4 AUGUST 1888, Page 2

Two of the worst agrarian murders of which we have

yet heard, were reported from Ireland on Monday. John Forhan, sixty years of age, was shot dead as he was bringing three labourers from Tralee to work on his farm, from which a former tenant had been evicted ; and, worse still, James Ronane was murdered at Glownamucka, while mowing hay for Daniel McAuliffe, only, apparently, because he had previously worked for an unpopular farmer (by name Twomey), though not even one denounced by the National League. Ronane was married, and had one child. The murderous acts ordered by secret tyranny are freely imitated, it seems, by mere in- dividual malignity.