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W 1 it t" ""Bit! '-'Oil, Hoi ICTIMS. T() N IIHTIVKDN TWELVE ... |{i l: N II O A 111-1111 •111*1 TiU' of tlio Disaster SSoromussf Apparent Huryinjj tlm [ouiitry lSpipondin^ tu the A i«l. I ecial of Thurtday says: in! n- tonn 1 ing un thei'" i:o :IS eveJ s'x ri'.n ,1 ,loW!l i, ,iverl oked in ir,i the awful strain is 'condition of tho corpse.-. Fully of il-.'.'.-e recovered have 0uiiiaiii-lika THE •r iigli punifaction that a grinning skei lii would show as much resemblance co le persons in life as they. Almost every of the pick in some portions of the •y to day resulted in the discovery of •vtder vi.-tim, and althouga the funerals 1 tha morning relieved the morgue of leir crush before night they were as full llVherever one turns the melancholy •w "i a cotlin is met. Every train into •imtown was laden with them, the bet s' oti.'s bein generally accompanied by mis of the dead. Men could be seen •-•H'ring over the ruins with shining •nii'.'Suny caskets on their shoulders. Bveral stumbled and fell into the abound I pits. The hollow houses of the dead But bouncing over the stones like drums I a funeral march. The co:Mn famine fcns to be alleviated. ll'lia enormity of the devastation wrought tii'- Hood is becoming more and more Bl'aieiit with every effort of the laborers iVMjlve order out of chaos. Over 100 wu have been all day engaged in an •oi't to clear a narrow passage from the Bath-bridKe upward through the sea of •'lis that blocks the Conemaugh for Jn 'y half a mile. Every ingenuity known wen has been restored to by the crew. Kitint power of dynumiti was brought •to requisition, and at frequent intervals roar of explosions reverberated Brough the valley, and sticks, stjnes, and •gs would fly high in the air. Gradually a •lv of the heaviest timbers were demol •M and the fragments permitted to doat ion:,ward through the center arch. At •elitfall, however, the clear space above Pi.' bridge did not exceed an area of sixty »-'1 in length, by forty feet in width. I lle» one reflects that fully twenty-five •Mare to be cleared in this way the, task Bead seems an interminable one. But is no royal road, and if the hundreds thousands of bodies beneath these black •'eu ruins are to be recovered lor Christian Burial the labors of to-day must be contin Ifi with increased vigor. II here are many conservative minds that commend the use of the torch iu this ork of clearing the river, but they are •°t among the sufferers, and when such •ounsels are heard by those whose wives, I iliireu, sisters, or brothers rest beneath P's sea of flotsam and jetsam, this sug J^tiou of cremation meets a wild furore II objection, it is only in defe.ence to P- utirea oning mandate of grief that the Piiculeap labor of clearing the river by l'aiH of the dynamite and the derrick is P-'i.Msted in. There is no hope in the P-tiier minds that this task can be pursued 1° t!iu end. I 'lie progress to-day is hardly discerni ij''' aud ere two days more have elapsed 1 iei is little doubt that the emanations of JUrid bodies will have become so fright l| as to drive the hardiest workmen trow I scene. Until that time arrives, how 1 uli there is no hope that the grief-strick •1 I'opulace will abandon the cherished lov *i °f a£aln a E tiMW lil if *i ,, ,ts had scarcely jirise.i tromtho a ii lnir until a thousand funerals iliw uir.-iii ton"''lUty- been sto •j iiniiseii or charred that identifi \v is impossible. In an ordinary ',1,1s \vo !d not hive been the case, human bodies were tho filling in mass of ouses, rail- ("i-i'i-ks. trains, and other debris whi?h ft i-rii!.chin.: and crashing through a three miles long. How any of life's ,!t:iii.eil term or semblance is enig- day long the corpses were being Mow ground. The unidentified •j .. wre grouped on a high hill west of i)ine.i city, where one epitaph must Jorall, :IHL! that the Word "unknown." are hundreds of these graves'al and each day will increase the pro- The .possibility of identification iaislies every ritalm'. Id iu hour. Fires are raging |r |he tangled graves of hundreds and nartial crr-mation of many bodies is Uiers are becoming so black- their contact with the debris or I ™nn, "re, thus employed in Johnstown ,!,r°P' r' ttb«ur, DAM SOUTH FORK LAKE. .