Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-11
Five Are Killed When Midnight
Blasts Explode in Eight
Eastern Cities.
ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER
NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH
Fashionable District of Washington
Shaken by outrages-PoIice and
Secret Service Men Everywhere
Take Precautions to Prevent Spread
Of Activities by Radicals.

Washington, June 3-The an
archists are at it again. They set off
bombs in eight cities late Monday
night, trying to kill public officials,
and the result was five deaths and
much property damage. Police and
government officials everywhere are
making great efforts to protect lives
and property from further outrages
in the next few days.
Public officials whom the radicals
attempted to kill are:
In Washington:
United States Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer and United States
Senator Claud A. Swanson of Vir-
ginia. One person, thought to have
been responsible for the explosion, was
blown to pieces, and a second person
was killed near the Palmer residence.
In Boston: Justice Albert F. Hay
den of the Roxbury municipal court.
In Cleveland: Mayor Harry l..
Davis.
In Pittsburgh: Federal Judge VIII
liam Fl. Thompson and W. w. Sibray,
chief inspector Of the bureau of immi-
grafton.
In New York: Judge Charles G.
Mott, Jr., of the court of general ses-
sions. One person was blown 20
pieces and two others were killed.
In Newtonville, Mass: Representa-
tive Leland w. Powers of the state
legislature.
Other bombs were thrown in Phila-
delphia, where a church and rectory
were damaged; and in Paterson, n, j.,
where property was damaged.
Seek to Kill Palmer.
The Washington bomb was thrown
at the residence of Attorney General
A Mitchell Palmer, 2132 r street.
Mr.. Palmer has been the leader in
the prosecution of radicals. Previous
ly he was enemy property custodian.
The lower part of the Palmer resi-
dence was wrecked. None OF the fam
lily was injured, as all were on the
upper floors
The explosion seriously damaged
the home Of Senator Swanson of Vir-
ginia, next door.
The bomb, the police said, was con-
tanned in a suitcase filled with cloth
ing. The remains of this suitcase and
a handful signed "The Anarchistic
Fighters" printed on red paper, word
ed in inflammatory fashion, and serv-
ing notice of intent of it's authors to
begin general war on society, was the
only clew available.
Dictionary Is Found.
An ItalO-American dictionary was
found in the street near the leaflets.
From this and the fact that the dark
skin of portions of the flesh of frag
ments of the body found, there is a
disposition among the officials to be-
lieve that perhaps Italian Reds were
responsible for the crime though the
Italian-American dictionary may have
been dropped as a ruse.
One or two persons near the spot
claimed to have heard two explosions,
but most people reported only one
Representative Ira c.. Copley of Illi-
nois, who lives at 2201 r street. also
had the front windows of his house
smashed. This showed the force of
the explosion, for Mr.. Copley lives in
the block between Twenty
street and Sheridan circle, while the
Palmer house stands in the block
lower down, between Twenty-first and
iTwenty-Second streets.
Another Home Damaged.
The home of James R. Enerson at
i2134 r street, next to Attorney Cen
teral Palmer's residence, was almost as
badly damaged as that of Mr.. Palmer.
The neighborhood, which was at
.once roped off by the police on their
arrival shortly before midnight. is in
what is known as the west end of
Washington, between Du Pont and
Sheridan circles, where there are many
fine mansions, tn which live officials
army, and navy officers, society folk.
diplomats, and members of congress
When reports began to come in of
similar .outrages in other parts of the
country, Major Pullman, superintend-
ent of the capitol police, sent special-
guards TO residence of cabinet officers
and other prominent officials.
Secret service agents studied intent
ly reports received here from other
cities, and when it was found that the
handolls found in Washington cor
responded textually with others nieked
up IN Boston, their first opinions that
the plots were connected was con-