The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-27

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and priests of Cork were arrayed agains
Kettle, and for Colthurst, the former
lacked but one hundred and fifty votes o.
The number polled for the latter.
GENERAL. NOTES.
JAPAN rejects the proposal of Chins
for an alliance against Russia.
COLORED jurors have been impaneled
for the first time in the state courts Ol
Maryland.
The West Va, republicans instructed
their delegates to vote as unit first
last and all the time for James G. Blaine
The Michigan republicans held their
convention on the 18th inst, and in.
structed their delegates to vote as unit
for James G. Blaine.
THE republicans of Florida met in
convention on the 18th inst, and in.
structed their delegates to vote as .
unit for Gen. Grant.
The Lancashire cotton manufacturers
have greed to close their factories one
week if the operatives do not recede
from their demands.
The report that charges of malfeas.
ance had been presented to the San
Francisco superior court against Mayor
Kalloch turns out to be unfou nded.
TIE Methodist Conference at Cincin.
natl have determined on the appoint
ment of four additional Bishops. Their
location has not yet been agreed on.
THE German government have deter
mined to increase the circulation of sill.
yer coin 30 per cent on the ground that
the present amount is not adequate.
The remains of little boy. who used
to complain to the neighbors that his
step-mother maltreated him, have been
found in brook back of his fathers res
idence, near Springfield, Mass.
The recent heavy rains have Saised
the Illinois river higher than it has
been for years, and in many places it
has overhowed its banks doing. much
damage to the crops on the river bot.
toms,
AN express train drawn by one of the
Jersey Central's new and powerful loco
motives, made the run from Philadel-
phia to Jersey City, eighty-nine and one
half miles, in ninety-seven minutes, and,
returning, made it in ninety and one.
half minutes.
CHIEF JUSTICE SANFORD E. CHURCH
of New York died on the 10Th inst, at
his residence In Albany of apoplexy.
Justice Church was born in Milford,
N. Y, April 1S 1915. He has held the
position of Chief Justice of New York
since 1870.
The arrivals of emigrants at New
York, on the 18th inst, are given in a
dispatch of that date at 1 1,432; total mum.
ber this far in May 81 ,346. A larger nnm.
ber than ever arrived during the entire
month of May, except in 1852, when 52,-
1875 arrived. The arrivals for the month
of May will exceed 50, 900.
A PARTY of twenty five men left Cead.
wood in pursuit of a party of Indians
who had killed John De Mack and run
off his stock. The party came to the In
dians on Little Powder, river, last Thurs.
day, and killed four 6f them and cap.
tured ~ stallion horses. Jas. Rhodes
one Of the party, was killed by the In
dians.
The democratic state convention met
at Madison, on the 18th inst. j. B. Whit
ing of GAINESVILLE, was chosen temporary
and John NJ. Cary Of Milwaukee per
manent chairman. W. F Villas, James
G.. Jenkins, Geo. w. Cate and Thomas
r. Hudd, were elected delegates at large
and Fred Kuehn, and John Law ler, were
elected electors at large.
WHIrTAKER's case has assumed q darh
complexion for him. Ali five expert:
expressed the belief that Whitaker
wrote the note of warning, and one o1
them created sensation by testitying
that the note of warning was Written on
piece Of paper torn from sheet or
which Whitaker commenced letter tc
his mother. On the stand Whitaker
admitted writing romances solely fol
amusement, and it was shown that his
accounts to Lieut.. Flipper and to hit
mother of the treatm ent he had received
were not in harmony.
The funeral of George Brown, edito,
of the Toronto Globe, took place on the
14th inst, and the remains were follow
ed to the grave by an immense c0nc0urst
of people. The senat DIS an members d
the Dominion government and Ontario
Legislature, mayor and corporation board
of trade, corn and stock exchanges an(
several societies attended in body. Th'
streets through which the cortage passet
were densely packed with spectators.
TIE reported suffering from dr0uth il
Kansas is confined to the extreme west
ern counties. Gov. st. John has latel!
visited the counties of Cove, Wallace
Trego, and Ellis, and returned here tn
failure in those localities, and many o
sn 1onfSt,Nto n0nd1finU