Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE WESTERN STATEB. A Jefferson City (Mo.) special announces the death of Governor Marmaduke, of pneumonia, after an illness of two days. General John 8. Marmaduke became Governor of Missouri January 1, 1885. During the war he served in the Confederate army, where he gained his title of “General” He became known as a man of unflinching courage, and in September, 1863, fought a duel with General Walker, of Memphis, also in tho Confederate service. Walker and Marmaduke were officers of the same rank, but neither would recognize the other as his superior. Hot words ensued and the duel was the result The conditions of the meeting were that the men should use their side arms ai thirty paces, advance, and fire until one or both were killed. At the third shot Walker fell, mortally wounded, dying without uttering a word. Shortly aftorward Gen. Marmadukejsucceeded to the command and conducted the Confederate retreat from Little Rock. During this retrograde movement the fighting was almost continuous, and the reckless bravery displayed by Gen. Marmaduke was attributed to remorse. Since his inauguration as Governor of Missouri he got into a dispute with Mayor Rainwater, and a duel was imminent, but tho matter was amicably settled by friends. The Adventists of Battle Creek, Mich., fully persuaded that the day of doom is close at hand, are discarding jewelry and making other preparations. At a meeting the other night $5,000 was raised to establish missions. A passenger car on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Road was upset at Alma, Mich., by a bad frog. Six persons were fatally injured, and the north-bound train was detained for hours. A Clearwater (Minn.) telegram says that town is exercised over the strange return to life of a boy of 13 years. Willie Baxter died of diphtheria. The ensuing day his body was made ready for tho coffin and the family left the room. Haif an hour after some one returned to the apartment and found the boy up and dressed in his every-day clothes. He insisted that he was not dead, and was not going to die. However, in about au hour, during which time he talked cheerfully to those around him, and seemed to be getting batter, he suddenly fell over as though struck by lightning, and was stone dead in in instant