Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — CARNIVAL OF CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CARNIVAL OF CRIME.

CHICAGO’S SABBATH DAY RED WITH BLOOD. » X>on([ List of Casualties and Arrests— Story of Fiendish Treachery of the Bpaniohraed Their Harder of Macco —San Francisco’. Sensation. Snnday at Chicago. Murder once again broke the Sabbath peace in Chicago Sunday. One man was shot down in cold blood at dawn by robbers, who, frightened at their work, es-’ caped without booty. The bruised body of a man was picked out of*the lake, and in its finding a mysterious disappearance was partly solved. The pockets in its clothing had been turned inside out, and indications pointed to a killing for money. Two men fought in a saloon and one shot the other, inflicting instant death. Two others chose a christening as a scene of their battle, and one of these was wounded mortally. Two other cases of shooting resulted less seriously. The summary of'these crimes follows: William Jahn, bartender, Hotel Le Grand, shot and almost instantly killed by a robber, who escaped with his partner; Dominick Gill, No. 159 Milton avenue, city employe, body found floating in the lake at foot of Schiller street; circumstances point to-robbery and murder: William Morris, shot and killed at 9:30 p. m. in Danato Zuecari’s saloon. No. 505 Clark street; John Meehan, shot by William Keenan during a quarrel at No. 3323 Archer avenue; physicians prouounee wound fatal; Frank Rafferty, shot during a quarrel at Desplaines and Madison streets by John Murphy; Harry Simpson,' diot in the shoulder during a quarrel with Andrew McCarthy at No. 3094 Archer avenue. The police in all the cases were quick to action. In the matter of the murder of Jahn 1 three men were arrested, but non'e of them identified as the slayer: in the case of the body ifi the lake no arrest has as yet been made; for the murder of Morris two persons were arrested; in the Meehan shooting the assailant is in custody; the Simplon shooting resulted in the speedy arrest of his assailant.

Mnceo Brutally Murdered. General Antonio Maceo, the famous Cuban leader, is really dead, having been treacherously murdered by Spaniards Dec 7. while on his way to attend a conference to which he was invited by the marquis of Ahumeda, acting captain general of Cuba, while General Weyler was in the field. Saturday noon a letter was received by Colonel J. A. De Huau, the head of the Florida junta, at. Jacksonville, Fla., from his secretary correspondent in Havana, giving a detailed account of the assassination of General Maceo and his entire staff, with the exception of Dr. Zertucha, who was Maceo’s physician. The letter came from a reliable source In Havana, but the correspondent’s name, of course, cannot be made public, for. as Mr. Huau said: “The writer would be shot within an hour by Spanish authorities if they knew who gave away details of one of the most horrible atrocities ever chronicled in modern warfare.’’ Mother and Daughter Die Together. The death by asphyxiation of Mrs. Sarah B. Codper and her daughter Harriet Friday morning has produced a profound sensation in San Francisco. No woman in San Francisco or on the entire Pacific coast was so prominent as Mrs. Cooper, who had devoted her life to religious and philanthropic work and was actively connected with every reform movement. She was a cousin of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, with whom, despite their opposite religious views, she maintained a warm friendship. Mrs. Cooper and her daughter were found dead with the gas turned on and every evidence of suicide. There is no doubt but that Miss Cooper was responsible for the deaths of herself and mother.