The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-10-07

Los AuSeIes N0pSclalJ. - All dt-
tempt to destroy the residence of Gen.
Harrison Gray Otis, publisher Of the
Los Angeles Times, by means of an
internal machine was made late Sat-
urday, following an explosion which
earlier in the day, caused a loss of
life estimated at 15 to 20 and de-
stroyed the buildings and plant Of
the Times and a suspected effort to
blow up the auxiliary plant of that
paper.
A powerful internal machine was
also found in the residence Of Score
tary zeehandelaar, of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
General Otis and the other re-
sponsible heads of the Times unequiv-
ocally charge the Times building
disaster and the narrowly averted
attempts at furtheE destruction OF
life and property to labor union
sources.
With equal emphasis, the leaders
of union labor repudiAte the accusa-
tion and offer all aid in their power
to detect the cu1prits.
General Otis Undaunted.
The Times made public the follow
ing telegram from General Otis, en-
route from Mexico.
Your wire, with its terrible news,
reached me. am amazed at the
desperation of the criminal conspira-
tors in destroying the Times build
ing and staying its loyal defenders,
whose loss I deeply deplore; but the
Times itself will live on, bravely de-
Tending the vital and essential prin-
ciple of industrial freedom. under
law, which must yet triumph in the
entire nation.
HARRISON GRAY OTIS
For 20 years following a quarrel
with the Typographical Union and
the changing of the Times to a. nom
union paper General Otis has fought
unionism with every resource in his
command. He has been ably sec
onded in this fight by the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
Feeling ran high throughout the
city over the Times disaster, and was
augmented by the discovery that
dynamite bomb had been found I'M
der the residence of Secretary Zee
handelaar,
The public reached q state of
alarm and CONSERVATION when the
attempt to blow up General Otis
residence became known.
The Otis home, known as the
Bivouac, stands on Wiltshire avenue,
in the most Fashionable quarter of
the city. After the finding of the in
fernal machine at the Zeehandelaar
residence Detective Rice was sent to
the Bivouac to search the premises.
Bomb At Otis Home.
: Aided by Charles Focken, the
gardener, he found suitcase hidden
in q bunch of vines under a bay win
dow on the side of the house 'front.'
ing Westlake Park
Convinced that the suitcase con-
tanned bomb, Chief Galloway or
dered the internal machine rushed
over to Westlake Park, where it's ex-,
plosion could do comparatively little
damage.
Rice and Gardener Focken took it
up and dashed across the street.
Putting it down they sped away and
put about 100 feet between them and
the bomb before it went OFF with
crash that threw the entire neighbor-
hood into a panic.
Inc explosion tore out portion
of the eurbing of the street along
the park Branches of tree di-
rectly overhead were torn off and q
portion of the park fence was splin-
tered A plateglass window-shield
ON porch in the Otis home also was
shattered,
In the Otis home at the time of the
explosion were Mrs. Harry Chandler,
daughter of General Otis. and rel
alive, Mrs. Booth. and the iatter's
two children.