Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 9, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 June 1889 — Page 6
HIS BITTER FOE.
Dr. Cronin So Considered Alexander Sullivan~He Dwelt in Daily Aaticipae sgion of a Violent Death, &nd Told ¥rionds That If His Prophecy. Should Be Bealfied, He Thought the Responsis: bility for His Fate Would Rest with the «Chicago Lawyer. }
Cuicaco, June 6.—A1l the evidence in the ‘Cronin inquest Wednesday was directed toward ertablishing the fact that the deceased was firmly impressed with the idea that his life was endangered through the smachinations of Alexander Sullivan.
Patrick McGarry testified that in Septem‘ber, 1888, Dr. Cronin told witness, after the trial in Buffalo, that his life was in danger. ¢ ‘Mac,’ said he,-‘I believe that man. Alex:anger Sullivan will, be the instigator of my death. There are papers and affidavits relating to this business, and in them Alexander Sullivan’s mane is mentioned, in Mr. Conklin's safe, and if any thing happens tome I will rely on you to give them to the authorities.” One day three weeks before his death, Dr. Cronin, talking of that time, #aid: ‘lt may have been a fateful night to ame. I took my lifte in my hand, but lam «determined to expose Alexander Sullivan and his thievery and treachery to the Irish people.’ . , : Mr. McGarry said that after the disappearance of Dr. Cronin many of the latter's £riends believed that he was alive and had poseibly lost. his reason.. Witness and others who knew the inside of the Irish factional troubles felt. sure that Cronin had been murdered, and when the Toronto story of Cronin’s appearance was printed witness was sent to Toronto. to investigate it. He went also to Wilmington and East St. Louis, IL, and Bt. Louis, Mo. As witness expected, he found that Cronin had never been seen in Toronto or any other Pplace. - ] “Why did you think Dr. Cronin had been murdered?”’ Rk :
“I knew it from the feelings Dr. Cronin had borne during the last three years. 1 knew how he was trying to expose* the thievery and treachery of this man Sulliwvan, who was alse trying to drive him from the position he assumed of being
an honest leader of a noble people. I kwv it for the reason that in Dr. Cronin’s paper there appeared every week articles and squibs which were to this man Sullivan like sticking a knife between his ribs and turning it around.” ; - The witness had never heard any direct
threats made against Dr. Cronin, but had ‘heard words from which Cronin's friends could draw their conclusions. Thera was a meeting of camp 20 at Turner Hall, and at it John F. Beggs said: - ‘‘There must be union and unity among Irishmen if there has to be war.” This was on the occasion of Mr. McGarry’s saying that the man who gave Le Caron his credentials was worse than Le Caron himself. : “Who gave the credentials to Le Caron?” "When McGarry replied: ‘Lawrence Buckley,” there was a sensation .in the room. ‘‘John F, Beggs supposed that I meant Alexander Sullivan. I told him I hadn’'t mentioned Alexander Sullivan's name. He said 1 had better not, because Alexander Sullivan had lots of friends, one ©of whom he was.” ; ' Michael Barry, a carpenter who lives at ‘248 Illinois street, took the stand. Mr. Barry 8 a member.of camp 234, United Brotherhood. Dr. Cronin belonged to camp . 234, and two years ago he spoke to witness of the efforts of certain persons to destroy his character or his life. ‘“They are trying to destroy my character, and if they can’t do that they will kill me. They way kill me, but they can’t destroy my character, which is dearer to me than my pita : . : - ‘““Who d'd Dr. Cronin say was threatening hiny? ; : ‘‘Alexander Sullivan was the man who Dr. Cronin said would be responsible for his y ceath if it occurred. Dr. Cronin told mé ! that on one occasion he was called to a strange house to see a man who was hurt. Ho saw a man lying on the bed, and he did .t like the loolks of the five or six men he saw there, and he said: ‘My God! Did you bring me here to murder me?’ and he went «down the stairs in two steps.” ; At the afternoon session Maurice Mor«xis, in answer to a question as to. whether he had ever'heard any threats made against Dr. Cronin, said: ‘‘Yes, I heard John F. Finerty say last June: ‘Those —— doctors must .be got rid of;’ meaning Doctors Cronin and McCahey.” : o Mr. Morris knew Dr. Cronin very well and the doctor had several times told him that he ‘‘expected to be assassinated for #the cause he was trying to better and imiprove.” He expected trouble tlrough Alexander Sullivan. While Cronin never ‘told witness that Sullivan had threstened bim, he evidently thought the attorney would seek to have him ‘‘removed’” because he had proof that . would -«convict Bullivan. of embezzling - a Aarge amount of money belonging to the Arish cause. The doctor told Mr. Morrig sthat “*Major” Sampson had told him that he had been hired to kill the doctor. - He also said that he believed McGeehan, the Philadelphian, had come to Chicago at the instigation of Sullivan to kill him. -
Joseph O’Byrne swore that the ' Friday night before the disappearance the doctor said to him that ‘“‘he was tired of the wrangling; that it was wearing him out, and he thought he would give it up and let “the rascals accomplishi what they wanted %40.” Tltold him Le was gone too far on the ‘the roud. He replied: ‘You know, Joseph, that these two rascals have the power to do great injury.’ The two rascals alluded to were Michael Boland, police recorder of Kaneas City, and Alexander Sullivan, of. Chicago. The doctor was very much depressed and seemed as thoughsome trouble was hanging over him, O’Byrne went on to say that he had heard McGeehan say that Cronin and McGahey ought to be killed vecause they were scoundrels. He had heard that there was a trialin Camp 20, but knew nothing def“inite on the point. He did not, however, believe that Cronin was a traitor.. Closely pressed, O’'Byrne admitted that rumors that Cronin had been tricd and convicted came £o him through friends of the latter:
