Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 31 May 1889 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN-

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY

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A NEW feature of sanitation in quarantine and hospital is the erection on Swinburne Island of a crematory to incinerate those who die of contagious diseases. Heretofore they have been buried on Staten Island, ten miles from the hospital. The act appropriating 120,000 by the New York Legislature provides for the immediate erection of the furnace, but forbids the burning of the bodies of those whose religious views are opposed to this disposition of the body, provided their friends make known their wishes within twenty-iour hours after decease.

A CORRESPONDENT whohas been looking around among the Chinese residents of New York says that he has never yet seen a Chinaman indulge in laughter, and that absolute gravity appears 'to be a characteristic of the whole Chinese race. It is probable that the correspondent has seen the Chinaman only in his laundry, and has not looked into his social life, or his club, or his amusements. Those who have enjoyed the privilege of seeing him in his festive hours say that he can laugh as loudly and as merrily as any white man or any black. He is even said to be fond of fun of the Chinese fashion.

PROF, OKTON, Ohio State Geologist, has for years urged on the people the need of using natural gas economically. But, on the contrary it has been wasted so that not over one-twelfth has been utilized, and the rest allowed to escape. The American Manufacturer shows that over one-fourth of all the gas consumed in Pittsburg factories is also wasted, either through defective apparatus or the carelessness of operatives. This showing would not be so bad if the supply were inexhaustible but already the pressure is greatly diminished in the wells, and not a few are entirely exhausted. Prof. Orton believes the supply will be but of comparatively short daration. ________

THE growth of electric lighting is something wonderful. At the Convention of the Natural Association, President Duncan said that one year ago there were 4000 plants in the United States these now number nearly 6000. One year ago there were 175,000 arc lamps in use ther are now 219,924. One year ago there were 1,750,000 incadescent lamps in use: at the present time there are over 2,500,000—49 per cent increase. The growth in electric railways is quite as startling. The country is committed to an electric age. Steam and gas,which have headed civilization, are being displaced. One more quarter of a century and every township, as well as city, will be illuminated by electricity.

ANDREW D. WHITE'S "Warfare of Science," which has been so long furnished by installments to Popular Science Monthly, estimates the number burned as witches in Europe from 1550 to 1650 as not less than 100,000. The witch was forced to confess, then to confess to and name accomplices, and each of these implicated others under compulsion till towns were riddled with persecution, The effect, however, was not wholly in the way of burning victims, but thousands were rendered insane, and lunacy under the doctrine of everbesetting devils seeking to "possess" mortals became a mental cyclone. No wondei that enlightened men dread every tendency toward reaction from civil liberty.

THE struggle of New York to increase its supply of water and improve the quality has brought out some interesting figures as to water supply in Ameiiran cities generally. The ina'bitants of Philadelphia are reported to use at present 100 gallons of water per capita whereas in 1886 they used 80 gallons in 1880, 68 gallons in 1860 30 gallons and in 1830 but 17 gallons. This, of couise, indicates not only an increased personal use of water, and no doubt increased average cleanliness of the persons and homes of the city, but a large increase of use for mechanical purposes. The policy of large cities is not to restrict the quantity used, but to increase the supply as a very positive sanitary measure, preventing the development of conditions favorable to scarlet fever, diphtheria and cholera.

IT is reported from Hayti that the leaders of one of the parties engaged in the civil war there have become hopeless of success, and are anxious for the establishment of a protectorate by the United States Government. Gen Hippolyte himself, the commander of the party in question, appears to be striving for the adoption of this policy as the only means of defence against the forces of Gen. Legitime. The proper course for Gen. Hippolyte to take, under the circumstances that have discouraged him, is that which was taken hereby Gen. Lee nearly a quarter of a century ago, when he laid down his arms. By doing so he will at once secure the establishment of peace among the war-ridden people of Hayti, and he can do so without the assistance of the United States. It is against the policy and the interests of the American Government to establish the protectorate which he desires.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Darlington needs a hotel. White Caps prevail at Stockwell. -ph Ft. Wayne sighs for a free library. Lebanon charges $250 for liquor license. Snowed at Crawfordsville on the 22d. Heavy frost at Jeffersonville Thursday.

Valparaiso has secured a violin factory. Laporte is enforcing the cow ordiance.

