The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1886-07-31 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ANARCHISTS IN AMERICA.  AN ALARMING DISCOVERY. (From the Standard Correspondent.)  NEW Youx, Tuesday Night. The Brazilian Vrince Dom Augusto paid a visit to Coney Island at the invitation of the officials of the Seabeach Railway. Among the guests who were expected, to be present were the District Attorneys, who were active in the recent trial and conviction of the Anarchist Most and the ringleaders of the boycotters. An anonymous document, signed "By orders of the Social Revolutionary Committee," was mat to the Railway Company, warning them, as follows: "If you persist in entertaining these representatives of tyranny, revenge shall fall upon you; your life and that of other principals in this fete shall be forfeited. Your lives are now in your own hands; the responsibility now rests with you." At first no importance was attached to this threat, and the document was handed round as an amusing joke. Owing to a purely accidental circumstances, the district attorneys were not among the party, Nothing unpleasant transpired until the return trip lad almost ended. When the steamer Sylvan Stream, which conveyed the guests, was approaching the dock, an excited woman drew the attention of the deck hands to a package with a burning fuse lying upon the floor of the cabin adjacent to the engines. Shouts of "A bomb" soon produced a panic. The fire of the burning fuse had almost reached the contents of the package, which resembled a large bottle, when one of the sailors coolly picked it up and threw it overboard. No damage was done beyond the burning of a hole in the carpet of the cabin. Efforts were made to hush up the occurrence, so as to prevent further inquiry, the employes being forbidden to speak on the subject. Some of the passengers, however, have made extravagant statements on the subject. It is said that some forty feet of fuse had burned, giving ample time for the author of the intended outrage to escape and avoid detection. The evidence taken at the trial of the Anarchists at Chicago justifies the worst reports heretofore published as to the nature of the conspiracy. Nothing new was elicited until to-day; when an intimate connection with the movements in Canada was disclosed, though the testimony was not sworn to. Canadian detectives watched the Chicago Socialists for two years, even joining their military bands, and their reports helped to frustrate the Manitoba revolt, which was fomented from Chicago, and which established a conspiracy with Riel. One large shipment of dynamite, ostensibly for mining purposes, was withheld upon their affidavit. Agitators and organisers were also sent from Chica to Canadian cities. CHICAGO, July 27. Additional evidence has been given in the Anarchist trial now proceeding here, showing the existence of a conspiracy with intent to murder. It has transpired that the Canadian Government has during the last two years maintained two detectives here for the purpose of Watching the dynamiters in regard to their connection with the Riel rebellion in the North-West, and also relative to other contemplated revolutionary movements which were not carried into effect in Canada.