The last witness was Byron C. Smith, receiver of the Traders’ ank. He showed by «checks on file and ledger entries that in the summer of 1882 Alexander Sullivan had altogether $lOO,OOO in the bank, of -which $lO,OOO was a personal account and the balance credited to ‘‘Alexander Sullivan, agent.” By September 6, 1882 ‘all this money had been drawn out on'checks made payable to J. T. Lester & Co., brokers. 3
Awful Result of a Fire in a Hotel at Stévens’ Point, Wis, F -BrEVENS' PoiNt, Wis., June 6.—The 'St -Jameg’ Hotel, located near the Wisconsin » “Central depot, caught fire shortly after 8 ‘o’'clock Wednesday evening and is a total -loss, together with the entire contents, those ‘within having scarcely time to escape with _ ‘&heir lives. At this writing the might clerk, Charles Oathall, and two ‘of the girls, Maggie Reilly and a Norwegian &lirl known as Nettle, are missing, and ‘there is but little doubt that all three lost “their lives in the flames. The two first \ 'mamed were up on the second tioor when ‘the fire broke out, and came down, but went back to secure their wearing apsparel. ‘~ L Sl Defended Her Home. =~ SerrBYvILLE, Ind., June 6.—George Parsner and son Will were shot lave Tuesday ' might, the former being badly and the latber fgtally wounded, by Mrs. Mollie Corwin, They had been refused admittance to the woman's house and «the young man kicked the door openm, ‘whereupon the woman shot him in the left “breast with a revolver. Shel then dropped i mxwoxm picked up a shot-gun, fir- ~ Ang both barrels at George Parmer, Sev_eral hundred ghot lodged 1n his body from o ntbofivid eDo e S i k. ' e Wit wacriSd il egko vt biie R T s s b
HIS LOSSES WERE SMALL.
Although Alexander Sullivan Invested a iLarge Sum in Stocks, He Was Only Caught to the Extent of 85,000—A Wit~ ness Who Declared He Could Put His Hand on Cronin’s Murderers, Fails to Throw Any Light on the Crime When Plaeed on the Witness-Stand.
CuicaGgo, June 7.—The Cronin inquest was resumed at 10:15 o’clock a.m. Thursday.
J. W. Moore, cashier for J. T. Lester, produced a statement showing the cash transactions of Alexander Sullivan with J. T. Lester & Co., from June 1, 1882 to April 13, 1883 The amount paid in was $133,800. The total amount drawn out by him from June 13, 1882, to June 20, 1883, .was $115,318.08 in checks or cash and 500 shares of stock which were good for $14,000. Sullivan’s loss was $5,000. These amounts were paid, principally in checks, to Alexarder Sullivan. From June Ito October, 1, 1852, Sullivan paid to the firm about $95,000, and drew out about $BO,OOO. Thomas T. O’Connor testified that he had been told by Dr. Cronin several years ago that he was afraid of his life on account of certain exposures he had made against some local societies. Witness told him to take no chances.but to go armed. He did so.
| Witness said he had been asked to do {some secret work for the order. He didn’t ‘know who it was that wanted him to do the work. He got the order one morning from a man who came into his office. He said that some men were going over the ‘water and he wanted witness to go, too. | Witness promised to think over the matter. Witness talked with Cronin about the order, and the. latter said that there were enough good, honest men behind English bars now; that he didn’t believe in the pnolicy of dynamite, and for witness not to do it. Witness didn’t. Cronin said that those gocd Irishmen behind English bars had been given away as soon as they had touched the shore. ‘He said that he believed some one had beJbrayed them, but he mentioned no names. Witness knew Alexander Sullivan, but did not know that he had any thing to de with giving me the dynamite order. Had heard that Sullivan was then a member of the executive body which governs the order, but of that was not certain.
O'Connor said he ‘was present at the trial of Dr. Cronin, but to his mind there was no evidence to warrant his expulsion from the organization. .He was positive in his own mind that the jury was packed. The circular was merely a cloak to get him expelled. It was alleged that the circular contained ideas antagonistic to the spirit of the order. His expulsion was desired because of his possession of facts showing the misuse of the funds 6f the organization. . : ‘ ‘
The coroner concluded the examination of Witness o’Connor by saying to him that the jury.would be glad to hear from him any thing that might throw any light on the manner of Dr. Cronin's death. This question was intended to give J’Connor a chance to lay his hands on the men who killed the doctor, as he promised to do soon after the doctor’s disappearauce. In answer Captain O’Connor said: ‘I wish to God I could throw some light on this question.” | .- : ;i
At the afternoon session A. J. Ford, who was senior guardian of Camp 20, Clan-na-Gael, previous to the election of John T, Beggs, was called. Corener Hertz has been trying to locate some one from whom he might force an account of the alleged trial held in Caryp 20, or “old 96, at which Dr. Cronin was tried as a British spy and condemned to death, in pursuance of which sentence the doctor’s dead body was thrown in the Lake View catch-basin. The persistence’ with which the coromer put questions on this point to the w.tnesses Wednesday and Thursday shows that the police have pretty positive proof that such a trial was had, and, as a consequence of it, Dr. Cronin was aurdered. ;
Mr. Ford said that no order for any trial was received, nor was any trial so hel‘q while he was senior guardian of Camp 20. None such had been held since his withdrawal from office, neitkher had there been any private trial, nor any meeting of a set or clique of the camp to try Dr. Cronin after a munner of their own. Dr. Cronin was tried and expelled from Camp 96 some years ago on a charge of treason. The treason consisted in his reading a document which was forbidden to be read, and Ford was there as a witness for Dr. Cronja. He was friendly and intimate with Cronin, but never heard him speak as though he thought his life was in danger. - Had never heard any members of Camp 20 talk hostilely of Dg. Cronin. The latter never spoke to witness about Alexander Sullivan. -John F. Finerty declares that he never at any time referred to Dr. Cronin or Dr. McCahey in the language attributed to him by Maurice Morris in his testimony on Wednesday. . .
