Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — THE DYNAMITERS. [ARTICLE]

THE DYNAMITERS.

Stanley, til* African explorer, is not married, and probably never will be. When he first started f< r Africa lie was engaged to a pretty New York girl, who gave him up for dead ip a year and married another man within two years. He did not return till the end of the third year, and thought the damsel should have waited for him, and her course embittered his life. ! ' Jri)«E,UKNNY, of Oregon, is introducing game birds from China into that country, and recently received a lot of ninety pheasants,comprising the golden, Silver* copper, green, trogra'pan, and Hngneck varieties. Some previous importations of the same bird? are doing well and increasing rapidly in various scefcbn of the State. A portion of the last arrivals will Le distributed throughout the State.

It is reported that the Washington monument cost, in round numbers, sl.100,000, of which $200,000 was raised by the society that undertook its com struction, the remaining $900,000 Laving been appreciated by Congress. As has frequently been stated, it is the highest structure in the world, being aliout' thirty-five feet higher than the twin spires of the Cologne Cathedral, i which, up to this year* were the highest in the world of architecture. It w 218 feet higher than the dome of the capital, and but thirteen feet short of double the height of Trinity church, New York City. An old story with new name 3: General Jason L. Brown, of Missouri, a well-known local statesman* called at the executive mansonin Albany, to give the Governor some pointers about his Cabinet. While he was waiting in the ante-room, he accosted a man who lad just come into the room and was glanc ing over a paper. “I suppose you’re here on the same errand that I am ?” he remarked. “I don’t know,replied the stranger pleasantly, “What errand are you on V” “I’m going to tell that old chump in there how to fix his Cabinet.” “No, I can’t say I’m on that errand.” “Maybe you ain’t a politician?” “Nb,” returned tho stranger, politely, “I’m the old chump.” General Brown will not be in the next Cabinet. The New York Tribune reproduces tho “celebrated” elopement case of Mary Ann Boker with her father’s Irish coachman, John Dean, twenty-five years ago. Mary Ann's- father was a rich wlrolesale wine merchant, a German, living-in.,-Jersey City. He never forgave Mary Ann, nor did her brother and sister. Mr. Boker died some years ago. It is said Mary Ann went to his funeral, but her brother and sister de-s dined to recognize her. After his marriage .John Dean first drove the express wagon for a living, was subsequently successful in dealing in cotton. The couple, however, have lived apart for some years. She is about 50 years old, and lives quietly at New Iloclielle. She has no children. It is said she lives on an allowance furnished by her mother, who lives in Germany. Msr. Boker shared the aversion of her family to John Dean, but never persecuted her daughter.

Chicago Current: As to the regulation of inter-State commerce, which lias been so ably kept down by the hired men of the monopolies, in spite of the honest eflorts of Reagan and Sumner, there will be nothing more than a dummy commission. Should Mr. Reagan ever address the people, giving the names of the pretended statesmen who have opposed him on the sly and abetted him in public, there would stay at home in 1886 as fine a looking phalanx of syndicate shoulders as Jay Gould could wish to see at his private office in the tall building on Broadway. The hired man in Congress kills an Inter-State Railroad bill in two ways: First he calls up the shade of State right&t That usually defeats Mr. Reagan. That failing, he shows that the New York Central is wholly in New York, and that any bill which did not reach Vanderbilt would be class legislation. That last shot has never failed to go clean through the people’s interest, sinking the good ship to the bottom. A leading manufacturer of pills in London, says a cablegram, has conceived an advertising scheme which is as novel and audacious as the most brilliant flights cl American genius in that direction. He has forwarded to Gen. Wolseley, who is now marching toward Khartoum, one thousand copies of a band-bill in which the virtues of his pills are extolled in the highest terms. Accompanying the hand-bills is the manufacturer’s check for £l5O, which he asks Lord Wolseley'to award the first soldier of his expedition who shall reach Gen. Gordon’s palace at Khartoum and shall paste on its door a copy of the hand-bilL In his letter the enterprising pill-maker says his offer is made from patriotic motives, and with a desire to siiraulate the soldiers to reach and rescue Gen. Gordon at the oarli- st possible moment. He says that he has Bent a large number of the handbills, so that each soldier in the expedition can be furnished with a copy,and

thus have an even start in the race, as far as he can provide for it His object ih prescribing that tho bills’ shall be stuck on tho palace door is simply to show who is entitled to the prize, and he adds that the name of the winner will bis published ip every paper in England, thus giving him undying fame.

