The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-25
ANARCHISTS COMING.
Their Mission Alleged to be to Blow
Up Government Buildings, etc.
The French Government Sends Word to
Washiugton--An Intercepted London
Cipher Letter Foretold Carnot's
Death-An Ambassador Marked.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Under the
terms of an international agreement,
the French government has notified
the state department that seventy i'm
migrants, known to be anarchists, are
about to sail for America, and instruc-
tions have been sent to the police au-
thorities throughout the country to be
on the lookout for these undesirable
visitors, whose names and descriptions
are given, but which will not be made
public.
The advice thus sent to the United
States through the usual diplomatic
channels forms the basis of sensa-
tional article in Sundays Post, setting
forth that the superintendent of police
of Washington has for several months
been in possession of the proofs of an
anarchistic plot to destroy government
buildings and public officials in the
United States, and commit like atroci-
ties in conjunction with those that have
taken place in European cities during
the past year.
The following is summary of the
Posts column article:
"The Post is to-day enabled to lay
before it's readers facts which go to
verify previous articles, and also doc
ument which shows that the conspir-
acy was wider of scope and more fiend-
ish of purpose than the public had
been led to suppose.
"Unwittingly, perhaps, the Coxey
movement came near making possible
the consummation of one of the dark
est schemes the anarchists ever con-
ceived. When Coxey and Browne were
organizing their forces for the march
to Washington, a nest of Chicago an
archists conceived the idea Of striking
blow at organized society under the
cover of the Army of Peace" And
except for fortunate discov-
cry in Chicago nearly a dozen
of the most reckless anarchists the
world has ever known would have
been in Washington when the first of
the Coxeyites arrived. That their err
rand was one of murder and arson is
proved by a mass of correspondence
which was captured, and the confess
sion of member of the band. Gen.
Brennan, the astute head of the
Chicago police, communicated with
Maj. Moore and Inspector Holm
berger as soon as he satisfied him
self that plot was developing to
blow up public property here, and un-
der cover of the attendant excitement
commit murder, and gave the name of
the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago anarchists Maj. Moore and
Inspector Hollinberger promptly and
without delay placed this individual
under the closest surveillance. He was
seen to meet strange men at the depot
and other places a number of times,
and an intercepted letter to him con-
vinced the officials that the Chicago
warning had come none too soon. En-
closed with this letter was one in
cipher, which it took long time to
work out. The translation is in part
as follows:
ORDERS TO NO. Q.
"'LoNDoN, June 81, 1S94-No O: At the time
you will receive this letter several of our COM
rades will be ready to leave for America, and
they will be absolutely under your command,
and we hope you will organize new league
and do effective work Lay your plans so that
your attempts will be effectual. At meet
ing held in Geneva last week the ambas-
sador was ordered removed, and it will be your
duty, in the name of our cause. to arrange
everything for his removal. There will be a
sensation in a few days, the nature of which is
not necessary to state, as it does not concern
America. but you will remember the meeting
held in Paris May s. Would it not be advisable
that you should obtain some sort of position
in Washington, where you will come in contact
with some government officers and that will
help you to success in our plansS'
'The ambassador ordered removed at
the Geneva meeting alluded to is still
in Washington attending to his duties.
He also received warning from the
secret service agents in his own coun-
try that he was a marked man, and it
was therefore not surprising that he
had a guard stationed in and about his
residence day and night for weeks.
Nov comes the most sensational
part of the whole letter. The portion
which states that there will be a sensa-
ton in few days, and asking if the
correspondent remembered the Paris
meeting of May s, refers directly to
the assassination of President Carnot.
''In these two other cities it was
known that the president of the French
republic had been marked for killing
before the assassination took place,
and the French secret service bureau
was informed of this discovery several
weeks before the assassination took
place. The French chief, however,
thought the American sotficers were
needlessly alarmed. The anarchists in
that country had not been unusually
active for some time, and he did not
think it necessary to warn President
Carnot or his household.
after this letter had been captured
and deciphered Inspector Hollinberger
had the Washington correspondent of
the anarchist brought before him. He
weakened, and told of other plans of
the anarchists, and he was allowed to
go on condition that he keep up his
dealings with the Chicago parties and
inform the local officers of every step
taken. In this manner Inspector Hol-
linberger gained information about the
anarchists, who and where they are,
that has been of inestimable service to
the police departments of other cities. 4"
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