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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-22
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THIRTEEN fatal sunstrokes occurred in
n ew York on the 18th inst.
| STEPHENS Il WILCOX, dry-goods mer,
chants of Omaha, have failed, with liabil.
tiles of $4,000.
OFFICER ScANLoN Of Dubuque, Iowa was
murdered by fisherman whom he was
| trying to arrest on the 14th inst
GILBERT II. CoLIINT, wealthy anc
well-known merchant of Omaha, commi
ted suicide in that city on 18th inst.
A FIRE at Jonesville, Mich, destroyed
flour mill and other property, valued al
together at $4,000, on the 18th inst.
! TIE Hosier state Touring mills, of In
dianapolis, Ind, were destroyed by fire, or
the 10th inst.-loss estimated at S35, 900.
The earthquake of the 10th inst. was one
of the most severe and widespread that has
been known in Switzerland for several
years.
THE boiler Of threshing machine ex-
ploded near Dunkirk, O., on Sth inst, kill
ing seven persons and wounding eight 9th.
ers. three fatally.
A YOUNG son of 3. S. Phillips, city
treasurer of Eau Claire, Wis. fell from a
stationary raft into the Chippewa river
and was drowned
Jo1N BRANDT, aged SO years, was in,
stantly killed at F1eeport, ILL.,, by the fall
ing of 4 portion Of a wall Of the old build
ing of Emmert q Burrell. The deceased
had his skull literally smashed to pieces
SMALL boys playing with fre-crackers
set fire to the undergrad of the Haskell
Maker Car company, at Michigan City
Ind, and, before tn e flames were cxtin,
gulshed, property to the value of S23,OO
was destroyed
WHILE Philip Schum, leading mer,
chant of Lancaster, Penn, and his wife
were crossing the Pennsylvania railroad
near Salvage, the carriage was struck by
the Niagara express going west and both
the occupants were killed.
EDWARD WINKEL a mason by trade, was
struck by moving freight train at Water,
town, Wis, and so seriouly injured that
he died. He had been on Spree and is
supposed to have laid on the track in q
drunken sleep. He leaves a wife and five
children
2 A TERRIFIC explosion took place in
| Shaadry-Zedek Jewish Synagogue, in blow
ing out a portion of the side wall, bulgine
the other walls and destroying the fine
interior. Probable theories of leaking
gas, gunpowder, etc., are advanced, but
why done, if intentional, is mystery.
DURING the rainstorm at Princeton
| Wis, on the 10th inst. twelve fine 4-year
old steers were killed on Mike Kitter
mans farm four miles south of town, by
| lightning. The !hides of the animals were
sold. This is a singular stroke of misfor.
tune for the oldest settler in Bureau
county.
PHEL1M TooLE, heroic member of the
St. Louis fire department, who distinguish
ed himself at the Southern hotel fire few
years ago, was killed on Sth inst, by the
explosion ola fire extinguisher with which
he had entered a blazing building His
death has caused profound sorrow in that
city, and several subscriptions for the ben
eft Of his family have been started
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CRIME.

ASA GUM, a negro, has been convicted,
in Atlanta, of completely in a double MUIR
der last summer.
Two men have been arrested in Atchison
who are believed to have committed the
express robbery in Kansas recently.
CLARENCE DAVIS, the bigamist, was sem
fenced, on the Sth inst, to five years i'm
prisonment and to pay fine of 1000.
Col. CASH, the representative of the cut
throat chivalry of South Carolina, who
killed the aged Col. Shannon in a duel
has fled the state.
CAPT. LINCOLN, of the 10th infantry,
who shot and killed drunken private
soldier who had insulted him, has been ac-
quilted by court-martial.
A CITIZEN of Baltimore, who had long
been on unfriendly terms with his wife,
threw a quantity of vitrol into her face,
destroying one eye and shockingly difgur-
ing her.
A DIss1rArED citizen of Allegheny, P,
named Jacob Salesman, took one of his
wife's dresses on the 10th inst, twisted it
into rope, and strangled himself with
it.
Two masked men boarded train on the
Missouri Pacific railroad at Winthorp
station, and robbed the United States ex-
press companys safe of $3.50.
4 RETRIEVE has been granted to Monroe
Robertson, by Gov. Foster, of Ohio, SEN
fenced to be hanged July, 16, for thirty
days, to allow him to straighten up his
business affairs.
