The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-28
ILLINOIS.
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Journal.
CHICAGO, October 2G.-The Supreme
Court Of Illinois at Ottawa, Yesterday,
entered a rule against the proprietors 6f
thc chicago EreHtHg JOrHdl recurring
them to show cause why they should NOT
be committed for contempt, for the recent
publication Of an article CriticisInr thr
action OF the court in granting writ OF
suspension in the case Of Rafferty,, under
sentence Of death for the murder Of no
liceman O'Meara. Justices Breeze, Scott
any Shelion. dissent from the majority OF
the court.
DROWNED IS a MILL rOSD.
AT Aurora, Illinois, yesterday, NJ. b.
Slattingly, assistant editor Of the Aurora
Herald, was seized with tit OF apOplexy
while walking along the bank Gl a mill
race, and falling on his iacc in the water
WAS drowned, though the water in the
race was not over iODi deep. Mr.,
Mattingly was recently from Plymouth,
Indiana.
BALLOON ACCIDENT.
4 fearful balloon accident happened A,
Dekalb, Illinois, yesterday. A pcriIa'rtic
areonaut had balloon ready 10 ascend
when, before he had entered the car, II
broke loose and flew upward. \ haugiu.
rope caught around the leg Of man
named McAlsnn and carried him IN with
i TO the height Ofabout one hundred feet.
lie managed to climb into the basket. but
when the balloon had reached distance
OF four hundred feet from the earth, he de
llOerately Jumped out and was picked up
dead.
AlItESTED,FOR MURDER.
Sheriff OsgoOi of Windham county,.
Connecticut, arrested here To day Fred.
erick McMullcn who. last September
killed Peter Morgan at Putnam, Connect.
icut, ina drunken brawl
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The Sunday liquor
law was not so well observed to-day as
IN last Sunday, majority of the beer 81.
looms in all parts Of the city being open.
and in the north division nearly all were
open all day. Yesterday committee
appointed by mass meeting Of the
the Germans had the night before, in Oh.
position to the enforcement of the law.
called on Mayor Mcdill and presented
the resolutions passed by the meeting re.
qucSting the Mayor to suspend the en-.
enforcement OF the ordinance until new
city council selected. The MayOriA reply
to the committee, said that he had no dis
erection in the matter Of enforcing the
law, that so long rs this ordinance was
unrepealed his duty was plain; and with.
out expressing an opinion us to It's prOpri.
city, he could not swGrvC from the course
he had laid out for himself in this matter.
lie did not propose 10 enforce the law
harshly by the arrest Of the offenders, but
would have them before the courts upon
summon and leave the matter there. The
Mayor also replied 10 the address OF the
temperance men, insisting that he should
enforce the ordinance by the arrest Of the
guilty parties and tOrCibly closing their
places. lie informed the committee that
he should continue to act in accordance
with his understanding Of the law and
his convictions of official duty, Eand re.
specially declined 80 be instructed or
commanded by unofficial individuals IN
relation thereto.
Louis A, Kormcndy, the well known
proprietor Of the kOrmendy Gymnasium.
shot himsclfin in the head early this morn
iDg'Ssat the Briggs House, inillcting ii.
wound which it is believed will prove
htel. lie has been partially insane for
some time past