Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
MARKED FOR DEATH.
Anarchist Conspiracy in Vienna to Blow Up
Dozens of Buildings.

Dozens of Buildings.
VIENNA, Sept. 28.-Through the ar
rest in this city on September % of a
number of Anarchists in a house on
Siebenbrunner Strasse, the police of
this city have discovered the greatest
conspiracy since the time Of Guy
Fawkes in England. The police
ound cases of ravolvers, bombs
ready for loading, explosives
at hand with which to load the bombs
and coats with leather lining to which
hooks were suspending and bombs were
attached. They also discovered in the
walls and furniture Of the house where
the coats were also found documents of
a most important nature.
The full particulars of the plot that
was discovered were not made pu bile at
tie time the police made the raid, but
at that time it was believed that q great
and widespread conspiracy against the
city of Vienna had been nipped
in the bud. This, it is add
mitted by the Austrian police
to-day, was correct in every
particular, and they say the investiga-
ton made since September y, shows
that Anarchists intended to smuggle q
quantity Of dynamite into the under
ground portion of the Reichsrath, and
when that body met on October 10, to
blow the Reichsrath sky high and strike
terror into the hearts of the enemies Of
the independent group of socialists, to
which the Anarchists arrested on Sep
TENDER % here belonged.
The Reichsrath of the Western part
of the monarchy consists Of the upper
and lower house (Herrenhaus) and is
formed of the princes of the imperial
family who are OF age, and secondly of
a number of mobiles (sixty-eight in the
present Reichsrath), in whose families
by nomination of the Emperor the dig
nifty is hereditary; third, Of the arch
bishops ten in all; and fourth, of any
other life members named by
the Emperor, on account Of being
distinguished in art, science or in the
church or state-about 113 in all. The
lower house consists of about 353 mem
ber5 elected partly Or directly by the
votes Of the citizens. Some 800 people
would have been hurled into eternity
there in a second on October 10 had the
police not raided the house on Sieben-
Drummer Strasse on September % as eX-
clusively cabled to the Associated Press.
But the Reichsrath was not the only
building the Anarchists intended to
blow up on October 10; they had their
plans also fully prepared to blow up the
town hail. In this building over 1000
people would have been destroyed.
Even this was not the full extent OF the
terrible conspiracy discovered. A
number Of other important buildings
on the Ring Strasse, one of the finest
streets in Europe, were doomed to de-
struCtion with every body in them, on
the day appointed for the Anarchist
outbreak The university, another
building, was also to be undermined
with dynamite, as was the famous his
toricai museum of Vienna and other
fine buildings of similar nature. The
Hofburg Theater, opposite the Rath-
hauS was also marked out for dyna-
hitting
Now comes, so far as the United States
is concerned, the strangest part Of the
whole conspiracy. The bombs OF the
Vienna Anarchists were manufactured
according to the formula approved by
Herr Most, of New York. The police
of this city insist, and claim to be able
to prove their assertion, that the An
archists engaged in the terrible con-
spiracy against the city of Vienna
were connected with the Anarchists
of Chicago. This is not police theory,
the authorities say; the connection of
the Anarchists of Chicago with those Of
this city, they insist, has been fully
established beyond any doubt. Core
spondence between the Anarchists here
and those of Chicago is said to be in the
hands Of the Austrian police, who, 1t
would seem, must have communicated
with the police Of Chicago on the sub