Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-22
Letter From Illinois.


Mr.. Editor, more than two
months the city of Chicago has been
in an intense fever of excitement.
First came the centennial of the re-
public, celebrated as Chicago knows
how, on the grandest scale, and 1t
NAV be added, after a most worthy
manner, the one aim being to pro-
mote patriotism. One beautiful
feature was the giving Of medal to
every scholar in the public schools of
Cook County. Over two hundred
thousand were required. They were
presented by the Union League Club
of Chicago. In this connection, it
NAV be of interest to mention the
patriotic action of the board of edu-
cation. Every school was presented
with a fine sixteen-foot flag, and a
staff having been placed on the school
building, the scholars take great
pride in having the stars and stripes
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run up on all public occasions. The
Chicago Daily Neaos also is worthy
of notice for it's work in behalf of
patriotism among the school children.
One hundred and seventy-one gold,
silver and bronze medals-the gift of
the DAILY NeaUs-were recently award
ed to the school children for the best
essays on some patriotic subject. The
benefit of such methods of awaken
ing love of country among the rising
generation can not be over-estimated.
But the sch-r-r-r-h of the sky rock
ct had scarcely passed, or the voice
of oratory died away, and the pro-
fuse decorations of bunting been
taken down, when the mysterious and
brutal murder of DR.. P. III. Cronin
startled, not only Chicago, but the
nation, and it was seen that efforts
in behalf of patriotism came none too
soon.
DIR. Cronin was a member of the
National Irish Society, known rs the
United Brotherhood or Clan-na-gael.
Large sums of money have been rails
ed in this country for the Irish cause,
and DR.. Cronin had charged that over
$4,000 of it had been diverted to
the personal use of the leaders-no-
tably Alexander Sullivan and he
proposed to lay his evidence before
the next national meeting. On the
evening of May 4th, he was called
for by a stranger to attend man
who had been badly hurt. A card
was presented from a man with whom
the DR.. Lad an annual contract. BY
the stranger he was driven away, and
nothing more was seen or heard OF
him for three weeks, when his body
/, was found about eight miles out from
the center of the city,in sewer. The
body was fully identified as that OF
DR.. Cronin. The police subsequent
ly found a lonely cottage in which
the murder had been committed. The
body had been carried away in &
trunk. The trunk was found, and II
the cottage, smeared with blood, wa:
found the key to the trunk. The
man who drove the trunk and it.
bloody contents to the man-hole il
the sewer was arrested, and confess
ed to that part of the bloody deed
, but claims not to know who hiret
, him, or who went with him on tina
night journey. The stranger wh'
. called for DIR. Cronin drove a whit
horse that has been fully identified
, and it was discovered that numbe
of the police force-Detective Cough
: lin, member also of the Clan na
! gael-ordered the horse for the strar
f gers use He has been arrested an
indicted. Five others have also bee
indicted. The developments so fs
fully indicate that DR.. Cronin we
e. murdered by members of the Clal
3 3 na-gael. just who conceived tt
murder, or who and how many WEI
, in the plot for the doctors remova
ly is yet mystery. Enough, howeve
r has been discovered to show tn
.. under the cover of American citize
e. ship, secret waif are is being pros
ng cuted against a country with whi,
he this republic is at peace, and that Il
methods of warfare are none 9th