WIPED OUT.
Fire Sweeps Awa& the Entire Business District of the City of Seattle, W.-T., Causing Losses Aggregating §5,000,000.
Tacoma, W. T., June T.—Dispatches received here state that the business portion of Seattle; the largest city in the Territory, is in ashes.
Every bank, hotel and place of amuse‘ment, all the leading business houses, all newspaper offices and railroad depots, and miles of steamboat wharves, coal bunkers, freight warehouses and telegraph offices were burned. s :
The fire began near the corner of ¥ront and Pearl streets in the Seattle candy factory building at2:3o p. m., and before midnight had consumed the whole of the business section of the city northward to Stetson & Post's mill, along Front and Sécond streets to the water-front, involving a loss of over $5,000,000.
The city is literally wiped out except the residence portion on high ground. At 6:30 o’clock p. m. the flames had reached tlie wharves, and the steamboats and shipping were compelled to head out into .the gtreamn. i {
A stiff breeze was blowing from the northwest when the fire began, and it soon got the best of the fire department. Water supply gave out within two hours after the fire began and then the flames had" a clean sweep. Wordwas telegraphed here and a train started with fire apparatus at 4:85 p, m., reaching Beattle in sixty-three minutes, a-distarice of forty-two miles. : The ocean steamers Mexico, for San Francisco, and Ancon, for Alaska, escaped destruction by pulling out into the harbor. A great deal of property was saved only to he burned up again, s 0 quickly did the flames epread. ' |
A Prominent Florida Politician Assaults i an KEditor and 1s Shot.
’- JAcsoNviLLE, Fla, June 7.—A longstanding feud between Captain J. W. Doug- - lass, a prominent Democratic politician of Dayton, and J. H. Benjamin, editor of the Deland News, had its outcome in the fatal shooting at New' Smyrna Wednesday night of Douglass by Benjamin, Angered -by an attack upopn nim which appeared recently in Benjamin’s® paper, Douglass assaulted him, knocked him off the pier into the marsh and jumped on him.. While he was holding Benjamin’s head under water ‘Benjamin managed to draw his revolver and shot his assailant _dead, the ball entering his heart. There is “much excitement. : ] |
Sitting Ball Dying. ‘ RosEBUD AGENCY, D, T., June 7.—Sitting Bull, the great Sioux war-chief, .is dying of pneumonia at SBtanding Rock. His death is momentarily expected, and the Indians gathered here,upward ot 8,000 in all are wild ‘with excitement. Thenews of Sitting Bull's dangerous illness was brought here by a courier from Standing Rock, und announced ‘at a secret ‘council of the chiefs and head men in progress at Swift Bear’s camp. v - Bank Failure in Omaha. . Omana, Neb., June 7.—The Bank of Omaha closed its doors Wednesday. The Habilities are between $60,000 and $70,000. The failure 18 attributed to bad loans and misman. \mgnt"‘ i o e v? e :
SULLIVAN DENOUNCED.
Luke Dillon Makes a Bitter Attack on the ' Chicago Lawyor in His Testimony at ~ the Cronin Inquest—He Designates Him ~ as a Villain Who Is at Least Responsible for the Foul Assassination. CHIcAGO, June B.—At the Cronin inques§ Friday the first witness was Policeman Daniel Brown, who acknowledged that he was the man who preferred the charges of treason .against Dir. Cronin in 18%4. In his testimony Brown was confused and contradictory. He could remember nothing of the charges, what they specified —except the general charge of treason—nor any of the particulars of the trial at which he assisted. He was emphatic in the claim that he made the charges of his own volition, being wurged to do so by no one, There were several dramatio scenes during his testimony, when he was made to stand up for inspection by witnesses whom he did not know, and when he was told to put on his hat and face Mrs, Conklin. When Brown left the stand Chief Hubbard and Captain Schuettler held a whispered conversation, after which, Brown was taken from the room, Captain Schuettler and Sergeant Stifft walking on either side of him. -He was taken to the coroner’s private office on the second floor, where several persons were awaiting his arrival. All hastily entered the room and the door was closed and locked. Brown was under arrest. Shortly atterward all the witnesses in the case, the three Carlsons, Hatfield the .salesman, Dinan’s hostler, Mrs. Conklin, Agent Throckmorton, of 117 Clark street, and others took a good look at the prisoner and none of them were able to identify © him -as being one of the men who rented the Carlson cottage or bought the furniture at Revelle’s. Neither did Mrs. Conklin or ydung Scanlan identify him as the man who ¢alled for Dr. Cronin that fatal night. The chief then ordered Brown’s release. &
At the afternoon session Luke Dillon, of Philadelphia, & member of the Executive Committee of the Clan-na-Gael, took the stand. He said there was nothing in the obligation taleen by members of the order which would conflict with the duties they owed the country *as American citizens. Its object was to aid a similar organization in Ireland .to establish a republic there and to elevate the Irish race. He knew Dr. Cronin, and had often been told by him that he thought his life was in danger. He told him that he thought that the personal ambition of Alexander Sullivan to control Irish and American politics in this city would probably resultin his death. Witness, however, didnot at that time think Sullivan meant harm to Cronin.