\~ is taken from a point below tlio and sliows peculiar way in. "\vliioli tlio water cut: t.liroiiKh it. gazing upon tne rorms of I ones whose lives went out in the fire "oon °f the Conemaugh. The plead l1"" sanitarians and the logic of engi- ike fail to find an echo in the r". t'le grieving and afflicted, but in moro days the sterner logic of nature i,assert I itself, and in the face of impos- tile tas' of cremation will become I u-ntfthu duty. I here Johnstown's principal stores Bom Friday are now pitched 1,000 limiS'i1IU* before night this number will fc be l.-iOO of these hoins tha re* .,?t hired ly Contractors Booth a,,,! Hynu of Pittsburg the other, i.eng volunteers. .Ir. l'lynn estimates show mora than aiij thing the chaotic condition of this city say,: y» "It will take 10,1)1)0 men thirty to °'car the ground so that the streets are passable and the work of rebuilding enn be commenced. and I am at a loss to Know how the work is to be done. This c*nth is-iasm will soon die out and the volun teers will want to return home. green sides. There toko all summer for my iuon alone to do l-eaio.S few mourners, and as what work is necessary. Steps must be ,3 tlia In. toJins were of rough pine. The I v.vre strong farmers ams, and ication to the Pittsburg cha nlier of com uf fix I,al' ')0arers ,one coffin merro asking tho different manufacturers won' g«"er,l"y coffins to one of tho Onio valley to take turns for a week the processions moved and I or so in furnishing reliefs of workmen I r,v 1,.T unloaded their burlens in tho shall ask that each establishment stop I ji,. .:lt i'-arth. Jo minister was there work for a week at a time and (-end all ,since last blessing as the clods hands in the charge of a foreman and time- A fact that has been here- keeper. We will board and care for them 1 shall sendu coinmun- here. These gangs should come for a week at a time, as no organization can be ef fected if workmen arrive and leave when they please." The volunteers nre doing noble work. Nearly every tiwn in western Pennsyl vania is represented lyfromt?nto one hundred men, and many towns in Ohio and New York iiav also furnished a quota of laborers. These vjlnnteers are working with a will, but before the end of the wejK they will want to return home. Men who come here will be paid $2 adayand board. All the laborer.- who have been toiling with the wreckage are quartered at night, some in barns, others in the tents above referred to. It was a scene as of army life at the time that supper was ready, and tho long pine tables were crow 'ed with men. Stoves were erected .out in the open aud coal fires heated the gallons of coffee. This bevrage was heated in large wash-boilers, and for one gang of men seven boiler uls were emptied in a half hour. As the darkness drew a veil over the scene the valley became quiet, tho only tKe noise being tho occasional challenge of a militiaman as he bade some belated in dividual obey the orders of the .sheriff and leave the city of the dead. Johnstown is under martial law and laborers only are wanted. THE BREAK IN THE DAM. An Kngiiicoi 's Story of tlie Terrible Flood. Mr. Fred K. Giles, the special correspond ent of the Chicago Daily News at the scene of the calamity, telegraphs that journal as follows: I ascended tlie valley to inspect the country anl investigate tho cause of tlie disaster. The rich Pittsburgers -n ho maintained tile ill-starred lake have been prompt to deny the cause. Thoy can rationally do so no more." The proof of the fact is evident. It is eighteen miles to the lake by the devious course of the valley down which the torrent descended. No harm ti done to the club house and cottages ox the Woutli Fork Club, but the transformation worked by the flood is even moro striking there than anywhere else. The house formerly stood by the shores of a beautiful lake. Now the cottages are on a bluff above a wide ravine, seveuty-flvo feet deep, at the bottom of which lolls a lhuddy stream. The picturesque beauty of the place was extracted when the water ushed out at the gap in the great embankment. When one examines the breach in the dam the feeling is ouo of great surprise. There is none of the lacera'.ion of the edges that one would expect from a vending force, but, on tho contra ry. tho aperture has a symmetry tha' suggests art rather than accident. The middle of the dam lias been scooped out for about two-third3 of its height. The lower portion of this is again cut out, and this latter excavation extends to the bottom of the dam, makinc au opening that affords ample space for the stream now runuing through t. The dam was an embankment of earth faced on both sides with loose stone in tho style called by engineers "riprappiug." It is still "intact