Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1893 — Page 6

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. K, BLACKBURN, • • • Ptwwaa 1893 NOVEMBEK. 1893 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 0 ® ® 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ® ® • ® ® 0 ® ® , ® AROUND THE WORLD.

INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. The World's Fair Ended with Unostentatlons Ceremonies —A Crank Empties the Contents of His Revolver Into a New Yorker's Body—The Repeal BUI Finally Passes the Senate. CRANKS AT LARGE. Bupt. Fred. L Mathias Shot Down at New York. New York special: An excited workman rushed from the new building of the Postal Telegraph Company, at Broadway and Murray streets, and called out that a murderous crank was at large on the ground floor of the building, who had already shot the clerk of the works and threatened murder by the wholesale. Several police officers immediately rushed to the spot. Inside the building was Supt. Frederick L. Mathias, who had charge of the construction for Architects Harvey and Gooch. He was bleeding very profusely from a bullet wound in the abdomen. A number of badly scared workmen were lurking behind pillars and piles of wood and brick, while still more crowded the temporary stairs leading to the second story, attracted by pistol shots and the excitement from below, the policemen were told that Mathias’ assailant was concealed behind a pile of bricks-in the rear of the building. An officer advanced towards the man's hiding place and ordered him to come out. A pistol shot rang out and a bullet grazed the cheek of the policeman. The officer mounted another pile of bricks and opened a fusilade in the direction of the man’s hiding place, which the latter steadily returned. Finally the crank gave an unearthly scream, jumped from his hiding place and fired three shots in quick succession at the policeman, all of which missed their mark. Officers Giblin and Cornell rushed upon him. seized the pistol and bore the man to the ground. Even after being disarmed the man fought desperately and the policemen had to use their clubs to overcome him. Mathias will die. WORLD'S FAIR CLOSED. The Great Exposition Ended with Unostentatious Ceremonies.

The official life of the World’s Fair has ended. Monday evening was to have been one of gaiety and dazzling brilliancy, but the death of Mayor Harrison changed all. The meeting at Festival Hall during the afternoon was brief. The audience was detained just long enough to hear an earnest prayer by Rev. Barrows, a few explanatory remarks regarding the change of program by President Palmer, the reading of an appropriate speech by President Higginbotham and resolutions of sympathy regarding Carter Harrison s untimely end. Mr. Higginbotham began in a clear, firm voice, which grew husky and trembled for a moment with emotion.__ The Fair was declared closed by Thomas W. Palmer, President of the National Commission, in the following words: “It was intended to close this Fair simultaneously with the sound of this gavel, the firing of artillery and the lowering of flags. All this has been changed by the sad circumstance which brings us together now. ,1 announce that when the sun sets, the closing will be marked only by a salute and the hauling down of the flag. When that takes place, I declare in obedience to the act of Congress, that the exposition is officially closed.” . . . Will Lock Up All Cranks. New York special: Superintendent of Police Byrnes thinks that the assassination of Mayor Harrison will boom the murderous crank and tnat his tribe will increase amazingly. “One murder like that of 'Mayor Harrison.” he says, “sets off the whole tribe.” Fortunately for his peace of mind the Superintendent is a philosopher and doesn't worry. The Superintendent has instructed the police to keep an eye out for cranks and to arrest all who come within range. An Army Captain Shot and Killed. Capt. He.dburg, of Company F. Fifteenth Infantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan. 111., was shot and killed byLieut. Many, the Quartermaster of the same regiment. Capt. Hedburg not so very long since Caugfyt Lieut. Many at his house under rather com.promising circumstances, and this led to the quarrel. , i r Founder of Notre Dame Dying. The Very Rev. Father General Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind., is very low. and his death is almost momentar.ly expected. He has been in poor health ano gradually failing for several months and it is believed that the end is near. Body of a Lynched Man Burned.

