New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-13
PLACING BOMBS ON THE TRACK.
CoNIcAL CARTRIDGES FILLED WITH DYNAMITE
IsEn BY ONE OF THE STRIKERS.


Chicago Oct 1o (speciaD.-It seems Impossible
for a strike TO occur in Chicago without dynamite,
and the present street-car mems strKe mas peeh no
exception 10 the rule. Yesterday AFTERNOON s"o
detectives were riding down scdgwick-st IN buggy
ON the lookout for plug -uglies and strikers. AS
they neared schllerst they saw man covering
something on the rails with hay. They drove UP
and arrested the fellow on removing the hay they
discovered four suspicious looking objects. conica
I'm shape terra Gotta in color and about as large as
an English walnut. wire crossed the pottol
and ran up through the centre. A large crown hau
congregated the corner, several hundred leet
away. waiting for tho cars to down, and seeing
two strangers holding up striker, made hasty
movement TO investigate the arrest The officers,
fearing that they might lose their man, hustled him
into the buggy and took him to police statioh'
They questioned him 10 what the curious-ioohihg
cones were, but to avail Ho didn't Know nc
said what they were An oil merchant In Eugena-
e. had given them to him, but the name and address
~ the OH man he soutly refused to give. He said
he was lust putting them on the track Tor fuh ABOUT
: o'clock 10 was given out that the opJec's were ny
Mantle bombs and The news created great cohs'crna
tion all over the city. Extra papers containing the
news were hawked all the residence portion Oh
the city. Later In the nisht IL was s'd'e' '' 0
bombs were harmless.
roa.v C.n,on schaack whose experience in hand
linz exnlosives Is we'll known made careful e1
animation Of tho missiles and In his report u INC
chief of poce Colonel Hubbard says they are dyna
mite bombs OF the most dangerous kind and are
stronger than any of the bombs he has before handled
~ those found on the track had been exploded by
the Captain said, there would not have been
a yestige of the car horses or passengers LETT IL
three Of them were placed in gas pipe, they would
make a bomb precisely like those made by Lngg
Last night after the bombs were found, Captain
schaack sent for an expert connected with one OF the
big powder houses of Chicago, and gave him the
packages The gentleman took them home ana
this morning brought them back
at Is dynamite said he TO the Captain, " and
there is enough Of II TO blow up this station"
one of the packages taken TO the city limits
this morning Il IS said, and exploded IL ploughed
a great hole In the ground, besides breaking large
niece OF iron placed under 1t To test lis force
A dozen Of these cones found In the pockets
Of the man arrested. On the surface of each cone
Is a small hole, through which protrudes somehing
which looks like a torpedo. A piece OF wire about
two Inches I'm length extends from the bottom ana by
means OF these the bombs were fastened TO the rali
so that the fiat surface would be top OF the rail-
Tho urisorers name is Jules Kascberg, former CON
durior. For the last year and han he mas p's,h
with the street company Tie came 70 TINS
country from GERMANY when fourteen yeais oi age
lie has wife and little girl about four years 1h. -,
reporter called at his home To hear VIVA, MS WIG
had to say IT her husbands trouble Sho hl,oW
nothing of the arrest until told Of II by the reporter
| She gave low moan, turned deadly pale, ana ior