The evening bulletin., 1894-06-18
PLOT OF ANARCHISTS
Their Object Was to Blow Up
the National Capitol.
PREVENTED BY DISCOVERY.

The Plan Formed While the COxey Army
Were Marching to Washington and Has
Been Developing Slowly Ever Since.
The Conspirators Not Yet Arrested, but
Are Known.
New YORK, June 18.-A Washington
dispatch to a morning paper says; A
newspaper here will publish an exposure
of plot which had for its object the de-
struction of the Capitol and perhaps
other government buildings which have
been developing for several weeks. The
secret service and police authorities have
been kept informed Of the movements Of
the plotters, and would have been en-
abled to thwart them had their machi-
nations approached actual violence.
Only once, says the newspaper, about
three weeks ago, when the channel of
information was Unexpectedly interrupt
ed, were the federal and district author
tiles really alarmed. They did not
know at what moment an attempt might
be made to explode bombs in the cap
itol, the treasury building, the White
House and the war and navy buildings.
But as the days passed and nothing was
doubled their vigilance, restored the line
of communication with the nest of an
archists and were able to again shadow
every conspirator and to keep fully in
formed of anarchistic movements, both
here and elsewhere.
According to the story, the plot was
formed at the time Coxeys army was
marching to the capitol, and reports of
re pyIc
Omaha, Chicago, and Pittsburg among
them.
The prime mover in the anarchistic
plot-that is, the Washington end of
twas HonOre jackson. He came from
Chicago, and is still in the city. He is a
professional Indian. In Chicago he had
been disturber for years. AT the time
of the Haynarket riot he narrowly
escaped being arrested as a principal
conspiratOr, and was shadOwed by the
detectives for a long time after that
most memorable affair.
jackson is a half breed of unknown
tribal origin. He was one of Louis
Reils lieutenants in the Canadian re-
bellion some years ago. The man has
done newspaper work, and has frequent
ly passed himself off as reporter for
Chicago paper.
The informant in the case has kept in
touch with the conspiratOrs and given
the police the names of those engaged III
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 that the anarchists have COM
mitted no act in Washington upon
which they could be convicted has pre-
vented their arrest here. Their meet
ings have been small and secret. Their
experiments with chemicals have been
such that it could hardly be proved that
they intended to resort to extreme meas
ures. They have written no letters. In
fact all along they have waited for
something to happen, something which
would give them an opportunity to carry
out the scheme of violence.
Jackson's headquarters was the resi-
dence Of a Frenchman named Savant.
The ccnspirators met there and at other
places, and about three weeks ago the
meetings became so frequent and so
many strange men came and went that
the officers felt they were losing their
grasp Of the situation There was dan
ger 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, in
Guiding Secretary Carlisle, felt very un-
easy.
The discovery of the formula for max
ing the explosive which the conspirators
propose to use, says the article, in con-
clusion, is probably the best piece of
work done by the detectives. Several
chemicals are used and the proportions
make high explosive of new and
most dangerous kind.
AS soon as the police obtained this
formula they took it to well known
chemist and asked him TO make up a
sample. He did so in his laboratory, and
placed it on a windowsill in the sun. In
few moments there was great explo-
sion. A great deal of noise did not accom-
pany the explosion, but there was a ter
rife concusslon and most tnauseatingand
binding smoke, although the quantity
of the chemical experimental with was
very small A cat which was in the
room died in few seconds from the eff
fects of the vapor.
An occasion for the use of the ex-
plosive, the anarchists hope, it is said,
will be furnished by the arrival of that
part of Frye's industrial army now re-
ported in the Cumberland valley. Un-
der cover of disturbance produced by
them, the plot against the Capitol is to
be carried out. In support of this, it is
said, that number of Chicago anarch-
lists of the most rabid type are with that
army.