The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-31 00:00:00

ANARCHISTS IN AMERICA.

AN ALARMING DISCOVERY.
(From the Standard Correspondent.)

NEW Youx, Tuesday Night.
The Brazilian Vrince Dom Augusto paid a visit to
Coney Island at the invitation of the officials of the
Seabeach Railway. Among the guests who were
expected, to be present were the District Attorneys,
who were active in the recent trial and conviction
of the Anarchist Most and the ringleaders of the
boycotters. An anonymous document, signed "By
orders of the Social Revolutionary Commit-
tee," was mat to the Railway Company,
warning them, as follows: "If you persist in
entertaining these representatives of tyranny, revenge
shall fall upon you; your life and that of other
principals in this fete shall be forfeited. Your lives
are now in your own hands; the responsibility now rests
with you." At first no importance was attached to
this threat, and the document was handed round as
an amusing joke. Owing to a purely accidental cir-
cumstances, the district attorneys were not among
the party, Nothing unpleasant transpired until the
return trip lad almost ended. When the steamer
Sylvan Stream, which conveyed the guests, was
approaching the dock, an excited woman drew the
attention of the deck hands to a package with a
burning fuse lying upon the floor of the cabin adja-
cent to the engines. Shouts of "A bomb" soon pro-
duced a panic. The fire of the burning fuse had
almost reached the contents of the package, which re-
sembled a large bottle, when one of the sailors coolly
picked it up and threw it overboard. No damage was
done beyond the burning of a hole in the carpet of the
cabin. Efforts were made to hush up the occurrence,
so as to prevent further inquiry, the employes being
forbidden to speak on the subject. Some of the pas-
sengers, however, have made extravagant statements
on the subject. It is said that some forty feet of
fuse had burned, giving ample time for the author of
the intended outrage to escape and avoid detec-
tion. The evidence taken at the trial of the
Anarchists at Chicago justifies the worst re-
ports heretofore published as to the nature of the
conspiracy. Nothing new was elicited until to-day;
when an intimate connection with the movements in
Canada was disclosed, though the testimony was
not sworn to. Canadian detectives watched the
Chicago Socialists for two years, even joining their
military bands, and their reports helped to frustrate the
Manitoba revolt, which was fomented from Chicago,
and which established a conspiracy with Riel. One
large shipment of dynamite, ostensibly for mining
purposes, was withheld upon their affidavit. Agitators
and organisers were also sent from Chica to Canadian
cities.
CHICAGO, July 27.
Additional evidence has been given in the Anarchist
trial now proceeding here, showing the existence of a
conspiracy with intent to murder. It has transpired
that the Canadian Government has during the last
two years maintained two detectives here for the pur-
pose of Watching the dynamiters in regard to their
connection with the Riel rebellion in the North-West,
and also relative to other contemplated revolutionary
movements which were not carried into effect in
Canada.