The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-28
IT ENDED In A FIZZLE.
bASTARCLY ATTEMPT TO KILL
PRINCE LEOPOLD OF BRAZIL.

| lighted Bomb Discovered on Pleasure
Boat Containing the Prince and Other
Prominent Peop,e-A Horror Averted
by One Mans CooIness-work of Social
| Eeyoiutionists.
NEW YORK, July y An almost success
ui attempt was made Monday evening to
blow up the steamer Sylvan Stream which
| had on board Don Augusta Leopoldo, prince
4 Of Brazil, the commandant and officers of
the Brazilian war ship Barrosa, Consul Gen
eral Aendonca, and other attaches of the
brazilian legation. The party, together
( with other guests, had been invited by the
officers of the Sea Beach Railroad company
to take a trip to Coney island and see the
sights at the west end. Among other
prominent citizens who were asked to ac-
! company the prince were District Attorney
MARITIME and his assistants, MeSsrS Fellows
/ and Nichols They were all out of town,
| ami therefore could not accept. Monday
morning Manager A. II. Man, of the Sea
Beach company, received the following let
ter
To rHE PRESIDENT OF THE SEA BEACH
X H.RnAn COMPANY, THE DIRECTORS or
/ 80" t'mi AM, AND oIhhh bandit
| Lovers AND ROYAL LICKSPiTTLEs: 1t is
publicly announced that you intend feting
the Brazilian prlnceet who is now here,
and that in con junction with that fete you
viii entertain and banquet the oppressor
MARITIME and the bloodhound Fellows. This
affair has Eeen duly discussed in committee,
and it has been resolved that this entertain
ment is revolving and disgusting spectacle
! Of homage to kingcraft and representative
4 tyranny. 1t is now time that such sights
! shall TO done away with-that an example
he made. This entertainment to Augusta
l4eopoldo, the princeling, MARITIME the op.
pressor, and Fellows, the bloodhound, must
! not take place. If you persist to entertain
/ these representatives of tyranny, then re-
vense shall fall upon you. Your life and
/ that of the other principals in this fete
I shah be forfeited and taken at the earliest
/ opportunity. This opportunity will not be
long before reached BY order
SOCIAL REVOLUTION COMMITTEE
July 26 1885,"
| The communication was shown to the di-
rectors, and, though little consequence was
4 attached to it, Mr. Man, as a matter of pre-
! caution, had private detective accompany
| the party. The special boat left the foot of
Whitehall street at ESQ o'clock Monday
{! afternoon with the Brazilian flag floating
/ at the peak and brass band making things
/ lively ON the upper deck.
| After spending the evening at Coney isl.
aud the party started for home on the boat
! at O'Clock. Most Of the guests were OIL
/ the upper deck about the cabin at that
| time. Coroner Messemer occupied seat
within the cabin, and George Brown,
an employ of the company, was
patrolling the cabin deck. There
had been faint oior of
| sulphur in the air for several minutes,
and suddenly there was heard a fixing
sound from beneath bench on the star.
! board side of the cabin, directly over the
| engine. At the same time little fountain
! of sparks was thrown up distance of two
! or three feet Coroner MeSsemcr iumped
to his feet and rushed from the cabin, ex-
| claiming: There is bomb in here" At
the same instant Brown rushed from the
cabin carrying 4 dark object, which still
emitted sparks IS he reached the railing
Of the steamer he flung the object over
board In an instant everybody forward
was III panic \ gentleman
hastenad to the stern. where the
consul had located himself, and qui-
etly requested him to come forward, as
here was some trouble Brown was then
closely questioned, and he said be had
picked up a bottle about six inches long,
/ Tiled with he did not know what, except
that there was a fuse ATTACHED to it,
why didn't you keep the bottle he was
asked.
Another minute, he responded, and it
would have exploded. 1t amt the custom
to keepsuch things on board when you can
help it"
Prince Leopold was not informed of the
peril in which bis royal life had been placed
Until be was safe ashore He was evidently
.turtlod but the only remark be made was:
The devil