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Starving Irish

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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The British government has placed guuboats at the service of Mr. Tuke in hls work of relieving the distress among the iuhabiiauts of tlie islands aleng the westera Irish coast. Indeseribable distress has beca developed araong the people inhabi'ii.g tüe Arrau lsles, olí Galway, who, bcsides buvins harüly anyihing to iut but moss aud giass, are wabout lire and olten without dothing and shelter. It is nut rare to tind ;irs of lö and 18 yiars of age tept in enforced hiding duriug day time tecause bereft of every thread of clothing, long ago bartered away fur 6eed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller children. M.hiug Inspector Brady recently went amou!; the miserable people of Arran to distribute relief lurnished by an organization of Iribh pohee. Hlfl luods ran sbort, and he stül had so inuch pitlable wretchedness to relieve that he appealed to Mr. bussy, wlio is charged with the dislribution of ihe iuud raibed in America for Ihe im]overishud i shermen oL ■.■'■M anil Kollin jsluii'K :i'iil begged of hlw Ui dlvert part of hls store for the benefit of tho Arranesc. This Mr. Bussy was permit.Ud to do, and he reporta that in order' to save the llves of ecures of people now ilying of starvation in thosc w stern islam]? it li Imi eratlvo tht relief on a largescalcbe at once oranlzed.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat