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DeoeMber426, 1884.
EXPLOSION AT LONDON BRIDAL.
London. Alarmed by a
Loud Report.
THE BBIDGIV 'UNHARMED
The Cause of • the Escrolosioh. a
Mystery.
A last (Sunday) night's London cable
says : Intense exoitement was produced
in the city yeaterdaylafternoon about 5
o'clock by an explosion at London bridge.
Orowde rushed from all quarters, and in a
few minutes King William street leading
to the bridge was completely 'hippie&
Notwithstanding that the explosion was
wieeeeeed by hundrede, there isao
ttvocounfj as to what really ,hapPened.
Some think that a boat with a time Mee on
board was allowed to drift with the Current ;
others that the cartridges were laid on the
buttress of the bridge with a fuse attached,
and other a again that dynanaite was thrown
from the bridge. But however ie was
done and with whatever agent the damage'
' is trifling. A. large quantity of glass was
broken in the neighborhood, and eome gee
jetsin the street lamps eitinguiehed, but
as far as the bridge itself is , concerned, it
does not appear to have suffered. Up to
the present no new light has been thrown
on the mystery. It has rained in, torrents
all day to.day and the Thiamin is swollen.
The boats of the river polite are still
employed making es careful an examina-
tion of the neighborhoodas possible, but
almost everything that would.have afforded
a olue seems to have been washed away by
the drenching rain. The Observer oohs
attention to the feet that yesterday Was
the anniverearyot the explosion at the
Oierkenwell prison, by which. the Fenians
killed a eoore of innocent pepple in an
idiotic attempt to resale some imprisoned
comrades.
Beyond the undoubted fad that an
attempt was male to blow up London
_Bridge, the police have absolutely .no in-
formation of the. affair, 'It le now supplied.
that dynamite was dropped over the bridge
and slighted on the buttrees. The dainage.
done cenobite chiefly of broken windows in'.
the homes in the vicinity of the bridge: An
eye -witness, a bootblack, Bays he was Mean.;
ing.e. gentleman's boots, when suddenly he
felt the earth shake about him, and
mediately afterwards there was a terrific
explosion and he was stunned. When he
recovered oonsoiousneas the gentle'matt had
disappeared. The buttress on whioh the
explosive alighted is only slightly damaged.
Persons who were crossing the bridge at the
time were thrown down. Many gas fete in
the vicinity were extinguishedby the .00n -
°neaten.
A careful inspection of. London Bridge
was made to -day, and it was found that .no
structural injury whatever. . was done.
Nothing could be foundabout the bridge. to
indicate that an explosion had taken. place.
The police have discovered . nothing as to
the origin of the explobtoti.: The heada of
the detective 'departments were conferring
with the Home Office during the
entire day. The absence of • any
glue is paralyzing the action of
the police, who are mien unable . to•
tell the nature of explosive used. It
aware the explosion occurred nearer the
Surrey end of the bridge than was at firet
suppoeed, and yet Meet . of • the houses
damaged were on the eliddlesex.side,where
the windows were smashed as far as Bile
lingsgette market. Several panes of glass
were broken in the Fiebiriongere' Hall, but
otherwise the buildings , received no
damage. Several tquaree Of lofty glare
screen in Cannon street depot fell
to the platform with a crash,
greatly terrifying the paesengersin the
building, although nobody was injured.
River traffic) was auajended at the time of
%be explosion owing to'the darkness. The
explomon forms the one. topic of converse-.
thin. Thousands of persons', .visited • the
eocke to -day. The policeman who was
etadeling on the steps 'leading to the eteam-
boaerier on the Surrey side, with hie back
to th,e. river, says he ea qv* a blinding .glare
like ,beet lightning, whioh watt followed by
a terrific, report. He was almost 'Ahmed,
and hielelmet was blown some yards away
by the concussion. He ran to the polioe
station, gave the alerm, and soon after-.
Ward the river police were, melting an
minute an examioatien as poseiblo of the
buttresses of the bridge and the wharvetton
eaoh bauk of the river. The search,' how-
ever, was fruitless. Daylight showed that
sot a single atone had •been...dieplatied by
the she ok. The experts are unanimMiely
Alt opinionthat the explosive used was
sivIrrAco ISLAND
Alanamt sabastergeg by tbe Watersott tke
Lake—atereermeaei nearer Wrecked.