WM W. CHAMBERLAIN, of Worcester,
Mass, graduate Of Harvard in 1870, and
a young man of literary taste and social
position, has absconded with $4,000 be-
longing to his father and others.
CAPT. J. NJ. WEST, superintendent and
contractor for the Rlack Hills Placer Min
ing Co., is short about S24 900 in his ac.
counts with employees, of whom there are
nearly 400.
In the United States District Court
James A. Hedden, ex-Cashier of the First
National Bank of Newark, n j., was ar
raigned upon sixteen indictments He
pleaded not guilty. Bail was fixed at $780,
A YOUNG seaman on Il vessel recently
from Rio de Janiero died at a hotel in New
Orleans, of yellow fever, on the l4th inst
were Immediately sent back to the quaran-
tine station.
CAPT. FRED THOMPSON, wealthy mil.
ler of Wakefield, Eng, who came tc
America to attend the millers' exposition
at Cincinnati, was drowned the other day
at Fox Lake. ILL.,, while fishing. His re
mains will be embalmed and returned to
England.
In the case of the persons killed by the
explosion of the boiler of the steamboat
Mary, at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota
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the corners jury finds that G. B. Halstead
the owner Of the boat, was criminally
negligent in not permitting an inspection
of the boiler by competent engineer.
JACOB KUNTz, who resides at Homestead
Station, n. j., on the Northern railroad
went to the house of his son, at Union
her going to picnic. Upon her refusing,
Jacob fatally shot her. He then went into
the barn and killed himself. Kuntz and
wife were both over 60 years of age.
AN unknown tramp, about 80 years old
went to the depot, at Byers, Col, and
while engaged in conversation, suddenly
drew large butcher knife and gave Sam
uel Green a cut over the eye, cut John Nc
Glynn so that his bowels came out, and
then stabbed Frank McCraken, the tele-
graph operator, probably fatally, in the
left side. McCracken ran across the street,
followed by the tramp, who was shot dead
by a constable. The tramp cannot be
identified, but he IS supposed to be man
lac.
5. 5. RICKLEI, president of the Capital
City Bank, Columbus, Ohio was shot
through the forehead while standing at
his desk by Andrew Eichenberg, Ger
man dyer Eichenberg was on the street,
and as soon as he shot Mr.. Rickley, he
placed the revolver at his temple and shot
himself, dying almost instantly. Mr..
Rickley may probably live, but the
chances are against him. The trouble grew
out of Mr.. Rickley's refusal to loan
Eichenberg money.
A BLOODY row took place at Black Rock,
New York, between Cap. Timothy Riftery
and Michael Golden. In the first row,
which occurred in store, Riitery knocked
down Golden, kicked him in the head, and
cut his scalp. The men then went to the
boat and continued the trip through the
locks. While Capt. Riftery was pushing
open the gate of the lock Golden rushed up
with a razor and quickly drew it across
Riftery's throat, intlicting horrible cash
from ear to ear. The captain cried: Il
am murdered" and sank exhausted from
loss of blood, which spurted in shower
Glden was arrested and Rlferty sent to the
general hospital, where he now lies in a
critical condition.
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LOST CHARLIE ROSS.
Six Years Of Unavailing search 70,
the stolen Boy.
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the stolen BOY.
Philadelphia Press.
Six years ago Charlie Ross was alb
Quoted from his home under circum-
stances that ought to have rendered his
trail an easy one to pursue. The boy
was so distinctly marked physically that
the attention of even casual passer-by
would have been attracted. Moreover
brother old enough to be- observant
was with the abductors long enough to
remember them, even when he saw
them in death, months afterward. The
pursuit of the missing boy, stimulated
by phenomenal reward, has engaged
TIE combined private and official de-
tective force Of eastern cities for years,
impoverishing the father and resulting
in nothing more positive than the as
certainment of the identity of the alb
ductors. Detective agencies made the
father their prey, and levied contribu-
tions for alleged services that well nigh
bankrupt him. Mr.. Ross says Of their
services ~ was not aided in my search
by any detective, public or private.
Every clue that has proved Of service l
worked out myself" He might have
added that when the combined detec-
tive talent found itself at fault it turn
ed its skill toward proving the father
the author Of the abduction. They had
already made a case strong against him
in its presumptions when one of the
real abductors, dying of a wound re-
ceived in the preparation Of q bur
glary, declared his participation. And
now, after six years search, the discov-
cry of the boy seems as far of as it
was on the day his loss was first made
known.
