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Show ROOM TO SENATE WING BLOWN UP Explosion of Bomb or Infernal Machine Wrecks Public Reception Room Letter Let-ter Gives Clue. Washington. July 3. The public re-' ception room in the senate wing of the capltol of the United States was wrecked just before last midnight by an explosion probably caused by a bomb or an infernal machine. No one was injured and today there was only one clew, a letter received by the Washington Times, an evening newspaper, announcing that It would take place. The letter was mailed nearly two , hours before the explosion It was signed, "R. Pearco" and Indicated that the writer had been waiting for an opportunity to carry out his plan which, he said, would be "the exclamation exclama-tion point of his career." Only one man of that name is in the Washington city directory. A search was begun for him. Officials at .first believed the explosion explo-sion was caused by spontaneous combustion com-bustion or escaping gas. They abandoned aban-doned that line of investigation and proceeded on the theory that the explosive ex-plosive was planted by a crank, seeking seek-ing to create a sensation, or. by some foreign sympathizer, seeking to register regis-ter his disapproval of the policies of the United States government. |