The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-01
THE WEST.

FORTY shippers of live stock and
grain from points on the line of the
Chicago & Northwestern in northwest
ern Iowa have held u meeting at Sioux
City to provide for fling suits against
that company to for over
charges during the last five years.
The Big Four switchmen ut Spring
field, O, were still on n strike. Most of
the men were non-union and the
Switchmen's association held aloof.
LIEUT. Col. J. L. ToURTELoTTE, for
merly Gen. Sherman's chief of staff,
died at his home in Lacrosse, Wis, re-
Gently.
JUDGE WHITE, of Yankton, S. d.,
sustained the demurrer to the indict-
ment against John Becker, charged
with selling liquor contrary to the pro-
hibitory law.
THE receiver has again failed to dis
pose of the huge Whitley reaper works
at Springfield, o.
A SAC and Fox Indian, Deer Foot,
brought the news to Guthrie, Ok, that
two white men were killed in the ma
ton near Bill Harris store by Indian
horse thieves. Deputy United States
Marshal Lilly was reported to be one
of the men.
THE general grant chapter. Royal
Arch Masons of the United States of
America, began its twenty-eighth tri-
ennial convocation at Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 22d. This body is the
largest Masonic body in the world.
EVERYTHING was at a standstill in the
Vanwert CO.. yards because of a strike
of switchmen.
THE Kimball-C Champ Investment Co.,
OF Council Bluffs, Ia, has assigned.
The capital stock vas $500, 900.
THE Hall itzsimmons prize fight at
st. Paul, Mimi, was declared off in
consequence of the general objection
and the order of Gov. Merriam calling
out the militia
Cor. WILLIAM Il. MERRITT died at
Cedar Rapids, H.. aged II. He was
democratic candidate for governor in
1864, postmaster at Des Moines under
Cleveland. and was colonel on Gen.
McClelan's staff during the war.
THOUSANDS of acres of farm lands
were laid waste by hail in North Da-
kota and Minnesota.
THERE is "a strike among the miners
at most of the coal mines in the Indian
territory. All of the men at Hunting
ton, Ark, and at McAlester, /. r., have
quit work.
MINNEsoTIANs propose To try to raise
500, 600 additional for the worlds fair
exhibit.
JUDGE MCKAY, the alliance judge of
Harper county, Kan, was brought be-
fore Judge Horton, who reprimanded
him for his action in the Honeywell
case, but delayed action until Septem-
Der.
The preliminary examination Of
James Brennan resulted in his being
committed for, trial for the murder of
Sam Wood at Hugoton, Kan.
ALL the franchises, tracks, equip
ment, etc, of the Detroit Mich city
railway, controlling eighty miles of
streets, have been sold. The consider
alton was said to be about IS. 900, 900.
JAMES G. FERGUSON, formerly presi-
dent of the board of trade of Indian
apolis, Ind, died at San Jose, Cal, re-
Gently.
ALBEIT IIAMIsToN, SON of Rev. j. A.
Hamiston. and William Ewing, both
young married men, of Greenville, ILL.,,
sought shelter under a tree from a
storm, where they were struck by
lightning and killed.
5. A. KBAN, the bankrupt banker of
Chicago, will pay 81 cents on the dollar.
T~wESTY-Two buildings in South
Haven, Mich, were destroyed by fire.
Loss, $40, 400.
TIE lake schooner Helena was sunk
and one seaman lost in q collision with
u steamer near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.