for at:out three hundred feet on each side of the gap. On the cast end close to the shore tho dam is grooved by a nier over seventy-live feet wide and about ten feet deep, which vvas the outlet by which the stream below was fed from the lake. Oil the west end of the dam is now a sluiceway about twenty feet wide aud three feet deep. This was hastily dug to relieve the pressure ou the dam, but failed to save it. It so happened that at the time of the flood thero was a civil engineer present in charge of tho construction of a sewer and water works on the club grounds. This gentleman, Mr. John G. Parke, Jr., saw the catastrophe from first to last. Here is ills account of it: "On Thursday night the dam was iu perfect condition and the water was not within seven feet of the top. At that stage the lake is nearly three miles long. It rained very hard Thurs day night. When I got up Friday morning I could see there wa3 a flood, for the water was over the drive in front of the club-house, and tho level of the water in the lake had risen until it was onlv four feet below the top of the dam I rode up to the head of the lake, aud saw that the woods were boiling full of water, f-'outh Fork and Muddv Hun, which emptied into the lake, were fetching down trees, logs, and cut timbor from a saw-mill that was up in the woods in that direction. A plow was run iilou" the top of the «:ani and earth «as thrown iu the face tho dam to strengthen it. At the same t'rne a channel was dug ou the ,vesc end to inako a sluiceway there. There was about three feet of shale rock through which it was possible to out. but then wo struck betook that it was impossible to get into without blasting. "When we got the channel opened the water soon scoured down to the bedrock, and a stream twenty feet wide and three deep rushed out on that end or the daui, wlnle the river was letting out an enormous quantity on the other end Notwithstanding these outlets the water kept rising at the rale of about ten mclies au hour Kv 11 I had made up my inind that it *as impossible to save the dam, and Kettmg on mv horse I galloped down the road to South-ork to wirn the people of their danger. The tele- graph tower is a mile from the town, and I sent two men thero to have messages sent to Johnstown and other points below. I heard that the lady operator tainted wlien aho ha-1 «ent off the news, aud bad to bo cam AI OJI. "Tho break took ilaao at 3 °^°f: about two feet wide at flrfit, aud shallop but XX was doubled. Under this shelter Pr .'Ucomr"°dated the workmen who are "i to clear the streets. Over 5,000 v(iiley 'th^t^fuee sbiiply irresistible. Stones from the dam the liver lied were carried lor miles. lanche choked witu floods, WESTERN CITY BURNED SKATTL.I5, WASHINGTON TKRWTOKY. IN A.'iilK.S. An Cisconlroliultto ConHnffration Wipes Out the 15ns:i:ess fori ion of tlio l*lace« a i.Hilij :i Loss of Some Ifilieen Million Uotiars. it would 'or" taken at once to furnish gangs of work- 1 men,and to-morrow [Seattle (W. T.) dispatch.] The fire \vhi"h wiped the entire busi ness port.on of Seattle out. of existence Thursday afternoon began in a paint shop. An overturned Pnt was the beginning of the difficulty. In a very few seconds the eutirt: buildiag in which the accident occurred v. as in flames. The building was ot' wool and, like most of the others destroy ed,:-tco I upon long piles driven into the tide fiats nlong the l.av, and out into the bay, and two or three big was filled around with sawdust." The s^v-mills and planing-mills on the wind was bio win" almost a cole from tho dnv was wind was blowing almost a Rale from tho north, and blowundor as veil as over and around tho buildmgs. The tiro spread rap dly to the south along the west side of Front street, and, in spita of thO, ef forts of the firemen, gradually worked its way toward the north side. It soon gained such hoadway as to draw im mense crowds to the spot, and many onlookers became wildly excited and mndlv anxious to help the firemen. In an hour from the timo the lire first Vroke out half a dozen square*, some of them covered with the finest buildings in the city, many of brink and stone, four and fi\e stories hiyh, were in flames. Then the stattling discovery was made that the fire had taken its way along among tho piling aud through the saw dust under tho street, aud that the water pipes had burst. Fiotn that moment not -3j*Erl parent that tho Occidental Hotel must go, as well as the most substantial buildiugs iu its neighborhood. By -KLSO