The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-07-18

ist in 1891, for attacking two police Off
GERS 1t was afterWard shown that this
was one of q series Of outrages planned by
the anarchists against magistrates and
other officers of the government who had
taken part in bringing anarchists to jus
tice. The chief instigator of these crimes
was discovered to be one Francois Clau-
dius Konigstein, known as RavachOl, a
man who had been concerned in other
crimes before
The house of the public prosecutor, NJ
Bulot in the Rue Clichy, was the scene of
dynamite explosion on March 81 which
was aimed against NJ. Bulot's life, but he
escaped unframed Seven other persons
were injured, however, and the house itself
was wrecked
On March 20 there was an explosion in
the building of the Credit Lyonnaise, one
of the largest banking houses in Paris.
Two persons were injured An explosion
occurred on March Is in the Lobau bar
racks in Paris, occupied by the Republican
guard. 1t was due to adynamite cartridge
placed in the messrOom. Fortunately none
of the guards was killed.
Ravachol, who was subsequently tried,
sentenced to death and guillotined, was
arrested by the police on March 80 in the
cafe of NJ. Very. On April 26 this cafe was
blown up by a terrific explosion of dyna-
mite Ten persons were seriously injured
M. Very had been in receipt of threatening
letters from anarchists since Ravachol was
arrested there in which he was warned
that he and his establishments were
marked for destruction.
The most alarming of the recent at
tempts of the Paris anarchists was the
throwing of the bomb in the chamber of
deputies while it was in session on Dec
9, 1898. This was the work of Auguste
Valiant. The usual number Of deputies
was present, and public business was I'M
der consideration, when Valiant who &C.
cupied seat in the gallery, threw bomb
upon the floor of the house, which explod.
ed with a terrific report. No one was
killed, but a large number of the deputies
and several of the spectators in the gallery
were injured, more or less seriously, by
flying fragments of the bomb Great dam
age was also done to the chamber itself
Valiant was arrested and confessed his
crime, saying that his object was the death
of M. Dupuy. He was tried, sentenced to
death and was guillotined few weeks
later.
Twenty four persons were wounded on
Feb ~, this year, by bomb explosion in
the cafe of the Hotel Terminus, at the st.
Lazare railroad station, Paris The cafe
was well filled when, about O'Clock in
the evening, young man came in, drank
glass of wine at table, then rose. and
taking from his pocket bomb threw 1t
toward group of people at neighboring
table The bomb had been filled with bull
lets and bits of iron, and the scattering OF
these caused most of the wounds. In the
dense smoke with which the xoom was
filed for three or four minutes after the
explosion the bomb thrower made his es-
cape to the street Three policemen saw
him running and pursued him, command
ing him to stop. His reply was TO halt
and to fire five shots at them, one bullet
striking Policeman Poisson, infiicting
mortal wound The other two policemen,
with the assistance OF a waiter, succeeded
in graphing with and overpowering the
bomb thrower. At the station the fellow,
who at first called himself Leon Breton,
but whose name was soon ascertained to
be Emile Henry, said, ''Yes, am an an
archist, and the more OF the bourgeois
killed the better it would please me"
Incited by Henry's crime, the police
throughout France made raids In Febru-
airy on the dwellings OF anarchists. m0nv