The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-19
TARIFFS LAST TOLL THEPLOTTHWARTED
Conspiracy Under Way to Destroy
the Government Buildings.
ARRIVED on THE NEiLERS ADVENT
Band Of Anarchists in ~i>hinGt"on. hose
Secret Workings Have Been Discoy-
cred by the Authoritic.-Ex-
posture hy the Post.

WASHINGTON. June l9.-Tne Post to-
day publishes an exposure OF a plot
which had for its object the GeStruc-
ton Of the capitol, and perhaps other
government buildings. which had been
slowly developing for several weeks
past. The secret service and police au-
thorities however have been kept in
formed of the movement of the p~lotter>
and would have been enabled to thWart
them had their Vaccinations approach
ed actual violence.
Only once says the Post, About
three weeks. when the channel Of in
formation was uneXpectly interrupted.
were the federal and district authOri-
ties really alarmed. They did not
know at what Ome an attempt
might be made to explode bombs III the
capitol, the treasury bulluing, the
white house and the war and navy
buildings. Because the days passed
and nothing was done. the authorities
who had r~edOubled their vigilance, re-
stored 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 ana elsewhere"
According to the story, the plot was
formed the time COXey's army was
marching to the capitol, and reports Of
its existence came from various points,
Omaha. Chicago, and PlttSburg,
among them. The prime mover in the
anarchistic plot-that is, the Washing
ton end of twas HOnOre Jaxon. He
came from Chicago. and is still dirty. He
is y nrofpSCinna Indian In ChicapO
he has been a tisturber for years. At
the time of the Haymarket riot, he
narrowly escaped being arrested as a
principal cOnspirator, and was shadow
ed by the detectives for a long time af-
ter that most memorable affair.
JaXon is a half-bre ed of unknown tri-
bal origin. He wa one of Louis Riels'
~lieutenantS in the Canadian re belliOn
some years ago. TIE man has done
some little neWSpa per work, and has
frequently passed himself off as a re-
porter for the Chicago Times.
After JaxOns arrived here, letters
were received by the secret service Of
ficers and capitol officials hat a band
Of anarchists was being organized in
Washington and that II. j. JaxOn Of
Chicago was the leading spirit. indie
pendent Investigations satitied the Of
ficers 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 en-
gagged in watching the band. The in
formant in the case, has kept in touch
with the conspiratc:s, and given the
police the names CI those engaged in
the plot, together with other 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 hat the anarchists have
committed no act in Washington" says
the Post article, upon which they
could be convicted has prevented their
arrest here. Their meetings have been
small and secret: their experiments
with chemicals nave 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 an opportunity to car
nv out their scheme of violence"
The Post article asserts that the for
mula Of the explosive to be used in the
grand catastrophe has been discover
ed to be a compound that eXplodes by
the action of the sun. Also that the
occasion for the act was to be found in
a disturbance, to be started by the sec
ton of Frye's army now approaching
the capital from the Cum erIand
valley.