Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-11
MORE DYNAMITE.
Chicago Startled by Another Ter
rife Explosion.
A WAREHOUSE BLOWN UP.
Nobody Knows Who Is Responsible foi
the DastardIy Crime - Some Think
That Anarchists Did It's the
"whisky Trust" ImpIicateds

CHICAGO, Dsc. ia most dastardly at
tempt to destroy large amount of property,
If not human life, was parpetrated at the
distillery of II. II. Shufeldt 81 Co, Larrabe.
street and Hawthorne avenue.
At 6:15 o'clock in the morning the vicinity
was startled by tremendous explosion.
Laboring men who were getting then
breakfasts hurried to the street; women and
children who had not yet left their beds
hastily threw on a few clothes and followed
the men TO the sidewalks; window glass rat
tied down ON TO the street from buildings ON
Larrabee street and Chicago avenue People
stood about with blanched cheeks not know
ing which way to turn.
An investigation brought out the fact that
the explosion had taken place in the store
room for highwines at the distillery.
There was great jagged hole in the roof,
barrels of highwines had been knocked about
promiscuously while the floor was strewn
with debris
The watchman, with others, then ascended
TO the roof of the building. 1t is a one story
brick structure, with fat roof, fronting OF
Hawthorne avenue.
About six or eight feet from the hole lay
package. An examination showed it to be q
parcel containing seven. sticks of dynamite,
fourteen incEes long, topped with fulminat.
ing caps, and out of the end was a partially
burned fuse. The roof has many skylights
in it,
The theory of Mr. Lynch, of the firm, IL
that some one who knew the lay of the roof
had thrown ths dynamite packages on IL,
hoping that they would crash through the
skylights down into the store room. There
were $4,000 barrels of whisky in the store
room, and had they been ignited terrible
fire would have resulted.
For many months the firm, it is said, has
been fighting the whisky trust and while
mentioning no names, Mr. Lynch is pursu-
ing his investigation in that direction, al.
though the police suspect Anarchists.
Enough facts are not yet known to justify
a conclusion as to whether ii is the work ol
Anarchists or of some one who has per-
sonal grievance against the Shufeldts
THE ANARCHISTS.
Anarchists held meetings Sunday notwith-
standing the measures adopted by the police
10 prevent such assemblages. The Arbeiter
Bund. the group which the police are espe-
cially anxious TO suppress, held three hours
session during the afternoon, and $50 persons
were in attendance.
The Sunday school society met at Thalia
hall and defied the police, while the Ameri-
can Socialists had their usual Sunday after
noon gathering. The police had issued no
order against the latter proceedings, and
nothing of a revolutionary character oc
CURED. On the contrary, the chief speaker
of the afternoon denounced anarchy.
There was no conflict between the police
and the "reds In the Hinman street dis
trict, on West Lake street, and in other por
tions of the city the Anarchists assembled at
the places where they usually congregate
and were loud in their denunciations of the
police. At these places, however, they did
not dare attempt to hold meetings, except in
one instance.
At Greif's hall, the Pioneer Aid and Sup
port Association met for few moments, and
then adjourned to take part In the ThaIis
hall proceedings. Police officers In plain
clothes mingled with the crowds at the halls
at which meetings had been called, and uni.
formed officers patrolled neighborhoods in
which it was thought trouble was most likely
to occur.
Strong details were held In reserve at all
the stations, but in no instance were they re.
quired to suppress any attempted outbreak
The day was characterized by an absence Of
violence.
Nina Van Zandt was one of number OF
women at Greif's hall, and joined her protes.
tations with others against police interfer-
ence.