Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
The dynamite panic in London, says a cable dispatch, seems to be increasing. Special guards have been placed at the national arsenals and naval stations. No one is allowed to enter the House of Commons, Westminister Hall, or the Tower. The hole made, in the floor of the White Tower where the dynamite exploded is ten feet long by five feet wide. The masonry of the building is practically uninjured, but the woodworks badly torn up. Special precautions have been taken to protect the London Post-Office, against which anonymous threats have been made. The conviction that Cunningham was concerned in the explosions is gaining ground. A French newspaper says that the dynamiters who have caused all the recent explosions in London are employed In a printing-offioe in Paris. Preparations for a Turkish expedition to Suakin are being rapidly pushed. Six batteries of Krupp guns are ready to start as soon as England’s approval of the expedition is secured. Gen. Wolseley telegraphs from Korti that Gen. Stewart was doing well at last accounts. A bullet is lodged in the region of the groin and no attempt hns been made as yet to extract it. A hospital for the wounded and disabled has been pitched on the bank of the Nile. It is proposed by the Irish Times, a new paper published at Dublin, that the British press shall erect a monumeDt in honor of Cameron and Herbert, the war correspondents killed in buttle the 19th ult. in the Soudan. Forty passengers ou a train near gidney, Now South Wales, were killed by a wreck at a bridge. An article in the London SaUirday Review denounces the Scotland Yard authorities, who are described as unintelligent, talkative, and utterly incompetent to deal with the dynamitera The latest achievement of the police is the arrest of two newspaper reporters who were examining the publio buildings. Paris has decided to borrow $40,000,000 to complete public Improvements. Baron Thomas O’Hagan, the first
Catholic to be made Lord Chancellor of Ireland under British rale, has passed away. Julius Lieske, the supposed murderer of Dr. Rumpff, the Frankfort Polios Commissioner, is chained hand and foot in the prison at Mannheim. A man was arrested at Derby, Eng., who was found to hare dynamite in bis possession. Sir William Vernon Harcourt has received a letter conveying information of an alleged dynamite plot, mentioning a number of buildings which the dynamiters intend to blow up, and giving the names of several of the conspirators.