o'clock the fire had swept over the best dry-goods stores, and all the banks, telegraph Sees and newspaper offices in the cil and had gone south of Yeslbr avenne, south ot which lay an immense area covered with tet4 ments, lodging houses, cheap hotels, rail road and steam warehouses, wharves, si^v and planing mills and the whole sale district of the town, all built upin piles and sawdust. Here the progress if the fire was terribly rapid. By 8 o'clock the whole area of sixteen squares Ion by from three to six wide, not countin the long piers on which many of thi largest warehouses and mills were built' was involved in flames, which now lit uji the heavens for many miles. From being madly frantic the populace A careful survey of the burned nrp-a shows that sixfy-fiv blocks, each 300 font square, liave been swept clo.in, in all 2ri0 acres. Iu most cases, even whom th» best class oi buildings stoo !, there scarcely enough debris left to be in the w.iy of those who como to rebuild. It will 1'iobably 5i'),ilOD au ucre to put in ire piling mid fill aronnd it ngaiu as this work should bo done to lay a I'oundation for the new city. [Jut it will be dono as soon as the ground is cool euougu lor workmen to begin operations. Many hold ers ot property will undoubtedly be com pelled to sell hi'If or more of what they hold in order that they may be able to get upon their feet ai/r.in. About Sfiy petty thieves were arrested and taken to the lockup, where thoy were well taken care of and will be properly punished. The coal bunkers, extending wh'ln'es SEATTLE—VIEW FBOM THE HARBOR. a drop of water could be had to put upon Jacob Furth, Angus Mackintosh, Judge the fire, and the citizens resigned them- C. H. Hauford, and ex-Governor Watson selves to see tho city blotted out. The fire C. Squire. Each spoke in terms leaped across Front street at Madison and of encouragement and praise for caught in the new Opera House, and in Seattle's business community anl wijs half an hour laid an entire squate across loudly applauded. A committee of five Front street .in nshes. It was thtn np- ras appointed to confer with the city an thoiities concerning the subject of widen ing the streets. Another commission of live was appointed to receive donations and extend relief where found neces sary. All companies of the First Regi ment are out gua ding damaged proper ty and preventing the pilfering of mer. chandise or house furnishings. The city is quiet and everybody is hopeful. Gov ernor Miles C. Moore has just issued a proclamation in which he says: "The city of Seattle is in ashes. A hur ricane of fire swept over the queenly city and she is in ruins. Thousands of her citizens are without food or shelter, but nothing cau subdue tho spirit of her peo ple. She will rise again. In her desola tion she is not a supplicant, but there are homeless people to bo sheltered and hun gry ones to be fed. I appeal to the great hearted people of our Territory, who have recently so generously responded to the rum ueing uiuuiy irunuc me popuiitceu recently so generously responuea to me had become apparently resigned to the^cry of distress from Johnstown, to heed situation, and nearly everybody saw that he could do nothing to quench the fire, and coolly turned his attention to saving as much as posible of portable property. The three companies of militia belong ing to the city were called out and put on guard around the limits of the fire. Two or three hundred special policemen were sworn iu to help t'nom maintain order, which they found little difficulty in doing. The burnt-out residents of the tenement house district managed to save a good many of their goods, aud with them they camped down in the streets on vacant lots, or in the door-yards of more fortu nate people and made themselves as comfortable a-- possible for the night. Dispatches which had been sent to Ta coma, Olynipia, and Port Townsend brought in some fire apparatus, and many willing hands to help fight the flames, but when they arrived they found that noth ing could be done except patrol the streets and protect the thousands of dol lars' worth of property that was exposed. This they did, finding* little to do, how ever, except to keep in order the crowds of sight-seers which all night long surged through the burned region. All estimates of the loss, of course, vary widely. Nobody puts it at less than $10, 000,600, and some rate it ns high as $20, 000,000. Among the institutions and firms burned out were five banks, three