The Washington Monument has been guyed unmercifully for years. It was not precisely a thing of beauty in its uncompleted stated state, but now that it has reached its full height aud is capped with its pyramidal summit it has conquere.l most of its critics. Its massive simplicity, its enormous height and its perfect proportions, modeled closely after the best of the Egyptian obelisks, the height being ten times the base, and the pyramidion one-tenth the height, it certainly possesses elements of grandeur in no inconsiderable degree. It will never again be mistaken for a shot-tower or a factory chimney. The Egyptians were eminent in geometry, and their line sense of proportion has been the admiration of all succeeding ages. Here is a monument of precisely the proportions which they fixed upon as the best, and more than five times as large in each of the three dimensions as the largest known obelisk of old. Why should an American be ashamed of admiring it? Why should he not feel satisfaction in the thought that the highest structure reared by human hands was raised by the American people to commemorate George Washington. Mere size is of coUrse an inadequate occasion for boasting, but even mere size is an essential element of grandeur, and where vast dimensions are combined with a simplicity and an exactness of perfection that the world has admired for forty centuries, is not the result a sufficient occasion for aesthetic satisfaction and patriotic pride?

Thf, oldest college student on record is the liev. Mr. Wilder, who is now, at the age of 83, in attendance at the University of Vermont. He wasjUvthe class of 1832, but circumstances prevented him from finishing the course at that time, and he has never seen his way clear to*do so until within the past year. He devotes himself particularly to theological studies, which seem rather a waste of energies, in view of the fact that it cannot be many years until ho will know moi-e of su;h matters, without laborious study, than any seminary can teach him. He is, however, of a very fri<ky and jovial disposition, goes to all the church socials, plays gamc3, and takes part, in all such harmless dissipations very much like the rest ‘of the boys. The circumstances which have previously interfered with his completion of the course seem to have heed of a domestic nature, inasmuch as he is said to have numerous children, now married and scattered about the country, and a third wife —the other two are dead—who is in California in search of health. Whether the old gentleman expects that the coveted, college diploma will enable him to secure a more remunerative field of labor than he has hitherto enjoyed, or. .whether he means it to serve, in some sort, as a recommendation toJSt. Peter, is not known; —bnt it is the testimony of the other students that no one is getting more fun out of school life than he.

Boston Trariscrint: “It would be a great surprise to the country if the actual expense of Butler in the late campaign were made public,” said a Massachusetts member who is in a position to know the inside facts. “I notice,” he continued, “that the New York papers publish them at SBO,OOO. This is hardly one-third of the sum expended by Butler. From first to last the burden of his entire canvass was uponliiß own shoulders. He did not have the co-operatwip of a single capitalist who was willing to put his money on the result. Butler is strong on some points and weak on others, and one of the latter is the fatalistic belief in his own destiny. He was thoroughly deluded with the idea that he was to be the next President, and he made his ‘campaign outlays with the most lavish hand. Bills for special railway trains, speakers, newspapers and club expenses were paid without stint. Butler’s belief was that he would get enough votes in the electoral college to hold the balance of power, and then seize the coveted prize. His small vote was the disappointment of his life, and must have a crushing effect on him. As to his expense I conld name one Boston bank from which he borrowed sllO,000 during the campaign, and another where he got $60,000. It is quite certain that his vaulting ambition cost him a total of $225,000. The $95,000 which he borrowed on his Washington property is merely a part of, hia aggregate outlay.” ,

