Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-06-05
REDS HURL BOMBS
IN EIGHT CITIES;
HOMES BLOWN UP
Attempt Made to Kill Attorney
General Palmer.
2 PERSONS BLOWN TO ATOMS
Mayor of Cleveland and New York
Judge Targets of PIotters-Catho-
lie Church and Residence De-
stroyed in Philadelphia.

Washington, June A terrorist
bomb plot, covering the entire eastern
section of the country, was attempted
late Monday night.
1t was aimed against law enforce
ment officials and the bombs were
timed to explode simultaneously in
many cities.
Officials are trying to connect these
outrages with the MAY day. bombs
which were sent by mail to SO officials
in every section Last nights bombs
were not mailed. Those responsible
for the outrages placed them at the
homes of those they sought to as
sassinate.
at the residence of Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer, 2132 r street.
Mr.. Palmer has been the leader in
the prosecution of radicals. Previous
~ 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.
Two persons were killed by the ex-
plOsiOn. One of them is thought to
have been the man who set the bomb.
The other may have been an accom-
plice or merely passerby.
A fragment of one of the bodies was
blown across B street and was found
m hn n Of no af
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secre-
tary of the navy. Another part Of a
body was blown across the street and
went through one of the front windows
of Helmer H. Bryn, the envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary
from Norway to the United States,
who lives at 2137 r street, n. W.. This
fragment fell near a cot on which a
baby was sleeping.
Those at whom the bombs were
aimed we're:
A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney gener-
al of the United States. His residence
in Washington was badly damaged.
Police say two men were killed. One
is supposed to have been the one who
set the bomb. He was blown to
pieces.
The other victim may have been an
accomplish, or perhaps passerby.
Harry L. Davis, mayor Of Cleveland.
His residence was badly damaged. No
one was wounded.
Justice Albert f. Hayden Of the
Roxbury municipal court, Boston.
Residence damaged, but no one was
at home.
Judge w. Fl. Thompson of the Pitts
burgh federal district. Home dam
aged by bomb aimed at him, but
placed on porch Of adjoining residence
of G. J. Cassidy.
Judge Charles G. Mott, Jr., of gen.
eral sessions, New York. Woman
caretaker killed. Several other per-
sons wounded.
Leland w. Powers Massa chusetts
state representative and son of former
congressman Home at NeWtOnville,
Mass, badly damaged.
3AdA w COIIAJ O1Ah Ahe%AAUAC%N
turer at Paterson. N. j.
Other bombs were thrown in Phila-
delphia, where a Catholic church and
a residence were blown up.
All the windows on both sides Of the
street, on either side of the Palmer
house and across the way, were blown
in, and pictures were blown from the
walls.
Police picked up along with bits OF
clothing of one of the men killed
copy of "Plain Words" radical pub
LEGATION. Other fragments of this and
other radical papers were found in
the neighbOrhood.
Other literature was in the form OF
dodgers, the heading of which, in large
red type, read, "Plain Talk to Anar-
chists," and bore the printed sigma
ture "Anarchistic Fighters"