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Show Cracked Heads at an Irish Bow. Dublin, December 27. Evidences of more than ordinary bad feeling existing among the local factions in Ireland have forcibly shown themselves recently, and continue to give the municipal and police authorities very great concern. An example of increasing irritation manifested itself yesterday when a house in Creogh, Limerick, ocoupied by a man named Blake, was beseiged by his political opponents. The friends of Blake were not slow in rallying to his defense. They immediatelv engaged in a desperate conflict with the beseig-ing beseig-ing party. Women, as well as men, took sides in the battle, and sticks, stones, guns and pistols were handled with savage earnestness. It was fully two hours before the police, who were called upon to disperse the crowd and arrest the rioters, succeeded in restoring order. The latest acoounts record re-cord at least twenty persons, including several sev-eral women, dangerously wounded in the battle. The police, who were not at first able to command peace, were reinforced. As soon as that fact was evident, and with their augmented strength, they succeeded in making a large number of arrests. |