The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
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Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
An Epidemic of Bomb Throwin ling

An hpiuoutC Oh boIhD IhroWiu8.
The pestiferous bomb throwers are
getting in their work in various quarters
of the world. Beginning with the out
rage IN the theater at Barcelona, in Spain,
last autumn, the Messieurs Anarchists
have managed to keep good share OF
public attention attracted to themselves
for the past six months. The affair at
Barcelona itself was in revenge for the
execution of the anarchist Pallas, who
threw the bomb at General Martinez
Campos. General Campos still lives and
is the general now conducting matters
for Spain in Morocco. Valiant, in Paris.
has expiated the crime of bomb throw
ing and murder. That, however, did
not prevent Anarchist PauYels from at
tempting to blow up the famous old
church of the Madeleine, with all its con.
greaation of worshipers. London did
not escape the terror and alarm of threat,
ened anarchistic demonstrations, but
thus far nothing of any consequence has
been blown up.
In Rome it was different. The cere,
monies lately at the funeral of Signol
Angel, who died from wounds received
at the explosion in the Piazza di Gtorio,
were imposing enough. Baron Sonnino,
finance minister, himself walked in the
funeral procession. 1t was enough 10
tempt the miscreant who threw the first
bomb to tryit again. There was chance
of killing so many at once, and that is
what the dynamiters most desire to do,
according to their own profession.
In Russian cities there are constant
dynamite scares. In Brussels they are
also frequent, while Berlin occasionally
is stirred into state of alarm from the
same cause.
In the United States, except for the
case of the lamentable Haymarket affair
in Chicago and the explosion in Russell
Sage's office about year ago, we have
escaped serious injury and disturbance
from bomb throwing. 1t has been said
that as soon as the anarchists come to
America they get so busy trying to be-
come rich that they lose interest in kill
ing people as a recreation. Recent de-
velopments, however, look as if this say
ing were becoming an empty boast In
West Virginia few weeks ago a janitor
found under large hall in which hun
bred people had been dancing the night
before four bombs attached to a half
burned fuse. If the fuse had burned on
instead of dying out, the hall, with its
dancers, would have been lifted from its
foundations.
But it is in New York, where the most
foreigners are, that the outcroppings of
the bomb hurting spirit are chiefly visi-
BILE. One bomb was thrown recently
that wrecked beer saloon, but fortu-
nately did not kill any one. A man was
arrested in Harlem the same day who
had in his possession dynamite bombs
enough to blow up whole block. He
declared when captured that the package
had been given him to carry, and he did
not know what was in it. But it made
the inhabitants Of that part Of the big
city feel queer for a week.
Of course it is easy for a man to say
when the explosive is found in his posses.
sion that it was meant for blasting pur.
poses. But these are times when sus.
pected dynamiters will bear close watch.
ing in every part of the Union.