The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-14

ton in life, an humble newspaper car.
rier. should apply for q high otheS In
the municipal government. The idea
once admitted took complete possession
Of his mind. He appeared in Corpora.
ton Counsel Adolph RrEuss Office oas
day and announced that no deSlred 70
succeed Mr.. KFauS in che position. Mr..
krauG laughed at him and took the an.
nounecmsnt as D joke, and PreudOrgaIt
Bnoakod out With what eA2crnpiG he
looked Tor tho newspapers next morn
Ing. How anxiously no hoped they
would contain an account Of hiH visit 70
Mr. Rraua. II they had probably Mayor
Harrison would DO alive to-day. II
they had ProndergAIt would probably
have been satisfied. lie would have
secn hts namo 10 type. He would have
lorded II over tho other carriers OF
whom the world had never heard; but,
unluekily Tor Mayor Harrison and foe
him, he WAS disappointed. The neWs.
papers contained no mention Of tho in
cident he had go carefully planned, Elk.
asperated by his failure 10 secure tho
notoriety he crayed Prendergast deter.
mined 70 make another attempt At
last he selected Mayor Harrison. 10
called upon the mayor, and with all
the gravity he could master, stated his
desire to DO appointed corporation
counsel, But the mayor was in good
humor, and the ludicrousnsss Of the az
fair struck him. He chadsd Preuder.
CAST good naturally and speedily forgot
him.
At any rate he did not think II neces-
Bary to notify the newspapers, and
again Prendegast failed Of bic object.
He was now more determined than ever
10 attain It. Ha resolved that no would
get his name into the newspapers even
at the risk Of arrest
OREw DESPERATE
Ho called again upon Mayor Harri-
son, and limited that il his request did
not secure prompt attention 1t would be
worse for tho mayor. Mr.. Harrison did
not know fear aud no treated Prender-
CASTE threats as lightly rs no had
treated his req ueSts.
PrendGrgast concluded to write to
tho mayor. His lotters not only wore
unanswered, but hc could not be sure
they had ever been delivered. Again
he called on Mayor Harrison, This
limo no was received brusqucly and
waa warned to keep away and trouble
the mayor no more.
Desperate with his determination to
secure the longed for notoriety, and en-
ragged at his repeated failures, Fender
CAST at last worked himself into q fren.
Eied momeniary courage and committed
tho irighttul crime for which he died
to-day.
On the night Of October %. 1898. Car
tor Ii. Harrison, mayor Of Chicago, was
seated at dinner with hia son and
daughter In his residence on Ashland
boulevard. Tho door bell rang and
low proved, shambling, III clad follow
asked to see tho mayor. The mau waa
Prendcrgask. When informed that tho
mayor was at dlnner no turned away
and said he would return later. When
he called again the mayor was dozing on
o couch.
Il had been american Cities Day" at
the worlds fair and be had made the
bost speech Of his life to vast throng
Of people. He was awakened by tho
sound OF voices aud camO toward tho
door. Tho man approached the mayor,
said something which WA not over
heard by the servant and then pointed
revolver ut Mr. Harriaon's breast and
fired. Tho assassln ran into the street
and after discharging bali at the pur-
suing butler disappeared in Jackson
street, shortly Afterwards surrend ering
himself TO tho police about the time
that Mayor Harrison expired In the
arms Of Miss Anna Howard, Of New Or
loans. to whom he was to be married in
few days.