Mr H. W. Lucy, commenting upon Fronde’s “Life and Letters of Carlyle," mentions a couple of somewhat unique instances of the sage’s temper. One day be bought an umbrella, which the shopman promised to send home to him. It did not arrive, whereon Carlyle wrote: “The scoundrel umbrella vender! Has that accursed chimera of a cocteey not sent the umbrellv yet? I con 1 see mm trailed thrice through the Thames for his scoundrel conduct." Another time, when ordering his tea, he told the domestic she needn’t hurry. “II was such an unlikely thin? for master to say,” she declared to Mrs. Carlyle, “that it made my flesh creep." bhe thought he must be dkngerouslv ill,

They Make Themselves Heard and Felt in the British Metropolis. Three Terrific Explosions: Tiro in the Houses of Parliament, One’ in y the Tower. Gladstone's Seat Blown to Atones, and the Lobby of the Commons Tom Away.

By far the most destructive and startling dynamite explosions that have yet shaken the city of London occurred on Saturday, Jan. 24. At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of that day, while London Tower was crowded with visitors, that portiorf-of the building known as the White Tower was violently shaken, followed by the wildest confusion, amounting to a panic. Sixteen visitors in other parts of the building were more or less injured, but fortunately none fatally. At 2:lo.o'clock two explosions occurred, the scene being the House of Commons and Westminster Hall. A lady pailed the attention of a policeman to a package lying upon the steps outside the crypt of Westminster Hall. As he picked it up and started out it exploded with terrific force, injuring him fatally and prostrating several bystanders. A great window over the main entrance was demolished and the side windows blown out Three minutes later another explosion occurred, completely demolishing the lobby of the House of Commons. As may welt be imagined, these explosions created the wildest excitement in the great metropolis. Cable dispatches give the following accounts of this latest work of the dynamitards: All London Is in a state of excitement over yesterday’s terrible occurrences. Two explosions occurred in the houses of Parliament. One was in the strangers’ eallery in tho House of Commons. the other in the crypt at the farther end of Westminster Hall. The lira t explosion happened at 2:lo o’clock yesterday afternoon, and the second one three minutes later. Both houses were severely shaken, and considerable damage was done. The. shock was felt at a threat distance, and its force was tremendous. The hollow, thunder-like noi-e was heard as far as Downing street, through all the din of business and above the rattling of heavy wagons in the city streets. Saturday being the usual visiting day at the houses of Parliament, the buildings contained a great number of sightseers at the time of the explosion. Four persons were badly Injured, including two policemen, who were fatally wounded. A lady who was in the hall espied an infernal machine lying on the steps outside the crypt of Westminster Hall, and called the attention ot Policeman Cole, on duty at the time, to it. Officer Cole rushed to the spot, seized the machine, and attempted to extinguish the fuse, but was not) quick enough. HSkried to cirry the parcel out of the buii ding byway ot Westminster Hall, but the fuse burned so rapidly ana closed so quickly upon the machine that he dropped it The explosion followed almost immediately after. It knocked him down and injured him seriously. His case Is considered critical, its force also knocked down two other policemen standing in the vicinity, and stunned them. A lady and gentleman near the ofli -er who had the package were also prostrated- The great window over the main entrance to Westminster Hall was smashed to atoms and all the side windows were blown otft. One-half of -the hall was wrecked. 'The explosion in the lobby of the House of Commons occurred three minutes later than the one in Westminister Hall, it came from directly under the strangers’ gallery and veiy close to the seat usually occupied by Mr. Bracllauuh when visiting the House of Commons. The lobby was completely wreaked. Upon the floor the only seat damaged by the explo ion was that which Gladstone occupies. The g tilery waatorn down, the Speaker's chair destroyed, and the massive stonework displaced. The force of the explosion was such that one man was blown to the earth 300 yards from the point of the explosion. The dynamite whi h caused it was placed inside the great ornamental gates leading to the crypt under Westminster Hall. These gates were blown clear off their hinges and thrown to the ground. All the windows in the north and south sides of the buildiug were blown to atoms. The concussion shook down from the grand oak roof of the hall a large amount