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


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 Ey three and half millions.
1t is now reported from Asiatic Tnr-
key that the plague has re-appeared at Bag |
dad.
Senator Ferry was renominated for
Senator in the Michigan legislature on the
Sd.
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. 30,was
$57, 9s5, Cos.
Fire at Cornham, Texas, burned
twelve business houses. Loss 500 600 par
ally insured.
The murderer of Wild Bill, John
cCall, 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 8 8 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.
Three thousand boxes of struggled
Havana cigars, seized by United States officers
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 tlippin wal
shot and instantly killed, and Harrison wal
! mortallv wounded by Markham.
A snow storm visited the entire
country on the Cd inst. In the east it is re
ported as the heaviest Tor years, while in tn
. south, even in Mississippi, nearly al railroa,
l trains are blockaded, and tra6c completed,
stopped.
The prizes for oratory by the Inter
= Collegiate Literary Association were won Z
= New York Ly Frank Foster Laird, of Hamil
ton College, and Samrel Douglas Dodge, {
q Williams College Ten colleges were repre-
sented.
J. Ed. Hanl0n, winner of the singl
q scull race at the Centennial regatta, publishs
70 a challenge to William Scharf, Of Pittsbur!
n Offering to rev him in Toronto Bay for frol
+. $500 to $4,000 q side, allowing him ia
/, amount for expenses, the race to take plat
8. early in June.
y Mr.. Moody, the Evangelist, Cal
ct upon all Sunday schools in the country
take up penny collection on January IA
g. for the support and education OF the chidr'
le of P. P. Bliss, and for erecting monument
'e the memory of the late evangelist.
N Three former employees of Dodd
~ express company, New York, has been I
lo rested, charged with cutting mail bags y
" abstracting letters, while conveying the b
=. =. from that city to Jersey City and Brook'y
" and warrants are out for the arrest of other
~ Denmark has had its first fatal IA
~ way accident. A train conveying 100 lab
a. ers to clean . snow blockade ran of
70. track and nine persons were killed and thi
70 severely hurt The injured suffered greA
he frem cold and the difficulty Of sending ASST
rae ance.
his There have been several snow slid
he in Little Cottonwood cannon on the U.
ce, railroad, within the past three weeks, car
as ing away several hundred feet Of snow sh
rhO over the railway. One occurred above a
me which buried in their cabin two Frenchn
who were suff0cated.
Louis A. & Charles L. Crawford, 8
red cesssrs to L Crawford 4 Son, coal deal
ins Cleveland. fled petition in the Conn
.ny Pleas Court, claiming damages at SIC, 10