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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
Plot by Bolshevili to Blow UP Leading Men
and Officials by Means Of Internal
Machines Sent Through Mails.
ALL START FROM NEW YORK POST0EF|CE
Whether Work of Lone Crank, or Diabolical
Plot by Reds for Wholesale Crime, is
Puzzling Officials.

OF the bomb sent Senator Hardwick.
which he saw tailed with the pack
ages held here.
Attention was called to the fact
that many of the intended victims
were men who had favored restrict
ing immigration: 1t was also noted
| that District Attorney Fickert. San
Francisco, who was marked for death,
prosecuted and convicted Thomas J.
Mooney, Of the preparedness day
/ bomb plot, and that Federal Judge
Landis, of Chicago, another marked
man, had sentenced several reds.
Secret service agents here believed
there will be more bombs discovered
today. Naturally there is much fear
of the machines yet getting to the in
tended victims, and effort is being
made to spread the warning every
where.
These bombs were the most dew
ilish contrivances / have ever seen,
said Chief Postofffce Inspector Coch-
ran.
They were made to look like a.
small bottle Of cologne in wooden
box, and the wrapper was marked
novelty" and sample" to make IT
alluring. Efforts to remove the Dot
tie were expected to break it, releas-
ing fulminite of mercury, which was
intended to set off three sticks OF
dynamite.
Bomb For Judge Landis.
CHICAGO. May 1.--Aroused by the
expose of the nationwide bomb plot.
police and federal authorities here
today took extraordinary precautions
IN vi0 m CT hpr
the several hundred radicals gath
cred in Chicago for the May day OBJ
servance.
were placed at strategic points.
Large numbers were held at police
headquarters and other stations for
quick movement to any part of thaI
city.
/. w. w. leaders were again re-
fused a permit to hold a great pa
rade, and any professions that may
develop will be in defiance of the
police. Measures have already been
worked out to deal with the situa-
tion. Chief of Police Garrity said his,
men will see that no parade is held
Several meetings were on in full
blast in various parts of the city with
Seymour Stedman, Chicago attorney,
Rose Pastor Stokes and other promi-
nent socialists as chief speakers.
Meetings were held last night in
preparation for the May day gather.
ings. A demand yas made for the
release of Eugene V. Debs
Socialists have thousands of cards
protesting against jailing of their
fellow members, ready for distribu-
ton today
Police are watching the mails for
more bombs, following the receipt
of one package for Federal Judge
*. M Landis.
Judge Lands, who was at Rock
ford, H.. when the bomb arrived in
his court in Chicago, said the send
ers of the bombs had picked out
names which represented authority
rather than men identified with
capital
IF it is the intention of these men
to destroy predatory capital, they
sent a bomb to an enemy of preda-
tory capital when they sent one to
me-" he said. There's no yallow
streak in me-
Band of Armed Radicals.
CLEARF'IELD, Pa, May IA
band of armed radicals and alleged
bolsheviki is marching toward the
city of Indiana. Pa, determined to
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW York, May 1.-Secret sery
ice agents all over the United States
today searched the mails for bombs
believed sent to prominent men.
Discovery OF seventeen inferna.
machines here, held up for lack Of
sufficient stamps, exposed plot
which detectives assert aimed at the
annihilation of some of the nations
biggest financiers and government
officials in connection with great
May day demonstration of bolshev
ism.
Secret service men here were in
touch with agents in scores Of cities
and towns where the mails were be
ing carefully inspected for fnoffen
sive looking little packages, in de
partment store wrappers, sent from
New York. Inspector Faurot's IA
nous New York police bomb squad
has been hard at work for hours try.
ing to locate the factory where the
ingeniously constructed explosive en-
gines were put together This place
New York between Twentieth and
Thirty-sixth streets. The district is
thus fixed by the police because the
bombs, they say, were mailed in post
boxes within that area.
Mail collectors have been ques-
toned, but so far none of them has
been able to recollect having taken
up the Internal machines on his
rounds. This is accounted for by the
fact that the bombs were not all
mailed at once, but were posted ON
different days, according to their
destinations, the evident purpose be-
ing to have them all reach the vic
tins on May 1.
Some department of justice opera
tives cling to the belief that the plot
is not as serious as it appears, and
the opinion has been advanced that
it is the work Of lone crank, and
not an organized conspiracy Of ter
rorists.
The bombs opened by officials
have been found to contain very high
explosives, and the ones received by
Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, and
Representative Burnett, of Alabama,
exploded with mangling force. The
bomb sent Hardwick injured col
ored maid, while Burnetts was set
off by policeman planting a bullet
in It,
The fact that the bombs have been
received at the offices of District
Attorney Fickert, of San Francisco,
and Mayor Ole Hanson, of Seattle,
shows, police say, that they were
thoroughly circulated all over the
Of Io IN%
to light.
The nature Of the device caused
investigators to conclude the manu-
facturer was a chemist who worked
with the advice or assistance of an
expert mechanic. The wrappers.
bearing the label Of Gimbel's depart
ment store, are declared by officials
of that concern to be limitations of
their wrappers. This indicates to
detectives that the person or persons
involved had access. to printing
press. The addresses are all type
written, and some contain mistakes
in spelling that police assert may
have been Intentionally made to Gre
ate the impression that ignorant per
sons were implicated.
Ihe seventeen bombs detained and
discovered in the mails here were
held up because they were sealed
with red stickers. This made them
first class matter, and they only car
ried enough stamps to go as parcel
post. Charles Kaplan, a postal clerk,
called attention to the seventeen
bundles after reading description
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
Getting to the
Penitentiary
Three Crowds Are Evaded by a
Flank Movement In High Pow
cred Automobiles Around
keokuk to Fl. Madison.

