The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-23
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Pennsylvania greenback conven-
tion nominated r. w. jackson, of Mer-
Ger county, for state treasurer, and re-elec-
ted E. S. Watson, chairman of the state
central committee.
EIGHTY brakemen of the Iron Mountain
road employed at Little Rock have struck
for $50 per month.
The shipments of strawberries from
Muskegon to Chicago in one day were
nine hundred cases.
A VEIN of coal, eight feet below the sur
face has been discovered on the line Of
the Duluth and Winnipeg road.
A FLOCK of 100 blooded sheep were kill
ed by lightning on the farm of Colonel D.
A. Alkert, in Nodaway coanty, Missouri.
TIE migration to the United States
for the past eleven months was 564 .294.
Germany.leads with 175 ,2O6, but Canada
contributed 11O,6ll.
Tue citizens of Des Moines have pre-
sented q team, carriage and harness to
Vicar General J. +. BRAZIL. Governor
Gear made the address.
THE Greenhackers of Ohio have nomin-
ated John Seitz, of Seneca, for governor :;
Charles Jenkins, of Mahoning, for lieu
tenant governor, and Joseph Watson, of
Knox, for supreme court Judge.
THE members of the New York stock
exchange are waking up to the necessity
of establishing news bureau to provide
trustworthy information on all matters
affecting the price of securities.
THE corn crop of Iowa is estimated at
80 per cent. of the average, and the
breadth planted is found to be over three
million acres, Spring wheat is placed at
81 per cent. of the regular yield.
THE wheat crop of Kentucky is esti-
mated at 81 per cent. of the average.
With the drouth of May, the corn crop
will be very late in maturing.
ENGLISH physicians have decided that
Mrs. Edwin Booth must be removed TO
the United States, and the trayedians' en-
gagements on the other side of the Allan
tic have been Cancelled.
THE boy evangelist, Rev. Thomas Harri-
son, after eleven weeks Of earnest labor al
Indianapolis. is credited with 2,200 con-
versions. Sixteen churches in that city
are now open for revival work, and the
use Of the theatres for Sunday services
has been rendered.
WHEN the Ute commissioners came to
cross the Gunnison river, two of the chiefs,
Colorow and Joe, had disappeared. ''r.
oapanavaro and Guero will probably aid
in the selection of new reservation On
Grand river.
CLARA FoLz, the San Francisco woman
lawyer, being told BY the opposing coun-
sci in court that woman's proper place
was at home raising children, retorted
. A woman had better be engaged in al
most any business than raising such men
as you are, sir.
Grief JUSTICE SENER, Of Wyoming, de-
cides that the recent marriage of China
man and white women, being legal in
Colorado, must be recognized as valid in
Wyoming. This makes Lee Chin solid
with the Mclean man But the Celes-
tials have boycotted him for throwing
himself away on white trash, and his
trouble has only commenced.
ERAsTUs WYMAN, of New York, has be-
come president of the Great Northwestern
Telegraph company of Canada, since the
recent transfer of control. The pathway
is now open for the amalgamation of the
Montreal and Dominion lines under this
charter, when the three can be absorbed
by the Western Union.
Rev. CowLEY, of the Shepherds fold, Of
New York, who served year in the pen
itentiary for starving the children, has
been given trial by Bishop Potter. The
committee selected has spent six weeks to
declare that Cowley should not have been
punished as felon, and ought not to be
deposed from the ministry, and the bishop
will give him some minor position in the
church.
THE Iowa democratic state convention
was attended by $50 delegates. One of
the first incidents was the congratulatory
address Of Hon. Wesley Hoffs, of St.
Louis. Judge L. D. Kinne was nomina-
ted for governor, Captain j. M. Walker
for lieutenant governor, Hon. H. B. Hen
dershott for Judge of the supreme court,