Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dispatches from Arizona state that tlie Apaches have broken up into small bands and are raiding the scattered white settlements in Southeastern Arizona. There are over one hundred thousand head of cattle on the trail from Texas to Colorado. So severe has been the drought that vast herds can bo heard tramping the dry ground at night and lowing for water. More dynamite bombs have been captured in Chicago. While some boys were ■playing ball in the northwestern section of the city their ball rolled under the sidewalk, and, going after it, they discovered a bundle, the covering of which was an oilcloth table spread. Opening the bundle they found something which appeared like giant fire crackers. Police officers were summoned, who secured the bundle and took it to the station. Its contents were thirty dynamite bombs, one empty shell, two boxes of triple-force, fulminating caps, and four one-hundred-feet coils of fuse. The bombs were of the blast-ing-cartridge pattern, and were very well made. The shell was one : and-a-half-inch gas-pipe, eight inches in length. A thread was cut into the interior surface of each end, and a plug of hard wood screwed into one end. The shell was then filled with dynamite, and the fuse attached. Heavy felt gun wadding was then packed in, and the bomb wa? complete. Several anarchists are under arrest in St Louis on a charge of having introduced, at an unlawful meeting, and urged the adoption of resolutions indorsing the murderous doings of the Chicago nihilists. The testimony of Capt. Schaack, of the Chicago police force, before the Cook Comity Grand Jury, was of a startling nature. He said that he had witnesses by whom he could prove that “there was a well-laid plan to sack and burn certain districts in Chicago May 4. It would have been carried out but that the anarchists lacked nerve and were unprepared for the vigorous action of the police. Men were told off to set fire to certain houses in the northwestern portion of the city, and others were told off to throw bombs into the police stations, -while others were ,to use bombs at the meeting if the police attempted to disperse it. The houses to be burned in the northwestern section of the city were to be selected indiscriminately. The purpose of the burning -was to attract the attention of the police to that section, and to draw them away from the main points of attack, the haymarket square and the police stations. The early dispersal of the crowd in the square, the premature throwing of the bomb, for it was premature, and the determined resistance of the police frightened the would-be incendiaries and those who were to attack the police barracks in detail. ”