The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-10-06
TRY TO. BLOW Up J.
GEN. OTIS HOME
Bomb In Yard Explodes When
Hurled In Street.
20 ARE KILLED IN PLANT
Destruction Of Loe Angeles Times
Building 10 Blamed Upon Labor
onions-Two Arrests Mado-- ..
p. Rewards for cuIprfts. ....

twelve hours after the wreckinE Of
the plant OF. the Los Angeles Times,
In which twenty men are believed to
have lost their lives. an attempt was
made to destroy the residence Of Gen
eral Harrison Gray otis. publisher OF
the paper, by means of an Internal
machine. -.-. o.. ... -sF IN
The bomb was discovered in q suit.
case. hidden under a bunch of vines
near bay window and was exploded
as it was hurled into the street by
police officers. Little damage was
done. 5'' -'.a.
Another Internal machine was found
earlier In the day at the residence of
F. ]. Zeehandelaar, secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation.
These, and suspected attempt to
blow UP the auxiliary plant of the pa
per, have wrought this city to an in.
tense state of suspense and excite
ment
Biames Labor Unions.
General Otis and the other respon.
sible heads of the paper charge the
Times building disaster and narrowly
averted attempts at further destruc.
ton of life and property to labor union
sources. The property damage is esti.
mated at 100000 +'' F.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor here and throughout the
af
have offered all ard in their power In
the effort to detect the culprits.
For twenty years, following a quar-
rel with the typographical union,
which resulted in making the Times a
nonunion paper, General Otis has
fought unionism with every resource
at his command. He has been ably
seconded in this fight by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
whose secretary was the object of
frustrated dynamiting. ...'.
The Otis home is known as The
Bivouac" and stands on Wiltshire
avenue, in the most fashionable sec
ton of the city. After the finding OF
the internal machine at the Zeehan-
delaar residence, Detective Rice was
sent to The Bivouac" to make a
search of the premises. With Charles
Flocker, the gardener, he found suit.
case hidden under a bunch of vines
under a bay window on the side front
ing Westlake Park.
Calls Police Chief.
Detective Rice telephoned Chief of
Police Galloway, who went immediate
ly to General Otis house Together
they examined the suitcase. Chief of
Police Galloway wanted to take 1t to
the police station without opening it.
Rice insisted upon opening it there,
and finally stuck knife into the side
Of the receptacle. A buzz Of mechan-
ism was heard inside and smoke be-
gan coming out around the edges Of
the aperture.
Convinced that the suitcase con.
tanned a bomb, Chief Galloway hurled
it as far from him as he could 1t
landed against the curbstone Imme-
diately there was a loud explosion,
and the suitcase was shattered into a
thousand pieces. A hole was torn in
the ground and the curbstone was
ripped out for some distance.
In the house at the time was Mrs.
Harry Chandler, daughter of the gen
eral, and relative, Mrs. Booth, and
the latter's two children.
The Internal machine found at Mr..
Zeehandelaar's residence was COM
posed of fifteen sticks of giant powder
attached to a fuse and set by clock
work to explode at one o'clock in the
morning-the same hour at which the
explosion occurred in the Times Of.
Ace. Had not some part OF the mech
anisrn refused to work, the house
would have been demolished and it's
inmates undoubtedly killed. sa
Assistant General Manager Chandler
of the Times Is authority for the
statement that an attempt was made
10 blow up the Times auxiliary plant
at College and San Fernando streets
a few minutes before the explosion
occurred which destroyed the main
building. +. a. 4,
But Two Arrests Made. g.
The succession OF tragic events and
the rtimors of attempted outrages set
the populace OF Los Angeles In a state
OF mind bordering on panic. Hundreds
Of policemen and detectives were busy
in every direction running down clues
and endeayoring to locate the alleged
perpetrators Of the crimes But two
arrests have been made and these
were only on suspicion.
The president Of the local typo
graphical union issued orders that
Union printers may work in coniunc-
ton with the nonunion printers OF the
Times In any OF the local newspaper
offices in getting out the edition Of
the Times. This was announced after
a consultation OF the union men and
the managers OF the other newspa-
pers.
The city council met In special ses,
sion and Appropriated $4,000 for the
purpose Of determining the cause Of
the Times explosion and provided q
reward Of So 500 fot the capture OF
those responsible for the outrage,