The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-02
CANTON, d. t., THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881.

been one Of the murderers of the archbish
op Of Paris, is about to ma ke his appear
ance in Chicago under an alias.
WHILE resisting the seizure of the Ivan.
| pah Mining company 3 mill at San Ber-
nardino. CAL, John McFarlane was killed
by Deputy Marshal Hesson.
Mr.. CHlLAs, farmer living at Bren-
ham, Texas, protested against his sons
driving over a growing crop, when the
young man killed his father at one fell
blow.
"A BILL has been pa assed by the Michigan
house providing fine of $1,000 and i'm
prisonment for year for those who pub
lish accounts OF rape, incest, seduction,
murder, or executions.
A DAsrARDLY attempt to blind Mrs.
Frank Mordaunt, wife of a well-known
actor, with Cayenne pepper, was made bv
man in Brooklyn. A police officer
named Campbell has been arrested for the
crime,
TIE revenue collector at Atlanta, Ga,
reports that the jails Of Faunin and Pick.
MS counties were emptied of mOonshiners
by armed mobs. Commissioner Baum has
given orders to have warrants issued for
the arrest of the rescuing parties and see
that they are hunted down.
A SPECIAL agent of the treasury depart
ment captured Frank Davis, noted
counterIeiter, at Hamburg, Iowa. On his
person were found bogus coins of high
order of merit, and a large chunk Of metal.
THREE officers have reached St. Louis
with Myers, Brown, and Mitchell, the
Sikeston deperadoes. Sheriff Walters
eluded lynching parties at New Madrid
and took his prisoners to Cairo by steamer.
A KENTUCKY court has issued an IN
junction which etfectually stops the busi-
ness Of the concern known as the Ken
tucky State Lottery, and which has been
q very successful affair.
ABRAHAM SELLEMs was arrested in New
York city, charged with forging check
for $4,000 on the Nassau bank. He con.
fessed the crime, claiming to have lost
the amount of the check in stock specula-
tions.
PAYMAsTER SwAsEY, of the Cincinnati
Southern road. has been asked to resign
for engaging in a usurious scheme with a
city ieweier. The employees of the road
obtained advances OF $1,000 from the Jew
eler last month, and gave orders on the
paymaster, who shared in the profits.
ir is believed that the liabilities of
Robert A. Baker, the Fond du Lac bank.
er. will reach S20O,O00. The fugitive has
sent back $3.50 to apply on his default in
the cemetery fund. A warrant has been
obtained Tor the arrest of the cashier of
the exploded concern, John S. Burrows,
but he has fled.
REVENUE OFFICERS GARY and Looper of
South Carolina. are just the kind of men
for revenue officers in such state. They
set forth to seize an illicit distillery in
Pickens county recently. and in doing it..
notwithstanding the persons who operated
it, named Alexander, father and son,
resisted with shotguns. Young Alex
ander was seriously, perhaps fatally,
wounded. The officers then DESTROYED an
eighty-six-gallo still and about LOO
gallons of mash and beer
| THE youngest daughter-aged sixteen
of James Westover, living at Markesan,
Green Lake county, Wis, died, Thursday,
from taking poison-baking powder,
iodine and strychnine. Her youthful
lover, Dan Murray, driver on the stage
route between Markesan and Brandon, and
only about eighteen years old, attem pied
to follow by taking strychnine, but was
alive when last heard from. The deluded
lovers were tired of this life because West.
over refused to allow Murray to cali on
his daughter at her home.