The body of John Gamble, the negro who was lynched for assaulting Miss Rosa Boring near Pikeville, Tenn , was burned. The body hod been banging to a tree for four days, as no one would allow it to be buried on their land. Repeal Bill Panßed. The unconditiohal repeal bill passed the Senate, Monday, by a vote of 43 yeas to 32 nays. TUE DAILY WRECK. Poor Men Killed at Harrisburg. Harrisburg (Pa.; special: Four men were ki le.’ in a wreck on the Pennsylvan.a a:lro..d in this city. A loaded freig. t gong east, was bbardpd at J\. i.rset s.rcet by five men who got into aco 1 cur. Two squares aw y the coal cur uui bd the track at a switch and hnljtdo en ears tilted on end and crash >1 into the west bound train of eiSj.ty urs. The curs in which the mon w iv st nding were hurled into the <1 of the mass, an 1 four were instantly killed and pno in uted. Three of the dead were

rushed out of recogn'tion. The fourth, Jichard Doyle, ’8 an unemployed Plttsnirgh railroader. Ono man who was njured says they came from Illinois or )hio and hud families. Frank Ward if Burlington, lowa is the only man vho escaped. Me says that Frederick Jrlmmell was one ot the mon killed. Six empty cars and ten cars loaded vith oil and lumber wore wrecked. WENT Ul’ IN SMOKE.

A Million Dollar Blaze at. Plttubaryh. Pittsburgh special: Shortly after 1 i’clock Saturday afternoon the entire Ire department of the city was sumnoned to Eleventh and Pike streets. 3y the time the first engines on the icene were in service flames were jursting from almost every window md door of the immense building iwned and occupied by the Chautsqua lake Ice Company and the Pittsburgh Storage Company. The building oc:upied a space of 300 by 100 feet, was >f brick and stone, seven stories, or eighty feet in height. Edward Spies,an employe,discovered ;he fire and gave the alarm. He was A’orking on the fourth floor. Almost initantly he was enveloped in the flame?, tnd although he attempted to fight die fire, he was driven back to a winlow fifty feet from the ground.through vhich he made his escape. He crept >ut upon the narrow sill. and. dropping lown, hung by his hands until rescued ay the laddermen of truck A. His Sands, arms, and face were literally masted. It was scarcely five minutes ifter the discovery of the fire until the jreat structure was ablaze on every loor. A soaking rainfall aided greatly in preventing the spread of the fire, which at several times threatened destruction to the many valuable properties in the vicinity. At 2 o’clock the jccupants of surrounding buildings vere notified to move out. Between Mulberry Alley and Pennsylvania Avenue on the southeast side of the burning building were a cheap class of tenements, crowded to suffocation with Polish .Tews and slaves who were thrown into a panic. Fifteen minutes later the side of the building fell with. 1 crash, burying a large row of the tenements .just vacated. Flames Jiirst from the buried dwellings idditjg danger to surrounding iroperty. At 2:30 o'clock the four upper storltes of the Thirteenth street vail fell outward, burying the street to I depth, of ten feet and crushing the id'use of John Glenn, on the opposite I ade of the street. On the ground floor if the: warehouse were five loaded ars. Just before the crash they were Irawn, all burning, to a place of safety. )f all the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property stored in the luilding, these five car loads were all hat were saved. The large varehouses of the Haveler Storige company, on the opposite side >f Pike street, caught fire several limes, but were not seriously damaged: the rear of a number of Pennsylvania ivenue buildings were also severely icorched. The most serious damage >ere was to Hiber's drug store, which vith contents was almost destroyed. A number of narrow escapes were made >y employes in the storage building.

