The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-12
GENERAL NOTES.


lost by the earthquake at Manila.
CoUSrERFE1r 80 notes on the Ontaria
Bank are in circulation.
CoTTON-PICKING has commenced in
Texas. The crop will be large one.
Mrs. JOHN G. SAKE, wife of the distin-
guished poet, died at her home in Brook
lyn, Saturday night of bronchitis .
GOLD to the value of 100000 has been
purchased in open market in London for
shipment to the United States.
GEN. TREv1No was & iven royal vel
come at Piedras Negras on his arrival
there with his American wife.
A MAN and woman under arrest at Ere
mont, Neb., are said to be old man Bender
and his daughter Kate.
A LEADvILLE stage-driver asserts that
Simms, the murderer, hanged last week at
Fair Play, Col, was resuscitated, and is
now alive and tolerably we'll, in the great
carbonate camp.
The dam in the Wabash river at La.
Gro, which cost O,OOO, has been blown
up with powder by persons unknown.
SUkEY HART, colored woman, aged
14O years, has Just died in Kinney, Tex.
As proof other great ageit is stated that
she nursel her mistress, now rs years old,
after her own sixteenth child was born.
The Buffalo canal-boat owners say that
the cables of the Cable Towing company
obstruct navigation, and have organized
to secure their removal.
THE American gymnasts now at Frank
fort, Germany, as participants in the great
turnfest, were banqueted last evening
Several Milwaukeeans took prizes in the
contests.
IMPRESSIVE memorial services for the
victims of the river disaster at Detroit
Sunday last Forty-eight priests partici-
pated.
The authorities of Nebraska feel pretty
sure that they have at last captured Ben
der the notorious outlaw and murderer Of
Kansas. He is now lodged in the Free
mont Jail with woman who claims to be
his wife.
THE Alabama state election occurred on
the 4th inst. The fight was between the
allied republicans, greenbackers and in
dependents, on one side, and the democrats
on the other side. The democrats were
victorious by fifty thousand majority, the
largest majority ever known in the state.
THE Golfer dam at the shaft of the Hud-
son river tunnel to recover the bodies of
the men buried beneath the fallen roof Of
the connecting chamber has proved un-
successful The plan Of sinking caisson
in the dam and thus forcing up the
earth and water of compressed air, is sug
gested.
SURVIVORS of the Narragansett disaster
continue giving testimony before the board
of inquiry at New York Nearly all of it
reflects on the captain and crew, who ap-
pear to have been not only grossly incom-
petent, but cowardly as we'll.
The Ute Indians refuse to sign the trea
ty Objections were raised at the last
meeting of the council, a removal to
the junction of Gunnison and Grand
river on account of the poor soil in that
locality. An opportunity was offered for
the chiefs and head mean to come forward
and sign the treaty, but not single In
dian accepted the invitation.
SUPERINTENDENT WALSH, of the mounted
police, passed through St. Paul on the 3rd
inst, from Wood Mountain on his way
east on leave of absence. He says two
| thirds of the Sioux Indians have returned
to their reservation in the United States,
and the remainder with Sitting Bull are on
American Territory between the Milk
and Missouri rivers, but they have not, as
yet, surrendered.
The commander of the jamestown
writes from Alaska that two hundred In
dians of both sexes and all ages remain in
Sitka rancho, all the more enterprising
being on the sea, otter, and seal hunting
trips. Those left started on spree on
the 9Th of July, but were soon checked by
an armed boat from the jamestown crew
of which formed protecting party to the
Indian policemen. A little stabbing was
done, but no one was seriously injured
The ringleaders have been subjected to a
bread and water diet.