The discovery of a dynamite plot in Chicago shows how
deeply certain classes in the greatest city of Western. America are imbued with the anarchist doctrines. On Tuesday last the police made a raid on a suspected house, and there dis- covered twelve dynamite bombs, a revolver, and a dagger. The leader of the conspiracy—now arrested—is one of the anarchists who took a leading part in the former outrages, and had under him some twenty determined men. The plan, evidently dictated by the desire for revenge, was to blow up simultaneously the houses of the two Judges and of an obnoxious police-officer, and of other persons who took a prominent part in the former prosecutions. It is curious to notice that the blowing-up of public buildings also formed part of the scheme : the Board of Trade, the Court House, and several newspaper offices were all marked out for destruction.
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