The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-02

At SciOtOvIllc, SIX miles from Ports
mouth, O., at depth of l,035 feet vein
of gas has been reached, from which it is
thought the city of Portsmouth can be
lighted.
Christian Valentine, John B. Reynolds
and William Hager, rectifers, were az
rested at Milwaukee the 2lst, under in
dictments by the grand jury of the U. S.
| Circuit Court, in session al Oshkosh.
In the cross-examination Of ex.Bishop
Phillip Klingen Smith, which occupied
the court at Beaver, Utah, Saturday af-
corning the Mountain Meadow massacre.
| One hundred and fifty kegs of gunpow-
der were discovered, after the races were
over, under the grand stand at the Mulch.
more park in Canada, divided from the
smoking room by only thin board par.
tition.
Mrs. Mandel, the wife of farmer liy-
ing two miles north of Davenport, Iowa,
was outraged on the 22d, in presence of
her three small children, by negro
tramp. and was dangerously injured.
The villain escaped.
Reisinger' distillery at Pekin, ILL.,, was
stamps, and having fomenting tubs con-
cealrd under ground, and other frauds.
This is the third important seizure there
during the week.
The steamer Eastport from Coro Bay
for San Francisco, Saturday, the Oath,
went ashore on Point Arinas. All hands
were saved except Mrs. Armstrong and
two children. who were drowned while
attempting to enter the boats.
July returns to the Department of Ag-
ricuture at Washington, show that the
average of tobacco, in the large producing
States, it greater than last year, and that
the crop is in most satisfactory condi-
ton, promising yield of 20 per cent.
above the average.
Ten persons were injured by the fall
ing of a wall during the fire AZ Cincin-
natl on the night Of the 10Th. 1t is re-
ported that the floor of the burned build
ing was heavily overloaded with litho-
graphic stones. and presses, which caused
the wall to give way.
The national bank at Winthrop, Me-,
was robbed by burglars, who blew open
the safe Friday morning the 22d, of about
$4,000. The explosion was heard all
over the village and numerous persons
soon arrived at the scene to find the bur-
g.ars and the money gone.
Alexander and William Collie, bank
rupt bankers of London, have heen sent
to Newgate until bail can be procured.
It is stated that the firm ave put from
S7,5OO,OOO to $S,750,00O Of fraudulent
bills ahoat, Of which the London and
e Westminster bank had S2,500,0O0.
The examination at Greenup, ILL.,, Of T
A. Edmunds and A. j. Cochran, charged
with being concerned in the attempted
robbery Of an Adams express car, and tn,
= killing of Engineer Eames, at Long Point
. on the Vandalia road two weeks ago, re
suited in the committal of both withou
bail.
The jury for the trial of Lee, the maj
r who commanded the Mormons and In
+ dams in the Mountain Meadow massacre
r consists Of three Gentiles and nine Nor
r mons. 1t is observed that the Mormon
Jurors have sworn they never heard tn
! massacre talked Of and have no opinion
= about it.
- A writ of habeas corpus in the case Q
. Capt. Gordon, who led the first compan
" of miners into the Black Hills and refuse
to give parole, has been granted. an
~ Gordon ordered sent to Omaha fror
,e Camp Sheridan. where he has been cen
!! fined. He will be here some time in tn
\ first week of August.
s, A band Of outlaws, believed to be larg
IS and closely organized, has for some tim
'e back been operating in south New Yor
st and are now in Mercer county. Pennsylvs
"a MIA, where much alarm prevails in censs
10 quence. 1t is the same band which n
Gently raidcd several residences in tn
+ Hudson river Highlands.
;. A telegram from Montgomery, Ala. {
= the 2lst reports fight between two fam
Gambia counties, in which six men. col
sisting Of the father and two sons on eac
to side. were engaged. Five of the part
$. were killed outright. while the sixth an
~ last has load of buckshst in his sic
is which must cause death. An old famil
feud.
Waddy Thompson. on trial at Men
phis. is under six ndictments-three (,
horse stealing, enc Tor attempt to comm
P larceny, and two for perjury. Being lie
see of the Missouri penitentiary, havi,
Oh figured extensively in habeas corp
cases in Missouri to prevent his bel,
taken to Memphis, and having forfeit,
bond Of $4,000. the case excites co
siderable interest.
The heirs Of DON Joseph Valiieve,
Spanish captain who Was stationed
Arkansas Post in 1893, have commend
nix suit against the United States to recov
% six millions Of acres Of land, alleged
have been granted to DON Vallieve
&c. Baron de Carondelet, the Spanish &c
ernor Of the then province. The gra
covers six counties in Arkansas and abo
dozen in Missouri. being so miles vi
and l26 miles long.
A New York telegram Of the 22d 81
summary Of the losses Of the FIRE
- surance companies for the first SIX mont