The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-30
EVENTFUL SNEEZING
HOW A LITTLE THING MAY BE LADEN
WITH GREAT RESULTS.

Dec. ID, 1884, a sneeZe was sneezed un.
der London bridge which consigned
two men to an instant and horrible
death.
Their names were Lomasney and
Fleming, and they were conspirators
Their mission was to blow up the
bridge with dynamite, because it was
considered that at that time there
would be more people crossing it
workmen, workgirls and others OIL
their way home from businessman at
any other and that the loss in human
life would be therefore correspondingly
more appalling.
All went well at first. The pair OF
1esperadoes 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 it occu.
pied him some little time. The night
was bitterly cold, and his comrade got
chilled and was seized with a sudden
fit of sneezing. In his agitation he
dropped one or more Of the decorators
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 II
ended the career of pair of despera.
does, saved London bridge from de-
struction.
That the Right Hon. W. e. Forster
died peacefully in his bed instead of
being assassinated in 1882 was due to
a 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
caliber navy revolvers were to waylay
him as he drove from the viceregal
lodge to the castle. Two of the assas-
sins were to fire at him from the first
floor window Of a house in a certain
street, and the other two were station
ed 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
below The signal in question was to
be the waving of a pocket handker-
chief by james Carey, the same man
who was afterward killed by O'Don,
nell.
The plot was excellently planned
from the point of view of the partici-
pants therein. In fact, so far as human
foresight could provide against eventu-
alties the chief secretary seemed as
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 discontinue.
The morning was cold and gusty
Mr.. 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, anG
in an instant the clustering north vino
had licked it from his benumbed fin
gers and sent it sailing down the street
as twenty mile an hour gait.
, At that very instant the chief secre
! tary's carriage turned the corner anC
, came swiftly toward him. Carey raj
J to the spot which had been previously
: agreed upon and tried to make his fel
low conspirators understand that theil
: victim was in sight by signaling will
his arm and pointing.
The result, however. though exactl!
] what might have been foreseen, hardl!
came up to his expectations. The fou
: men at the windows were waiting for
5 man with handkerchief. Instead, the,
saw one without any such signaling
apparatus. evidently excited and point
ing wildly up the street. Instantly the.
I conjured up visions Of traitors in thei
9 ranks and of detectives on their track
:, and, dropping their weapons, incont
q nently and hastily fed.
8 vi tue eNSuIuS Vi OCI. lie 1910, pS
: liceman on duty near the Coliseum
Music hall, Liverpool, noticed an unit
J.. suai commotion at the entrance. d
|. sheveled boys and girls, their cIothin
in many instances torn from thei
backs and some of them covered wit
blood. were pouring from the CALLER
/" exits. while from within the buildin
f came the sound of shrieking and lou
cries for help. Realizing something {
t what was happening, the constabl
/ seized an ak and smashed in two of tn
!. extra" doors.
). His prompt action undoubtedly save
:, scores If not hundreds of lives. for b
this time the auditorium had become
!, veritable pandemonium. wherein seve
: al thousand people. mad with terro
II were lighting and struggling with Oh
:, another for precedence.
Il Thirty-seven of the number lost the