The Portland daily press., 1893-11-16
Spaniards Tremble at Thought Of
Dynamite Bombs.
BRITISH DREAD AN EXPLOSION I'm
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
Barcelona Police Have Arrested Sixty
Anarchists and Still There Are Bomb
Throwers Left to Garry on the Work
Reports of Irregularities in the Man
agement of the Bank of England
General Foreign News.


Barcelona, November 15.-The police of
this city are still actively hunting down
Anarchists. The President and several
members of trade society-chiefly en-
gineers and mechanics-were arrested
yesterday on a suspicion of being COLI
nected with the outrage in the Lyecum
theatre. When their houses were searched
quantities of cartridges, grape shot and
dynamite were found. 1t is believed
that these were the stores from which
the materials were O btained for the
manufacture of all of the bombs recently
exploded in this city.
Sixty persons in all were arrested yes
terday. Among them is the notorious
Fontanalo, in whose house were found
ten bombs and quantity of cartridges
and dynamite.
1t is evident from an occurrence here
last night that the police have not sue
ceeded in extirpating the nests of An
archists in this city, and that the latter
NIT further outrages. Last evening they
attempted to make the opportunity. A
number OF troops, under orders to proceed
to Melilla, in Morocco, to reinforce the
garrison there, were marching from the
barracks to the quay to embark upon d
steamer that was to convey them to their
destination. The route from the barracks
to the water-side was lined with immense
crowds who had gathered to bid the
soldiers godspeed. While the troops were
marching through the Plaza Real, and
while the crowd was cheering them en-
Enthusiastically, a number of workmen
employed upon a private building dis
covered a thin trail of smoke ascending
from one of the lower balconies of the
house. They at first thought the build
ing was on fire and made rush to ex-
tinguish it. They were greatly startled
upon reaching the balcony, to find that
the smoke was caused by a burning fuse,
which when the smoke was discov-
cred, had burned within few inches of
the bomb and in few minutes more an
explosion would have resulted. The fire
was quickly extinguished and the bomb
thus rendered comparatively harmless
1t was handled very gingerly, however,
by its. discoyerers, who, as soon as possi-
bic, placed it in charge of the police
The latter had it examined by experts,
who pronounced it to be of the deadliest
nature.
. This is not the only outrage that the
Anarchists attempted yesterday. The
district of Villanuevey Geltru, on the
Mediterranean. 25 miles southwest of
Barcelona, was thrown into state of
panic by an explosion that occurred in
the town of Villanueva. Some persons
last night placed bomb by the gates of
the barracks of the civic guard An ex-
plosion followed that caused the greatest
excitement, and the men in the building
rushed pell-mell for the open air. The
force of the explosion was very great
The gates of the barracks were blown off
their hinges and carried considera BILE
distance. The walls of the building
were cracked, doors were blown off and
windows smashed. Nobody-was hurt.
The police have made number of arrests
on suspicion, but there is no positive
evidence to connect any of those in Gus
tody with the explosion.