Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-29
ANARCHY'S NEW ARM.
An Internal Machine Invented By a
Nihilist, That May Re Used
WITHOUT RISK TO THE OPERATOR.
No Dynamite, Matches Nor Clockwork, but
. Secret Explosive.
SET OFF AT WILL By 4 QUEER LIQUID

NEW YORK, Aug. %. -Afte. years of
labor the Russian Nihilists have at last sue
ceeded in inventing perfectly satisfactory
internal machine. The model was finished
in London a few days ago, and report
which has reached this country says that
those who examined it pronounce it as per-
feet death-dealing instrument as could be
devised.
The machine is 16 centimeters in height
and in width. 1t is rectangular in shape,
portable and looks somewhat like q small
book. Even when charged it can be car
ried with the utmost safety in the breast
pocket OF coat, and no one but the in
itiated would ever imagine that it was any
thing but bulky purse. When the time
for action comes the Nihilist can take it
ont of his pocket, place it where the explo-
sion is to occur, and then calmly walk of to
place of safety.
At the appointed moment the machine
will explode without the aid of clockwork
or even of lighted match. Instead of
dynamite secret explosive is used and
with this the bottom of the machine is
filled.
Ignited by Strange Secret Liquid.
Over the explosive is placed detonator,
which consists of chemical product and is
set on fire by coming in contact with drop
of some secret liquid. A glass ball holds
this liquid and, when an explosion is de-
sired, all that is necessary is to let it trickle
drop by drop through tube, at the lower
extremity of which is the small chemical
mass resting on the explosive.
When the machine is turned upside down
SO that the glass ball is at the bottom no
explosion can take place, but when the
machine is held upright so that the LIQUID
can trickle down to the detonator an ex-
plosion is bound to follow.
In the eyes of revolutionists the merit of
this machine lies in the fact that it can be
operated without any danger to the oper-
ator. Moreover, it is always ready and can
be regulated to a moment. Heretofore
clockwork or a lighted match was necessary
to produce an explosion and the result was
that, once set going, the machine could not
be stopped. This new machine, however,
can be stopped at any moment before the
explosion takes place. After placing il in
position the operator may decide to post
pone the shake-up for awhile, and then all
that will be necessary for him to do will be
to turn the internal device upside down and
put it back in his pocket.
Perfectly Safe to the Handler.
He will run absolutely no risk in hand
ling the machine, for by means of the five
plugs of blotting paper in the glass tube he
can determine the very moment at which
the explosion is to take place. If he allows
the liquid to trickle very quickly, he may
expect an explosion in five
whereas, if he uses the five plugs
Of blotting paper, he may reckon on q full
hour ior flight before the liquid touches the
letonator.
Nihllists consider the invention of this |
nichine almost as important as the inven- |
Ion of dynamite and are very anxious to |
earn what steps the authorities will take |
% guard themselves from it. When dyna-
mite bombs came into use among Anarchists |
he authorities in France and other coup- |
ries placed many restrictions on the sale of |
dynamite, and it is assumed in revolution
ry circles that they will pursue the same
policy now and by restricting the sale of
dangerous chemicals aud explosives render
t difficult, though hardly impossible, for
heir implacable enemies to do much harm
With this new instrument of destruction.
What will make their task especially
lifficult is the fact that they do not know
that kind of explosive and liquid is used
n the new machine and Nihilists are deter
1ined that they shall not be enlightened on
his point