Since that time, however, witness had changed his mind, because he had reason to believe that Sullivan was responsible for ‘the murder of Cronin, if not a principal in the crime. A trial of Sullivan, Feeley and Boland was had on charges of using funds of the order without its consent. Dr. Cronin was a member of the trial committee. Sullivan wrote a protest against Cronin’s acting couched in such vile langnage and abuse of the doctor as to justify one in forming the opinion that its author would not stop short of murder to obtain revenge. The trial occurred about a year ago. The witness produced a circular letter purporting to have been written nine months ago by Alexander Sullivan, but which the witness declared was the production of the last th(i:ty days, in which Dr. Cronin’s character/ was virulently assailed. The circular has been widely circulated among the Clan-na-Gael camps during the last two weeks, the witness said. This circular was deemed highly important evidence, as conclusively showing how Alexander Sullivan felt toward Dr. Cronin. The membership of the executive committee now number nine.. In 1881 or 1882 there were but three members. These were Sullivan, Feeley and Boland. He knew of no reason for Sullivan’s hatred of Cronin save he is a vindictivé, revengeful man, and hated him because he was endeavoring to show him up in his true light.
The witness knew that men who had the cause of Ireland at heart had been betrayed; whether by any of the three men named he could not say. They could not have been betrayed by any one not a member of the executive committee, for tha body alone knew who had been appointed to docertain work. Dr. Cronin at one time charged Sullivan with the betrayals, because of Sullivan’s intimacy with Le Caron. Mr. Dillon declared emphatically that he believed Cronin’s death was the result of his opposition to Sullivan. ‘‘He opposed him,” said the witness, ‘because he believed, as I do, that Alexander Sullivan was a professional patriot sucking the blood of Irish societies.” | Sullivan left the Clan-na-Gael because he feared that his crimes would find him out; and yet he has retained his power in the order. Within the last year witness- had seen his hand in the official documents, and kunew that he has friends on the executive committee,
The witness said Dr. Cronin feared harm from no man but Alexander Sullivan. He was a quiet, peaceable man, and a pertectly honorable one. Since his murder, Mr. Dillon said, he had employed the best detectives in the country to ferret out the perpetrators of the foul crime. .He had heard the dootor speak disparagingly of Coughlin and Beggs, saying he distrusted them because they were Sullivan’s bosom friends. The coroner asked:
‘‘ls there any thing in the rules of your order that makes it possible for a man to be removed by the order of the executive?”
“No, sir, nothing of that sort; nothing that is contrary to the laws of the United States.”
“But Dr. Cronin feared that he would be killed?®” ; :
*Yes, sir; he believed that a conspiracy was at work to take his life.” :
“Did the executive committee ever give Dr Gallagher, now serving a life sentence in England, any money for work in England?” **Ne, sir; they never did.” j **Wasn't it supposed they had?” *‘Yes, sir; it was promulgated that money had been given Dr. Gallagher, but I know that not a cent ever was.”
Closing his testimony, Mr. Dillen with much earnestness said:
*‘The day following the night of Dr. Cronin’s murder I received a telegram from Chicago stating that he had been called to see a patient and had not since been heard of. I knew he had been murdered; or, rather, knowing the trouble he had had with Alexander Sullivan, I felt it.” - s
TO SUCCEED DRUM.
The President Appoints Colonel J. C. Kelton Adjutant-General,
' WASHINGTON, June 7.—Colonel J. C, Kelton has been appointed Adjutant-General of the army. ; : _[The new Adjutant-General is a.native of Pennsylvania, a graduate of West Point, and has been an instructor in the mélitary academy, He was brevetted a Brigadier for gallunt services during the rebellion and since 1885 has \ been Assistant Adjutant-General. He has invenied many improvements in fire-arms and has written acceptably on military topics.. : The Exodus of Gold. NEw Yomg, June 8 —Gold to the amount ot $4,700,000 has been ordered for shipment to Europe Saturday. : e @A e Failures for the Week. “ New Yorr, June 8, —The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number for the United States 200, and for Canada 25, or a total of 225, as compared with 215 last week and 229 the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week of last year the t_flgures were 235, made up of 207 in the United States and 28 in Canada. : i : ——— el AP | - Wife-Murder and Suicide. ~ Gimaxp, Kan,, June 8 —Karl Hahnmann, ‘8 farmer living near here, strangled his wife to death Thursday morning and then went t 0 the barn and hanged himself. He doft_a letter directing the division of his ‘property and the arrangements for lis ARI - oo tpuig o D e s e R e
NOT AFRAID OF PESTILENCE.
The Health of Johunstovrn and Vicinity Is. Excellent, Notwithstanding Reports to the Contrary—More Bodies Found— Governor - Beaver’s Plan for Clearing Away the Debris, ;
JoHNSTOWN, Pa., June 10.—The health of the valley is unusually good, notwithstanding reports of threatened epidemic. . The following health bulletin has been issued by the State Board of Health and speaks for itself: S
“The general condition of health in Johnstown anl vieinity is excellent. No epidemic ‘disease of any kind prevails nor is it expected that any will arise. = The whole region has been divided ' into couvenient districts and each placed under a competent sanitarian. The State Board of Health is prepared to meet all emergeneies as they arise. The air is wholesome aund the water generally pure. 1f the good people of the devastated district will go on as they have so nobly done- for the last week in their efferts to clean up the wreckage good health will certainly be maintained. GEORGE G. GROFE."
