The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-19
EYENTFUL SNERZING.
HOW i LITTLE THING MAY BE LADEN WITH GREAT RESULTS.

two men to an instant and horrible
 death.
 | Their names were Domasney and
 Fleming and they were conspirators. Their mission was to blow up the bridge | with dynamite, because it was consid-
 cred that at that time there would be
 more people crossing it-workmen,
 workgirls and others on their way home from business-than at any other and that the loss in human life would there fore cortespondingly be more appalling All went well at first. The pair of desperaCoes dropped noiselessly down
 the river in a boat, with forty pounds
 of dynamite in their possession, to-
 gether with the necessary fuses and de-
 tonators. Arrived at their destination,
 however, they found that the gully hole
 underneath the southern arch of the
 structure, wherein it had been their in-
 tention to insert the explosive, had been
 stopped up. Lomasney undertook to remove the obstruction, but 1t occupied
 him some little time. The night was
 bitterly cold, and his cOmrade got
 chilled and was seized with sudden
 fit of sneezing. In his agitation he
 dropped one or more of the detonators
 he was holding, and these, falling on
 the dynamite which was laying in the
 bottom of the boat, exploded it, with disastrous results. Doubtless, however,
 that inopportune sneeze, although it ended the career of a pair of despera- does, saved London bridge from de- struction.
 That the Right Hon. W. F. Forster died peacefully in his bed instead of be- ing assassinated in 1882 was due to sneeze, Three times the Conspirators laid in wait for him, but the last at tempt was the most determined of them all Four men armed with heavy cali Der navy revolvers were to waylay him as he drove from the vice-regal lodge to the castle. Two of the assassins were to fire at him from the first floor win dow of a house in a certain street, and the other two were stationed at the window of another house a few yards down on the opposite side of the way.
 These latter were the reserves des- tined to try their skill should their col leagues miss. Neither of the two firing parties were to show themselves until the near approach of their proposed victim was signaled from the street be- low. The signal in question was to he the waving of pocket handkerchief by James Carey the same man who was afterward killed by O'Donnell.
 The plot was excellently planned from the point of view of the participants therein In fact, so far as human fore sight could provide against eventuaH ties the chief secretary seemed $ good as dead Yet it all came to naught and for so simple a reason that the plotters themselves, meeting together afterWard at their secret rendezvous in North King street, were fain to laugh at their own discomfture.
 The morning was cold and gusty. MT. Forster was somewhat late, and Carey, chilled with waiting about be- gan to sneeze. Instinctively he drew out his handkerchief the handkerchief that was to give the fatal signal, and in an instant the clustering north wind had tlicked it from his benumbed fin
  at twenty mile an hour gait
 At that very instant the chief secre- tarys carriage turned the corner and came swiftly toward him. Carey ran to the spot which had been previously agreed upon and tried to make his fel- low conspirators understand that their victim was in sight by signaling with him arm and pointing.
 The result, however, though exactly what might have been foreseen, hardly came up to his expectations. The four men at the windows were waiting for a man with a handkerchief. Instead, they saw one without any such signal ing apparatus, evidently excited and wildly up the street. Instantly they conjured up visions of traitors in their ranks and of detectives on their tracks and, dropping their weapons, in- | and hastily fled
 On the evening of October il, 1917, a policeman on duty near the Coliseum l Music hall. Liverpool, noticed an un- | usual commotion at the entrance. Dis | heveled boys and girls their clothing in | many instances torn from their backs and some of them covered with blood, | were pouring from the gallery exits, while from within the building came the sound of shrieking and loud cries for help. Realizing something of what was happening, the constable seized an lxe and smashed in two of the extra" loors.
 His prompt action undoubtedly saved | scores if not hundreds of lives, for by | his time the auditorium had become a 5erit able pandemonium, wherein seVer- Il thousand people, mad with terror, were fighting and struggling with one another for precedence.
 Thirty-seven of the number lost their ives, and more than twice that num- )er were maimed for life. And the ,ause of the panic was a fit of sneezing nto which number of girls in the ront row of the gallery were thrown ,Wing to some mischievous person toss ng some snuff into the air.
 A number of those behind, hearing md seeing a commotiOn in front, rose O their feet Others joined them. Shouts and cries added to the confu-
 ion. An alarm was raised that the llaCe was or fro, and simultaneous ush of hundreds of frightened people or the narrow exit doors was followed