The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-28
GENERAL. NOTES

SCALPERs in New York are selling tick.
cts to Chicago at from $7.75 to 80.
THs railway building since January has
brought the tracks of the United States to
an aggregate of 100, 900 miles.
CHIEF JUSTICE SHANNON, of Dakota, has
organized at Pierre the first court ever
held in that part of the territory.
SENATOR BEN HILL underwent sur.
gical operation at Philadelphia for an af.
fection of the tongue.
ANOTHER case of Asiatic cholera is re-
ported from Camden. N. r., the victim
being an aged clergyman.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT has Offered
to bear two-thirls the cost of suitable
buildings tor female college at Nashville
HENRY WILLARD and party have return
ed 10 st. Paul from q trip to the end of the
Northern Pacific track.
The ST. Joseph fruit region of Michi
gan will have neither peaches nor black
berries to ship this year. but the crop O.
whortleberries will be immense.
String BULL and two hundred follow
ers surrendered at Fort Buford and were
placed in compartments at the post. The
famous chieftain is sullen and insolent.
In declining to appoint day of thanks
giving for the recovery of the president
Governor Roberts, of Texas, has drawn
down upon himself whirlwind of indig
nation.
AN heir to the vast estate of Elizabeth
Vanattoe, of Syracuse, has been discov
cred at Milwaukee in the person of Johr
Green ship-carpeDteT.
LARGE crowds ofpeople have been flock.
ing into Maryville, NO., to witness the
execution of Albert and Charles z. Tai
bott for the murder of their father.
The army.worm is rapidly extending
over the state of Illinois, and in many
places many farmers are cutting theil
crops in advance of their ripening. A
field of forty acres of oats at Sycamore
ILL.,, was ravaged in forty-eight hours.
DR.. GATL1NG, the inventor of the our
bearing his name, has invented torpedo
for the destruction of torpedo boats, and
gave very satisfactory exhibition recent.
ly. 1t will throw a shell three miles
which will pierce the iron skin of tor.
pedo boat easily.
REBUILDING has commenced at New
Ulm, MINI. Henry Willard has given
81 500 to the relief fund. 81, 600 has been
raised at Milwaukee, and St. Paul and
Minneapolis have pledged $500 each.
The number OF deaths by the cyclone has
swollen to thlrty-four. -.
THERE are sixteen persons in Jail al
Chicago on charge of murder. The bail
of John c. Hayward, indicted for the
murder of James McMahon, has been re-
duced to $780, He has lain in iail fol
three years, and was once convicted and
sentenced 10 the penitentiary for life
Killing people in Chicago ought not to be
regarded as joke.
SITTING BULL, FIVE other chiefs, and
forty lodges are really on the way to Fort
Buford, in charge of Jean Louis Legare
and were expected to arrive inside our
lines Tuesday. Major Brotherton sent on,
six army wagons with supplies for the
guests.
SHERIFF. WooD, Of Sycamore. ILL.,, was
persuaded to take prisoner named Ed.
ward Hardy to the BARRIERS. The jail-bird
made dash when the doors we're opened
but was recaptured by the sherriff's young.
CSL uhukutcI, WuO tuIuSt y lCtOlvcE LII I'LL
face and forced him to halt.
Four armed men, believed to be the
James boys and their accomplices, went
into camp at the ferry lanoing near Lex.
ington, Mo-, the other night, and were
driven ten miles by party of United
States river employees. The squad are
thought to be the Winston train robbers
THE Secretary Of State when at Deer
Park, said to . friend who met him at the
depot: "For Heavens sake, don't call
me Blaine. Call me Jervis, or any name
you please, but don't call me Blaine. !
am nearly tormented to death byvisitors
letters and kilograms, and came up here
to get rid Of them, and have couple o.
days rest"
VAST as has been the immigration from
Europe during the past year, the commits
sioners at Castle Garden report an increas
ing demand for labor which they are ut
terly unable to supply. Agriculturist.
are wanted for Florida. Louisiana. ans
West Virginia smelters for the mining
towns, and graders for the railways Will
which the new southwest is being grid
ironed.