St. Paul daily globe., 1894-06-18
DESTROY THE CAPITOL.
THIS THE END IN VIEW or FALOT OF
ANARCHISTS.
LED BY HONORE JACKSON.

Their Design Was to Blow Up the
Capitol. and. Perhaps Other
Buildings-The Police Watch
the Movements Of the Plottc rs
and Discover tho Formula Of
Their Explosive.
New YORK, June 1S.-A Washington
dispatch to morning paper says: A
newspaper here will publish tomorrow
an exposure of plot which had for its
object the destruction of the capitol aud
perhaps other government buildings,
which has been slowly developing
for several weeks. The secret serv-
ice and police authorities, however,
have been kept informed of the move
ments of the plotters, and would have
been enabled to thwart them had their
Vaccinations approached actual vio-
lence. Only once, says the news
paper. about three weeks ago. when
the channel of information was un-
expectedly interrupted. 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 treas
ury building, the White house and war
and navy buildings. But as the days
passed and nothing was done. the
authorities, who had
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restored the line of communication with
the nest of anarchists. and were able
again to shadow every conspirator and
to keep fully informed of anarchistic
movements both here and elsewhere. Ac-
cording to the story the plot was formed
at the C0xey camp while marching to
the capital. and reports of its existence
came from various points, Omaha, Chi
cago and PittsDurg among them.
The prime mover in the anarchistlc
plot-that is the Washington end of it
was Honore jackson. He came from
Chicago and is still in the city. In
Chicago he had been disturber for
years. At the time of the Haymarket
riot he narrowly escaped being ar
rested as a principal conspirator
and was shadowed by the detectives
for long time after that most men,
orable affair. Jackson is half breed of
unknown tribal origin. He was one of
Louis Riels lieutenants in the Canadian
rebellion some years ago. The man has
done some newspaper work. and has
frequently passed himself off as
reporter for Chicago paper.
The informant in the case kept in touch
with the consplrators and given the
names of those engaged in the plot, to-
gether with the other facts. to the po-
lice. These have been communicated
to the officials of other cities, aid they
will probably act upon the strength of
the information thus given. The fact
that the anarchists have
COMMITTED NO ACT -
in Washington upon which they could
he convicted has prevented their arrest.
Their meetings have been small and
secret. Their experiments with chem
icals have been such that it
could hardly be proven that they
Intended to resort to extreme meas
ures. They have written no letters.
In fact, all along they have waited for
something to haDpen-something which
would give them an opportunity to
carry out the scheme of violence. Jack.
sons headquarters was the residence of a
Frenchman named Savant. The conspir-
atOrs met there and at other places, and
about three weeks ago the meetings be-
came SO frequent and so many strange
men came and went that the officers
felt that they were losing their grasp
Os the situation. There was danger
that the climax might come at any
time, and great alarm was felt
The capitol officers. including the
speaker of the house and the treasury
people, felt very uneasy. The discovery
of the formula for making the explosive
which the conspirators propose to use,
says the article, in conclusion, is prob
ably the best piece of work done by the
detectives. Several chemicals are used,
and proportions make high explosive
OF new and most dangerous kind.
AS soon as the police obtained
this formula, they took it to a
we'll known chemist and asked him
" mdho w d samplc. ne Qlu SO ana
| placed it on window sill in the sun.
In few moments there was all explo-
sion. A great deal OF noise did not
accompany the explosion, but there
was a terrible concussion, although
the quantity of the chemical expert
mented with was very small. An occa-
| sion for the use Of the explosive. the
anarchists hope, it is said. will be fur
nished by the arrival of that part of
Frye's industrial army now reported in
the Cumberland valley. Under cover of
a disturbance produced by them, the
plot against the capitol is to be carried
out. In support of this, it is said that a
| number of Chicago anarchists of the
| most rabid type are with that army.