He’s a Demon. James Stone, who some days ago confessed that he, with five men now in the Prison South, murdered the Wratten family in Daviess County, Indiana, i few weeks ago, has made another :onfession. S one says that he alone nurdered the Wratten family. He exmerates the men he implicated in his irst confession. He told the officers where to find the weapon with which ;he deed was done. The officers went lut and found them where Stone had itatod. A small bloody ax and a corn inife were hidden under a log in a liece of woods close by the scene of ;he tragedy. The weapons are now in possession of the grand jury. It is the ipinion that Stone may or may not be lelling the truth. He has the reputa:ion of being a notorious liar. It is lot believed that he did the deed done. Base Ball in the tVest, Messrs. Cushman, Barnes and Manling, the committee to whom was left ;he organization of the Western Base Ball League, met at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. They announced that Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Toledo, are accepted. That the league will be composed of fight clubs, four each on the westirn and eastern circuits. Mr. Barnes will personally investigate theapplica;ions from St. Paul, Sioux City and Jmaha. for the one club to complete he western circuit while Mr. Manlius’ will make a visit to Detroit and Columbus. Mr. Cushman will look ifter the applications from Denver, Joliet., Rockford, St. Joseph and other joints. The committee will call a neeting soon of all clubs accepted for mganization. Bombs Made of Sawdust. Connersville. (Ind.) special: The liscovery of a bomb made from a piece >f gas pipe about a foot long near the loor of the treasurer's office by Sheriff McCready caused great excitement. Che missile was neatly sealed and had i slow fuse a foot long which bore evilence of having been ignited. Theoffi:ials were greatly agitated over the discovery and an investigation followed, it was not till late in the day. after the Sheriff had made a trip to the country md tried to ignite the alleged bomb, iat it was discovered to be a practical oke, perpetrated upon the Sheriff. Later in the evening a man dropped a umilar missile op the flqgr of a store md caused a precipitate rush to the itreet by the crowd in The store. The pipe'contained sawdust.

Carlisle Paid Up. Chicago special: Last summer the lady managers gave a reception to Secretary Carlisle. It cost 4500. The board sent a bill to Congress and Congress said it was not paying for anyoody’s meals, whereupon Secretary Jarlisle went down in his„ ppcket and paid the bill. A lady manager says: "Why, the poor man had only macaroon and a cup of tea, and to think of his having to pay SSOO for-that!” The rommittee is now trying to square things with Carlisle, for it has no money at present. Smallpox by MalL Some person in Muncie, Ind., sent Marshal John Woods of Celina, Ohio, Some smallpox scabs inclosed in a very degrading letter. Marshal Woods would not permit any one from Muncie to stop off at Celina, 1 and it is thought that somconetheve has tried to spread the dread disease in that city and resorted to the above method. The Postaffice authorities have taken the matter in hand, and will make an effort to trace the letter to the sender. ’ Says He Was Crazy. r Washington (Ind.) special: To agentleman of unquestioned veracity, who has just returned from Jeffersonville, and who has known the murderer Stone all his life, Stone said he was crazy when he made his first statement before the grand jury implicating the men Keys, Clark, Yarber, Cosby, Williams, and Vr bite, . and had been crazy ever since the murder. Stone laid he was so wrought up over his

hellish crime that when he made hit fir t coufes ion he wussoi od with a desire to Implicate anyone who camo in tils mind. He stated thaj?he had been era y all a'ong until the other day, and told the whole truth hi his last confession. which is generally accepted by the people of this community. Bold Robbery. Pittsburg special: \ While driving to Guyasta a few miles west of here, W. H. McGuire, a sewing machine agent, was attacked and robbed by four masked mon. After t iking hismoney, amounting to 565, and his gold watch, the robbers bucked and gagged McGuire and tied him to the seat of the wagon. The horse was then frightened and started for Guyasta at a territiic rate, but before any damage was done the rig was stopped by two bicyclists and McGuire released. There is no clue to the robbers. ’Twill Come Oft. Champion James J. Corbett has received word from the Olympic Club at New Orleans that they would hang up a purse of tf20,000 for the Cor-bett-Mitchell glove contest, and telegraphed his acceptance on the condidition that the club deposit SIO,OOO guarantee for the contest to come off. Corbett said: “The purse is. a smaller one than that which I feught Sullivan for; but no matter. Mitehell must not be disappointed.” Spanish Forced to Retreat. Madrid special: The Minister of War has received a telegraphic message from Melilla, saying the Moors in great force opened lire on the Spaniards, who were working upon the. fort now in course of erection, and their lire was so well directed that the Spaniards were obliged to retreat, which they did, however, in good order, and not until they had inflicted considerable loss upon the enemy. Sewer-pipe Concerns Combine. manufacturing companies are to unite in a joint stock company, to be incorporated under the laws of Ohio. The capital will be ¥1,000,000. It is claimed that the combination of the Ohio potteries is a necessity to compete with the Akron combine. The latter threatens to dissolve and break down prices.