theaters, eight agricultural implement warehouses, eight iron and machine shops, four newspapers, four large job printing offices aud binderies, seven commission firms, five drug stores, two of them wholesale, nineteen dry goods, boot and shoe stores, six wholesale deal ers in cigars and confectionery, twelve .furniture dealers, three dealers in general merchandise, twenty-one groceries, the best hotel in the city, and at least ten other hotels aud lodging houses, one hundred and sixty saloons, four livery stables, forty meat mar kets, sixteen clothing and furnishing houses, three laundries, four paint and oil dealers, five dealers in musical instru ments, the Western Union and Postal Telegraph office, the American District Lake Shore & Eastern Railway Company, Z°°l pany except one, a large, new one that is hardly yet completed. The streets of tl burnt section this morning were filled with fallen walls, columns, and charred telegraph poles, twisted and tangled wires, and bent street railway rails. There was also a vast amount of furniture, trunks, and hun dreds of safes rescued front the burning offices, all of which stood in the open street all night long, with nobody offer ing to molest them. The bunk vaults have been examined, and found to be all right. None of them have been opened yet, but there is every indication that they have carried lheir contents through the burning trial in safety. The peo ple of Seattle are bearing their g'reat foss philosophically, and more than one man who has suttered said to-day that he was glad the fire had swept out of exist ence a lot of worthless buildings which were bringing enormous rents, and which never would be torn down so long as tbey could be rented. Now that they had been destroyed, new biick or stone buildiugs would be built, and Seattle would go to the front faster than it has ever hoped to do heretofore. There is also another cause of satisfaction—tha Clrnese quarter was utterly blotted out. made mayuiiicent spectacles all wharves made maguiiicent spectacles night. Already workmen have begun in many places to grade arid clean up the lots pre paratory to rebuilding. Many merchants nave secured quarters in the residence portion of the city, and wore open this morning with remnants of stock from the fire. The people have decided to re build the city with brick aud stone. This decision wns reached quickly and almost unanimously at a meeting held this moruing. The meting was large ly attended. Various commissioners were appointed. Not a single despondent face was seen, and no one not aware of the facts would have im qined that the assembly was held iu the midst of a calamity. The air of cheerful earnest ness was surprising. The meeting was sdilfessfed by Governor E. P. Ferry, this appeal for aid for their ov.n suffer lag fellow-citizens." i:iegrap£ office?and tCe tel^onr offi^ see the wool product of America all the warehouses of the Columbia and exoetd tlie Puget Sound Steamship Company, three of the O. R. & N. Company, the Seattle, NO HE TROUBLE IN SA3I0A. Th« lltvul Chiefs Organize Their Forces mid Things Look Serious. S DXEY, New South Wales, June 9 .— The German steamer Lubeck has arrived here from the Samoan Islands. She sailed front Apia bay May 21. Shj brings news that owing to the ex pected arrival of the Sophie and the com ing oE the other German cruisers the war spirit was manifesting itself again among tho natives. Mataafa had gathered to gether JJ.OOO of his men near Apia and Tumasese was encamped at Atna with 3,000. There was no war-ship in the har bor of Apia and the natives were conse quently under no restraint. Moreover, nothing had been heard there of the pro gress of the negotiations at Berlin and the foreign residents were uneasy. WON THE OAKS. I.ord Randolph Churchill's Horse tJnex pecteily Carrie* OfT the Roiiors. EPSOM DOWNS, June 9.—The Oaks was won by Lord Randolph Churchill's black filly, L'Abbesse de Jouarre, Mr. Vyner's Miuthe second, and Seclusion third. The Oaks had a fine field of twelve start ers and was a very exciting race. The re sult was a genuine surprise, L'Abbesse de Jouarre was most heartily cheered, as much for iier owner's sake as for herself. Miuthe, who came in second, was the fav orite in the betting, and Seclusion (third) had hardly been heard of. W»ul*tirow«ri( PH#H is a K«*otutiom GALVESTON, Texas, June 9.