The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-02-10
News of the Week.

NEWS O1 CuG week.
Philadelphia hid $500 900 FIRE on III
1stu lt.
The two week S receipts Of Mile Bern
hardt at Chicago was Sal AIS.
The wheat crop is reported as being in
iured in Indiana and southern Illinois.
Ben Butler IS going to the West Indie
for months cruise after congress ad
journs.
Canadian horses arc rising in value
Several dealers are buying them for til
American market.
During the Geographic break in N. Y
City the Pionee Press received its dis
patches from there via New Orleans.
Plymouth, N. G., was almos. totally
destroyed by flames on the ID. The los:
is estimated at sl20,0 with no insurance
The foreign immigration during Janua
ry is reckoned at S,076 large Increase
oyer last year The Donoiluc brough,
$465 900 in gold.
The floods are doing great damage il
| California, whole towns being carried
away by swollen streams AID the collaps-
| ing Of reservoirs.
Sprnger's resolution Of lnquiring into
the cxpctliency Of a government postal
telegraph, has been 1avorably reported by
| the House committee.
The Christian Advocate Of New Orleans
saws that 10, 0G0 murders have been COM
| mittcl III the south zinuc the war, tha,
have been reported.
The small pox is raging terribly in
New York City, 50 much so in fact rs 10
be beyond the control Of the board of
health to check is spread.
Many bankruptcies are imminent on
account Of the depression in Russian in
dustries and the Minister of finance has
instituted an inquiry into the cause.
An cndeayor was made in the e. s.
senate to create a standing committee on
,hc woman's rights question, but the mat
ter was finally referred 10 the commit GO
on Rules.
About seven hundred Of Sitting Bulls
band Of warriors have surrendered and
are now quartered at TT Buford. The old
chief is being forsaken and he must yield
himself soon.
Hickory Ridge, KY, was the scene Of a
terrible murder on the I'd. One &. Case
knocked down W. McBcnncy with an Ak
and beat his head into a jelly. Both
were prominet Methodists.
The business men Of Chicago are going
to build telegraph line to New York.
Work will commence III early spring and
will be CONSTRUCTED in eight weeks. An
OH cr blow at mono poles.
Wien the III Central Railroad COM
menced paying per ct. of its gross earn
ings into the State Treasury, tho state debt
was over 16L million dollars. Up to
now the Il. r. Co. has contributed S.
1927 ,927 toward the ex,in gulshment Of the
dcut.
Sitting Bull instead Of coming into Fit.
Bufcrd as agreed, has returned TO the
British Possessions and surrendcled to
the authorities there asking TO bc sen; un
der an escort for protection TO BuforI,
being afraid Of meeting his deserts from
our soldiers.
Levi Z. Letter Of the well known Chica-
go firm OF Field, Letter & Co., has with
drawn from tn" firm which now goes un-
der the head Of Marshal Field & Co. This
firm has houses in Paris, Berlin, New
York and Chi :ago, and last year their
wholesale business alone amounted to
over $50 100000.
Within five years past 225 railroads
With mileage Of over 10000 miles or
nearly % per cent OF present mileage and
a nominal capital Of $l,23G, 100000, (m1re
than 20 per cent Of total railroad capi!aD
have passed through bankruptcy and fore.
closed.
Chicago has INDUCED in the refining,
cleyatiny and interesting chicken fight vt
a day and nights duration. The Milwau.
kec sports who were the successful ones
brought coop Of chickens Of Irish cx-
traction instead of native birds whereat
the Chicagolans were indignant, but
beaten.
The President In his message touching
upon the bill relative to the Ponca In
dians, thinks that they should be prepar-
ed for citizenship by educating the child
rem of both sexes, and their rights be con-
sidered as sacred as those Of the white
mans, and give then choice Of Indian
Territory, Dakota or Nebraska. The fact
of it is, the red man has had too much
choice of the western lands and generally
decided it was more profitable to diff
scalps" than it was TO become choice and
reconciled. Years must pass before any
thing can be done toward cvilizing these
creatures through education even though
a wrong has been done them. Give them
laDds, arms, ammunition, rations, and
they will still defy the hand that fed them
when cndeavoring to "prcpare them for
citizenship" When, O, when. will these
"wild children of nature" be pacitied!
The United states has according to the census
81 900, 900 of inhabitants.
Eastern farmers will not move wlnter-wheat for
ess than dollar bushel, and intend to hold
their spring wheat until after seeding.
ly,na Fall i, por;S
andg of street cean ers at once shovel it up and