Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — BOODLEISM JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]

BOODLEISM JUSTICE.

Several More of Chit-ugo's Citizen’s Bound Jolietward. , Th.- Muih Advertined TrtaU Knd In th« ; j * Conviction of th« Entire Ha.,*—Seven i Srnt to the Friiltrntiaiy (iir Lvu littL Four Fined.. [—• ‘ v The long drawn out Chicago boodle trials ended Friday with good results, the entire gang of thieves which has fattened off Cook county being found guilty. The jury retired at 5 o’clock and at 9 o’clock reported a verdict. The eleven defendants, some pale and nervous, others defiant—stepped to the row of black chairs just as the jurors entered. The faces of the talesmen were ominously grave. When the verdict was handed in and the clerk, with trembling voice announced one after another of the entire eleven guilty, the defendants seemed rooted to their chairs, the very embodiment of despair. Then began the list of penalties. “Commisioner McClaughrey, two yearn.” There was a start of surprise among the spectators. The extreme penalty of the law was three years and a fine of SI,OOO. Nothing less had been expected by the majority of those present. “Commissioner Oache, two years,” read the clerk, and the defendants began to look up. Commissioners Leyden, Van Pelt Wren and Wasserman, and Warden Varnell, all got two years, and every one looked relieved except Wren. He turned pale and seemed dazed. The crowd in the court room was now prepared for any surprise, and it came speedily in the statement, "Commissioners McCarthy, Oliver, Casselmen, and Geils, a fine of $1,000.” A look of unmistakable exultation took possesssion of the countenance of Buck McCarthy,who had, throughout the trial, and for months previous, the most com spicuouslv attacked of all the crowd. The jury was polled and immediately those of the defendants who had escaped with a fine were released on bail. The others were remanded ter jail. A motion for a new trial of every one was entered by the defendants’ attorney. The first two ballots of the jury were on the question of guilt. The first ballot stood 11 to 1 for conviction, and the second ballot 12 to nothing for conviction. Ballots were then taken on thg question ofpr.nißliment. The first, ballot stood him for three years on all, two for two years on all, and one for SI,OOO fine on all. The second ballot was the same as the first. The third ballot resulted in a compromise and verdict as rendered.

Fatal Flames. Baltimore was visited by a $500,000 fire Thursday. The cracker bakeries of J. D. Mason & Sons and Henderson Laws & Co., were totally destroyed. Wm. Schulte,foreman of engine No. 12, was on one of the lower floors when the upper floors fell in and he was buried beneath the ruins and killed. Chief Engineer Hennick, of the fire department, was on the same floor and was seriously injured. His death is feared. Other buildings destroyed were the stove warehouse of Liebrandt, McDowell & Co; the agricultural warehouse of E. Whitman & Sons, the book Store of M. Kurtz & Son, the commission house of F. B. Owens & Co.,and the tinware house of F. L. Parker & Co. The Fisheries Troubles. A special from Ottowa, Ont., Wednesday, says: “The deputy minister of fisheries informed the correspondent last night that an order had been issued by the government, releasing on condition of their paying a mere nominal fine, all the American fishing schooners recently seized within the alleged prescribed three-mile limit. There is evidently something in the wind, and developments towards an amicable settlement of the fishery trouble are daily being received by the officials of the department. It is evident that the climax has been reached, and an amicable settlement of the great fishery troubles is in the near future.” Wliiteiy, Fussier & Kelly’s Affair. The committee of creditors of Whitley, Fassler & Kelly, the great reaper manufacturers of Springfield, 0., appointed to investigate and report upon the firm’B condition, recommend that creditors accept 30 per cent, in settlement of their claims in five installments of 6 per cent. each. The liabilities are $3,188,775, which includes nearly seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of accommodation paper given to E. S. Harper, of the broken Fidelity bank, and by him negotiated. The assets of the firm are about $1,107,700. Besides these liabilities, there are about SIOO,000 of receiver’s certificates out. Bloody Belfast. An excursion of Irish National Foresters from Belfast to the Giant’s Causeway Sunday was made the occasion of a disgraceful attack by Orangemen all along the line. At Port Rush a youth, standing on the bridge at the Ballymoney station, was shot and has since died, and a Presbyterian minister was wounded. The whole return to Belfast was one continuous riot. On Her Own Resources. New York Telegram, “What would you do if mama should die 2” she pathetically asked her little three-year-old daughter. “I don’t. know,” replied the infant, with downcast' eye and a melancholy voice. “I thpose I should have to spank myself”