of accumulated soot. This In Its downward movement made a dense cloud. Much damage was done to the peers' gallery or Government aide of the house. All the woodwork In that part of the building was shattered, and a wide hole was made through the floor. The gallery was displaced, and even the solid stonework of the doorways was either pulverized or shifted from its position. Every pane of glass in the house was smashed to atoms. Gallery benches were overturned and broken and the gallery generally dismantled, i-tatues of King William XV. and King George IV., in Westminster Hall, were overturned. The explosions caused a panic among the visitors. Those who were in the House of Commons lied precipitately, and many ladles were bruised and crushed. It is estimated, according to the course aud energy of the explosive employed in the Honse of Commons, that if the House had been in session Gladstone, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Charles Braolaugh, and 200 others would have been killed. Even more strange. If possible, than this is the fact that, under the same circumstances, neither Mr. Parnell nor any of his followers would have been Injured at all, for recently they have been sitting on the opposite side of the house, among the Conservatives, and the Tory quarters e caped almost undisturbed. At 2 o'clock p. m. an explosion also occurred at the Tower of London, about two miles from the Parliament buildings. The attack was made on that portion of the building known as the White Tower. It was fairly filled with visitors at the time, several of whom were hurt. The building was not even seriously injured. The police at once prevented all egress from the building. A large number of children were among the visitors. Many of these little ones had their faces and hands Badly torn by broken glass and flying splinters. The most piteons sight in the large crowd of innocent prisoners temporarily detained within the Tower walls was afforded by these little ones, with their pale faces and bleeding heads. The scenes in and around the Tower are indescribable. Several children were among the injured. Their pale faces, bloody' headß, and broken limbs roused the great crowd congregated in the vicinity to frenzy. Yells were heard on every side to “Lynch the villains!” and “Boast the fiends!* One of the most singnlai' effects of the explosion at the White Tower is noted m the discovery that the concussion displaced the great stone which lay over the tomb of the nephews of Richard 111., and exposed the coffins in which their dust Res almost in sight of the spot where their eyes were so cruelly put out and their young liveß smothered. The news of the introduction in Congress of a bill by Senator Edmunds to prevent and punish dynamite conspiraci s in the United States has h d a splendid effect in turning aside the bitterness of feeling against America which had been engendered by the explosions. M hen the contents of the dispatch giving the news were made known, a cheer was given for the United States. "She Tories attach significance to the coincidence that the outrages occurred ju«t after Mr. Parnell’s inflammatory speech -s at Cork. A correspondent sought an interview this evening with Gen. Sir Richard James Dacre, G. C. 8., Constable and Go . eraor sf the Tower of London, who said: “Asa rule there are more American than English v sitors to ttys Tower. In the w nter. however, the proportion is reversed, and this outrage was unfortunately perpetrated in the winter. It is a. pity that there were not some Yankees h re to-< ay. If Mr. Lowell and a few more of them had b en here, and had suffered, instead of poor little children and womea. perhaps the American nation would be roused to join England in her attempts to crush this hornets’ nest." The nun Der of those injured by the explosion is as follows: At the tower, six injured serious y and fourteen slightly: at the Parliament buildings, four seriotislv and ten si gbtlv. The worst injuries were received by Constables Cox and Cole and a civil engineer named Edwin Gr en, who was visiting the Parliament bnildSeveral people‘were arrested, them whom a Canadian, who gave a clear account of himself; also an Irishman named Dalton. Gilb-r . or Cunningham, and a man and a woman who w re seen to drive away at the time of the exp.osion art Westm nster. All were released in the evening bnt Cnninzham. An inspection of the Parliament buildings today sh wed that, excepting the beautiful windows overlooking the stai case at the south end of Westminster Hall, scarce a pane of glass escaped destruction. The foundations of the buildings were badly shaken. The floor of the onse of Commons presents a strange spectacle being covered with heaps of massive fragm nts. The west end of W jstmineter Hall is full of wreckage dbj the explosion. It is be-

