The air has this week been full of dynamite. On
Sep- tember 24th, as Marshal Martinez Campos was commencing a review at Barcelona, a man named Pallas, a notorious Anarchist, threw an iron bomb stuffed with one of the forms of dynamite among the group of Staff officers. A sergeant of the Civil Guard, who was in attendance, was blown to pieces, General Clemente was so injured that his death is expected, and the Marshal himself, his horse dying under him, was flung down and sustained a severe contusion. The stampede among the spectators was terrible, and thirteen in all are reported seriously wounded. The Marshal mounted a fresh horse, and insisted on going on with the review. Pallas admits his crime ; and on searching his house and that of other Anarchists, more bombs were found and quantities of incendiary literature. A similar attempt had apparently been planned in Vienna, though the object there, it is said, was to destroy a crowd ; but, happily, the police were in time. Accident placed them on the track of the conspirators, And on September 24th fourteen of them were arrested, eleven being Bohemians. Their rooms were full of explosives and Anarchist leaflets ; while the coat of the leader, a man named Baspel, was lined with wire hooks, intended, no doubt, to carry bombs. No evidence of a definite plan is forthcoming, nor do the Anarchists appear to hate special individuals. Their single object is social confusion. Almost on the same day a Mr. Reese and his wife, residing at Pittsburg, U.S., were blown to pieces, the excuse put forward being that the wife knew too much of Anarchist plans. The faction will, we fear, at last rouse the whole world to terrible measures of reprisal.
