St. Paul daily globe., 1893-10-06
ALWAYS A HUMMER.
The Associated Press First to Get
the News.

The Associated Press First to Get
the News.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-The Inter-Ocean
yesterday morning gave partial sum-
mary of the woes of the Chicago Tribune
and of other papers which receive the
United Press report, in the matter of
failure to receive from 1t accounts of
the important happenings in various
parts of the world. To the array OF
facts therein set forth numerous others
OF equal Importance might he added if
1t were worth while. Two or three ad-
dltlonal Instances will suffice. About
Sept. % tue Associated Press corre-
spOndent at Vienna telegraphed ex-
clusively the fact of the arrest there of
a gang of anarchists organized in great
dynamite conspiracy. The clients of
the United Press were consoled with
the assurance, after the matter had
Deen considered i'll the office of the New
York Sun, through which the foreign
news OF that organization is first filtered,
that the beat" was not genuine. On
sept. u The same correspondent caDled.
again exclusively. not only an admis-
sion by the Austrian authorities of the
truth OF the first report, but also the de-
tails OF the conspiracy, showing it to be
OF the most gigantic and far-r reaching
character. 1t was shown that the
Vlennese anarchists had planned to eX-
plode enough dynamite beneath the
houses of parliament to blow them skv
nigh and kill every member of that
body, including princes of the blood and
OF the church, mobiles and other promi-
nent persons to the number of 600 or
more; that the city hall of Vienna, i'm
winch 1000 persons are employed was
to share like fate, together with many
other Important buildings in the city,
both public and private. 1t was further
shown that the VienneSe anarchists had
been In communication with Herr
Most, of New York. and the anarchists
leaders of Chicago, and that the Austrian
police were in possession of letters to
prove the statement.
This was furnished to afternoon pa
perS taking the Associated Press report.
but those which depended on the United
HfeSS dld not hear of ii until they saw it
printed by their competitors.
On the following day the Washington
bureau of the Associated Press COLI
tirmed the Vienna story by sending an
interview with Chicago man acuuaint-
ed with the facts, and adding that Supt.
McLaughrey, of the Chicago police,
learned through his detectives of plot
Vi CIlcdSO dHdTcDlStS 10 nave woman
enter the Chicago council chamber when
III session and throw bomb into the
midst of the aldermen, while others
would be engaged in blowing up the
principal worlds fair buildings. Supt.
McLaughrey then called in the leaders
of the reds and gave them TO understand
that their neckS would pay the price for
any such attempt. This put stop to the
movement and led to an arrangement
between the police authorities of Chi
cago. New York, London, Paris and
other European capitals, by which each
was to be kept informed of the move
ments of anarchist leaders. The United
Press did not hear of all this till il was
published i'll Associated Press afternoon
papers.
On the same day the Associated Press
bureau at Washington sent exclusively
IN time for publication by afternoon pa
pers an account of the sudden, and to
this day unexplained appearance of a
murderous maniac in the White house
with intentions upon the life of the
president.
Ali of these things fall within the
category of high-class news. On all of
these things the United Press was COM
DletelV beaten