A man  named Thomas Irwin died a couple of days previously at his residence in the townland of  Cranfield, and his remains were yesterday removed for interment in Milltown graveyard. Irwin was an old and respected member of the Orange Institution, and his brethren of the  Loughgall district turned out in considerable numbers to pay him their last tribute of  respect. When passing through Maghery a most dastardly and cowardly attack was made on  the procession. A Nationalist mob assailed the Orangemen, and endeavoured to beat them  back with sticks and other weapons. Stones were showered into the procession, and the  hearse was repeatedly struck with the missiles. A regular riot ensued, and in the fight  which followed it is alleged that some of the Orange Party who were attacked in this  disgraceful manner described fired revolver shots at their assailants. Two members of  the Nationalist mob were shot though the wounds inflicted are said not to be of a  dangerous character. A number of persons on both sides received wounds of a more or  less serious nature inflicted with stones and other weapons used during the progress  of the affray. Information was subsequently conveyed to Portadown, and District Inspector Bigley,  Head Constable Donnelly, Sergeants Belford and McQueen, and all the available  constables in both barracks drove out to the scene of the disturbances. Acting on information received some time after their arrival in Maghery, the police  arrested two prominent members of the Orange party, and when conveying them to the  Birches police barrack they were fired at by a crowd of Nationalists. Some of the  police dismounted and pursued the crowd to the shores of the lough, where they  arrested twelve members of the party. The peace officers subsequently found a loaded  gun and powder cask convenient to the place where the shots were fired. Eye-witnesses of the occurrence state that the attack on the funeral procession was  thoroughly organised, and that the Nationalist mob fought fiercely and with determination. The affair has naturally aroused considerable indignation and party feeling in the district  surrounding Maghery, and the occurrence formed the sole subject of conversation in the  neighbourhood yesterday and today. Captain Slacke, Divisional Commissioner, and Mr. Warburton, county inspector, visited the  scene of the occurrence today and made inquiries respecting the affray. In the afternoon  the prisoners were brought before Mr. N. L. Townsend, R.M. Armagh, in the Clonmacate  Courthouse, Wm. John Vemer and David Fox, member of the Orange party, were charged with  firing at and wounding Patrick Tennyson; and the following members of the Nationalist  party were charged with unlawful assembly and firing shots:  David Skelton, John McNally, James McHelly, Edward Robinson,  William Donnolly, Daniel Gallagher, Henry Quinn, John McGrath,  James McNally, Daniel Hagan, Joseph Hogan, and Francis Campbell.