The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-27
CR0NIN'S BIG FUNERAL.
CLAIM THAT 7,17o MEN WERE
IN THE PROGRESSION.

isb civic and Military Organizations
Ont in Full Force-The Services in
the Church without a Sensational
Incidental Monster Train Carries
the People to the Cemetery.
Cu1CAGo, May 26-The funeral OF DR..
Cronin to-day was most remarkable affair.
The corpse has beer lying in state in the Cal
vary armory on the Lake front, and there
earlv this morning the morbid and curious,
with the dead mans friends, made their pill
,.imace. Armed sentries from the
Gibernian Rifles stood arms at rest
at each corner of the raised plat
form on which reposed the catafalQue
and coffin. A crayon portrait of the dead
man. draped in black, stood near the coffin.
leaving the armory, the casket was placed
in bearse, drawn by four black horses,
and a procession was formed. At its head
vas platoon Of police, and Marshal
Iahill and his aides A drum corps pre-
caGa1 the Hibernian Rifles, with arms re-
vfr,ed. ana the4 the cortege with its hearse
in a pauoplv of black and guard Of honor
from the r. fes Next came the pail bearers,
tbe Clan-ua-GaeI Guards in grey uniform
Rank of the Royal Arcanum in its olive
colored suits and thousa ds of members of
the Ancient Order of United WOrkmen
without unif rms. Next came the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians, 1000 troHg; severa!
courts of the Independent Order of FOres-
ters ]. 200 in all, and ,, 700 Catholic F res
ters were in line. The Loyal League,
Sheridan Rifles, the Catholic Benevolent
Iegion ami fragments Of q number of other
orders filed the line.
7,170 MEN IN LINE
Marshal Cahill said that ,170 men were
in the procession. The procession was thir-
tv-ive minutes passing the corner of Ildi-
a1a and Rush streets, four abreast. Four
hands and half dozen drum corps played
dirgas or m arked the slow time of the fu-
neral march Sc res of furled fl g5 draped
il black aud society banners, edged with
Grape. we're car. led by standard be RES.
Reaching the cathedral OF the Holy Name,
an immense crowd was encOun-
tered Tie vast edi6ce was packed tvu
hours before the ceremonies begal. The
sDace reserved for marching societies was
mad Quate for half of tneir members.
Nearly oue-half of the church was reserved
for tuem. Only the escort Hiberniaa
Rifles and detacnments representing the
different soc cites entered The cathedral.
SChmdt's requiem mass was sung
funeral The sermon was by Rev. Father
Muld0on, WHO spoke If the deceasAd's gen
erous nature, and said he died dol an
errand of mercy The friends of DR.. Cronin,
it is SAID, asked that the preacher pronounc
against the methods of assassination by
which the ctor was killed, but the
preacher feared such a course might create
public sentiment that would not be benef-
cia The procession N we'd from the church
tot railroad station through great crowds.
Thirtv-six ca were filed with the crowd
going to the cemeter and many others
went IN carriages There were no ceremo-
MES at he vault.
A FORMER PHILADELPHIAN IN LIMBO.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, day 26.-Tbe Rec
ord tO-m0 row VIII say:
Peter McGeehau, who mysteriously dis
appeared from this city three mouths ago
and wa next heard Of in Chicago, where,
it is legged he threatened the life of Dir.
CrUAlu, was arrested in that city yesterday
The arrest of III cGeehan is thou ht
to foIeshadow other arrests, because
ii is known that he las Teen
under the surveillance of Pinkerton detac-
tlves ever since the disappearance of Dr.
Cronin on May 4. Though lie was con-
stantly snadowed, it was dee ued wis9 not
to arrest lim uitil other imp rta1t evi-
ueIce was obtained to demonstrate how far
-~i4t'iN vs. el9 Llc CJtlSP SPli tAGJ Ni4lCil LdI IOI
lis o. jcet the murder Of D.. Cronin. TIE
arrest OF McGeeha Is lnte preted in local
CIau-Na-Gael circles to mean at the net Is
being draw in by the de ecuves and that
It will eventually land all participants N
the foul crime
ANOTHER ARREST.
Another arrest has been made in connec-
ton with the Cronin murder, the man
King described by Prisoner Woodruff as
the er5on VIII hired hi / TO steal a horse
ou5 OF Deans barn on the night Of DR..
Croalu's d appearance. He was captured
at 2 o'clock this morning in a house of i'll
! fame