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Show ALLIES DELIVER PEACE CONDITIONS TO AUSTRIANS ATTORNEY GENERAL PAL- jj MER, Intended victim of plot- ; ters in latest revival of bomb I terrorism. ! i 1 ,U 0 ,-.f f i hSa v r : ' 1 fA ... '1 ' 1 fi '"- rf, ,' -f 1 2 t i' r . V( i ' ' i ' is . 'ft 1 : 5 - - 'V ' - i x t ' f ft f 'yt - ft, 4 " J ' ' ' ' f y A " 4 I , K f ' - 4 - .V. r d v., ' 5 IE Attorney General and Federal and State Officials Of-ficials in Many Cities Are Intended Victims. Assailant of Cabinet Officer Of-ficer Killed by Own Weapon; Evidence of Nation-wide Scheme. "WASHINGTON, June 3. Another attempted reigu of terror, tlirccced chieflv against public officials who have been active in their prosecution, v.-ai launched by American radicals shortly before midnight last night. A bomb explosion, which damaged the residence of Attorney Genera! Mitchell Palmer, in the fashionable ! northwest seetiou of "Washington, but which apparently resulted only in the death of the bomb planter, was followed at brief intervals by similar explosions in seven other cities in a belt cxion-i ing from Cleveland to Boston. Besides "Washington, Cleveland and Boston, cities in which bomb outrages occurred were Pittsburg, Paterson, X. J., West Philadelphia, New York and Newtonville, Mass. West Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Pittsburg were subjected to two separate explosions. PALMER IS INTENDED VICTIM OF ASSASSIN. Within a few minutes after the explosion ex-plosion of a bomb at the door of Attorney At-torney General Palmer's residence here, with the killing of one man, evidently the person planting the bomb, reports were received from Boston, New York, Paterson, N. J., Philadelphia and Cleveland Cleve-land of similar attempts. In all cases except Paterson . and Philadelphia the bomb attempts wer9 directed against the lives of public officials. of-ficials. In Paterson, tho home : of a silk manufacturer was wrecked, vihile in Philadelphia, where two explosions occurred, attempts were made to blow up a Catholic church and a private residence. resi-dence. PUBLIC OFFICIALS MARKED FOR DEATH. The explosions in the oilier cities were followed at midnight by othera in New York City, where a bomb exploded ex-ploded in the house of Charles C. Not'., Jr., and in Xewtonvillc. Mass., where t lie house of State Representative Iceland Ice-land "W. Powers was wrecked. Public officials against whose lives it was indicated attempts had been made were : In Washington A. Mitchell Painter, United Stales attorney general; Claude A. Swansoi); United States senator from Virginia. In Boston Justice Albert F. Harden of the Hoxbury municipal court. . . Jn Cleveland Mayor Harry L. Pa vie. In 'i t csbtirg Federal Judtre Williajn II. H. Thompson and "V. YV. Sibrny, chief inspector of the bureau of immigration. immi-gration. I In Xew "i ork Juue Charles C. Nott, Jr., of the court of pen oral sessions. : Jn Newton vi lie, Mass. Kepresenta-I Kepresenta-I five Ueland W. Powers of the stare legislature. The explosion here shattered window ! glasses for a block on each side Of the I 1 'aimer re si den ce, .nnd th: mu ped t he home of Senator Sw;nison of Virginia, next door to that "f the attorney gen-ral. gen-ral. Although Mr. Palmer nnd his family were in the house at the time, i hey escaped injury, being on the sec-; sec-; -md floor, while the engine of death was : :!anfcd in the basement. When reports began to pour in of (Continued on Pae ii, Column 40 PALMER ID OTHERS ME MABKED 1 PLOT (Continued from Page One.) similar outrages in other parts of the country, Major Pullman, superintendent of the capital police, sent special guards to residences of cabinet officers and other prominent officials. Secret service agents studied intently intent-ly reports received here from other cities, and when it was found that the handbills found in Washington corresponded corres-ponded textually with others picked up in Boston, their first opinions that the plots were connected was confirmed, they said. They awaitod eagerly clues which might be picked up in other cities. As in 'Washington, the bomb plot in Boston was directed against a public official. He was Justice Albert F. llay-den llay-den of. the Eoxbury municipal court, who recently handed down decisions in riot cases, in which more than 100 men and women were arraigned in connection connec-tion w-ith a radical demonstration in the Koxbury district on May day. EXPLOSIONS ELSEWHERE