Young Lady Jumps from a Train. I While coming out from Chicago on the Denver limited recently Miss Georgia Wright, who resides at Rochelle, 111., was carried by the latter place. She did not notice it until near Franklin Grove, when she rushed out of the car and jumped. The train was stopped, and the young lady was found severely injured. Two Indicted. The Noble County, Indiana, grand jury has returned an indictment against John Connors and Eva Flint for complicity in the Kessler train robbery. Thus far they are the only persons under arrest for that crime. Th ?y have beemin jail at Albion for some time and will not be tried until the December term of court. ' A Passenger Train Wrecked. At Bluford, 111., twelve miles east of Mt. Vernon, the Air Line west bound passenger train No. 3, was wrecked by the breaking down of the tank to the engine. Every coach was turned over on its side. Chief Engineer Allen, Conductor Henning and the Pullman porter and one passenger were slightly cut and bruised.

Boy Crashed to Death at School A 6-year-old son of William Stanfords was instantly killed at Clarksville, Ind., by a log rolling on him. He was at school, and the teacher and some ot the larger pupils were moving a log in front of the house. The log started down a bank catching the boy and crushing his head to a shapeless mass. Liberty Bell Going Home. Mayor Stuart and a party of Philadelphia officials are at Chicago for the purpose of acting as an escort to liberty bell on its return to Philadelphia. Stops will be maae at Cincinnati, Dayton, Xenia, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg and at each place “old liberty" will be shown to the people. Flirted with Rebels. The peremptory removal of Commodore and Acting Rear Admiral Stanton, stationed at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, from the command of the South At'antic stafon, was made recently for saluting the insurgents, being an open insult to a friendly power. He will be succeeded by Commodore Meade. Terre Haute Races Off. Owing to rain, the Terre Haute races were declared off. Under American Trotting Association rules, the races could not be postponed longer than the last day of the week advertised. Another meeting is advertised for November 2,3, and 4. The same stables will remain over. Saved His Friend, bat Not Himself. Michael Watk’ns, aged 22 yea»», a miner at Canton, Ohio, saw a huge lump of coal descending from the roof. He pushed a companion, Walter McCarty. out of the way, but could not escape himself. He was probably fatally crushed.

