The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-17
NOT in A PARIS PRISON
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN ON HIS WAY
TO THE UNITED STATES.
His Wife, the WeII-Known Chicago
Writer, Likely to Recover from
Her Attack of Apoplexy.

CHICAGO Sept. ia sensational color
ing was thrown about the illness of Mrs.
Alexander Sullivan, who is suffering from
an attack of apOplexy by a New York dis
patch this morning announcing the arrest
of Mr.. Sullivan in Paris. 1t was intimated
that Mrs. Sullivans sickness was the direct
result of the sudden intelligence that her
husband was prisoner in France, charged
with completely III the alleged dynamite
conspiracy. This 1umor was to-day denied
authoritatively by Mr.. Sullivans law part
ner, Edward ]. McArdle. He said there
was absolutely no foundation for the story
of Mr.. Sullivan's arrest than what was
contained in the malice of certain of his
enemies in New York. AS far as Mrs.
Sullivan's illness was concerned, that had
origin of it's own, and was in no wise
due to the sensational story from New
York. Mr.. McArdle said positively this
noon that Mr. Sullivan passenger on
the steamer Lain, which left Bremen yes
at Southampton at o'clock this morning.
At the office of the North German Lloyd
Mr.. Sullivan had paid his passage on the
Lain and had made all his arrangements
to sail to-day. Mr.. McArdle said Mr.. Sui
Ivan went abroad some two months ago
for rest and recreation. Much of the time
he put in at Carlsbad. He also visited
Vienna and Buda-Pesth and made short
trip to various notable points in central
Europe. His visit to Europe, Mr. McArdle
declared had no significance with any Irish
revolutionary movement. A press dispatch
from Paris also says there is no truth in
the report that Mr.. Sullivan was arrested
there.
The condition of Mrs. Sullivan was re-
ported as being slightly better to-day. For
the first time since suffering her stroke of
apoplexy she was able to recognize her
friends and speak to them, though still
very weak. Doctors attending her stated
that they now had every hope of her ulti-
mate recovery.
Mrs Sullivan is we'll known as a news
paper writer. Her maiden name was Mar
garet Frances Buchanan She was born in
lS49 in County Tyrone, Ireland, and came
to this country and settled in Detroit when
only two years old She was educated in
Convent of that city. She came to Chica-
go when sixteen years old, and has been en-
gagged in newspaper work of kind or
another ever since. 1t is said that her first
application for newspaper employment was
at the Office of the old Times, when the
editorial writer to whom she applied
what she could do. She said she could
write anything he wanted. an1 he at
tempted 10 discomfort her by asking her
to write something about the tariff. She
assented, and sat down where she was,
and after two hours she handed him an
article which appeared as the leading edi-
torial in the paper OF the next day. From
that time she was able to command any
salary from the Times she demanded.
Mrs. Sullivan employed at time
the old Post, and at another time on
every newspaper in the city. Her versatil-
ity was remarkable She wrote equally
well on music. on art, on literature. and on
politics. and when there was an emergency
some translation, and was once joint
author with others in book of travels in
Mexico, but she seldom departed from her
chosen line of Journalistic work