Thieves are following the Forepaugh circus. Winchester is building a soldier's monument.

Logansport authorties are raiding the gambling dens. Laporte has bored down 2,400 feet. Result, salt water.

Wabash farmers are complaining of ravages by cut worms. Albert Pulley, living near Marion, was killed by a falling limb.

David S. Watson of Rockville has received a life sentence for murder. Capitalists are talking of erecting a large cement-mill at Lexington, Scott county.

Jeffersonville physicians are blacklisting people failing to pay for medical services.

Terre Haute's oil craze continues. They are puncturing the ground in every direction.

Wife-shooter John F. Fossett, of Hilisboro, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.

Frosted clover is credited with killing several cattle belonging to S. H. Logan, who lives near Greensburg.

There are 7,927 school children in Lawrence county, of which number Bedford has 265 and Mitchell 250.

Walter Salters,

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Miss Rose Surdam, ''snow white," of Terre Haute, have been married. The seven year old son of L. Martin, near Hartford City, was crushed to death by falling under afield roller.

A slight trace of natural gas has been discovered in the Crawfordsville boring, and the drill will be sent still deeper.

Marauders dynamited a fish pond near Waveland,' killing nearly all the fish and carrying away the larger ones.

A proposition to increaee lfquor licenses under the new law to $250 was defeated by the Logansport City Council.

Seymour parties have a contract to furnish 1,000,000 feet of clear sycamore lumber for Louisville tobacco-box manufacturers.

Lightning struck the barn of Calvin Barnes, near Seymour, last Thursday, and killed two horses owned by Gordon Hartwell, and valued at $350.

The manager of the Music Hati at Crawfordsville refuses to rent to Uncle Tom's Cabin troupes, and the people there have voted him a medal.

The physicians of Jeffersonville have settledon a scale of charges, and started a black list of persons who do not pay for medical services rendered them.

H. C. Thurman, of New Albany, has a horse seventeen hands high, weighing 1,685 pounds, and with a hoof eight inches broad. The animal is five years old.

Warden Patten, of the Southern Prison, has been paid $17,832 for liquidation of the debts contracted by Jack Howard while in charge of the' Jeffersonville penitentiary.

Anew and fatal disease has appeared among the horses, near Hollandsburg. The animal takes suddenly ill with symptoms similiar to colic, and dies within three hours.

The trotting colt, "Sequajah," belonging to Captain Fugit, of New Albany, died this week of an unknown malady. Probably the name killed him. The animal was valued $2,000.

William White, aged eighteen, colored, of EvanBville, who fatally crushed the skull of Alexander McFarland with a boulder, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.

While assisting in sawing lumber in Douglass' mill five miles east of Angola, Wednesday, David Ruth fell on the saw and was nearly cut in two lengthwise. He died in fifteen minutes.

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Alexander Spereisen and wife celebrated their silver wedding at Fort Wayne last Thursday, in the same clothes, and with the same attendants as on the occasion of their first marriage.

Rochester is said to contain a greater variety of churches than any other town of its size in the State. All the denominations are represented, and the New Lights and Soul-Sleepers have thrifty congregations.

The Goshen Times says that a prominent business man of that place induced'his mother to sell her property for $1,900, after which he appropriated the proceeds and caused her removal to the County Asylum.

Absconding cashier Will Schrieber, of Columbus, ia reported as living at Windsor, Canada, and cultivating his taste for fine horses. It is st&ted that his stealings will aggregate $50,000 instead of $8,000, as was first reported.

Thirteen tramps indulged in a riot near the depot at Crawfordsville, Saturday night, and

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Marshal Esminger and posse, in which one of the prisoners was shot in the leg by an associate, who was trying to kill an officer.

Mrs. Joseph Brand, of Kingsbury, has been notified of the recent death of her father in California, and the fact that she had fallen heir to a valuable estate. Her father had been missing since 1849, and the family many years ago supposed him dead.

School teachers should know that for each teachers' institute held after March 2,1889, they are entitled to full pay—a regular day's wages—provided they attended such institute during the entire time it was in session and did the work assigned them by the township principal.

