Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1900 — CHICAGO POLITICAL TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO POLITICAL TRAGEDY.

A Former State Senator Seriously Wounds an Kx- Alderman. Former State Senator John F. O’Malley of Chicago shot and perhaps fatally injured ex-Alderman William H. Lyman Friday night in Lyons & O’Malley’s saloon in the Star Theater building, Cigrk and Kinzie streets, Chicago. The shooting was the result of a political quarrel. Lyman was shot twice, both bullets lodging in the groin. lie was removed to his home after receiving medical attention. O’Malley was arrested and placed in a cell in the East Chicago avenue police station. The political quarrel between the two men was bitter. It was further intensified by the recent "Major” Sampson alderinanic fight in the Twentythird ward. Witnesses of the affair say the shooting was entirely unprovoked.