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Entirely erased from the U. S. Press is the legend of Alfred J. P. ("Jake") Lingle, Martyr-the touching story of the brave crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was shot down because he "knew too much" (TIME, June 23). Instead there had taken form by last week the story of Jake Lingle, Racketeer, who sold for fat sums the power of his newspaper to politicians, gamblers, crimesters, without his employers-who paid him $65 per week-knowing much about it. Five days after Lingle's murder the publishers of the Tribune had learned enough about the relations...
Quick to put aside professional rivalries were the rest of Chicago's newspapers. They joined the Tribune in demanding vengeance for Martyr Lingle. The Daily News demanded the instant removal of Police Commissioner William J. Russell and Chief of Detectives John Stege. The Hearst Herald-Examiner matched the Tribune's $25,000 reward offer. The Evening Post offered $5,000. The Chicago Press Club ''stood ready" to post $10,000 more. By the end of the week there was $55,725 on the killer's head. The newspapers reprinted each other's editorials proclaiming...
...whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs destroyed Carthage, a waning community...
...Church soon established branches in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Prophet Smith decreed that Mormons were properly polygamous and took unto himself several comely wives. This practice, sturdily maintained, was among those which brought general persecution on the Church. In 1842 Prophet Smith became a martyr to his 'faith. He had been arraigned 39 times on various charges without once being convicted. At length he was charged with treason against the State of Illinois, was jailed at Carthage. A mob attacked the prison; both Prophet Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot dead. In 1847, harassed beyond...
...Jesuit Martyrs of North America meticulous Father John J. Wynne, S.J., describes with careful detail how the martyrs were tortured in the New York and Canadian woods by Indians who tore out their nails, hair and beards, chewed their fingers, and as one martyr said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many...