Joshua Mullen, an inmate of the Charlestown poor asylum, built a wagon and ran away with Lucinda True, another inmate, taking with him her baby and trunk. When last seen, Mullen was in the wagon with the baby and trunk, smoking a pipe, and Lucinda was pulling the equipage.

The last gas well at Jonesboro is potting ont eighteen million cubic feet per day, and the flow will be increased by

going deeper into Trenton rock. The gas was first struck at the depth of 450 feet, and it is clamed that the well demonstrates that Jonesboro lies in the greatest gas belt in America.

The dormitory attached to the Or-

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bans' Home at Wabash was destroyed fire, Friday night, but none of the children were in the building at the time. The Commissioners have already appropriated money for the erection of a more substantial structure, and the loss is not material in consequence.

The new city marshal of Shelby ville has notified saloon-keepers that hereafter the liquor law will be enforced in that city on Sunday, and there is great surprise, in consequence, as Shelby ville has always been a ''liberal" place. The saloon men are threatening to retaliate by prosecuting every other kind oi business making sales on Sunday.

Warrick county has an oath-bound farmers alliance which transacts all business of the organization through a committee, the same making purchases for the members. This committee waits upon merchants and receives bids for supplies needed, and care is taken that the seller is not permitted to realize more than 15 per cent, profit.

Knightsville, Clay City, Saline City, Ashboro, and perhaps other points in Clay county, have the oil fever and are busy with preparations for drilling. At Saline City it is claimed that some years ago gas was struck on the McKeen farm by drillers in a well. Near the same place evidences of oil have been apparent. The well was abandoned through fear, and the oil was not appreciated till the discovery at Terre Haute. —Indianapolis News.

The economical European excursions, which are conducted in alternate years by the Librarian of the State University, have enabled scores of persons in moderate circumstances to visit the most interesting countries across the water. The one this summer is the sixth, and its itinerary includes England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. The party will sail from New York June 15, and be absent three months.

Patents were issued, Tuesday, to Indiana inventors as follows: Stephen G. Baldwin, Marion, ink well Stephen A. D. Bozell, Atlanta, gate Oliver H. Castle, Indianapolis, crank wai6t and boxing Tames K. Augdale and C. E. Martin, Richmond, last and stand James W. Fierst, Red Key, balanced swinging gate John R. Fox, Fort Wayne, electric arc lamp Charles R. Hartman, Yincennes, cultivator Elwood E. Hiatt, Noblesville, bed furnace Theodore Kruse, Indianapolis, heating furnace Frank Lenhart, Brazil, horse detacher, Frank G. Perkins, Mishawaka, bushing for pulleys Freeman M. Teegarden, Colfax, saw table gauge Elias W. Tucker and A. P. Orr, Arcadia, clothes pounder Lewis F, Wickers and B. C. Wickers, Lebanon, fence.

THE STATERAPITAL.

The Attorney General, in an opinion delivered to the State Auditor, holds that the act of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly authorizing the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer of State to negotiate a loan of $3,905,000 for the purpose of paying off school fund bonds Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and providing the distribution of the funds to the various counties of the State to be constitutional. This question was raised that the matter might be put to the financiers and the funds secured.

The Daughters'of Rebesah, I. O. O. F., met in annual convention here, Tuesday, with an attendance of between 300 and 400. No special legislation was undertaken. The new officers selected are: Miss Alice McQuiddy, President Mrs. Nannie Henderson, Vice President Mrs. Secretary Mrs.

Treasurer. Delegates to the

National convention: Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Coates, Mrs. Crews, Mrs. Hanna.

I. O. O- F-

The Grand Lodge. I. O. O. F., of Indiana met here, Wednesday and Thursday, with an attendance of 700 delegates and members. The officers' reports showed increased interest and membership. The Grand Secretary's report shows a total membership in the State of 29,853, a net gain of near ly 400 for the term. Ihe number of lodges in the State is 544. The resources of the various lodges are $1,753,354.85. The receipts for the term, $142,241.40. The number of brothers relieved were 1,836, and the total amount of money expended for relief and charity was $53,065.41. A proposition to erect a home tor old and indigent members of the order received considerable attention. Help to the amount of $20,0Q0 has been proffered, and aid will be welcomed. About $50,000 for a home is needed. Ihe officers of the Home organization are as follows: President, J. B. Kenner, Huntington, Vice President, J. B. Kimball, Kendallville Secretary, A. D. Mohler, Huntington Treasurer, Theo. P. Haughey, Indianapolis. Directors—William B. Myers, Anderson C. C. Binckiey, Richmond A. S. Millice, Warsaw John W. McQuiddy. Indianapolis L. T. Mitchener, Shelbyville.

