Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-04
The City Of PitSbuTg, the Headquarters
and HOtbGd,
OF Socialists, Nihilists and Con-
spirators From All Nations,
They Are Well Organized And
Have Plenty Of Arms,
And Are Awaiting For a Pretext
For An Outbreak,
The Pittsburg Papers Say That
1t Is a Fact,
And Not a Mere idle or Sensational
ENaggetation, aud Sounds
the Warming Note.
SOCIALISTS.

P%ITTsBURG, February 3.-The Chronicle tel
egraph this afternoon says it has come to thu
knowledge of some secret agents here that tn,
socialists have stored arms and dynamite il
this city, and are ready for an outbreak anc
attack on the capitalists. Men from the
Hooking valley and elsewhere are said to b,
here, ready for the business. Sensational de
%velopments are expected.
The publication of the article has created
considerable alarm, The paper asserts: "Foi
two months q Russian and two English spie.
have been at work in Pitttburg and vicinity,
endeavoring to learn who are in sympathy
here with the Irish dynamiters. P%ittsbure,
1T IS stated, has been for o long while scarce OF
a large revenue of dynamiters. The men in
the mills and mines are said to believe In the
doctrine OF nlhllism, are alleged to have been
liberal in giving. 1t is then declared that al
least two Pittsburg men, who are famous the
country over, and who are worth millions OF
dollars, have furnished money in considerable
sums to Irish and French radicals and
to herman extreme liberals, who
used the funds in the German reichstag
elections. This money, the article says. was
evidently not intended to go into the dyna.
mite branch OF politics, but a portion of it has
drifted there, nevertheless, having gone from
the hands of one branch of the extremists to
the other. The statement is made that within
the past three weeks, from q thousand to if
teen hundred thousand guns and revolvers
have been received by the socialistic sympa.
thizers in the city. Some of these munitions,
it is stated, came accompanied by money from
Canada, others from western points and others
from eastern cities. A large quantity of DIV.
Mantle had also been obtained, part being
manufactured in Pittsburg by experienced DIV.
namiters. 1t Is pointed out there are many
~workingmen out of employment among
whom much dissatisfaction and discomfort
exist. Then follows the statement to the
effect that the local socialists have gathered
kindred spirits from Chicago, from the Hook.
ing Valley, from the anthracite and bitumi-
nous coal mines in the western part of the
state. These men are stated to have been
drifting into the city, singly and in pairs for q
month or more, ostensibly for work, but in
reality to take a hand in any movement for
plumber or revolt against law that may be or
ganzed. The article continues: 'These men
complain that they cannot find work, that
they are suffering from hunger and that on
this plea claim they are justified in the
movement against the mill owners
and other capitalists. Several of the latter
have been warned, or have discovered the
condition of affairs in part and have notsfed
the police, That there is an uneasy, restless
feeling among them is SO true that it can be
readily proven; The police have not been
idle, but they have no results as yet. In this
movement there are all sorts of elements, the
German, Russian, italian, Swedish, Swiss
and French socialists and revolutionists and
Irish dynamiters, who have all Joined their
forces. There are English interests to be
reached here by the Irish dynamiters and the
English representatives too, and the
latter know it. A month ago the
local socialists were at swords points
with the ancharchists pure and
simple. Now they are warm friends and al
lies, and have met together in more than one
secret gathering. The leaders of the move.
ment have been looking for some pretext for
an outbreak. No later than Saturday the
city had a narrow escape froms just the kind
of thing these men desired. The natural gas
explosion caused hot indignation among the
workingmen, and had the projected attempt
to tear up the gas pipes been made, it would
have led to more serious trouble than seemed
from the surface indications to be possible.
The names and other facts are known, and the
proper authorities can have these names and
those not already learned.
The Chronicle Telegraph earnestly protests
that the above statements are not a sensa.
tlonal eXaggeration, but, on the contrary, seri-
ous truths. Staub and Fricke, two Of the
most prominent socialists in the city, were
seen to night relative to the story. Fricke
assumed a mysterious air, when approached
and refused to talk on the subject. Stauh
said that the society was weak in this city,
but he expected to see it greatly strengthened
in a few weeks. He admitted that Carl ODER.
man, of New York, was in the city for some
time for the purpose of organizing the interna.
tionalists. Further than this nothing could be
earned from Staub.