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Show Blast Kills Two, Injures Twelve Baldwin, N. Y. Two persons were killed, about a dozen injured and twelve wooden buildings destroyed in an explosion authorities believe might have been caused by a bomb set off in a "shoemaker's" war. Last week District Dis-trict Attorney Edwards of Nassau county learned Samuel Acarbi, a shoemaker shoe-maker with a shop in the Baldwin tavern, ' received a letter threatening to blow up the hotel if the cobbler did hot cease a house to house canvass for trade. Thursday morning the tavern was torn almost board from board by an explosion that rocked the town, killed kill-ed the shoemaker's wife and infant and Drobably fatally injured Acarb himself. The district attorney said that he had taken steps to obtain the threatening letter, which he said Acar-1 hi had turned over to postal authorities, author-ities, and that every effort would be made to find the sender and discover if the fatal explosion was the fulfillment fulfill-ment of his threat. |