The officers nomenated to be voted for at the annual meeting in November ar:

For Grand Master—C. C. Binkley, Richmond. For Deputy Grand Master—W. II. Leedy, Indianapolis.

For Grand Warden—U. Z. Wiley, Fowler Jas. Reyuolds, Yorkto*n John B. Cockrum.Boonville, and J. O. Pedigo, Lebanon.

For Grand Sec etaiy—B. F. Foster, Madison. Grand Treasurer—T. P. Haughey, [Indianapolis.

Rep. to Sov. Gr. Lodge—J. E. C. F. Harper, Madison. Truste s—William Wallace, J. W. McQuiddy

A Ferguson.

The State Board of Education met at the State House, Tuesday, to open bids for supplying the pupils of Indiana schools with text books at lower prices under the new law. A dozen or more representatives of publishing houses were present, including a stenographer who noted every word that was uttered. The first bid opened was from the Wherewithal Manufacturing and Publishing Co., of Philadelphia, offering a special chart system at a discount of 50 per cent, from the regular price. No bond accompanied its bid. Harper and Brothers submitted a price-list of their books, and offered to supply them at a discount of 25 per cent, from regular prices. The proposition was not in the required iorm. J. 1). Brant, of Grandview, Ind., offered the MS. of "the best grammar in the State" for the $500 each for the elementary or complete form. Van Antwerp

and Bragg did not bid, but" sob-' mitted an affidavit in which they affirmed that thev ''are not directly or indirectly connected with any other publishing bouse, or party to any compact, syndicate or any other scheme." The proposal which most nearly complied with the requirement wasthatof A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, and with the bid they sent a set of sample books, which they are willing to supply, subject to the law, if the form of the bond is modified so that they will not be held liable for a technical default, and "provided further that it shall be understood that they will not be called upon to furnish more books than the schools will actually absorb." Continuing, they said, *'As the case stands we might be required to pave the State with text books for which we might receive no money, as we read the law." Their bids on readers and elementary geography were made conditional upon the acceptance of their proposal as an entirity. Their bid was as follows: Speller, 6c 1st reader, 10c 2d. 15c 3d, 25c 4th, 30c 5th, 40c intermediate arithmetic, 25c complete do., 35c elementary geography, 30c, complete do., 75c elementary grammar, 25c complete do., 40c physiology, 35c U. S. history, 50c, copy book, 6 nos., 5c each. G. W. Michoels and W. W. Williams offered their system of rapid penmanship. The commissioners decided that none of the bids were in accordance with the requirements of the law and new bids will be solicited.

The Grand Lodge. F. and A. M., met here Tuesday and Wednesday in sixtyeighth annual session. The condition of the craft was reported as pros perous, progressive and healthy. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

Grand Master—Thomas B. Long, Terre Haute. Deputy Grand Master-Jacob T: Todd, Bluffton.

Senior Grand Warden—Nicholas R. Ruckle, Indianapolis. Jun'or Grand Warden—Nicholas R. Peckenpnugh, Lpavenworth.

Grand Treasurer—Martin H. Rice, Indianapolis. Grand Secretary—William H. Smyth«", Indianapolis.

THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

A Shipload'of Supplies and Fifty Men Xeave for Graytowu Friday.

The Nicaragua Canal Company announces that the steamship Alveno, which sailed for Greytown, Nicaragua, May 25, carried about fifty men and a quantity of implements and stores for the Nicaragua Canal Contraction Company, being the pioneer expedition for the commencement of the work of building the Nicaragua interoceanic canal. Similar consignments of men and materials for the prosecution of the work will follow one another at short intervals. Ten engineers of the surveying expedition of 1887 and 1888 have remained in Nicaragua in the service of the company, and will meet the construction party at Greytown. They have collected about 500 native laborers there, in readiness to begin operations at once, and in the meantime have constructed temporary quarters for themselves and those who are shortly to arrive. The first work to be done, and which will begin immediately,is railroad building, building a pier at Greytown, erecting permanent quarters, hospitals, warehouses and shops, running telegraph wires along the line of the projected canal, dredging in Greytown narbor, ani clearing and dredging the first twelve miles of the canal, from Greytown to the "divide." Preparations will be made for the heavy work on the rock cut, embankments, etc.

