Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Forest fires are raging among the Montana mountains, In the vicinity of Helena. The wife of ex-Governor B. Gi atz Brown, of Missouri, d ed at Lako Minnetonka, of apoplexy, By the first count of the census the population of South Dakota is given at 261,560. The official count of North Dakota places the population at 15:1,199, making the total of the Territory 413,759. against 135,177 In 1880. Three members of one family at Spencerville, Ohio, were poisoned by drinking impure well-water. Two of them are dead, and the third is in a critical condition. The comedy season at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, has been brought to a close, and this week William Gill’s latest production, “Bluff,” ferms tlio, attraction. The company comprises such popular and talented artists as Charles Bowser, one of the be3t comedians in the country; Miss Jean Del mar, a charming little soubrette, an excellent singer, actress and dancer; Mr. Charles Hayward, said to be the best female impersonator in the world, and a number of other well-known artists. The play, in addition to possessing an interesting and coherent plot, is full to the brim of all the most pronounced musical successes the day. A Detroit baby escaped premature Burial by crying in its coffin, to the great alarm of the mourning relatives, 'and is now in better health than for some time past. Maxwell, the supposed murderer of Preller, was arraigned for trial in St. Louis, tout the case was postponed to Sept. 2, to await the return of the Judge of the Criminal Court. Indians of the Devil’s Lake Agency have raised 60,000 bushels of wheat. George Wilson, a life convict in the State Prison at Waupun, Wis., was pardoned toy Gov. Busk. He had been under sentence for ton years, and was pardoned because it had turned out that he was innocent of the crime for which he had been convicted. All the iron mills in the Mahoning Valley resumed operations at the Amalgamated Association scale. The strike of the coal-miners at Danville, 111., is ended, the men returning to work at the wages offered them six months ago. Actiqg Mayoy Walkup, of Emporia, Kan., having died under circumstances showing that he was poisoned, his bride of a month, whom ho mot in New Orleans under somewhat romantic circumstances, has been held on circumstantial evidence to answer to the charge of causing her husband’s death. Leonard Gardner had been arrested at Springfield, 111., for beating his wife. He was released on bail, procured two revolvers, and started on a hunt for the two policemen who had arrested him—Officers Wi.liana J. Camp and Fred Gall. Gardner waylaid the officers and shot Gall in the groin and Camp in the head, fatally wounding the latter, but before his death he shot Gardner four times, killing him instantly. A negro woman was ulso wounded by a stray shot. Camp leav.es a wife and five small children almost destitute. At Alexandria, Mo., the large grain warehouse of Million & Mason was burned,

involving a loss of $35,000 on grain. The total loss was about $39,000; insured for $27,030. The Current, a literary periodical established in Chicago in 1883 by Edgar L. Wakornan, bus suspended publication. Life-saving stations will be established at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis., and Pentwater, Frankfort, White .River, and South Haven, Mich.