The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-03-22

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A THRILL1NG LONDON SENSATION.
The Local Government Offices Blown
up and tho Parliament Buildings
Observation-Disclosures Presented of
asComplete Ruin 40 Two Hours
Bombardmont Would Eject.
A London dispatch of the 18th says: A
terrific explosion In the local government
board officers, Westminster, occurred at 8
tonight, destroying much property. The
report was heard IN the house OF commons
and caused alarm. The conclusion was SO
great that it shook the side of the galleries
and reporter gallery. 1t beisg the dinner
hour, but few members Of the house were
In The hail.. The duke of Edinburgh was
in the peers gallery aud seemed alarmed.
The speaker rang his bell and asked the
cause OF the alarm. No one was injured.
The widest rumors We; saAoat. The report
resembled the discharge of an eiehty-tOn
gun. 1t is believed tho explosion was
caused by dynamite, aud was deliberate
attempt to blow up the government offices
The explosion being subject. col'si"era-
ton in the house Of commons Harcourt,
home secretary, said he did not think it
right to say anything about the II after until
an official inquiry d been mad.
He had heard that IN attempt was
made to blow up the Times office,
but no injury was done. The explosion was
heard at y distance Of two or three miles.
Yesterday evening a canister containing
explosive material was found behind the
Times offi:e with. It is rumored, a lighted
fuse attached. The police ere making an
plosion was caused by gunpowder or dyna-
mite. The officers OF the gas company de-
clare that they can find no evidence that it
was caused by gas. The force of the ex-
plosiOn shot large portions of masonry
across the street. The explosion was un-
doubtedly the work Of Fenians. Adjacent.
streets are filled with nyriads Of fragments
at glass, and heavy plate gla-s lying
in heaps on the ground. A stone
the King street police station, making a
hole the size Of a mans head. Nothing
will be touched until an inquiry is made to-
morrow. The full extent OF the damage
cannot be elimina ed until daylight. Five
hundred constables are guarding the scene.
The building has the appearance of having
been bombarded. There is a deep trench
ten teet by three in one room, the floor of
which has been literally plowed. Two
street, were thrown from their bees
ey the force Of The explosion. and their
faces were badly cut They We're taken
to a..potice STATEN. Every pane of glass in
the vicinity was shattered. A man was ar
rested at midnight on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the explosion. Harcourt has had
a;conferrence with the chief Of police, at
which several witnesses were examined.
The conclusion reached was that the ex-
outside the building. Afer the explosion
the force of police at the house of psrlia-
ment vas doubled The government offices
and residences Of ministers was strongly
guarded. The Times at ached little impor-
lance to the explosion which occurred ut
this Office. The canister contained only
small quantity OF powder The Daily News
says:
1t is, of curse. obvious that the explosions
was the result # nremeditated design. We
are confronted with the ct that there are in
London persons nold enough to act on the
widest counsels of O'Donovan Rosa. It
is impossible not to connect the perpetra-
ton Of this outrage with a certain phase of
Irish crime and the assassin press of Amer
lea.
The Times says:
The Fenian answer to Gladstone's speech
on the land act was not long DELAYED. We
dynamite party to carry out the policy of
bringing the war into the heart of London
The explosion at our office occurred at 7:45
Wednesday evening, but t &c falling o! The
canister prevented any seEinns damage
There is reason to believe that two attempts
of this kind were made by the same mis-
cfeants.
LONDON. March 16.-rhere il an
enormous crowd gathered at the scene of
the explosion last night in the locai govern
ment board officers in Westminster The
government inspector has made a. examin-
alton of the portion otthe building damaged
by 'hs explosion, aud places the loss at
$4,000. Inspection shows that the explo-
sion occur ed from tn. outside OF the build
ing. No arrests have yet been made in con-
ntetion with the explosion. The police
noticed nothing suspicious about the build
oc s The Pah Mall 'AG Gszttte
rays that in many maps of London he 10.
cal government board Office is marked as
the home office. 1t is thought the attempt
to blow up the folio wing building was
made with the idea that It was the later,
SIR William Harc0urt, home secretary, o.
IrN.p nh, 70 S1,aE
government offers a ward Of FL, QUO for the
discovery Of authors of the attempt on
the Times office. Any enc not the ctual
cuIprit giving information into the origin of
the explosion will be pardoned.
1t is stated that magistrate has unearthed
astounding evidence connecting O'Donovan
Rosa with patriotic BROTHER .lOUd con>pi.
racy. Sir Charles Dixie president OF Local gov
eminent board, thinks the attempt was not
upon himself or officials OF his depar nlvnt
The evil do RS intended to cause widespread
obstruction of property. He is OF the op,n-
ion that the plot organized with the mana
gers OF the skirmish 1uud. ST. William Har-
cOllrt and nther home office Officials believe
the attempt was directed sgainst the crin,i-
nal inquiry department, which is adjacent
to the Offices of the local government board.
The guards have been doubled at the maya
zines and military centers. Dublin de,ec-
tives are assisting ahe London police
The Dynamite Business Applauded.
Hon. John Fine1ty, OF Chicago, congress-
man-elect from the Third Illinois district,
being interviewed regarding the attempt to
blow up the building in London, said:
II may say am sorry it was not more
successful. applaud the Irish in every.
thing they do to get rid of England and her
accursed rule. England brought this on
herself and Gladstone, more than any one
else, has himself to thank for it. Forster's
| Midlothian speech is quoted against him by
the tories. Did he not say agitation would
be useless till the Clerkenw II prison was
J blown up' OF course regret that any in
nocent person should suffer, but sympathy
for few of this class is entirely over-ridden
by the feeling and conniseration have
for the great mass of Irish people, Nv
couDtrymen are poor and starving, and the
! British government will not aid them.
| They have reached point where they must
| tight. and l am glad to see them do it, 1
glad to see the Inauguration of a war of vio-
lence Of any1 kind tending to free Ireland OF