Dear Boss

[Stewart P Evans]

William Saunders

William Saunders, M.P., 1823-1895, founder of the Central News Agency and first chairman.

[lynn cates]

news making

Hello Mr. Evans. Thanks for posting this. Guess I'd better check his views on "news making." I'll probably find it a bit different from the later "powers" there.

Cheers.
LC

[TradeName]

A brief history of a group that Saunders was involved with:

The Labour Annual for 1895: The Reformers' Yearbook (Manchester: Labour Press Society, 1895), Volume 1, Pages 125-127

English Land Restoration League

by Fredk Verinder

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Perhaps inconsistently Saunders was a director of a mining company:

The Statist: A Journal of Practical Finance and Trade, Volume 19, April 30, 1887, Page 484

Mexican Santa Barbara Mining

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A political journal with articles by Saunders:

The Democrat, Vol IV (1886-1887), Page 1

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Bio of a Saunders associate:

The Labour Annual for 1896 (Manchester: Labour Press Society, 1895), Volume 2, Page 238

Some Interesting Biographies

Woolacott, J. E., b. 1861. First attracted to social questions by Progress and Poverty. One of oldest members of E.L.R.L.[English Land Restoration League ], Fabian, and member I.L.P. Journalist, and ed. for some time the Democrat, started by late Wm. Saunders, M.P. Represented the "Central News" in lobby of House of Commons; also in Ireland, under coercion regime. Closely acquainted with Parnell and other Irish leaders. Witness before Parnell Commission. Visited Egypt as special correspondent. Has been assistant ed. of Weekly Dispatch. Contributes largely to journals and magazines. I.L.P. candidate for St. Rollox at General Election. Holds that the Labour movement is a religious movement in the highest sense of the word.—14, England's Lane, S. Hampstead, N.W.

[lynn cates]

views

Hello Trade. Seems mildly labour/liberal.

I notice his "Irish" views differ widely from Hurlbert's.

Cheers.
LC

[TradeName]

Are the first two stories examples of the "privileges" Bulling of the Central News got from James Monro (as per the Littlechild letter)?

New York Times, June 16, 1887, link




Omaha Daily Bee, May 20, 1888, Page 1




Rossa's absurd complaint:

New York Times, June 3, 1887, link

CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS

[lynn cates]

silly business

Hello Trade. Thanks for posting this.

I presume you have read Campbell and know all the ins and outs of this silly business?

Cheers.
LC

[TradeName]

I've spent some time with Fenian Fire at the library.

Here's a story from 1896. Monro was gone by then.


Daily Times (Portsmouth, Ohio), September 15, 1896, Page 6

In America

The Conspiracy Against the English Government was Hatched

[lynn cates]

Tynan

Hello Trade. I say, was the Tynan chap PJP Tynan?

Cheers.
LC

[TradeName]

Yes, the alleged No. 1. Here's a collection of articles from the New York Times which also cites the Central News:

New York Times, September 15, 1896, link

THE CZAR IN DANGER

A Scheme to Assassinate the Ruler of Russia

DISCOVERED BY THE POLICE

The Plot Was Hatched by Dynamiters in This Country

CAN TYNAN BE EXTRADITED?

[lynn cates]

Tynan's book

Hello Trade. Thanks.

Have you read Tynan's book, "The Irish National Invincibles and their Times"? If not for an inadvertent identification of his photograph by Carey, he'd have slipped the net and remain unknown to this day.

Cheers.
LC

[TradeName]

I haven't, but I notice that Google books has it.

[lynn cates]

available

Hello Trade. I got a copy through Amazon. TERRIBLE print job, but very informative.

Cheers.
LC

[TradeName]

I'm a bit curious about the provenance of this article.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 27, 1888, Page 4

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/

[auspirograph]

Have you read Tynan's book, "The Irish National Invincibles and their Times"? If not for an inadvertent identification of his photograph by Carey, he'd have slipped the net and remain unknown to this day.
LC

Yes, I located that image of Patrick Tynan and have it reproduced in my book, Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders.

Tynan is likely the man of Macnaghten's reference to the Ripper associated with the leader of a plot to assassinate Arthur Balfour. His book was issued in two editions, first in the US and then in the UK with differences.

These considerations do not preclude that the Whitechapel murderer was an East End local as in 1888 the area was also inhabited by radicals of various shades.

TradeName,

I'm surprised you believe everything your read in the newspapers.

[lynn cates]

nice

Hello Trade. Lovely find. Don't recall seeing it before.

It certainly reflects a prevalent view--that the police and vigilance groups deterred him.

Cheers.
LC