Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Francis Leo Daily '13, of Peoria, Ill., is the alternate.J. A. Donovan '13. M. Suiavitz '13. T. J. Moore 2L. A. A. Berle, Jr., '13. UNIVERSITY DEBATING TEAM AGAINST YALE...
...series of outrageous dynamiting disasters, resulting in tremendous losses of life and property, and surrounded by what appeared to be an impenetrable mystery, had aroused the structural iron corporations to action and Mr. Burns was engaged to make investigations. An attempt to wreak destruction on a mill in Peoria, Illinois resulted in the discovery of the most important clew in the whole investigation. A peculiarly constructed bomb had failed to explode, and this was found by Mr. Burns...
...month later the great Los Angeles Times disaster occurred, in which twenty-one men lost their lives. Mr. Burns was again called upon to investigate. A bomb unearthed among the ruins proved to be of identical design and construction with the one discovered at Peoria. This was convincing evidence that all the operations were being directed by the same hand. Mr. Burns could have placed his hands on the actual perpetrators of the crime, then and there, but it was his purpose to get the "big men" behind all the labor outrages...