The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06
other day, from midnight to midnight,
"a hours
Yours truly,
LEONARD B. HODGES.
Sec'y MINI. State Forestry Association
CURRENT NEWS OF THE WEEK

e4anOrla, Egypt.
The ice at Mackinac is heavier than it
was fortnight ago.
The London stock market was in i'm
proved condition yesterday.
The bishop of Urgel is about to pro-
coed to Rome TO resign his see in Spain.
Betting on the English boat-race was
last night five to four in favor Of Cam
bridge.
The bill for taxation OF church proper
ty was rejected in the Massachusetts
house by large majority.
A boiler exploded on the Glasgow and
Southwestern RailrfcSd yesterday. and
killed five persons and wounded nine.
The japanese steamship Toward has
been wrecked in the Arabian Sea, and
nearly five hundred Persian pilgrims
who were on board were lost
Wagner receives IS 900 in gold for his
Centennial March; rather less than
Mrs. Belknap received from her Marsh,
but still pretty good pay.
The Ohio senate has passed bill to
revoke the state certificate of life insur-
ance companies which assess the state
tax upon their policy holders.
During the year 1875 there were man
ufaetured in the city of Rochester, N. Y,
$4,000 barrels of ale and beer, in which
217 1897 bushels OF malt were consumed.
Mr.. C!app, ofthe Government Print
ing Office comes next in order. The
House Printing Committee are attending
to his case. Is he to be made tpye
of?
The Oldest public functiontry in Wash.
ington is Mr.. William Hunter, Second
Assistant Secretary of State. He was
appointed clerk in the department in
May. 1929, when Andrew Jackson was
President
Master Dewitt, son of Mrs. Stoddard,
New York Spiritualist, has been steal
ing his mothers electricity. "Who steals
my purse, etc., but he who robs me of
my electricity steals that which nor en-
riches him and mikes me poor indeed"
The United States express office at Al
bion' Ohio, was robbed of f25, 900 to
$50, BOO last night, the robbers having
entered the safe with the key taken from
the pocket of the clerk, who slept in a
room over the office.
The council clerk and other officials #
St. Louis have been arrested on indict-
ments tor receiving money in connection
with the passage of bill by the council
for the Northwestern street railway Of
that city.
A general meeting OF bishops held at
Paris Yesterday issued vigorous protest
against the last assembly's university law
being modified SO as to withdraw the
right OF conferrlng degrees from Catholic
universities connected with the state.
Charles Brent charged with forging
and uttering check for SIS, 900 on the
Fall City Tobacco Bank ofLouisyille,
KY. was brought up at the Bow Street
Police Court, London, yesterday, and
| committed for extradition.
Ten carloads Of machinery, including
engines, boilers, ETC.. were shipped from
St. Louis, yesterday. via San Francisco,
for Nicholawsk, Siberia, where they are
to be put into eight steamers being built
at that point for the Amoor river.
1t is believed in Washington that At
torney General Pierpont has furnished
j. Proctor Knott pledge Of immunity
for Whitley, ex-chief OF detectives. to be
given to Whitley if he tells fully and fair
" the facts ofthe safe burglary conspir-
acy.
At midnight Friday night fire bsoke
out in the Fort Clark horse railway COM
pany's stables at Peoria, III. and the
buildings we're destroyed, together with
seventeen horses and nine mules. which
We. . burned to death. Loss about 81 900 !;
insured for $500.
The Senate bill appointing commits
sion to investigate the financial and dis
ciplinary management of the State pris-
ons passed the House yesterday with
amendments. and now goes back to the
Senate for concurrence IN the amend
ments.
The New York Times says: "Tbe
man who can comprehend what is the
real matter in dispute between the off,
GERS Of the navy. will have surpassed the
ablest achievements Of Newton and La
place, and will render himself the ines
Unable benefactor of a puzzled and ex-
asperated public"
A party Of rDughs and thieves have
| robbed and tried to scare away from
| Somerville, Tenn. the mercantile firm Of
| Hirsh Bros, but the citizens have forced
them to remain by organizing for their
defense and the detection and punish
ment of the fellows who threatened and
robbed them.
The revelations before the Committee
on the Expenditures in the War Depart
ment are as amazing - ever. The Pres
ident and his brother, brother-in-law and
brother-in-laws brother in-law figured
in the testimony taken Yesterday. In
the meanwhile lampoons on Clymer are
very popular with the rural Republican
newspapers.
1--WE do mot know that it is any Of our
Guinness. bat We should like to know
what prominent member Of the Cabinet
will be called to fdtnishtbe lamb for the
Republican burrt-ofenng in Connect
cut next week. Because as witness the
result ia Now Hampshire nothing less
than 5candalous exposure seems to
l q rnspao the fricuds If eho Admin sa4xaf s<u