Daily Republican., 1890-06-28
OUTRAGE IN FLORIDA
oouous AND pEsPERApoEs
in THEIR ELEMGNT.
,,.... I,cat IN Chicago-Forty Cases
.f sunstroks-Peopie Dropping
Do,a In tho Interior Of ILL.,
uois-A Priest Cleans
out u Saloon.

J.spER Fla, June 1.-Great excite-
usnt exists In this (Ilsmiitonl county
over the srrest Of Postmaster Morrison
=, Waite Springs on an Indictment
seyersl years old.
Morrison has been brutally abused
and ill.treated ever since he accepted tho
office, aud but lately returned from
Washington, whore he had made COM
plaiut against his Democratic peiahbors
Tor their treatment OF him. On his
trr.yal home the sheriff oi the county
arrested him snd brought him here,
wlere he still 10.
All bail is refused and their aim 10
evidently to keep Morrison In Jail, 30
tbs, he cannot tulfll the functions OF
tbs postofilce.
The arrest 10 based ON an old indict-
nent charging Morrison with conn
rounding q felony, because be accepted
i3U from . man who once shot at him
Lot to prosecute.
The best element greatly daprecate
this tight, hut tho foughs and despera-
does are In their element and swear they
will lynch Morrison before he shall act
as postmaster.
INTENSE HEAT IN CHICAGO.
CmcAso, June 27.-ChicaRosus who
have teen swo!tering under a boiling sun
Tor Just one week never watched cloud
with so much inter, o. % they did the one
that crept out OF the Northern horizon
ihs afternoon. The heat during the day
bad b, eu appalling, men and horses fall
ing dead iu the streets from its ELECTS.
Over iu tho West division the tber-
mometer marked nlnety-six degrees at
10 O'clock. AmbuA Ances aud patrol
s..tr ..s,tl
night moving the victims 20 hospitals.
Down town whe 0 ths heat vi sun and
pavement " as confined 70 narrow area
tilt suffering was intense.
About 2 o'clock giay cloud eprADg
out oi the Northern horizon. aid moving
ltslly toward tho city, with IN accom-
paniment Of thunder aid lightning,
tmp,ied nearly All Inch OF water upon
the swelteriug buildluRs.
THEN tho cloud went away md within
halt all hour The heat became moro ap.
palllng than before. When the sun went
down the Thermometer regiter 92o,
with u fever.th breeze blowing from the
Bouth. Up TO 8 o'clock Tonight forty
sunftrokts were reported by the police,
many of them proving fata'. In seven
Instances, since tie heated term began,
men have gone crazy from the afil c.
1 ons.
Reports from the Interior show that
people are dropping dead IN the streets
from the heat, which In many towns hae
reached 1000. Unless . cold wave comes
soon the hospita In thi. city VIII bs
unable TO take care Of the victims. Over
10c sufferers from sunstroke arc ut the
County Hospital alone. There is no
prospect tonight oi . change in the
weather.
PnIhsr CLEANS OUT sAEooN.
ORANGE. N. j., June 27.-Rev. Father
Fiemius. OF st. Johns Church, cleaned
cut saloon about O'Clock this morn
iBg In quicker time than . squad OF
police cou, d have done II. On one block
In entire street are several sAlnons where
Iisnos are kept going nearly all night, In
spite of law which ssys SALOONS must
close at midnight.
Returning from n sick call early this
morning Father Fleming heard the
sousds OR vslry In John Kelly's saloon.
be entered, and In . low sec ,nds the
thirty or iorty men present had escaped
through rear doors and by jumping from
windows. Father Fleming then lectured
Kelly. The proprietor, severely and wait.
cd until he lad locked the place up Tor
ele night.