The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27
LATER NEWS IETMS.

More dynamite bombs have been
captured in Chicago. While some boys were
playing ball in the northwestern section of the
city their ball rolled under the sidewalk, and
going after it, they discovered a bundle, the
covering of which was an oilcloth table spread.
Opening the bundle they found something
which appeared like giant fire crack
ers. Police officers were summoned, who
secured the bundle and took il TO the station
It's contents were thirty dynamite bombs, one
empty shell, two boxes of triple-force full
minatng caps, and four hundred feet
coils of fuse. The bombs were of the blast
ing-c cartridge pattern, and were very well
made The shell was one-and- a-half- inch
gas-pipe, eight inches in length A
thread was cut into the interior surface
of each end, and a plug of hard wood
screwed into one end. The shell was then
filed with dynamite, and the fuse attached.
Heavy felt gun wadding was then packed in,
and the bomb was complete
Several anarchists are under arrest
in St Louis on a charge of having introduced,
at an unlawful meeting, and urged the adop-
ton of resolutions indorsing the murderous
doings of the Chicago nihilists.
The testimony of Capt. Setback, of
the Chicago police force, before the Cook
County Grand Jury, was of startling nature.
He said that he had witnesses by which he
could prove that "there was well-laid plan to
sack and burn certain districts in Chicago May
4. 1t would have been carried out but that
the anarchists lacked nerve and were unpre-
pared for the vigorous action of the police.
Men were told of to set fire to certain houses
in the northwestern portion of the city, and
others were told off to throw bombs into
the police stations, while others were
to use bombs at the meeting if the
police attempted TO dispense it. The houses TO
be burned in the northwestern section of the
city were to be selected indiscriminately. The
purpose of the burning was TO attract the at
tention of the police to that section, and TO
draw them away from the main points Of at
tack, the haymarket square and the police
stations. The early dispersal of the crowd
in the square, the premature throwing
of the bomb, for it was premature,
and the determined resistance of the po-
lice frightened the would-be incendiarics and
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in detail"
Dispatches from Ottawa admit that
under existing laws American fishing vessels
can not be held answerable for buying bait in
Canadian ports. But an act amending the
statutes has been hurried 10 third reading in
the House of Commons, and is expected 10 be-
come a law within a week James c. Blaine,
in an interview at Bar Harbor, sad American
fishermen are being unfairly treated, and he
recommended a vigorous policy to compel
Canada to recognize their rights. The Cana
dian authorities at Ottawa recognize the fact
that the Captain of the Lansdowne made seri-
Gus mistake when he seized the Adams.
A Berlin dispatch announces the
DEATH at his home in that city, of Leopold
Won Ranke, the eminent German historian. He
was born at Wiche in Thuringia Dec 81, 1875,
and was consequently in his 9lst year
Don Carlos has issued a manifesto
repudiating the infant son of Queen Christina
as the rightful successor 10 the throne of
Spain.
There has been some fighting be-
tween Greek and Turkish troops on the from
tier-the result Of mutual misunderstanding.
The eruption of Mount Etna is the
greatest known in centuries, and is increasing
in intensity and volume every day. Many
dwellings have been totally destroyed
THE Senate bill extending for two years tho