The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-06

Nellie Spencer, formerly of Chicago,
and then of Evansville, Ind, wearing male
apparel. has been for some time success
| full thief and burglar but is at last in
prison. She. is but % years old and is de-
scribed as extremely pretty as well as
wicked.
Pemberton, the murderer Of Mrs.
Bingham, of East Boston, who is in the
East Suffold Jail, under sentence of death,
made desperate attempt last week to
commit suicide, by using pieces of glass
| and trying with them to cut to the ar
| teries in his neck and arms.
A brute named C. A. Lathrop was
caught Saturday the 21st, ip the act Of
attempting to rape an eight year old
daughter of DR.. Reynolds of Tiffin county.
The affair caused intense excitement, and
it was with great difficulty the neighbors
could be kept from lynching the brute.
On the 9th, the steamer Smoky City,
bound south with tow containing $780,
600 bushels of coal, struck bar sixty
miles below Cairo, sinking the entire feet
except the full barge. The tow belonged
to w. B. Brown of Pittsburg, and had DO
insurance.
Geo. W. Lord, Jr., one of the New York
canal ring and ex-member Of the State
legislature, has been arrested and taken
to Albany on charge Of bri berry in pro-
curing legislation for the payment OF
100000 to a contractor in 1871. He was
bailed in $4,000.
At the suit of Geo. Reed against the
Wisconsin Central railroad company and
George j. Bigelow and John A. Stewart,
trustees, the circuit court for Milwaukee
county has granted an injunction re-
straining the company from selling the
remainder of its first mortgage bonds.
An old Italian miser of St. Louis, for
some reason unknown, on the night of
the Goth threw his little girl Of six years
of age from sixth story window and
then fled and escaped arrest. The child
was perfectly naked and her legs, arms
and jaws were crushed by the fall, so that
she died soon afterward.
In the Linn district of the Cherokee
nation, |. T., on the 10Th inst, woman
named Emeline Jones, who was promi-
nent witness in murder case soon to
come up for trial, was brutally and re-
pcatedly outraged by ruffians, and then
assassinated. 1t is supposed that the
purpose of the murder was TO get her out
of the way as a witness.
Philip Cook, carpenter of Boonton,
N. j., is under arrest for having attempt
ed to get rid of his wife by starvation.
He had locked her in room where, when
discovered. she was insensible, and so re-
duced that but little hope of her recovery
is entertained. Cook was influenced to
his hellish crime by desire for another
woman.
Col. D. R. Anthony, who was shot in
the Leavenworth Opera'House on the 10th
Of May last by w. w. Embrey. made
his appearance on the street for the first
time on the Odd, after having been con-
fined to his room for 104 days. The case
has baffled the efforts of all the medical
fraternity both East and West, and they
are both loath to know what technical
term to apply to the wound. Colonel
Anthony will make . visit in few days
to Rochester, N. Y, where he goes for
further medical treatment.
The story which has been published of
two young women being outraged and
thrown overheard from trading vessel.
between Nova Scotia and Boston. is now
discredited. The young women were
drowned in the laundering Of the vessel,
and their father, being crazed by their
fate, imagined the terrible story Of their
being outraged and murdered.
On the morning of the Goth the body
of farmer named Thomas McCarty, of
Franklin, Milwaukee county, Wis, was
found in saloon kept by August Bau.
mann. Subsequently Baumann commit
ted suicide, presumably from remorse at
having killed McCarty. The two had
been drinking, and, it is supposed, be.
come involved in quarrel.
A San Francisco telegram Of the Goth
says: 1t is understood that George NJ.
Pinney, prominent politician Of Ala
media county, and purchasing clerk Of
the q. S. navy at this city, is charged
with extensive frauds in purchases. tits
understood the charges were forwarded
to the admiral in command at Mare Island
last week.