A last (Monday) inght'e Buffalo despatch
attys.: A great etorm, the Wry of wiaiok
was experienced moat severely at whaitie
known as the Inland, but whioh at 9 O'clook
tbis morning and on along well till noon
was eo loupe an lased bus a sandbar, over
Which the waves were rumbling furiously,
•struck this vicinity to.day. At the foot of
Michigan street, acrose the Buffelo Creek
and Blackwell Canal, hes the Island. Is
.is a narrow quip ot mind whioh stretches
away on the right to the ligethouee, and
on the left the there rune sJutheset in a
graceful curve to the Tiffs Farm. Beek
from the Beach is the eettwall, a Hubatan-
tial barrier of tone four tees thick and
from eta to eight high, whioh in ordinary
weather protects the row of little houses
buile under its . lee with .their kitchens
fronting on the lake from the onslaught of
the sea—The homes are occupied by fish-
ermen, boatmen • and others, wbo depend
directly or iudireotly upon the water for a
living. Between these houses • and
the Blackwell Canal railroads and
lumber yards 000upy the space
No one would have reoogureed
the scene, however, during the progethe of
to -day's gale. The entire eland wee cov-
ered with water to a depth ot three or four
feet. The waves were beating against the
ilea -wall with a awash thaelleut the spray
flying 100,feet in the air and effectually
waking everything. In &wee the beating
of the eine had waded away lengths of the
wall for a distance of 60 feet, and the huge
atones of whioh it is built were thrown upon
the railroad track. The line of frail houses
was broken ; here and there a house was
uninjured, but most were twieted around
by the madrush and" the occupants were
camping in beets. Some .were lifted off
their foundations bodily and some levelled
fleti no ' two picots remaining together:.
Joseph Dierks' bonne was no more ; Wil-
liam Connor's house had gone down e
while Mrs. Swantion'a was scattered over
an acre of beam, and the wall behind it
• was gone also, In John Delaney's house
all was confusion; 'the chimney was
blown down -and the house had taken fire,
destroying the rear part. A house beloug-
ing to Fred Moltke had the rear part owed
in, and Wm. Ceveuaugh's was served the
saute fate. Jelin Ford and Mrs. McNamara,
lived in a house which was not strong
enough to stand the attack, and the rear
part was wreaked, the etove, bedding,
olothingand what ether euppliee could be
hastily gathered, were thrown into the
front room, winch remained standing
Wm. Dueler and..MichTtel Houlihan lust
their kitchen in the tame way, and , the
rear of Mat..Boardmau'e house was broken
to kindling wood. Further on toward
Louisiana street the houses bad suffered
less, though all were soaked with water.
Furniture turd ateneila had been thrown
out.a,ncl were floating around in a huge
pond that bad formed on the railroad
treas. It is the worst sterna ever known
on the isead. The lumber yards have
buffered to the extent of many thousands
etedhllare, but the lose cannot now be esti
.mated. . • • •
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• A DREAD.
A. strange Premonition Realized.
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A New Albany (Ind.) despatoh eaya: On
Weiluepday afternoon Mrs, Barney
McKenna, of this city, sent her little son
Clarence, abright lad ef 10 years, our upon
an errand, telling him to return home
immediately after performing what he vire
sent to do. The lad hastened away, wool-
plishefl the 'erratid, and started to. hie
home, but meeting another boy was indnced
by him to visit theswitching yarda of the.
railrpad, and on arriviug there was per-
suaded to jump upoa an, empty. teal oar,
whioh wee in a train being moved Wavily
through the yard for ' a ride. The little
fellow became frightened, let go bis hold
upon the oar, and fell under the wheels and
was terribly and fetidly crushed. The
dreadful - accident weltered about idyl'
squares away from the boy's,hopee. The
mother, at the moment of the aerndent, was
'seized with sudden apprehension, and said
to her 15•year-old.claughter,who was in the
room with her • "I just'lleard Clarence
shriek and molar ; run out quick and look
for hiin. I knowsomething drew:111211es e
'happened." The 'daughter went ,qtutikle,
Into the yard .anct looked all over the
premises and out into tbe street, but, of
comae, stew nothing of her brother Clarence
and returned into the house latigbing,•
ing, "Yea, ot mune, you heard CI
shriek and moan—but only in y
for he has not yet returned b
an beta later her mangled bo
home to her, dying alai
brought' within, the 'room.
