Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

It is announced that the warehousemen of Toledo have decided upon making an important reduction in the rates for the stor- , age of grain. The new tariff will be one- ‘ half cent per bushel for the first ten days or part thereof, and a quarter of a cent per bushel for each succeeding ten days that the grain mar remain in store.... J. H. Dixon has arrived in St. Louis from India to collect evidence of the death of his former employe, C. Arthur Preller, in order to secure some $5,000 life insurance in England... .The funeral of the late Judge David Davis took place at Bloomington. DI., on the 20th ult. The attendance was very large, and numbered many distinguished people. John H. Cast, Sheriff of Buchanan County, Mo., has been sued for $120,000 by fifteen leading business of St. Joseph, for levying upon’ the stock of I. Wei <t Co. in the interest of foreign creditors. C. P. Hvntinoton has recommenced work on the International Railway, which crosses the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, and intends within a year to connect with the Mexican Central at Villa Lerdo.