ASSASSINATION OF A MINISTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2230, 23 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ASSASSINATION OF A MINISTER.

Tjir American correspondent of the Evening .Star says :— That the saloons and tbo saloon system dio hard the following incidents will show ; " On the night of August 3rd the people of Towa were startled by the telegraphic announcement of the assassination of the Rev. George 0. Haddock, at Sioux City, while on his way homo from a liveiy stable. He was followed and shot in the back, and died in a few minutes. The minister was an earnest, able, and eloquent advocate of piactieal temperance, and active prosecutor before i the Courts of the saloonists of Sioux. His murder is attiibutcd directly and indirectly to the saloon interest. The <-entimont against the saloon** is in consequence becoming more and more intensified." The authonties have arrested two men for the crime, and feel quite certain that they have the guilty persons, though not all of thorn. Meetings are being held .ill over the State, and the sympathy of the people generally finds expression in t-übstantial gifts of money to the widow and orphans, and in a determination that the saloons nm->t go. Tn Clinton, lowa, two men who gave testimony m (Joint against the saloons weio followed, set upon, and compelled to take refuge in the county gaol, from which they fired upon their a^ail.mt*, killing one and wounding several. A few weeks ago, in Cuiada, the house of a Justice of the Peace of Belville, Ontario, was almost blown to atoms \\ ith dynamite. That official h id become obnoxious to the Raloonkeepers because he enforced the Scott law. The^o ingidonts could be multiplied,