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The Chewiest Chewing Gum ever Chewed BOMB EXPLOSION IN CAPITOL. Reception Koom in (irrat Washington Ituilding Suffer* DuniHKe. Washington. July 'J. ? A tremendous explosion believed to linvo hCCIl cailSOif l? v some k lti? ! of ,|h>iuI> ?ii* infernal 4 machine wrecked the public rwreptlon room In the <*a?t side of the capltol build in;: .shortly liefore midnight to night. Nil one was' Injured. officials liel ieve that tho explosive was placed by a crank who desired {<> i reate a sensation. Visitors wer.? al lowed lu the room during today and a timed machine might have been left wlthiiut attracting attention. The buildlir.; u.'iil lieen .chisiMl ;:lnco dark and there was mi one in it ex i-ept the watchman and teleph ue swltchlioard operators. Watchman Jones, on the fl? n?r below at the ortst entrance, .said lie was blown from his chair. The report could be hoard for a mile and in a few minutes' a crowd of ex rited jieopje had gathered. In tho meantime, tin* lights had been switch ed on ami excited officials were rush ing back and forth on two Hoofs of the great building. After the tirst rumors of a Immh, some of the Investi gators ?-oncluded that tin* blast had lieen .caused by a spontaneous combus tion in a iras pipe. The sides of tho wall were torn oiit. however, and all r ?? | ? i | h'"? apparently were intact. Then4 '..id been no gas fixtures on the senate ? i ? ! ? ? -ince an explosion occurred there :,>arl\ years ago. it was said. A ^Tr<?ii^ ?>dor ['fermented the build i i . ??nt none seemed aide to detect what it was. No traiv Could be found "t' :ni exploded bomb or of any thing which might have caused the explosion. Suiterlntendeut \V?khI | said ho had examined the structural feat urea of the building and found there was no. damage ??xc??i?t . In the Immediate vi cinity of the reception room. While some olliclals thought the ex plosion was the work of an irresponsi ble crank with no other end in view than a sensation, others seriously sug gested that It might have been j>eri>e t. rated by some one desiring to demon strate his disapproval qf some of tin* policies of the American -government. It was apparent there was no intent t?> destroy life, as it is generally known the room Is empty at night. Outrage Perpetrated by Holt, (rloneove, X. Y., July .'i ? Frank Holt, formed ComMl university Instructor, who attempted to assasinate J. 1'. Mor gan at -Fast Isle, Mr. Morgan's sum mer home, i near here today, confessed tonight that he was the man who set the bomb which exploded In the capl tol at Washington last night. Holt by Ills confession and the do tailed description of the bomb he used In the capltol outrage, stani|K?d him self as an expert in the use of" ex plosives, the police assert. Immedi ately after his confession was obtain ed, the chlM of the Washington police, a squad of secret service operators ami New York city detectives and Itertll Jioti and linger print experts were sum moned here. llollef prevailed that Holt had been connected with other bomb outrages which have I milled the police, notably the tindlng recently of a bomb on the grounds of Andrew Carnegie's Fifth avenue residence in New York city. Infectives prepared to ply Holt with questions nil night if necessary. Charles Tunney, captain of the bomb and anarchist squad of New York de tectives, and William K I,nyster, the V Peeling Peaches With RED DEVIL LYE THE NEW WAY GREAT BIG CANS Mr. King Pharr, can ner, of Catherine, Ala., wrote us as follows: "At your suggestion 1 tried Red Devil Lye for peeling peaches. It was so successful that 1 bought six cases and am saving $25.00 to $50.00 every day ? and peeling thousands of bushels. I feel that 1 must thank yotj." 9*nd for Booklet that explains WM. SCMIELO MFG. CO* ST. LOUIS. HO. : just lev of the peace before whom Holt whk arraigned late today, obtained the confession. To <lo so, they intimated, they had to employ soealled third de cree methods. Three sticks of dynanilt'e hound to gether; some matchheads placed In a hollow of one of the sticks; a bottle of sulphuric acid In the neck of which was Inserted a cork carefn|ly measured and of a kind previously tested ? such was the bomb which Holt placed in the senate wins of the capitol at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Holt had ascertained by tests that the Held would eat Its way through the cork in about eight hours. Therefore, he estimated that the bomb would explode about midnight! He waited at t\\et uni|>n station, several blocks from the capitol, he said, until he heard the ex plosion. * Then he boarded 'i train for New York. ? Arriving there, he lost little time In taking another train for Olen cove. Several sticks of the dynamite left over from the making of the Wash ington bomb were in his suitcase and these he took with him. One of the sticks he placed in his pocket,- with two loaded revolvers for use, if necessary, in his mission at the> Morgan home, it was not used, and was found when he was locked up. At first the police thought the dyna mite played a minor role In his plan to assassinate Mr. Morgan. When they listened, in undisguised amazement, to the story he told of the Washington bomb's construction, they, concluded that he possessed a knowledge of ex plosives, far beyond that of the ordb nary bomb maker. I'lider the third degree Holt talked freely of his bomb-designing. Earlier in the day he openly . admitted he had gone to the Morgan home with the In tention of remaining there until Mr Morgan did something to end the Eu ropean war. He wanted Mr. Morgan to prevent the further export of Ameri can-made war munition. The man who unfolded this unusual story of bomb placing and attempted assassination talked cooly and with dramatic frankness. He Is an Ameri can citizen, native born, about 2T?. and educated far above the average. He had been a student at Cornell and lat er an instructor there in French. Rec ords show he taught (German also. Next autumn he had expected to be the head of the department of French at the Southwestern Methodist univer sity at Dallas, Texas. His wife, a daughter of O. F. llena haugh, presiding elder of the Pallas* district of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, Is with her father In Dally s. .To her he addressed a tele gram after his arrest, telling her that man proposed, but fthd disposed, and bidding her 1k? brave. Holt, told ills story in u c^ll of tlie (jlencove jail.