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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

EPIDEMIC OF MURDER.

THE Chicago Inter-Ocean of Feb. 5, 1880, prints the following concerning the prevalence of crime in that city. Chicago is not an exceptional city in this respect; and this epidemic of crime everywhere should cause men to pause and consider the times in which we are living, and the coming issue as foretold in prophecy. The Inter-Ocean says:—

“Another assassination and robbery yesterday. We submit that crimes of this character have become so frequent of late as to give cause for general alarm. Men are shot down or butchered in their own stores or in their beds, and the guilty parties escape unrecognized, unpunished. Crime, bold and defiant, stalks through the city without seeming let or hindrance. There is inefficiency or criminal negligence somewhere. Chicago seems to be in the clutch of abandoned ruffians and cut-throats, who ply their trade in utter indifference of the authorities. If the Mayor and Chief of Police don’t want to have their administrations brought into something worse than contempt, they will give indications pretty soon that they are not wholly asleep and unconscious during this epidemic of murder.”