lieved -that one of the conspiratonientered the crypt, passing a policeman at the entrance, and deposited the infernal machine at the bottom of the steps. The policeman removed (the pare d, which ex 1 Id led, making a hole in the floor threw feet in diameter, twisting the iron railings and smashing the Iron and lead work of all the windows in the hail. The policeman’s hair was Binged and his face burned. The clorhing was torn from his body by the force of the explosion. He is still alive, but no hopi is entertained of his recovery. j Temporary repairs had been ordered to allow the House o: C mmons to meet Feb. l:i. Stricter regulations with regard to the admission of visitors have been ordered to be taken in the future. Toe policemen who were on duty at the entrances to the Parliament buildings yesterday state that they examined the parcels of ail visitors on that day without discovering anyth ne of a suspicious character, and that noliorly carrying a parcel like the one described as containing an explosive was s en to en er the building. Lady Lbskine and her children had a narrow e-cai efr in injuty. They were lunching in the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms’ dining-room, which i« situated in St. Stephen’s porch. The door of the room was burst Oi>en by the force of the explosion, and the center panel of another door ws«! a tiered. The man-servant was blown across the room. 1 , : The utmost precautions are being taken to protect the public buildings, csjieciallv the Government offices, the general pos office, the c-rntral telegraph office, and the railway stations. Suspicious travelers are narrowly watched. Search parties to-day inspected ail the public buildings from too to bottom. The Press Association has informed the Government that it has received a 1 tier inclosing a plan of ofr-rations contemplat id by the dynamiters, and furnishing descriptions of the active members of—the dynamite faction. Several important buildings which have hitherto escaped were, according to the abovementioned letter, included in the scheme of destruction. Steamers arriving at British ports are subjected to a minute search, in order to prevent the importation of dynamite into the kingdom. The Hamburg steamers are especially watched. One man was arrested to-dav in connection with the explosion at the Tower of London. He was taken to Scotland Yard and examined, and will probably be charged at the Bow Street Police < ourt to-morrow. The opinion is generally expressed that the time has arrived to put some pressure upon the United States Government to stop the operations of the dynamiters. Among the visitors to the Parliament buildings to-day were the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise, the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Harrington, and several other Cabinet Ministers, and numerous mem—bera of the House of Commons. Cox and Cole, the injured policeman, have recovered sufficiently to make a statement. It is stated that the police found near the spot where the first explosion occurred an t tftle of a peculiar nature, whiph they decline to describe. It is believed that the article will furnish a clew to the guilty persons. Inspector Denning says that on hearing the second explosion he ran to the spot, aud did not see a soul Id the place. The entrance was blocked by debris. He noticed a smell of sulphur and gunpowder. Cox ancl Cole, it is said, have furnished certain descriptions which will lead to inquiries that may result in the discovery of the authors of the outrage. Col. Majendie to-day made an inspection of the 1 xplosion at the Tower of London, as well as the chaos would permit. The Martini rifles, which had be'en hurled from thetr stands, remained in confused heaps on the floor, and rendered impossible a near approach to the exact stmt where the explo-ion occurred. The scene will be photographed to-morrow. Col. Majendie says he Is satisfied that dynamite was used to cause the exnlos on. He says about four or live pounds at the explosive properly compressed would only, measure four or five cubic inches, and could" easily be concealed In an overcoat pocket or in the folds of a woman’s dreßS. The Tower officials believe a woman deposited the cNynamite in the bn Iding. Tho police some time acoffiad reason to believe that a woman was constantly passing back and forth between America and England for the purpose of importing dynamite. She was frequently watched, but evidence sufficient to warrant her arr.