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# THE WEST.
FRANK T. SWEENEY, fire marshal of the Town of Lake, a suburb of Chicago, committed suicide recently by cutting his throat. He was an Andersonville prison veteran.
DR. JAMES SCOTT, author of the famous Scott Liquor law, died at his home at Lebanon, O., recently, aged seventy-three years. He had been a member of the Ohio Legislature eighteen years.
THE much tangled Lindauer litigation at Chicago has finally been put in shape for settlement by an agreement. The present receiver and assignee will retire.
THE Liberal Committee (anti-Mormon) of Utah has issued a circular protesting against the admission of the Territory as a State under present circumstances.
AN Indian Territorial convention was held at Baxter Springs, Kan., on the 18th, which was well attended by delegates from Western cities and also by chiefs of various Indian tribes. Strong resolutions advocating the opening of the Territory were passed.
Two French hunters who left Helena. Mont., October 25, on an expedition up the Missouri river. have been found drowned in the upper river.
CHARLES GORDON & CO., wholesale dealers in furniture and carpets, Chicago, have failed with unknown assets and liabilities.
THIRTEEN loaded coal cars were wrecked near Battle Creek, Mich., recently, on the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw railway. Conductor Lincoln was fatally hurt.
MRS. ANNA SHOOTS, of Zanesville, O., who had been on trial at Cambridge for two weeks was acquitted of the charge of poisoning her little daughter. Two other indictments for murder are still pending against her.
AN entire business block in Iron Mountain, Mich., was destroyed by fire the other morning, causing a loss of $80,000 to seven firms.
THE Minnesota official returns are: For President-Harrison, 142,492; Cleveland, 104,385; Fisk, 15,311; Streeter, 1,097. For Governor-Merriam, Republican, 134,355; Wilson, Democrat, 110,251; Harrison, Prohibition, 17,026; Paul, Labor, 385; scattering, 72. Four years ago Blaine's plurality was 41,620; now Harrison's plurality is 38,107. The Republicans gain three Congressmen.
LEE R. SANBORN & SON, lumbermen of Alpena, Mich., have made an assignment with $70.000 liabilities.
THE officers of the order of Railroad Conductors deny that the California revolt is of any importance, and state that the new order is organized to affiliate with brotherhoods which believe in strikes.
REV. ISAAC EHRET, editor in chief of the Christian Standard, of Cincinnati, and an intimate friend of the late President Garfield, died recently.
THE fire in the great copper mine at Calumet, Mich., is out, but the shaft is still closed because of gas.
THE Ostrander Manufacturing Company of Ostrander, Wis., has made an assignment with $30,000 liabilities.
CHARLES WILHITE's residence in Haughville, Ind., was wrecked recently by an explosion of natural gas and Mrs. Wilhite fatally burned.
THE execution of the condemned Bald Knobbers has been postponed to February 15 next. Governor Morehouse ordered the postponement at the solicitation of Judge Hubbard, who tried the cases.
THE only request General Harrison made of the committee in charge of his inauguration was that the veterans of his old Indiana regiment should act as his body guard.
PRESIDENT THOMAS, of the suspended California National Bank of San Francisco, has issued a statement, showing assets of $718,000. He claimed the liabilities amounted to the same figures.
THE two small children of Mrs. Staff, colored, living in Indianapolis, Ind., were burned to death the other morning during the absence of their mother.
