The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-06
GENERAL. NOTES.

| IHE legislature OF Massachusetts al
journed sine die on the 26th inst.
JOSEPH SEL1GMAN, the New York
banker died in New Orleans, of heart
disease on the 2Sth of April.
HON. JOHN ROBBINS, ex.member o
congress OF Pennsylvania, died in Phlla
delphia, on the 2Sth; aged 70 years.
THE Chicago Epeniny Journal on the
23rd inst, entered upon the thirty
seventh year Of its continuous publica
ton.
w. #. RUMBERGHl,, one of the riot
bribers Of the Pennsylvania legislature
recently sentenced to prison for one year
conviction and sentence.
GEORGE II. DANIELS, general pas.
senger agent of the Chicago & Pacific
railway has been appointed general
| passenger agent Of the Wabash, ST. Louis
& Pacific railway.
THE Dennis Kearney habeas corpus
case came up before the supreme court,
in session on the Goth inst. The court
| decided that it had no power to review
its own action, and Kearney was returned
to the house of correction, to serve his
| sentence.
THE directors Of the Chicago and
| Tomah Narrow Gauge Railroad per-
fected arrangements on the 23rd inst
and sold their road to the Chicago &
| N orthwestcrn Railroad Company, and il
is understood the owners will immediate
| ly complete the new extension.
TIE Chicago Chamber of Commerce
adopted a lengthy memorial to the post
master general on the 23rd inst, asking
that Wells, Fargo 81 Co., be permitted to
continue their stamped letter service, as
heretofore, and a memorial to the navy
department, praying for better detences
at Chicago.
| MUCH distress is being caused in the
inland settlements of the province of On
tario, says news of the 23rd inst, IRON
a scarcity of hay and fodder for cattle
the winter has been so, long and the
spring so backward, that farmers are
wholly unable to obtain food for theil
stock at any price.
| THE Iowa supreme court, in case
appealed from Jasper county, decided
on the 23rd inst, that where candidate
for Office is elected on the promise thai
he will perform the duties Of the Office
for less than the legal salary, said election
is void, because the candida c's PROPOSE,
tion is tantamoAnt to a bribery of the
voters.
THE leaders of the woman suffragists
of the United States issued call on the
% inst, for "mass meeting of all tho
women who want TO vote,' to be held a.
Farwell Hall, Chicago, June 2. They
demand an amendment to tho naticna
constitution, giving women the right to
vote, and propose to bring pressure
upon the political party national con
ventions to espouse their cause.
THE Post Dispatch special from Kansas
city of the 23rd inst, says: Advicei
from Western Kansas report that thu
drOuth and untavo1able weather have to
tally destroyed the wheat crop west O
Salina, and that there will be a partia
failure OF the crop for hundred mile
north and south Of Topeka. Many
farmers in the western part of the State
are suffering, and appealing to the exc
cutive office at Topeka for help.
A CHICAGO dispatch states that DR.. A
small pox patients is down with tn
disease The physiclan's wife ane
daughter arc expected 10 follow. Tn,
IuSA III oil ullCNCiOuS lOl VdCCludLlOI
seems to increase and sufficient supply
of vaccine matter cannot be pro
cured. 1t Is estimated that about 1,OO(
"poipts" are being used in the city daily
and twice that number could be if i
were possible to get them.
! ACuLvERT gave out, on the Erie canal
east of the guard.lock. West Utica, on th'
23rd inst. and lowered the level of thu
canal for four or five feet, for severa
hundred feet; washed out the tow.patl
for 100 feet; undermined and destroyed
costly stone wall, and flooded that en-
tire part of the town. No lives wer,
lost, but it is estimated that it will re
quire from two to four weeks to repair
the breach.
The suit of r. Hoe s. Co. vs.. Cottrel
s. Babcock. which was before the courtI
for nearly five years. has been concluded
by decision of the United States circui
4 court for the district of Connecticut, sus
tanning Hoes patent for the delivery
mechanism of cylinder presses having /
gripper deliver-cylinder and tapes lead
ing therefrom to the fly. This affects
all prin:ir Z presses in which the fly de-
livers the sheets printed side up withou
shutting.
The emigration returns made up by
the board of trade returning Off GER q
Liverpool show that the stream of emf
grafton from the Mersey has reached ,
point never before exper fenced, and IL