BERKMAN, A RUSSIAN AUTONOMIST, ATTEMPTS THE LIFE OF THE CARNEGIE CHAIRMAN--MR. FRICK'S BRAVERY--"THE SHOOTING WILL IN NO WAY AFFECT THE HOMESTEAD STRIKE"--MILITIAMAN IAMS CHEERS THE ASSASSIN AND IS DRUMMED OUT OF CAMP--PUBLIC INDIGNATION OVER THE IAMS AFFAIR--SNOWDEN, HAWKINS, STREATOR AND NEFF INDICTED--WORKINGMEN PROSECUTE CARNEGIE OFFICIALS FOR MURDER. "Frick is shot!" Such was the appalling announcement blazoned on bulletin boards, passed from mouth to mouth and hurried over the telegraph wires on the afternoon of Saturday, July 23, while O'Donnell and Ross were undergoing their preliminary hearing in the county court. The first question on every lip was, "Did a Homestead man do the shooting?" and great was the feeling of relief among the sympathizers of organized labor when it was learned that the would-be assassin, Alexander Berkman, was a Russian anarchist, and that his crime was prompted solely by the teachings of the infamous class of outlaws to which he belonged. Berkman came to the United States in 1886, fresh from the University of Odessa, where he had inbibed the principals of the Autonomists--extreme Anarchists who believe in redressing social wrongs by individual action. He became a compositor in the office of Johann Most's paper, _Die Freiheit_, wrote freely for Anarchistic publications and allied himself with the worst class of revolutionary plotters in the metropolis. The beginning of 1893 found him living with Emma Goldman, a Russian woman of some note as a speech maker among the Anarchists, and spending much of his time in the beer halls frequented by Anarchists and Nihilists. Berkman seemed to be consumed with a desire to shine in the eyes of his mistress and of the blatant, beer-sodden circle of which she was the star, by giving a practical exemplification of his fidelity to Autonomist doctrine. "Who is the worst enemy of society in America?" he asked himself, and when the Homestead trouble broke out, he imagined that his question was answered. Frick was the man--Frick, the oppressor of workmen, the representative of the power of wealth and of might antagonizing right. "Undoubtedly," thought Berkman, "this man is society's arch-enemy and a fit mark for the weapon of an Autonomist."