THE MARKETS. ' ' CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 9 600 HOGS—Shipping Grades 4 00 <3 700 Sheep—Fair to Choice 225 <3 3 60 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62 0 63 < ORX-Np. 2 38 »- » OATS—' 0.2 29 0 31 Ryu—No. 2 46 0 48 Buttbb—Choice Creamery 27‘(.(4 28 4 Eggs—Fresh 20 0 21 Potatoes—Per bn 55 0 65 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 300 & 5 25 Hogs—Choice Light 4 co <4 6 75 Sheep—Common to Prime 2<o <3 3<o Wheat—No. 2 Bed •« 0 W Cobn-No. 2 White 40)40 41)4 Oats—No. 2 White 31 0 31‘s ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 & 5 25 Hogs 4 oo & 675 Wheat—so. 2 Bed 59 ® 60 Cobn—No. 2 36 <3 37 OATS—No. 2. 26 <3 27 BaßLEY—low* 69 0 60 CINCINNATL Cattle 300 0 5 oo iIOGR 3 oo & 6 so BHEEP 2 00 9 3 75 Wheat-No. 2 P.ed 62 0 6254 Cobn-No. 2. 39 <4 41 Oats-No. 2 Mixed 29 & 30 Rte—No. 2 61 <3 62 DETROIT. Cattle 3 oo <3 4 75 Hogh .“.T5........ 3 00 <3 6 60 Sheep,.i 300 <3 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 B<-d 62)49 *3)4 Corn—No. 2'Yellow 40 <3 42 Oats-No. 2 White 31 & 32 TOLEDO. W’heat No. 2 Red 63 0 64 Coen—No. 2 Yellow 39)4 Oats—No. 2 White 29 <3 30 Rye-No. 2 47 (3 49 BUFFALO. Wheat No. 1 Hard 69 & 71 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 42 (3 43 Oats—No. 2 White 36 <3 36 I Eye-No. 2 60 & 12 i MILWAUKEE. | Wheat—No. 2Spring...... 69 9 60 I Cobs—No. 3 36 <3 m Oats—No. r White 29 0 31 Rye-No. I 47 <4 48 BaHLEY-No 1 y 63 9 56 1 PoBK-NewMes* 16 60 017 00 i , NEW YORK. I Catt1e...;...... * 8 oo 0 6 56 I Hogs 8 75 0 7 96 Sheep aas 0 3 75 I Wheat—No. s Red 69 <4 70 Come—No. 2 4e)o0 47)4 Oats—Mixed We«t«rn... 34 0 36 I Butteb—Creamery 95 0,98 I Fobe-N.w Me**..... ion 090 0

HAEBISON IS Slim. Chicago’s Mayor Victim of a Murderer’s Bullets. SHOT DEAD AT HOME. THE ASSASSIN WAS A CRAZY OFFICE-SEEKER. Chief Executive of the World'. Fair City Called from Slumber to Death—Three Bullet. Fired at Him In 111. Own Hallway—No Word of Warning I. Spoken by the Murderer—The Station Besieged by Indignant Crowds—Chicagoan. Aitounded by the News of the Killing. Carter Henry Harrison, Mayor of the city of Chicago, has been assassinated—shot down in the hallway of his own hqmo by an irresponsible crank. This is a shocking announcement to go before the world in these closing days of the Columbian Exposition. Just when the name of Chicago is on the tongues of all men in every clime, when every mention of the name brings pleasant memories to millions of people, it is a cruel fate that associates the name of the city with the crime of assassination. It was the cherished ambition of Mr. Harrison to serve as the World's Fair Mayor. He had almost completed the six months covering the period of the Fair: the papers of the morning of his death had announced the date of his marriage to a most estimable lady; he was at the proudest moment of a most extraordinary career when cut down by the cruel shot’ of an assassin. The story of the murder seems to indicate that it was’ committed by an insane or partially demented man. The

’ H 1 Y-T --- "a** B CARTER H. HARRISON. Speaking at the World’s Fair on the day bis assassination. act was cold-blooded and deliberate. The man had come to the Harrison mansion bent on murder, afld whether actuated by motives the birth of an unbalanced mina or not, he did his fiendish work well. Shortly after a 7 o’clock dinner Saturday night, the Mayor, feeling fatigued from a day spent at the World's Fair, laid down on an ottoman in the dining room of the mansion. There had attended him at the meal William Preston Harrison, Miss Harrison, his daughter, and Miss Annie Howard, his affianced wife. All of these, save the Mayor himself, had repaired to rooms above. There were two servants in attendance, Mary Hansen and Maggie French, when at 8:10 o'clock the door bell rang, and the former of the two servants named went to the door, a man giving his name as Eugeni Patrick Prendergast inquired for the Mayor and was admitted into the hallway. Mr. Harrison came forward at the call cf his name and met the caller near the front door of the residence. Without a moment's warning Prendergast drew a revolver and fired three shots in rapid succession. The first shot struck Mr. Harrison in the abdomen, near the stomach, and he threw up his hands and staggered backward. As he did so, another bullet hit him in the left bre:ist near the shoulder and over the region of the heart. Not content with his deadly work the assasin again fired, piercing’the left hand of his vic-

