Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-16
The London Government Board Build
ing Blown to Snithereens.
TWO ATTEMPTS ON THE s'TIMES.' -
The Greatest Excitement Prevailing in
the English Capital.
THE WORK CHARGED 10 FENIANs.
Comments Of the Press and in PaYija-
ment-General Foreign News.
GREAT BRITAIN.

othces at Westminster occurred at 9 O'Clock
tonight, destroying mach property. The
report was heard in the house of commons
and caused alarm. The conclusion was so
great that it shook the side galleries and
the reporters gallery. 1t being dinner
hour but few members of the house were
IN the hall. The Duke of Edinburg was in
the peers gallery and seemed alarmed.
The speaker rang his bell and asked the
cause of the alarm. No one was injured.
The widest rumor5 are afloat. The report
resembled the discharge of an eighty ton
gun.
Later-It is now believed the explosion
was caused by dynamite and was a DELHI
crate attempt to blow up the government
Offices.
The explosion was undoubtedly the work
of Fenians. Adjacent streets were filed
with myriads of fragments of glass and
heavy plate glass lying in heaps on the
ground. A stone weighing 200 pounds was
projected against the King Street police
station, making hole the size of a mans
head. Nothing will be touched until an in
quiry is made. The full extent of the dam
age cannot be estimated until daylight.
Five hundred constables are guarding
the scene. The building has the appear
ance of having been bombarded. There is
deep trench ten feet by three in one
room floor, which has been literally
ploughed. Two children sleeping in the
house on the corner of King street were
thrown from their beds by the force of the
explosion, and their faces badly cut. They
were taken to the police station. Every
pane of glass in the vicinity is shattered.
A man was arrested at midnight on suspi-
clon of being concerned in the explosion.
The explosion being the subject of con-
sheraton IN the commons, Harcourt, the
home secretary, said he did not think it
right to say anything about the matter
until official inquiry had been made. He
had heard of an attempt made to blow up
the Times office, but no injury was done.
The explosion was heard at a dis
lance of two or three miles. Yesterday
evening a canister containing explosive
material was found behind the Times office,
with, it is rumored, a lighted fuse attached
The police are making an investigation.
The officials think the explosion was
caused by gunpowder or dynamite. The
officers of the gas company declare that
they can find no evidences that it was
caused by gas. The force of the explosion
shot large portions of masonry across the
street.
Hsrcourt has had a conference with the
chief of police, at which several witnesses
were examined. The conclusion reached
was that the explosion occurred inside the
room and not outside the building. After
the explosion the force of police at the
house of parliament was doubled, and the
government offices and the residences of
ministers were strongly guarded.
The Times attaches little Importance to
the explosion, which occurred at its Office.
The canister contained only small guam
tity of powder.
The Daily NeaoS says: 1t is of course
obvious that the explosion was the result
of premeditated design. We are con-
fronted with the fact that there are in
London persons bold enough to act on
the widest counsels of O'Donovan Rosa.
The NelCS says: 1t is impossible not to
connect the preparation of this outrage
with certain phase of the Irish crime and
assassin press of America.
The Times says the Fenian answer to
Gladstone's speech on the land act was
not delayed. We are in the presence of
the first attempt of the dynamite party
to carry out the policy of bring
ing the war into the heart OF London. The
explosion at our Office occurred at 7:45
Wednesday evening, but the falling of the
canister prevented any serious damage
There is reason to believe the two attempts
Of this kind were made by some miscreant.
LONDON, March 15.-0xford won the
boat race. The sixteen boats started at
Sal. Cambridge had the Middlesex side
of the river; Oxford, the Surrey side. Ok
ford led by length at Dukes Head,
short distance from the starting point and
won by three lengths.
The Oxfords had the best of an uneven
start. They pulled regular stroke,
nearly forty to the minute, and were
almost clear of the Cambridge boat at
Craven steps, about six furlongs from the
stars. The Cambridge boat here detected
toward the Middlesex shore. The Ok
fords at the end of the first mile, which
they covered in Ais, were two lengths
ahead, and rowing we'll together. Here
the darkness threatened and snow began
to fall. The Cambridge crew was splash
ing considerably by the time the soap
works were reached. At Hammersmith
bridge, one and three-quarter miles
from Putney, Cambridge was nine seconds
behind Oxford; at Chiswick Eyot, three
quarters of a mile further on, four lengths
astern, and going better. violent hail
storm here broke upon the crews. The
Cambridge eight quickened their speed,
but at Corney reach it was evident it was
all over with them. The Oxfords came in
the easiest winners. The result causes
greater excitement than that of any pre-
vious race in consequence of the
heavy betting on the Cambridge crew,who,
at the start, were favorites at seven to two.
The defeat of crew on whom such odds
were laid is unprecedented.
LONDON, March 15.-Nothing is known
here concerning the reported death of
Karl Marx.
Kennard will move in the commons that
in view of the complete satisfying of all
demands of American citizens upon the
sum the Geneva conference allowed IN re-
gardto the Alabama claims, the house is of
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