Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — A DUEL TO THE DEATH. [ARTICLE]

A DUEL TO THE DEATH.

Two Men Clasp Their Left Hands and Shoot Each Other to Death. [St Lonls (Mo.) special.) Information comes here that a most desperate tragedy occurred near the village of Cottonwood Point, in this State, on Friday night. Two intoxicated strangers got into a dispute and then had a rough-and-tumble fight over the weight of a bale of cotton, but they were separated by bystanders. Shortly after, however, the men soon renewed their fight, and mutually agreed, in order that neither should lave an advantage over the other, that they snould clasp their left hands together and fight only with their right hands. Thus arranged, each man, with a revolver in his right band, began the bloody work. Seven shots were exchanged, and one of the men fell dead with four bullets iu his head and breast, while the other sank to the ground, bleeding and dying from two or three desperate wounds.

Illegitimate births are steadily on the increase in France, the figures being 68,227 in 1880, 70,079 in 1881, 71,305 in 1882, 74,213 in 1883, and 75,754 in 1884.

Canadian canoes are establishing them* selves on the Thames, and promise to sham with the more capacious steam launch the honors of popular favoritism.