Show f CHICAGO LETTER A macy icaco entertaining and instructive correspondence front from junius CHICAGO july 17 1878 chicago Chica golis Is nothing if not sensational sensation ai other cities have tried in vain to rival her in the sensational line at z louis arose from her hep lethargy and got up an elopement scandal it is true she flue made the most of her little racket reams of matter were published lawyers and detectives hired the telegraph was kept biot busy but after all in the eyes of chicago this st louis matter was only the foolish escapade of a one horse editor and a superannuated thespian the apian bobo tried to make herself famous fur for something else than lian t being the home of president cleveland she got up a pugilistic match between ladies these female sluggers were placed ip in the hande handia of expert trainers and everything the most approved pugilistic science can do is being done for these i new debutantes debu tants in the arena chicago has got lady barbers lady burglars and ladies who can and do catch burglars ladies who can also hit right from but a regular scientific contest between lady gladiators she has not yet attempted we are preparing tor for suet such though the windows of all the prominent saloons have on exhibition a picture of two W WITH aliese ile combatants t are na batsell to the w a I 1 t chy wro ar before du after tie batt t r I 1 afore the battle they approach each to shake hands bands with that serene smile with the bartender bar tender views the man who pours poors out too foro foria hume ebeo ibeo battle chev V 11 aad filially ti aloi an SS 0 aloon 04 a S t in dujik oja won on d der jully ally chaste and c classic I 1 isale Lon 1911 blonville we ville maes a little noise be cause 14 had for A COND U C r on A as rec aly why if all the 6 of r coq wei e arrested we ah t c ano sc r I 1 g W 0 w d 1 lie f daft dy ja mi a tr ors are I 1 game that a chicago policeman yearns lor for A policeman in this city would consider himself humiliated if be had to a 0 ard IT d S I 1 I 1 is now affording a good opportunity tor for advertising purposes that engineer strike has assumed a rather nihilistic aspect the ab leaders of the brotherhood seem to be in a tight place yet tet the belief is firm among the wo g classes t b the whole thing is avat u up lob job by ya detectives detect fes to wark lab to an WM whatever ever will b be e t the e result of the in a legal sensa the outcome will be a more intensified int d antagonism between capital an r tanh heretofore ej ed I 1 ei al ge the of theay rae Ss becoming cr crun 1 iBal I 1 R railroad air 1 gao pr property is s handled whiston a anya regard its utility or vl ars pars fere a sn smashed shod cism amye property itty destroyed by switchmen nd gl apers af cm as it were engaged I 1 id 0 A and in t duty aad responsibility dewa a rt Y v 0 on 0 r elope h faed it 16 tt M at urpo pular worker among a crowd of men is he who tries tr to perform his labor after she old fashio fashioned dut duty VAnd and principle plan this man is is characterized as ai an e nemr tip ht hi eclas 4 alws abild tie he is duba dubbed 0 V HL such Atte mattering rigg titles title sas as sucker cutthroat that old employer emple y is 9 gone and say bat what you yea will when n such auch is ia the case the basis of all industry enterprise inter prise and commercial activity is ia sapped the next step in the lab oMi is ep eced f Y ww I 1 n I 1 enough th the e absolute slavery which at one time flourished in this land cannot very well be xe re established yet the system of espieu espionage 1 age and detection no now in use is more dem abing ading lebas ing than any system of solute absolute ao slavery it is cerla more inimical to republican government and more destructive tive to free institutions when I 1 say republican government I 1 do not imply that slavery is one of the essential elements of a republic buti mean that a ou ont a color basis such as ours was would b safer with slavery than with the labor system as it now exists the fact is no government of a constitutional character could 0 or r can exist very long where the people are torn and split up as they are arc at present in the united states on every side one hears bears nothing in but the irish vote the german ehg the polish the bohemian the italian votes then again there is iq the sectarian business in religion the infallibility of the the freewill free will of the protestant and the total repudiation of all religion by the secularist and worse than all we have gresham men harrison Harri sou meu men johnm ez mearn gerroll men st john men and so on to infinity our knifing ont one another and heaping the foulest kind of epithets on each other they are arc running each other into the mud and pulling down prices until papers papers are actually given away gratis this is the actual state ol of affairs not overdrawn overdia wn by any means in fact the pic turfe is not realistic enough politics is in A STATE the soul seems to have left the republican party the names of harison and coition are received very coldly by the masses the Gres gresham tiam men toe the alger aler men the allison men all talk republican party politics in ia a perfunctory kind oi of way and in a very abstract or general fashion even harrison men begin to realize that they made