Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-06-06
WAS IT BUT A sc,n~

marke: Statue Was Place, The h
Ghastly Joke. Ahefe
A story was told to Capt. H,s..
may or may not throw S VI
on the Haymarket bnml !
terry. a private watcbms' .
of the men employed to guard ,Iu
on Haymarket square, came to - Sa
PLANES street station, and on 'us D
mitted to the captains room 'e'ee
that official that he could helm h;1 sa''''
bit on the bomb business. ''@ OF
How" was the captains op..u
Why, at 2 o'clock in the ma...
can was found at the base Of lung A
ment, l passed there and sow sus %
burning on the stones. picked Iy !.
found it to be a piece Of fuse ahaa, op]
long, which a on fire Mt on.
tried to blow it out, but could not 1 q.
] took my knife and picked out ths !. y
Of fire and then threw the th;no w. 'a'1
am sure there was no can of s w.
there then" 'sas1
Why did you put off tellipo ~.
so long?' the captain asked,
u did not know that a bomb h.,
found until two days afterwards ~,
papers made it out such a bio 4 w.
thought the best thing l could d. ' ~.
keep still until the excitement 6isa y.
wish now that you would not give NV wy
to anybody"
Capt. Hayes promised to keep The !,
secret, and still stands BY the NV.
However, he went to Chief Norss
night and gave him the story. The i
intendent Of police is inclined to ~
good zeal of reliance upon the vat a'l
tale and does not question the MANI
racity. Indeed. Chief Marsh be}iev.,|
dynamite was put on the monumen, \
scare.
The supposition is that tee fuss wi
o. the stones and burned, and then
being extinguished, was put in the u
dynamite. Arranged in this mapnsl
joke had a business-like air, for it, n
as if Providence alone had prevs,,|
terribly disastrous explosion.
A reporter interviewed o salesman !
dynamite aud powder house.
Zone thing is certain" the salsI
said, the %supposition that the fuse
burned before it was inserted in thai
of dynamite is far u.o.e reascI
than the superstition That
rain put out the busuiug
and prevented the destruction Of III. !
ument and surrounding property. !
is not q house In The city that sells
the rain will put out. The mo5ep |:
waterproof, and is made to resist
toughest sort of treatment. lean tai
Of our fuses and soak it in water 4 d
and it will burn just exactly al
rs the day it came out of the factory.
reason why We take SO much tyous|
make good fuse is plain. Ii a mine,
in a deep charge of nytro-glycerir(
dynamite and the fuse goes out
very seriou matter. He Gun nd
down to get the charge, for be
run too much risk Of blowing himsj
The only thing he can do is to put
other and much larger charge at sod
lance and take chances. Perhaps 4
plosion of the second charge will
off the first and he will ed
of the mess. If not, al
section of his mine is rendered ID
and, worse than that, a cod
menace to the lives of the miuea
euch q cate Of course the firm thatsq
poor fuse would get oil the blane.
can rest assured that there are no
made that rain or water of any sd
put out"
DO you think that il the fus1
lighted and connected with the dy1
anything could keep the bomb frod
ploding?"
Il. am SURE nothing except cutti
fuse could stop it. There is not one
OF q miss in ten thousand"
In the meantime the officers at th|
trail station believe they are close
track of the man who put the exp
on the monument. Last Frils
young German who wrote the
that gave the detectives o
which resulted in the arrest Of
Kaiser left the city suddenly. This
was written before any bomb bad
placed on the monument and proba
some friend of Herr Most who wanted
Kaiser into trouble. 1t now looks as
bomb was put on the Haymarket I
same purpose. Detectives are afd
fugitive anarchists, and wired thee
Office last night that the arrest would
ably be made within twenty-four hog
Kaiser continues to maintain bis
innocence, but Lieutenant Ripley VI
consent 10 his discharge from cus!oS
til the letter writer's confession i
possession. Herr Most, in New y
still iubilant because his enemy is
sweat box, and the tin can aud
pounds of dynamite still rest In
Mareh's safe.