The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
Miscellaneous News Items.

from Turkey.
The armistice in Turkey has been
prolonged until March LIST.
Gen. Crooks expedition is ended and
returned to Fort Laramie.
Mayor Ely was installed in Office in
New York, on the ID inst.
A snow slide near Salt Lake buried
six persons, OF which four persisted.
The public debt was increased last
month by three and half millions.
1t is now reported from Asiatic Tnr-
key that the plague has re-apreared at Bag
dad.
Senator Ferry was renOmlnated for
Senator in the Michigan legislature on the
3D.
A strike on the Grand Trunk rail-
way in Canada stopped all trains, on the LIST
inst.
The grand total of internal revenue
receipts tor the six months ended Dec. 3O,was
$57, 1856 sos.
Fire at Cornham, Texas, burned
twelve business houses. Loss $lO0, 900 par
t ally insured.
The murderer of Wild Bill, John
Me- Tall, has been sentenced to be hanged no
the first of March.
Fifty of the recently discharged en-
ployees oil the bureau of engraving and print
ing have been replaced.
Four hundred thousand dollars worth
of silks laces and jewelry in one uptown New
York church, last Sunday.
Passenger rates to New York have
been advanced to s from Chicago Until
now roads have been carrying at Centennial
rates, and another advance is expected soon.
1t is positively stated that Austria S
representatives at the conference OF powers are
instructed to leave Constantinople if the
Porte does not accept the proposals. of the
powers.
AS there is now no government in
Mexico, the United States forces have been
ordered to take such steps as wi insure the
protection of pereons and property upon the
Texas frontier.
j, Three thousand boxes of smuggleG
Havana cigars, seized by United States officer:
in New York city, were seized by the SNUG
glers the following night, while the watch
men were sleeping.
Flippin, Harrison and Markham got
| into quarrel at Pilot Point, Texas, while at
tending New Years ball, and tlppin wa
shot and instantly killed, and Harrison wa
! mortallv wounded by Markham.
: A snow storm visited the entir
: country on the Cd inst In the east it is re
e ported as the heaviest tor years, while in tn
|. south, even in Mississippi, nearly all railroa
i trains are blockaded, and tra6c completed
l stopped.
The prizes for oratory by the Inter
= Collegiate Literary Association were won .
= New York 10y Frank Foster Laird, of Hami
= ton College, and Samvel Douglas Dodge,
q Williams College. Ten colleges were repr,
; sented.
s.. Ed. Hanlon, winner of the singl
a scull race at the Centennial regatta, publish
le challenge to William Scharf, of Pittsbur
II offering to row him in Toronto Bay for fro
r. $500 to $4,000 side, allowing him a la
q, amount for expenses, the race to take pla
s, early in June.
|y Mr.. Moody, the Evangelist. cal
CT upon all Sunday schools in the country
take up a penny collection on January IA
g. for the support and education of the chiidr
he of P. P. Bliss, and for erecting monument
sc the memory of the late evangelist.
IN Three former employees OF Dodd
le express company, New York, has been |
le rested, charged with cutting mail bags a
- abstracting letters, while conveying the b
~. from that city to Jersey City and Brook'y
~ and warrants are out tor the arrest of other
LIZA Denmark has had its first fatal "a
), way accident. A train conveying 100 lab
-. ers to clean a snow blockade ran off I
70. track and nine persons were killed and thi
20 severely hurt The injured suffered grea
no iren cold and the difficulty of sending ass
ras ance.
his There have been several snow Sill
he in Little Cottonwood cannon on the U.
ce, railroad, Within the past three weeks, car
as ing away several hundred feet Of snow SD
tho over the railway. One occurred above
me which buried in their cabin two Frenchm
who were suffocated.
Louis A. & Charles L. Crawford. s
led cesssrs to L. Craw ford 4 Son, coal deal
inc Cleveland, fled petition in the Conr
any Pleas Cour.., claiming damages at SIG, 10