After the capture Of the murder
ers, they were placed in wagon
which started for Keokuk along the
Hilton road. with Chief Henneman in
charge.
Commissioner OF Public Safety d.
J. Hemmy in the meantime took a
look at public sentiment as expressed
in crowds. At Sixteenth and Carroll
streets there was perfect candor and
a rope in considerable crowd. AT
the Hilton bridge. near the cooper
shop, there was the noisiest crowd.
Both were on the route into town
for the prisoners in the wagon.
Commissioner Hemmy accepted the
high powered automobiles Of w, j.
Richards and DIR. w. J. Harter and
with them, Lieutenant Bentley, City
Attorney c. H. Dickey and County
Attorney McManus. drove out to
meet the wagon, ths prisoners, the
chief of police and the heavy guard
of man hunters.
A Wild Ride to Fort Madison.
The incoming party was met well
on the other side of the cooper shop.
Quickly, transfer was made to the
automobiles of Richards and Harter
These big cars turned back into the
Des Moines river valley. went up the
valley to the Johnson street road,
fianking all crowds and the city it.
self, doubled back thus to Belknap
boulevard past the Schlotter home,
and raced wildly out Main street ex-
tension and down the Hatton hill
Montrose to Fort Madison.
In the Harter car were Chief Hen
neman and the two negroes. In the
Richards car just, behind were Chief
of Detectives Wilson Lieutenant
Bentley and couple more returned
soldiers who had been formed into
guard.
Safe Behind Thick Walls.
At the Fort Madison jail, the
deputy sheriff in charge had heard
enough SO that when he saw the
party with the prisoners. including
the soldier guard, he demurred to
taking the responsibility of keeping
the two negroes in his county jail.
With very short stop there, the
two automobiles full of Keokuk men
the prisoners sped on to
the penitentiary. Whirling around
the curve to the entrance gate, they
were admitted instantly. and the two
negroes were safe behind the thick
stone walls.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
ORLANDO TO
STAY HOME
Italian Premier Waits in Rome Unit
Allies Are Ready to
Confer on Brand
New Basis.

limited Press Leased Wire Service j
LONDON, May IA News Agency
dispatch from Rome today quoted the
Epoca as declaring that Premier Or
lando and Foreign Minister Sonnino
will remain there until the allies are
officially disposed to confer with Italy
OF a new basis"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
Some Successful Strategy.

