St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-27
FRUSTRATED BY FATE.
The Failure Of Fuse to Burn in Dyna-
mite Bomb Saves Judge Trees
Residence.
Thousands of Poles, Incited by Priest,
Engage in Blot in the City Of
Detroit.
They Storm a Church and Lay Seige tc
Store, But are Finally Dispersed
by the Police.
mas by Draining His Wife With
Chair.
Judge Trees House in Danger.

CHICAGO, Dec. ga little after 9
o'clock this morning quart can of peculiar
construction was found OH Judge Lambert
Trees front porch, "a Cass street, by his
coachman, who tenderly took it up and car
ried it into vacant lot in the rear and then
started on run for the Chicago avenue po-
lice station. Hewas pale with fright when
he reached there, and telling Lieut.. Shepard
that he had found can of dynamite and
where he had found it, asked that an officer
be sent down to investigate. Officer Adams
was sent back with him, and together they
took the mysterious can to the lake shore at
the foot of Chicago avenue and touched
match to the foot of dynamite fuse which
was wound about the can. The explosion
made terrific noise which was heard dis
tinctly at the station, and the earth was torn
up for several feet. When the can was
found it was standing under the doorway
The fuse was chearred at the end, showing
that it had been lighted and gone out. The
police will investigate the mysterious af-
fair. Judge Tree is now in Brussels, where
he went a few months ago as United States
minister. No motive is known for the at
tempt to destroy the residence, which is one
of the finest in Chicago, and was only COM
pleted about year ago. 1t is at present
occupied by Gen. A. c. McClurg.
THE DEADLY CONTINUANCE
looked like common lamp, and, thinking
it was put in the yard by some practical
joker, the coachman removed it to the front
yard. On laying it down he was Mortified
to notice that a fuse was attached to the
machine. A hurried inspection revealed
that it was not the innocent thing it was
deemed to be, and it was not touched until
Officer Gallagher's arrival. The latter car
ried it to the central station. His appear
ance created the widest excitement and the
officers lost no time in getting to the out
side. Many of them, mindful of Otto
Funk's experiement with Internal ma
chimes, ran pell nell out of the station, and
Gallagher was forced to dispose of the ma
chine himself. He carried it to powder
dealer on Lake street, but this man refused
to touch it. A clerk in the store, however,
examined it and at first sight pronounced it
finely constructed dynamite bomb. Take
it out ofhere and explode it at once, SHOUTED
the frightened clerk, ''or it will blow up
the whole street." Gallagher and the clerk
fastened with the machine to the lake front,
where preparations were made to
EXPLODE THE BOMB.
and a fuse five feet long was attached to the
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, speed to safe distance, but none too soon,
for they had not gone 200 feet when the
machine exploded with tremendous noise.
The report was heard as far west as Fifth
avenue, and an idea of the force of the eX-
plosion may be had by the way the ground
was torn up. For depth of six feet the
hard frozen ground was scooped up as if it
were so much water. Officer Gallagher'S
companion, an expert, was of the opinion
that the explosive was nitro-g glycerine, and
declared enough of it was present in the
machine to blow up the city hall. Thus far
the police have no idea of the parties who
are responsible for the contemplated out
rage. IL is not known that any motive eX-
listed for the commission of such barbar-
Gus act. The police have made no arrests
The Tree residence is one of the most elab-
| crate and costly houses in the city, occupy
ing one-quarter of an entire block in fash
ionable residence district in the north dvis-
ion of the city. The building probably rep
resents 5000, 900 with it's valuable contents
1t is three-story structure of brown stone.
rock faced and covering wide area. 1t has
been occupied for some time by Gen. A. G.
McClurg of the large publishing house of
Jansen. McC1urg & Co.
Up to II o'clock tonight the police were
unable to furnish any clue as to who are
the perpetrators of the deed. Though
there have been no SocialiStic demonStra-
tions here for several months OF any ac-
count, it is pretty generally surmised that
some Socialist attempted to burn Judge
Trees mansion ''for the good of the
cause" There is no evidence to make this
theory seem probable, but in the absence of
any other it continues to hold. The police
are still investigating the affair.