Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-28
POLITICAL.

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requisite qualifications, supplemented
by wide and liberal education. Mr..
Scaulan, though still young man,
has advanced toa position Of great
prominence in the legal profc .son.
He was born IT, Chicago. Oct. %.
1854. Michael Seaman, of Washing.
ton. II. c., who Is known widely as
Il composer of muse and an author
OF some fame also. is his father. His
early education was obtained in our
public schools and he was thereby |
fitted t. enter aud graduate, with
honors, from the Washington, d. c..
high school. After this he became a
student ut the university of Notre
Dame. South Bend. Ind, aud fol.
lowed this up with a very complete |
course OF law studies in the Chicago
College OF Law. He then began the |
practice of his profession and for
several years was associated with the
late George {. 1ngham and the ex.
treme,y brilliant and very dis.
tinguished lawyer, Luther Latin
Mills lie soon became proficient,
aud. although never a permanent
officer. still has acted at various times
a. assistant states attorney for Cook
County. lie has assisted in the trial
OF over thirty homicide cases, and
has been identified as prosecutor or
on the defense side of some other
very important eases. He was special
counsel for the State in the recent
trial of the Cronin case and since
then has been occupied In "trying"
twelve other cases criminal and
civil of such importance as the case
of the three Cinnamon charged with
killing Jacob Boblasky, the Duffy
murder case, the Reed forgery case,
where Reed was charged BY the Iii.
nois Central Railroad Company with
forging railroad tickets, and the case
OF Toe United States VS.. KOhn. where
kohn was charged with stealing from
the mails In this case the defense
was that the letter stolen was a
'"decoy" letter and not such letter
as the statute under which Kohn was
tried contemplated. In all OF these
twelve cases Mr.. Seaman has clearly
demonstrated that his theories were
correct and In each instance the yer.
dict was favorable to his client. His
numerous complete successes have
won for him clientage that greatly
admires him and he Is daily adding to
his long list OF friends In Chicago.
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Hon. Miles Kehoe Is much talked
OF by Republicans for Congress In the
Fourth Congressional District Mr..
Kehoe Is about IS years old. First
schooling, 1857, Foster School: Geo.
w. Spofford, q resident Of the
Twelfth Ward, principal; graduated
there In 1865 and went to work In
brick.yards. Was elected to State
Senate In 1879, being the youngest
member ever elected up to that time.
Was selected almost unanimously In
1876 and served until 1880. Was for
four years Chairman Of Committee on
Municipalities, and secured for Chi.
cago all Its important legislation,
among the laws being the abolition
of the old method OF town elections,
the building and loan association
law, the back tax law that relieved
the city from scrip and efYectually
prevented tax fighting ever since, the
tire and police pension act, and sew.
eral Others. He introduced the first
bill to abolish convict labor, there.
by commencing the citation. lie has
always taken an interest In labor
matters, and proposed some years ago
TO have representative OF labor In
the Cabinet OF the President OF the
United States. In 1882 he made q
speech, published In the Inter Ocean,
advocating the right of Congress to
Tx the minimum wages and maxi.
mum hours for all employees OF rail.
roads engaged in interstate COM
merce. Pretty much the same view
was advanced by Charles Francis
Adams In an article in an Eastern
magazine six or seven years later.
lie was dele2ate-at.large to the
last national convention, and voted
for the denomination of Harri.
son, Notwithstanding the general
demand that he disregard the instruc-
ton OF the convention. lie always
took part in reform movements, be.
ing the originator OF the movement
10 elect the late Tho,. Hoync Mayor.
Although filling several Ices, his
integrity has never been questioned.
lie is an old member Of the \. o. L.
W. and is also member OF the Ma.
tional Union, and was President OF
their last assembly.