The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09
che Canton Anbotatt
TUESDAY JULY 8, 1878.
BREviTiEs.

EASTERN IOWA ID pelnS oVcsuu ~ n"S
vest tram2s.
THEY are selling beer in Covington,
KY, Of . cent glass.
Nor one Of the Congressional delegation
from Iowa was born in that Slate.
TR tons of silver bullion were shipped
east from the Hills via Bismarck on she
29th ult.
THE present prospect OF the Louisiana
sugar crop Is reported entirely satisfact'
THERE are rumors In Berlin that Tur'
key will refuse to sign the Congress treaty
when completed.
THE usual amount Of property was de-
stroyed on the 4th by the careless use OF
| fireworks and fire crackers.
The Government Is about to adopt q
more vigorous policy on the Mexican Dor
dor. It is about time.
THE President, Mrs. Hayes and :heir
TWO sons, were present st the Wyoming
Massacre Centennial on the 4th.
Dir. J. G. AVER, of patent medicine
fame, died on the Sd, at Winchendon
Mass.
AN explosion OF & boiler near Queen
City, Texas, on 9th, killed three men hurl-
ing them 200 feet in the air. ...
A STAGE coach, containing six passen.
gers, was attacked by h!ghwaymen sixty
fve miles south Of Desdwood. on the 81
inst Three Of the passengers were wound.
ed.
THE steamer Capitol City WAS burned
ct Memphis on the morning Of the I'd,
and two lives were lost. Loss estimated
At 100000.
M1sslsslffI ma.yels owe. fou1.winged
goose. There will be many opinions
sbout that bird.
OK the 4th severe storm visited Pitts
burg and vicinity resulting in tho loss Of
many lives and the destruction Of much
property.
LouDoN, Cedar County, Iowa, was visit.
ed by disastrous fire recently, and nine
teen buildings, being nearly all the bust
uess portion Of the place, were entirely de-
stroyed. ...
The Americans in Geneva had dinner
and ball on the 4th ofJuly. Apa'tv from
Chamounix hoisted the American flag on
the summit of Mount Blanc, switzerland.
THE Southern Minnesota Railroad has
been built this season from Winnebago to
Fairmont aud will probably reach Jack
son by January 1st, and nextlyear be com.
n1atad N Wnrfhin Oton ......
II is reported that important disclosures
will soon be made in the Warden Craig
Penitehtiary matter IN Iowa, involving
high officials outside the State.
The Shah of Persia carries with him Is
part Of his baggage thirty-six boxes Of
gold coins, valued at $4,000 each. He is
not coming to America.
A. H STEPHENS has been driving about
Georgia, since his return from Washing.
ton, in chariot drawn by four milk
white circus horses. .. .
THE excavation for the foundations OF
the new mill at Sioux Falls disclosed
spring in the rocks and out of this como
fish that have no eyes.
THE Italians propose next year to cele-
brate the centenary Of the eruption Of Mt.
Vesuvius which destroyed Hercuisneum
and Pompeii in the year 10.
MINNIE FRANK and . girl named Has
sett were both fatally burned a few days
ago At Carpenter, Ia, in attempting to kin.
die fire by the aid of kerosene They
were literally roasted.
The striped bugs whose affection for the
melon vine has cost many farmer his
crop OF melons, can easily be exterminated
by solution Of coal-tar.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, on the I'd inst, the
Missouri river was hisher than at any
time since 1874. being II feet and 4 inches
above low water mark.
THE lModoc Indians, now numbering
"a males and SO females. are located on
very fertile tract, containing 1900 acres,
10 the northeast corner of the Shawnee
Indian Territory They have
engaged energetica'iY i'll labor during the
past year, and as result they have valu-
Abie crop on their farm.
CINCINNATI Star: Lc: no: Iowa be de.
spised, even though she exaggerates her
wind storms most unreasonably. Accord
she raised more wheat and killed more
hogs last year than any other State in the
Union."
Sioux Falls Pantaaraph, 8: Follow
ing are the figures showing the business OF
the United States Land Office here during
June: 339 homestead entries, 81, 258 acres |;
312 timber entries, 1884 acres; 256 pre-.
10000 acres SO soldiers pre-ein-
tions, 1900; 40 cash entries, 3,29S acres !;
u final proofs, IL, 1872 acres; total, 185, OS2''
FoR the six months ending June 30,
there were 5O4 failures in New York city,
with total liabilities Of $50 ,O30,705, while
the assetts amounted to less than third
u that sum-$1 ,012 ,66s. This ID large
increase over the number during the cor.
responding period of last year.
TIE railroads Of the United States have
in use $4,000 car wheels. Those on
fast passenger trains are renewed every 10
months; but freight cars sometimes use
the Same wheels moro lthan ten years.
The average life Of . wheel IL $1,000 mica,
and q. that rate il taxes 100 900 year at .
cost less the old wheels, of 5000, 900.
A NATIONAL Narrcw.G uage Convention
has been called to meet in Cincinnati on
the 18th inst It will give An opro..na
to contractors, managers, and mauufact.
urcs to compare practically, in all respects
the two systems, standard and narrow
gusge AL narrow.guage roads or manu-.
features furnishing supplies Of any kind
to them are expected to send delegates.
RECENTLY, near st. Louis, the small
log house OF John Leonard caught fire
during the night time, and four Of his five
children who slept IN the attic, persisted in
the flames, and the f1lth, the Oldest aged
10, who succeeded in tearing out the win
dow Of the attic jumped out and was i'm
paled on on the picket fence below. kill.