Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Editor O’Brien again narrowly escaped death at the hands of a mob in Kingston. "Cnnadai’U'B'rien delivereTTEis address in a large ska irg rink, and what followed is thus described in a special dispatch from — For about half an hour before the meeting in the skating-rink was concluded a crowd begun to gwfrhfyy ttiMj. croftus foi* O brien, mingled with "To with the Pope!" "Hang the traitor!" etc , begun t v intrude them-' selves t»i on the meeting. Toe meeting was brought to a conclusion about 10 o'clock. Down through the hall-and out in the middle of the stream of peonle that poured into Johnson street walked Mr. O’Brien. The night was pitch dark, but the flash of the revolvers of nine policemen could be seen reflected from she l ights inside the hall The big hostile crowd stood directly opposite the entrance on the other side of the street, and the .moment Mr. O'Brien appeared at the door the yells of - rhge and exectaticn became terrific.' A group ct fifty men rushed forward, crying : out: "There he is! That's his tali hat!" 'lhey ! were a picked gi6up of the most rabid Crange’I men, and the cry was "to strangle him." The i policemen tried to interpose, and Mr. O Brien '■ and his friends walked rapidly sooth and turned I the corner of Wellington str. et They did not . proceed far along that street, but went south on Johnson as far as Ontario street. The entire mob now rushed after them, and its intent was

I evidently the destruction cf Messrs. Q'Bncn ' and Kilbride, the latter Ravine by this time joined the party. A huge paviag-stme flew ' i close by O'Brien's hat, Scratch Ina the brim. A scene cf trie utmost confusiott ensued. Friends and foes seemed to be alike at fault as i to the whereabouts of Mr. O’Brien, a|nd Anally i a rusb-wus made for his hotel. Mowt of the Nationalists succeed in getting inside when the ' mob collected in front of the building and t comrnr-need to break the windows Two hours elapsed since the first attack was ' made, and nobody knew where O'Brien was. ' But he was soon discovered. Peter Devlin, who ! lives on tbe comer of Wellington and William streets, stole down to the Chief of Police Horsey and Said : -“O’Brien is safe with me." God," exclaimed the crowd. Chief Horsey I with Mayor ( arson and six policemen 1 then went to llevliu's house ana brought back O'Brien to the Burnett House. The i latter reached Devlin's house this way: I Maurice H-igan changed hats with O'Brien just 1 as a stone struck O'Brien on the bock of the neck and just as a big, powerful Orangeman with a club was going to cleave open his skull. The house of on Orangemari named Donnelly adioiiied the alley on the other side, and O'Brien got in there and was filially smuggled backward to Devlin e house while the Orange mob outside yelled for his blood. "I will protect you to the hotel," said Mayor Carson. "I will call out the artillery." “You will?" exclaimed O Brien, sarcastically. “I don’t want your protection now. You saw a mob of demons, 50 i strong, outside that hill, thirsting for my blood while I was addressing a peaceable meeting, and yo’.t didn’t disperse them. Where was your artillery then, sir? Lansdowne and Howland winked at the efforts to murder me in Toronto, and now I.ansdoyvne and you w ink at the efforts to murder me here. I am not going to give you the credit of the pretense o£ having protected my lite when you conld have if you wishid, but didn’t."

The League of American Wheelmen, at its meeting at St." Louis, elected T. J. Kirkpatrick, of Ohio. President; H. B. Hayes, of Massachusetts, Vice President; and NV. M. Brewster, of Missouri, Treasurer. William O'Brien and Dennis Kilbride, the Irish Nationalists who have been making matters so warm in the Dominion for a week past, reached Niagara Falls Saturday night, says a dispatch from that point. They received a warm welcome when they landed on American soil, and it continued all the way to Niagara. Mr. O’Brien is considerably injured by the attacks on him, and may be compelled to quit speaking for several'days. A reporter whoaisited him at his hotel says: ”

It was with apparent difficulty that Mr. O’Brien spoke. “The whole of my leftside," he .paid, speaking at times almost in S whisper, “is suffering considerably from a contusion in the left rib received from the mob in Toronto. It gave me no trouble for a day or two, but has been gradually developing into pleurisy. Dr. Doyle, of Syracuse, who examined it last night, says that the lower portion of the lung is seriously affected by contusion For a couple of days I have scarcely been able to move with ease or use my voice. My other injuries have mostly disappeared. One was from a stone with which I was struck on the shoulder-blade in Toronto and another from a blow behind the ear sustained in Kingston.” Land Commissioner Sparks says that 25,000,000 acres of land will be thrown open to settlement by reason of the withdrawal of railroad land-grants... .Mrs. Mary Hay Brockes, wife of a judge of the Supreme Court of New York, died while kneeling at the grave of her daughter in a Saratoga cemetery.... At the annual parade of the League of American Wheelmen at St. Louis there were 600 riders in line.... The President has been asked to appoint ex-Congressman Hammond, of Georgia, to the vacant seat on the Supreme bench... .William Perry, of Davenport, lowa, has been convicted of setting fire to the immense barns of John Killen’s noted stock farm, whereby $75,000 damage was done.... Fourteen Irish families from County Mayo, who have been detained at Castle Garden as paupers, are to be sent to friends iu Cleveland, Ohio, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and other places. These friends have promised that the unfortunates shall not become a charge on the public... .The steamships Celtic and Britannic, of the White Star Line, collided in midocean. The latter was badly damaged, and several of her steerage passengers were killed or injured. The Britannic returned to New York in company with the Celtic.

Bradstreet's review of the wheat market for the last week notes favorable rainfalls in the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys. Millers complain of difficulty in obtaining winter wheat, and hence cannot fill orders for winter wheat Hour. During the week there was an active export movement of wheat and flour to Europe from the Atlantic seaports, and according to careful calculations a reserve of only 35,000,000 bushels of wheat will be carried over to the next crop season. Every housekeeper in the land is deeply interested just now in the unprecedented rise in the price of coffee, says a Philadelphia dispatch. In the wholesale market this berry is double the price per pound it was a year ago—a fact of moment when it is considered that even at the old price our national coffee.bill was something like $05,000,000 a year. The reason for this rise in the price of coffee is the prospective short crop that is to come on July 1 next. It will not exceed 3,250,000 bags, while a full crop would be double that. The crops for two years past have been below the average. Our coffee supply comes from Brazil, the little that we get from Java, Maracaibo, and the East Indies not being sufficient to affect the market in the least. Rio rules the coffee world, as China does that of its companion, tea.