Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-05-14
SUFFRAGISTS SET
OFF EXPLOSIVES
Mansion of Ex-Lord Provost of
Dundee Is Burned.
ONE BLAST AT UNIVERSITY
Cambridge Football Pavilion is Dam
aged by Explosion and People in
English Waiting Rooms
Are Peried.

Dundee, Scotland, May 12.-Farring-
ton Hall, the residence of Henry Nc
Grady, former lord provost of Dundee,
was burned. Indications point to suf-
fragettes as the authors of the outrage.
Flames started simultaneously in
half dozen places in the great man
sion, which was handsome specimen
of architecture and was being prepared
for occupation by the owner and his
family.
Bomb in Football Pavilion.
Cambridge, England, May 12.-The
Cambridge varsity football pavilion
narrowly escaped destruction at the
hands of suffragettes. The militants
placed a bomb among infammables in
the building. The bomb exploded, but
the inflammable material was scat
tered by the explosion and did not ig
mite. Suffragette literature was left
on the scene.
Set Fire at Newcastle.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 12.-"Pun-
holme," large unoccupied house, was
set on fire by an larson squad" of suf-
fragettes, but the incendiaries were
alarmed by the approach of passers-by
and decamped before their work was
complete. They left petroleum and
other infammable materials. The fire
was soon extinguished.
Bomb in Passenger Station.
London, May 1.-two more bombs
with which the suffraget+es are at
tempting to scare the British parlia-
ment into giving the franchise to wom-
en- were discovered in the passengers
waiting room at the busy Lime street
railroad station at Liverpool, and the
other in the sorting room of the post
Office at Reading
The fuse of the Liverpool bomb had
been lighted, but died out before it
reached the powder. The bomb con-
sisted of a tin tobacco box filled with
gunpOWder and iron nuts.
The Reading machine was wrapped
in a bulky parcel, to which the atten-
ton of postoff1ce employees was attract
ed by the sound Of ticking. The parcel
contained an electric battery connect
ed with explosives and was wrapped
in suffragette literature. 1t was ad
dressed to a municipal official of Read
ing now on vacation. The police be
lieve it was timed to explode in his
residence during his absence.
Burn House ct London.
"A fire in a large unoccupied house
at Beckenham, outside of London, was
extinguished after three hours work.
1t was attributed to suffragettes. What
was believed to be a bomb found in
one of the rooms proved to be cylin-
der
In view Of the possibility Of further
attacks by the wild women" on the
churches many historic ediices
throughout the country which are usu-
ally visited by thousands of American
and other tourists during the season
have been ordered closed except dur
ing the hours of service.
George Bernard Shaw, a suffragette
sympathizer, was swindled out of ST.
625 by forger, who signed the name
of Pethick Lawrence, editor of Votes
for Women to a letter asking Mr..
Shaw to give the bearer in exchange
for a crossed check, payable to Mr..
Lawrence, an open check for the same
amount, so that it could be cashed at
once. Mr.. Shaw complied. Afterward
he received the crossed check from
his bank. Mr. Lawrence was dunn
founded when he learned of the swim
die.
Bomb in Dublin Theater.
Dublin, May PA tin canister con-
tanning AZ gunpOwder cartridges was
found in the Empire Palace theater.
The cartridges were Embedded in cot
ton saturated with OIL A cotton cord,
also oil-soaked, was attached to the
canister and was burning when the
bomb was found. A girl formerly en-
DIOyed at the theater was arrested