—The Texas Wool association has passed the following resolution: "Resolved, That we commend the action of the Secretary of the Treasury in his recent rulings on waste, and do most emphatically urge upon him the import ance of a careful discrimination of all such as may be imported for :wool manufacturers' uses. We ot b.ut as 0UI,nl.a°" Io,1S °s ,hese tlons of fraudulent ""P w°o1 a'e permitted, or clothing all°wed cora?"? the Canadian Pacific Dock, and all the "Nation of carpet wool, it will be almost warehouses of the Northern Pacific Com- a "n^f' matter of impossibility for tne growei in this country to command sue a a price for his product as will justify the speedy de velopment of the wool Industry in the United States." The ur»erymen Ailjourn. CHICAGO, June 9.—The national con vention of nurserymen has adjourned. Officers were selected for the ensuing year as follows: President, George A Sweet of Dansville, N. Y.: first vice-president, o^-:.a"ri0ns topiei G. J. Carpenter, Fairtury, Neb. secretary Chrrles A. Green, Rochester, N. Y. treasurer, A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove, 111. executive committee, Leo Weltz, Wilmington, Ohio, S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., and S. M. Emery, Lake City, the convention Alter the reading of a number of adjourned to meet next year in New York city. THERE is no luck in literary repu tation. They who make up the final verdict nuon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour wlien it appears: but a court of angels, a public not to bo bribed, not to be en treated, and not to be overawed. SICK ducks never go to a quack. vTi VERDICT ANNOUNCED. THIS KN'1 r.KAf:2IKt» IN THE RON IN I.N»lU8:-iT. lexandor Sullivan,, Dotentivo Coiishllii, (reman O'.Millivan, :ml Flunk Womlruil' HoM lor tho Murder Tlio Conspiracy I)enuum'Ml—Arrest in" Lawyer Sullivan. A Chicago dispatch of the l'2th Lnst. says: The labors of the coronor's jury in the onin inquest are over and a verdict has been rendered. The only persons named in veniict as being responsible are: Alex ander Sullivan, Daniel Coughlin, P. Q'Sul livan, aud Frank Woodruff. While the jury bolieve other persons had a hand in the crime, their identity has not been sufficiently disclosed in the evi dence presented to justify thein in being named for arrest. The following is the verdict of the jury: 'Stste of Illinois, Cook county, ss.: An inquisition was taken for the people of the State of Illinois at the county building in the city of Chicago, in said county of Cook, on the 2od, 3Sth, and 2!)th days of May, and the 3d, 4th, "ith, titli, ith, 8th, 10th, and 11th days of June, A. D. 1 S8S, before me, Henry L. Hertz, coroner in and for said county, upon vie.v of the body of Patrick H. Croniu, then aud thero lying dead, upon the oaths of six good and law ful men of said county, who, bein^ duly sworn to inquire on the part of the people of the State of Illinois into all the circum stances attending the death of the said Patrick H. Cronin, and by wh ni the same was produced, and in what manner and when and where th- said Patrick H. Cronin came to his death, do say, upon their oaths, as aforesaid, that the said Patrick H. Cronin, now lying dead in said county of Cook, State of Illinois, came to his death on the 4th day of May, A. D. 1^89. We find: "1. That the body is that of Patrick H. Cronin, known as Cronin. That his death was not from natural causes, but from violent m?ans. "!?. Teat the said Patrbk H. Cronin was decoyed from his home on No.th Clark str, et on the evening of May 4, 1889, by some person or i-orsons, to the cottage known as the 'Catlsin cottage,' situated at 1872 N A a ALEXANDER SULLI- avenue, in Lake View, VAN. Cook county, 111. "4. That at said cottage the said Cronin was murdered by being beaten on the* heal with some blunt instrument or in struments in the hands of some person or persons to us unknown, on tha night of said May 4, or between May 4 and May 5, 1S8:. "5. That the body after said murder was committed was placed in a trunk and carried toEd ?ewater on a wagon by sev eral persons and by them placed in a catch-basin at the corner of Evanston avenue and Fifty ninth street In Lake View, where it was discovered May 2!, 188D. "(. That the evi dence shows conclu- DAN COUGHLIN. sively to our minds that a plot or conspiracy was formed by a number of persons for the purpose of murdering the said Cronin and concealing his body, and that said plot or conspiracy was deliberately con trived and duiy executed. "7. We have carefully inquired into the relations sustained by said Cronin to other persons, while a ive, to ascertain if he had any quarrels or enmities with any persons sufficient to cause his murder. 