The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

A GREAT insurrection Of Mohammedans
against the Chinese prevails in Kashgar
Ep1zooT1c has appeared in Indianap-
oils where several fatal cases are report
ed.
CINCINNATIs art museum fund has been
raised to 3311 900, insuring the success of
the scheme.
d P. DEwEs has withdrawn from the
canvass as the nominee of the greenback
party, for judge of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania.
n DICTATORSHIP has been declared in
Costa Rica on the pretense that it is neces-
sary to the salvation of the state, which is
threatened by conspirators.
DoBLER AND GUYoN, Chicago pedes-
trians, have sailed for Europe, to take
part in the Ashley contest. O'Leary ac-
companies them.
The French government is prosecuting
an editor who, in 1857, justified the at
tempt of Plat, the Pole, to assassinate the
emperor of Russia.
JAMES BOYD, 80 years of age, has lust
died at Independence, Washington cCun-
ty, Pa He was an artilleryman in the
the war Of 1912.
AT q special meeting of the baseball
league at Rochester, on 9Th inst. it
was announced that all this years clubs
would enter the championship race in
1881.
REPORTS from the northwest territories
indicate that the British Indians are in an
excited frame of mind, and that serious
trouble may be expected in the spring
REV. CRAFTS for several years Metho-
dist preacher in Chicago, has come to the
conclusion that he is Congregationalist
and will go to Brookly yn and set up in OPP
position to Beecher.
THE Credit Foncier, of Paris, will at
once open offices for business in Montreal.
1t has S2O, 100000 capital and Il monopoly
in the province against French capitalists
Its chief business will be in real estate
loans
SAM MONROE, the negro, who married
Miss Chase, white, at Galesburg and was
promptly arrested on a trumped-up charge
of larceny, has brought suit against Rev.
G. n. Higgins, the girls brotherin-law,
and }. H.'Calkins, a justice of the peace,
for false imprisonment.
THE jury in the Mack murder trial at
Jefferson, Wis. Six were for acquittal,
two for murder in the first degree, and
four for manslaughter Many citizens of
Jefferson escorted the defendant to the de-
pot and assured i,er of their belief in her
innocence.
THE mayor Of Leadville, Col, who takes
a lively interest in the welfare of the
commissioners of the district of Columbia,
informing them that Leadville needs and
must have more outside capital, and that,
in his opinion, if the commissioners were
willing to work the matter up among
their constituents, they could organize
several profitable stock companies.
tiancy could answer his wife's cross-bil
for divorce expired on the 7th inst, and
the madame has now moved that a decree
be granted her. 1t is darkly limited at
the capital that the answer of the ancient
statesman prepared by him in South
America is still in the hands of his
lawyer, who, not liking it contests, re-
fused to file it.
WAR has been declared between the
Wabash and the Chicago and Alton rail
ways. The former commenced running
trains on its Chicago and St. Louis route,
on the 18th, and, for the alleged purpose
of compensating the travelling public for
the inconveaient location of its depot, cut
rates one dollar to nearly all points west,
and announced its purpose to keep one
dollar under the rates Of all other roads.
The Alton met the cut at once, and if the
Wabash goes still further down it will be
followed into the ditch Fall tourists will
observe that the prospect is cheerful one
for them.
The Mormon conference adjourned
on theil3th. 1t was chiefly notable for
the filling Of the first presidency, vacant
since Brigham died. John Taylor was
elected president, with George @. Cannon
as first and Joseph F. Smith as second
counselors Cannon is delegate to con-
gress and was renominated On the 7th inst.
Joseph +. Smith is nephew of the origi-
nal Joseph Smith. John Taylor was the
ranking member of the twelve apostles.
Cannon is regarded as the ruling spirit the
power behind the throne, although Will
ford Woodruff, ranking member of the
twelve apostles, and not Cannon, is the
heir apparent according to precedent
The epizootic has reached Milwaukee
from the east. In one of the stables of
the American Express company seven out
of eighteen horses are now afflicted with
low typhus fever, which acts more Sc
verely on the mucous membranes and
glands of the head and neck than the dis
ease termed epizootic. In the present
form OF the difficulty the trachia or wind
pipe and the bronchial tubes are affect
ed. This fact makes the trouble more
alarming as cough frequently de-
velopes from the affection of these parts
In the old disease the salivary glands
were not affected, but in the one now pres
sent all the glands are excited to abnor-
NAL activity and the horse Ito use conn-
try expression) 'slobbers." The preva-
lence ofthe disease and its severity de.
pends upon climate, or, more properly,
atmospheric conditions. Veterinary sur
geons give it as their opinion that by
next week many, if not the majorityof
horses in this city will develope some
form of trouble. This judgement is
based on the present and probable state Of
the atmosphere. In the street car stables,
low typhus fever is reported, which is
deemed to be the premonitory symptoms.
Some few mild cases are reported from
the sale stables and of fancy and trotting
horses.