Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Policeman Fred Gall, of Springfield, 111., Is dead, making the third victim of the recent tragedy in thatcity. Lncien White was arrested in St. Louis for counterfeiting Brazilian bank notes, partly finished bills aggregating $3:.’(),000 having been discovered. August Gast & Co. were doing the printing, the pupor presumably to be used as cigar-box labels, but becoming suspicious, informed the United States detectives. New York and Chicago lithographing firms refused to undertake the Job. White, who lived in Brazil for a number of years, states that a Texan named Lane is the originator of the scheme. Missouri coal miners met in secret session at Sedalia for the purpose of forming a State organizatiori to be under the Jurisdiction of the Knights of Labor. The Western Nail Association, in session at Pittsburgh, resolved to make no change In the present card of prices, and to continue feeders in the nailers’ places. At Sturgis, D. T., Corporal Ross Hollis, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who assassinated Dr. H. P. Lynch, was hanged by the citizens. Justice Kersten, of the Chicago Police Court, fined several members of the Salvation Army for making a disturbance on the street. Thoy refused to disburse the necessary cash, and were sent to the Bridewell. The Marquis do Mores, who shot and killed a man named Lufl'ey at Medora, Dak., in June, 1883, has just been Indicted for the homicide. Telegraphic dispatches from various portions of the Northwest indicate that the crops suffered little or no damage from the frosts. The dead bodies of Poundmaster McNutt and City Marshal Evans, of Geneva’* 111., were founa at the corner of the Court House Square, in. that place, at an early hour in the morning. There is no satisfactory clew to the murderers, but it is believed that they were killed by persons who made an attempt to burglarize tho Larrabeo House during the night. Eight men were injured by a collision on tho Burlington and Quincy Railroad at Corning, lowa. The developments in the double murder case at Geneva, 111., established the fact that the officers were killed in the discharge of their duty, and in trying to arrest a trio of burglars who had been attempting to rob Mrs. Larrabee’s residence. Tbo steamer St. Paul arrived at San Franc sco with a cargo of sealskins, valued at over $1,000,003. The directors of the Chicago and Northwestern declared a dividend of l 3 * per cent, on the preferred stock, payable Spt. 23. Arapahoe Indians are committing depredations on the cattle ranges in the Big Horn Basin and elsewhere in that seotion. Twelve thousand people witnessed the sparring maten between Sullivan and McCaffrey at Chestor Park. Cincinnati. Six rounds were fought. The referee gave the fight to Su’livan on the claim of a foul. Sullivan offers to light Mc( affrey to the finish, with or without gloves, within three weeksi and bet $5,001) to SI,OOO that he wins.