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IL his official duties with intelligence, with eficien

all his official duties with intelligence, with ecien-
cy and faithfuncss. To select wisely from our
vast population those who are best fitted for the
many Offices to be filled. requires an Acquaintance
far beyond the range Of any man. The cx-
ecutivc should therefore seek and receive the in
formation and assistance of those whose knowl-
edge of the community in which the duties are to
be performed best qualities them, to aid him in
making the wisest choice. The doctrine announ-
ced by the Chicago convention are not the tenn
porary devices of party to attract votes and car
ry an election. They are the deliberate convictions
resulting from careful study of the spirit of our
institutions, the events of our history and the
best impulses of our people. Inmy judgment these,
principles should control the legislation and ad-
ministmtion of the government In any event
they will guide my conduct until experience
points a better way. If elected il
will be my purpose to enforce
strict obedience to the constitution and
laws and to promote, as best | may, the interest
and honor of the whole country. relying for sup
port upon the wisdom of congress- the Intelligence
and patriotism of the people, and the favor Of
God.
With great respect, I am, very truly yours
(SigneI JAS. A. GARFIELD.
To Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, Chairman of the Committee.
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CHARLES BRADLAUGH.
Something About His Early Life.
New Y YOrk Times

A>CN L 4OTh 4lulep
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh's preference of
an affirmation instead of an oath in the
House of Commons was thoroughly
characteristic Of him, and the faithful
following out Of his early antecedents.
In his 10th year he was model young
Christian, an enthusiastic Sunday-school
teacher, and promising member Of
the Church Of England, but when the
Bishop of London was announced to
hold confirmation in Bethnal Green,
the incubent of St. Peters, Hackney
road, in an evil hour requested his
youthful Sunday-school teacher to be
prepared with suitable answers to any
question which the Bishop might put
in regard to the Thirty-nine Articles.
This led young Bradlaugh to compare
the articles with the Gospels, and, on
coming across the difficulties, to ad-
dress a respectful note to his clergyman
in order that he might see his way
through them. The incubent, instead
of helping the boy out of his
troubles, informed his parents that
their son had turned atheist, and sus-
pended him for three months from the
exercise of his functions as Sunday
school teacher. Young Bradlaugh re-
fused to attend church during the inter-
val of his suspension as teacher, and
soon began to spend his Sundays else
where and otherwise. 1t was the time
Of the Chartist movement, when
thought was in the ferment both in and
out of London, and Charles Brandlaugh
was soon a regular out-of-door disputant
in Bonner's Fields, a suburb of the city,
at first on the orthodox Christian side,
then as a deist, then as a full-fedged
atheist. The next step in his career
was to become a teetotaler The crisis
of his life now came. The incumbent
of St. Peters had laid the case of young
Bradlaugh before the firm of coal mer-
chants by whom he had been employed,
and they gave him three days to change
his opinions or lose his situation. He
gave up both "beer and the Bible," and
started out from his fathers house a
social outcast being reduced to such
straits in his 18th year that he enlisted
in the Seventh Dragon Guards, and
served with his regiment three years in
Ireland. Inheriting from his aunt. in
1903 a small property, he bought his
discharge from the army and began his
studies for the bar lecturing frequently
before free-thought institutions, and
taking radical grounds on every ques-
ton that came up. In 1862 he COM
PEELED an Anglican clergyman to pay
500 and costs in a suit for libel affect
ing his wife and daughters, and yet
withheld the name of his assailant from
the public, in order that the priest
might not be degraded from his Office.
His recent preference Of the declara-
ton to the oath in the House of Com
mons is Of a piece with his early ques-
tionings, and the Church Of England
has to thank laundering clergyman
for the radicalism Of one who knows
how to hit hard, and whose position
among British Radicals is one of I'M
questioned power. Mr.. Bradlaugh is
in his 47th year.
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about the locality of pocket in her
cloak. Springing to her feet like young
tigress aroused, she exclaimed in tones
approaching scream, which few of the
sleepy passengers failed to hear:
''Don't you dare to touch my porte
monnaie again! I might have known
that you were one of those sharp young
railroad swindlerss disguised. They al
ways put on a paper collar, poor clothes
and wig, to deceive people and steal
their pursesw
All this was said about as rapidly as
the words could be put together. But
the astonished reply came as quickly as
it could follow:
Thunder and lightnin'! Who are you
a-talkin' to Miss! But you can't black
mail me-you can't; I'll expose you!