wSF MISS ANNIE HOWARD. Carter Harrison’s Betrothed. tim as he sank to the floor mortally wounded. Preston Harrison, son of the Mayor, when the first shot was fired was in his room on the second floor. He ran down with all haste and rushed after the man a-> he left the hall. Prendergast fired a shot at Mr. Harrison, but missed him. The assassin, having completed his work, turned back to the door, the butler of the Harrison household at his heels, fled across the lawn, out of the gateway, and out of sight. The police were quickly on the spot. Preston Harrison was soon at the side of his prostrate father, the latter pale and uttering hardly articulate groans. “I'm shot,” moaned the Mayor. “Get a doctor. Dr. Foster, who lives half a square removed from the Harrisons, hastened to the, side of the wi undeti man. A hurried examination, during which the patient gritted his teeth and bore up heroically, and Dr. Foster announced the sufferer beyond surgical aid. “I’ve been shot," muttered Chicagos chief executive, and I am going to die. I know it.l cannot live." “You re not hurt, father,” returned the son, reassuringly. “You’ll be all right, with a feigned smile. But the Mayor had caught the look of discouragement from the doctor, and added ,•, ->. 7. Jy.’lT* .

his own apprehensions thereto. “Yes. I am going to die," firmly, and then, modulating his intonation somewhat, he gasped: “ Where s Annie?" This reference to her who was soon to become bis wife brought the tears to his eyes, and, growing faint at heart as in body, ho fell back on the rudely improvised couch of rugs. “Where s Annie?” he repeated, ids voice now almost still. A convulsive throb, his voice failed him, ho choked up with the blood that was forcing up from the awful gape in his abdomen, a last look about him, and the Mayor of the great Western city turned his head slightly to the right and gasped his last Betrothed Hobs by Her Dead. A few minutes later Miss Howard rushed in, distracted. She bogged to bo allowed to see the man she loved. She threw herself on his bleeding body and sobbed as if her heart would oreak. Her piteous cries brought tears to the eyes <f those near her. Preston Harrison alone stood dry-eyed. He seemed to bo transfixed wiih horror. Miss Howard wept over her dead lover like one distrait. She had almost to be torn from the body. Mrs. Owsley, daughter

- * ”V7' J i/Z ///a i/7 » . j ilBikSH ffiWR WOrts I tsp hi v IM iW* u j WJjWd... Irw j J*SCENE AT THE HARRISON RESIDENCE LURING THE INQUEST SUNDAY MORNING,

