The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-19
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
SENATOR CoNKL1NG has returned to New
York from his salmon fishing tour.
NOBODY now doubts that the prisoners
recently arrested on suspicion are the
Benders.
FIFTEEN Italian societies attended the
funeral procession Of Pietro Balbo. the
New York wife murderer.
The Rt. Rev. John A. Watterson was on
the Sth inst. consecrated Roman Catholic
bishop of Columbus, Ohio.
FRIENDS, of the victims of the Mamie
disaster at Detroit will sue the steamer
Garland which ran down the yacht for
damages
AFTER twenty-five years of suspended
labor, work was resumed on the great
Washington Monument at the Capital on
the 9th inst.
IT is expected that it will take four
weeks to reach the bodies of the men en-
tombed in the Hudson river tunnel more
than fortnight ago.
PosroFF1CE officials have discovered that
a good deal Of the campaign literature
circulated by both parties through the
mails is obscene and efforts will be made to
suppress it.
GEO. AMEs, medical student of Fort
Wayne, Ind. will attempt to fast thirty
days, beginning Saturday next. No one
expects he will accomplish a tenth part of
the feat.
"A DISPATCH from Los Pinos states that
one hundred and thirty-fve chiefs and
= Lo r;,,ol h.,
Ouray treaty.
GEN. w. o. BUTLER, of Carrollton, KY,
soldier of the war of 1872, and candi-
date for vice president on the ticket with
Lewis Cass, died .on the 9th inst, aged SO
years.
GOLDSMITH MAIDS oldest colt killed
herself, on the 9TH inst :, by trying to jump
a fence. She fractured her shoulder blade.
H. n. Smith, the owner refused an offer of
900 for her some time ago.
President HAYES has commuted the
sentence ofStephen p Miriam, convicted
and condemned to death in the consular
court of Smyrna of the murder of Turk
ish subject, to Imprisonment for life.
The coroner's jury in the cases of the
persons drowned on the yacht Mamie, in
the Detroit river, finds that the disaster
was caused by the gross carelessness and
criminal negligence of G. D. Horn, master,
and H. w. Buff, pilot, of the steamer Gar
land, which ran down the yacht.
A MA1L-CARR1ER has arrived at Fort
Robinson with intelligence that Turning
Bear, one of Spotted Tails chiefs and three
or four hundred young warriors have
started on the war path, presumably against
the Rees, whose agency is located two
hundred miles from Spotted Tails.
GEN. WEAVER, presidential nominee Of
the national greenback labor party, has is
sued circular to members of the party
appealing for contributions of one dollar
and upward to aid in defraying the ex-
penses of the campaign from now until
November.
A V1N1TA, INDIAN TERRITORY, special
reports that last Tuesday, near Gibson
Station, two Cherokee boys, Cobb and
Cowan, were attacked by a band Of Greek
negroes, and killed. and that the danger OF
serious conflict is imminent between the
Cherokees and the Creeks. Three hundred
Cherokees are aroused and enraged. The
negroes suspected the Cherokees of hang
ing two Creek negro cattle-thicves on the
Goth Of July,
united Oil Co., line have completed
the laying of a three-inch pipe from the
Bradford region to Parker city, Penn. oil
can now be transported in pipes from the
Bradford field to Pittsburg and Cleveland
at the rate of 5000 barrels daily. This
new line will also give the United Pipe
Line company use of l,250,OOO barrels
of empty iron tankage in the lower oil
country.
A SPECIAL to the Omaha, Tribune says
big nose George alias George Parrot, one
of the Elk mountain robbers, who, about
two years ago, laid plan to ditch and rob
the Union Pacific passenger train near
Carbon, Wyoming, and who killed deputy
Sheriff Widdowfeld and Tip Vincent
scouts, who tracked them to Elk mountain
was brought here this morning down the
Missouri from Miles city, Montana, where
he was recently caught by U. S. deputy
marshal Irwin IIc was in charge OF
sheriff Rankin, Of Rawlins, Wyoming
who left for home with him on the noon
train.
DIR. TANNER, at noon on the 7th inst, fin
ished his fast of. 40 days. The crowd cheer
ed Tanner enthusiastically. About 1000
persons were in the hall and an immense
number of people on the sidewalk. The
doctor drank glass of milk and called
for Georgia watermelon; this he tapped,
dug his hand into it, and ate heartily.
When demonstrated with, he asked to be
left alone, saying, No, my lord am run
ming this now" When he placed the glass
of milk to his mouth he remarked, Gen
tlemen, you don't believe that's good" At
2:3O DR.. Tanner was resting quietly and in
good condition. At $50 DR.. Tanner drank
an ounce Of light wine after which he ate
small slice of watermelon. At 43O he
was eating with great relish piece of beef
steak He did not swallow the fibre but
only partook of the juice of the meat. At
six o'clock he asked for an apple which he
ate and then asked for and received two
more At seven o'clock he was given beef
steak weighing half pound and partook
of it. At eight he drank an ounce of wine
| and then slept until ten o'clock, when he
awoke and chatted cheerfully. DR.. Work
said DR.. Tanner was well and did not think
any trouble would arise from his undertak.
ing. He had gone against the advice Of
all physicians. seemingly with beneficial
results, and he expected the DR.. to work
on his biography.
Be wise and Happy.
If you will stop your extravagant and wrong
notions in doctoring yourself and families with
expensive doctors or humbug cure-alls, that d
harm always; and use only natures simple RENE
dies for all your ailments-you viii be wise. vel
| and happy, and save great expense. The creates
remedy for this the great, wise and good will tel
you, is Hop Bitten- rely on it. See anothe
column.--Press.