QUICKLY REPORTED. In Cleveland, also, plotters attempted to take the life of a public man, Mayor Harry L. Davis. Two explosions occurred in Pittsburg. The first damaged the residence of United States District Judge William II. S. Thompson and the homes of three prominent business men, located noar-by in the fashionablo Highland district. In this explosion C. J. Cassady, an official of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company, and his wife and four children, chil-dren, were hurled from their beds by the force of the explosion. Although the damage was considerable no one was reported injured. The other Pittsburg explosion occurred oc-curred in the West End district, where W. W. Sibray, chief inspector of the bureau of immigration here, was hurled from his bed. In Patcrson, X. J., the home of Max Gold, a silk manufacturer, was damaged and windows within a wido radius broken. 1 No one was injured. The Philadelphia police said that the two explosions there were attributed to two men in an automobile, who were seen to pass the rectory of the Catho- lie church of Our Lady , of Victory in West Philadelphia and the home of Louis Jagielky, a jeweler, eight blocks away, where the two explosions occurred. oc-curred. Three women were injured. An attempt in New York to kill Judge Charles C. Nott, Jr., of the court of general sessions, resulted in the death of ono and possibly three persons, one of whom is thought to have planted tho bom.b. The judge's wife and the caretaker's care-taker's family narrowly escaped death. The explosion which occurred in New-tonville, New-tonville, just outside of Boston, damaged dam-aged the home of Representative Leland W. Powers, who acH'-eH- supported the anti-anarchy bill recently passed by Massachusetts jcuiu.uri'. ' Widespread Plot. The similarity of the reports received from the various cities recalled to authorities au-thorities the May-day bomb plot of a month ago. The bomb planted under the steps of the home of the attorney general, at 2132 R street, in the fashionable northwest section of Washington, wrecked the dwelling, smashed in the windows of adjoining houses for a block, but injured no one within the Palmer residence. An empty suitcase, found near the entrance, and a hand-bill, signed "Thei Anarchistic Fighters," printed on red paper, worded in inflammatory fashion, and serving notice of intent of its authors au-thors to begin general war on leaders of society, was the only clue availablo at a late hour tonight. The remains of the man killed were literally shredded over the block and driven into the asphalt pavement. Assassin Killed. "The only way I can reconstruct the incident," said Major Pullman, superintendent super-intendent of the capital police, at the end of his preliminary investigation, "is on the theory that the explosive blew up just as it was being deposited in the doorway. Itis possible, but unlikely, un-likely, that it was a passer-by involved." in-volved." Instantly upon receipt of tho news of the attempt on the lives of other leading lead-ing men in other communities, Major Pullman ordered special guards sent out to tho residences of cabinet officers of-ficers and prominent men in the government. gov-ernment. Mr. Palmer and other members of the family were at home, but escaped any injury, though the front of the residence almost collapsed with tho force of tho explosion. They were on the second floor, preparatory to retiring, retir-ing, at the time. Man Is Blown to Pieces. So thoroughly was the corpse of thorn tho-rn an killed scattered that surgeons had difficulty in ascertaining whether one or two persons had been involved. Pieces of two separate firearms wore also located, one an automatic pistol, and the other a revolver. The suitcase was of cheap construction. construc-tion. The "hand-bill, which was grease-spotted, grease-spotted, was headed in large type, "Plain Words." It opened with the statement, "The powers that be make no secret of their intention to stop the world-wide revolution in America," and concluded, after announcing its acceptance ac-ceptance of a challenge to some kind of a war, w-ith a printed signature, "The Anarchistic Fighters. " Besides tearing away the residence front, the explosion jolted out of place the stone steps leading up to the first floor level. Bemnants of shabby clothing cloth-ing worn by the man killed were scattered, scat-tered, sections being found over a radius of 100 feet, and plastered on