* He had bound across his forehead a white cloth through which hlood showed from a out on his forehead His grayish eyes spark led as he spfike and he talked at first with great animation. As the day wore on he weakened. The amount of hlood that he had lost, from a terrific blow on the head, a blow that knocked him unconscious as he grappled with Mr. Morgan and his butler In the Morgan house, was great, and the strain told on him. When night came and with it his confession of the Washington outrage, Holt was a wreck. He huddled back in a corner in his cell, breathing hard and apparently comatose. However, detectives refused to let him rest. They dragged him out to the corridor and walked him up and down until his stumbling feet dragged listlessly. Then they would let him sit down, and surround him. They hurled ques tions at him so rapidly that at times his half audible replies were inter-' rupted by succeeding inquiries. Still he refused to answer those questions that he did not want to.- ? The Third Degree. j They let 'hi in rest a few moments I and when lie refused to answer pulled him up and began once more the te dious promenade, talking to him all the time. 1 i After two hours of such treatment, Ilolt told his story. He said he loft Jersey City yesterday morning, arriv ed In Washington at noon and wont to a house on Delaware avenue and C .street, where he rented a room, He for<> taking the ferry from New York to Jersey City he purchased a supply Of so^alled trick matches. These matches, Ilolt explained, were of the kind that explode or "popppedV after they were lighted. The ]H>pping of the nifiti-V.c.s, he explained, furnished the concussion which exploded the dyna-.: mite. 4 s Holt said that he left the house where lie rented a room, taking the dynamite with him, and wnlked,? round the capltol grounds. He then walked I up the steps to the main entrance of j ?the cnpitol and strolled through the corridors. He spent about half an hour in the building, ho added, looking for a spot to place Ills bomb where its explosion would not injure any one or cause great damage to the building. After placing the bomb Holt walked away. He went back to his room, he said, and to the union station. He walked n bout the street for awhile, then derided to write to the news papers and the president explaining why he had sot the bomb. Ho did this, he said, before the bomb exploded and mailed the letters dur ing the early evening. At thin point he refused to tell more. .A "Didn't you have au aocomjJllcr?" be was linked. "So," he muttered weakly, "none whatever. I did the whole thing my self. 1 planned It, I execute<\ It, no body knowing about It hut myself." "Didn't you have an accomplice in the netting of the bomb at YVashlng ten?" the detectives jierwistcd. "I toll you." he replied, "I did not. Neither at Washington nor (ilencove." "Where did you huy the dynamite?" "There \mis no answer. The detec tives caught (he prisoner's arm, drag ged him to an upright position and renewed their walk. Holt became ho weak toward mid* night that it was decided to let hlin rest In hjs eel I until tomorrow when the examination will be resumed, PIKBI'ONT MOKtiAN ?HOT. 1 College Professor Thought Morgan Ought to Htop The War. (Ilencove, N. Y., July tt,-~ J. P. Mor gan, head of the banking house of .1. P. Morgan & Cq? wan shot twice today at bin country home near here by Frank Holt, a' native American, a former student feud Instructor at Cor nell university, who wan to have be* come head Of the department of French in I he Southwestern Methodist uni versity at Dallas, Texas, next fall. Mr. Morgan was said by socialists at his bedside to be resting well to night. No vital organ, the physicians announced, had been involved In bis Injury. The physician, however, de clined to state the precise hs'Rtiou of Mr. Morgan's wounds. Junlous Hpen eer Morgan, eldest son pf the fluau eler, was asked to detinc the exaet nature of the Injuries. Alter confer ring with the 'physicians young Mr. Morgan answered they had decided to add nothing to their previous bulletins. At 11 o'clock tonight, however, it was established, both bullets penetrated the hip and neither entered the abdomen. Holt was overpowered bj^ Mr, Mor gan and Henry Flake, the butler In the Morgan household. He was 10.1k ?*! U|) lu jail l?iv. From hit* cell ho iMMued tt wiliLl htiitfiiifiit, aayloa thai ti? |litTJ ed no harm to Mr. Mortc?u, \mt J t'OlUO to (ilencoVe to l?f| nliatU* n?. I, J er to ?to|> tbi ahlpinent fruBl T71 t*ouiktri Q>f u)unUioii? of war'. h* into Uiv Morgan home, tic mmV4, witf u pistol In bin (land ami a *\\{\ t| dynamite In hi* pocket, Inte^M#. j remain there till Mr. Morgan ?omethiug." Another loaded .pistol ^ lI*?lt'M pocket. More dyiifciijrit* wa* > a Hiilfc case ho had taken to the h,? itan house. There wi'iv numerous u*.*, paiH'f clipping*, all hearing mi nu. fA rojM>aa war, lij the ault case. Brief Wespite for Iteikrr. Alhany, *V ^ <i ?lul.v I. ^tovcriuj Whitman today granted ('hurle* !U*i or, the former New York Hie* tenant under sentence of ?U?ath, h r, prleve until July Thu govern said he would take no .further u^tlo hi the cane than the granting of th reprieve, This means that if (L United States supreme court doe* ik Interfere Becker will have to tile. cT'; '? v.\ . "? " . ;-s ? Big Death Toll. ( 'idea ho', July (J. Nineteen Mad 9Q8 Injured was the nations juurlM 1<> two days celehratlon of the Fourti of July acuordlnv to corrected ftguril compiled to<lay by the Tribune, Ttt figures show an increase over tgi totals when twelve were killed ad K70 were Injured. The lire low wj $839^25', lust year It was $99,545. "T* Big Yield of Wheat, - Olemson College, July 0.? 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