a blunder labor both organized and disorganized and scattering as the politicians say execrate the name came of harrison his a conduct in the strike sinks of 1877 is taken as a forecast of what he would do it if elected prest president then he be was attorney for some railroad which turned out all its old employed emp loyes and took on poles hungar hangar ians and bohemians Bohem ians paying them ninety cents a day each mr barnson Harrison advocated both immigration from china and aad europe in an unrestricted manner auner in he made no discrimination pauper criminal socialist black blue brown browwn and copper were in his bis eyes worthy ot of citizenship provided they elected to live on 60 dog and work for fifty cents a day were it not for his family history and also for the professed regard of the Amer american icah name he would be openly denounced but bat people say nothing when his name is mentioned at present it looks as if he would kill both his party and its main issue as well the average citizen usually reasons from induction J he sees a convention controlled by millionaires and monopolists rapo raae an i issue of protection for the benefit of labor and then nominate a hired attorney of capital and one whose record proves him toe the enemy 0 of f american labor then again the there re to is the instability of the party which shows eliat wea political organization it has no principle the shrewder of the party politicians begin to see the exact condition avid ad ar are enow bow alving out that mcblaine Mr plaine Blaine will be the inspiring spirit of a harrlson HiLr rison administration thai as secretary of natate bbate he would dictate the policy of the government vern ment these are B ying to create the impression that blame laane is realty really the nominee and not Har arrison TUB rUO HmmON PARTY is cevelo developing I 1 H wonderful strength h i in D illi illinois nois the the industrious ana na orderly r 1 y people bein be bes cin in to talk of it as som something ethin g worth considering the aver average agre workingman man now mentions it with zet where he formerly denounced it as the whim of fanatical cranks this party has just lust nominated a full ticket for toe the offices of cook county commissioners ners court clerks attorney surveyor and coroner all the nominees being good citizens engaged euga gedia in reputable business toe Aless rs fisk and brooks visited here and held field rousing mee meetings the fact Is whisky has as assumes such a sha shape pe that decent citizens are A alarmed armed our council lies has eighteen saloon aldermen the sa saloon oon has brought the I 1 republican party to its knees the saloon despises the pulpit and it intimidates the press then is it not inot time to hear what st john and risk fisk have to say against it probably that is one reason why people are div ing so much consideration to the new party in fact christians or alleg d christians cannot ve very well advocate whre any other party while there is a prohibition hibi tion ticket inthe in the field last sunday morning the reading public was treated to one of those old fashioned t ANTI MORMON DOSES in the shape ot of a newspaper article about a mrs elizabeth turnbull rutter the name itself has bas something sensa sensational tiona kawut it it smacks of a dickens christening Theartic the article lewent went onto on to sayin say in dihe did lurid style of the missionary hypocrite what the mor mons mona did to mrs rutter butter her husband was murdered his body utilized as a fertilizer nis his childen child en estranged herself excommunicated all because she would not become a mormon well it was the most cock and bull it story that was ever published about the mormons cormons Mor mons the fabricator of the story must think that toe the american people are prepared to swallow anything bill nye would not pub publish listi the story as ond one of his exaggerated jokes la in fact his jokes smack more of truth than does this one the herald published the article om omitting omit ittin tine all reference to t the police part of it the tunes times and tribune and seail mentioned an officer gibbons as connected with the case but bra it was war evident that all the published reports the s same e pep the mat arom leraas cwm id identically finically fiti cally the same except as at staf eji 0 the herald ae knew fv it was non sebie bolever Bo wever vr I 1 deter det erined 4 aued to in lestig Us bem I 1 matter otteran and lutter if possible to see 1 to s butter with my mv own eyes this object in view vieux I 1 called at the central station in the city hall on sunday last showed th a article to the officer i haage ile he told me there were of rt the gibbons family central Stati station bit he then examined the police records but no account of mrs rutter butter could he arid both the hc Gibbon ses were off that day I 1 got their addresses rei resolved solved to visit them at their residences 1 I took down john gibbons 2 H north branch street boosi I iland anil and sergeant gibbons 15 street the in charge tr roe me very courteously vat ami told toki rne me were two more 01 the gibbons family connected with toe the police olice one was attached to the larrabee tee street station and and another to the east chicago street station he urther farther f intimated