The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-11
THE NEWS.
About Internal Maehines-An Interview
With Grove.

With Grove.
| PEORIA, August "A reporter inter
viewed p. w. Grove, the gasoline lamp
/ contractor here, who is connected with
the internal machine. matter. Roma has
always been at the head of the Fenian
| agitation here, and Grove is one OF his
most desperate agitators- He is man
of small stature, intellectual countenance,
and talked as composedly as on ordi-
nary topics. Grove produced letter
from George Holgate, dated Philadel-
phia, August 81, 1880, setting forth that
Mr.. Holgate owned the McClintock tor
pedO boat, which did such terrible exc
cution during the rebellion, and that he
had been conducting experiments with
il under water which caused McClintock
to lose his life; that he had refused
proposition from Spain for the boat. He
claimed that the boat would blow up
any vessel in the British fleet, and could
blockade any port, regardless of all the
men-ofwar in the world. 1t would cost
about $4,000 to build it, and he
would place it at Groves disposal
He claimed that the boat would
do more good for Ireland and fetch the
British Government TO terms quicker
than half a million of men.
Mr.. Grove said that shortly after the
Executive Committee of United Irishmen
met in New York, Judge Brennan of
Iowa, Capt. G. Spierman of New York,
James Cenefie of Providence, Thomas r.
Dwyer of Chicago, O'Donovan Rosa and
himself were together in council, and
they discussed HOlgate's proposition of
devastating the English coast, but on
Groves representation they decided
that it would be too expensive, and that
they could do better work by depositing
torpedoes on British ships, which could
be done for $25 apiece, and which would
bring England to terms by making il
dangerous to go aboard British vessels.
They decided to take that course. Some
time later the United Irishmen and Fe-
mans Joined hands in order to execute
this plan. They were six thousand
strong in the United States and Canada.
There were branches in Toronto, Que
bee, Montreal, and nearly every import
ant city in the United States.
These Internal machines are being
made IN every city where there is a
branch of the order, and will continue TO
be made. They are working for the good
Of the old sod, and they were no more
liable than q maker OF revolvers and
cannons. Dynamite was no more vicious
than powder, and with these weapons
they could drive from the seas their
enemy, destroy her trade, and make
profitable business impossible. Some
people would have to die. It would be
worse than boycotting, but war was al
WAYS cruel, and the war was in earnest
which went straightest to the work,
killed the most in the shortest time,
and compelled the nations to make
peace. The machines captured in Eng
land were made in Peoria. His an
swers gave the reporter confidence in the
truth of this statement. They were
made of iron with zinc, interior in which
the clock-work and explosives were
packed. The clock-work operated with
q spring and after six days running
it liberated hammer something like a
gun trigger, which struck percussion
cap and ignlted the charge. The charge
consists of an ounce and half of the
illuminate of silver, ETC., pound and q
half of dynamite, and would destroy
the largest block of buildings in the
world. The whole thing weighed forty
five pounds. ANY warfare was good
enough for England, who did not con-
duct honorable warfare herself, and
could not expect others to
do so. If she did not do just
ice to Ireland, every English ship
would be sent to the bottom, until peo-
pie no longer dared to embark in them.
Every government building would be
gun. He claims that there are many of
these dread machines already complet-
ed, some in France, in charge of trust
worthy patriots, who would use them
quite freely. They had already greatly
worried the British, and had destroyed
the Manchester post office, the Victoria
docks, loss $5,O0O,O0O. exploded ma
chimes at Sanford and Glasgow, at Lon
don and Liverpool, and inflicted an ag-
gregate loss of e50, 100000. Grove has
an easy, dignified manner, ansasSFas ID
no way excited at his horrible recital.
He says the manufacture of machines
still goes forward here.