The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-12
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

-Ihe Chicago relief committee for
the Nebraska sufferers by locust depre-
dations have collected $6, 500 in money,
food and clothing.
-Thos. c. King, prominent for
warding merchant of Buffalo, N. Y,
has committed suicide by drowning
himself in a cistern.
Two horse thieves caught in the
act at Brinkley, Ark, were promptly
condemned by Judge Lynch's court
and shot to death.
In the second Congress district of
Illinois Harrison, Dem, has seven ma
jurity. In the first district Garfield,
DEM, has 697 majority.
-Forgers of Philadelphia city war;
rants have bled the brokers Of that
city to the amount of $4,000 and es-
capped with their spoil.
Three hundred and fifty persons
are thrown out of employment by the
failure Of George Reaz, envelope manu-
fact turer. New York city.
Immense preparations are making
at New Orleans for the convention Of
Knights Templar Dec. lst. Seven to
ten thousand are expected, all CT whom
will be well provided for.
The preliminary examination Of
Count Won Arnim being concluded, it is
believed the German Attorney General
will decide that the case shall 90 to trial
and the trial he public.
1t is stated that, notwithstanding
their agreement to the contrary, the
trunk railroads, east and west, are still
paying commissions on the sale of tick.
cts.
The county officers of Shelby
county, KY, have arrested three of the
men suspected of being in the masked
mob which killed negro girl in that
county last month.
Bishop Bacon funeral at Portland.
Maine, yesterday, was largely attended.
The requiem mass was celebrated BY
Bishop Williams and Archbishop Nc
Closkey preached the funeral sermon.
George Cheney, Collins Graves,
Jerome Hillman and NJ. Day, the
heroes of the Williamsburg reservoir
disaster, were decorated with gold med
ais at public meeting at Florence,
Mass. yesterday.
The rebellion in Buenos Ayres. ac-
cordlng to government advices, is to be
suppressed in sixty days, exactly the
time fixed by Mr.. Seward for the sup
preston of the rebellion of 1861 in this
country.
The Carlists deny that Don Carlos
is or has been on French soil. The
government forces are making a con-
certed movement intended to drive the
Don and his adherents into France.
DR.. William Parker of Connells-
vile. Pa. has been bound over fo1 trial
on charge of using U. S. mails to defraud
members Of the British Parliament.
His method Of operations is not stated.
John II. Putnam, private secretary
to Gov. Allen Of Ohio, being i'll at
night, thought to take dose Of pare.
goric but instead took an overdose Of
Fowler's solution of arsenic. A
stomach pump saved his life.
Father Gerdemann. the runaway
Catholic priest Of Philadelphia, is said
to be defaulter to the amount of $45.-
900. The church Of which he was pas
tor will pay $4,000 to savings deposi-
tors whose money was taken by Gerde-
mann.
The Sumpter county (Ala.) Demo
Gratis who were arrested and aken to
Mobile ON the charge of conspiring
against government detective, have
been honorably discharged, the Judge
declaring there was no evidence against
them.
The only evidence against halfdoz-
en- respectable citizens of S. .Martinsville,
La. who are held for trial for violation
OF the enforcement act, is from a negro
named Heist. who says they scared him
so at the polls that he fed the parish
and thereby lost his cotton crop.
In the New York billiard tourna-
ment yesterday Slosson beat Daniels by
BOO to l69: winners average 8 2O-33.
Slosson made runs of Sc, rs. %. Jos.
Dion beat Ubassy by 300 to 1913: win
ners average II 1927. Daily beat Gar
nier by 300 to LIS.
The difficulty of identifying the
person arrested on supposition that he
was Nena Sahib. the author Of the
Cawnpore massacre, seems. according
to information from India, to be insur-
mountable. So much time has elapsed
that no one is confident of r-collectiug
his features.
The Austrian Court Refuses 70 Aid
Bismarck,s Prosecution.
BERLIN. Nov. 1.-THE municipal tri-
bunal of this city required the provin.
cial court of Vienna to insist upon
Lauser and Lecher, editors of the
Presse. disclosing the source of the Won
Arnim diSnafohac prh1ich ad II, that -