Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-17
PATRICK EGAN INTERVIEWED.
He Says He Believes 1t Was Simply
an Ordinary Gas Explosion.
PAT. GROVE AND OTHERS TALK,
And Give the Attempt at Destruction
Their Hearty Approval.
THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

erpool and London the feeling of the Eng
lish workingmen towards tle Irish people,
once sympathetic, has become cold. 1t
only depends on few more cases of dyna-
mite outrages TO turn this feeling into
angry hostility. which the authorities will
find it very difficult to con troll.
LONDON, IL a. m.-There is an enormous
crowd gathered at the scene of the explO-
sion last night in the local government
board Office in Westminster. The gvern-
ment inspector has made an examination
of the building damaged by the explosion
and places the loss at $4,000. The vessel
which contained the explosive material
was placed in the cellar of the local gov
ernment board Offices.
The Times says: If the Irish extremists
are really going to reply with dynamite to
any measure they disapprove of, it is GER
tain the day of remedial legislation is over.
p. ma later and closer inspection
shows the explosion occurred from the out
side of the building.
No arrests have yet been made in con-
nection with the explosi on. The police
noticed nothing suspicious about ths
building before the explosion oc cured.
The government ioffers reward of
81 900 for the discovery of the authors of
the explosion.
The reward applies to the attempt on
the Times Office. Any one not the actual
culprit giving information into the origin
of the explosion will be pardoned. 1t is
stated a magistrate has unearthed
astounding evidence connecting ODono-
van Rosa with the patriotic brotherhood
conspiracy
BERLIN, March 16-The press is utterly
dismayed at the Westminster explosion,
and advises energetic measures.
Dublin detectives are assisting the
police.
Sir Charles Dixie. president of the local
government board, thinks the attempt was
not upon himself or officials of his depart
ment. The evil doers intend TO cause
widespread destruction of property. He
is of the opinion that the plot originated
with the managers of the skirmish fund.
Sir VIM. Harcourt and other home Office
officials believe the attempt was directed
against the criminal inquiry department,
which is adjacent to the offices of the gen
eral government board. Guards were
doubled at the magazines and military
centers.
LONDON, March 16.-The Pail Mall
Gazette says: In many maps of London
the local government board Office is marked
as the home Office. 1t is thought the at
tempt to blow up the former building was
made with the idea that it was the latter,
Sir VIM. Harcourt, the home secretary,
being very obnoxious to the Fenians.
DUBLIN, March 16.-The Evening TeLe-
graph charges the London press, es-
pecially the Times, with endeavoring to
excite mob violence against the Irish.
DECLARING WAR.
New YORK, March 16.-When O'DonoVan
Rosa was asked to-day whether the ex-
plosion in London was caused by dynamite
or was an accidental explosion of gas, he
answered. 'We could not follow out our
system unless we used dynamite, and that
is what caused the explosion. There was
no accident about it,
Do you think it was intended to destroy
the building only, or to kill those within? ?
1t was intended to do all the damage
possible, and was done to show England
that she had better give Ireland her own
parliament. England is at war with Ire
land, and Ireland should be at war with
England. Rosa showed the following
dispatch from Boston:
We congratulate you on the news from
London this morning. l can collect
money now in Boston.
Signed JOHN DBIsooLL.
+ Rosa says he has received to-day offers
Of money and he can obtain all that is
needed. In answer to the question as to
what would next be done, he showed let
ter advising him to publish in his paper a
declaration of war on England, signed by
representative Englishmen. When that
was done it could not be claimed their acts
were dlshonorabe. AS for weapons all
available ones should be used. This, he
said, was his answer. Patrick ]. Sheridan,
whose extradition England has requested,
said the work is that of Irishmen and is
but branch picket. Much more will
follow. Old England will shortly see she
must either free Ireland or suffer the con-
sequences
EGAN INTERVIEW.
NEW YORK, March 16.-A reporter saw
Patrick Egan and asked him what he
thought of the attempt to blow up the gov.
ernment Offices in London. "There is nc
people under the sum-" said Egan, $50 sub
ject to panic as the English people. Here
a common explosion of a gas pipe or some
thing similar occurs in set of offices as il
might anywhere, but just because they are
government offices the cry is raised, 'Oh, il
is dynamite? Later they turn it into
Irish dynamite. 1t was Ireland, of course
I dare say if Sheridan had been there they
would have put him down as connected
with it."
''Do you suppose land league funds pait
for this new outrage?"
''Why do they attach any political sig
nificance to it at all. If it were the hous,
of parliament one might understand, bu
they are merely government Offices, which
are al least 800 yards away, with a blocl
of buildings between. Now what polite:
can there be in an Office explosion?"
''Then you do not connect 1t with dis
r.