cores even OBriens arrival But a pondents awaiting arrvnl mob appeared on the opposite street many There with clubs and sticks in their bands c cubs by the police with them interference was no interference polco and Ind the were allowed to hiss and police alowed the until OBrien came out When groan OBren instead latter did como out the policemen of making a circle around him abandoned aban-doned him and left him to the tender mercies mer-cies of the yelling Orangemen who dashed t r upon him Tho policemen were first to scatter scat-ter wheh tho stonethrowing commenced The mob remained outside the hall two hours waiting to kill an OBrienitc named lowland who had his cheek laid open with tho blow of a stone Sergeant Nesbitts had his head cut The Nationalists wero unorganized unor-ganized and not prepared for an attack bong bo-ng deceived by the extraordinary coolness and treachery of the Orangemen ut the Bur nett House A crowd collected around 0 Brien congratulating him on his escape He was scarcely able to stand on his feet His throat was full of dust and his clothes bespattered Ho said Well go througb to the end boys yet One incident will show bow the police noted when Mr OBrien staggered into the alleyway after being struck in the neck with a stone A policeman in tho middle ol the street said to n rioter I saw you do that I saw you but ho never attempted to arrest him Ho was allowed to join his friends who shouted in triumph lies a gone dog meaning OBrien OBrien and party started this morning for Hamilton whero a meeting will bo hold Monday Ho will spend Sunday at Niagara Falls |