Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Reports of dullness in the bituminous coal trade come from Pittsburg, and a tendency to a reduction in prices in Chicago and other Western points is announced. A cable dispatch from , Paris says an attempt was made to kill Louise Michel at Havre. She was making an address at a meeting of Anarchists when a man in the audience named Lucas suddenly arose and, pointing a revolver at the speaker, fired two shots at her. She received a wound in the head, and the lobe of one of her ears was torn away. Lucas had a narrow escape from lynching at the

hands of the infuriated Anarchists, and it wai only the timely arrival of gendarmes that saved him. He was locked up. The condition of Louise Michel is reported serious Mr Cox, Nationalist, member of Parliament for Clare, was arrested in London, after leading the Irish police a long chase, and taken back to Ennis, where he will be tried for addressing proclaimed league meetings. A row occurred at the railway station at Galway between a crowd which was awaiting the arrival of Fathers Burke and Francis and the police. The latter charged the people, using their batons freely, while the crowd retaliated by throwing stones and bottles. Several persona were injured, among them a member of the Municipal Council, who received three cuts on the head from a policeman’s baton. The tenants of Donegal have resolved to withhold the payment of rents during the time that Mr. Blane, member of Parliament from South Armagh, and Father McFadden of Gweedore are kept in prison. Mr. Blane and Father McFadden are now in the Donegal jaiL The former is charged with making speeches tending to incite tenants to resist the authorities, and Father McFadden is charged with holding anti-police and anti-landlord meetings. Mr Patrick O’Brien, M. P. for the Northern Division of the County Monaghan, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment in Tullamore Jail for offending against the coercion act iff a speech delivered in County Roscommon. Two other gentlemen were sentenced at the same time for a similar proceeding—one to four, the other to three months. Notice of an appeal was given, and they were allowed out on bail, but no sooner had the member of Parliament given his securities than the police put him under arrest again for a speech delivered in County Kilkenny.