The company will send down with the expedition a locomotive, ten large steel canoes, a steam launch for the chief engineer, two diamond drills, fifty tons of previsions, clothing for 500 laborers. six large pile drivers, two large portable houses, four large rock drills, 150,000 feet of lumber foi houses, 1,000,000 feet of piles and timbers, 200 ham mocks, 200 cots, a large stock of engineers' instruments, 20,000,000 feet of galvanized iron roofing tools (railroad, carpenters', blacksmiths', engineers', etc.), about sixty tons of iron, nails, steel, etc., telegraph and'telephone materials, crockery, hardware, gunpowder, dynamite, oils, rope, 400 rubber blankets, furniture, drugs, etc.

The Coming Oil Age.

Boston Transcript. The English are felicitating themselves upon the possession of oil fields which will throw the Pennsylvania oil wells literally into the shade. As Mr. Charles Marvin, a British authority on tnis subject, expressed it in a recent lecture before the Royal Engineers, "Thanks to the Burmese oil fields, we are in a position to light all Asia and fuel all Asia and in Canada we have a petroleum supply sufficient to illuminate all America when the United States wells run dry." The Burmese oil wel.s like the Russion wells (Russia produced 200,000,000 gallons of kerosene in 1887) yieids a heavy oil and will not burn in ordinary lamps made for the lighter American oil. Not much is known about the quality of the oil produced in the new Canadian fields of the Athabasca and the River Mackenzie. Both of the Burmese and the Athabasca fields, whatever their eventual productions may amount to, evidently will not very soon come into competition witn the Standard Oil Company, as they are quite remote from means of communication. One point advanced by Mr. Maron in a recent pamphlet is interesting. He says that in London gas is giving place to oil in ordinary lighting, and quotes the Chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, who tells his directors that petroleum is a more formidable competitor than the electric light. Certain English towns in their public lighting are giving up gas and adopting oil. In general large London hotels and offices electric lights have been replaced by large power petroleum lamps. He predicts that "London will be lit with oil again," and that Great Britain will be the "boss" of the coming oil age.

Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers.—De Finod.

CRONIN'S CORPSE FOUND.

Tbe Distinguished Irish-American Murdered and Thrown Into a Sewer.

The disappearance about three weeks ago of Dr. Cronin, the well-known Irish agitator of Chicago, created a wide sensation, and various reasons were given for his disappearance. One report claimed he went away with a woman not his wife. Another that he was seen in Canada several times, and even alleged interviews were given. The mystery of his disappearance was beared up the latter part of last week by the finding of his body, stark naked, in one of the sewer traps in a suburb of Chicago, where it had been thrown many days previous^ There were marks of violence upon his head and face, but a post mortem examination showed that neither the skull, nor none of the bones were fractured, and the means employed in his murder is almost as much of a mystery as was his strange disappearance. All of the physicians who examined him, however, were of opinion that he might have been killed by the blow at the outer corner of his left" eye. The entire Chicago detective force are working on the case, trying to trace the murderers. It is known that the body of Dr. Cronin was conveyed to the sewer trap in a trunk,and this may lead to the capture of the murderers. Although hope of an early solving of the mystery is expressed it may be said that nothing is known to the press or public further than the fact of the trunk being found upon which the hope can be founded.

Later particulars are to the effect that the police are jealously guarding a vacant, house in Lakeview, which was vacated previous to Dr. Cronins' murder and has been vacant since. The house contains many evidences of a crime having been committed within its walls. Blood stains were discovered in almost every part of the house. There are other evidences of the murder, including, it is said, bloody clothing, but the police are silent on this point. A key was found in the house that fitted the blood-stained trunk.