that the story looked fishy bisby inasmuch as toe the police part of it was so I 1 started on my pilgrimage to goose island I 1 lound north branch street away up in the north part of the city and constituting itself the main thoroughfare of goose island this district is to chicago what ratcliff katcliff highway is to east london or what baxter street is to new kew york but boere is immense industry in this district massive elevator for grain towering to the skies great 9 reat piles of lumber lumb ervast vast yards of 0 f coal docks ships tanneries canneries tann eries I 1 saloons cars and soon so on I 1 walked the whole length of the branch and in my tour met ireland poland bohemia Bohe aia and in fact every in europe I 1 found 1 I knocked but no response A matronly hibernian living next door kindly volunteered the information that officer gibbons and his bis family were gone to a picnic and would not be back until night I 1 plodded my way by another route to mohawk street just juet us as I 1 got back over the bridge into halsted I 1 noticed IL a policeman hotly pursuing three stalwart rowdy looking fellows he had his gun gun in his hand and was calling on the others to halt I 1 JOINED HIM IN THE CHASE two of tle the men stopped the third dodged in front of some cars on halsted street and got away it turned out to be officer ryan of the larrabee street station the th three men were the notorious dalton brothers the hardest characters on goose island one of them had just split a mans skull with abut a bat and athe whole three then ran I 1 took one of the daltons dalfons Dal tons ryan took the other we marched marched them to a patrol box and got the police wagon the newspaper account of the incident on monday morning reported officer ryan byan as marching the two desp desperadoes erdoes in front froat of him certainly ryan hyan is a brave fellow and did not flinch before the fhe three but he bo must admit that be was considerably cheered by the presence of the DESERET newsman though ryan liyan had dot the remotest idea that a representative of your paper or anat anything b ing connected with utah was within a thousand miles of him A large crowd of toughs collected around I 1 was pat down at once as aa a cop in ia plain clothes I 1 had copies of the morning papers containing the bloodcurdling mormon fish story in my hip pocket these papers made quite a protuberance and the toughs mistook them for a small howitzer or gatling galling gun I 1 pursued my way to mohawk st I 1 met sergeant gibbons a very tine intelligent intel igent candid man he never heard of mrs rutter except what he saw in the paper and then he only read the heading I 1 went next to larabee street station and met tile the officer gibbons of that place next to chicago avenue station and met the gibbons gibbish of that place none none of then them knew anything of mrs hatter nor did the station records show any account of such a waiman by this time I 1 concluded to suspend my sunday labor early on monday morn liff jig I 1 visited the harrison st station commonly known as the armory one qt of the reports stated that mrs ratter butter was taken to the armory I 1 showed the report to the desk officer there was no gibbons attached to that station the record showed no such woman had estr ever visited there the officer then instructed me to visit mrs lyttell the matron whose headquarters were dew dowa in the k kitchen I 1 went down saw mrs lyttell a fine matronly middle aged aged lady kind polite intelligent aig gent an and affable she had read the article and wondered how it was mrs rutter did not come under her notice if the armory was visited Yi sited mrs lyttell was on djay day duty last week and every female brought to the station either as prisoner or pauper comes coiles under unde r mrs Lyt tells supervision mrs lyttell bad no hesitation in telling me that the article was either an absolute falsehood or one manufactured for for I 1 SOME SPECIAL PURPOSE rUU POSE by this time I 1 began to wonder IL all anti mormon literature had bad been built on flimsy foundations of this character I 1 went next to the british consuls office ce on dearborn near randolph the august representative of her most potent majesty of lof england was not in lite office nor would he be until 10 a ini sallied out and stood on the sidewalk tor for a moment I 1 spied a policeman ip in front of me doing crossing duty regulating traffic at the corner of dearborn and randolph he was officer john oconnor it a very intelligent tell igent young man I 1 entered into couve conversation aaion with him he knew officer ic e r gibbons ga bbous gibbons was on duty cl close oae b by y I 1 could seb sec nim I 1 showed th the ea Article r ti cle to connor Con connors norla brow lowered a little and he blurted out BOW the h did gibbous gibbons name get connected with the case it turned out that connor knew all about the case that there abere was such a woman and amid that gibbons had nothing at all to do with the case officer john connor then related to me the STORY ASIT AS IT OUGHT TO BE last friday afternoon I 1 a hack drove to the front of the building in which is the office A woman alighted from the hack back and then fell in a swoon the hackman had just brought her from 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