Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
In a religions riot between Greeks and Arabs at Port Said several persons were killed and many wounded. Joseph Hanlon, one of the men accused of the Phoenix Park assassinations, has turned informer, but too late to save himself, and Ms own admissions will be used against him when he goes to trial The British Government is alleged to have made a request upon the United States for the extradition of about a dozen persons accused of murders in Ireland. James Carey, the Dublin informer, has been found to have been connected with three other murders beside the Phoenix Park assassination, and will probably have to stand trial for them. The Grecian Government has issued an order prohibiting the importation of American pork. A Dublin telegram, states that a request, supported by affidavits, will be made by the British Government for the extradition of about a dozen persons—names not given—who have sought refuge in the United. States, and who are charged with complicity in the dynamite conspiracies Eight Russian army officers have been arrested on suspicion of Nihilism. There are reports that a widespread military conspiracy has been disco ver ed. The London Times, commenting upon the platform of the Irish National League Senvention at Philadelphia, declare*
the time has come when Great Britain should abandon the hope of bringing Irishmen to a better frame of mind by the continuance Of unmerited favors, and that they should be made to feel the strong hand of the law. Dn Norvin Green, President of the WeStetn Union Telegraph Coritpsny, was banqueted at London byanmhber of En gMsh and French capitalists interested in telegraph investments. Fiizharris, the cab-driver, known as “Skin the Goat, ” was acquitted at Dublin of participation in the Phoenix Park murders Another chargfe is pending against him of conspiracy to murder. Importers of pork products at fiamburg write to parties at New York that biased and sensational publications in the United States are entirely responsible for the German Government’s course in prohibiting the importation of. American pork. Indictments for murder were found at Dublin against John Walsh, who recently arrived in this country from France; P. J. Sheridan, of the Irish Nation, New York, and Peter Tynan, commonly known as No. 1, who is supposed to be in the United States It fa expected a demand will speedily be made upon this Government for the extradition of these men, who are alleged t > have been the head of the conspiracy that resulted in the Phoenix Park murders a year ago. A number of other indictments were returned against persons charged with murder or conspiracy in Ireland. Dr. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Wilson Curtin, Ansburg, Whitehead and Dalton, the seven men charged with treasonfelony and connection with the dynamite conspiracy, were again arraigned in the Bow Street Court, London, on the 3d inst The time of the session was occupied by the reading of the evidence taken at the previous hearings, at the conclusion of which the prisoners were remanded for another week.