A Chicago paper publishes a story which implicates a member of the Chicago police force, Detective Daniel Coughlin, in the murder of Dr. Cronin. The story published is that on the morning of the day on which Cronin disappeared Coughlin engaged at a livery stable not far from where Dr. Cronin lived a horse and buggy, which, he said, a friend of his would call for that evening that the man did call and was given a white horse, similar to the one attached to the buggy in which Cronin was decoyed away that the time of going, and the description of the man corresponded minutely botn with the time when the man came for Dr. Cronin and with the appearance of the man himself that Coughlin subsequently cautioned the livery-stable keeper to say nothiDg about the matter. Coughlin was a member of one or more societies of which Cronin was a member, and they are said to have been enemies.

Dr. Cronin's funeral was held Sunday and was attended by 7.000 persons. The Mayor and Chief Hubbard, accompanied by Attorney Hynes, who is assisting in the pursuit of the assassins of Dr. Cronin, went to the Chicago avenue station, Saturday night, and held a long conference with Captain Schaack regarding Dan Coughlin's connection with the case. In discussing the case, the point was made in favor of Coughlin that had he wanted this rig for any improper purpose he would not have said ''any rig will do," but would have been very particular as to the kind to be used for such purpose. On the other hand the point was made against Coughlin that his story given in explanation was ridiculous. The Mayor and the Chief held that he might a well have given the name of "John8 Doe," or any one else, as "Thomas Smith." In summing it all up they decided to hold Coughlin as a witness.

After the consultation it is understood that detective Whelan was promptly suspended to await further investigation. Whelen said, Monday, that alter Coughlin and himself were detailed on the Cronin case, to fathom the "whitehorse" episode, they wandered about the streets for two dayB without meeting the man from Michigan, and were about to report their failure, when Schaack told them of his interview with Mrs. Conklin. Whelan and Coughlan were then ordered to drop the C. onin case altogether, and to report for general work. A day or two after that while they were strolling down Clark street in the vicinity of Illinois, Cougnlin met a man who appeared to know him. "I didn't pay any attention to the fellow," said Whelan, "because he appeared to be a frieud of Dan's. Dan didn't offer to introduce me, so I strolled along a little way north and waited for Dan to get through. When he got through he came over to where I was standing and we walked north about a biock. Then he told me that the man he met was his friend from Michigan who had driven Dinan's horse. I turned around to see if I could see the fellow, but he was too faraway. If I had known a( the time who he was I would have taken him to the station to see the Captain. But as we were not on the case then I soon forgot the incident."

The following sensational story was published at Chicago Monday: The police have been put in possession of facts which, if true, are far more startling than was ever expected concerning Dr. Cronin's murder. It has been clearly shown by the dead man's friends that his removal was ordered by a committee in some way representing the Clan-Na-Hael Society. Charges of traitorous conduct were preferred against him at a meeting of a Clan-Na-Gael camp, he was found guilty and his removal was ordered. The charge was based in the statement of the British spy Le Caron, tbat here were four more spies in America. When Le Caron made that statement on the stand before the Parnell Commission he was ordered to state the name of tbe spies. He said he dared not do it, because if they Were known they would be murdered. Presiding Justice Hannen then took him into a closed anteroom, and in the presence of Mr. Richard Webster, the Attorney General, who is conducting the pros ecution, and Sir Charles Russell, Parnell's attorney, Le Caron stated their names. Within forty-eight hours after this news was cabled across from Europe nearly every Clan-Na irael camp in America bad met and passed resolutions declaring in favor of a rigid hunt for the four spies. The finger of suspicion, justly, or unjustly, was pointed, among others, at Cronin. A committee was appointed to try nim. He was con­

victed without beirt# gi~"i chance to make a defense, and his assassins were brought here from outside points to carry out the mandate of the committee. The latter was chosen by secret ballot. It is claimed that tbe murder conspiracy would not have ended with Dr. Cronin had not his body been found so opportunely in the Evanston avenue manhole. There were other Irishmen on the executioner's list, and they would have all shared Cronin's fate had the chance to dispose of them safely offered.

