The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-09

Louisville, New Orleans & Chicago, near
Terre Haute, Ind, the 18th, went through
. 40 foot trestle, killing the conductor,
engineer and head brakeman.
At Baltimore, Saturday morning last,
Daniel Brown. colored, was shot dead in
ball room. during disturbance, by
Phillip Mcdonald, q policeman. The
officer was committed to jail to await the
action Of the grand jury.
Van Pelt, the saloon keeper who sur
rendered to the Ohio crusaders and made
money as well as notoriety out of his
Temporary adhesion to the temperance
cause, when last heard from was under
arrest At Cape Girardeau, Mo-, charged
with stealing wagon and harness.
In the lower OF Butler oil district of
Pennsylvania plot is said to have been
discovered among the unemployed work.
men to set fire to all the tanked petro-
leum. Their object, of course, is to COM
pei the oil companies to resume opera.
tons giving them employment again.
The jury in the Waddy Thomson case
at Memphis, were, Saturday evening, the
3lst, unable to agree, standing nine for
conviction and three for acQuittal. Should
they fail to agree and be discharged Wad-
dy Thompson will have to be in Jail until
the next term Of court, as horse stealing,
with which he stands charged, is, in Ten
nessee, capital offense.
A young lawyer of Clyde, New York,
named Adam V. Forbes, has been ar
rested for printing his own tickets for
travel on the New York Central railway.
He had small press and type at his own
house where he printed his tickets. He
says he printed only fifty, used but five,
and never gave any away, but he is likely,
nevertheless, to have . long term in
prison.
A dispatch received from Commodore
Cooper, commanding the navy yards at
Pensacola, SAYS: 1.-THE yellow fever
epidemic at Barraneas is fearful. Keep
all strangers away. We are doing day
and night to care for the sick there. II
we are spared hope there will be thor.
ough and close investigation Of the cause
1t is feared there is some local cause for
this disease.
A cyclone Of great severity and extent
passed through Harveysburg, Fountain
county. Ind. on the 25th ultimo, tearing
houses to pieces, uprooting trees, and
sweeping things generally before it.
Five women were killed. Among the
names OF the killed thus far ascertained
are Mrs. Sewers. Mrs. Savage and Mrs
Patterson. A hired girl and little child
Of Mrs. Sewers are also among the vic.
Tins.
A New Orleans dispatch states that
most serious riots are apprehended
at East Feliciana, where the negroes
have assumed the offensive and are col.
lecting and arming. through the parish,
for the supposed purpose of capturing the
town Of Clarion. Great excitement pre-
walls throughout the parish, and mum
Der of whites, armed, are congregated t.
patrol the town. BAD feeling has existed
between the people IN that parish fol
some months.
The coroner's jury in the 5th Of, July
Southside railroad murder, have fount
the following verdict: 1--WE hereby Sc
verely censure the railway company IL
not employing good and competent per
sons, or sufficient number, to operate
the road safely; also in not having ap
proved brakes attached to their cars, ano
in altering their time table on a public
holiday also putting as general manager
over the road an inexperienced man, with
power to direct and control Supt. Barton
and Trainmaster Barr and we exonerat,
Supt. Barton and Traimaster Barr from
all blame."
Information reached the police of New
York late on Wednesday night, the 2lst
that five men, on the tug-boat Michae
Morton. which lay At the wharf IN TIT
East river, kidnapped in the street Mrs
Louisa Merritt. wife of Col. Merritt, o
the United States army, and taking he
aboard the boat, all outraged her. Tw,
Of the miscreants have been arrested, bu
the others are at large. The lady is re
spectacle aud moves in the best society
and her husband has long been HONORABLE,
connected with the army. It is feare,
that Mrs. Merritt will die. She is in tn
Park hospital