Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1915 — Hoax Infernal Machine Sent To Governor of Minnesota. [ARTICLE]

Hoax Infernal Machine Sent To Governor of Minnesota.

A peculiar package was received at the office of Governor Hammond, of Minnesota, last Saturday. The governor was absent and his secretary opened the package. It contained a bottle which was thought until otherwise proven to be nitro-glycerine. A small wire attached the bottle to a large cartridge and a fuse was attached to the cartridge. The only note with the package said: “Enclosed find sample of my beard.” A printed sticker bore the words: “America’s Appeal—ln the name of one God and universal humanity—stop this war.” The box contained a small mirror, some hair, apparently from a mattress and not the wriskers of the sender, a toy pistol, a cuff link corroded with age and several medicinal pills. The bottle proved not to contain any high explosive and there was no manner of setting it off, so far as discovered. Evidently it wae the act of a freak.