Dr. Groff has made a careful inspection of the drift in the river at the stone bridge, and reports that there is no probability of any contamination of the water supply of the towns below from this source. He says the number of bodies in the river can not be large. The valleys have been swept so clean by the great floods that the river water is now purer than before the disaster. There is a difference in the contaminating power of decomposing organic ymatters.' That from bodies dead of contagious disease would be far more dangerous than that from bodies of ' healthy persons. As it is, the hodies in the river are generally covered with from one to) six feet of mud and sand. This earthy matter absorbs all effluvia and acts as the best of disinfectants. There is no present danger to the water suppiy of Pittsburgh from Johnstown. The only present danger is from people being frightened into sickness by sensational reports.
Forty-seven bodies have been discovered in a hole on the site of the Hurlbut House. They are supposed to be bodies of guests. Thirty-two others were taken from the ruins during the day. Only nine of this number have been identified.
The waters began to give up their dead Sunday, the ninth day since the flobd. Fiftyeight bodies were recovered "here, most of them floating in the water. Seven of them were dragged out of the raft above the bridge. On the body of Christopher Kemple, an undertaker, was found $3,100." The remains that are now being removed from the drift are far advanced in decomposition, and physiciansin charge are advocating their cremation as fast as found, as it is almost impossible to handle them safely. 2
The registration is having its good effect, and it is believed that within five days all the living in Johnstown and vicinity will have been accounted for. The population of Johnstown and the towns affected by the flood is about 35,000. The registration of 20,100 leaves almost 15,000 to bhe accounted for. It is mot claimed that those who have not registered are dead, for" many left this section before the system of registration began. Al‘ready from 12,000 to 13,000 passes have been' issued to persons wishing to leave Johnstown and vicinity. In some cases passes were issued to the same persons twice—those who were compelled to return for some reason—but it is safe to say 8,000 people have left this section. It is now thought that the destruction of property will reach the sum of $15,000,000, exclusive of the damage to the Pennsylvania railroad and the Cambria iron works. The former’s loss is placed at $10,000,000 and the latter's at from $200,000 to $300,000, Some apprehension is felt for the solvency of the Johnstown banks. There are three banks in the town, the First National, the Savings Bank &nd the banking house of John Diebert & Co. The First National was considered one of the most solid banking institutions in the State. James McMillan was president of it as well as of the Savings bank. The capital stock is $lOO,000 and the institution had asurplus of $36, - 000. -When the last statemeht was sent out in October last it reported deposits to the amount of $380,000. Diebert & Co. were worth from §75,000 to $125,000. Solid as these banking firnis seem to be they had much of their securities in town property that has gone without leaving a trace. The personal situation of President MecMillan of the First National is an example in thisline. He was a millionaire, the richest man in Johnstown, and it was commonly said that he owned the ‘town. He lived in a splendid brick house with mansard roof, Freuch turrets, great verandas, and a handsome lawn in the heart of the city. He owned the streetcar line, the gas works, the water works and nearly all the public institutions. The car stables are flat in the mud, his fifty cars' and 150 houses are . piled in the burning drift at the bridge, the two big gas retorts are there, too, and every thing else is gone. While the walls of his residence still stand the interior and the grounds are ruined. He lost none of his family, but he says that he has nothing in the world remaining of all his fortune save a few thousands in bank stock, which is seriously menaced. This is the most conspicuous case of the many beggared princes in this desolated region. { : JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 10.—Governor Beaver, so much ‘inquired for during the last week, came here Sunday, looked at the wreck with weeping eyes, conferred for an hour and a half with William Flinn, James B. Scott, William McCreery, General Hastings and others' who have borne the burden of the work of rescue and relief, and pledged $1,000,000 from the State Treasury upon conditions which were satisfied at once. . There will be no extra session of the Legislature. A State commission, with the Governor at its head, will take control of the relief work on Wednesday. ‘ It was proposed that the State furnish $1,000,000 to General Beaver for immediate use in ‘clearing up and restoring Johnstown. In order to make the State whole 200 citizens of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other portions of it will become individually responsible until the Legislature meets and makes appropriations that will relieve them. This plan wag unanimously agreed to. It was alsg arranged that on Wednesday morning General Hastings, acting for Governor Beaver, should take charge of the work of policing the valley and clearing it up, including Johnstown and the surrounding boroughs, 1
A CHILD BEHEADED.
An Atrecious Murder Unearthed at Clevsland—A Family Arrested/ for Killing a Neighbor’s Child. / 2 "
CLEVELAND, 0., June 10.—The body. of the child Maggie Thompson, whose mysterious disappearance excited the whole city, and who was thought to have been abducted, was found Sunday in the cellar of a family named Leuth, residing a few doors from the Thompsons, The child’s head was cut off, and she was otherwise horribly mutilated. The entire Leuth family were at once placed under arrest. The police. are working hard to . gather clews. The Leuths have not been identified in any degree with the case previous o this time, R
' ONE’S ‘NERVE FAILED. - Two Women Agree to Kill Themselves— One Keops Her Word While the Other Backs Out. ' : Orrawa, lIL, June 10. — Mrs. Willlam Lyons committed suicide Saturday morning by strychnine poisoning. She procured the drug with her sister-in-law on the rat pest plea. Both women had been accused of unfaithfulness by their husbands, and made it up between themselves to put an. end to their lives. Mrs. Lapero, the sister-in-law, became frightened and did not take the dose. There is a suspicion that Mrs, Laporo led Mrs Lyons to commis the act it o snalive, aud Ste S id forinrebiigie. RN e e s R R g e
LINCOLN’S TRUSTED FRIEND.
Leonard Swett, the Intimate of the Martyred President, and One of the Most . Prominent Lawyers in the Nation, PasSes Away at Chicago—A Sketch of His Hone ored Career.
