The record-union., 1894-06-18
A WASHINGTON SENSATION.
PLOT TO BLOW Up GOVERNMENT
BUILDINGS.
The Conspfrators S.adowed-The Form
ula for the Deadly Explosive
Discovered.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.


New YORK, June IA Washington
dispatch to morning paper says: A
newspaper here will publish tomorrow
an exposure of a plot which had for its
object the destruction of the Capitol, and
perhaps other Government buildings,
which has been slowly developed for
several weeks. The Secret Service and
police authorities, however, have been
kept informed of the movements of the
plotters, and would have been able to
thwart them if they apprehended vio-
lence.
Only once, says the newspaper, about
three weeks ago, when the .channel of in
formation was unexpectedly 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
Treasury building. the White House and
the War and Navy building. But as the
days passed and nothing was done, the
authorities, who had redOubled their
vigilance, restored tho line of communica-
ton with the appearance of an anarchist,
and were able again to shadow every
conspirator and keep fully informed OF
anarchistic moves, both here and else
where.
According to the story, the plot was
formed at the time the Coxeyite army
was marching to the Capital, and tips of
its existence came from various points,
Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburg among
them. The prime mover in the anarch-
istic plot-that is, the Washington end of
twas Honore Jaxon. He came from
Chicago, and is still in the city. He is a
renegade Indian. In Chicago he has
been disturber for years. AT the time
of the Haymarket riot he narrowly es-
capped being arrested as a principal con-
spirator, and was shadowed by detectives
for long time.
Jaxon is half-breed of unknown
tribal origin. He was one of Louis Riel's
I.ieutenants in the Canadian rebellion
some years ago. The informant in the
case was kept in touch with the conspir-
ators, and has given the police the names
of those engaged in the plot, together
with other facts. These have been COM
munlcated to the officers of other cities,
and they will probably act on the infor-
nation. The fact that anarchists have
committed no act in Washington upon
which they could be convicted has pre-
vented their arrest. Their meetings have
been small and secret.
Jaxon's headquarters was the residence
of Frenchman named Savant. The
conspirators met there and at other
places three weeks ago. The meetings
became SO frequent and so many strang-
ers came and went that the officers felt
they were losing their grasp of the situa-
ton. There was danger 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 conspirators
proposed to use. says the article in con-
clusion, was probably the best piece OF
work done by the detectives. Several
chemicles are used, and the proportions
make high explosive of a new and
most dangerous kind. AS soon as the
to a well known chemist and asked him
| to make up sample. He did so in his
laboratory, and placed it on a window
sill in the sun. In few moments there
was an explosion. A great deal of noise
did not accompany the explosion, bat
| there was terrific concussion and most
nauseating and binding smoke, al
though the quantity of the chemical ex-
perimented with was very small. A cat
which was in the room died in a few Sec
onds 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 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.