Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-18
FOREIGN

Sr. PETERSBURG. March H. The last aci Cf Gortschakoii UUs to dictate tel ecram to the Czar, saluting nm on the occasion oi his birthday.
 ST. PETERSBURG, March li.-A woman u2mad El-Der, au important nlbl.ls'
 vuo arranged the murder of General
 Sire auikCT at Odessa in lSo2, has been
 arrested.
 The iutestiues ot Prince GortschGkofl
 have been sent to Frieburg Co be
 analysed. The Prince died at the villa
 cf his German mistress with whom he
 became acquainted during the setting O..
 the Berlin Congress.
 LONDON, March I6.-A terrible explo- sion occurred Iu tine local government
 board stiic, at Westminster at nInt
 o'clock last night destroying much prop erty. The repOr; was heard ID the House us Commons and caused much
 alarm. The c0ncussion was so great
 tha. 1t shook the ladies gallery and re- porters' gallery. It being dinner hOuI but few members Oi the House were lu the hall. Tbe Duke Os Edinburgh was in the Peers gallery and seemed alarmed The speaker rang his bell and asked the cause of the alarm. NOOne was injured 1 Ihe wildes! ramUTs are atiOat. The r. port reseulbleG the discharge of su q ghry ton gun. IL iS believed the ez plOsiOn was caused by dynamite and was @ deliberate sttemp; to blow up the gov erGmeut offices. The explosion was un- doubteGly the work of Fen'ans. The adjacent streets are filed with myriads
 ot fragments of glass and heavy plat, | glass ls lying III heaps on the ground. A | stone weighing two hundred pounds Wal 1 projected against the King street polio, station, making hole the size of a mat | head. Nothing will be touched till an ! inquiry k made. The full extent of the . damage cannot be estimated tlii day light. Five hundred cOnstables are guarding the scene. The bIldlng ] has the appearance O. having been bombarded There Is a deei trench ten feet by three. in one rom : the floor of which has been literally ' plOughed. Two children sleeping in 6 house 0. the corner of King street were thrown from their beds by the force oi
 the explosion and their faces badly cut Every pane of glass in the vicinity was shattered 4 man was arrested at mid
 night on suspicion of being concerned
 ID tine explosion. The noise oi the ex
 rlosion was heard three miles. Yeste- day evening "a canister containing ex-
 piosive materials was found behind the
 Times office With 1t, it IS reported, a ligh.ed fuse was attached. The police are making n thorough investigation, Officials think the explosion was caused by gunpOwder or dynamite. The Ofii- ciGls of the gas company declare they can find do evidence that 1t was caused 1 by gus.
 Another report says the force of the
 explosion was terrific. A great stone
 balustrade was ObiIteratcd, and massive masonry vas blown Go fragments, ana the pavement shattersd and ground Go powder. \ wooden structure opposite
 was blown into spiInters; many stones
 were driven through the wall of house
 behind. Inside the walls there re-
 mained nothing but splintered wood and broken plaster. Walls are burst as
 suDder, making an indescribable scene
 of destruction. The street is completely
 covered with fragments of broken plate
 glass blown bodily out and shattered to
 atoms The greatest cOLsterla.lOn
 prevailed; people were pouring out
 Of their houses and rushing to the scene.
 Great alarm prevailed in the House of
 Commons, among the members. The explosion is ascrlbed to the Irish h. vincibles aud is described as part of a
 Fenian plot to warn the government. A
 remarkable feature is that the disaster
 was unattended with serious fatality.