-st was never obt ined. The wreckage at the parliament buildings and the Tower ot London has been ordered to rent =ln untouched until Col. Majendie has made a further inspection to-morrow. Prof. Abel, Dr. Dupre, and other experts are assisting Majendie. A cfinoii of the Catholic Cathedral at Plymouth, in his sermon to-day, denounced the London outrages as the work of American emissaries, whose object evidently was murder. It is learned that a mysterious Irishman, who Is described by the ]>olice as Cunningham, a'ias Dalton, alias Gilbert, and who was arr sted at the Tower yesterday on suspicion of having been concerned in the explosion at that place, has not b r en released. He is still detained in the Whitechapel police station. The guard in lront of the station has been doubled, in consequence of the_ gathering of an enormous orowd of excited citizens in 1 email street, in the vicinity of the station. Loud curses and ominous threats arc continually heard, and there is no doubt that a desperate attempt would lie made to lynch the prisoner if it were not for the presence of the polio- and the military. Cunningham will be arraigned at the Police Court in the Whitechapel road tomorrow. An American traveler, whose name Is not known, was in a train on the Northwestern Railway, going from London to Liverpool, when an excited discussion arose over America’s responsibility for the dynamite explosions. The opinion was freely expressed that the United States ms greatly to blame for harboring snch men as O“Donovan Kos-a. The American defended bis country in vigorous language and was attacked by a crowd of passengers. The American drew a revolver and kept his assailants at bay until the train reached Chester, when he jumped from the carriage and escaped. Officer Cole had several ribs broken, and Officer Cox is suffering from concussion of the brain. It is estimated that a hundred persons were In the Parliament buildings at rhe time of the crime. Of the three clocks in the lobby the hands of the one over the entrance of the Honse of Commons w -re blown out completely. The ofie on the le t side stopped; the third, on the right side, was uninjured. Home of the windows in Westminster Hall were blown bodily away, while others were riddled as with shotz The only atom of consolation t • be found is in the fact that several of the stained windows survived the ordeal tolerably well. None of the statties of the Stuart monarchs were injured. Several minor disasters occurred in the poets' corner, chiefly the breaking of glass. At the vesper service at Westminster Abbey the Constables gave heartfelt thanks to God for the preservation of their lives in the dangers of Saturday. Archdeacon Farrar yesterday denounced the aimless malignity of the outrages, which were conceived aDd executed by fiends in human form. He said that God had frustrated the worst results of the conspiracy—so devilish that some of the blackest crimes in history paled before its insane wickedness. . An American lady, who with her father was sight-seeing at the Tower, was overcome with fright when the shock occurred and went into hysterias. Two young women most seriously hurt, who were taken to a hospital, are rapidly recovering. Other persons Injured by the Tower explosion are only slightly hurt. The unjpjnred visitors were detained nntii their names and addresses were taken. The man arrested on suspicion in connection with the explosion at the Tower of London is described as an Irish-Ameri< an. He gave his correct address. He htd lodged some mon bs In the vicinity of the Tower. He had t" in gold In his pockets. He gave his name as Collingham, with alias "Gilbert and “Dalton." The explosive force fonnd vent at the roof of the Tower, blowing ont the skylights of thick plate-glass. The explosion at Westminister wrenched off the Irish harp which forms part of the ornamental work on the panels of the Commons, and it dropped into the seat of a ParnellIte. Mr. Forster’s seat was ripped up. Of the gold letters "V. R." on the desk opposite Gladstone’s seat, the "V" was torn away. It is now known that three-fourths of the glass roof of the chamber had been removed previon * to the explosion. There is mnch rejoicing over the fact that the downward force of the / dynamite failed to reach the gas-meter of the House of Commons, which is directly below the ventilating chamber. The latter was badly damaged. The latest inspection shows that the damage has been mneb f eater than at first reported. Half the 1 ngtb of the front opposition bench was torn away. The magnificent window in the south o, Ht Stephen's porch can be restored, complete copies ct the design?s having been pres.-rred. Opinions on the Outrage. London.— The exp osions yesterday caused the greatest excitement in Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Paris. The Daily JVto * says editorially that the daroag * done to the Parliament buildings by the exp ©sons Is ,so slig t compared with what waa intended that the attempt may be looked a pop as a fai are. The Choosing of Saturday, > whep the place waa fiil?d wi h innocent sightseers, is evidence of -lie diab dioal cruelty. There can be no doubtthat the dynamiters, if caught, can be lawfully hanged on the oro nd of high t eason in levying war ag 1 st their sovereign It becomes a serious question whether Eng and will not join with Rosa a and iTussii in an extradition treaty. Even n America, wb re the gre test jealousy la relation to suca a ouestion hai al stays existed, steps hare been t km in the right (Fraction. Commenting on tne dynamite explosions the Daiy TV* prop say*: “England cannot expect the United States o help in tie exter ination of the dynamitards while the English Government is afraid to handle 1 ameiL"