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Show ASSASSINATION IN CI1ICAOV, Chicago, -1. A terrible oftair oc- curred here last night about midnight. . While colonel 'T. W. Grosvenor, a well known citizen, and for several , years past the prosecuting attorney of ' tho polico court, was proceeding lo his homo in the south part of the city, one of the homo guards on patrol in that; division, halted him and required the I. countersign. Tho colonel mado some contemptuous reply, when the guard fired, inflicting a wound from which colonel tirosvenor expired at & o'clock ; this morning. Col. Grosvenor served i with distinction in tho Into war and ; received a wound which permanently j disabled his right arm. Tho presence of tho armed irresponsible guards in tho oity is generally considered a nuisance for which there is no justification. justifi-cation. It is now n well established fact that no oases of incendiarism or violence by tho supposed incendiaries oceurred during tho dreadful period of the city's destruction: By W. V. Teleiirai.li. i |