The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-16


Coal miners of Knox county, Tenn, v
to protest againsta proposition to employ l!
convicts at coal mining. Q
The Lake Ontario steamer I. X. Lyon t
was burned Thursday night in Black river e
and two men on the steamer were burned r
to death.
Rev. w. II. n. Clark, rector Of St. a
Paul's Episcopal Church, Augusta, Ga, r
died Thursday morning at the bedside OF |
a parishioneer who had just died.
The Virginia conservative convention
finally nominated Hon. F. w. M. Holiday
for Governor, Gen. James A. Walker for '
Lieutenant Governor, and A. T. Daniel,
the present incumbent, for Attorney Gen
eral
American cotton goods are now sold in
London penny yard cheaper than the
same quality of English manufacture.
1t is ascertained that the consumption OF
raw material and the manufacture of cotton
goods in New England during the first
half of the present year is about six per
cent greater than the first half of the last
year.
The largest highway bridge in iowa IS
soon to be built across the Des Moines
river at Bonaparte, Van Buren, county.
1t is to be of iron, 900 feet long, in six
equal spans. and to be constructed by the |
! King Iron Bridge Company, OF Cleye- |
land
In relation to the statement that the |
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company not being |
a taxpayer at Pittsburg, the county COM
missloners say the company is one OF the
largest tax payers in the county and city,
the sum amounting in the aggregate 10
SIS 900 per annum.
The broad cast advertising business by
, painted signs is about to be carried to such
an extent by one advertising firm as 10
embrace every mile OF territory pc
r tween Maine and San Francisco, on the
travelled routes, employing large force
t of travelling painters for over six months
The first railway iron imported to this
t country was used on the Lehigh company s
coal road, from Mauch Chunk to Summit
Hill. in 1927. 1t was rolled iron one-haif
1 inch thick and one and hall lnches
S wide, ten feet long, spiked to four inch
: scantling. The iron cost $95 per ton In
|. England.
The late expectation of large line OF
:, manufactures, which have hitherto only
J. gone abroad as SAMPLES is partly due TO the
e infiuene of the Centennial Exhibition, but
d more particularly to the experiences and
perfection arrived at by American manu-
IS facturers There is good reason to believe
TT that these explorations will increase very
!; rapidly. .oo.., - h.uo oo,,e
" to point where change is not admissible.
Gold has slight tendency to greater firm
I'd ness. and silver is a shade lower. Copper
re without change, the Lake Superior stand
s. ard being 1910 per pound with no specu
&c lation or opposing influences in the field
~ Tin, lead, and pig iron without change o
animation.
" About 100 500 barrels of petroleum wer
ag exported from New York, Philadelphia
on and Baltimore during the month OF July
Nc Since the 1st Ct March up to August Is
he Chicago packed us, 900 hogs, or 367 so
We more than Cincinnati, Indianapolis, 81
he Louis, Cedar Rapids and Milwaukee com
ne bined.
The Providence (R IT, money market
fty quoted dull and inactive, with intere:
to steady at five per cent. and money pient
with light demand for 1t.
il. A glance over New England exchange
,er exhibits renewal of manufacture
thrift and energy in that direction, wit
Z the best of prospects for an unusually bris
in. fall trade.
~ The amount of bituminOus coal sent
Chicago this season by lake is exceeded
anthracite to the extent of q 600 tons, Il
sslr - whole Of the latter being Isl 900 tons I
u,s to the 5th inst.
-hs The Southern cotton growers are con
planning bitterly concerning heavy loss
etc on this seasons crops, occasioned by 10
lifi- rates and unusual expense of cultivatio
on Owing to the large amount OF lead Q
tanned in reducing the silver ores OF
at vada. Colorado and Utah the market is co
It'll siderablv over stocked in the West a
and value deprecated, but rates remain Il
s. changed in the East.
'hio Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel
but DEADwooD, July pa wagon ORA,
the by two yoke of oxen, and carrying T
n a men and a woman, with their effects, i
the Deadwood on Monday morning destin
d II for Bismarck. They camped Oh Cente
he NAL Prairie on Monday night, and
Tuesday night passed through Crook Vi
An eyewitness who was cutting hay wi
thy, in quarter of mile, tells how it
ross Cured He says that hearing succ
and ion of very rapid shots fired O
the the bluff from where
rom was moving, he got up on high ii
e. bered elevation and saw about twenty
10th dams engaged in fight with two men
ured a woman, who occupied the OK train.
: OF men defended themselves CALAMITY agai
uries the great odds. They were well arm
One and fought only as men fight for Il
ster- lives. The Indians, instead of coming
theirs in body, broke in every direction
surrounded the wagon, keeping up q G
alton slant trail of bullets upon the poor uni
Brit tunates. Three of the oxen were the
ng to to fall. Waggomen. the owner q
sub outfit, and the husband of the lady,
The was shot through the n
Bnt- Mrs Waggomen seized her husband
N OF volver and discharged the contents am
the Indians, who were now close upon
gov wagon. After she had emptled
Louis weapon she flung it full in the face
Hard burly savage, who was reaching over
ers in wagon to grasp her He reeled back,
others took his place. MIR. Tyner,
Cler- other man, was quickly finished. and
dog, remained but the lady te deal with. :
rigan, Indians had, since the beginning OF
D kill conflict, been careful not to lnJure
by a and their bullets were directed On
San toward the two men. The poor VOL
I'd the knowing her probable fate, fought Il