Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Mitchellstown, where the case of the English Government against Mr. Win. O’Brien, under the coercion act, was to have been tried Friday, says a Dublin dispatch, was crowded all’ day with civilians, policy and soldiers. Mr. O’Brien did not appear in court to answer the summons. The service of the summons was proved, and the Judge granted a warrant for O’Brien’s arrest An indignation meeting was held by auti-coercionists for the purpose of denouncing the Government A Government stenographer, with an escort of sixty policemen, endeavored to push through the crowd to the foot of the platform. His progress was resisted, and the police attempt-

ed to open a passage for him. The crowd attacked the police with sticks and stones, and the latter retaliated by charging with drawn batons, but were repulsed by a body of Nationalists on horseback. Mr. Condon at thia point interposed from the platform, and succeeded in pacifying the crowd. Mr. Dillon then addressed the people, advising them to treat the police with silent contempt, because Home Rule was nearly won, and when it became an established fact the Irish forces would be under control of the people instead of their enemies. The speech of Mr. Dillon had little effect upon the exasperated crowd, and the conflict between them and the policj was shortly afterward renewed, the police being driven into their barracks. From this point of vantage the police fired into the crowd, killing one man instantly, fatally wounding another, who has since died, and severely injuring several others. Taking advantage of the demoralizing effect of their fire, the police sallied forth from the barracks and charged upon the mob with fixed bayonets. This was more than the crowd could stand, and they made haste to disperse. A foreign consul at Bombay reports that over 31,C00 deaths from cholera occurred in the province of Oude—of which Lucknow is the capital—last May. William O’Brien, M. P., was arrested at Kingstown, Ireland, where he had gone to bid Mr. Labouchere good-by. The prisoner was taken to his hotel in Dublin, and from the balcony he briefly addressed a large crowd that had assembled in front of the hotel Ihe casualties in the fight which occurred at Mitchellstown were: Two citizens killed, one fatally hurt and since dead, and 153 wounded; fifty-four constables injured to badly as to require medical treatment