The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-06
GENERAL NEWS.

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| Elk RIVER, r. p. c.
| GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Forrest has improved considerably
and his friends are now sanguine of his re-
covery.
Surprising developments in the silk
smuggling cases at New York are again
promised.
At Dundee, ILL.,, Saturday, Taylor, Hunt
s. Co.'s new Touring mill and Charles
Morton's blacksmith shop were burned.
| Secretary of the Navy Thompson has left
| Washington for Terre Haute, Ind, to be
absent two Or three weeks.
The 22d of November is proposed as
day of thanksgiving for the bountiful har-
vest and returning prosperity.
Gus lowering, the Ohio boy, resembles
Charley Ross, but Mrs. Ross, the mother,
says he is not her boy.
| 1t is stated that the Newport, r. l.,
manufacturing company his called meet
ing of creditors Liabilities about $3.50
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| Robert Watson Boyd, of England, has
been matched to row Pickett, Of Australia,
for $500 a side and the championship of
the world.
State Senator John Early. of Rockford,
ILL.,, widely known through his libel suit
against the Chicago Times, died at High
wood Monday.
Alvin Adams, founder Of the Adams ex-
press company, died at his residence in
Watertown, Mass, Saturday, aged 10
years
The mint investigation at San Francisco
closed with testimony of merchants and
bullion dealers of San Francisco in favor
of the management.
All the members of the council general
of Lyons, France, have been summoned
before a Judge CONSTRUCTION for making
vehement speeches against the ministry
The first bale of new cotton received in
Little Rock sold for 2518c a pound ard
was Immediately shipped to Boston 1t
was raised within few miles of Little
Rock
A tornado of terrific violence but short
duration passed over Mavsville, KY, Sat
urday morning damaging property to a
considerable extent
The Grafton at the Dayton soldiers home
at the unwilling of the soldiers monument
on the 18th of September, is to be deliver
ed by Gen. j. d. Cox.
The American scientific association. in
session at Nashville, Tenn, will memo
rialize Congress for the better preserva-
ton of the Yellowstone national park
1t is denied that Secretary Schurz has
appointed Mr.. Wiley, late prominent
Tilden politician, to any office connected
with the ptnriOr dapartmpnf
Gen.! Todleben, the Russian engineer
who planned the defensive works at
| Sebastapol, in the Crimcan war, was at
bucharest Saturday
The army worm has appeared in large
numbers in DeSoto county, Miss, Fayette
county, Tenn, and Lee county, Ark, and
serious damage to the cotton crop is
| feared.
The cigar makers of Cincinnati unitedly
threaten to close their works unless the
men on strike return This is done to
prevent those working from giving aid to
the strikers.
1t is certain that $50, 900 has been paid
to certain State officers of Missouri for
services rendered by them in suppressing
evidence of corrupt practices in the man
agement of the Hannibal & St Joseph
| railway
The Philadelphia d Reading coal and
| iron co npany has avoided a strike by con-
ceding to its employees ten per cent. high
er wages than the company undertook to
establish in July.
The bonded debt of the United States
amounted August 31st to 81 ,792 ,607 900, of
which SSl4 344 $50 is at six per cent in
| terest. S703 ,256 $50 at five per cent and
SIS 900 900 at four and a half per cent
The non-interest debt was s466, l67, 61o.
Mrs Hogebaome, aged 60, highly es-
teemed lady, and an early settler, died at
La Platte, Neb, Thursday last from burns
caused by the upsetting of q kerosene
lamp.
At Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Friday
night last, two men named Mcleod and
Ferguson were attempting to rob dairy
when they were shot by the owner, Archi-
bald Beautillier Ferguson was killed
and Mcleod badly wounded.
| Simeon Garrett, the negro who COM
mitted rape upon the person of Mrs. Perry
kingvey, wife of farmer near Oxford,
Ohio, on Saturday last, was taken out of
the Jail Monday noon, and was shot dead
by mob.
| At Harrisburg, West Virginia, Saturday,
Louisa Lawson was found guilty as an ac-
cessory before the fact of the murder of
her husband, David Lawson, in the noun
tains of East Rockingham county. in
March, 1875
| The British rifle team made excellent
practice at Crcedmoor Saturday, the score
of the best eight at the three ranges foot
ing up 1929, viz: Miner, POT; Ferguson,
2O7; Humphrey, 2O7; Piggott, 2O6; Evans,
203; Lieut.. Fenton, 202; Lieut.. Col. Fen
ton, 1919; Rigby, 1875.
! A little boy known As Gus Levering has