The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-07-01
THE ANARCHISTS WEAPONS
Something About Dynamite aud the Oth.,
Explosives Used In Paris.

Something About Dynamite aud the O,h..
Explosives Used In Parls.
The use of dynamite Is so Thoroughly,
controlled in France that one womb
think IL next to impossible for anarch-
lists to get much into thei. possession.
There are in the whole country I'm.
two societies for the manufacture az ev.
plosivcs which have nitro-glycerine M
their basis; and these are allowed o.
produce dynamite only In lots TO al or.
dcrs
contractor, for instance, wants On
many pounds of this substance for
blasting in tunnel. lie addresses
the project Of his department,
who gives him a permission 10
purchase the specified quantiny for
n specified use. The contractor or
ders, and the society makes the REQUESTS
amount. Eight days after the delivery
of the article the contractor mpst
furnish To an agent of the project the
proofs of the uses to which the dynn.
mite has been put, even TO the last
grain.
Thcfts of dynamite ut factories ara
impossible. and they are rare at the Of.
tccs of contractors. The French police
think that the anarchists do not run
the risk of stealing dynamite. when
they can make all the explosives they
want with such simple appliances as a
basin, n little sulphuric acid. some
nitric acid glycerine and sawdus., all
tn bc treated without trouble in a small
bedroom. II is said that the propor-
tions of the mixture arc indicated in
little pamphlets, or anarchist primers.
handed round among the members of
various groups
In the mines in the north Of France
the miners are paid so much per ward Of
progress in the coal seams The con-.
tractor furnishes dynamite 10 the miner.
ut about forty cents per pound. and
keeps back the amount on the weekly
wages. II would be very easy for a
miner To keep back cantcen now and
then, and thus To enter into possession
of quite little stock Of dynamite But
these cartridges used in the mines pro.
ducc very little effect when exploded
in the open air. and the results in the
Rue dc Clichy were So tremendous that
chemists are unwilling To ascribc them
to dynamite
The habit is Ia designate rs "dvna-
mite all kind of explosives. whether
picratc or nitro-glyccrinc or cotton
powder. The savantS call 'dvnamite"
the explosive made 10y mixing nitro
glyccrjnc with such comhuStible
product as powder, collodion or a2otate
OF potash, or with nm inert base; this is
the mixture used in blasting
The chemist Nobel. who was the
first, in 1851, to use nitro-glyccrins for
blasting ont rocks learned by cruel ex-
pcricncc that the handling of the sub.
stance is extremely pcrilous. In 1865
nitro-glyccriuc factory which he had
started at Stockholm blew up and took
twenty men with il. Sweden forbade
the manufacture of nitro-glyccrine
within the borders after this, and to-
day SwcdcS have 10 supply themselves
in Germany.
To Nobel is due the idea of mixing
with "kicsclgrchn,"
porous matter, composed mainly of
slick, and which by absorbing nitro
< lyccrinc puts il into a condition 10 be
handled. In France "randanitc, found
In the Ceyssat quarries, in the Pux de
Dome, is used for the same purpose.
The French police think that il was
with cotton-powdcr that the Lobau
barracks in Paris were blown up. They
say that wherever the anarchists use
dynamite for blowing mp a house they
run the very greatest risks themselves.
Most of their cartridges are made ex.
'lodc by means of clock-work, prepared
n Geneva.
OF the Anarchistic Groups" the most
dangerous ones ar" those at Clichy, n
egion specially afflicted by the de-
troyers of society. 1t is there that the
'Antipatriotes, the Flat Feet" the
Children of Revolt" the "DiSinherited'
nd the "Ant-Owners" meet whenever
hey have anything % discuss.
Ravachol probably made his own
y. journal.
\ Brutal Husband.
Mrs, Simon Petcrby is one of the