The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-23
Reported Threats Against the Life of the
POpe-The FreemasOns Get the Credit
for Them by the Clergy.
France and Italy Scheming to Gain
Territory in Africa.
The Coming Egyptian COnference-A London
Paper Responsible for Sensa-
tiOnal Scandal.
LONDON SCARED.
The Sensational Paris Stories Brighten the
English Into Panic.

English Into Panic.
LONDON, June 21.-The sensational Paris dis
patch published in this mornings London
Times, purporting to contain revelation Of the
intentions of the Fenian leaders, has intensified
the London dynamite scare Among the we'll
informed it is believed that the Times has been
imposed upon. James Stephens the ex-head
center OF the American Fenlans, it is well known
has consented to revive and lead Fenianism in
another warfare against England. He himself
recently announced this fact He has also ad-
mitted that he meant to call conference in
Paris of all those Irishmen who favored his
plan. This he described to be an open warfare
of military character. He argued that a amove-
ment of the kind was necessary, because of the
practically barren nature of the policy of agitation
maintained by Mr.. Parnell and his talkative fol
lowers through the organization known as the
Irish National League.
But Mr.. Stephens is thoroughly hostile to the
secret and cowardly methods of the Invincibles
and dynamiters, which he has invariably char
acterized as ''a policy of murder 1t is sup
posed that the motive of the Paris correspond
snt of the Times in attempting to identify the
ex-Head Center with the Rossaites in silly
scheme of assaulting English towns with dyna-
mite to be dropped from balloons, was to coerce
the French government to refuse Stephens and
his Partisan colony of Irish exiles further harbor
in France This colony has been almost con
stantly under French police surveillance, and it
is believed that the French authorities are too
well cognizant of the real political purposes of
its members to be influenced by any such wild
speculations those telegraphed to the Times
On the other hand the Irish leaders in Lon
don seem to be anxiously awaiting some ex-
pected developments of an extraordinary char
acter. The fact that the Parnelltes seem to be
in a state of constant apprehension would indi-
cate that they have good reason to know that the
Force party are on the eve of attempting to
carry out some well-planned scheme of terror
ism. The police are nervously active. London
was never so thoroughly patrolled. Strangers
arriving at any Of the metropolitan entrepots
are closely scrutiniZed, and in many cases
'shadowed' until proved beyond suspicion. All
the ministers are guarded by detectives to and
from Parliament and the public offices. The en-
tire detective force has been put on double duty
alternately.
When Parliament is in session visitors are dis
couraged from attendance and strangers are not
allowed in the buildings at ALL Before each sit
ting the Parliament buildings are searched by
the police from cellar to roof, and Immediately
after each rising all people are elected from the
palace yard and the gates are locked and placed
under guard All the ministers and majority
of the Tory leaders have adopted the custom of
leaving Parliament in cabs the ministers max
ing their exits through the private entrances.
During each recess all the corridors and vaults
Of the Parliament building are constantly
patrolled by special sentries.
The Thames embankment has been placed un-
der the care of specially appointed watchmen.
Nearly all the well-known Invincibles who re-
Gently were conspicuous in London have either
disappeared or have suddenly become ominously
quiet. Peter lyman, long re garded as the mys-
terious mo One" recently left London, leaving
word that he was going to America. 1t has been
ascertained that he went straight to Paris, and
capital recently. Captain McCafferty is known
to be there 1t is generally feared that the
leaders of the Invncibles are in secret session in
Paris for the purpose of directing from there the
expected developments, which are awaited with a
fear bordering upon panic.