| Show LETTER FROM JUNIUS this city is today the second largest in the united states the population of new york is estimated at that of chicago poor old st louis where is she well she ehe has on saturday last the following towns were annexed to chicago hyde park lake lake view jefferson so that chicago is now the fourth largest city in the world london has paris new york berlin in area chicago now measures square miles she has within her limits two navigable lakes namely calumet and hyde and half of lake wolf the other half belongs to indiana she has two large rivers now besides the famous chicago river kiver also a fine harbor at south chicago where coal and lumber are handled bandied the new city will soon be re districted the next council will comprise at least seventy two aldermen quite a respectable body numerically it is supposed that a better class of aldermen will come with the annexed portions because it is in the suburbs that our four hundred reside and also all those who are seeking to get within the charmed four hundred we will have buck mearthy mcarthy in our next council he has been annexed with his beloved stockyards stock yards though much against his will we will have one of the pullman family likewise the town of pullman fought hard to keep outside but the fight was lost the carlson cottage is also within the city limits and lake view can collect no more license money for human butchers ships mayor cregler cregier is today a bigger man than the governor of nevada or of maryland the dr cronin case still drags along the special s grand jury has closed its work indictments were presented against martin burke john F beggs daniel Cough coughlin liD patrick frank J woodruff patrick corney and john kuntze seven persons in all strange to relate after all the noise and bluster alexander sullivan has not been indicted it appears that the closer the investigation went the clearer became sullivans Sull ivana disconnection with the case one of the indicted men is a native of luxembourg and though reputed a german he IF is no more a gernian german than a swede is a dane luxembourg is I 1 believe governed by the king of the netherlands however kuntze is recognized as a german by the german people here or he be was until the indictment woodruff is a native of carda canada and no ties social national Dat ional or ethnographical can be traced between him and ireland he is reputed the ell eli perkins of criminal marvels the fact is he is a mystery beggs is a native of massachusetts chu and it is not clear what race he sprang from he served a term in a penitentiary and after getting out entered the law and became a full fledged lawyer and an irish patriot coughlin is a native of michigan but of irish parents P is a native of illinois and also of irish parents burke and cooney are both natives of ireland they were born in the county of mayo ayo in the far west of the island it is in the province of connaught and is the district where cromwell gave the leinster people the privilege of going or else to hell bell it was hell or connaught in those days with oliver last friday evening I 1 attended a cronin memorial meeting at central music hall it was held under the auspices of the personal aJ rights bights league the chairman of the meeting mr bend is not a member of the league but in the absence of the mayor who was invited to preside and did not attend mr rend bend was appointed chairman the president of the personal rights bights league mr dyrenforth made a long speech in which he extolled dr cronin and eulogized the sublimity and grandeur of person personal rights dr cronin it appears was vice president of this league and is said to have been a very active member this league was started herein here in opposition to prohibition its members are mostly atheists and freethinkers many of them are pronounced renounced socialists and anarchists I 1 ats considering that mr haddock hadi of iowa met his death at the hands hanas of personal rights advocates it was waa rather startling to see so much crocodile brine falling over dr cronin bishop cheney of the episcopal church was advertised to speak but did not appear his letter spoke well of dr Cronin who was a member of the bishops church choir and a regular attendant though the doctor was a roman catholic A mr bartholomew delivered an original poem on cronin noble cronin this gentleman is well known to the writer he is a pronounced agnostic I 1 have heard him call christ a hypocrite and st peter a fraud I 1 have heard beard him at the secular union union denounce judge prendergast fc john F scanlan and W P rend as agents of rome jesuits in disguise yet these very three men were on the platform and the most conspicuous figures there this surprised me a little judge pro pre tergast made a very violent speech it was rather a piece of argument and lie assumed that all the men now in custody were guilty the judge is a democrat and is county court judge the protestant press has repeatedly charged him with discriminating in favor of the church ot of rome very dramatically he invited the opposition of the clan na gaels gaeds he need not have done that this crowd has fought him hard at the polls several times alexander sullivan is a rabid republican and lid he always hit for prendergast fc but the judge rejoiced tonight as a terrier would over a dead rat and said that the irish republicans should hang mr rend made a very vehement speech declaring that the irish secret societies must go he made a distinction between irish and catholic societies one irishman in the audience shouted that I 1 rish societies would not go and significantly hinted that rend and prendergast were at the meeting for a purpose the man was sat upon speedily there were very few irishmen at the meeting those who were there wi re mostly prominent members of the roman catholic church and the church has taken upon itself the task of vindicating cronin admission to the meeting was by ticket and discrimination of the severest kind was made the entrance was guarded by uniformed city police and the pasteboard was closely scanned I 1 obtained a ticket through a member of the secular union from a free thought acquaintance with whom I 1 have often discussed religion after the meeting I 1 brushed up an acquaintance with the noisy irishman and got some pointers from him he condemns the cronin murder with an intensity of feeling that borders on madness but strange to say he condemned prendergast scanlan and rend these three men he pronounced to be tools of the church their object being merely to break up irish orders so that the members would join the catholic foresters and catholic knights of america both secret and exclusive societies none but communicants muni cants of the church were to be admitted I 1 asked this man his views of dr cronin he nam named ed a dozen secret societies to which cronin belonged all of them but two condemned by the roman church yet cronin was accorded the rights of the chlo chereb though it teaches otherwise mass mafes will be celebrated and was celebrated for his soul cronin belonged to no medical society though he be made his living by medicine this man talked over other matters but at present it is better not to touch on them the medical profession is certainly having a good innings at present in the matter of sensationalism from new york we have the news that one doctor has disappeared and another eloped with a young woman man leaving behind a wife and family dr MI mcnerry nerry erry ja is looked for anxiously it is supposed that he has been made away with by clanna gael men there is a long story published about his disappearance in which clan cjan na gael catholic the Scan lans and I 1 the triangle are all mixed there is also ako a dr mccahey Mc Lahey a prominent clan na gael man who is not looked upon as of the right kind he says that heis he is under the ahe ban and if he is missing some morning he tells his friends it will be by reason of the triangle it is rather strange that a person who thus complacently awaits his own doom should not take steps to avert what he anticipates so confidently it was thus with cronin he predicted his own demise and his friends pronounced him dead before he was absent six hours with these fears uppermost in his mind he departed with a strange man in a strange conveyance to the most lonely and most remote part of Chi cagos suburbs the person who drove him away is now supposed to be a german named kuntze this person is indicted but cannot be found he has only been a few years from I As his native land and speaks english with a pronounced german accent mrs conklin heard this man speak and she made no mention of this dialect matter frank scanlan also saw him and frank is a member of a dozen secret societies but he does not state whether kuntze gave the sign and avowed himself a brother the other pill mixer who has haa sc scandalized andali zed gotham is named stillman A he eloped with miss mabel i both aoth are members of the 11 the doctor is thirty four years of age his specialty IS orthopedic surgery he is reported handsome bashin dashing courtly and accomplished complis hed aunill unlike the other doctors he is a member of six medical societies and examiner for several insurance companies what his bis professional relations with the pretty miss were will io ID time be revealed the history of this case will also reveal some curious social ethics because miss is reported to have pro bounced the position of mistress superior to that of wife in MW a brilliant rival to mrs pot ter and mrs langtry is looked for y mrs carter must hurry u up and n d get on the stage or she will be e eclipse C 3 altogether JUNTOS CHICAGO july 2 1889 |
