Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — A MOST FIENDISH PLOT. [ARTICLE]

A MOST FIENDISH PLOT.

Discovery of a Scheme in San Francisco to Kill Off Man/' Leading Men. Judges, Congressmen, Capitalists, and Public Officials to Be Dynamited to Death. San Francisco dispatch. One of the most sensational and startling plots for wholesale assassination of the most prominent men in this city came to light here to-night. Some time ago the police obtained information of the existence of an organization called “The Socialistic Revolutionary Association,” which, it was asserted, was comprised of ultrasocialistic members. A close watch was kept on their movements, and the police finally succeeded in obtaining the minutes of one of their meetings, held Nov. 23. \ From these facts it was discovered that it was the intention of the association to put out of the way about twenty men, including W. T. Coleman, Congressman W. W. Morrow, Gen. W. H. L. Barnes, Mayor Bartlett, United States Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Gov. Stoneman, the principal police officials, and several others. These names were placed on the “prospective list” and placed in the hands of the Executive Committee to carry out the orders of the association. The committee were to devise the best mode of accomplishing the ends of the base plot, and were thus engaged when their, work was brought to a sudden termination to-night by the discovery of the association’s headquarters at No. 900 Montgomery avenue, by the police, and the arrest of four men found therein, named Julius C. Koosher, Henry Weiseman, Charles Mittelstadt, and Oscar Eggers. In the room were also found complete laboratory for the manufacture of infernal machines. The men were taken to the city prison, when they boldly asserted they were dynamiters, and proposed to get rid of the citizens named, and, then raze Chinatown. The prisoners also belong to the German branch of the Anti-Cooly League. No charge has yet been entered against the prisoners. Further developments are expected.