'V. It is our judg ment that no other person or persons, ex cept some of those who are or had been mem bers of a certain secret society known as the 1 FRANX WOODRUFF United Brotherhood or 'Clan-na-Gael,' had any cause to be the instigator or executors of such plot or con spiracy to murder the said Cronin. •'We further state that this plot or con spiracy in its conception aud execution is one of the most foul and brutal that has ever come to our knowledge, and we recommend that the proper authorities 'or a large reward for the discovery and conviction of all of those engaged in it ill any way. "We furthor state that in our judgment all se: ret societies whose objects are such as the evidence shows that of the 'Clan-na Gael' or United Brotherhood to be are not iu harmony with autl are injurious to American institutions. '•We iiope that future vigor and vigil ance by tlie police force will be more than compensate for past neglect by a portion of tho force. "!'. Mai'y of the witnesses testifying in the case have done so witli mucii evident unwillingness, and, as we believe, with much mental reservation. We find from tlie evidencj that a number of persons were parties to this plot or conspiracy to murder the said Cronin, and that Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan, Alexander Sullivan and one Woodruff, alias Black, were either principals, accessories, or had guilty knowledge of said plot or con spiracy to murder said Cronin and conceal liis body, aud should be held to answer to the grand ry. '•We also believe that other persons were engaged in this plot or had guilty knowledge of it and shoull be apprehend ed and held to the grand jury. "In testimony whereof tho said coroner and the jury of this inquest have hereunto set their" hands the day and year afore said. "R. S. CitnvHELt, VICTOR U. SUTTER. "Foreman, J. H. VAN HAL'SEN. "RUDOLPH SEIKKKT. JUSTUS KILIAN. "H. A. HAUGAN. "HENBY A. HERTZ, Coroner." The jury went out at 4:M0 o'clock and gave its verdict at 10 :30. The members of the jury declined to say what kept them so long, or why a number of persons who 'were compromised by the testimony were not held to the grand jury. The prepara tion of their verdict took mrst of their time, no doubt, and some discussion of the culpability of the lesser persons in the conspiracy took the remainder of the six hours they were in session. While waiting for the verdict three or four demit coroners were busy writing mittimuses and at least a dozen were pre pared. This created the suspicion that a large number of arrests would be made, and the appearance of two or threa dep uty sheriffs and seven detectives seemed to warrant the presumption. Coroner Hertz and State's Attorney Longenecker sat in the outer office during the long session and Sheriff Matson came in a short time. Shortly after 10 o'clock a platoon of de tectives appeared, and it was evident that the jury was about tc conclude its labors. Lieut. Schuttlcr was at the-head of the file of officers, in which were Detectives Arn stein, Palmer, Miller, Hedrick, Williams, Broderick, and McDonald The mittimus for the arrest of Alexander Sullivan was handed to- Detective Harry Palmer, and the other officers followed niin out of'tho building. Coroner Hertz read the verdict. The jury waited in the room, but no one had a word to say. State's Attorney Longe necker and Lieut. Schuttler remained and listened to the reading of the document. Mr. Longenecker said that no one ex cept Alexander Sullivan would be arrested, but it was supposed that a number of per sons would be recommended as worthy of the attention of the grand jury. When the coroner reached that portion of the verdict which ought to. have named the THE CORONER'S JURY. conspirators some expressions of disap pointment were heard. The recommenda tions of the document created no surprise, as the arrest of Alexander Sullivan has been one of the foregone conclusions in the case for several days. Alexander Sullivan was locked up in the Cook county jail at ]0:'!0 o'clock Tuesday night. He stood tue ordeal of arrest with wonderful calmness and an admirable exhibit of nerve. Once before in his life he had gone behind the same bars on the charge of murder. The detectives who had been given the mittimus took a carriage to Mr. Sullivan's residence on Oak street. The house was in total darkness, but on the stoops all aroi.nd it and across the way were gather ings of families out to