The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-10
FOREIGN Ar FAIRS
Fenian Fright at Halifax Another
InvincibIe Sentenced
Cablegrams..

UALIFAX, May 9.-lInltsx |. terribly
excited over the present Fenian fright.
Fifty tons OF ANN milton was removed
from the ordnance stores 10 the citadel to-
day, aud that fortress Is being thoroughly
put In condition, although the military
authorities refuse 10 connect this ia any
way with the present excitement. They
say The place needs overhauiing. Great
activity prevails not only among the
Provincial Government and civic officials.
Members OF the local cabinet meet daily
but refuse to answer questions, though
they will not deny the truth OF the state
ments that are aloat, The Lieutenant
Governor has quilted the city for AN indeii-
mite period. The Mayor remarked that he
did not expect the sensation 10 amour. to
more Than the Fenlan scare ~ 1856
At the Request. NJ several persOus, he
swore In number of special wutchmcn 10
be under the surveillance Of he CITY
Marshal for service about the Government
House, the Provincial Building aud other
points. Additional night watchmen have
been assigned 10 the public Mildings, aud,
besides, the policemen throughout the city
have been ordered to take no relief early
In the morning between the hours OF | and
2 O'Clock or between . and O'Clock as
customary, and those who usually 90 OF
duty at . O'Clock u. m. are, until further
instructions, to remain on their beats until
6 O'Clock,
The information the Government received
Is beginning to leak out II Is said that be
sides the threat to lay a chain of torped0es
along the water frontage, to he blown up on
the
DATE OF BRtDY'S EXECUTION,
and the similar scheme against the Proyin-
cial Building on the nght OF the grand
farewell BAH 10 Gen. sir Patrick Mac
D0ugall. and arrangement was on foot to
utilize the system OF drainage for the
wholesale destruction Of the city. The
main drains all empty into The harbor and
are quite easy Of aces. from their mouths.
even for a boat, AZ some distance, and bold
and careful Fenians IN the dead Of night
might by these means clfcctuallv establish a
train of torpcdocs even in the heart OF the
city, thoroughly undermining the whole
place or concentrating explosives At par
ticlllar points, and by connections with cleo
tric wire for any ltngth deal out de-
strucion and humiliation from beneath
| the city at a Set moment, while watching
the effect at q safe distance from the sta.
| ton with the wire aboard their pruticnl
SchOonerS off the harbor or al any other sc-
cure rendezvous. The selection Of Hall
| fax as the spot for Fenian actions is evil
| IDENTITY because OF it, prominence as a mill
tary station and because II Is In several re-
spects the principal British city in Amer
| lea. From what can he learned as to the
source Of the information received by the
| Government ii appears that detectives AT
the Philadelphia Land League Convention
| reported to Ottawa that combined attempt
would be made TO revenge llish wrongs,
and particularly the execution OF the PhT-
| nix Park murdCrers, wherever
opportunity offered, and tia,
suspicious pointed 10 Halifax.
The detective who is responsible for the
scare il one detailed to the recent Land
League Convention, with orders to report
anything Of Importance. He communicated
to the British Government his belief that
efforts of revenge would be put forth sun.
ultaneously wherever the British drum Il
beaten on The day fixed far Btrdy's exec't