Theattorney sent to Toronto by Dr. Cro^^nin's friends to see c. T. l.onc. the news^^paper correspondent who wrote fictitious^interviews with the dm tor. has returned,^ljon'g was laboring under a great nervous^strain, but could not be brought to confess,^in spite of the fact that Cronin whs dead,^that the alleged interviews wer- not gen^^uine. While the attorney was in Toronto^t.e ine' ^Hilly^ Starkey, the Chicago attor^^ney who left the t ity to escape going to the^penitentiary for jury bribery. He found^upon investigation that Starkey and Long,^who were professional shorthand writers^in Chicago six or seven years ago, were on^terms of friendly intimacy and that about^the time the fictitious dispatches were^wired to Chicago they were in daily con^^sultation. From this he deducted the con^^clusion that Starkey had a hand in concoct^^ing the dispatches. He knew Cronin well,^tor be was engaged in an effort made to^compel Cronin to make certain statements^before a justice of the peace in a fictitious^suit put on record by the doctor's enemies.
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Springfield,Ohio, May 2S.^The^I nited Presbyterian general assembly in^ses ion here has again taken action on the^subject of ttie use of the organ and other^musical instruments in church worship.^Complaint on that subject is said to come^from representatives of about tt.000 out of^125.000 members of the church. Thejudic^i ,r^ committee, to whom the complaint^was referred, brought in a report which^was adopted, to the effect that it is unexpe-^dieut to change the rule adopted by the^general assembly two years ago, which is^that the use or exclusion of organs shall^not be a bar to membership, but that each^(ongregation shall determine its own^course in this regard. No disruption is ap^^prehended from this action.
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