Durn me, eff 1 wasn't all took in! Now
get your seat whar you kinp' and he
planted the carpet-bag back beside him
on the seat.
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"ARoUND the world in eighty days" is
nothing extraordinary now. A party
consisting of a gentleman, his wife and
son, left Liverpool, March 13, and
reached Hong Kong, via. the Sue7
canal, in 364 days, and New York in 66
days, the fastest passage on record. AL
lowing nine days for crossing the At
lantlc the journey would have been
completed to Liverpool in 775 days, beat
ing Jules Verne by five days. A rail
way across Turkey and Persia will
eventually shorten this time very ma
terially.
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SHE SAID SHE WOULD SHOOT,
And Knowing by Her Eye That Shit
Meant business. He Took it nj
Rack
Bradford (Pa.) Petroleum World.

Bradford (Pa) Petroleum World.
A dramatic scene occurred at the
Olean races which created much excite
ment. We get the particulars of the
affair from the Olean Times: A comely
looking woman, probably about 40 years
Of age, might have been seen on the
grounds, and had one observed closely,
he would have noticed that she appear
ed greatly agitated, and seemed in quest
of some one. This some one she soon
found. Walking up to big, burly-
looking fellow, She charged him with
having circulated damaging reports
about her, and demanded that he at
once make amende honorable or she
would blow his brains out on the spot
The fellow his name is known but with
held on account of his parents, who are
respectable citizens living not many
miles from the city, attempted to make
a denial o: the allegation and escape
among the crowd, but the lady would
not be put off. She followed him few
steps, and tapping him on the shoulder,
gave him to understand that she meant
business. He Immediately wilted and
pAoihA9Cu W 1Ct1aCo cVc1 y IlllHS lle llttu
said, and started off to hunt up the par
ties to whom he had made the state
ments: closely followed by the woman,
who wore look Of determination which
gave prima facie evidence to the SLAM
derer that there was no room to escape
and no hope of leniency. The party to
whom the derogatory story was told
being found, the thoroughly-cowed
slanderer acknowledged that he had
lied about the matter, and, after humbly
begging pardon Of the injured woman,
was allowed to go his way.
The lady in this case is the wife of a
most respectable and highly influential
citizen Of an adjoining town, mother
Of three children and lady in every
particular.
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GENERAL NOTES.

REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE will pass his
vacation in Colorado.
THE Denver and South Park railroad
is completed to Leadville.
GEN. TREvINo and Miss Ord will be
married at San Antonio, Tex, the last of
this month.
j IT is officially announced that St. Goth
ard tunnel cannot be opened for traffic be-
fore April, 1881.
FARMERS in Tennessee and Kentucky
complain of the continued rain-storms of
the last two weeks.
a LOT of rifles, addressed to local land
lords who disowned knowledge of them,
have been seized near Loughrea, Ireland.
THE failure of Young, Chapman & Co.,
boot and shoe manufacturers, of Montreal,
is announced.
GooD judges in Minnesota, estimate that
there will be a large deficiency in the
wheat crop in that state.
THIRTY buildings in Tyrone, Pa, were
destroyed by fire on 10th inst The loss
s$125, 900, and the insurance S75 5,OOO
The directors of the Buffalo and South
western railway have leased their line
to Erie, for term of ninety-nine years.
CAPDINAL NINA, the papal secretary, has
again rendered his resignation, only to
have its acceptance again refused.
THE secretary of the treasury has order
ed an investigation of the disaster to the
steamboat Narragansett
Four or five horses and buggy were
stolen in Charlottesville, Ind, during the
past week aud as yet no clue has been dis
covered to any Of them.
THE propeller City of St. Catherine col
ided with the steam-barge J. II. Morse in
Lake Erie and sunk All hands, 80 in
number, were saved.
LATE information from Indian Terrific
ry represents that parties are going in
from Texas as well as from Kansas, and
the great excitement prevails.
JOHN R. LYNCH (colored) was nominat-
ed, on the 9th inst, for congress by the
republicans of the sixth Mississippi dis
trict. This is the district now represented
BY Gen. Chalmers.
THE common council of Dallas. Tex, is
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FOREIGN.

ABOUT 4SO communists living in differ
ent parts of Europe will be entitled to re-
turn, under new laws of France.
