Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It has been discovered that Mr. Charles Foster, Consul to Elborfeld, Germany, was not, at the time ho took his oath of office, a citizen of tho United States, and that he will, consequently, have to he recalled. A firG which started on the Strand at Galveston, Texas, swept southeastward with gaeat rapidity, destroying 400 dwellings and residences, many of the inmates narrowly escaping. A high wind which prevailed at the time aided the progress of tho flames, which found easy prey in tho wooden structures covering tho burned district. One thousand families wore rendered temporarily homeless, and tho financial loss will approximate $2,500,(100, with less than $1,000,000 insurance. Tho buildings on forty and one-half blocks, or one hundred acres, were swept away by tho tiro. Colonel B. G. Ingersoll has sold his residence and furniture iu Washington to Andrew B. McCreary, a California millionaire, for $45,000. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs says there have been a great many boomers in Oklahoma, hut they are being rapidly removed by the military and serious trouble is not anticipated. A. J. Edgerton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota, has resigned. An official denial is sent out of the report that the Secretary of State is one of tho movers in a diplomatic project to secure the neutrality of the islands of tlie Pacific which aro not now occupied by Continental Powers.