Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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In a saloon on South Halsted street, Chicago, Mcbael Gaynor, a member of the City Council from the Ninth Ward, was shot through the head and mortally wounded by a small politician named Dacey. The inurJcr was without provocation, and Dacey narrowly escaped lynching. Shepard & Co., of Milwaukee, suspended because of the fall in wheat. Their liabilities are small. A savings bank at St. Joseph, Missouri, with deposits of $1,800,000, suspended, on account of its connection with the bankrupt firm of Donnell, Lawson & Simpson of New York, The National Bank of Commerce, with a Capital of $1,000,000, has been organized at Minneapolis. E. F. Gould of Saginaw, Mich., will be I-resident. S. W. Murphy, a Burlington (Iowa) editor, kicked down-stairs a person who wanted to punish him for writing something reflecting on him. The party kicked, when he got to the foot of the stairs, fired off a revolver. No one was killed. Through the untiring efforts of liis wife, Edward Bruce has been pardoned from the lowa Penitentiary, where he had teen sentenced tor life for tho murder of McNamara, a grocer of Keokuk. The reunited couple have gone to Dakota. The propeller J. S. Seaverns, loaded with sundries, was recently sunk near Port Arthur, Lake Superior, in sixty feet of water. She was valued at $15,000. A bloody tragedy was recently enacted at Smith’s Landing, Monroe County, 111. Monroe Gray, u well-known citizen of the little town of Columbia, killed his wife and her paramour, a man named William Ditch. Gray, who is quite prominent in Illinois politics and well known throughout the State, has for some time doubted his wife’s fidelity. His doubts wore finally 60t at rest by witnessing with his own eyes what he had previously only suspected. He immediately brought his revolver into requisition, killing both his wife and the man. Bitch was wealthy, and owned the property where Gray resided. The two families have been intimate. Gray was arrested. He says he meant to kill Ditch, but not bis wife; that he killed her accidentally while shooting at the man. William H. Doane, a telegraph operator at Painesvillo, Ohio, was fixing a wire at the Grand River bridge, when he slipped and fell one hundred feet to tho water, but managed to swim ashore.