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
TALE OF THE
BIG man HUNT
The Men Are Captured in
Buena Vista Community
After Chase by a Posse
and Officers.
DESPERATE CRIMINALS
Hunt Becomes Stalking Beasts ir
the Jungle Of Hills, Ravines,
IS Woods, sloughs and
Bushes.

The men who we're placed in Jail
! five hours after the murder of Inman
were captured in Loomis slough, in
the Buena Vista community, above
the Des Moines river bridge by Chief
Henneman, Frank Ketterer, William
Peters, George Ketterer, Russell
Jones, Henry Peters and AL
Long, after one of the most
exciting. thorough and efficient
man hunts that ever occurred in
Iowa, which lasted half the after
noon.
Ketterer, one of scores of pur-
suers of the men over hills, through
ravines and among dense brush,
heard splash in the water OF the
slough. He is an old hunter, and
the splash made thrill run through
him. He silently signalled to the
men with him, and they saw the
negroes in the water, starting to
swim the slough. Ketterer then call
ed to Chief Henneman who was with
them in the long drawn out hunt,
and the latter hurried to the slough.
Desperate to the End.
Throwing a gun down on the pair
of black forms in the water, Henne-
man told them to come out. They
kept on swimming away.
"Come out, ov I'll shoot" cried
Henneman.
Then the men swan back to the
slough bank and climbed out of the
water.
One of the negroes was naked and
the other was fully dressed. The
clothes of one were found on an
overhanging tree. They denied hav-
ing any weapons, but a boy climbed
out on the tree trunk and found
.22-caliber revolver and a small
amount Of money in the pockets of
the clothes left here when the men
entered the water. c. NJ. Twins
gun, stolen from his house by the
pair early in the man hunt. was not
with them and had been thrown
away.
The desperate pair had been freed
on the Parsons levee, after a man
hunt that viii be almost historical
here in Keokuk
Pursuing the Murderers.
Ketterer, Chief Henneman and the
rest of the party in at the end of
the nunt nau gone over IN Lne Qlrec-
ton Of the slough, because Ketterer
had boat in that vicinity which
they thought the fugitives might find
and cross the Des Moines.
Mrs. Grace Higgins did not pay
any special attention to the two
negroes on the sidewalk as she chat
ted with her friend some distance
away, but she remembered a pretty
good description of them.
1t was of two men of medium size,
nearly the same size, one wearing
overalls that looked almost new and
the other more shabbily dressed.
They were also seen leaving the
store by Matt Hogan, the brother of
Mrs Higgins. and both watched them
turn down Seventeenth street.
Mrs. Wright who lives at 1923
Blondeau had started to the store
and was about hundred feet from
the door when she heard shot and
a muffled cry In the store. She be-
came frightened and turned back,
calling to one of her neighbors that
had happened. AS she
reached the corner she turned back
toward the store and saw the two
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01

ROME, April 30.-The Italian peace
delegation held conference here to-
night lasting more than an hour. 1t
was understood decision was reach
cd as to whether the delegation will
return to Paris.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
Murder Useless and Brutal.

There was no need Of shooting
Harry Inman. as the two men could
nase overcome him easily, and they
sh sbem 70 have Ellled him simply as
e e easiest way of getting to the
cash register.
How much money they obtained is
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01

The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu.
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our own leased wire.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
Closed Season.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May IA
closed season on husband killing is
Senator Whee'sr's proposed amend
ment to the state fish and game law.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01

bdHu OF NTfned HauICa15.
CLEARF1ELD, Pa, May IA
band of armed radicals and alleged
bolshevild is marching toward the
city of Indiana. Pa, determined to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-01
STORY Of THE
DARK TRAGEDY
Harry Inman Brutally and
Uselessly Shot by Robbers
in Blondeau Street
Store.
COLD BLOODED MURDER
Rob the Cash Register and Go out
the Front Door, Seen by
Several People In the
Street.
COLD BLOODED MURDER

