The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-18
GENERAL NOTES

IHE value OF American petroleum ex
ported for the past year was $40, ,3l5, 500.
SIX Sioux chiefs from Standing Rock
are en- route to Washington for a confer
ence.
A DISPATCH from Yates says two squaws
were caught carrying guns and ammuni.
tion into Sitting Bulls camp.
The people of Yankton, Dakota, pro-
pose to erect on bluff near that city d
Congregational college to cost 100000.
Mrs. JOHN KLINE, of Brooklyn, after
twenty-five years of married life, took her
clothing and $1,000 in money, and eloped
with the husband of her most intimate
female friend.
THE city engineer Of Montreal has
found woman who for sixteen months
has been engineer in boot-heel factory,
has perfect knowledge of her busi ness,
and never had an accident.
THE wheat corner in Chicago has made
prices for cash and August delivery six
cents higher than rule in Milwaukee, and
cargoes continue to arrive by lake from
the latter port.
AT large meeting of socialists in New
York k it was resolved that Secretary
Blaine was bound to give an explicit an.
swer to the questions propounded in re.
gard to the extradition of Leo Hartmann
EFFORTS are being made in Arizona to
secure the removal of John G. Fremont
from the governorship, as for the pas,
three years he has spent most of his time
at the east.
AT the funeral of General Robert Pat.
terson, of Philadelphia, Generals Grant,
Sherman, Hancock and Porter oficiated
as pall-bearers. and Generals Schofeld
Sickles and Hartranft were present.
Crow DOG, who assassinated Spotted
Tail, proceeded to Fort. Niobrara and sur.
rendered himself. Colonel Montgomery
has asked instructions from Washington
as to what shall be done with him.
TIE widow of ex.president Fillmore,
who died in Buffalo recently, was in her
list year. In October last she suffered a
severe stroke of paralysis. The only sur
vivor of the ex-president is an unmarried
son by his first wife.
OMAHA has nearly ready for use wa
ter system constructed by private COM
pany at cost of $3.50, 900. The storage
capacity is eighteen million gallons, and
there are thirty-one miles of pipe.
THEODORE ALLEN, a notorious gambler
of New York, was recently united in
marriage to Miss Ella A. Glover, a
young lady Of beauty and refinement,
and possessing half million in her own
right.
GENERAL GRANT has bought for $685..
600 a residence on Sixty-sixth street
New York, for his future home. He will
be at the soldiers reunion at Blooming.
ton, ILL.,, on September g. and go thence to
st. Louis and to Mexico.
The governor of Iowa recently sent 8
veterinary surgeon TO Madison ou..ty to
examine glandered horses. Two were
found so badly diseased that he caused
them to be shot; four others have bee !
placed in isolation for thirty days.
No successor to Bishop Haven can be
elected until the next general meeting Of
bishops, but the four conferences on the
Pacific coast will be taken in charge by
Bishop Harris, who is now on his way
westward.
DURING the races at Saratoga, Benjamin
H. Benton, of New York, was arrested for
attempting to bribe stable-boy with 5000
to poison Applegate & Brothers steeple.
chaser Glasgow. He was held for ma.
licious mischief, but jumped his bail.
A TRAIN of four wagons, valued at
$4,000, was captured and burned by In
dians while en- route to Arizona. Tran.
quilino Luna, delegate in congress from
New Mexico, is in pursuit Of the reds with
forty mounted volunteers from Las Lunas
PETER DAHL, of Chicago. died in the
Cook county hospital, recently, of hydro.
phobia. He was bitten in the thumb BY a
dog six months ago, but there seemed ia
have been no injuries inflicted until he
related the occurrence and was informed
that he would die from the bite.
THE water in the croton reservoir al
New York has been reduced six inches by
the increased consumption, in addition to
50, 900, 600 gallons daily delivered by the
aqueduct. There are 5000 meters in use
in large buildings. Surveys are being
made for new aqueduct.
COMMISSIONER FINK reports that the
joint executive committee of the trunk
lines resolved to restore on August % the
grain rate of 25 cents from Chicago to
New York. The meeting was a secre,
one, and lasted for three hours. No rep
resentative Of the Vanderbilt roads was ir