The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-18
THE NEWS BUDGET
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

KATE SPRAGUE has made overtures TO
an amicablc divorce.
a HORACE MAYNARD leads in the contest
for senator from Tennessee.
BERLIN is to hold an international rail
way exhibition in 1882.
The Methodist board of missions has ap
propriated $l7 900 for work in China.
Two steamers from Europe brought ir
$637 ,25O in French gold on the 9TH inst
A SYNDICATE in Paris will make an ad
vance of "a, 100000 to Greece on security
of its monastic and state lands.
The five railways which will use tn.
new Canal street depot in Chicago. senC
out eighty-four passenger trains daily.
a ABADLEY-DECoMPOsEDb body, enveloped
in an Alpena life-preserver, tloated ashore
at Port Sheldon, Mich. last week.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will strongly urge
upon congress legislation of some sort to
relieve the treasury vaults of the pressure
of accumulating silver dollars.
| FROM 200 to 800 miners stopped work at
Akron, Ohio, on the 9th inst, demanding
an advance of ten cents per ton.
A METEOR of great brilliancy was observ-
ed at Mrrinette, Wis, on the 4th inst,
its trail being visible for ten minutes.
THIRTEEN steamships brought cargoes
of immigrants to New York on the 4th
inst. The arrivals for October aggregated
30,697.
RUNNERS sent out from Fort Stanton
brought in twenty-four Mescalero Apach-
es, who desired to surrender. Seventeen
of the party were squaws and children.
Il Z al, ,l,
a decrease of 1884 since the Hayes and
Tilden contest. >.
A CROWD of two thousand people at
Creston, Iowa, witnessed wheelbarrow
feat by Hancock man, in payment Of an
election bet.
THE latest aspirants to the Indiana SEN
atorship are President Burgess, of Butler
University, Gen. A. d. Streight. Con-
gresham Tom Browne. Hon. John Coburn,
and J. NJ Shackleford.
New YORK reporters obtained from
Beecher glowing tribute to Ingersolps
courage and brilliancy Pope Bob, on be-
ing interviewed, expressed the opinion
that the Plymouth pastor had iheralized
the English-speaking races of the earth
/ Two actions for libel were commenced
in Chicago on the 4th inst. Mayor Har-
rison sued the Tribune company for S50,-
600. and Recorder Brockway caused the
| arrest of the proprietors and employees Of
the Arbeiter Zeitung.
BILLINGS WRIGHT. of Aurora, ILL.,, who
was shot about two weeks ago by William
kimball, was taken to the polls on cleo
ton day to vote, and then died at 6 80
p. m.
THE latest returns indicate the election
of johnson, (colored), republican, in the
first Arkansas district, to congress by 1000
majority over Poindexter Dunn. domo-
crat. johnson "a barber, residing at
Augusta, Ark. His candidacy was an
nounced but one week prior to the election.
A CITATION has been issued commanding
Mayor kallock to show cause why be
should not be punished for contempt in at
sermon last Sunday evening. His re-
port attacks a number of county officials
and institutions and praises others. 1t is
noticeable that his unfavorable comments
are confined to officers elected by the
workingmen.
AN arrangement has been completed be-
whereby the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
aul Idlllotlu COMPANY IeCelNeS tHe llShI
of wav from the mouth Of American Crow
Creek westward through the Sioux reser-
vation to the Cheyenne river. The right
of way is $50 miles long and two hundred
feet wide $40 per mile is paid and four
dollars per acre. for station ground not ex
ceeding one hundred and sixty acres per
station. Five dollars per acre is paid for
a town site on the west side of the Ameri-
can Crow Creek.