kuew something terribl
poor child!" the fru
" I heard it all wh
TUG Me eV LEAN S IMPOSITION
Went Denionetrationtbe Opening.
inauguration ae nies of the World'*
La, despatch. : The day of the
A last (Tuesd ,x,,,Light's New Orleana,
Expoeition opened iteright and eheerbilly,
and thousands of people made preparations
early in the mortneg to witness the long:
expected event. Public and private build -
nage alopg the principal !meted were decor-
ate& Along the street car route viilre
froin the North were. eazoniebed to fluid
hundreds of fruit trees bending beneath
ripe fruit, and to see the ,bloore ' of. roses
and the rlab verdure ot kitchen -sad
flower gadderne. At 11 o'olpolt Gen.
MoEnery, of Louisiana, and Major-General
Glenn, oomwaudiog the State .
with etaff, the Mayor of New bream,
menelet re of the State Legislature, foretgn
0031bUiS and petite assembled at,St. Charles
Hotel, whence a proem:lion escorted by a
battalion of Washington Artillery Conti-
nental Gaurcle, in tbe Garb of a century
ago, and theetplegroent Rifles was formed.
The procession, headed by the celebrated
Mexicali Bendepassed through the crowded
'iterate to the river, where a steamer was
in waiting to carry officials, guests and
escort to the grounds. Ten thousarid
chairs placed in the hall and galleries were
goon filled and every available standing
place, the steles were occupied
Thousands • gathered on either side
of the hall from whioh a view of the
platform could be obtained . Talmage
made the opening prayer„ invoking divine
Messing on the (-facers, direott)ra and man -
'
agora of the Exeoei km. Director-Geu.
oral Burke then formally turned over the
buildings and grounds to the Pr'esident of
the Expositiou. President Richardson
addreeeed the •Preeidetit of the Iluited
States, hie words; beilog telegraphed- to
Waehington, deatiliag' the bititore elf the
Exposition. Pre sident Arthurs address,
ib reiily, was thee read, apd at the conola
Rion of the sentence dedleriag• the World's
Exposition now meta President Arthur-
oloeed the eland° circuit and the nitechin-
ery was put in rection: At the. 'same
moment a large portrait of-. the President
wa placed in poeition in the contra -of the
platform and greeted withireat applaute.
the guests te t e
The Mayor ofieTew (Weenie city and Expoeition. then welcomed
Grave ire I -entente it:outemmed by u Dying.
non— cou,clattion of the Corpse-iu
the D es3eeileg ,I1400m. ,.• • . -„-
, A Sp togfield (Hase.)edespatch Hayti: l'A
drape story coulee from Elremonteammeg
the'B rkehire hille, and the towu bad sur-
rouuding villages are ina keep of great
excitement. The story rues, that Eeteile
Newman, about 36' years pld, , died in
Egtemont in 1878, and wits btieii d. in the
seism cemetery and was forgated. The
etineation comes trona the dying testimony
ot H. Worth Wright, in Conneollost, who
is said to have coufessed to his br o-ner that
he, being a student in the Albany Medical
College, was present at the funeral with.
other students, lay iu wait near the ceme-
tery till the burialwah over and the grave-
yard deserted and teeth helped. to disinter
, .,
the body and 'carry it in a seek to the
:medico.' college. - They • at once, went to
work on it iu the deem:elite room. Velite on .
the table the body. ehowed *dens of lite and
was resueoitated by the etudentse Finding
the woman alive on. their bends ehe authori-
.ties of the college had her tttk,en •to an
imam asylum io &wham 4:Vauty, New
York' • This is the last Wright ill. geld to
have • known of her whereabouts. The
woman% grave will probably .be opened to
see what the Story arnoutetyto. .
