Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Frank E. Hardy, a Chicago drummer, killed himself at a hotel in Galesburg', 111., loaving letters stating that whisky was the cause of his suicide. George Mack, a colored murderer, was taken from the officers near South Bend, Kan., and, with a rope about his neck, was dragged by a galloping horso into town, where lie was suspended to an awning in front of a billiard saloon. One of the mob then sent a bullet through the hanging corpse, and in fifteen minutes the Coroner cut down the body. A collision on the Milwaukee and St. Paul, between Forreston and Leaf River, resulted in the killing of Conductor Bromley, of Amboy, 111. Phillip Schlas, a Terre Haute clothier, made an His liabilities are placed at SIOO,OOO, assets $60,000. State Veternarian Paaren has quarantined all cattlo in the towns of St. Charles and Geneva, 111., owing to the prevalence of pleuro-pneumonia. F. F. Hardy, a traveling salesman for the Detroit Stove Company, committed suicide in tho Union Hotel, Galesburg, by shooting; Edward Bushman, in Now York, by hanging; Alice Gostell, of Davenport, la., by poison, on a "Wabash train near Lafayette, Ind. The Mormons gathered in every direction in Utah on the Ist inst., to discuss their grievances. John T. Caine, Delegate in Congress, presided at the Tabernacle, in Salt Lake, and attributed tho troubles of the Saints to vicious Federal officials. An address to the President and people of tho United States was unanimously adopted, denouncing the present Governor of tho Territory as a petty tyrant, and protesting against the breaking up of family relations formed previous to the passage of the Edmunds law. Four men were killed in a battle with cattle-thieves in tho Red River district, Indian Territory. The corpse sent in a trunk from Chicago to Pittsburgh has been fully identified as that of Pietro Coroso, a railroad laborer. Francesco Coroso, of Chicago, states that his brother left his house, No. 75 Tilden avenue, at 9 o’clock on the evening of May 1, with over s.’oo in his possession. Within two and a half hours his corpse was deliverei at the railroad station. Nine Italians were arrested in Chicago for connection with the mystery, and one of them confessed that he purchased the money-order found on the corpse. The lowa State Leader, Des Moines (Democratic), has been sold to C. M. Matthews, of Colorado, the consideration being $30,000. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has brought another suit against the Inter Oz : :an newspaper, for publishing an objectionable cartoon, placing his damages at $35,000.