Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-15
WESTERN.

The street-car strike at st. Louis
eliminated In serious riot. The mob,
which numbered about 10000 persons, began
work on Pine street, between Sixth and
Tenth, and in an extremely brief space of
time succeeded in wrecking twenty cars.
All 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 hal 10 be
shot. During the progress of the melee
Superintendent Sculln of the Union Depot
line was knocked down. An attempt to Sc
cure his assailant brought on fierce fight
between the mob and police, which ended in
the triumph of the latter. Over fifty ar
rests we're made while the original outbreak
was at its height, and many more followed
in the evening. Tho mob later on sought
other means of wreaking vengeance on the
street-car companies, and the entire night
proved a 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-
ceeiing S5OO,CO) Four men we're 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 nut over till tho
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 pententiary and $500
fine, If the Judge imposes the maximum
sentence, as he invariably does when the
prisoner shows no disposition to repent. Sem
tence will be pronouced next week. +. ii.
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 at effort is being made by
the Government to rcindict them for viola
ton OF the law between the previous indict-
ment and trial. The Mormons show no incll
nation to stop, and the Government is more
determined than ever TO punish polygam
lists"
Five white men and two Indians who
were engaged in the recent tFChinese RIO
near Seattle, Washington Territory, have
been indicted for murder in the first degree
A propeller recently from Montreal
was placed in quarantine at Detroit, and the
crew of dozen persons arrested and vac
cinated.
Hog cholera in virulent form il
prevailing in many portions of the west.
The congregation of st. Joachim
Catholic Church, of Detroit composed o
French Canadians, has determined to resis
the order of Bishop Borgess. transferring
their priest, Father Laporte, to Lower Cana
da. The case will be carried into the courts
and then, IL necessary, will be laid before tn
Pope. 1t is claimed that the Bishop seeks 4
replace all French priests in his diocese will
those of other nationalities.
The ecclesiastical court which trieC
the Rev. II. ID. Jardne, an Episcopal recto
of Kansas City, on charges of immoral con
duct, has found him guilty of three of tn,
orenses specified, and recommends to Bishol
Robertson his deposition from the ministry
Mr.. JardiDe has been temporarily inhibite
from clerical functions, pending the Bishop
action.