The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-30

teen OF the crew 0leu VI SouA Wy uuA Al6
the passage. anu all the remainder were
helpless from it.
N. j. Rice, postofice clerk at Battle
Creek, Mich, is under arrest tor mail
ROBBERY and confessed the crime. His
depredations have been continuous for
months past during which he led fast
life that directed suspicion towards him.
The second trial of Wintermute for the
killing of Gen. McCook began at Vermil-
ion on the 10Th inst, having been taken
from Yankton on change Of venue. The
Hon. J. B. Brown of Indiana, is to assist
District Attorney Gamble in the prosecu-
ton.
A correspondent Of the Toledo Blade,
named Eagan, is believed to have been
drowned in the Missouri. He left Fort
Randall about week ago in skif,3 an
swering the description of one since found
upset, and has not since been seen or
heard from.
Frederick Stouder, man of we'll es.
tablished good character, of Urbana, H..
is under trial for incest on charge pre-
ferred by his daughter, now 81 years old.
whose story is that he has committed the
crime ever since she was 16, and that she
feared to expose him.
VIM. Van Buren,. farmer Of Mclean
county, Illinois, a stoop-shouldered man,
IS years old, left Weston Aug. I'd with
his own team and $1,000 belonging to
DR.. J. G. Green of Wyoming. If he has
not been murdered the Doctor would be
glad to have him arrested.
The bodies of all three of the victims
of the late Passaic Falls accident have
been recovered. Grogan's was lassoed
and hauled up from between the logs
where it hung under the cataract, and
Martin S and Horizons came to the sur.
face in eddies below the falls.
Near Goshen, Ind, Saturday the 18th,
a farmer named Anthony Ralfsnyder,
while oiling a threshing machine, slippc1
into the feed box. His right foot being
instantly drawn into the rapidly revolv-
ing cylinder his leg was torn off inch by
inch to within six inches of his body. He
lived six hours after.
Two men named Green Contrell and A.
Neil supposed to belong to the Franklin
county, ILL.,, ku klux were arrested on
the 10th. Contrell was found to be bad
ly injured, supposed to have been re.
ceived in the fight with the sheriff posse
on the 18th. The sheriff is in pursuit of
the remainder of the band.
Four scoundrels endeavored to cut
the Mississippi levee at Beulah, near Ma
poleon, Ark. on the night of the 9th.
Had they succeeded large property
would have been destroyed and possibly
a number of people been drowned. But
the levce patrol discovered the williams.
killed one, wounded two and captured
the other.
On the evening of the 18th, the wife of
Capt. Phil Bessenger. Of Reading, Pa. ac-
companied by her three children-two
girls and a boy-aged respectively 8. 6
and 3, walked up the tow-path Of the
Union canal. and when three miles north
of the city, threw the children into the
water and then walked in herself. All
were drowned.
Eighty arrests Of negroes alleged to
contemplate an insurrection and murder
of the whites Of the counties Of Wash
ington and jefferson, Georgia, were
made on the 18th. The prisoners
were lodged in Jail without resistance.
The massacre was to take place. it is al.
legged. on the Goth. No further trouble
is Anticipated.
The London Times speaking Of the
Turkish rebellion, says: While we
think the success Of the rebellion would
be calamity at the present time. be-
cause it might precipitate the disruption
Of the Ottoman Empire, and plunge Eu.
rope into mighty war, we cannot blame
the people for seeking to throw off an
intolerable yoke"
James A. Williamson, clerk in the
Interior Department, specially assigned
to duty in the Attorney Generals Office
because Of his knowledge of the
accounts in the celebrated Judge
Wright Indian frauds. lost his right ey,
BY shot at Harpcr's Ferry depot, prsb
ably from an air gun. Circumstances in
dictate that On attempt was made to as
sassinatc him.
| About six miles from Ludington. o,
Lake Michigan. Saturday night the 14th
from the steamer John Sherman, thu
body of a man with life preserver Of
was seen, which is supposed to have beel
Donaldson's. The steamer being benin,
time for her railway connections, was no
stopped. but tug was sent from Luding
ton to search for the body. 1t was no
found, however.
The Osagcs charge Quaker Gibson, thei
agent who is now under investigation
with ineffisiency, fraud. and corruption
with compelling Indians to sign voucher
in blank: with cruelty and neglect t
those who did not comply with his wishe:
vith an attempt to force the Quaker re
| ligion on those who preferred the Catho
lie; with dividing the lands and maxim!
new chiefs. producing discord and strife.
About sixty Italians and thirty to fort
Irishmen are at work upon an insane asy
lum being built at Danvers, Mass, an
the two gangs are At war with each other
The Italians the other night made raj
upon the Irishmcn's boarding house and
after driving the men from bed into tn
street, pretty much destroyed everythin
in the house. The Irish xwore revenge