The Grand Jury of Chicago has indicted seven persons,— Martin
Burke, John F. Beggs, Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan, Frank Woodruff, Patrick Cooney, and John Kuna as the probable murderers of Dr. Cronin. They are all Irish- men except the last-named, who is a German from Luxem- burg, and is awaiting trial on a charge of swindling. The prominent citizens of Chicago, in a public meeting, have- denounced the Clan-na-Gael as an Association formed to create an imperium in imperio, and impeached "the United Brotherhood of the Clan-na-Gael as an association of assassins." The excitement has been increased by a report that Dr. McInerney, a member of the Clan-na-Gael, who has dis- appeared, has been " removed " on the same grounds as Dr. Cronin. It is alleged that he is in hiding, that he is "attending a wealthy patient," and that he has "gone West ;" but the citizens of Chicago say that, if alive, he should be produced, and that when Dr. Cronin vanished, he also was accounted for in half-a-dozen ways. It is right to add that, except disappearance, and the certainty that the doctor was hated by a part of the Clan, there is as yet no evidence of this alleged murder.
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