- CHICAGO, June 10.—Leonard Swett is dead. Chicago loses one of her foremost lawyers and the country a man who has been prominently identified with its history and progress. The particulars of Mr. Swett's death are short. He had been in unusually good health for two years He had not lost a day at the office nor hLgfore the court until last Aprih At that time he went to. Bloomington to deliver a lecture on Lincoln. His old neighbors gave him dinuer after dinner and reception after reception. He came home ill. A severe cold aggravated a case of diabetes, with which he had before been troubled. After his return he was able to drive occasionally and to go to the office once’ in awhile. There was no apprehension whatever concerning his life until Saturday morning at 2 o’clock. At that time he became unconscious. Drs. ‘Lyman, Johnson, Davis and Westcott _were called, but nothing could be done. He never regained consciousness. At noon Saturday Mr. Swett passed away. HIS CAREER. [For a third of a century Leonard Swett has been one of the most prominent lawyers of the Northwest. During all this time he has also been one of the most conspicuous citizens of Illinois and is thoroughly identified with the ‘history of the State. While he has been most eminent in the law, and though he has held but few public offices, his influence in the politics of State and Nation has been great.
Leonard Swett was a man of imposing build and appearance, and attracted attention wherever he went., He was six feet two inches in height and, only a few days before his death, weighed 220 pounds. His gray hair only gave evidence of his age, for, with his straight figure, brisk walk, keen, black eyes, shaded with heavy, bushy brows, and a fresh, healthy complexion, he appeared to be in the very prime of life. His genial disposition, generosity and kindheartedness were proverbial. A most magnetic orator, with a rich. sympathetic voice and a ready and ehoice.vocabulary of the best English, his success as a pleader at the bar is not to be wondered at. He was born near the village of Turner, Oxford County, Me., on the estate known as the ‘‘Albine Richer farm.” His ' parents were God-fearing people, and they chose for their son’s career that of a minister of the Gospel. With this idea in view he was, at the early age of 12 years, put to studying Greek and Latin with the village parson. At 15 he was sent to Waterville College, which has since become Colby University. He was not ministerially inclined, and after he left college he entered upon the study of law rather than theology, as his parents had planned. He went to Portland, Me., and entered the office. of Howard & Shipley, attor neys, when he read law for two years and was called to the bar. He sought a location in the South, but could find nene that suited him, and returned North.
Reaching Lafayette, Ind., he found the patriots being mustered in for the war with México and enlisted in the Fifth Indiana Infantry, commanded by General James H. Lane, who afterward became United States Senator from Kansas. He was practically the Captain of his company, though he was never commissioned as such, being detailed by his superior officer as its commander. At Vera Cruz he was taken ill with the fever, and with 150 other patients #vas sent on the sailing vessel Robert Morris to New Orleans. He was afterwards ordered to the hospital at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. There he recovered, was honorably discharged from the army and moved to Bloomingten, where he finally entered upon the practice of his chosen profession. At Bloomingten he formed the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln,which'afterward developed into the closest friendship. They resembled each other closely, both having the well-known tall, lank figure, clear cut features,. dark complexion and earnest manner. They, accompanied by such choice companions as Stephen T, Logan, J. T. Stewart, M. F. Linder, Edward D. Baker and Edward Hannegan made the circuit of the fourteen counties in Southern Illinois on legal business and on horseback. The reFations of the party became most intimate by such close association, and when Lincoln’s name was mentioned as a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1860 none became more active in his interests than Leonard Swett. He had had some experience with politics before that noted campaign, and had twice made the campaign as elector on the Whig ticket, although he would never run for an elective nor seek an appointive office. His political labors were invariably solely in the interests of his party andlnever for his personal aggrandizement, €xcept on one ocgasion when, at the solicitation of President Lincoln, he stood for ‘election to the Illinois State Senate and won the seat. That was the only political office he ever held.
When the Republican convention met at Chicago .in the Market Street Wigwam, Leonard Swett was one: of Lincoln’s most efficient .and tireless lieutenants, and it was he and David Davis who planned and brought about the combination between the delegations of Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania which | resulted in the Illinois man’s victory. His speech, seconding the nomination, was not the lecast of the influences which brought about the desired result. In the campaign he was one of the central figures, and his speeches from the stump became noted for their oratory and convincing argument,. :
In 1863 Mr. Swett moved to Chicago to. practice law, but his being retained in the employ of the Quicksilver Mining Company, which was operating the noted Alameda mina in California, necessitated his presence in Washington, where he remained for two years. During that time he was one of Mr. Lincoln's most trusted advisers and was often asked to accept office, but repeatedly declined. In 1865 he returned to Chicago for permanent residence here. His career here at the bar is well known, his fine physique, commanding presence, irresistible eloquence and attractive delivery making him one of the conspicuous figures of the times, He was best known as a lawyer as an able defender of his clients. Of the twenty persons charged with murder whom he defended, but one was convicted. His most noted defense was that of Alexander Sullivan at his trial for the murder of Hanford. Other noted cases in which he was refained by the defense were those of the Anarchists, Joseph C. Mackin, Leslie Car ter, the Chicago University and the Hope embezzlement case.
Of late years Mr. Swett had not taken a very active part in politics, but when Judge Gresham’s friends urged his name for the nomination, Mr. Swett gave his -best endeavors to their efforts, and made the nominating speech in the convention, Mr. Swett was married twice. His first wife was Miss Laura R. Quigg, a sister of David Quigg—afterward his law partner. He was married to Miss Quigg in July, 1854, and they ‘had one child, Leonard H., who is now about 80 years of age. Mrs. Sweétt died March 4, 1886. ‘Mr. Swett’s second marriage occurred in July, 1887, his bride being Miss Marie Decker, a talented young lady who had been his confidential clerk in his law office for seven years. ‘Mr. Swett left an estate of considerable value.