One OF the most cOld DlOOu-
ed, useless murders ever COM
mitted was the killing Of Harry
Inman at 800 o'clock yester-
day afternoon at the grocery
store Of Ham Inman, 1911 Blon-
deau street, by one Of two ne
groes.
The two negroes were cap
tured after a man hunt that
lasted over three hours in the
hills and ravines and sloughs
and brush along the last mile
Of the Des Moines river. They
are strangers here and give
their names as George Morris
and William Scott.
They were taken directly to
the Fort Madison penitentiary
without being brought down
town, and q crowd that filled
Lucas avenue from Fifth to
Sixth street for an hour and
more was disappointed at their
nonappearance at the city jail.
So were a smaller crowd at the
county Jail and two crowds in
the south part Of town.
STAGING OF THE TRAGEDY.
Mr. .Inman, clerkino for his
brother, was standing to one side Of
the door on the sidewalk, and the two
negroes were standing for some
little time on the sidewalk on the
other side Of the door and fifteen
teet away from the entrance.
The pair went into the store, and
Mr. lnman followed them inside and
went behind the counter to wait on
them. They ordered some groceries
which he got down on the counter
one at time.
Suddenly one Of the two negroes
drew revolver and shot Inman In
a'S center OF mis- BODY, and the
sroceryman fell to the floor dying at
once.
Then the pair Of robbers went
around behind the counter, empticd
me cash register and started out by
the rear way.
mere is no rear door available,
ana they smashed the sash Of rear
window, but instantly saw that the
urop to the ground outside was too
n'gh. They then ran forward and
went out the front door, turning
west a half block to Seventeenth
They ran down the middle of
seventeenth street to Main, where
eney took to the sidewalk and kept
On down Seventeenth.
Murder Useless and Brutal.
!, inere was no need of shooting
larry Inman, as the two men could
nave overcome him easily, and they
seem to have killed him simply as
uie easiest way of getting to the
cash register
HOW much money they obtained ia
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Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10

A reader calls our attention to the
observation which he makes that of
those who SO violently oppose open
ing of the schools very few have ch.l-
dren of their own, or at least not in
school here. Curious, if a fact.
Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10
. WIRING THEIR NECKS

In a great conflict teeming with
splendid examples Of patriotism, de-
votion and fidelity 10 country and hu-
manity, IT has been a pleasure for the
American people 10 believe in their
country, and its mission as the most
Intelligent, the most free and patrio-
tic people in the world. However, it
vas too much TO expect that all por-
tions of hundred million people could
assay 100 per cent under the acid test
and this Is especially true of certain
bureaus and departments at Washing
on that are not only infested with
dry-rot, but are positively cess-pools
of inefficiency, If not corruption
News-C Champion has expressed its
opinion of departmental 10. that in
fest the postoffee department, the con-
duct of which has been a disgrace TO
American efficiency, but all that ap-
pears as nothing TO the cruel, vicious,
ignorant brutes who adorn the War
Risk Insurance Bureau, and who for
months have been annoying the fami-
lies of soldiers, holding up their al
lotments, depriving their families not
only of pay which the soldiers earned
and assigned, but of the promised help
from the government
we nave not the space 10 20 INTO
details, but the exposures being print
ed in Denver papers are a part of the
uncovering which is being done all
over America There have been sew
eral instances in our own county of
this criminal red tape investigation
system, and they cannot be played up
too strongly. IL reminds one of the
land fraud trouble a few years ago,
when every man proving up on gov
ernmcnt land IN the west was put und-
er a wholesale fraud" order. No
matter how honestly he had obeyed
the regulations, or how faithfully he
had filed government requirements
when he came to prove up he found a
contest" filed, utterly without cause
or reason. Every western homestead
er was declared a thief and n liar un-
til he could prove himself otherwise.
Then 4 little later the miners went
thru the same fraud charge under the
forest service. Apparently this same
bunch of brainleSs clerks has now
gotten into the war insurance board.
only in this case their victims are the
wives, mothers and children of men
called across the sea TO defend their
country.
Congressman Mann hit the nail on
the head when he called upon Secre-
tary Baker to wiring the necks of
these department clerks
Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10