an automobile, which happened to be passing pass-ing at that moment. Assigns No Reason. Streets near the Palmer home were cleared with difficulty by police and soldiers pressed into service. One or two persons near the spot claimed to have heard two explosions, but most people reported only one.. It had, however, how-ever, terrific force. Members of Attorney Attor-ney General Palmer's family, while shocked, the police said, retained self-control self-control perfectly. Mr. Palmer said he could "assign no reason for the attempt upon his life, which was the second within six weeks, one of the bombs discovered in the Xew York postoffico having been addressed to him. ANARCHIST THREATS FOUND ON SCENE OF PALMER OUTRAGE WASHINGTON, Juno 3. Handbill found near the scene of the Falm. r hr,,0 explosion bore the title, "Plain Words " and read as follows: ' "The powers that be mu.ke iio secret of thoir will to stop here In America the world-wldo spread of revolution The powers that must be reckons that -thov will have to accept the fight thev have provoked. I "The time has come when the soci U questions solution can l,o clelaved no loiiR-cr. Class wnr Is on and can not cense hut with a complete victory for tho international inter-national proletariat. "The challenge Is ar. old ono, oh 'demo-'riulc 'demo-'riulc lords of the autocratic npubiie. wJT'M IC". 'Jfn"'K f freedom, well we-ll ave talked of liberty, we have aspired ? better world, nnd you jailed .is. von clubbed us you departed us, vou murdered mur-dered us whenever you could. "N'mv that the great war, wared to replenish re-plenish your purses and build poL-M ll I to your saints. Is over, rothing better can I you do to protect your stolen millions and ! your usurped fame, than to direct ill tl e ! power of the murderous Institutions vou dented for your e.vclnilve defense against the working multitudes rising to a more I human conception of life. I "The jails, the dungeons vou reared to I huo- nil protesting vole.es. io now replenished re-plenished with languishing conselent Inns I workers, nnd never sa , 1,,1'led, j ou Inoroase thelr number every day. "It is history of ycslonlnv that vout gunmen were shooting d murdering' unarmed un-armed l,.;sses by the wholesale' it 1-ts been the history of every day 'in vour wo,"ee' ,,ow aU Inspects arc even, "IX) not expect us to sit down end , rav ,W,VU'''"l '" vhnllenao and me: n to stick to our war duties. We know that all yon do Is tor your defon,.. !, elass; wo know also- that the prolel it i lat has the same right to prot.-t itself. Slnee thell' press has hctn suffocated their mouths muzzled, we mean lotpi ' 'f them, the voice of dynamite Ikirji , mouth of gUns. ". 'o not say that we are aotln , ardly, because we.kec-p in mar's say it is abominable; it is tvar, cIml , and you .were the first to wage n . cover of the powerful institutions v.; ;' '.' order, in the darkness of your lit: , ;;T hind the. guns .of your bonclieaiM ;Sy, "So liberty do you au'cnl l,u! the working people also have a m-freedom, m-freedom, and their right, our on r we have set our minus to protect a - , . ,r price. "We are not many, though li'' Te-e more than you dream of, but are . termined to fight to the last, t;i : man remains buried in your tiv.- .7.,, not a hostage .of the working elm to the tortures of your police sy.-le;; r- 71 will never rest till your fall Is cos - C-Si and tiie laboring masses have tak;: session of all that rightly bcioii;? "There will have tc be blooti?.': will not dodge; there will have tu U der; we will kill, because It i?. nev there will have to he oeslruitlon; 7 destroy to rid the wur,d of jour : nieul institutions. ' "Wo are ready to do aiyiH1:: I everything to suppress the capital :' V, just as you are doing anything ar.'J thing to suppress the proletariat r tign. f "Our mutual position is prc'ly I I What has been done hy us tci fr JT a warning that there are fri'noc J ular liberties still living. Oniy .' are getting Into the fierlit: nnd have a chance to see vhat liberty people can do. "i)o not seek to believe that w- ' Germans or the devil's paid at1"' know well we are class tmtxi Tr with strong determination and : Vj liability. And never hope thai and your hounds will ever succ 'j ding tiie country of tire .'inarcri-that .'inarcri-that pulses in jur veins. V,e . (Continued on Page Hi Ij - PJUMEH 10 OTHERS IE MARKED ii PLOT (Continued from Page Two.) we stand with you ar.U know how to take co.re of