A BIG BLOW IN ARKANSAS. Two Lives Lost and a Number of Build- . ings Wrecked in Arkansas City. ; . ARRANSAs Crry, Ark., June 10.—A cyclone swept through this city Saturday night. The Methodist and Baptist churches and ten stores and residences were wrecked, while the 7roof of the Arkansas elevator, in which is located the Missouri Pacific’s depot, was blown across the tracks, demolishing a number of loaded frieght cars. The only lives lost were those of Kate Walton, aged 15 years, and Tudy Walton, aged 9 years. Mrs. Walton, the mother, was badly injured, and another daughter, Lizzie Walton, had a hip dis-i located. All are colored. | . e - g ) e SR : : Uncle Bam'’s Objection, b l Loxpox, June 10.—The Times Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the point in the | provisional agreement reached by 'the‘ Samoan conference, to,which the Goirern-| ment at Washington more especially ob‘jects, i 8 the agreement for international [;conml of Samoa. A hitch has undoubtedly J‘ _arisen too on the question of the ¢punishe‘ ‘ment of Mataafa, concerning which there is [ apparently a divergence of opinion between Washington and Berlin. * _ Four Hundred Africans Killed, = 400 natives were killed in the recent fight
' OPENING THEIR EYES. Protectionists Beginning to See That the . Pres~nt Tariff Is a Humbug, The fact that the very disasters which the tariff shriekers predicted as certain to follow Cleveland’s re-elec-tion are .coming thick and fast, although Harrison is in the White House, is opening the eyes of thousands of people to the fact that the present , protective tariff is, for the most part, ‘a humbug and a swindle. Wade's Fiber and Fabric, an able trade journal, which supported Harrison vigorously on the tariff issue, no doubt voices the curiosity of a great multitude of deluded victims of monopoly sophistry, when it wants to know ‘‘where are the good times” that Harrison's election was to bring. It says: ‘“We were led to believe that if the party of high protection secured control of the Government, we would then, very soon, have good times. We are a firm believer in protecting American industries if it could be done under the guidance of honest statesmen, but in the hands of quack politicians terrible work is made of protection.”” It is indignant at the folly of the manufacturers and growers of wool in combining to continue the tariff on wool, “when any one can see, if he will, that free wool would be a great move toward honest protection.” This was the kind of protection that the Mills bill proposed to give the woolen industries of the country by giving them untaxed raw materials, honest, sciéntific, legitimate protection. v :
The National Labor Tribune, of Pittsburgh, which preached Harrison and a high tariff to working-men in the last campaign, hasalso discovered that protection does not protect any body but capitalists. It calls the attention of its readers to the faet that at the present price of steel rails in London, with freight from London to Pittsburgh added, the cost laid down in Pittsburgh would be $27.21 a ton without the tariff of $l7. The Allegheny Bessemer Company, of Pittsburgh, has just taken a contract for rails at $26 a ton, or less than the English price without including duty. The National Labor Tribune wants to know why the Allegheny Bessemer Company cut so much under American prices and therefore compelled a reduction of wages instead of maintaining rates and giving part of the $l7 a ton protection to American workmen. It very naturally eoncludes that the $l7 duty is a ‘‘howling sarcasm and an outrageous fraud.”
All over the country trade and labor journals are talking in the same strain as Wade’s Fiber and Fabric and the National Labor Tribune. The logic of events is opening their eyes—and we hope the eyes of the readers—to the folly and wickedness of our Chipese system of taxatio The lies and sophistries of the protectionist demagogues will not ‘)go down’’ in 1892 with tens of thousands of voters who eagerly swallowed them last year.—lndianapolis Sentinel.
DUDLEY NUMBER TWO. 'l‘hat-zwf[‘s the Latest Name Applied to Ben Harrison’s First-Born. Richard F. Negley, a leading Republican of Montana, has written a letter to the President, in which he says: ° It was the impertinent intermeddling of your son in Montana politics that assured the Democrats control of our constitutional convention. It was his bartering of Federal offices in Montana, some of them for private gain, and others for private pique, that will permit the Democrats to send a member of| the House of Representatives and two Senators to Washington next December, * .% * If you had considered the appointment of Federal officers in Montana as a grave public trust devolved upon you by the %nstitution, instead of conterring it upon yo#s son as a private perquisite, to be disposed of as he saw fit, Democratic prospects in Montana would not now be so glowing. e Prince Russell seems to be about as heavy a load for the Administration to carry as Dudley himself. His perfcrmances as an office-broker have been especially scandalous, but, as the St. Louis Republic well says, *‘he is mevely a part of the general disregard for the decencies and proprieties which characterizes this Administration.” |However, if he has been in any way instrumental in putting Montana into the Democratic ranks, we can afford to view his offenses charitably.—lndianapolis Sentinel. @
THE CLEVELAND DINNER.
How Its Success Has Affected the Dreams of Republican Leaders. :
The dinner given by representative Democrats of New York to Mr. Cleveland has disturbed the dreams of & number of the Republican leaders. Any evidence of popular faith in the ex-President; any testimony to the value of his public services; any protest against the methods which govern this Administration, arouses all manner of bitterness among the gentlemen ‘who are asserting that the election of Mr. Harrison means & new lease of power for twenty-five years. ° : But nothing is certain in politics. Three years before the election of Mr. Cleveland President of the United States he was a quiet, unassuming citizen of Buffalo. We have been told that certain things can not be done because they have never been done. The New York Sun says the Democrats have never nominated a defeated candidate, which would prove nothing if it were true, but it is not. Andrew Jackson was defeated when first a candidate, and his defeat made his nomination certain. ! .
