The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-15
WESTERN.

In the town of Campton, Kane Coun-
ty, ILL.,, Albert Cook shot his wife and moth
er-in-law, killing the latter, who was "a years
old, instantly. Mrs. Cook, from whom her
husband was divorced, is fatally injured.
The murderer escaped.
Capt. Thomas III. Rootes, for thirty
years an officer in the United States navy,
died at Bowling Green, Mo.
The new Egan election law has been
declared unconstitutional by the Michigan
Supreme Court, the full bench concurring.
A colored ex-Alderman of NATION,
ILL.,, who refused to shave a negro living in
that town, has been sued by the latter for
$4,000 damages under the civiLrights law.
AS the Inauguration of reform in his
life and habits, George Cash, a gambler of
Clinton, Ill, took all Of his sporting para
phernalia to the public square and set fire TO
them.
Mrs. William McClusky, of Urbana,
Ohio poisoned herself and babe with NOR
phine, the husband finding both in bed, ar
rayed in their best clothing. Both are dead.
The street-car strike at st. Louis
which numbered about 10, 900 persons, began
work on Pine street, between Sixth and
Tenth, and in an extremely brief space of
time succeeded in wrecking twsnty cars.
AL the conductors escaped, but a driver
who was knocked down and thrown under
the wheels cannot live. A number of mules
were so badly injured that they had to be
shot. During the progress of the melee
Superintendent Scullin of the Union Depot
line was knocked down. An attempt TO Sc
cure his assaiant brought On a fierce fight
between the mob and police, which ended in
the triumph of the latter. Over fifty ar
rests were made while the original outbreak
was at its height, and many more followed
in the evening. The mob later on sought
other means of wreaking vengeance on the
street-car companies, and the entire night
proved turbulent one for the city.
At San Francisco, building owned
by Charles Crocker, of the Central Pacific
Railway, and occupied by wholesale sta
tionery and printing firm and other concerns,
was burned with its contents, the loss ex-
ceeding 100000. Four men were buried in
the ruins.
A Salt Lake telegram says: "Trials
for polygamy and unlawful cohabitation in
this district have come to an end for this
year. Several cases were put over till the
next term Of court in the latter part of De-
cember, but IL is said there will be no more
trials till February. w. ID. Newson, whose
polygamous wife has been in the peniten-
tiary for months for contempt in refusing to
tell who was the father of her child, was to-
day convicted of both polygamy and un.
lawful cohabitation, involving five years and
six months in the penitentiary and $500
fine, IL the Judge imposes the maximum
sentence, as he invariably does when the
prisoner shows no disposition to repent. Sem
tence will be pronounced next week. +. III.
Hanson, gets six months and $500. While
the trials have closed, the grand jury is
steadily finding indictments. The Mormons
first sent to the penitentiary are now about
coming out, and an effort is being made by
the Government to reindict them for viola
ton OF the law between the previous indict-
ment and trial. The Mormons show no incli-
nation TO stop, and the Government is more
determined than ever to punish polygam-
fists"
Five white men and two Indians who
were engaged In the recent anti Chinese riot
near Seattle, washington Territory. have
been indicted for murder in the first degree.
A propeller recently from Montreal