of the Mayor, uttered heartrending cries over her father. Overcome with grief Miss Sophie Harrison fainted near her father’s body. The three women were taken up-stairs and the doctors turned their attention to them. There was a sad scene between those three women upstairs. Mrs. Harrison, Jr., also arrived, distracted at the fate of her husband's father. The four women wept together, consoling each other by their tears. Miss Howard refused all consolation. The name of her dead lover was on her lips, and she cried that she might die and go with him. Despairing waib and hysterical groans, prayers, pleadings for the restoration of her lover to life, imprecations on the assassin’s head, all followed in disjointed and disconnected sentences. The physicians tried to calm her, but she would not listen to the words of solace and comfort, and continued her strange actions until the doctors concluded to destroy her ability to brood with a potent and powerful ana'sthetic. The drug had its effect, and soon Miss Howard fell off in a troubled slumber. Unconscious of his father’s fate, Carter Harrison Jr. was on his way from the World’s Fair when Prenlergast fired the fatal shots. The news had traveled fast, and before the son had started on his journey west he heard of the ter rible fate that had befallen his father. The Assassin Surrenders. Thirty minutes later Prendergast, excited, out of breath, and panting from his long run, bounded up the steps of the Desplaires street station, nearly two miles distant, and, handirg a revolver across the desk to Sergeant Barber, exclaimed: “I shot Mayor Harrison—l want to give myi-elf up.” The officers were startled by the exclamation, but, being accustomed io erratic visitors, were not inclined to take the man’s word's seriously until they saw that he ca ried a revolver in his hand. They immediately placed the man under arrest and took the weapon from him. The man said his name was Patrick Eugene Prendergast and that he had shot the Mayor because he had betrayed him. “1 wanted to be made Corporation Counsel,” he said. All the time he acted with coolness and showed no signs of excitement. He was only about twenty minutes at the Desplaines Street Station when Chief of Police Brennan arrived and ordered his removal to the Central Station, as evidences were shown that his stay there was dangerous. He preserved his coolness on the journey to the City Hall. He repeated the statement that he shot the Mayor became he wcu'd not appoint him'Corporation Counsel. He said he was 25 years old and that he worked a morning paper route, for a livelihood. According t$ his statement he bought the revolver in the afternoon, intending to shoot the Mayor unless he was given some satisfaction to iiis repeated demands for an apoointment. “I went to Mayor Harrison s h iv.se,” he said, “and asked him what he was going to do for me. Ho w uu do nothing 1 wished and what he had promised, and I drew my revolver and shot him. I have done s me work in a political way in my ward for the last few campaigns and was for Harrison, and becau e of my influence Harrison promised me a position if he was e'ected in the la st campaign. I was asked what I wanted and I said that I had a scheme for the elevation of the railroad tracks. I wanted to be Corporation Counsel so that I could push this scheme. I was told that I might have the position. Since elect! n I have asked for the office again and again, and have been put off repeatedly. The office was given to another. The Mayor had betrayed me, and I resolved to have revenge. I have had it.” It was learned that Prendergast had for some time been pestering the Mayor with letters asking for the position of corporation counsel. The letters are described as the production of a person of unbalanced mind. Crowd at the Houee. Friends had rushed to the house as soon as the news spread arou d the neighborhood, to ofler what help they could. The poli< e alai m had br. ught wagons dashing to the house from all directions. It was a riot alarm, for the horses sped like lightning along the streets, landing mmy officers at the house. But the deed was done when the officers arrived. An angry crowd gathered about the house and there were threats of lynching If the assassin could be found. When the news came that he had .been arrested, one man declared thatlbe wo ild lead the crowd to the Dasplaine ■ btr et Stat Ln and drag the inurdeier > ut. when it was known that the Mayor had been

assassinated the whole city was aroused. The people camo from all directions, both in oabe and on foot. They gathered on the sidewalk in front of the house, and cr. wded into the large front yard. A few tried to enter the home. The police, however, prevented this, and soon a guard was i-et ot the door. Tnen the yard was cleared. Still the crowd lingered, pressing against the Iron fence. Politic. Forgotten in Sympathy. The nows spread to a big Republican campaign meeting being held nt the North Side Turner Ha 1 und the meeting terminated suddenly. The mon wore wild enough to rush to the jail and bang the murderer to the nearest lamp post Another crowd gathered around the Desplainos street station, but the police were all out and the men were kept back. Prendergast was taken to the City Hall and examined by Inspector Shi a and three other officers. He gave a clear statement concerning his deed. From his own account It was a cold-blooded action, deliberately planned and carriel out. Here, again, another crowd waited to catch

a glimpse of the murderer. After the examination the murderer was kept at the City Hall under a heavy guard, to prevent any demonstration. The crowd soon dispersed, but it would have boded ill for Prendergast if ho had been taken back to the Desplaines Street Station. Threat* of Lynching. While the civilized world wondered at the infamy of the deed and the lawabiding citizens paced the streets and asked each whether lynch law was not justifiable under certain circumstances, the cringing wretch cowered in a cell at the Central Station. He had made a bold front before Chief Brennan and Inspector Shea, but when thrust back into his cell he slunk into a corner like a beast at bay. It was nearly midnight then. A crowd had gathered in the street. It gathered with the primal object of hearing authentic news of the assassination and when the verification of the rumor came to them there were hotheads who talked of lynching. Never in the history of the city since the great calamity of 1871 were such serious threats sf lynching indulged in as on Saturday night and Sunday morning. In a crowd of men gathered at the corner of La Salle and Washington streets on Sunday morning wai a burly Irishman who towered above every other man. “I say,” he shouted, “that we lynch the dog! I am a Republican and have fought Harrison in politics, but he was an American and the first citizen of Chicago. This is no town for anarchists and assassins. Kill the dog ” His shout was taken up by a score of men, but the pick t men of the Cent- al station marched out and told the p jople to move on. Their cool determination was enough and they went. CHICAGO IN SORROW. Signs of Mourning Everywhere Show the Grief of the Residents. Chicago passed Sunday in sorrow. For the first time since the terrible fire of twenty-two years ago the metropolis of the West mourned for a blow struck at its very vitals. The city recovered slowly from the shock

