The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-07-29
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Chicago Anarchist Trial.

The trial of the anarchist conspirators
at Chicago has proceeded to point that
envelopes the accused with chain Of tcs-
timony that is SO complete and unbroken
that q Chicago paper says .'enough has al
observer can judge, to hang at lcast four of
the prisoners. Spies, Lingg, Fielden and
Engel. Day by day the evidence advances
with unbroken front inguliing one after
another of the anarchists a5 the BAR
VIM. Seljger and his wife, living at AZ
Sedgwick 81 testified that bombs were
made at their house by Lingg with five or
six assistants and that on the afternoon Ct
May 4, the time of the Haym 5rket riot 40
or 50 bombs were made. The testimony in
detail showed tnat some ef these bombs
were used on the nigat of May =. NJ. Il.
Williamson, q repol ter testified to
tie action of the Anarchists on the OCCASION
of the opening OF the new Board of Trade
Building. Parsons and FieideD, sDeaking
I. on the windows OF the Arbeiter- Zeitung
Office, had offered to lead an attack with
bombs and all other available weapons on
the large stores Of the city. Marshal;
Fields and e. p. keliogg's being mention
ed as proper places to begin with. The
Board OF Trade was also proposed as an oh
ject OF attack, aud Board or trade men were
to be murdeed because ..ttey we're the
scoundrelly robbers OF the workiugmen aud
had built thai edifice from tho earnings OF
the poor" Parsons and Spies showed the
witness bombs aud dynamite in the Ar
beiter-Zeitung Office. The witness testified
to various meetings where dynamite had
been preached by Spies, Fieiden, Parsons,
ana Schwab. Parsons explained to the wit
ness the methods Of street warfare with
bombs and boaste1 Of the strength and per-
feet organization OF the Anarchists of the
city. Chief of Detectives Shea testified to
the seizures at the Arbeiter-Zsitung, flee,
these including the galley Of type from
He also related Conversations he had with
some OF the prisoners, particularly Spies
and Fischer. Then came +. l. Buck, an ex-
pert in the use of explosives, who had con.
Quoted experiments showing the powerful
character OF the dynamite seized at the Ar
beiter-Zejtung Office. A piece the size Of q
hens egg had broken heavy bars of iron in
to fragments, these fragments being hurled
over q large area and every thing III the vi
cinity OF the explosion pulveriZed. Lieut..
Hubbard gave his version Of tho oft-toid
story OF the Haymarket explosion and riot
lie vividly described the '.little guivering
tail Of fire" that whirled through the air,
and how q circular swath was moved down
in the ranks Of the police. how the men
rallied in disorderly line aud returned the
murderous tire rained on them by the mob
Weinke. appeared with bandagei head.
Weinke had received q bullet wound in the
skull at the Haymarket riot. He detailed
the substance OF speech made by Engel
one Sunday afternoon last February at an
Ien meeting at No. 103, Milwaukee ave.
nue.. Engei advised the crowd to save up
small sum, SO that each might be arms d
with q s. or II revolver, that k;ad '.baisg
good enough to shoot police with" De-
tective Jones, who came next produced two
bars OF dynamita, O large coil Of fuse, and
box and parcel Of Illuminating (dyna-
if,aAo Ntt nf "a hiot1 ba Ind in
Spies desk at the Arbeiter-Zeitung OF
lica. He also produced tubes and car
tridges he found at Flscher's residence.
Detective Duffy produced sack ct dyna-
mite probably about fifteen pounds
wrapped in many folds Of greasy paper.
He had found it on q shelf In the rear edi-
tOrial roum known 8s the ''iihrarvn or tue
Alarm office) of tho Arbeiter-Zeilung build
ing. Detective Flynn produced . cigar-box
filled with letters taken from Spies desk.
The letters were placed in evidence. but
not read. Many Of them are from An
| arch:st Most, and some OF them prove a
connection with European Nihilists. John
j. Ryan testified to speeches made by
Spies, Parsons. Schwab, and Fielden ut
various times when rifles, pi. tolls, and dyn-
had stated that 25 cent worth Of dyna-
mite would demolish the Pullman building,
aud advised that act. AT Que of the pic
mics, Parsons exhibited some dynamite in
| a milk can, and explained its uses Harry
Wilkinson, q reporter, testified to stories
told him by Spies as to the use Of bombs
and dynamite, and the condition and OBJ
jects Of the organization in this city. Joe
Gruenhut. of tho City Health Department,
described as Socialist and writer of So
c.ai!stic literature, had introduced the wit
ness to Spies, and had been present mt the
principal interview. Spies told what was
10 DO done and Gruenhut fixed the date it
would occur--May or within q few days
thereafter, when many workingmen would
be idle through an attempt to enforce an
e;ght-hour law.