The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
Historical Edifices Are Closed
Throughout Land.
Nation in Horror of Deadly
Bombs and Wild Women,
MORE EXPLOSIVES FOUND
One i'm PoSt"fs'ce, Another at
Busy Railway Station.
"GeneraIe Drummond Report
ed to Be in Love.

London, May 10.-Two more of the
| now familiar bombs with which the
militant suffragettes are attempting to
scare the British parliament into giving
the parliamentary franchise to women
were discovered this morning. One of
them was found in the passengers
waiting room at the busy Lime street
railroad station in Liverpool and the
other in the sorting room of the post
office at Reading.
The fuse of the Liverpool bomb had
been lighted by the perpetrator of the
outrage but had died out before IA
reached the gunpowder. The bomb
consisted of a tin tobacco box filled
with gunpowder and iron nuts and the
long fuse was laid in the center.
The Reading machine was wrapped in
bulky parcel to which the attention
of the postoffice employees was at
tracted by the sound of ticking. The
police were called in and on examina-
ton found that the parcel contained
an electric battery connected with ex-
plosives and accompanied by quantities
of suffragette literature. The parcel
was addressed to municipal official
of Reading now on his vacation. The
police believe that it was timed to ex-
plode in his residence during his alb
sence. In view Of the possibility of
further attacks by the wild women
many historical edifices throughout
the country have been ordered closed
except during hours of service.
What? A Suff in Love?
The London. Daily Express SAYS this
morning:
In search for documents in the
offices and domiciIes of the malignant
suffragettes there came into the hands
of the police a bundle of letters which
proved not to be bomb plots, but the
outpourings of an overflowing heart.
They were notes from a love-sick mem
ber of Parliament to a woman who for
some time has taken an active part in
the militant movement.
Naturally, the police will not divulge
the contents of the precious letters
but it can be said they are of an as
toEnding character. There seems to
be little likelihood that the letters ever
will reach the public, but the police
have had at least an amusing ex-
perience.'
The Daily Express does not mention
the names of the parties to the corre-
spondence, but it is reported in news
paper circles that the member of Par
lament is Kier Hardie, labor leader.
and the lady General Flora Drum
mond.
Manchester May 10.-James
Whitley, secretary of the printing
firm responsible for the last issue of
the "Suffra gette,' was brought up in
police court today and remanded for
trial.
The magistrate allowed him bail
on his promise not to publish any
further editions of the militant news
paper.
NewcastIe-or- Tyne, England, May
a large unoccupied
house here, was fired today by an
larson squad" of militant suffragettes,
but they were alarmed by the ap-
proach of passersby and dccamped,
leaving behind them petroleum and
9th ir1fI III 4a1e rrI-
fire was soon extinguished.
Dundee, May 10.-Harrington
hall, the residence of Henry Nc
Grady, former lord provost of Dun
dee, was destroyed by fire early to-
day. Indications point to the mill
Lant suffragetteS as the incendiaries.
Flames broke out simultaneously in
half a dozen of the places in the great
which was a beautiful speci-
men of architecture. The house was
being prepared for occupancy during
the summer by the owner ana his
family.