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Show AN AMERICAN SCARE IN LONDON. Owing to the alarming rumors in the locality, and also, it would seem, to direct complaints on the part of some of the neighbors, the premises occupied by the firm of H.K.& F.B. Thurber & Co., 115 and 117 Cannon Street, city, were yesterday visited officially by Superintendent Foster and Inspector Carter, of the Metropolitan Police. It would appear, so far as particulars of the rumors and complaints are traceable to reliable sources, that many of the passers-by in the buys thoroughfare on Friday afternoon last were seized with something approaching panic by observing in prominent letters the word "dynamite" on a large number of wooden cases then in course of unloading from a van. As may readily be supposed from the well-known well known fearfully destructive qualities of the article in question, the passers-by did not linger on the way and the matter came to the ears of the police. Hence the official visit to the premises yesterday afternoon. The boxes in question, so far from containing dynamite, really contain comb honey, the entire label running, "Handle gently as dynamite, as a drop of one inch will cause certain destruction to the contents." Such was the method taken by the American firm to direct special attention to the necessity of care in handling the boxes. -- London Echo. |