New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-17
CAUSES OF THE OUTBREAK AT LATHRoP
MEN SHARED THE WORK OF wREcK1NG THh
sALOoNS-CHARGES OF BRIBERY.

sALooNS-CHARGES OF BRIBERY.
Chicago Feb. 16-A dispatch from Lathrop Mo-
saws: "While the results of the Temperance crusade
that made such furore in this little village nave
been spread broadcast, the truth Of the matter mas
not vet been published. The topic is still alabSorD
ing for the good that nearly fifty of the best
women in the town are liable TO be called before the
Grand Jury TO answer charge of treSpa>s and o'ouN
conduct Their social rank will not save them "a the
next Grand Jury will be drawn by officials
who are incensed at the recent outbreak. To-day
John A. Cross the prosecuting attorney, said: The
mistaken impression has gone abroad that TINS was
a woman's crusade, when it was really started ana
engineered by men, and during all the disturbance there
was present man for every woman The names
of these men have never been made public, as they
have shielded themselves behind the women's petit
coats Yet they were really more responsible than
the women There were present and actively engaged
in the disturbance j. +. Carmichael Baptist minister
Jacob Bohart, sr., DR.. Mundy, who had an axe and
wanted to smash the billiard tables Editor Mckee, Of
.The Lathrop Monitor; B. I. Cochran, formerly
saloon.keeper: E. 6. Kinney, former grand juryman,
who never summoned any witnesses and never indicted
man; Charles P. Jones, cashier of the Lathrop Bank
and twenty Others
The crusaders say that the immediate cause Of the
outbreak was a stabbing aifray on January o. III
which John L. Brooks. a resident Of LathrOp, wac
severely cut by Abe Scruggs farmer, while both
intoxicated. Mrs. Brooks, the Wne OF the Hlhn
who was stabbed, in discussing the affair one day,
remarked TO a neghbOr that if she had any one 70
help her she would break into every saloon in town
and pour the liquor into the street. That neghbor
replied, Il will go with you and can get twenty five
other women TO GO
on the day of the outbreak, when the whi,key was
poured into the street. it formed in little pools and
brisk can trade was begun by boys and men, every
species Of vessel being pressed into to scoop up
the whiskey. When the women saw what was going
they appropriated barrel of salt from neghbor
ing grocery and knocking in the head they spnnklcd
the salt into the liquor. After wreckne CaIiou >
saloon the marched into drug stores and gro
oefy stores and searched the premises one of the
women told the rest That she knew a house where
they kept liquor all the time, and advised that II be
attacked The lady who lived in that house was i'll
formed Of what might take place, and going up To one
Of the leaders. She said
i unders N I'd that you think of rading private
houses to sec If you can find any whiskcy.
and always did and always will. also have double
barrcled shotgun that IS loaded, and the first man or
woman that my doorway with the intention OF
searching the house will get the contents Of both bar
ies.'
It has been openly charged that the city officers
brbed not mOlest the saloon keepers. An eXamina
ton Of the record in the Mayors Oice shows that an
arrangement entered into between the saloon men
MAYORS Office month, plead guilty 10 selling
lQuOr and be fined This arrangement has been
carried out for the last SIX months. the men being
fined each, Ihc divided between the
Mavor Prosecuting Attorney and Marshal a. fees.
At a meeting Of the Temperance people held last
night minister charged that one OF the cOnstables
knew more than the salOOnkecpers liked % have him
and that they offered him 5000 to resign James
Parshal a constable got up and admitted the truth
Of the statement and also said that he was the man
who had been offered the money"