Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-11-03

dining-room ran forward at the report OF the
pistol shots The man turned his pistol upon
the butler and fired one shot at bin, but
missed. Then he thrust the pistol back In
his pocket, rushed down the hall. out OF the
door, down the front steps. and disappeared
In the darkness
The servants and the mayors daughter
lifted Mr.. Harrison up and carried him into
weak but was as st cohsdoagn hs agnn bas bas RRed ae
nized the deadly nature of his wounds He
said TO those bending over himi
II have received my death wound. You
cannot do anything for me.
In ten minutes half dozen OF the best
doctors in Chicago were In the house, but the
MAYORS words were prophetic. They could
do nothing for him. He spoke two or three
times but exactly II minutes after he was
shot he died.
minute or two after the mayor was shot
the policeman on the beat gave the alarm.
few minutes later a man, apparently ABOUT
| twenty-four years old walked into the Des-
plaines street police station. Sergt Frank
| Mcdonald was at the desk. Another police
officer and the police telegraph operator were
| In the room. The man walked deliberately
| up to the desk and told Sergt. Mcdonald that
! he had shot the mayor.
| Then he pulled from his pocket the pistol
with which he had shot Mayor Harri-
son and placed 1t upon the desk. Inc
mans appearance and his manner indl-
Gated insanity. Moreover, he was very weak,
| In fact he was so weak that he would nave
fallen had not the Sergeant pulled up chair
and showed him down in it.
"What Is your name2" asked Sergt. MO
Donald.
"Fugene Patrick Prendergast," replied the
man.
The sergent asked no more questions, but
| A fau fninrltps later
Chief of Police Brennan arrived and took the
man away from the Desplaines street station
and secre ed him, 1t is believed, In cell at ths
Central Police Station.
Hon. Carter Henry Harrison was born u
Fayette county, KY, Feb. 20, 1876. HI
earliest Harrison ancestors are traeeable u
! Richard A, Harrison, CromwelTs heutenan
, general, who led Charles 1. to the block. III
name was prominent IN Virginia during tn
colonial period and that Of his great-grand
father, Garter H. Harrison, and his brother
BENJAMIN Harrison, the signer OF the decla
y, ration OF independence, and father OF Pre-
William Henry Harrison during the revolu
tionary troubles. He was cousin OF ex-Pres
> BENJAMIN Harrison. THE family early intel
a married with the Randolphs and Carters-tw
. large Virginia families; through the formt
|. Thomas Jefferson and John Randolph wei
a of near kin, and through the latter tn
\ Reeves Of Virginia and the Breckinridges I
= Kentucky. He went to Chicago in 1855; di
q not immediately enter into active practice
a the bar, but became real estate owner on
10 operator. He was selected as Cook count
20 commissioner in 1871, and served until 187
n He represented Illinois In the Forty-four
Congress- being elected as DemocrH
During its first term he was as dumb as
oyster. He was reelected, however, to Il
Forty-flfth Congress, his second term q
piring Dec. 8, 1877.
Chicago had not had democratic may
Id for many years. and the Democrats despair'
rt of ever electing one. TWAS a Republican 81
a. and the Republicans carried 1t at every mul
I'd cipal election with monotonous regularit
It When .he time came for the naming OF m
to nicipal candidates In the spring Of IL
s- the Democrats, In casting about for m
al to head their city ticket, thought OF Har
eu son.
IS He wasin Washington and they telegraph
is him, asking him to run for mayor. \
to Harrison came on from Washington, accept
lie the mayoralty nomination, made the fe
or and was elected The Democrats were fall
ict frantic with Joy, and they made O hero
% Harrison.
On the fifteenth of March he had bt
nominated, he returned on the 2lst, and
the 1st OF April was elected by a majority
over 5000 over A. NJ. Wright, In 1881 he :
a. again nominated for mayor by acclsmati
ne although he had declined to be candid
m and was elected on the 5th Of April by I
riy jority Of 5000 over John NJ. CLARK, v
81 popular gentleman.
M In August, 1882, he made another trip
Europe and was married In London to
Marguerite Z. Stearns OF Chicago, who
the time was travelling with her pare
,.h abroad.
lcn In 1883. to the great surprise Of the
- mocracy, Harrison asked for third To-
M sK The leaders, however, thought It too m
,Is M Of good thing, and told Harrison he ou
" TO step asidefor some other map. Harri
ioh was elected for the third time by o pajo
ofi0,o0o over Judge Eugene Gary. In y