ourselves. "Besides, you will never get all of us, for we multiply nowadays. "Just wait and resign to your fate, since privilege and riches have turnud your head. "Long live social revolution: Down with tyranny! ( Signed) "THE ANARCHISTIC FIGHTERS." FEDERAL JUDGE IN PITTSBURG TARGET FOR BOMB PLOTTERS PITTSBURG, June 3. A bomb explosion, explo-sion, which occurred two doors from the residence of I'nited States District Judge W. H. Thompson late last night, riamaced the residence of the jurist and other houses in the vicinity. Th- homes of three prominent business men were damaged dam-aged by the force of the explosion, which occurred on the porch of C. J. Cassady's residence in the fashionable Highland district. Shortly before midnight and a few minutes after the Highland district explosion ex-plosion another bomb explosion occurred in the West End district. Residences were badly damaged and W. "W. Sib ray, chief inspector of the bureau of immigration immigra-tion here, was thrown from h! bed. The Sibray residence is located across the street from where the explosion occurred, and police authorities express the belief that the bomb was intended for the Inspector, In-spector, who has been active in the deportation de-portation of enerny aliens. Mr. Cassady is an official of the Pittsburg Biate Glass company. His wife and four children were thrown irom their beds by the force of the explosion, which shattered tho windows in Judge Thompson's Thomp-son's ri-sub-nce. The homes of P. H. 1-tncoln, vice president of the Pittsburg Co;il company, am) V. 1'. Wlthrow. vice president of the Pittsburg Terminal Railway Rail-way & Coal company, were damaged to t lie extent of several thousand dol'ans. Police found pieces of shr; pnel in the vicinity. No nrivsts have been made. The West Knd explosion occurred on the porch of the home of H. K. Joseph, a train dispatcher. Mrs. Joseph and her three cnildreu wore thrown from their beds. The house was damaged to the ex ten t of $"imhi. t her residences In the vicinity were dam.igcd, one home, next door to that of the Josephs, was phot full of holes, indicating .that a shrapnel bomb was use !. PALMER'S CONDUCT TO BE INVESTIGATED BY A COMMITTEE Chicago Tribune Special Service. ' WASHINGTOlN. June 2. An investigation investiga-tion into the conduct of the office of alien property custodian under A. Mitchell Palmer was expected today by the senate sen-ate judiciary committee, after Senator Frelinghuysea of New Jersey had protested pro-tested against the committee recommending recommend-ing confirmation of the appointment of Mr. Palmer as attorney general of the I'nited States. Mr. Palmer's appointment was held up by the committee, pending the investigation. investiga-tion. He wiil continue to discharge the duties of attorney general, however. The action of the committee in ordering order-ing the investigation created something of a sen pat ion, although the charges against Mr. Palmer have been In circulation circu-lation for some months. U is the first time in many years the senate has held up a cabinet nor n inn tion. For this reason rea-son and because of Mr. Palmer's close personal relations to the president, uji-usual uji-usual importance was attached to the proceeding. The charges against Mr. Palmer will be aired in public hearings by a subcommittee subcommit-tee within a few days. The committee consists of Senator Dillingham of Vermont, Ver-mont, Republican, chairman; Senator Sterling of South Dakotn, Republican; Senator Fall of New Mexico, Republican' Senator Walsh of Montana. Democrat', ;ind Seiuitor Overman of North Carolina, l'emocrat. ONE KNOWN DEAD IN ATTEMPT TO KILL JUDGE NOT! NEW VOl;K. June 3. An attempt early this morning to blow up Judge Charles '. Nott. Jr.. of the court of general sessions, ses-sions, resulted in the !