no uhrh COEutTS.
All cooking utensils should be thor
Oughly washed, scalded and dried be-
fore they are put awhy. The danger
Of using badly washed dishes is evil
dent To everyone.
When sinks and shelves are wushcd
dirty water should not be allowed to
stand In the cracks to draw Insects
and breed germs.
Dish cloths and towels should be
washed nnd boiled after using. and II
possible dried In the sun. The sun
and fresh air are the best germ killers
In the world.
Every place where food is kept
should have constant care. The refrig-
erator must Sc kept absolutely clean;
all movable parts should be tnken out
Of II and thoroughly wnshed once Il
week. At that time the pipes and
drains should be cleaned, racks thor
"ughly washed with hot water and
s"np suds. rInscd. placed in the sun
and aired, and the Interior rinscd with
hot water. and then cold water, dried
aud left TO air for an hour.
Too much emphasis cannot be placed
on the importance OF special care for
all dishes and cooking utensils sent
to the kitchen from the sick room.
They should be scalded before drying.
At the termination % the illness, such
dishes should be boiled brlskly for ten
minutes before being returned for gen
eral use.
The same set OF dishes for the pa
tient should be used every day and
kept In place separate from the fam
!Iy dishes. II no safe place can be
found. they should be kept in the pa
tents room covered with clean
napkin until needed.
Attention should also be paid to the
hands of the person cooking. They
should be washed always before han-
ding food. After using the handker-
chief or coming In direct contact with
the nose or mouth. wash the hands be-
fore touching the food.
Care should be taken not to cough
or sneeze In the ncighborhood Of food
especially food TO be eaten raw, and II
the person cooking has u bad cold she
should take particular care to keep her
hands Glenn.
Food for the sick should always be
most carefully prepared. and be as In
vitingly served as possible.
Trays. dishes, tray cloths and nap
kins for the patient must be abso-
Iutely clean. Paper napkins are better
thnn soiled linen.
The trays should not be overloaded
with food. The sight Of too much food
frequently takes away the appetite.
1t Is safer to err on the side Of serv-
Ing too little than too much.
Food left on the patients tray should
be burned; 1t should not be eaten by
anyone else. or placed In the pantry
or refrigerator with other food.
Keep the kitchen clean. keep the
food clean and lessen the danger Of in
lection from that point.
Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10
Famous Old London Building.

The appointment of lieutenant Of
the Tower Of London carries with It
the tenure of the lieutenant's house.
which boasts Of historical associations,
II ever any house did. 1t was built In
the reign of Henry VIII. and was used
as prison for More, Surrey, Essex.
Coke. Jeremy Taeylor, William Penn
and Algernon Sydney. There are two
other small houses provided for the
heutenants servants, and in these
Lady Jane Grey was held captive and
Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his History
Of the World" In those good old
days the fees charged the prisoners
added quite materially to the lfeuten-
ants salary.
Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10

What ha. o"romr Of ,h- fyr hund-
r.r. 10 u thousand good Gunnizon cOuu-
= .I, zrns who u-rI to get rlrk every
month in oui,r to acquIr" their two
quarts" TLry HAVEN'T oven gu, the
F4-
John rglow says. Charlie Adams
claims that Billy W"lzcr and Sccrc-
tary Mrnddo arr the only Democrats
who ever resigned from Office Even
at that. We ~ party, claim the re
roii."
Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10

he xeeH ssGrS consenne On sne Dean urey
who is nov in "Y" work in Calais,
was vastly interesting to his Gulni-
son friends. and some have proposed
sending the dean a box Of tea 10 help
with the grAni work he is doing.
Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10

The above is SO clever that it re-
minds US of a story We read some
years ago in a newspaper trade maga-
zine. The writer was giving advice
to solicitors. whenever" said this
authority, "a man tells you that he
is too busy to read the papers, leave
him Immediately. Ten chances to one
his head is shaped like piece of pie,
with the point up, and besides life is
too short to try to teach jack to sing
soprano. Everybody worth while
reads papers nowadays, and lots of
them"