Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
A DYNAMITE BOMB
AND 4 PLUOKY CHICAGO COACH
MAN.
An Attempt TO Blow Up the Residence
o. JudgS Tree Frustrated.

CHICAGO, Dec. Pa little after 9
o'clock, this morning, a quart can of
peculiar construction was found on
Judge Lambert Trees front porch, at
"a Cass street, by his coachman, who
tenderly took it up and carried it into
a vacant lot in the rear, and then
started on a run for the Chicago ave
u police station. He was pale
with fright when he reached there, and
telling Lieut.. Shepherd that he had
found a can of dynamite. and where
he had found it, asking that an officer
be sent down to investigate. -
Officer Adams was sent back with
him, and together they took the mys
steriOus can to the lake shore, 1T the
foot OF Chicago avenue and touched a
match to the foot of the dynamite
fuse, which was found around the can.
The explosion made a terrible noise,
which was heard distinctly at the sta
ton, and the earth WAS torn up for
several feet.
When the can was found it wGs
standing under the doorway, and the
fuse wal charred at the end, show
ing that it had been lighted
and gone out. The police will
investigate the mysterious affair.
Judge Tree is now in Brussels,
where he went a few months ago as
United States minister. No motive is
known for the attempt to destroy his
residence, which is one of the finest in
Chicago, and was only completed
about Il year ago. 1t is at present oc-
cupied by Gen. A. q. McClurg.
The deadly continuance looked like q
common lamp, and thinking it was put
in the yard by some practiced joke,
the coachman removed it to the 'front.'
yard. On laying it down he was hor-
rifed to notice that a fuse was attached
to the machine. A hurried inspection
revealed that it was not the
innocent thing it seemed to be,
and it was left untouched until
officer Gallagher'5 arrival. The
latter carried it to the central station.
His appearance created the widest ex-
element, and the officers lost no tine
getting to the outside. Many of them,
mindful of Otto Funk's experiment
with an Internal machine, ran pel!-mell
out of the station, and Gallagher was
forced to dispose Of the machine him
self. He carried it to a powder dealer
on Lake street, but this man refused
to touch it. n clerk in the store,
however, examined it and at first
sight pronounced it a finely construct
ed dynamite bomb.
"Iake it out of here, it may explode
at once" shouted the frightened clerk.
"or it will blow up the whole store"
Gallagher and the clerk fastened
with the machine to the lake front.
where preparations were made to en-
plode the bomb, and a fuse five feet
long was attached to the machine and
fred.
Both men ran with all speed to a
safe distance, and none too soon
for they had not gone two
hundred feet when the machine
exploded with IA tremendous noise.
The report was heard as far west as
Fifth avenue and an idea of the force
of the explosion may be had at the
way the ground was torn up for IA
depth of six feet. The hard frozen
ground was scooped up as if it it were
so much water.
Officer Ga!lagher'S companion, an
expert, was of tie opinion that the ex-
plosive was nitro glycerine and de.
clared enough of it was present in the
machine to blow up the city hall. Thus
far the police have no idea of the par.
ties who are responsible for the con.
templated outrage. 1t snot known that
any motive existed for the commission
Of such Il bar0aTous act. The police
have male nc arrests. The Tree resi-
dence is one of the most elaborate and.
costly houses in the city, occupyii
one quarter of an entire block, in 4,
fashionable residence district in the
north division of the city. The build
ing probably represents 100000 with
its valuable contents. 1t is a three
story structure, of brown stone rock,
fIced, and covering a wide area.