The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-12-17
THE NEWS.


Gen. Butler is expected to defend
Frank Moulton in the Edna Dean Proc
tor suitfor libel.
Francis Alexander was yesterday |
elected president and VIM. II. Fogg d. |
rector Of the Pacific Mail company.
Three thousand workers in the jute
mills of Dundee, Scotland, have struck
against reduction Of wages.
The next triennial conclave OF
Knights Templar is t o be held at Cleve-
land, Ohio, in 1877.
WIN. nutchins, an engineer on the
G. C. & G. l. railway, was instantly
killed by the explosion of locomotive
at Delaware, O., Saturday.
Three incendiary fires have &C.
Cured at Franklin, Ind, within two
weeks. The last destroyed the court
| house.
The printers of Jacksonville, Ind,
having struck against a reduction OF
wages, both the daily papers OF that
city were temporarily suspended yester-
day.
One DR.. H. B. Mitchell, collecting
subscriptions for Kansas relief IN st.
Louis and elsewhere, is discredlted oy
the relief committee in that State.
George Hunter, one of the editors
of the Scotsman of New York, was
murdered Saturday night on 18th
street in that city by unknown per-
sons.
Senior CASTELAR, is president of a
board of commissioners appointed by
: the Spanish government to represent
that country at the Philadelphia CEN
tennial.
Several members Of the Brooks
party Of Arkansas are in Washington,
prepared to urge Congress to upset
things in their now quiet State.
! Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, for.
merly Governor Of Trinidad, has been
appointed the British Governor of the
Fiji islands.
Five fresh cases of small pox are
reported in the Liverpool workhouse
among the detained steerage passenger:
S of the steamer Abbottsford.
The Postmaster General has issued
an order forbidding letter carriers is
suing New Years addresses calculated
g to induce the public to make them gifts
e Prof. Watson Of the American
party at Pekin for observation of thu
: Transit of Venus, discovered Oct. Stf
new asteroid of the llth magnitude.
IS The Pope has absolutely refused
II to recommend the Bishop imprisoned IL
5 Brazil to resign his see as a measure o
n reconciliation Of differences with tn
government.
d jules Courtlay, well known liq
r, uor merchant of New Orleans, missin
,e since November oath, with $4,000 i
he his pocket, is supposed, but not known
n to have been murdered for his money
a. The Grand Encampment of knight
In Templar at New Orleans did not fix tn
uniform except to prefer the baldrlc
as plume and gauntlet, leaving the blac
a. uniform to be worn at the option {
" those having it in use.
lis The Supreme Court of the Distric
I'd of Columbia, in another case, has d.
n cided that the grand jury which il
&c dicted the safe burglars was illegal
chosen. Hence its action was null al
IN void.
70 The Grand Vizier Of Turkey hi
sued the editor of the suppress,
Lerant Herald for defamation of cha
en- acter. Even IN Turkey they accu
ne editors OF being libellous when the
tell the truth.
at VIM. Walter Phelps, defeated f
re- Congress by four votes in the fifth Ne
oh Jersey district, has written to Angu
tus Cutler, his opponent, contradictiI
M the rumors that he would contest, al
"A congratulating Cutler upon his electio
of Several bills for granting an amt
tv to Garibaldi were introduced yests
-, dav in the Italian Chamber of Deputi
"a and the Ministry, agreeing that an a
.d nuitv should be granted, promised th
they would present a bill for the pr
pose.
3 One of the first questions to
u settled by the commissioners of
Aa- Alabama claims is whether a Britt
TN subject, serving as seaman on ca
as tured vessel. is entitled to indemnity
: The stockholders Of the Paci
Mail steamship company are anxlou:
eur waiting for an official report which
ast. promised in ten days and is expected
ave explain the heavy losses Of the co
pany.
tire The cheap transportation COW
ay. ton in session at Richmond, Va. '
ing favor. it is said, liberal national sui
sly, dies both to railway and water rout
and The Southern Pacific railway appe
to be largely represented in the c
the vention.
int The Argentine government
was concluded peace with its rebels
ION granting a general amnesty. But tn
emit must always be rebellion amsng
feet South American republics and no'
serious one has broken out in Urugu
IS 1t is again reported from Bue
ich- Avres that Gen. Mitre, the Argent
by rebel. has surrended with his army
Da- conditionally, restoring peace IN
lere State of Buenos Ayres, while Arr
dondo. the other rebel leader, is fiy
Fl. before the national troops
ON A match game of billiards. ii
TO- ball carom. 500 points, for $1,000.
-ses. tween vignaux and Cyrille Dion,
har- played last night and resulted In the
the feat of Dion by score of 500 to
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