The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-13
THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.


CHICAGO, Nov. l2.-Within a bombs
throw OF the Haymarket armed anarchists
tonight again met the Chicago police and
the result WAS most iguOminions defeat
for the men of the red 1ag A miss meet
ing Of the most radical element was an
nouucrd 10 be held tonight in Griefs hall,
place celebrated in the annals of Spies
am Parsons followers The decision I'M
sxDec eddy di-played by the authorities
last night in compelling the West Twelfth
street Turner hall gat herring to hoist the
stars aud stripes had "A diSconcerting
effect, and al the last moment tonight il
was decided 10 make the GrIef's hall gath
ering secret and admit only few of the
most ruSted spirits
A detective has been for several DAYS
culiivaiiug the acquaintance of the men
who were leaders during the exciting
times OF five years ago. This man was
admitted to the meeting and kept his SUI
periOrs infOr med OF all that WAS going on
soon word came that infiammatory
speeches were being made aud that num-
Der OF tuOSe in the meeting were disultv-
Ing arms and Boosting OF the use they
would b. put to in case the police inter
fered, In a saloon belO fully 200 men
were gathered, and, although no or anized
meeting was held there, the speeches were
scarcely less incendiary than those that
were being made above, and it was evident
that trouble might occur at any moment.
In the DesplaInes street police station
near by, Inspector Lewis had 100 men in
uniform and surrounding the building in
which the meeting was being held were
about fifty detectives in citizens clothes.
Suddenly, at a signal given by the man in
the meeting, a concerted raid was made.
The nOn-unifOrmed officers guarded The
rear of the building and allowed no person
to leave. The blue coats entered the front
door and in "A moment the meeting on the
upper hoor was broken mp, and those vh no
had been making speeches to the crowd in
the saloon were under arrest. So ouicl
was the onslaught that the Anarchists
were taken completely by surprise. and
before they had zine to recover themselves
enough % make any serious resistance
they SAW the hopelessness of their cause
Several, however, drew revolvers, but
they were quickly oyerpOwered by the
police.
Over 200 persons were captured in the
building 10y the police. They were
searched. ana those found TO have weapous
were PLACED under arrest. The Others
were hustled into the street and told 70
leave the vicinity. 4 large amount of
tniiammatory literature was captured and
number of red flags were torn from the
walls and destroyed. No sign of an
American hag was seen anywhere about
the place. Several policemen were in
lureu Dy bottles and beer glasses, which
were thrown at them One of the editors
of the Arbieter Zeitung, German daily
the successor of Spies md Parsons rabjd
sheet, aud which, like its predecessor. has
pronounced anarchistic principles. was ar
rested while making a speech.
Among he other prisoners were the fol-
lowing, each of whom carried revolyers
and a attempted TO resist the officers: John
)rivSrll, Ernest Rupert, II .nrF Miller
David Suffer Charles Lanrren. Henry
Dreiptr and Andrew Weiss. These men
are all known 20 the police and were prom /
luent In the ranks of the Anarchists five
and six years ago, when the red flag was
50 olt-u seen on the streets of Chic3vo
Most OF The prisoners We're released before
a. m Gref going on the majority of the
bon he amount of bonds in each case
was 5000