Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-04
ENGLAND'S ENEMIES
They Cause Her Loyal Citizens to
7remble.
Three Dynamite Explosions In London
Public Buildings.
Considerable Damage Done to the House
Of Commons and the Tower
Of London.

The entire civilized world was thrown
into state Of oonsternation on the AFT
ernoon of tho oath by news of three
dynamite explosions among the public
buildings of London, causing great
damage and injuring many innocent
people. At ?. n. two explosions took
place in the Parliament buildings, al
most Immediately followed by
slmilar explosion in the Tewer of
London. fhe first news of the explo-
sions, as usual, was much exagerated,
but after the excitement Vas somewhat
allayed it tIanspired that considerable
damage had been done to the buildings,
and sixteen persons injured. The a.
counts differ as to details, but the most
coherentis about as follows: Saturday
being visitors day in the Parliament
buildings, the place was crowded with
nghtseers. A party of the latter dis
covered smoking package on the floor,
and called the attention of . policeman
to the package. He Immediately picked
it up and started for the open
air. The package almost Instant
~ exploded, prostrating every
one standing near. The policeman,
whose name is Cole, was fatally hurt.
The force of the explosion was terrific,
wrecking one end of Westminster Hall,
and smashing all the windows in the
buildings. Three minutes later
second explosion took place in the lob
by of the House of Commons, directly
under the strangers gallery. The lobby
was completely wrecked and the gal
lery torn down. The speakers chair
was also demolished, the glass roof SHAT
tered and other damage done.. Had
Parliament been in session the loss of
life would have been fearful.
The explosion in the Tower of Lon
don took place almost ct the same time
as those in the Parliament buildings.
This was in the part Of the building
known as the white tower, which was
full Of visitors. The building was badly
damaged, and large number of people
were more or less injured. It is sup
posed that the material for all three ex-
plosions was carried into the buildings
by visitors. The police made large
number of arrests Of suspicious persons
during the night, but all were after
wards released.
A dispatch of the 26th reports that
the excitement in London over the out
RACES still continues. Aman whose name
was found to be Cunningham, was ar
rested at the Tower, and on Monday
was given preliminary hearing.
The examination tended to convince
the police that they have secured pris-
oner who had a guilty knowledge of
Saturdays crimes. It was proven that
Cunningham was q native of Cork !;
that he lived at least five years in the
United States; and he arrived in En-
gland during last autumn. He came
directly from New York. It was shown
that the prisoner had been known in
White Chapel as Dalton. His state.
ment that he lived in Liverpool was en-
tirely disproved. It is now thought
that Cole, the man most seriously hurt,
will recover. Official estimates made
by the government inspectors place the
amount of pecuniary damage wrought
by the explosions in Westminster Hall,
House of Commons, at 500
Gil Bias (Frenoh newspaper> makes
sensational statements about the Lon
don explosions. 1t declares positively
that the authors of the explosions are
the same men who made the dynamite
attack on London Bridge and the Cow
or Street Railway Station. The chief or
ganizers of both plots, Gil Bias asserts,
have been for long time past ana are
now employed in an English printing
Office in Paris and until q recent date
lodged in the st. Denis quarters OF
Paris where they manufactured the in
fernal machines used in tho diaboical
work. When everything was in readi.
ness for the perpetration Of the contem-
plated atrocities, continues Gil Bias,
picked men who were to lodge and set
the machines departed separately
and by different routes for London,
each carrying one or more of the ma.
chimes. This was six weeks ago. Gil
Bias says no one of these conspiratorf
speaks French and no member of the
entire band ever attended the Anarchist
meeting in Paris.