Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-29
DYNAMITE DEMONS.
Terrible Explosions In London Beth
Houses Of Parliament and London
Tower Shaken.

OF all the fiendish dynamite plots of
which London has been the victim, the
most atrocious because the most far
reaching in its deadly intentions, was
that of last Saturday. by which a part
OF the Houses of Parliament and the
Tower of London were demolished.
About z O'Clock in the afternoon of
Saturday, while the Hall was filed with
visitors, terrific explosion took place
in Westminster Hall near the House of
Lords, followed within three minutes by
another still more terrific, in the House
of Commons. The widest excitement
prevailed, increased perhaps by the fact
that the police, acting with unusual
promptness, Immediately barred all
doors and gateways to prevent any from
escaping who might be in the building
at the time. These were all examined
subsequently before being released.
Few arrests were made. and all but two
A''fS nv" Doou iSicdocus tueTC DelDg
found no reasons sufficient to warrant
their detention. just before the explo-
sion took place lady visitor called the
attention Of policeman to suspicious
looking package wrapped in brown
cloth, about two feet long aud foot
wide, lying near the steps. He started
to pick it up when it exploded niuring
him fatally. The foundations of the
hall are not injured but the roof is badly
damaged. The statues of Geo. ~.
and VIM. ". were overturned, the
deliberately carved oaken wall behind
the seats beneath the gallery was thrown
down and the flooring of the galleries
torn up. Scarcely pane of glass in
the building escaped destruction, and
the loss of some of the beautiful stained
glass windows is especially regretted
Doors and gates were blown down and
shattered, and the ceiling frescoes much
injured. 1t will take months to repair
the damage. Strangely enough, with
this wholesale destruction of the build
ings, no one of the hundreds of people
in the house was killed, though
some thirty or forty were injured more
or less. The explosion at the Tower
occurred few minutes before those in
the parliament building tearing to
pieces badly the portion known as the
White Tower.
Though the damage done was great,
yet comparing it with what was evil
IDENTITY intended, the plot may almost be
considered failure. The diabolical
spirit that could conceive such an out-
rage is almost beyond comprehension,
yet there seem TO be many even in our
own country who sympathize with these
revolutionists. O'Donovan Rosa ex-
pressed satisfaction upon hearing the
news, and on Sunday afternoon at a
meeting of the Chicago Socialists, the
action of the London dynamters was
openly and publicly endorsed. This is
supposed to be the work of Irish Ma
tionalists, though of course nothing has
been proven, and even the extreme fac
ton in Ireland denounces the work as
cowardly and inhuman. The English
seem thoroughly reused to the necessity
of making searching investigation of
the eonspiracies. They greatly blame
the American government for harboring
such insurrectionists AS 0Donovan
Rosa.
In the u. S. Senate Jan. "a, the same
day the explosion occurred, Senator
Edmunds, of Vermont, introduced bill
making it felony to manufacture. buy
or sell, any nitro or chlorate compounds,
to be used for the destruction of
public or private property or fer
injury to any person or persons in the
United States or in any foreign country.
Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
Mr.. Eyarts received every one of the
90 Republican votes in the New York
legislature. His election to the office
of U. s. Senator will probably do much
to harmonic the party in New York.
That he is the representative of no fac
ton, but of the Republican party and
the people of the state is evident from
the fact that those who last fall were Ar
thur men, the Blaine men, and the lib
erals under Roosevelt all worked for him.
A great church event took place in
the St Louis Cathedral, New Orleans,
Jan. 25-the comforting of the Pallium,
on Archbishop Francis Xavier Leroy.
The ceremony, which was very impress
i've, was attended by an immense num-
Der of people. and among those partici-
patng were some of the most distin-
guished members of the Catholic clergy
in the United States.
Speaker Hamlin, of the Maine legisla-
ture, in his speech accepting the NOM
nation, puzzled his hearers by using
'fruentity,' word not found in either
Webster or Worcester, but made use of
by j. Fenimore Cooper in his cores