The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-18
A RASH ANARCHIST|C PLOT
To Blow Up the Capitol at
Washington.
Other Public Buildings to Be
Destroyed.
The Plan Discovered by the Wash
ington Detectives.
The Scheme Ineubated at the Time
Coxey's Army Was at the Cspt-
tsl-Frye's Arrival to Be
the CIimax.
By the Associated Press.

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New YoRK, June 17.-A Washington
dispatch to morning paper says:
A newspaper here will publish tomor-
row an exposure of plot which had
for its object the destruction of the cap
itol and perhaps other government
buildings which has been slowly devel-
oped for several weeks. The secret SER
vice and police authorities, however,
have been kept informed of the move
ments of the plotters and would have
been able to thwart them had the Off
GERS apprehended actual violence.
Only once. says the newspaper, 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 made to explode bombs in the
capitol, the treasury building. the white
house and the war and navy buildings.
But as the days passed and nothing was
done the authorities, who had re-
doubled their vigilance, restored the line
of communication with the assistance of
an anarchist, and were able again to
shadow every conspirator and keep fully
informed of all anarchistic moves both
here and elsewhere. According to
the story, the plot was formed at the
time the Coxeyite army was marching
to the capital and tips of existence
came from various points, Omaha.
Chicago and Pittsburg among them.
The prime mover in the anarchistic
plot, that is. the Washington end of it
was Honore jackson. He came from
Chicago and is still in the city. He is
half-breed Indian. In Chicago he has
been disturber for years. At the time
OF the Haymarket riot ne narrowly
escaped being arrested as principal
conspirator and was shadowed by
detectives for long time. Jackson is
half-breed OF unknown tribal origin.
He was one of Louis Reil's lieutenants
in the Canadian rebellion some years ago.
The informant in the case was kept in
touch with the conspirators and has
given the police the names of those en-
gagged in the plot, together with other
facts. These have been communicated
to the officers of other cities, and they
will probably act on the information.
The fact that anarchists have committed
no act in Washington upon which they
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arrests. Their meetings have been small
and secret.
Jackson's headquarters was the resi-
dence OF Frenchman named Savant.
The censpirators met there and at other
places, and about three weeks ago the
meetings became go frequent, and go
many strange men came and went, that
the officers felt they were losing their
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or that the climax might come at any
time, and great alarm was felt. The
capitol officers. including Secretary
Carlisle, the speaker of the house and
the treasury people, felt very uneasy.
The discovery of the formula for max
ing the explosive which the conspira-
tors propose to use, says the article in
conclusion, is probably the best piece
of work done by the detectives. Sever
al chemicals are used, and the proper
tions make q high explosive of new
and most dangerous kind. As soon
as the police obtained this FORM
ula they took it to we'll known
chemist and asked him to make up
sample. He did so in his laboratory and
placed it on q window sill in the sun.
In q few moments there was an explos-
ion. A great deal of noise did not &C.
company the explosion, but there was
terrific conclusion and most nause-
sting and binding smoke, although
the quantity of the chemical expert
mented with was very small. A cat
which was in the room died in few
seconds from the effects of the vapor.
An occasion for the use of the explo-
sives. the anarchists hope. it is said, will
be furnished by the arrival of that part
of Fryes army now reported in the
Gum berland valley. Under cover of a
disturbance produced by them, the plot
against tie capitol is to be carried out.