Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-17
CHICAGO LETTER.
Chicago Celebrities The Worlds
Fair Barnum's Idea. etc.

Special correspondence Of the
DEsERET NEws.EChicago still
continues TO be the boss
sensational city, or rather, SEN
sation-producing city. 1t was here
that the famous Utah Commission
report was written last fall. There
was something eminently grand in
the performance of that work. OF
course, it was in harmony with epic
morality that such a report should
emauate from the city of DR.. Cronin,
DR.. Lorimer and Mrs. Smell Nc
Crea- 1t is true the document was
not written over a catch-basin.
though it smells like 1t; nor was il
influenced by quinine, though ii
has a Lorimer ring in it; nor was il
dictated by a Niger preacher, though
it contains much plantation philoso-
ply.
Speaking Of DR.. Lorimer, the pUUr
man Is now IN sacK-cIoth anu
ashes. He is \ Baptist preacher.
and like many others Of his bretb-
rem easily makes q fool of himself
He came into notice here a few
years ago, by preaching a splendid
sermon. 1t was published in full.
and issued in pamphlet form. Some
crank rummaging among religious |
literature discovered that Lorimer,s |
sermon was first preached by DIR.
Parker, Of London. Both sermons
were then published in parallel col.
umns in daily paper, and poor
Lorimcr was convicted Of playiary.
dis explanation was that he had
read the original sermon by Parker.
and by process OF unconscious as.
sanitation preached it subsequently,
as his own. The explanation was
received as sufficient. An educated
negro who read this sermon and
It's sequel, was charged with stealing
a mule His plea was unconscious
assimilation, he cast eyes on III.
mule, and gazed on it, until he
iancied it was his own. But his
plea did not work. He went 10
Joliet.
DR.. Iorimer came into notice n
second time during the Cleveland
administration. A postoffice EN-.
pioye who had grown gray in Office
was removed mot killed. by Presi.
dent Cleveland. A few months /
after his removal from office this
ex-employe died. DR.. Lorimer
preNched the funeral sermon. in /
which he appealed to the grand jury 5
to indict the President for murder. 5
And, would you believe it, there :
were newspapers in Chicago which 4
applauded the drunken preacher. y
while Cleveland was denounced as Ii
murderer and rebel. Yet there p
re In Chicago as in Salt flake q
Jlty whose pens are the hooked k
ucks OF the rag-picker, whose ink p
,ottie is the ash-barrel or the blind a
Hey, and whose paper is the wind D
ng sheet ofithe corpse-stealer, BODY r.
hatcher and ghoul prostitute. Ia
Dr. Lorimer came into notice er
gain few days ago. He went 10 W
'ew England on lecturing tour. L
D one place he was advertised to
,cture on ''The French Revolu- m
on" In due time he appeared on by
ne PLATFORM; but with flushed face, hs
nsteady gaitand thickeneI tongue, SO
10 launched out into n most inco- all
erent rigmarole on the Pope and an
The people were as Nj
Gradually the church was Pf
nptied- Friends took Iorimer ca
1me. Hewas called on for an ex- me
anation. He gave it, but IL wa. OF
o thin. He said he took a six the
ain dose ofquinine that evening. If
is probable he did, but he certaipIy VIZ
II SIX inches Of Scotch whisky on an
oft Chicago quinine is not a Sn
Jtected commodity, nor is IL I'M CHI
T the law Of prohibition; that is
lylt is so effective In sermons, an
lures and Utah political docu- Of
enis. Edmunds cold tea and Lori VIII
er quinine will rank in future as we
pular tonics.
Mrs. Smell McCrea, the daughter
the man whose murder made &
scott famous, and the Chicago Ebo
lice Infamous, furnished a small vici
lsation. By the murder of her bee
her she inherited In her own was
ht an immense fortune. Her i've
y performance after becoming n SIN SIN
was to obtain n divorce. VII VII
then tried to buy a play actor TO one,
pc with her, bu. the morality of view
espis was too exalted for her. She poli
a high and luxuriant life and land
ieavored to pose as a latter-dav Il is
'opatra- Finally, she rested on a Sain
" York broker, a married man ope
father Of family, and together nom
y went south TO be married by a en-,
key preacher. Both are now In ;nrn mn
ldon, and will prove valuable ac- her
ions TO the Cleveland Street in al
dies and to Lord Arthur Somer- is a
gang. Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Raw visit
and Mrs. Smell McCrea ought near
and erect In Chicago a own'
sniieent temple Co Eros. true
he political world of Chicago long
astonished this morning by the IN g
UT that Mrs. Mulligan was re-
'ed from the pension Office here. chi i
IRE she has acted as pension agent wher
ing the last four years. Mrs. real ,
lligan's husband was killed In estat.
OF the early battles of the war. cheaI
was colonel Of an Illinois regi- our
i, and was known as a brave. men
lotto officer. When mortalIy .ney
nded on the field he perceived p. 10y
The flag Of his regiment was in inc =.
or ~ boion<- car.fr1xod Ia, a..