-ath of at least one person and rosiby thive. A Ponih which was planted beneath the entrance of Judge Nott's residence e.ploi-ed e.ploi-ed at 12 :i a. m. J udge and Mrs. Nott uro not m the city, one of the bodies found in the basement is t hough 1. to be thrt of the mar' who planted the l-omb. An ho'T before the explosion in Judg-e Nott's home, it wns stated at olice headquarters, head-quarters, no ctfl icinl w.i rning concerning the country-wide plot li.ni been, received and that no special precautions were being be-ing tnken to guard tne nomes of pronii-rent pronii-rent New Yorkers. At the New York offices f tiPi bureau of investigation of tho United Sta'es uo-partmeiit uo-partmeiit of .iuslic?, it was s,tnttd that up to a hue hour no inst ructions had been received to start department of justice agents at work on the plot. Agents of the fir department bureau of combustibles repoi ted they bad found portions por-tions of one fr more human bodies buried t enentn the delrt. The torso of one of the victims apparni-ly was that of a woman. Llts of m;ilo clothing arrl a false mustache also were found in the debris. TWO BOMBS AIMED AT DESTRUCTION OF BAY STATE OFFICERS Py Universal Service. BOSTON, June 2. With a roar that was heard all over the immense Roxbury section of Boston a bomb almost demolished de-molished the home of Judge Alfred F. Hayden or. Wayne street shortly before midnight. Fifty-five minutes later another an-other bomb tore immense holes in the home of State Representative Iceland W. Powers, son of ex -Congressman Powers, in the exclusive Newton ville district of Boston. Judge Hayden was the justice who presided at the rial of the Roxbury rioters of May day last. Representative Powers is said to be the author of a bill making it a criminal offense to have anarchist literature on the person. No one was hurt at either explosion. Judge Ilalden and his family were out. Representative Powers and his family were thrown from their beds. The Hayden Hay-den home had its front and sides torn out and windows for a wide radius in the vicinity were shattered. Kvery window win-dow in the Powers home was .broken. The city and state police are working on the case. Tho only real clew in the Hayden explosion was the finding of a violently in flam ma tory circular directed against the capitalistic class, which was signed "The Anarchist Fighters." PALMER VICTIM OF TWO ATTEMPTS BY ANARCHIST LEADERS (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, June 3. This is the second attempt upon the life of Attorney General Palmer within a few weeks. One of the bombs mailed to nearly two score of public men last month was addressed ad-dressed to the attorney general but was intercepted in the New York pos toff ice. Mr. Palmer is believed to have been marked for assassination because of his j vigorous utterances in refusing to entertain enter-tain pleas for clemency for Eugene V. : Debs, the Socialist leader recently sent to the penitentiary for obstructing conduct of the war. i The department of justice has been searching for clews to the identity of the authors of the mail bomb plot, but with no success up Lo date. Tho source of one of the component parts of the infernal in-fernal machines piaced in the mails has been discovered, but the supply of this substance had passed into so many channels chan-nels that hope of tracing any considerable consider-able part of it is slight. Outrage in Philadelphia. I'HUVDTCL.PHTA. June 2. The rectory of Our Victory church and the home of Loyls Jagielky, a Jeweler, in West Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, were damaged by bombs near midnight. Jagielky's aged mother-in-law vas injured by Hying glasj and debris. Police guards have been thrown about ail public buildings and churches. Jagielky's homo wf-H bombed ir. mistake for the home of .Fire Chief Barrett. Attempt on Cleveland Mayor. CLEVELAND, O., June 2. An attempt was made to blow up the home of Mayor Harry L. Lavis hetc tonight. No one was injured but a part of the house was wrecked. First reports were that it was a fas explosion, but police later declared a bomb or infernal machine had been planted. Silk Manufacturer Threatened. PATERSON, N. J., Juno 3. An explosion, ex-plosion, which the police believe to have been caused by a bomb, wrecked the I house of Max Gold, silk manufacturer, at 12:'60 o'clock this morr.inc, partially 1 wrecked an adjoin ins: house and broke the front door and windows of a residence resi-dence across the street. Most of the houses within a radius of 200 feet had windows broken. Captain Ryan of the police declared ii his belief that a bomb ! was planted in a driveway ciose to Gold's 1 residence. Xo one was injured. Public Men Are Warned. CHICAGO, June 2. Warning- from federal fed-eral officials late tonight to be on guard against bomb outrages caused Chief of Police Garrity to send notice over police wires to all stations to warn public men in the respective districts to take precautions precau-tions about their mail and their premises. Extra men were detailed at points deemed most likely to receive attention from bomb throwers. |