| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER friday evening march 7 chicago was thrown into a terrible tei excitement by the doings of one humble citizen from the wild west it appears that one juseph kane alias patrick crowe wanted to see a little chicago life he was tired of denver and omaha one horse towns his first night in town he spent in one ot of the large baguios bagnios bag 8 towards morning he robbed his female compau companion jon of some jewelry worth 1600 1500 in chicago vice and wealth are synonymous working girls or trades mens wives dont have jewelry next day mr kane pawned the jewels but the police were already notified and when a police officer attempted to arrest kane or crowe the latter shot the policeman and then ran away he was pursued but before being captured he shot another policeman and also a printer and wounded himself by an accidental shot when in the police station he thought he was on the pai point ut of death and sent for a priest so that he be might die a crristian Cn Cli ristian what a sad bad commentary on christianity as it is I 1 there was another exciting episode of a different character chai acter yesterday morning in this city also we have had bad one good snowfall snow fall this season in chicago and that was during the last week A party of five young ladies and three gentlemen employed emp loyes of one the large dry goods houses went out for a sleigh aleigh ride they remained out all night but in the morning took a street car to ride down town they were so gleeful that they aroused the ire of other passengers and a detective was called in the detective turned out to be J james ames bonfield brother of the famous captain he watched the antics of the party for a while awhile and then stopping the car in front of a police station run in the whole party the ladies turned out to be daughters of some of the most prominent churchmen in chicago and some were sunday school teachers in consideration of their families the captain in charge at the station let them go home though the girls were proficient cancan can can dancers and veteran revelers if they were unfortunates who had neither families nor f friends they would be trundle off to a police courland cour court and tand sent to the bridewell for a hundred days and newspapers and policemen would boast of keeping society pure preachers pour out their hearts bearta for the african savage but close their eyes and padlock their tongues to the savage doings in their own flocks we have had here lately several church scandals A lutheran preacher named Boa ebeck got dru in a wine room the other day and then went on the street catching and hugging and kiting kissing women who happened to be passing of course he was arrested bu we have not heard of any punishment being meted out to him probably he told the magistrate that quinine caused it when a scoundrel who uses the title rev commits an offense there are a hundred excuses for him but when paddy lannigan or barney bache commits an offense it is charged to total depravity and they are bagged off to prison but the most deplorable occurrence of any in a long time happened here a short abort time ago it appears a man named henderson left a wife and five children in new york state and came to chicago about one OBO year ago He joined a prominent church here bere and was soon known as a leader in religious work he tang lang in the choir here he be made the acquaintance of a lady single though bot over young both were associated in religious work and both being religious no notice was aken t ken of their intimacy it was reported that Het henderson iderson was seen drunk several times finally he went ent on what is called Is a big spree his lady friend went to his room to nurse him ingils drunken rage he shot and wounded her badly it then transpired that both were living in unlawful sexuality for some time and that the fact was known to the other members it also transpired that the organ loft and church cor riders were often used as trysting laces by these sinners for their illicit intercourse and yet in chicago this to is na not unlawful cohabitation but christian Cb purity A religious sect known as the evangelical association alsot lation is advertising itself by church trials among its members in illinois this sect was started in ohio some forty years ago in its organization it recognizes the order of bishop it is one of this order a bishop bowman who is now on trial for slander falsehood and intemperate language lain guage it appears that the bishop in his hilarious moments amused himself by C calling a 11 I 1 dg b bis is co religionists sons of sea cooks and grandsons of guns and revolvers his on these occasions though belonging to a dialect of the anglo saxon will not bear reproduction in print the bishop has been t ms or deposed until september Septem tr 1891 when his case will be considered in genera eral conference but it is thought the eq conference ference will fire him totally from roe e church as unfit for any religion the dakotas are coming prominently to the front in chicago at the present time in south dakota and misery prevail