The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-09

0utrages Recalled by Recent
Bomb Throwing In New York.
GRAPHIC FORERUNNER IN 1889

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Foiled-Haymarket Outrage In Chi
cago-Father Heinrichs' Murder and
Attempt to Kill Chief shippy of Chi
cago Their Latest Deeds.
First of it's kind in New York, the
Union square anarchistic demonstra-
ton had a singularly graphic forerun-
ner in 18S9-so graphic, in fact that 1t
is entirely possible that the reds who
had memory of the former affair might
have inspired the deed recently per-
petrated.
In 1883 and 1889 New York was in
vaded by a group of Belgian an
archists. They came singly and by
twos and by agreement made rendez-
vous at Maspeth, N. Y. The police had
a fairly accurate line on the arrivals
and kept them under strict surveil-
| lance.
AS soon as the newcomers became set
tied they grew bold and announced
meeting for the unemployed and dis
satisfied, to be held in Union square,
just such a meeting as was planned
for the other day; also they applied for
a permit to hold the meeting, and this
was granted on condition there should
be no infammatory speeches. The po-
lice were present in large number and
kept the lid SO tightly on the oratory
that the anarchists found their custom
airy grievance.
Immediately they started to manu-
facture dynamite bombs for the pur-
pose Of wreaking their revenge against
the police. Two basketfuls Of these
bombs were brought to New York
from Maspeth and stored in a tene-
ment house at Eleventh street and
First avenue by two women. The
same afternoon the police made raid
on the place and coniscated the bombs.
Finding their plan foiled, the local
''reds'' fed and continued quiescent for
some time.
Notwithstanding the severity with
which the New York police have ham
died the known anarchists that city
has come to be admittedly the anarch-
istic center of the world. New York
is not only linked closely to every
other center of anarchism, but it Is
from that city that nearly all the wires
are pulled. Nearly every anarchist of
prominence has at one time or another
made his home in New York, screened
from publicity by the size Of the city
and secure through the inadequacy of
means for his suppression. The rel
atively small group at Paterson, n. j.,
which has gained for that city an I'M
enviable name as a hotbed of scarlet
ism, is known by those thoroughly ia
miliar with the workings Of the an
archists to be subservient to New York
domination.
Anarchism first came to be taken
seriously in New York at the time Of
the Haymarket outrage in Chicago in
1886 On the night of May 4 three
bombs were thrown into a squad Of
police detailed to keep order at meet
ing the object of which ostensibly was
to discuss the strike situation in the
Deering Harvester works in Chicago.
The country was Mortified and terror
stricken by the killing and wounding
of nearly hundred men. Twenty
two policemen were hardest hit, three
of them being killed outright, three
more dying within few days and
the others being badly hurt.
This event and the trial and execu-
ton of the Chicago anarchists that fol-
lowed served to call attention to the
anarchists that made their headquar-
ters in New York The police became
active and rounded up every known
red" Many Of them were locked up,
but there was little punishment, owing
to the difficulty of establishing a legal
charge against them Since that time,
however, the anarchists of New York
have been watched more carefully
than those of any other city.
In the summer Of 1900 before Gae-
tano Brescf, the Paterson anarchist,
assassinated King Himbert Of Italy,
there was a great deal of activity
among the New York anarchists, but
no overt acts were committed which
could be made the basis Of legal action.
AS in the case Of the Chicago Hay
market, lnefe were luD anu SCuI-
rying to cover by the anarchists after
the assassination of King Humbert
Then came jubilation as publicly as
the reds" dared to make it.
Lucy Parsons the widow of one OF
the Chicago anarchists who were hang
ed, made q speech in that city lauding
the act of Bresci and was locked up.
In New York the international Irwin
cibles, as the local anarchists styled
themselves for the occasion, held a
public meeting to praise the heroism
of the assassin Of King Humbert. In
Paterson also the anarchists came out
OF their holes long enough to sing
song of praise to Bresci.
These public demonstrations revived
police activity and inspired deeper
fear in the public The favorite head
quarters of the New York anarchists,
in Macdougal street and in Gold street,
were watched and occasional raids were
made when the talk took on too Grim
son hue. This policy Of suppression
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