Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
ANARCHY IS ACTIVE.
1t Keeps Up the Terror Of Unhappy
oParisians in an Effort to
BLOW UP REPUBLICAN GUARDS.
A Row at Monte Carlo Causes the Robbery
of Lady Churchill.
THE FRESHEST OF THE FOREIGN NEWS

PARIS, March 15.-At LOS o'clock this
morning a terrific explosion occurred at the
Lobau barracks, occupied by the Republican
Guard, adjoining the Hotel de Willie. The
barracks are occupied by 500 Guards, but, of
course, they were not all in the building
There were, however, large number of
men asleep in the barracks. Suddenly
awakened by the tremendous roar, the men
sprang from the windows and doors
The police at once began an investigation,
and soon learned that dynamite cartridge
had been placed upon the ledge off window
of the mess room, which is situated on the
ground floor of the barracks. Pieces of the
copper casing of the cartridge and bits of a
fuse were found, and these explained the
methods the miscreants had employed.
The guards escaped without injury, and
the only harm done.w to the barracks
and the buildings in the vicinity.
The sentinel on guard was closely ques-
toned. but he declared that he had observed
nobody of suspicious character about the
building. The police were at an utter loss
to account for the manner in which the
Anarchists, if such they were, placed the
cartridge on the window ledge. When tine
night providers rushed to the barracks the
police made them give an account of where
they had been and what they had been do
ing One of the crowd stated that he was
approaching the barracks, and while yet
little distance away he saw a man, wearing
blouse, run through Rue Francis Miron.
A minute afterward he saw bright flash
and heard terrific report
A sentinel who was on duty at another
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mentioned says he saw two men near the
barracks but they seemed to be doing moth
ing that warranted his interference, SO he
said nothing to them. These men soon
walked away and the sentinel thought moth
ing more about them until after the e1plo-
sion.
A Cabinet council was held this after
noon, at which President Carnot signed a
bill introducing clause in the penal code,
making the willful destruction of property
by means of explosives punishable with
DEATH This clause will at once be intro
duced in the Chamber of Deputies A
judicial inquiry into this mornings ex-
plosion was started at the earliest possible
moment, and is still in progress.
The portion of a cartridge found in the
debris is composed of copper and zinc
riveted together. The explosive matter
which the cartridge contained was, accord
ing to experts, picrate potassium. The
painted windows Of ST. Gervais Church
damaged by the explosion are works of the
thirteenth century. The loss arising from
the damage they have suffered is irrepair-
able
Another theft of dynamite cartridges has
been discovered by the authorities, and this
fact has greatly increased the prevailing
uneasiness caused by the explosion to-day
and other startling explosions which have
occurred recently. The officials at Cham
berry, city in the department of Savoy, 45
miles distant from Geneva, were astounded
to-day when it was found that magazine
at that place had been broken into by force.
An investigation was at once instituted,
and it was discovered that 80 dynamite
cartridges which had been stored In the
magazine had been stolen.
1t is feared that these deadly explosives |
have fallen into the hands of the Anarch- |
lists, and that explosions similar to those |
which have thrown the people of this city |
into state of great excitement will be the |
result of this latest daring robbery of Gov
eminent cartridges.