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Show WHOLESALE MURDER Contemplated by a Gang of San Fran- Cisco Socialists. ... Congressmen, Jndges, City Officials and Others to be Pnt Out of tue:,Way. Timely Discovery by the Police of the Plans of the Wretches. A Wholesale Assassination 'Associa tlou. San Fbancisoo, December 16. One of the most sensational and startling plots for the wholesale assassination of the most prominent promi-nent men of this city came to light here last night. Some time ago the police obtained information of the existence of an organiza tion called "The Socialistic Revolutionary Association," , which, it was asserted, was composed of tiltra-Socialistio members. A close watch was kept on their movements, and the police finally succeeded in obtaining the minutes of one .of their meetings," held November 23d. From these facts it was discovered that it was the intention of the association to . "put out of the wax" about twenty men, Including W. T. Coleman, Congressman W. W. Morrow, General W. H. L. Barnes, Mayor Bartlett, D. S. Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, Le-land Le-land Stanford, Charles Crocker, Governor Stoneman, the principal police officers, and several others. These names were placed on a "proscriptive 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 accomplish-ing the ends of this base plot, and were thus engaged when their work was brought to a sudden termination last night by the discovery discov-ery of the Association's headquarters, at 5C3 Montgomery avenue, by the police, and the ABEEST OF FOUB MEN FOUND THEREIN Julius C. Koosher, Henry Weisman, Charles Mittlestadt, and Oscar Eggers. In the room was also found a complete laboratory for manufacturing infernal machines. The men were taken to the city prison, where they i boldly asserted that they were dynamiters, and purposed to get rid of the citizens named and then raze Chinatown. The prisoners also belong to a German branch of the Anti-Coolie Anti-Coolie League. No charge has yet been entered en-tered against the prisoners. Further developments de-velopments are expected. CONFESSION OF ONE OF THE CONSPIHATOBS. The leader of the band of dynamiters arrested ar-rested last night is Henry Weisman, who is a Bavarian by birth and a theoretical chemist chem-ist by profession. He was induced to join Coroner O'Donnell's Anti-Coolie League, and finally became President of the German Anti-Coolie League.. " My intention," he said, " was merely to aid in enforcing what O'Donnell told us was the law against the Chinese. .He told us that the State Constitution prohibited the Chinese from living within the limits of any incorporated town or city in the State. He showed me the law and I read it for myself. He never told me that the Supreme Court had declared that the law was unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, and I believed that that was the law, although I have since been told that it was not. Well, we had A MEETING ON THE SAND LOT On Thanksgiving day and resolved that we would call on the municipal authorities to enforce the law of resign their offices. O'Donnell told us that we had a right to do this, and as he always boasted that he was the second highest officer in this city, I sun-posed sun-posed he knew, and I believed the municipal munici-pal authorities would be compelled to order them to leave the city. The only thing that troubled me was that O'Donnell was always letting on that the Chinese were suDDlied with superior arms, and that they had armories in Chinatown and were drilling every night with Winchester rifles supplied to them by Colonel Bee, the Chinese consul. Most of our people were workingmen and had no arms. I was afraid that when the Chinese were ordered or-dered to go they would resist and attack our people. We must have something to meet them with, and I resolved to experiment experi-ment and see if I could not invent a superior weapon. I commenced my experiments about twelve days ago AND BOUGHT SOME DYNAMITE. My idea was to make something that could be thrown like a hand grenade.- We experimented experi-mented at different times under the rocks near the Cliff House, but the results were not satisfactory. O'Donnell knew we were experimenting. He had often talked of dynamite, dy-namite, and he called his newspaper The Anti-Coolie Dynamite." THE OTHEB WOULD-BE ASSASSINS. The man who gave the name of Koosher when arrested is also known as Kowalski. He is a Russian, speaks six languages, and according to his story he was ruined by frequent fre-quent assaults made on the Jews, of- which race he is a member. His customers were so abused by Bussians that he was unable to maintain his business, and he left his native place to go to Paris. After remaining there a short time he came to the United States and settled down in New York City. He was appointed an agent by the Jewish Relief Society, and visited Oregon and Washington to take up land for his people. He was to receive $G00 for every family for whom he procured a government gov-ernment settlement. He claims that Henry Villard, the railroad magnate, assisted him materially in his labors, but that he did not receive payment for his services, as the funds of the society were exhausted. He recently came to his city and identified himself with the Anti-Coolie League. The house in which the dynamite was found was occupied by him: he paid a monthly rental of ten dollars. Charles Mittlestadt is president of the Third Ward Anti-Coolie Club and vice-president of the German branch of the same organization. or-ganization. In his room the detectives found about 303 badges bearing the letters "D.A.C. L." Oscar Eggers is a peddler by occupation, a native of Germany, about 35 years of age, and speaks very little English. ' The prisoners have been charged with misdemeanor mis-demeanor for unlawfully storing fiant powder. pow-der. The highest penalty is six months imprisonment im-prisonment or $1,C30 fine. proven by statistics that the chief employers of Irish labor in Great Britain were Liberals. These were found all over the land, among the great mine owners and iron masters of the Black Country, the great mill owners of Manchester and Lancaster, the great manufacturers manu-facturers of Birmingham, the great shipping ship-ping merchants of Liverpool and London, and the great ship builders of the Clyde and Tweed. These great Liberal proprietors had freely employed Irish artisans and laborers, and a considerable proportion of the wages paid by Liberal masters to the Irish had gone to strengthen the National League agitation. agi-tation. Therefore, the speakers declared it would be suicidal folly and madness to continue con-tinue to NOUBISH SUCH VIPEBS IN THEIB BOSOMS The result of the meeting was the adoption by unanimous vote of a resolution pledging each gentleman present not to employ Irish laborers in the future, and to gradually, but as speedily as possible, discharge all Irish workmen now employed by them. The advocates ad-vocates of this sweeping measure of proscription pro-scription spoke of it as a boycotting scheme, ignoring the broad difference between proscribing pro-scribing a man for his nationality and boycotting boy-cotting a man for voluntarily committing offensive acts which he has the power to discontinue dis-continue at any moment. The speakers assured the meeting that ' the whole machinery ma-chinery of the Birmingham caucus would be employed to - - . . MAKE THE SO-CALLED BOYCOTTING EFFECTIVE. They said that British Liberal workmen, who had always been friendly toward their Irish colleagues, were now embittered against them. Those workmen could therefore be co-operate with the employers against the Irish, and would surely carry the measure further by boycotting all Irish tradesmen and publicans. |