Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1919 — REDS BREAKS LOOSE AGAIN [ARTICLE]

REDS BREAKS LOOSE AGAIN

Homas if Mon Hlth In Mlle Lift Bombed. • M •• U. S. ATTY. GENERAL'S HOME Among Those Wrecked by Dynamite—One Anarchist Killed by Premature Explosion. Washington, June 2.—Attempts on the life of Attorney General Palmer were made tonight through the planting of a bomb which wrecked the lower portion of the Palmer residence in the fashionable northwest section of Washington. Mr. Palmer and all members of th* family escaped without injury, being on the second floor at the time of the explosion. • Another attempted reign of terror, directed chiefly against public officials who have been active ia their prosecution, was launched by American radicals shortly -before midnight last night. Besides Washington, Cleveland and Boston, cities in which bomb outrages occurred were Pittsburg, Patterson, N. J., West Philadelphia, New York and NewtonvUle. Mass. West Philadelphia and Pittsburg were subjected to two separate explosions. At Cleveland the home of Mayor H. L. Davis was bombed; at Pittsburg the home of Justice Albert F, Hayden of the Roxbury municipal court and W. W. Sibray, chief immigration inspector; at Philadelphia the rectory of thd Catholic church of Our Lady of Victory; at New York the home of Judge Charles C. Nott, Jr.; at Patterson, N. J., the home of Max Gold, a wealthy silk manufacturer. Bombs Intended by anarchists for men who had directed the force of law against them pronounce'd sentence against radicals or introduced legislation intended to check -their machinations failed in every case to claim .their victims. In several cases, however, families of public officials and the public officials themselves experienced narrow escapes. The death toll of two taken in the Washington and New York explosions recoiled upon instigators of the reign of terrorism, according to first conclusions reached by the police. In some Instances Hnnocent pedestrians were Injured snore or* less seriously. Whether the explosion of th* bomb planted in the lower portions of Attorney General Palmer's residence was intended as the first of the series of explosions ar whether it had been timed to occur at approximately the same Instant «es the others could not be decided early today by agents of the department of justice nnd police of the various cities, who began at once nation-wide search for the culprits. <=• What may turn out to be the first clue leading to 'identification of the anarchists was obtained in this city and Boston, where the police discovered circulars and handbills signed "The Anarchistic Fighter*.’’ , The bill, serving warning that a general war was to be waged against leaders of society as society is now organized, was the only clue reported discovered at an early hour this morning. Coming on the heels of the nation-wide May day plot, secret service officials could only interpret explosion following explosion as an organized outburst without much doubt planned by the same group of radicals as had engineered the outrages perpetrated last -month.