It is known that an attempt to decoy Dr. Cronin to a very lonely spot was made a short time before the doctor's murder. The story of the attempted but unsuccessful effort to get Dr. Cronin to a lonely neighborhood to see an imaginary sick man is interwoven with other incidents that lead back to the Carlson cottage. One night about 11:30 o'clock, shortly after the cottage was leased to two strange men, a telephone message was sent to the doctor, asking him to call at Butterfield and Fortieth streets, on the South Side, where it was said a man was badly hurt. The person who telephoned gave explicit instructions as to the locality and urged the doctor to make all possible haste. Dr. Cronin was absent from his home at the time, and did not return till nearly morning. After it was light he went to the place where it was said he was wanted in such haste. The spot was a vacant lot. He made careful and exhaustive inquiries in the neighborhood, going from house to house. After spending several hours in the search he found that no one had been injured in that vicinity. The message was a decoy. There is little doubt that had he gone there during the night he would have been assaseinated.

The mystery of Dr. Cronin's murder was unraveled Tuesday by the confession of Frank Woodruff, alias Frank Block, the driver of the wagon. He took the officers over the route driven on the night the crime was committed, and the scene of every incident connected with the tragedy was pointed out. Coughlin, Sullivan"and Woodruff have been indicte for the murder by the Grand Jury. The police are said to have discovered evidence implicating many prominent Irishmen.

WRECKED BY ROBBERS.

Five Cars Thrown Down an Embankment —Nota Passenger Escapes Uninjured.

The west-bound passenger train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad was wrecked three miles west of Sullivan, Mo., at 11:25 Friday night. Not a passenger escaped unhurt, and fortyfive are known to have been seriously injured, though no deaths are yet reported. The train was running at a high rate of speed, when suddenly, and without warning, the track gave way and the locomotive, baggage-car and five coaches went over the embankment. The train men and the only slightly injured at once set to work to prevent the additional horror of fire, in which they succeeded, and then turned their attention to the more unfortunately injured, and in a very short time forty-five passengers, all badly hurt, had been released irom the debris. A temporary hospital was improvised at Sullivan and the most seriously injured were taken there while others were taken to St. Loqis on the relief train which was hurried to the scene of the disaster. When tha accident occurred the train was traveling at a high rate of speed, and most of the passengers had already gone to sleep, while the few remaining awake were about to do so. There is a curve in the road about three miles west of Suhivan, and when this point was reached a sudden jolt and jar was felt all over tne train. Everybody felt it, and the people in the rear cars could hear the forward coaches rattling and rumbling over the ties and the crashing noise of cars being demolished. A creek is crossed by the road at that point, and there is a "steep embankment, thirty feet high. Most of the passengers thought the train was going through the bridge, and a feeling of horror chilled their blood. In an instant all the coaches, except the two sleeping cars had been thrown from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions, and some of them were thrown from the coaches and down the embankment. One man, Walter Davidson, who travels for the Westinghouee air brake, wa-j thrown right out of a window on the opposite side of the coach from which he was sitting, and sent rolling down the embankment to the edge of the creek. His feet were in the water. Another passenger on the same coach was thrown from the rear end, and in fact men, women and children were thrown about promiscuously. The train was made up of a mail car and ex-

Jadies'car,

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a baggage car, a smoker, a coach, a reclining chair car and

two Pullman sleepers. Back of these sleepers were hitched five empty coaches of the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass road, which had been picked up at some way station. Tbe front truck of first sleeper jumped the track, but the rest of the car remained on and the rear sleeper and empty coaches behind it never left the track. Foitunately there were no fires in any of the cars,' and the jolt extinguished the lights immediately. Otherwise a conflagration would have been caused, and there is no telling how many lives might have been lost. As it was, most of the forward cars were smashed into smithereens and the debris thrown on both sides of the track. It was the worst wreck that occurred in this section for along time.

The explanation given of it by the train men to the passengers was that the spikes and fish plates bad been removed from the rail at the curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the ties. The forward portion of the locomotive passed the place all right, but the tender jumped tbe track, and was thrown part of the way down the embankment. It probably would have gone the entire distance had not the forward end held it up. Whoever moved the spikes and plates is not known, but the supposition is the work was done by train robbers who wanted to hold up the train. Still, no robbers put in an appearance, and if the accident was caused by them they must have either weakened in thei purpose or thrown the wrong train, and were not prepared to do their work at that time. Tne road officials claim it is a clear case of train wrecking.

A weapon is anything that cap. serve to wound and sentiments are perhaps the most crnel weapons man can em* ploy to wound his fellow man.—Balsac,