We suppose our esteemed contemporary will admit that Mr. Tilden’s failure to secure:the Presidency in 1876 did not justify the party in failing to demand that he should accept the nomination in 1880. ' . 1t will not do to be constantly constructing, or reconstructing, history to. suit our desires for the future. ‘Whether Mr. Cleveland is to receive the nomination in 1892 can not be decided one way or the other just yet. .There is time enough for such a de.cision, and we doubt not that the mat‘ter will be wisely decided at the proper e | SR s e vj-:._‘.l . It is a little too early to consider the ‘nomination. The duty of action rests on the Ropublicans; they must take. the ialtintlve just now ana the vederd
The honor shown Mr. Cleveland was well deserved. In reading his remarks a contrast between the late Adminis. tration and the presznt one is made almost instinctively, and this contrast adds great strength to the Democratic position. ‘ -
The address of Mr. Cleveland was charadteristic; showing earnest con= viction and an abiding faith in the people. Few public men have rested so confidently their cause on the right judgment of the people; few, in other words, have held more strongly to-the principles of Democracy. M= Cleveland is entitled to the regard, not of the party alone, but of all good citizens regardless of party. That he will in time have this confidence to a degcee equaled only by few who have filled the high position from which he has retired, we do not doubt. One can say this, and much more, in praise and admiration -of Mr. Cleveland without intimating that he alone is to be cousidered as the .nominee of the. party three years hence. But certainly Mr. Harrison's Administration has note diminished in the least the chances of Mr: Cleveland’s renomination. Whoever is nominated will have the enthusiastic support of a united party, for he must represent its truest aspirations, and make plain its purposes concerning the issues of the time.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
DRIFT OF OPINION.
- —Any information that will lead to the discovery of A Vigorous Foreign Policy, wearing a brass collar engraved with the initials *J. G. 8.,” will be thankfully received by the country.—Chicago Times.
——Nepotism and plutocracy are the alarming features of this Republican administration. Elected on the false pretense of saving labor’s wages, it is devoted to personal preferences instead of the public good.—Pittsburgh Post. : s
——Republican organs are to-day forced to cry out in indignation against the outrageous course ot the Pension Commissioner, simply because the President did not make ‘fitness the essential and discriminating test’’ in filling the office, as he said he would, but did make ‘‘party service,” as he expressly engaged that he would not. —N. Y. Evening Post. ——The wool season approacheth, and it is to be hoped the prices will be as high as the Republican press and orators gave the voters last fall to understand they would be if they only elected Benny Harrison. They elected him all right and now they want the greatly increased prices for their products. It is truly to be hoped they may not be disappointed.—lngham County (Mich.) Democrat. ——To date President Harrison’s record of nepotism of various eccen~ tric forms is: The appointment of his brother to be a United States Marshal. The appointment of his son’s father-in-law to a $5,000 place in Utah. The appointment of his own father-in-law to a Federal office in Washington Territory. . The dismissal of a man in the Pension Office at his father-in-law’s request.—N. Y. Sun. :
——The temerity of the citizens of Montaana in voting that new State back to Democratic control has shocked the Republican editors. One of them is magnanimous enough, however, to say that even if the Republicans had foreseen this, ‘‘there was no reason for delaying the admission.’”” Thanks, awfully. So glad that it does not put a State out of the pale of the Union to exercise its constitutional right of voting as it pleases.—N. Y. World.
—llt is not a “free trade” journal, but the chief protection organ, which publishes a dispatch announcing that a combination of the ‘‘ten leading Pittsburgh firms” will ‘“buy out all the little operators by an expenditure of about $12,000,000, and secure a monopoly by. which they can dictate prices to consumers in Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville and other cities all the way to New Orleans.”” And the Republican tariff, by maintaining a duty of seventy-five cents a ton on soft coal, helps to make such combina~ tions possible.—N. Y. World.
Sim Coy Upheld by Harrison.
All that is said in partisan newspapers with regard to the attitude of the National Adminjstration towards the culprits who have made election laws in Indiana a,farce can not be seriously considered, but it is quite certain that the exercise of clemency towards such a man as the convicted leader, Sim Coy, will excite much unfavorable comment in quarters which can not be wisely ignored by President Harrison and those near to him. The country has not either forgotten or forgiven the extraordinary means taken to shield Dudleyism from exposure, and very many severe suggestions are. now sure to arise in minds other-; wise friendly. The ends of justice ! would not have been over-reached if! Coy had been compelled to take his punishment to the end. His course was that of flagrant defiance of law and decency, and an example should have been made of him to the utmoss limit allowable. To let up on such an enemy of the purity of the ballot is a very discouraging beginning for any ' Administration, much less one that is supposed to have no affiliatfon with men of low-down political methods, North or South.—Philadelphia Telegraph (Repl (vt o o ' { U el A ' Scandalous and Reprehensible. - The contrivance by which appraising officers have been coerced or persuaded, by no matter what manipula~ tion, to report to the collectors that ~worsted cloths are manufactures of 'wool, although ever since 1824 and ~earlier such fabrics “have been uniformly reported as manufactures of worsted, is too bold and transparent to mislead any tax-bayer, even the most stupid. The mothods and the rosult of this intrigue are as scandalous and D Tt eme Eenins it Philadelphin; Judgsßicteats: i OBloago 46 give villie b e stite