The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-11
Che Canton anbocate
TUESDAY. JUNE II, 1878.
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Sioux FALLS people are to build q Sl5,
900 school house.
GEORGIA has harvested It's whoa crol
and is marketing it.
TIE court calendar at Elk Point for tht
present June term numbers sixty cases.
PEACE has q. last been restored on tn
island Of Cuba, and there is general reJolc
ing there.
ALBERT KEEP was elected President OF
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co
last week.
THE bill prohibiting any further con-
traction Of the legal tender circulation
has become q law.
COLGATE & Co.'S celebrated soap factory
at Jersey City, vas destroyed By fire las;
Thursday. Loss, s5oO,0oo
WORK has commenced on q new steam
elevator at Sioux Falls. The storage ca
pacity is $4,000 bushels.
NlSRTr-yTvE failures in the City Of New
York occurred during the month Of May
at loss Of five millions and half
Ggs. G..z-'s name Is bang mentioned
in different parts Of the country in con-
nection with the nomination for the Pres.
idency In 1886.
EMPEROR Williams is suffering greatly
from the wounds received at his attemp.
ed assassination, but is thought to be in no
imminen: danger.
| NORTHERN Minnesota estimates the
quantity of new ground that will be pu,
under cultivation this year at four hun
! dred thousand acres.
! A FEARFUL explosion occurred in col
liery near ST. Helena, England. last week
! by which about 800 persons are reported
| killed and many injured.
TIE German i.ea-elat yer steamer,
Orosser Kurfurst, collided with another
! vessel in the English channel and sunk.
Over 400 persons we're drowned.
a young lady was undecided whether
to accept the addresses Of James or John.
James gave her sealskld saque, and she
Immediately gave the sack to John.
The First National Bank at Tankton
was not visited for TWO years until iast
week by the Examiner. Langford stated
that he knew the bank Was all right.
PIrrsBuRe Telegraph 0nd): When Til
den and Potter strike their final flint it
will be discovered that they lack steal,
without which 8 spark cannot be struck.
THE Judges Of Criminal Courts have re-
ceived anonymous letters, threatening
their lives if they deal harshly- with the
man that attempted to the life of Emperor
William.
Col. JOLLY, of Vermillion, is rendered
doubly jolly By the arrival Of a double
outfit, & boy and q girl. Another term as
mayor Of Fermillion may occasion other
jolly circumstances.
ALL of the passengers and crew were
saved from the vessel Idaho, off the coast
of Ireland, the Captain being the last man
to leave the vessel, it sunk before he had
got 30 yards away.
HENRY WARD BEECHER has contracted
with San Francisco man TO deliver ten
lectures for $4,000 and $1,000 expenses.
Lectures are to be given between the mid
die Of September and ist Of October.
The Potter investigation bids fair to
result only IN re-tash Of what mas bee Ii
already published to the world and what
was before the Commission that declared
Hayes to be the legally elected President.
THE "lone tree" landmark of early
days, standing few miles below Yankton,
on the bottom, has been swallowed up by
the river. A few years ago, the Press says
II stood d half q mile from tho bank OF
the Missouri.
JUDGE CAMPBELL, the Z. S District At
torney for the Territory, has been sum.
nioned before the Potter committee at
Washington; he will leave direct for
Washington from the Black Hills where
he now is
The law reporter of the Chicago Times,
Frank Nevins, attempted suicide at the
Briggs House, last week. Accusations of
his wife of being too intimate with the
wife Of noted politician is alleged as the
cause Of the act.
The testimony being given before the
Potter committee brings out some singu-
lar facts upon both sides. Judge Levisee,
who was an elector elected by the Repub-
iicans, testified that he was offered $780,.
900 to cast his vote for Tilden
AMONG the contributions of Norway to
the Paris exhibition are fish skiing, tanned
for gloves, eel skins prepared for harness;
shark skins ten feet long and three feet
wide, and whale skins sixty feet long for
driving bands for machinery.
NEW YORK has only one officer to elect
this fall, as State officer, and that Judge
of Appeals, in place of W W. F. Allen, who
having reached the age Of 70 is barred
from continuation in office; AZ able man
yet, but legally incompetent
THE body Of ]. Scott Harrison, son of
President Harrison, was stolen from the
North Bend ffiHdj cemetery. /; was re-
covered from the hands Of Marshall. the
janitor Of the Ohio Medical College, who
has been released from arrest under SIS 900
bonds.
INDIANS are on the rampage in Idaho.
Several ranchmcn have been killed and
Others driven from their ranches. At Ben
ton also. the war department has been an
prised that great fears exist that Sitting
bull Is ready to cross the frontier and
start on the war path.
DoN JULIAN DE ZuLUETA, MARQUIS of
Alava, and represented as the weaithiest
sugar-planter in Cuba, died few weeks
ago. Ho went to Cuba fifty years ago
poor boy, went into the sugar business and
slave trade, and died Marquis worth
S20,O00,OOO. 1t is said that during the
twenty-five years he was in the slave trade
he imported over one hundred thousand
slaves into Cuba.
DALRYMPLE has one hundred breaking
plows in operation in Dakota Territory
upon his Northern Pacific farms, and
intends to bring his cultivated lands up to
10000 acres this year. One hundred and