THE engineers have been ordered to
begin preparations for the demolition of
the forts erected by the British around
Cabul
PRESIDENT GREvY has granted pards MS
and combinations ofsentences to more than
l 5000 common-law prisoners in the home
and colonial prisons.
ACTING on the advice Of England and
France, Greece will postpone calling out
the reserves so as to avoid offering the
porte any pretext for resisting the de-
mands of the powers.
A BERLIN correspondent telegraphs:
Russia's effort to induce Portugal and
Japan to aid her in the event of war with
China, proves fruitless.
a ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says: 1t is
rumored here that the government in
tends to prohibit expectation Of grain from
southern ports toward the end of the year,
consequence of bad crops.
The council of ministers of Spain has
resolved to indemnify the owners of the
American steamer Octavia, which was
illegally captured in the waters of Porto
Rico.
\ DISPATCH from Berlin says: The
murderer of Prince Vrapotkin is believed
to have disclosed the names Of all the
principal nihilists to the Russian govern
ment.
a NEW alarmist rumor is that Prince
Bismarks sleep is disturbed by the agita-
ton provoked in France by the expulsion
of the Jesuits, and that he is about to send
Prince Hohenlohe back to Paris to pro-
test against the measure.
A COR RESPONDENT at Berlin hears from
a good source that the United States gov
ernment is negotiating with the porte re-
garding the safety of American mission
aries in European Turkey should trouble
break out.
ALL the Belgian Bishops have sent dis
patches to the Vatican declaring that their
action will now be more free and more
powerful since the rupture Of diplomatic
relations with Belgium.
The English government has sent a
physician to the county Mayo to inquire
| into the nature and extent of the famine
fever there and in the neighboring coun-
ties, which is reported to be spreading
alarmingly.
A DISPATCH has justsbeen received by
the Chilian Legation at Washington, say
ing that the Chilian fleet has notified the
| Peruvian authorities that Lima will be
bombarded ifpeace is not soon made. The
inhabitants were leaving the city
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IT is not generally known that SON
in-law of the great New York merchant
prince, H. B. Clahin, is now earning his
bread in Cleveland by the sweat Of his
brow, in the capacity of coachman to a
Euclid avenue family. Several years
ago the papers were full Of his elope-
ment with Miss Clafin, who, upon be-
coming Mrs. -, died, leaving behind
her an only child, a little girl who is
now with her papa.
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JOHN DEGNER was q S hiftless San Fran
cisco shoemaker. The family larder
became entirely empty, and his wife
said: Il believe you could get work if
you wanted to, and if you don't do it |
will commit suicide. Go out, and if
you don't come back by 6 o'clock to
tell me you've got a job, you'll find me
dead when you do come" He returned
at 7, and she was dead.
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A BosTONIAN who was nominated for a
political office went to his wife and said
that before he accepted he wanted to
know whether any member of her
family had ever been engaged in any
disreputable transaction. She said:
"Better decline" s.r
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HENRY ATLEY, who is in Cincinnati
prison with his wife on charge of mur-
der, is doing all in his power to fix the
crime on her and clear himself. On the
other hand, Gertie Walker has gone to
the penitentiary from Iowa City with
her husband, because she swore that
she alone was guilty of burglary,
though it is all but certain that he was
the criminal, and she simply sought to
bear the punishment in his stead.
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SITTING BULL GROWING OLD.
| The Sioux CHIEF Says He Wants to
stay In Canada.

A Sioux City dispatch says Lieuten-
ant Thompson, of the Canadian mount
ed police, is in that city, direct from
Fort Walsh. He says he lately visited
Sitting Bulls camp at Wood Mountain.
Sitting Bull says he is growing old and
does not want to leave his present loca-
ton. His followers were short of feed
this spring and several hundred of their
ponies died, but buffaloes have gone
north now and they are all right.
Thompson says the Sioux who came
from Sitting Bulls camp across the
line talk peace, but they came to kill
Buffalo There was some trouble be-
tween these Sioux and the Blackfeet
about killing ponies, and eight Sioux
were killed
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Now has come the time when that
rascal, the moth, is quietly doing his
destructive work. Some Of your hus-
bands or brothers tobacco in the
clothes closets will soon disgust the
vagabond and he will seek other quar-
tiers. Some spirits Of camphor frequent
ly sprinkled about will also disagree
with him.