River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-19
"a FAMILY VINO XIII.
lChicngo Times. Dec. IL


The Canncns care of family in whose
veins there Rurgles nothing but bad and
mischieyous hlord, They live on the North
SIDE, at No. "a East Erie street, in a dingy
and villsinoUs looking building, which is
uumerously inhabited by rats, lice, dirty
children, and crowd of tenants who bIear
Ut respectable looking person suspciously.
The missionary has never put his feet across
ihe threshold of that place, or if he has the
bedlam within drove him away. The Can
non family consisted of the mother, whose
age is p st the haif-century mark; John,
the elder son, aged 81 years,
and Tom. whose age ia 10.
They al. drink, at the most of the swillinq
has been done by John and his mother. The
result OF feud between these two on yester-
day morning g. O'Clock is an awful warn
ing, and is AZ strong an instance Of the total
deprayity which shadows igno anee and i'm
temperance rs was ever traced upon the
criminal page. Joan hsd been out all night,
spreeing wherever he could deadbeat a drink
or bully il. He was traced along Chicago
avenue, on Kinzie street. aud about a half
hour before ne struck his mother he was
seen roeling like a storm tossed vessel toward
the howell which had nothing in Il TO signify
home, but which, nevertheless, was the only
haven ne had when everybody else had
kicked him out. He staggered in. In a half
hour after 2 woman screamed. Her youL ger
son, Tom, awoke and anne into / n
room. On lilo left side a. L,- neck wore
three long gajhes, from each % which the
life-blood was spurting. causing her 70 pre-
sent borritying picture. Tom alarmed
neighboT, VINO vent for physicians. He told
them his mother had attempted to commit
suicide. Bat the OLD woman raised her
~
there eargltd denial OF TOMS lie. Then
Tom said be had heard his mother and John
( in an angry dispute, but he could not or
would not tell the nature Of A Times re
f porter questioned the cray haired old wo-
( man, but, with some maternal instinct still
left in her, she, too, denied the cause, and
I only gave John away by saying oh, John.
/ why did yol do thiss'
The eashes were stitched, and the old
form, marked by dissipation and care, and
perhaps trouble, laid back upon black and
/ uninvDing place OF rest, while Tom sat be
side her with his hands folded his eyes fixed,
ard ntrange and incomprehensible express
sion upon bis hardy fEce. John hft
as soon as he had done his inhuman job. He
was seen to cross the Chicago avenue bridge
about $50 O'Clock A. NJ, going west.
He il not a stranger 10 the dark things OF
E tlt. HIS aSaJcAdAAt2lS WeEt buCtt ds aAltA1N
into crime and seethed and fretted for
trouble. lie was q companion Of Mike Mad
\ den, the thug. lie was with Madden last
I July when they both assaulted and cut, al
( most to Geatl, william Baruth. a saloon
4 keeper, on the corner Of Illinois and Wells
4 streets. Otlcer Bowen afterward attempted
10 arrest Madden, and only oyerpowered
the assassin and thug by put
+ ting a death-shot into his heart
( John Cannon was arrested twelve years ago
and selii 10 Joliet for burglary. He came
out after serving his time and has worked
( along the docks as a wheeler for a liyeli-
4 hood, when not engaged in smuggling and
holding up peaceable and inofensive citi-
4 zens. Last summer be fell from rum IN
4 a coal gard and broke his leg and still goes
q on crutches. Ills brother Billy, now dead,
Il led hin9 in the crooked way. He was thief
I and slugeer. lie was arrested for bur
giary. sent down, fell into consumption
y and ditSi 81 a convict's suit. Tom is said
y to ba the only one Of the tribe who affects
+ honestly probably because he has be
4 come ashamed Of the carnival Or dissipation
!; and he'll which seems 20 perade the place
4 they have for home. John has a girl living
z on Halsted street near the viaduct, who IL
f his corlpanion ut s'shindigs" and in dissipa-
ton. II il supposed that she is secreting
I hin somewhere. Capt. Gund and his lieu.
/, tenautA are upon his track. They say the
/: family is notoIiously dissipated and exceed
ingiy guaTTeisoms, tne pests Of the neighbor-
hood N watch they live. The physicians
ssY tie mOlber cannot Tvs.