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

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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 q skiA, an
swering the description of one since found
upset, and has not since been seen or
heard from.
Frederick Stouder, man of well es-
tablished good character, of Urbana, ILL.,.
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 Is, and that she
feared to expose him.
VIM. Van Buren,. farmer of Mclean
county, Illinois, 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
Martins 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, slipped
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.
ITO 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.
~ 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
q number Of people been drowned. But
the levee 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. &C.
companied by her three children-two
girls and boy-aged respectively Q, s
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 instruction 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 a.
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 st the present time, be-
cause it might precipitate the disruption
of the Ottoman Empire, and plunge Eu
rope into a mighty war, we cannot blame
the people for seeking to throw of ar
intolerable yoke"
James A. Williamson, clerk in IN.
Interior Department., specially assigned
to duty in the Attorney Generals Office
because Of his knowledge Of tn,
accounts in the celebrated judy,
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 l4th
from the steamer John Sherman. tn
body ola man with . life preserver o
was seen, which is supposed to have bee
Donaldson's. The steamer being benin
time for her railway connections, was nc
stopped, but tug Was sent from Ludins
ton to search for the body. It was nc
found, however.
The Osagcs charge Quaker Gibson, thei
agent who is now under investigation
With inefiieiency, fraud, and corruption
with compelling Indians to sign voucher
in blank with cruelty and neglect I
those who did not comply with his wishe.
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