The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
to determination on the part Of the
mine-owners to reduce wages.

mine-owners to reduce wages.
THEoPHILUs JONES, of Cincinnati, went
to the residence of his divorced wife on
porch
THE governor of Illinois on tie 7th inst.
| ISSUED a proclamation offering a reward
Of 5000 for the apprehenso1p of Stephen
Coffin Hopper, who killed William r.
Hodge, in johnson county, June Is.
A TERRIBLE murder occurred at Duluth,
Mimi, on 1st inst. Harman Opel struck
E. ID. Brenna with Il loaded cane and in
stantly killed him. Opel made his escape.
North shore parties and tugs are after him
now.
| EMERY B. MoREY, of Battle Creek
Mich, formerly prominent and successful
dealer in real estate, has been convicted of
forgery and will be sentenced on the 9th
prox. His daughters marriage is set for
the following day.
WHILE on his way home, d. Amerman,
a grocer, of A lliancc, o., was attacked
by two men and choked until he was un-
conscious, and then robbed of $500. The
night being very dark the robbers were not
apprehended, and are still at large.
Mrs. SYLVESTER Chick, of Kenebeck,
Maine, took her only son, years old, to
the river, undressed him and held him un-
der water until he drowned and then at
tempted to drown herself.
THE Wilkesbarrc coal pier in East Provi-
dence, X. l., owned by the Wilkesbare
coal and iron company, caved in Oh "a
inst, carrying a portion of the railroad
track and several coal cars. Loss, $50, 600
to $4,000
ROVE MITCHELL, an old fisherman, of
Columbus, Ga, while on drunk, was
murdered, by unknown parties, near Lind
wood, and his body placed on the railroad
track, where he was discovered before the
train arrived.
TIE swindler, James II. Harris, of
Georgetown, Texas, who has obtained large
sums of money by transmitting circulars
through the mails in the north asking f.
nancial aid for suppositious community
of sufferers by the failure Of the crops, has
been run down by a special agent of the
postoffice department, and lodged in Jail.
AT the Adams county poor farm, near
Coalsburg, Illinois, one of the inmates
killed another on the lst inst. Owing to
the fact that the quota Of Adams county at
the state asylum is full, there are a num-
Der of insane at the poor farm, where
there are not proper facilities for contin-
ing them.
SIX escaped convicts from the Idaho peni-
tertiary stopped a stagecoach on the Chal-
lis and Utah line, on the Both of June re-
lieved the seven passengers-ti men and
two women-of all their valuables, and
then divested them of all of their clothing
The unfortunates travelled several miles
in state ofnudity, and procuring some
sheets and blankets, continued their journey
to the railway where they obtained suitable
apparel.
THE trial of Charles +. Goodhue, the de-
faulting treasurer of Stephenson county,
ILL.,, taken to De kalb county by change
of venue, has determinated. Great interest
on trial for seven days The county of
Stephenson was represented by Cochrane
states attorney, c. H. Reed, of Chicago,
Divine and Dunton, and J. /. Pratt,
The defendant by Hon. William
Lathrop, j. A. Grain, and Lowell & earns
The jury returned verdict of not guilty,
and two other indictments where nolle
pressed by the people.
WALTER ROssER, conductor of con-
struction train on the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st, Louis railway, was brutal
ly beaten by his engineer, A. J. Flynn
Rosser had ordered Flynn to haul the
train from Hollow Rock to Huntingdon a
distance of ten miles. Flynn kicked
against the order, when Rosser insisted
upon it. Flynn took the train to Hun
tingdon, waylaid Rosser as he was coming
from supper broke his skull with a
smoothing iron and then stamped upon his
face, breaking his nose and otherwise
mutilating him, and then escaped. Ros-
ser will die. He had been on the road
thirty years. The company has offered a
reward for Flynn's apprehension.