Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-17
A REVIVAL OF FENlANlSM
Widespread Dynamite Plot Nipped in the
Bud by Four Arrests.
POLICE AUTHORITIES RETICENT
Valuable Information Secured
by Detectives.

London, Eng, Sept. Alt is
generally believed here that the
police, by the arrest of Edward Bell
at Glasgow, j. Wallace and John F.
Kearney at Rotterdam and 2. j. P.
lyman e. ol") at Boulogn, Sur Mer,
France, have nipped in the bud q
Widespread dynamite plot.
At Rotterdam, in addition to arrest
ing Wallace and Kearney, the police
captured several internal machines and
a quantity of correspondence, which is
said to incriminate number of people
and which may result in further arrests.
The police attach the utmost import
ance to the arrests made and are OBJ
serving the greatest reticeuce on the
subject. 1t appears, however, that
the police officials have been cognizant
for some time of the existence OF a
fresh dynamite conspiracy, and there
is no reason to doubt that the i'm,
formation in the possession of the
Scotland Yard authorities is of the
most serious character, although it is
difficult to obtain definite facts at
present.
The Globe which has close relations
with the government intilnates In a
long leading editorial article this after
noon that the arrests were made on in
formation received from one OF the
recently released Irish political pris-
oners. 1t is added that this man has
also furnished the authorities with
valuable evidence in relation to the
Clan gael and it is further stated
that the government recently released
several prisoners so as not TO furnish
an exact clue to the source of it's in
formation. One of the most notorious
Fenian leaders it is also said arrived
in Great Britain from the Unitd States
several months ago and the Globe at
that time published an article about
his presence, pointing out that there
was general revival of Fenianism in
progress.
AS result of these disclosures the
Globe claims tho Fenian leader alluded
to hastily returned to the United
States Incidentally it was the Globe
which first proclaimed the identity of
the second man arrested at Rotterdam
as being John F. Kearney OF New York
who is charged with having been con
cerned in blowing up the Glasgow gas
works in 1892, deed for which Ter
renee McDermott and others are serv-
ing sentences of imprisonment for life
in Portland prison. Kearney escaped
to New York and 1t was said at the
time his escape was winked at by the
highest authorities 1t was further
alleged that it was Kearney who under
the pretence OF friendship led Phelan'
into the trap when Short, butcher
nearly stabbed Phelan OF Kansas City
to death in O'Donovan Rossa's office
on Chambers street, New York.
Kearney may now be charged with
the Glasgow outrage as well as with
participation in the alleged present
movement.
A Scotland Yard official in an inter-,
view published in the Sun this after
noon said that the authorities for
many months have been aware that
number of the ''most reckless and des-
perate dynamiters in the United
States' had been contemplating
raid on English centres, particularly on
London. Therefore the official added
vigilance was redoubled both in Great
Britain and in America,