, 1874-03-31
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Speeial Dispatch 10 Tho Chicago Tribune.

Speeias Dispatch 10 The Eaicaao Tribune. ::
EIaIN, Ill.,, March 30.---Agonquin iB tho MT
Of small town located upon the Fox Rivor Div.
aion of tho g. j. N. ". Railway, IL milcs north
Of Elgin. It is pleasantly located among tho;
bluffs, which border tho Fox River, and las OF
late been ono Of the largest shipping points for
milk upon tho railway, as the country lying
around is woll adapted to tho dairy business.
The farmers aro sturdy, well-to-do set of men.
1t bus occurred to Aon,e OF thom Of late that q
well-regulated cheoBo factory located in the.
,"city" would tond to incrctse their ahekels and
nfIord .nr.let for tec;r milk, In. fu,7
theranco Of this plan they salHctod p1ltvu uEvt~
pLuMBLE1GU FARM,
where blbbled from the ground very f1no
spring. For years this spring had boon covered
with rank growth Of willows and long grass,
down, SO that cattle could haye acccss to the
spring. The cattle had tramped tile ground up
thoroughly for some dinsnnco around, 90 that
quito a Hwam]-hole had been formed. On Sat-
to work
CLEAN OUT THE SPRING,
and fit it fo1 ao III tho proposed cheese factory.
Whom tloy Ind dug down about ID inches. tho
shovel Of one brought up piece of bono, which,
upon examination, proved to bo tho jaw-bone OF
a human being. Search and caro- were at once
exercised, and in an hour or Two parts of the
SKELETONS OF SIX GROWN PERSONS
and child, apparently about years OF age,
wero oxhumoa. These bones were moro or lesa
shattered as the cattlo hnd trod through them
in search for water. As far as possible tho
skeletons were reconstructed, and arc nov to be
accu there. This iB D mystory beyond doubt, at
loast for the present. Tho explanation Of it can
only DO assumed to great extcnt, and pieced
out from detached poItionsof oldlogends, acraps
Of which hang around tho freBidcs OF old resi-
dents.
ISome Twenty-Five or thirty years ago Algon-
uuiu did not boar ns good name rs it does at
present. The quietncss and retiracy that il ncc-
essary for tic working out Of evil, rumor says,
nude tho llau1let d home for
a NEST OF couSTEnFE1TEE9,
who thoro contaminated their plans for the ex-
pnnson Of tho currency, and from those hidden
retreats flowed good stream Of the currency
then in vogue. Tho United States Marshal Of
this district WAS instructed to break up the nest,
and aftor a long Roarch found 1t at Algonquin,
n1ld soon tho industrious chevaliers wore thrown
upon tho cold churitios OF the world, and their
Of tho gang had betrayed their follows and the
more desperate OF the crowd, aacertainiug the
fact,
MURDERED THE ThA1rons,
md buried them near tho house occupied b., tho
criminals. No search WAS made IT. those days
upon rulnor, and tho lawloss gang were soon
forgotten, and their memory has boon blotted
out, until this sudden aud unexpected rosurrcc-
tion las retouchcu tho sccnos of tho past with O
gnnstly light.
ANOTHER THEORY
ia thai tho remains found wore those of rail-
road laborers engaged iu the construction Of tho
Fox Rivor Roatl. Wbilo tho road was building
many a lard olan-hght was Witnessed, and at
various timos men wore killed, and some Bur-
misc TINT in Il moro severe row than common
lnlf-dozan victims woro laid upon the altar Of
sectional animosity, and tho perpetrators, fcar-
ing thut such Wholesale slaughter would cause
investigation,
BURIED THEIR VICTIMS
in the soft, Bpongy soil in aud around tho
spring.
There arc one or two mol living there now,
Judging by cas,1nl remarks nude since the bones
ware found, who soom to linvo SOME knowledge
of those early mattors. ind who, it they choose
to- could throw aomo light upon them.
Tho town is all alive with excitement, and tho
people heom determined to ferret out the mys-
tory Careful Hearch las not resultod iu ii1iding
traoe Of any article to Indicate who tho parties
wore, or
now THEY DlED, OF WHEN.
Like mauy mysteries Which arc inscribed in tic
legends Of tho earlier 'ayH ot Northern Illinois,
wien dosporadoca, who dolcd tho alow and un-
certain piogross Of JUSTICE expiated t1oir crimes
j.. by a short thrift ut the hnnds OF outraged
people, this will probably bo only fully solved at
! the lust day.