The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30
CHICAGO'S CRUEL CRIME.
The Prisoner Sticks to the Story He
Told on SuTTeldeTing.

He Expresses no Regret for His Act
and Reads the Newspaper Accounts
of it 80 The Coroner Holds an In
quest and the Jury Brings in a YER
dict in Accordance With the Facts
Universal Regret at the Mayors
Deplorable End.
Chicago, Oct. 29.-Chicago to-day is
overwhelmed with sorrow and shame.
Her people mourn for the man who stood
closer to the peoples heart than any
other who has lived or died within her
boundary lines, or has been in any way
connected with the citys growth and
progress. The feeling of shame is more
that just at the close of the greatest
and most glorious period of
her municipal history, just as the
dawn of a brighter period than she has
ever before experienced, the dark crime
of murder should have left a red blot on
the record. 1t was a thing no man could
prevent, calamity that no human intel,
lect could foresee, but the crime is done
and the stain and disgrace of having her
chief executive shot down is part of his
tory now
PLUNGED INTO GRIEF.
The act of maniac, or at the best a
weak-minded youth, has plunged Chicago
into grief, and mourning just at the period
of her gratest triumph From all ranks
and conditions of men, there comes but one
voice. and it is that of grief.
If Chicago's spirit scared too
high, if her ambitious soul reached
out beyond those things to which mortal
man may aspire, and her daring hand was
ever at the edge of the universe-it has
been temporarily checked. The blow
was heavy and it struck Chicago to the
heart.
THE MOST POPULAR MAN IN CHICAGO.
Mayor Harrison was. without question,
the most popular man among the resi-
dents of Chicago He was the most
widely known and best beloved of all
Chicago's sons. Political enemies have,
time and again. sought to read the riddle
of his popularity, they have sought
to decry his fame and wean
his friends from his side They
utterly failed in all. There is a touch of
hdLAAN bNg OlA N4ltbb II humanity hllOWS,
and it is called genius. This Carter Har-
rison had in his dealings with his fellow
men. He drew them TO him, and he held
them to the last by the force of his genial
nature, and the undiscovered something
which all men felt who came in contact
with him.
HIS FOES NOT PERSONAL ONES.
His enemies were as bitter as his
friends were warm, but they were the
foes of his methods, not the foes OF his
personality. He had within his frame
more of the condensed spirit of audacity,
endurance and activity that is character
istic of Chicago than any
other man. He was nearer the
embodiment of Chicago spirit than
almost any other man. They knew this
and held him closer in their embrace than
they have ever held another, and it will
be long before another man usurps the
place that Carter Harrison held in the
heart of Chicago.
MORTIFIED CIVIC PRIDE.
The feeling of personal sorrow which
all citizens feel is not stronger than the
mortified civic pride which burdens them
down. Her man of men, the one whom
she honored most, was foully slain, and
thegreat city which has done so much, and
which for six months has been the most
prominent place on earth was utterly
helpless. There may be for Chicago
days of greater pride, of higher glory
than any she has yet beheld. There can
never be day of deeper grief or of more
poignant sorrow