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of the assassination. When the dawn flrnt b oke far across the gray waters of Lake Michigan the new day pushed away t e darknesi of a night stained by so b ack a crime, and was welcomed wit i re ief by the th usunds cf citizens whom th • ex ci exent < f the murder hud kept ti'm their a< cust< med beds. But the cold and cloudy morn ■ came as a ha b nger of evil to the vast majority of the e idents. The hoarse shouts of the tireleia n. wsboys as they penetrated eve.y str. et and av nue of the city, far and near, brought he awful tiding! f r the first ime to hundreds of thousand wh had g‘’ne to their homes Sa urday night before the rumors of t e aseassinatioti cached the downtown h toL and e or a Awakened by unwonted cr.es all Chicago knew C '.l ■■

long before church time of the irreparable disaster that hud befall, n it <>n the night before. The o lurches were all crowded in the morning with the regular parishioners and st angers eager to hoar whatever eulogies or other role cnees that mig it bo made by the pastors to the dead Mayor. The InquMt. Five bullet wounds wore found in tha body of the muruered Mayor. A o>r- 1 ' oner’s jury, computed of C. C. Kohlsaat. Ulrlo king, S. A. Scribner, W. Chalmers, P. R. O Brien, and ChtAdeiv F. Elmes, impaneled by Coroner MoHale, rendered a verdict of murder without delay. The inquert was held at the Harrison mansion Sunday morning. The assassin wa- present unde ■ a heavy guard and a lino of stalwart policemen sui rounded the hoi.si guarding every gate and do r. Thee were - but few witne ses to examine, and the * proceedings occupied a short time. Previous to the inquest a post m< rten» examination had boon made, and t >e testimony of the surgeons was the < nly information differing from that printed in Sunday's papers.

Excepting a technical description of the wounds little was added to the information already at the disposal of officers of the law. The verdict recommended that Prendergast be held for the murder until discharged by due process of law. Sketch ot Carter Harrison** Career. According to a recent biographer, Carter Hartl on was born in Kentucky in 1825, but traped his ancestry back to Cromwell’s Lieutenant General. Hia official life began as County Commissioner in 1871. In 1872 ho ran for Congress against Jasper D. Ward, and was defeated. In 1874 he ran again, and was elected. He was re-elected ia EUGENE PATRICK PItENDBtIG AS* 1876, George R. Davis being his opponent. In 1878 Miles Kehoe djhated him for the nomination. He was nominated for Mayor in the following spring, was elected, and served four terms. In 1884 ho ran for Gove nor on the Democratic ticket. He ha; since been a Mayoralty candidate twice, in 1891 as an independent, and last spring, when he was elected. He had been twice married. It was announced on the day of his tragic death that his marriage

to Miss Howard, of New Orelans, La., would take place at Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 16. Currencle, Conden«e<L Thebe are 3,C00 unemployed people in Dayton, Ohio. Prairie fires have caused heavy losses in Holt County, Neb. Sir John Abbott, ex-Premier ot Canada, is dying at Montreal. Illinois authorise j will attempt to overthrow the school furniture trust. James A. Demaree, founder of the Knights of Honor, is dead at Louisville, Ky. The boiler of the steamship Alexander. plying on the River Volga, exploded at Kasloffka. Eight of the crew were killed.