both cattle and human beings are hungry what a strange thing and farmers in nebraska burning coal for fuel in the coal mining regions miners are idle and also hungry because the mild winter has lef left t on hand band immense quantities of coal yet in dakota bakota cattle and men are hungry and cold we aretola are told our eAu country is the home of railroads and steamboats steamboat sand and so ou on 0 our u r transportation too is supervised by a federal commission but when disasters set in we are no better off than the chinese who use human motive transportation power and the south americans who use pack mules burros and goats A committee ot of south dakota citizens is now here collecting money and food and clothing for the people at home some tin boxes with locks were placed in much frequented stores banks shops churches and other planes likely to be visited by the charitable and wealthy inscriptions script ions on thebe theae boxes appealed corald for aid for dakota it turns out now that the originator of this scheme a mr D L mulford is one unworthy of public trust some very hard things are said about him and his record shows that in the christian morality line be has some very unsavory episodes in his biography he would have made a nice thing out ont of the boxes if left alone for a few weeks but some farmers who were swindled by him came to the front and spoiled his game the lottery business is not yet given up in north dakota it is supposed the lottery scheme will yet t go through there the virgin t legislature is already in the market the following item froma chicago morning paper presents the situation as it exists at present the agthe latest advices advises from bismarck N D are that the louwana louisiana lottery company is quoting legislators at apiece during the morning prices ruled firm the expected break downward at the opening not materializing this lottery affair has also developed another case of nose pulling but not with the fatal results attendant on the washington case came it will be remembered te that two kentucky gentlemen in washington one onea 11 judge and one a colonel had bad a little dispute the son of mars pulled the nose of the sop son of blackstone and the latter pulled his revolver making short work of the colonel in dakota two gentlemen named respectively goodwin and walsh quarreled about the lottery goodwin good win is a pound lawyer walsh to is a pound politician goodwin charged walsh with being one of the tools of oatlie the lottery agents walsh pulled goodwins nose but good win did not resent the affront to his proboscis the clan goodwin good win are tongue fighters whereas the walsher have a clan na gael rin ring lor about them and were made for war this wee nose tweaking method of dueling seems rather strange though the nose figures largely in war politics and history all great men have had big noses but all the men who have big noses are far from being great napoleon cho generals from the big nosed men buethe but the duke dake of wellington had bad a nose that over awed the whole french army in fact the great duke was irreverently though affectionately tiona tely nicknamed nosey owing to the vastness vast of his nasal appendage pen dage I 1 believe the method of salutation in some countries is by rubbing noses in new brunswick where joseph madill editor of the chicago tribune was wail born blue noses are the fashion in china the nose is not looked on at all as necess necessary iary to personal beauty gibbons the famous historian had a nose that nobody could couk 1 ull it was a mere fleshy protuberance arance erance between the ayee acho cho brahe had his nose cut cutoff off in a duel due I 1 and then wore a home made one away back in the ibe days of the good old times rameses the second king of egypt cut off the nose nese of a mat man who differed from him in polities politics was a very effective way of establishing political harmony jt was a pity president Preside ht harrison did not cutoff cut off corporal tannery tanners tongue it would have aten beneficent to both in 1681 charles the second of england cut off lord coventry Covent rys Is nose for slandering some lady players of the stage ane dear old stuart had a chivalrous regard for actresses and dames of easy virtue frederick the great lopped off the nose of one of his gentlemen soldiers for merely hinting at some army irregularities one might go on for hours recounting incidents of nose adventures but it is possible to have too much of a good thing even in the nostic line the news from other territories is a little more cheering than that of the dakotas we have a member of the wyoming legislature in town his name to is martin hopkins he is a staunch supporter of the wyoming bachelors taxation bill he has expressed himself freely on the question he says the new bill imposes an annual tax of on unmarried men over 36 35 years but let him speak for himself here is what lie he said to a chicago newspaper reporter yesterday at the grand pacific hotel the quebec legislature has provided that every head of a family of twelve children shall receive from the government loi acres of laud land