The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-19

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secret Of the Keely motor.
The Holly water works just completed
at Kansas City, Mo-, were tested the
other day by throwing twelve streams
averaging l2O feet in height.
The Chicago Times of Saturday pub
lishcd special kilograms from seventy diff.
ferent places, and it was not. after all, an
uncommon day for specials.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
called upon National banks for a report
showing their condition at the close Of
business Wednesday, June 80.
An immense water spout descended on
the track of tie Kansas Pacific railroad
near Kit Carson, on the 10th, and carried
away two hundred feet of track.
The lower Missouri valley is largely
under water, and it IS eight days since it
was possible to run . train through on
the Missouri and Hannibal railway.
O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, is to
try again to walk $50 miles in 80 consec-
utive hours, early next month and, if he
succeeds, will shortly after try to walk
from Portland, Me-, to Chicago, in about
% days.
The recent announcement of the dis
covery of silver ore at Petersburg, Michi-
gan, proves to have been \ canard, and
land, which was for q few days priceless,
can now be Fought in the neighborhood
for one dollar per acre.
The next meeting of the National
Grange will be held at Louisville, KY, on
the third Wednesday in November next.
The headquarters of the National Grange
will he removed to Louisville, from Wash
ington, about the first of September.
The town of Lizaux and vicinity, in the
department of Calvados, France, has been
damaged by foundations to the amount of
two millions francs. Farther foundations
in the the vicinity of the Rhine are also
feared, the waters of which are rising
rapidly.
On Gen. Sheridan's recommendation
the President has directed that about
three hundred Indians, the families of
the Kiowas. Comanches and Cheyennes,
sent to st. Augustine, Fla, be transport
ed from the Indian Territory to st. Au-
gustine.
Aswimming match for $1,000 and "the
championship of The world" is to come
off on the I'D inst, in the Delaware river,
between ]. B. johnson, of New York,
and Thomas Coyle, of Chester, Pa They
are to swim . race from Chester to Phila.
delphia, sixteen miles.
National banks are requested, on &C.
count of their being successfully counter
feited, to return for REDEMPTION all five
dollar notes Of the First, Third and Ira
dcrs' National Banks Of Chicago; the
First National Of Paxton, Ill. and the
First National Of Canton, III.
On the part of Mary A Bivcns, a girl
Of Is, suit for $4,000 damages has been
begun against j. j. Kemp, . wealthy
stock dealer of Lexington, Ill, for rape,
alleged to have been committed while she
was employed as a servant in his family.
Kemp declares himself innocent, but is not
generally believed.
Advices from Berne, Switzerland, of
the 9Th, are that a terrible rain and hail
storm visited the Swiss canton of Geneva
and the French frontier. The hail stones
were of unusual size, killing and wound
ing many persons, destroying crops and
damaging much valuable property.
The counters Of money in the treas
urer's office have counted all in the cash
vault and sixteen million Of dollars in the
reserved vault. No errors have been dis
covered, excepting the recently stolen
$4,000. Along with the remainder Of
the funds to be counted are $4,000 Of
silver and $4,000 of nickel coin.
Col. Gildersieeve, captain of the Amer
lean rife team in England, has again ex-
pressed the determination Of the team
not to shoot in another team match on
that side of the Atlantic. The mem bers
Of the team are o separated and can
not be brought together for . week, but
he thinks five or six Of them would be
| glad to shoot at Wimbledon Saturday
next, if Lloyd's cup is offered for compe-
tition to all corners.
Rev. s. d. hinman writes from Red
Cloud Agency. July ID, represent that
the northern Sioux will probably come
into the council. for negotiation ~ to the
Black Hills, but that the council cannot
be held before the last Of August The
Indians, he also suggests, may prefer to
meet at Fort Randall instead of Fort
Sully.
Europe IS well as America suffers from
this being n exceptionally stormy year.
The last great storm reported was in
Switzerland and southeastern France
terrific rain storm accompanied by hail
stones Of unusual size which killed and
wounded many persons, destroyed crops
and injured other property.
Mark Brown was executed at Monti.
cello, N. Y. Friday, for the murder of
Sylvester CHAIR, of Morton, Sullivan
county. He made = long speech from
the scaffold. His wife and child remained
with him to the last The body was
given to the relatives for burial.
A passionate debate-not IN i~nfrequent
occurrence. by the WAYS expected soon
in the French Assembly. when NJ.
Rouher will insist upon the legitimacy of
the hopes entertained by Bonapartists of
the restoration Of the empire. and pre-
dict their ultimate realization.
National banks throughout the coun-