The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-09

assets, S20O,O00; Adams & McWaae,
Mount Plearant, Westmoreland coun-
ty. $4,000; Thomas Porter; Highland,
Clarion county, $50, 900; George Self
er. Erie, $4,000; George Stewart,
Allegheny, $27 900; George J.. Sher-
man, of Jameston. n. Y, doing bust
ness at Bradford, Mexican county,
$262.000; Thomas Broderick, Wilkes
barre. 1858 900; !Eugene Underhill &
Co., Bradford, $4,000. The firm
will pay 40 per cent; james NJ. Kin
ports. Hollidaysburg, So, 900; Frank
w. Anderson. Titusville, $6S,000.
There were thirty petitions in all.
During the month of April 265 Pc
titions in bankruptcy, aggregating an
Indebtedness of $l3, 072, 4O3, were filed
in Chicago.
On Tuesday. April 3Oth. there were
"a new cases of bankruptcy in Chica-
go.
The Pioneer Press says:
but will not be much longer, if we
may ldge frem the daily lists of in
solvents. 1t looks as if everybody in
tended to wipe out all past transac-
tiOns and open a new set of books.
In the meantime every one of these
failures throws some employed person
out of work, to swell the great mass
of seething discomfort found every.
where in our country. 1t is hard for
men to starve to death in the midst of
plenty; and it is doubly hard for them
to understand why there should be
such suffering in land for which the
bounty of God has done SO much
The air is full of rumors of great or
CARNATIONS Of the unemployed, who
have armed themselves with rifles and
muskets for some concerted outbreak
of mob violence; we quote:
Dialogue between Deputy Superin-
tendent Dixon and a reporter of the
Chicago Post: Il ain satisfied that the
communists here are armed and ors a.
niZed for trouble What do they
propose to do?" '.To force their
views and rights at the point of the
bayonet." .'How many are armed in
the city, do you think!". "Abont
1000" "Who are their leaders "
Some of them you know, but the
most violent and revolutionary are
French communists. when wall
the contemplated attack be made! p"
mo one can tell exactly. 1t may be
| In a couple of weeks Have you
any idea where!'' lin the business
portion OF the city. it is said" In
/ the opinion Of the deputy superi2-
tendent, the slightest motion on the
commune would be a signal for hos
tilities, during which thousands Of
| Migrants would flock to the city and
plumber and destroy without limit.
The communists of Cincinnati
have assumed a Threatening attitude.
and An outbreak is feared during the
summer. The party has three thous-
and men enrolled in the city, and
large numbers Of them are already or
gained into military companies which
meet secretly and drill, and rs rapidly
rs possible are being provided with
arms. 1t is understood the object is
that avowed by all communists, an at
tack upon capital, and the enforce
ment of the socialistic party doctrines.
| There is much excitement in Cincin-
natti upon the subject, and as in Chi
cage and other places, these prepare
tons are believed to be almost certain
to result in hostile collisions and
bloodshed.
The same reports come from New
York. st. Louis, Philadelphia and
other great cities.
While every man who knows the
value of order and society, must ear.
nestly condemn these movements,
our bitter denunciations must be re-
served for the short-sighted and self
ish men whose greedy efforts to in
crease the value Of their money Sc.
curities has plunged the country into
these incalculable calamities; and for
the shallow!And corrupt politicians of
the Hayes and Sherman stripe who,
for Office or plumber, have carried out
the behests of Wall street.