while the french chamber of deputies has directed the minister of the interior to investigate the subject of compulsory marriage our bill you see is only the revival of an old idea bachelors were subject to a special tax under the old roman law as they were in england as late as the time of william ill III frederick the great limited the mourning period for widowers to three months at presey ft the petitioner of france is urging that a certain age for marrying be fixed by the government those who pass this line to be severely punished after our bill has passed we expect an influx of young women today wyoming is is the best huntin hunting ground round for husbands in the unit united states if 1000 unmarried women from chicago should start for wyoming this month I 1 would guarantee that 99 per cent of the number boulo not be single a year it takes a right hard disposition to block a match out oat there our school trustees want women for teachers our young chaps chap want swant pretty entertaining girls to take to parties our bachelors wano wan sensible middle aged women for life partners 11 lots of women from the east have gone to wyoming within the last few years yet the demand is far greater than ihan the supply there are hundreds of young girls girla working like slaves for a mere pittance in chicago who could go to wyoming get a school there and decide on a husband she would not have to look for one the schoolroom is the greatest avenue to matrimony in the west you would be surprised to know that two thirds of the wives of Wyo wealthy men were once schoolmarms if this keeps on we wont have any school when I 1 waw here a year ago I 1 advised a young teacher to go to wyoming she got a school about fifty miles north of cheyenne and began work during the september term in december she married a wealthy cattle owner before her marriage she turned over her school to another young woman from chicago she too married in the spring then the trustees employed an old maid who had seen about sixty summers but she was there only two months she get married but the bachelor ranchman ranchmen ranch men mett who supported the school would not pay a cent until the old woman was removed they said if we ran a kind of a matrimonial shop along with our schoola school they would quit the territory the next teacher an omaha girl ivas was the prettiest ont I 1 ever saw I 1 I 1 Is she teaching now no ft married a rand ranchman liman I 1 no one of the school trustees who was he martin hopkins and he is proud of it I 1 I 1 and the wealtny citizen of wyoming blushed like a girl we have a visitor from utah here also 1180 hits his name is R F grant jae he something tremendous for aalt salt lake in the near future he says that a line of ste steamers ameis will be run next summer between Sal e beach and kelton he speaks enthusiastically of utah as a summer resort we have george francis train here he is in making a we oliday holiday trip around the world he wants to eclipse nellie bly and miss bisland he ele lectured here but the papers dont give george the attention he merits we have also a meni member berof of the rothchild family in town he is a young man 25 years of age plain and hou homely iely and looks like a jew drummer at the Rich eleu the nabobs nabors hotel the clerk wanted mr rothchild to pay in ad advance vance for the front parlor which alone would suit the jew but when the young man proclaimed himself baron edward de rothchild and was corroborated by mr belmont otnel york there was no further guarantee in advance demanded the baron is on his way to he be says is the coming country quite a little mishap bebel one of our must most prominent jewelers here a few days ago it appears that devices aud and improvements in burglar alarms are all the rage with men of inventive grudus gt the jeweler has 1 contrivance of offis his own invention by which th lightest touch on a button safe gives an electric alarm alarin at several police poll ce st stations ationo atio nr rho che other night he was entertain enter entertaining tai n some lady friends from the c country at his private residence the conversation turned on burglars the ladies wondered how men of wealth could sleep soundly in chicago the jeweler proposed by demonstration to show them he took them to his town store and was explaining the safe mystery to them when he be accidentally touched the button quick as lightning a patrol wagon full of police was at the jewelers store and the jeweler and his lady frien ariew Js s were hustled I 1 into the wagon he tried to exi C plain lain matters to the police I 1 but t the police were too sharp for old chestnuts of this kind the police irad had heard of the female sand bagging gang in st louis and n d of course felt proud that chao chicago was F to go one better by having a lady burglar gang it was not till the jeweler got to the pollee police station that he would be listened to and then he had to send for several prominent merchants to show that ile he was what he represented him self and was not insane nor drunk inor affected with brain parissis pari esis ests junrus JUNIUS f CHICAGO march ath 1890 |
