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
4 Des Moifes, Iowa, on the 18th.
The Russian Gar has ratified the
Berne postal convention treaty.
An b-boards Of the civil service 70.
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
companiedb By intense cold.
Senator Thurman has offered reso-
luton fixing the Goth as the day when
the Senate will adjourn si1'e de.
The Prussian Landtag has passed the i
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 nation was defeated on the 18th by :
vote Of 81 to 305.
. 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-
yania Legislature on the 18th. The re.
peal bill enacts general license law.
Two Utah snow slides occurred on
! g snh m
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 = postpenement, threatening
dire vengeance if it was not granted.
st. Patrick's Day was generally GEL
ebrated with appropriate religious ccre- !
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
Hover house of Louisiana. This leaves
the Republicans . smallmajority 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
] torn up or twisted into splinters. Two
persons were killed and several badly
J wounded.
Capt. Celso Marcno, 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-ouerville, Utah, on the 18th, .
man named Fryer entered the house Of
: a Mr.. Bailey an shot Bailey twice, then
entered the room where Bailey's wife and
t child were in bed, and shot them both.
/ | FRYER was supposed to be insane He was
t killed by the sheriff when making the ar
: rest.
Tho agents Of the British lines Of
steamers between the United States and
8 English ports have made an inquiry
: whether, under the laws Of the United
:, States, their vessels may transport pas
. sepeers from place to place in the United
! 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
J Pi.tston, jammed in an ice gorge three
s miles above Wilkesbarre. Eight miles
y below is another ice gorge, the breaking
e Of which is expected with fears Of grest
destruction to property below.
n lin the case Of the Molinski family, o
lie Chicago, wretchedly poor Polish jews
y the wife and children Of which were dis
s covered dying few days ago. from SOM
3. poisonous influence, the coroner's jury
|f have been unable to make up verdic
'. and is waiting developments. The0dor
Molinski, the head Of the family, is hell
without bail on suspicion Of ha wing triet
N to kill al his family.
Gen. JEFF. Jones Of Missouri has in
= troduced in the Missouri Legislature
* resolution pledging amnesty to the Jane
TO and Younger brothers for their crime
Dg committed during the war and invitin
n those notorious robbers and murderers
re- surrender themselves for trial for offense
committed since the war. The object {
I'd such resolution is not visible st tn
al distance.
!. -rGov. Chamberlain, Of South Carol
~ ma, in vetoing bill to liquidate the nca
10 ing debt Of the State, says the malorls
q. Of the claims embodied in the bill are VI
:. paid legislative certificates. when %,
hg been made 70 cover vast frauds, and fu
'en ther exasperates the legislators by int
= mating that they have been very extra
agant in their appropriations.
A ScrantoB, Ia, dispatch Of Ii
The night Of the 18th says: "West Pittsts
ter stands between two foods, ons Of WIKI
per broke through ravine 1t the base Of q
mountains this morning. cutting Oh q
al fieht OF the inhabitants, who sought q
~ mountains for safety. The losses BY :!
- food and obstruction to railroad tran
esn win mot fall short Of one pillion dollars
rec The nomination Of ex-Congressm.
mu. In.-L~- - - E1;>f 1seafsrA nf Utah