The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-06-29
ANARCHISTS ORGANIZE
AND PLAN TO BLOW UP our CAPTION
BUILDING.
The Secret Exposed at Washington of the
Terrible Scheme.


Terrible Scheme.
The Washington, d. c., Post. Mon,
day published an exposure Of n plot
which had for it's object the destruc-
tion of the capitol, and perhaps ether
government buildings, which had been
slowly developing for several weeks
past. The secret service and police
authorities, however, have been kept
informed of the movement of the plot
ters aad would have been enabled to
thwart them had their Vaccinations
approached actual violence.
"Only once" says the Post, "about
three weeks ago, when the channel Of
information was unexpectedly inter-
rupted, were the Federal and District
authorities really alarmed. They did
not know at what moment an attempt
might be mnde to explode bombs in
the capitol, Treasury building, the
White House ond the War and Navy
building. But as the days passed and
nothing was done, the authorities, who
had redoubled their vigilance, restored
the line of communication with the
nest of anarchists and were able again
to keep fully informed of aparchistic
movements, both here and elsewhere. :"
The prime mover in this anarchistio
plot-that is, the Washington end of
twas Honore Jaxon. He came from
Chicago, and il still in the city. He
is professional Indian. In Chicago
he has been disturber for years. At
the Haymarket riot he narrowly cscap-
ed being arrested as ~ principal con-
spirator, and was shadowed by the de-
tectives for n long time after that most
memorable affair. Jaxon is half
breed, of unknown tribal origin. He
was one of Louis Riel's lieutenants in
the Canadian rebellion some years ago.
The man has done some little newspa-
per work, and has frequently passed
himself off as reporter for the Chica-
go Times.
After Jaxon's arrival in Washington
letters were received by the secret ser
vice officers and capitol officials that q
band of Anarchists was being organized
in Washington, and that II. J. Jaxon,
of Chicago, was the leading spirit In
dependent investigation satisfied the
officers that the writer of the letters
was telling the truth, and since then,
says the Post, secret service men and
local detectives have been constantly
engaged in watching th,, band. The
informant in the case has kept in touch
with the conspirators and given the
police the names of those engaged in
the plot, together Will, cthrr facts.
These have been communicated to the
officials of other cities, and they will
probably act upon the strength of the
information thus given.
"The fact that the Anarchists have
committed no act in Washington,
says the Post article, "upou which they
could be convicted, hasprevcnted their
arrest here. Their meetings have been
small and secret: their experiments
with chemicals have been such that it
could hardly be proved that they in
tended to resort to extreme measures;
they have written no letters. In fact
all along, they have waited for some
thing to happen; something which
would give them nm opportunity to
carry out their scheme of violence"
The Post article asserts that the
formula of the explosive to be used in
the great catastrophe has been discov-
cred to be II compound that explodcs
by the action Of the sun.