The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-25
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.


THE cpizoot in Montreal has assumed a
very deadly FORM
| HOG cholera, of violent type, prevails
| in sevo sections ef Indiana.
! JOHN SHERMAN definitely announces
himself a candidate for the Ohio senator
ship.
STREErER, the greenback candidate for
governor Or Illinois, received about 2S, coo
votes.
BoorH's theatre of Chicago, has been
mortgaged for Sl50,0O0 by Oliver and
Cakes A. Am?s.
WHILE awaiting the decision of the su-
preme court Mrs. Brown, the Indianapo-
lis murderess, is losing her reason.
AFTER a contest of ninety minutes, in
Pittsburgh, John Mcmahon, of Vermont,
defeated w. j. Farrell, Of California, for
the champion wrestler's belt.
THE epizoot is ravaging Texas Dallas
has suffered the loss of seventy-ive horses,
and there are two hundred cases under
treatment.
GEORGE J. BoLToS, widely known as a
hotel proprietor, died at Harrisburg,
leaving his family $4,000 insurance
policy.
A TORONTO journal claims high author
ity for the statement that the government
will virtually give the Canada Pacific syn
dicate $l05, ,0OO.0 900 in subsidy.
A LIEUTENANT and twenty-five men Of
the 1lth infantry were fired upon by Sioux
at the mouth of Muscleshell river, on the
18th inst, the only result being the killing
of horse.
THE debt of Illinois will be extingush-
ed by January /, if the outstanding 1921,
600 in bonds be presented for payment.
At the commencement of 1857 the state
debt was over 100000,
THE issue of stamps and postal cards for
October was the largest in the history of
the government, amounting to S4,3l2, ,694.
The cost of the postal service to the gen
eral treasury for the fiscal year was 80,
7S6,34l.
In a church at East Cambridge, Mass.
on the 18th inst, Miss Jennie Smith an
nounced that after sixteen years of intense
suffering her sight had been restored and
her useless limbs renewed solely through,
prayer.
Don PIATT, in the Capitol, declares that
the command of the Mediterranean squad
ron was given to an officer who presented
Secretary Thompson with persian carpet.
and that scandal turks beneath the pro-
motion of Paymaster Stevenson.
The Milwaukee Sentinel publishes the
names and addresses of {, $50 male persons
| who claim they were not returned by the
! census enumerators. Most of these are
| believed to be voters, and it is claimed ac-
cording to the usual ratio would bring the
| &c 70
AT the naval review the president re-
| ceived a salute of twenty-one torpedoes
| from temporary station. The naval
| brigade numbered eighteen hundred men.
| The ball at the hotel at Fortress Monroe
i was most brilliant affair. The fleet will
escort the president and party fifteen miles
down the bay.
LIBBY PRISON went to the auction-block
| in Richmond, on the 18th inst, under a
deed of trust, tobacconst making the
best bid, S6,725. The auctioneer declared
that each brick could be sold for dollar
in the northern cities, part of the wall
having been carried away by relic-hunter
ers.
CONGRESSMAN FARwELL, of Chicago, will
urge the widening of the Illinois and
Michigan canal to La Sale, and the i'm
plovement of the Illinois river. but
Charles Randolph favors a new cut from
La Sale to the most direct point on the
Father of Waters. The estimated cost of
the scheme is Sl5, 900 to SlS,OOO,0OO.
JEE Mon, the Chinaman, murdered by
unknown robbers, was buried in Chicago,
on the 18th inst, after Christian forms, he
being member of the mission school, and
having outgrown many of the superstitions
of his race, although not convert. Many
Sunday school children as we'll as Chinese
residents, attended the funeral. Rev. Il.
B. Hurlbut, of the Fourth Presbyterian
church, offciated.
The entrance of the Northern Pacific
railway into the territory of Montana, was
formally celebrated at the end of the track
on the 11th inst, which has now reached
the boundary between Dakota and Mon
tana. Several citizens of Helena, Mon
tana, had prepared spike cf pure silver
and polished oak tie General Manager
Sargent of the Northern Pacific road, went
to the end of the track with a company of
gentlemen from St. Paul and intermediate
points. The ceremony of driving the
spike into the tie, which was laid upon
the boundary line, was performed in their
presence. The proceedings were not
elaborate and only a few brief speeches
were made
THE Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
company have finished the MILESTONE
branch to thirty miles from Millback
Junction; the Hastings division to the
Jim River; the Sioux Falls branch to Dell
Rapids; the Southern Minnesota branch
TO Vermillion River; and the Mitchell
branch is completed to within twenty-five
miles of the Missouri River. The James
vile and Beloit branch is finished; the
Albany branch nearly completed; the
Monroe branch is we'll under way and the
Minneapolis and Benton cutoff will be
| finished soon.