The Emporia News

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Rev. I. S. Kalloch Shot.

San Francisco, August 23.—Last night Rev. I. S. Kalloch defended himself before an immense audience against charges thirty years old of immorality, preferred against him by the Chronicle. He said these charges were revived by Charles and Mike De Young, two bastard sons of a prostitute. This morning Charles De Young drove in front of the private entrance of the Metropolitan temple, where Kalloch has rooms, and sent a messenger boy asking him to come out. Kalloch immediately appeared on the sidewalk, when De Young shot him in the breast. Kalloch turned to retreat indoors when De Young shot him in the back. A crowd immediately seized the carriage, in which was De Young, turned it over and tore him out. He was dreadfully kicked and bruised, and would no doubt have been killed on the spot had not an unusual number of police come suddenly to the rescue and hurried him to jail. The city is intensely excited. The police did not think De Young safe in jail, and had made arrangements to hurry him to Fort Alcatraz, when the intention became known to the people. At present the spirit of the multitude in arousal to prevent any removal of De Young from jail. There was never a time when San Francisco was more angry. Kalloch is shot through the left lung, just above the heart. His physicians say that with his strong constitution there is a bare possibility of his recovery. The military is under arms and the police are on duty in the event of a disturbance. News of the tragedy spread like wild-fire through the city, and the streets were soon crowded with excited throngs. Strong guards were placed over the Chronicle business and printing offices prevent them from being sacked. M. H. De Young, who was at the Chronicle office at the time of the shooting, at once sought the city prison, where he is now in company with Charles. The circumstances leading to the shooting of Kalloch by Chas. De Young are as follows: After Kalloch was nominated by the Workingmen for the city as their candidate for mayor, Chas. De Young, in a speech at the state convention of Honorable Bilks, announced that he would compel Kalloch to withdraw from the contest. Subsequently he notified Kalloch that unless he withdrew he would rake up his record in the columns of the Chronicle. Kalloch sent back word for him to go ahead, that he could tell worse things about the De Youngs than they could bring against him. Wednesday last the Chronicle came out with a long article reviewing Kalloch's career in Boston and Kansas, dwelling particularly upon his reported amours; also ventilating his political and business record. Thursday and Friday it continued the articles, and dragged in Kalloch's father, now dead, recounting sundry immoralities. At a mass meeting last night at which it was given out he would read a copy of an article published in a little paper called the Sun. Kalloch was warned that if he read that article they would shoot him on sight. Last night the Metropolitan temple and the street were filled with thousands. Kalloch addressed the audience in the most direct manner. After addressing briefly, after reviewing the attacks of the Chronicle upon himself, he said: "In maligning the reputation of my father many years, these journalistic vipers' accusation on my part necessary and justifiable. Their disgraceful record make such an attack possible, and I am justified in pronouncing them the bastard progeny of a prostitute." He said he had the Sun article in his pocket, (cries of "Read it!" "Read it!") But he did not wish to expend all his ammunition at once. It would be published immediately in full in the workingmen's paper, The Open Letter, and next Tuesday evening he would take it up and comment upon it. Charles De Young evidently considered the proceedings of the evening equal provocation to the actual reading of the article and acted accordingly. The evening journals counsel above all things moderation on the part of the workingmen, for the credit of the city and also for their own sake on account of the bearing of their action on the result of the present campaign. The Bulletin says, in effect, that the shooting was a deliberate assassination, and reminds its readers that twenty-three years ago the people of the city hanged a man who killed an editor who dared to express his convictions, but that now the law of society seems to be that an editor may say what he pleases, but if the assaulted party talks, his life is to be forfeited; but warns the workingmen that the course they pursue will be the best evidence of their ability to administer the affairs of the city, and that a resort to violence would be a fatal mistake. At 6 p. m. in the afternoon Kalloch was in much improved condition. A slight examination has been made and physicians express the opinion that there are good grounds for expecting his recovery. The tragedy has almost paralyzed business during the day. Telegrams were coming in from all over the state inquiring to the condition of affairs, and almost an equal interest is felt from Nevada. Kearney arrived on the Vallejo boat this evening. At the wharf he was met by a crowd of several thousand who received their leader with almost frantic exhibitions of joy. Three of the working men's military companies, numbering 160 men, with rifles and fixed bayonets, were on hand as an escort. With Kearney at their head the procession started towards the sand lots, filling the street for several blocks and making the air ring with cheers for Kearney, and cries of "Hang De Young!"