enjoy the pleasant night's air. The detectives having rung the bell, a light glimmered from the inside arid the front door was partially opened. "Well?'' asked a voice from the inside. "Is Mr. Sullivan at home?" "He is, but he is in bed," said the owner of tho voiee, who proved to be Sullivan's confidential clerk. "Tell him I would like to see him," said Detective Palmer. The officers were admitted and Mr. Sulli van soon made his appearau.e in his own parlors, where he bade a hearty good evening to his visitors. Mr. Sullivan was neatly dressed in a business suit. He was as cool as an iceberg when Palmer stated that he had como to arrest him in connec tion with the Cronin murder. The detective read the mittimus intrusted to him by the coroner and then told Mr. Sullivan to make ready to follow him. Sullivan made an earnest requost that he be permitted to remain over night a captive in his own home, but this was re fused. "I give you credit, Mr. Sullivan, for being a very COJI man," said the detec tive. "Well," said Mr. Sullivan, "a man with a clear conscience need never worry, and I know of no wrong I have done. Then hedoune.l his overcoat and hat and led his captors from the house. Just as he was ready to leave, a woman appeared at the head of the stairs loading to the base ment. It was his old housekeeper, who wus in a state of great trepidation. Mr. Sullivan hastened over to her, and after saying a few words kis ed her good-by. A short drive brought the party to the jail ani soon Alexander Suilivan, ex president of the Land League, was an oc cupant of cell 25, murderers' row of the Cook county jail. The most damaging evidence against Alexander Sullivan given before the cor oner's jufy was that of J. D. Haggerty. He was asked "Do you know Alexander Sullivan?" "I do." "What did he say to you, if anything, about Dr. Cronin?" "It was on the night of the trial of Dr. Cronin for treason at camp 96. I was walking home with Alexauder Sullivan on the east of LaSalle street, and Mr. Sulli van, speaking of Dr. Cronin said he was a scoundrel aud was a menace to the Irish cause, and it would bo well for the Irish cause if it were rid of him. From all ho said I agreed with liira, and I gathered the impression that Cronin should be re moved." "What impression did the talk make on you?" "I thought that Mr. Sullivan knew that Cronin was not fit to associate with us." "What else was said?" "Well, just about that time a circular was sent out to members of the order, say ing that several hundred Scotland yard detectives had been sent over here to in vestigate the doinga of the Irish revo lutionists in this country, and the members were on the qui vive for traitors or for those who might be willing to sell the secrets of those who were to elevate our race and were engaged in a noble c.iuse. The feeling was very bitter among us aud the life of any man suspected of being a spy would be in great danger. I must say I agreed in these sentiments. I thought that any man who could be baso enough to betray the secrets of the order was vile. I coincided with Mr. Sullivau that these people should bo exterminated." "Was this sentiment expressed to others?'' "I presume it was. Tim Crain, the district officer who was scattering this in formation from man to man. could have tjld hundreds. Crain also spoke the same as Sullivan. The name of traitor rouses before an Irishman's mental vision a very vengeful idea, 1 can assure you. The Irish know what it is to suffer from in f. rmers, aud they have but little mercy on them." "Give Sullivan's exact words.'' "I would like to, but my memory fails me as to the exact words. The substance of it was that Cronin was dangerous to the Irish cause and should be removed from our ranks, ono way or another." Why He Didn't Hear It. They are laughing over a blunder of a United States examining surgeon up in Caribou. He was examining for deafness an applicant for a pension, and to test the man's left ear held a watch at some distance and asked him if he could hear it tick. The answer was "No," and the same reply was given to repeated questions as the watch was brought nearer. "Put him down totally deaf iu left ear," the sur geon said, and holding the watch away from the man's right ear, the same question was asked. To his surprise, the answer was the same. It then oc curred to the surgeon to examine liia watch, and he found that it had stopped. The examination was begun, all over again.—Leav-ton Journal. MW». &iV -,f I iV, it in 1.V ill f* Ji