The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-25
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Snow fell to the depth of nearly foot
at Des MONIES, Iowa, on the 18th.
The Russian Car has ratified the
Berne postal convention treaty.
All sub-boards Of the civil service re.
form system have been abolished.
Hooper, Reese & Co., bankers and
brokers' in Baltimore, have failed.
"A severe snow storm prevailed over
Southern Ohio and Indiana on the 18th.
The storm of Monday and Tuesday.
the 18th and 10Th, il Nebraska, was &C
companied by intense cold.
Senator Thurman has offered reso-
luton fixing the Goth as the day when
the Senate will adjourn sine die.
The Prussian Landtag has passed the
bill. by an overwhelming vote, withdraw
ing state grants from Roman Catholic
bishops.
A motion in the French Assembly to
restore Paris to its position as capital OF
the na.ion was defeated on the 18th by
vote of 3l7 to 3O5.
Andrew Egncr, one Of the tan yard
murderers of Cincinnati. has been found
guilty in the first degree. The jury were
out about twenty hours.
The bill repeating the local option
law passed both houses Of the Pennsyl.
vania Legislature on the 18th. The re-
peal bill enacts general license law
Two Utah snow slides occurred on
the 18th in each Of which one man was
lost and others were dug out alive from
under thirty to seventy feet OF snow.
The friends and followers Of Vasquez,
the Pacific slope brigand, who was SEN
fenced to be executed on the 18th, peti-
toned for postpsnement, threatening
dire vengeance if it was not granted.
st. Patrick's Day was generally Gel.
ebrated with appropriate religious cere-
monies and with public displays and en-
; tertainments in all the principal cities of
this country and throughout Ireland.
Marshal Packard telegraphs that the
Congress committees arbitration gives
the Conservatives eight majority in the
lower house Of Louisiana. This leaves
the Republicans small majority on JOINT
ballot.
A terrible tornado passed over tho
lower part Of Richland, S. G.. on the 10Th.
A house was blown down and trees were
s torn up or twisted into splinters. Two
/. persons were killed and several badly
. wounded.
Capt. Celso Mareno, liberator OF the
: little Italian slaves, has left Washington
: for the East, and thence is coming West,
: for the purpose Of enforcing the law de-
signed to put an end to the padronc sys-
tenn through the country.
At Fa-querville, Utah, on the 18th,
man named Fryer entered the house Of
: a Mr.. Bailey and shot Bailey twice, then
entered the room where Bailey's wife and
i child were in bed, and shot them ooth.
d Fryer was supposed to be insane. he was
# killed by the sheriff when making the ar
) rest.
IS The agents Of the British lines OF
steamers between the United States and
IS English ports have made an inquiry
a whether, under the laws Of the United
!, States, their vessels may transport pas
- sengers from place to place in the United
n States. The government has declined to
authorize such proceedings.
;. "A Wilkesbarrc, Pa, dispatch OF the
= night Of the 18th, reports the three
: bridges which were carried away from
Vc Pittston, iammed in an ice gorge three
4 miles above Wilkesbarrc. Eight miles
as below is another ice gorge, the breaking
nc Of which is expected with fears Of grea
destruction to property below.
on I'm the case Of the Molinski family, o
he Chicago, wretchedly poor Polish Jews
Dy the wife and children Of which were dis
is covered dying few days ago. from SOM
%. poisonous influence, the coroner's jur.
IL. have been unable to make up q verdic
v, and is waiting developments. Theodor
Molinski, the head OF the family, is hell
without bail on suspicion Of having trie'
'm to kill all his family.
:. Gen. JEFF. Jones Of Missouri has II
.. troduced in the Missouri Legislature
ak resolution plcdging amnesty to the Jane
to and Younger brothers for their crime
ng committed during the war and lnvltln
en- those notorious robbers and murderers
We surrender themselves for trial for ofiense
committed since the war. The object
tod such resolu ton is not visible at Tn
,ed distance.
-he -rGov. Chamberlain, Of South Carol
~ ma, in yetong bill to liquidate the ffoa
-, 80 ing deb. Of the State, says the maJorit
80 of the claims embodied in the bill are III
~ paid legislative certificates, which ha'
"s been made to cover vast frauds, and III
SCI. ,s Their exasperates the legislators by int
~ mating that they have been very extra
agant in their appropriations.
A Scranton, Ia, dispatch Of tn
the night Of the 18th says: "West Pittstt
ltes stands between two foods, one Of whit
per broke through ravine At the base Of u
mountains this morning, cutting of u
r.d flight Of the inhabitants, who sought y
IN mountains for safety. The losses by I!
ne food and obstruction to railroad traf
cen will not fall short Of one pillion dollars