People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Dynamite for a Hated Employer. [ARTICLE]

Dynamite for a Hated Employer.

Hazelton, Pa., June 26.—An attempt was made this morning to assassinate the family of Matteo Gerod by placing dynamite under the house, but the family escaped Injury. Gerod, who conducts a wholesale cigar manufactory, recently discharged several men, and It is believed that they hatched a plot for revenge. Fire followed the explosion, three butldjpgs. Peter Pascallo has been arrested' on a warrant sworn out by Gerod. Pascallo was one of the discharged employes.