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ILLINOIS WEEKLY COURIER, JANUARY 20, 1892.ATTEMPTED «CICIIE.Frank Bro\vn a Wabash Brake-man, Attempted to Leave by the Morphine Itoute.young man 01 rauier prepossessing appearance and of genteel I dress. He says he has a mother living | in Roodhonso. The patient is resting easy to day and is doing as well as could i be expected.MOUTUARY.From Tusj'lay's Daily.Last Friday there arrived in thin city from Springfield, a young man who gave his name as Frank Brown, arid stated to persona here that he had been braking on the Wabash. He engaged a room at the Hotel Mitchell at the Junction and had remained at tiiat place with apparently nothing to do and no particular aim in life. Late yesterday afternoon Brown was missed from the hotel ollice,but nothing was thought of his absence until about five o’clock, when one of thedomestics of the hotel made the rounds of the various sleeping apartments to look after the lamps. Upon entering the room which had been engaged by Brow n che was very much astonished to find the young man lying on the bed in an unconscious condition and apparently with the life nearly goneout of him. She at once communicated her discovery to j others about the hotel, and 'IIa physician was summoned post haste. When the doctor arrived he paw at once that the young man had taken a heavydose of morphine no doubt with suicidal intention. Small powder papers left about the room indicated that the amount taken was very large. The doctor proceeded to administer the proper restoratives and with a number ol assistants worked until 1 o’clock this morning before the young man was considered out of danger.What could have been the motive which prompted the young man to attempt to take his own life cannot be surmised, as he preserves a remarkable reticence and will make no explanation whatever. He is described as aof ratherBrother Canim’s Tirade on theAlliance.Editor Courier: I reply to the articlewhich appeared in last week’s Lyceum and (Oi hi eh regarding Brother Catmn’s official head being chopped off. Not that J desire a controversy upon the subject, but I think it my duty to defend the principles of the order of which I am a member. Although the demands of theallianee may not be in every particular a perfect remedy for the evils sustained by the down trodden masses, yet they would so nearly relieve the oppressed industries of the country that I deem it unbecoming a member to make j a public tirade against them. It was | not the fault of the county alliance that the brother was not present at the last meeting, it was his duty to be there if possible. He asaerts that there wore j none present at this meeting but the pa- ! per-money wing of the order. As regards paper money, I will say it has only been a few years since the democratic party had a plank in their platform advocating government issue of money instead of national bank issue, and in my opinion they dropped this plank at the dictation of the money power and the Tammany ring, and also some of the best leaders of the republican party—A. Lincoln and bis type, for instance—and 1 may include the supreme court delusions as sustaining these views. Bro. (’amin advises using present parties through which to obtain relief. I willask him how wecun use any party w ithout formulating demands? As to ourlast meeting having a small attendance,I will say there were 14 sub-alliancesrepresented out of 21 in good standingand only one dissenting vote to having the office of county lecturer declared vacant, yet I venture to sav there were members present who, strictly speaking, are not paper money men. As to Bro.Camm’s being ashamed for belonging to the order sounds rather unsavory to the members.Large nlin Underbest in theJacketsout pricesette garmprice of oreGossamcproof Cloaldren; plentIf he wishes to join U. S. Hall and his gang of heelers who are trying to swamp the alliance in the chasm of old party-ism, amen, and as the Courier refers him to the lesson of old Dog Tray, I willchoose frorshowery SfChildrenreduced pri4 : r . l 4 i.___t \________
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Jacksonville Weekly Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Wed, Jan 20, 1892
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