. etEttaLieritere AN • itillrell. •
shears ot Fish and 'a f ire Feet iu .Ctr.
entnterinee iEroltee at quebt
A Quebec, despatch dyiee A
on Saturday morns worni4jea ',sire
tested in the ilky < er th'
torth two dietinet este
panied by"a Jou
thought to hay
phenomena wa
noon, when 3
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THE VENTENNIA IA OP NIETO° OILER
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Grand iarpres4n.a.ive Gatborfou at OW.
IdelOre.-1( terday,es Proceedloas.'
,A last (Wed sday) night's Baltimore
despatch says: The Centennial Conference
of Methooisee assembled this morning at
ttfoant Vernon Churoh, where a very large
member of delegates were present and the
church crowded to its utmost capacity.
Biebop Andrews, Chairman ot the General
Executive Committee, called the Con-
ference to order and Bishop Granberry
was chosen presiding officer for the day.
The Venerable Dr, Joseph Cummins read
the Scripture lemon, and a centenary
hemp, compiled for the oecasion by the
Rev. Dr 8. K Cox, was sung by the, entire
body of delegetes, the audience uniting.
Sioging was followed by prayer, after
whioh Bishop Andrews announced that the
Bible from which the lemon bad been read
was °tee the property of Jonn Wesley.
Routine buitiness was then proceeded with.
Bishop'Foster delivered the stifinen,10
the course of which be raid " We are here
not to celebrate a victory, but .to gird our,
lointo devise wise and skilful methods to
be etroeg, to wet the demagoguery of our
age as our fathers met it in their days..
infidelity then stalked abroad unrebuked
end Chrietehdom seemed to be feditig in
1784, The opening of 1884, our centeuraty,
it not so dark, is dark enough. The condi-
. clone of home &aid society are being revolu•
tionized ; ancient, time-honored theories
are being ext loded ; steered institutions are
put to the strain of greetlests. ,We are in
the grip of a -great combat for the final
dominion of the world: The falee and
gromidless will paesetway.* The fortress of
lies has kept the. world in. slavery. There
will be confliet, but Zion will be left with
no rent in her foundation—no breach 10
her walls. The progress will be slow, but
it will be founded ori eternal truth. Tbe,
Chitral abides' n. for evert -• Inditeidual
Churobits have no mob „prpatiee'Z' The
-only hope Of any •Churoli is the trete(
it "posseeeme and its ability to oast out
the uusound . it inherits. .It- was
important that Calvinism went down,, ' AU'
tea great truth -could not float its error.
The absolute permanency of any church is
dependent ine abeolutely true creed.
Our oiled, will bear the teat of the cadet
intelligent critioistna." He :sieke .
ptatitudes in the-pull:44 and said "
_day there ia • a vast amouttt.of eudlesteand
Spiritless preaebilpg„., The 'gre itte P need'
.ms -b; revival of the pulpit in all Po-'eatant-
nineatid more than all in tb- • eethoaiet•
.Churoh.'i The Binbop made a?.., appeal for
temperance. ^leer:eel:nob thfi Heileiejah
Chorus :was Sung, and ,the thermion closed
with She benediotio.n. • • ' , •
At the,af ernoon bastion Rev. Dr. James
Gardiner, of Princeton, Cellar?. presided.
The Rsv. Dr. John Wiley, New Jersey,
read an essay on the work of toe Chriatiau
.Conference. Rev. Henry'13, Ridgway, D.
D., 111., read en essay ou the '• Personuel
of the Christian Conference." Tonight
there were meetiugs "in eleven oburobee,
including four colored Methodets, at ali
of which the 'subject of tuisseaus was die.
cussed., and the .general feeling.was that
deeper interest ehould betaken in COSF.Pi0d:
work and the weed of the Crunch in foreign
Nude.
A Tweet. Al' i.,Aitt4E ‘y•
And Ceett1.01. Great Havoc in a Hog Pen '1
Deyton, 0., despatch says: Betwee
12 feud 1 o'clock yesterday moruivg Williuxr
Leshuer, a farmerliviug five miles Ir
this city, MIS awlaened by hearing
noise in his .hog pen. He arose ati
with is revolver, went forth. to
wee the cause. Arriviug•at
discovered therein 'a le
had killed one of his
he
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