The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-16
THE NEWS BUDGET
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

J.B. TAYLOR has been elected to fill
Gen. Garfeld's unexpired term in the
house.
AvE1N of coal of superior quality has
been struck near Mantle, ILL.,, at depth
of one hundred feet.
LEGISLATIVE inquiry into the abuses al
legged to exist in the management OF the
insane asylums of n. Y, has begun.
THE people of Kansas protest that the
rumors of restitution on the border Of
that state are greatly exaggerated.
JUDGE GRESHAM has formally with
drawn from the senatorial contest IN In
diana.
The assay office at New York holds
s.. 900, 600, in foreign gold, received since
August, and the amount on the way Is es-
timated S12,OO0,OO0.
THE Creek Indians, being stong Y on
posed to the settlement oft coded lands,
! have sent three representatives to Wash
| inpton to look to their interests during
| the session of congress.
The will of Frank Leslie has been ad-
mitted to probate the surrogate holding
that when the will was made Leslie was OF
sound mind and free from unlawful IN
| huence or + estraint.
ADRIAN S. HEWITT, in card defending
his course on the Morey letter, joins with
Gen. Garfield in the hope that due pun
| ishment will meted out to those who have
violated the law.
THE president of the New York Central
railroad has ordered that stop be put tc
the sale of yellow covered and sensational
literature on trains and at depots OF the
company.
A New YORK dispatch reports order:
from Chicago for Panama canal stock. DC
Lesseps says that S50,O00,OOO will be dis
bursed in the United States Tor machinery
and food.
Four Chicagoans, headed by Mr.
| Keith, have paid out 100000 for lands il
Tennessee and founded town on the
Cumberland river, intending to COLOMBO
their tract with northwestern people.
SECRETARY SCHURZ asserts that nearly
half million acres Of land is being cult
waited by Indians, and urges the issuance
of individual patents for farms. The EN-
ployment Of Indians as freighters ha!
proven a beneticent innovation, and thell
aptitude to mechanical pursuits Is pro
nounced surprising. The organization OF /;
copper-colored police force at forty agen
, cies as been an important clvilizlng IN
huence.
The electoral vote of Georgia is proba
blv lost to Hancock and English for tn
following reasons: The revised statutes o
the United States provide in section 80
that the electoral colleges of the severa
| states shall meet on the first "Wednesday
in December and cast their vote. Ih
Georgia code, section Isl, provides tina
the Governor shall notify the electors t
. meet at the capital on the first Monday il
December, to be ready on the following
} Wednesday to cast their vote. This tn
i, governor has done, but the electors di
not meet and it is decided that they ar
now debarred.
l For some time the post office author!
t ties have been flooded with complaint
from the smaller merchants and man
farmers upon the California line of tn
I Chicago and Northwestern railroad rels
e tive to loss of letters containing CHECK
, and drafts from Chicago commisslo
houses sent out to pay for produce. Spec
ial Agent Squirting, of the post office d'
partment, was detailed to hunt up the pc
e petrators of the crime, and has overhaule
9 in Fulton, ILL.,. one of the parties, name
. Sim, and on the I'd inst. sever;
j more will be taken into custody. Tl1
4 plan of robbery was as follows:
- gang was organized in this city who wel
i along the line and hired out, mostly
: farmers. Noting when stock or other proc
e uce was shipped, at the proper time the
would call for the mail of their amplo.
I ers, go through the letters, take out ev
: dence of value, and through confederat'
indorse and receive money on the draft
y The game has been worked quite success
e fully, but will stop for the present TT
carelessness Of people in the country
sending comparative strangers for the
It mail has been properly rebuked.