Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-22


There is now no serious subject Of contro-
versy between the United States and Spain,
the latter having in spirit of friendship
acceeded to the views of the former for the
trial of American citizens in the Island of
Cuba accused of crime before civic tribunals.
A VIENNA dispatch says except Germany,
which probably will not interfere, all the
powers have appointed commissioners for
drawing the line of demarcation, Turkey
and majority of the powers think the
line should be fixed by the positions &C
tually held by the opposing armies when
the armistice was agreed to, but Russia
seems disposed to ask the Turks to with
draw 10 the frontier.
AN agreement has been arrived at in the
communist bill in the French Chamber of
| Deputies. Its nature is not yet stated. De-
crees have been issued pardoning or com.
muting the sentences of ifty-two.commun
lists.
BULLION in the Bank of England has de-
creased f193O00 for the week ending Nov,
2. Proportion of Bank of England reserve
to liability is 544 per cent
THE Servian Government has instructed
Gen. Tchernaye IF to sends flag of truce to
Abdul Ke1im, the Turkish Commander-in-
Chief to inquire whether he has been mott
fed of the conclusion of an armistice.
AN official telegram received in st. Pc
tersburg, from Gen. Ignstieff, announces
that the Porte has accepted two months
armis,ice beginning Nov. 1, and has ordered
immediate cessation of hostilities. 1t is
further officially announced that both
armies will not change their present posi-
TONS
AN official telegram received in st. Pc
tersburg, from Gen. Ignatieff, announces
that the Porte has accepted a two months
armistice beginning Nov. 1, aud has ordered
immediate cessation of hostilities. 1t is
further officially ANNOUNCED that both
armies will not change their present posi-.
tions.
THE Duke DeCazes has declared officially
before the budget committee that France
intends to maintain absolute neutrality in
the event of complications in the east.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The steamer Arlington sunk at Cumber-
land Island Dam, near Cincinnati, on the
9th inst. She is valued at $4,000; insured
for SIG, coo in Cincinnati and Pittsburg Of
fees.
A SPECIAL from Annapolis, Ind, says
deputy sheriff Be jamin Leech was shot an
killed by a colored man at the polls in the
Eighth District of Anne, Arundel county,
on the 18th inst.
MADISON barracks, at sackett's Harbor,
N. Y, Was partially destroyed by fire on
the 9Th inst. The fire broke out in the Of
ficers quarters and was confined to them.
Gen. Ayers quarters were saved but badly
damaged. The quartermaster's papers were
all destroyed and large amount of prop
erty. Loss estimated at $4,000. No insur-
ance. Cause of fire unknown.
A DISPATCH from Monroe, La, SAYS a
large body of armed negroes entered that
city Sunday night, November 5, secreted
their arms and remained here. The mayor
issued proclamation commanding hem
to take their arms and return home. Trey
were about to comply when Hamlet, negro
sheriff, collected about 300 negroes in the
city limits and advised them not to obey
the mayors proclamation. The negroes
took the sheriffs' advice and concluded to
remain. They say they will have another
company join them tonight.
TUE body of Peter Cassidy, an Irish la
borer, was found lately in a hog-pen near
his dwelling house. in the village of Utica
Ill. When he Was last seen he was under
the influence Of liquor and the supposi,ion
is that while in that condition he got into
the pig. pen and died of exposure, the night
being very inclement. He was between 40
and so years of age.
A DISTRESSING accident occurred to the east
ern train on the Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad Nov. 4, near Edmundson, Tenn,
caused by the last forward truck on the
s'eeping-car dropping down and throwing
it over trestle and pulling the next car off
with it, and piling the passengers up in a
promiscuous heap. Francis Moore, for
merly of Canada but FOR short time since
living at Bledsoe's Landing, Ark. was so
badly injured that he died within half an
hour. An infant child Of J. T. Eggleston
of Mississippi, was fatally injured; ]. J..
Barnes, of Bowling Green, KY, severely
injured, being cut in the face, and shout
ders and hip bruised Mrs. John G. Walt
mey, of Arkansas, rib broken and severe
injuries. Some fifteen Others were slightly
wounded.
A NoRTH-BoUED local passenger train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked
November 2, south of Linden depot by
running into two freight cars detached from
a preceding train, and left standing on the
track. The locomotive turned upside down,
and the first passenger car ran over it and
split in two. The freight cars were demol-
ished. jacob Eiliston, brakeman, received
fatal injuries. A fireman named Wander
water has severe scalp wound, and several
Others were slightly injured.
THE st. Louis Globe. Democrats special from
Kansas City says that reports have reached
there of the lynching of two horse.thieves
named William Fulton and Hundley, in
Wyandottc, Kan, on Sunday morning, o.
tober 90, by vigilance committee.
!---SanRr1Y after dark -Mnvexnher st
Myron Emery, lad of II, was seized, near
his home, at Woodstock, VT, by three
masked men, and bound, gagged, and
dragged two miles to Silver Lake, and thrown
in. The men fed, and Emery managed to
free himself and get ashore, where he was
found completely exhausted and insensible
The perpetrators have not been discovered
and no cause can be assigned.
MARY GIBSON; alias Mary lawson, has
been arrested at Philadelphia on charge of
swindling Samuel W. Garrison. She OBJ
taic from him the sum of $14O,e29 by
representing that relative in Germany had
left her bcquest of $500, 900 which she had