The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-12
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Thurs day Fec. 5.


Senator Sargent reported dead is
better to-day.
The Mississippi Valley Tobacco
works Chicago, burned. loss $4,000.
The senate confirmed R. B. Hdrri-
son of Indiana. assayer at Helena,
| Montana.
East Saginaw, Michigan. enjoyed a
$1,000 fire, mostly among lumber
and mills.
A Prairie fire near Crook City
Black Hills, destroyed a large quanti-
ty Of government hay.
The so-caIlcd Tilden CIPHER dis
patches are to be investigated. ''Let
no guilty man escape.
Mr.. Secretary Evarts wishes the
change to Greece paid $4,000. and says
| so to congress.
The Breathill county Ken
lucky faction fight and riots have
| ended and the officers of the law are
! triumphant.
Henry w. Calcroft, superintendent
of the car department of the Missouri
Pacific railroad at Sedalia, Missouri,
was killed yesterday while coupling
cars at Otterville.
Jacob Vilinger, who murdered his
wife in brutal manner, was yester-
day in Chicago, acquitted of murder
by the jury on the ground of insanity.
He will be sert to the asylum.
A fire in Brooklyn, n. Y. yesterday
destroyed the Pacific flour, grain and
feed mills, grain elevator and drier
attached, situated on Columbia street,
between Pacific and Amity streets.
Loss $500. 900. Insured.
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens yes
terday. while ascending the stone
steps leading to the house. on crutch-
es, slipped and fell. causing painful
wrench of the knee, which will prob.
ably conflne him to his room for
some time.
In the house Mr.. Kelly offered "a
resolution calling on the secretary of
the treasury for information as to
the deposit of government money in
any national, state or private bank on
the 30th Of September and November,
1878, other than deposits made by dis.
bursting agents. Adopted.
| Mr.. Hooker asked leave TO offer IA
resolution calling on the attorney
general for information in regard to
timber Expectations, but Mr.. Conger
objected.
Mr.. Fort asked leave to offer the
| following resolutions:
Resoired, That the legal tender
quality OF the silver dollar, 4l2 10
grains standard silver, shall be MAIN
tanned and enforced, and that any dis
elimination against said silver dollar
by any national bank in refusing to
receive them and treat them as legal
dollars, shall be deemed defiance of
the laws of the United State. and the
committe on banking and currency is
hereby instructed tOInature and bring
in bill for withdrawal from circul-
alton the notes of all such banks 50
offending. Several objections were
made, andthe propositson was not
received.
In the senate the motion of senator
Matthews to take up the Texas Pa
citic railroad bill was rejected -
yeas. - nays-on the ground that it
would lead to long discussion.
The Indian transfer committee of
the house held session yesterday.
| Witnesses were examined, mostly in
opposition to the transfer.
In the house: Appropriation bills
| for Consular and diplomatic relations
ana naval affairs submitted and re-
ferresi to committee of the whole for
Tuesday next. Mr.. Cox of y. Y.
called for correspondence with Ger
many in relation to the expulsion of
Julius Blumer. citizen of Chicago.
| from the German EN- lire. Adopted.
Mr.. Harrison of Illinois. wanted a
list of the Chicago Custom house en-
! ployed.
FOREIGN.
The Bishop of Durham has resign
ed.
Portugal has arrested their inter-
nationallsts.
\ motion tn vote supplies for the
Afghan war viii be passed next Mon
day.
On the reading of the Queens
| speech 4 war OF debate began in both
houses OF parliament.
In consequence of the failure Of the
Glasgow bank the Csiedonian bank
has gone into liquidation.
| CAPT. W hyte Melville. novelist
England. fell from his horse. while
! hunting. ana broke his neck.
| Sulleman Pasha WAS sentenced 10
fifteen years Imprisonment for his
defeat near Pebena. He has taken
an appeal.
The Fenian convict Irish political
| pri>onerl Tierney alias 0'Connor. has
been released and placed aboard the
steamer City of Chester for New
| York.
\ dispatch from Lahore says: Gen.
r 1berts intended to attack Peiwar
| Pass by turning movement. The
| Afghans were too strongly posted for
attack in front.
| Goa. Dec. 4. the body of 81. Fran
ces Xavier was exposed in the cathe-
dral in the presence of 100, 900 Catho-