The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-31
L ATE REPORTS.
A Summary of Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

A. kEENE RICHARDS, well-known turf
man, is dead.
Hon. WIN. P. FRYE has been chosen by
the Maine legislature for United States
Senator to succeed Mr.. Blaine.
THE whole German army will go into
mourning for the slain Emperor for a
month.
HAD the first shell missed the emperor
three others would have been thrown be-
fore he reached the palace.
Two convicts at the Chester peniten-
tiary, engaged in cutting stone in the
yard, escaped through breach in the
stockade.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
railroad directors have declared semi
annual dividend of 3 per cent on all its
stock,
GEORGE S. DAVIDSON, once lieutenant
in Latham's confederate battery, who fired
the first gun at the battle of Bull Run.
died at Estellville, Va.
THE ladies' land league of Ireland sent
to the prisoners in Kilmainham Jail a sup
ply of clothing and furniture and guam
tity of shamrocks.
THE first steamboat to make the tri D up
the Hudson from New York this season is
the Daniel S. Miller. She experienced
very little difficulty in making the trip.
THE timers Of Pittsburg and Allegheny
have notified their employers that if their
wages are not raised 20 per cent. by the
first of April, they will inaugurate a
strike
JAY GOULD has departed with his fam
ily for pleasure trip to Florida. He
will be away about a fortnight. His
brother has called in loans to large
amount.
TIE greenback central club, composed
of the greenback ward presidents and
Leading greenbackers of San Francisco,
adopted resolutions indorslng the assasi-
nation of the Gar.
The Colored Mans Protection Club, of
their dissatisfaction because the republi-
milton on the city ticket Just nominated.
THE Kentucky regulators took William
Dheil, storekceper at Princess Furnace,
Boyd county. out of his bed, gave him ff-
teen lashes, ordered him to leave within
five days, and went away.
AT the request of provision shippers in
Chicago and New York, Secretary Blaine
has instructed the American ministers at
Paris and London to insist upon the ad-
mission of all meats shipped prior to the
edict against pork.
JAMES BLACK, colored, who was hanged,
at Marion. S. c., for the murder of Eli
Wilcox, had been reprieved twice. As
the trap fell the rope broke and Black fell
heavily to the ground, splitting blood and
calling for water. Eighteen minutes
later the trap was sprung Il second time.
A DISASTROUS flood at Kansas City has
cut away six acres Of valuable property
about three quarters Of mile above the
Stock Exchange One end of the Kansas
City Glue Factory has fallen into the
stream. The people living in the vicinity
are moving out of their houses.
The great billiard match at the cham
pion's game, 1000 points, 800 per night,
five consecutive nights, for 1000 a side,
between Schaefer and Slosson, has been
definitely set to commence on April IL, at
either Tammany Hall or the Academy of
Music, New York.
ELLEN NJ. STRATToN, a teacher in pub
lie school at Omaha, aged about 80 years,
has eloped with Charles Duke, a lad of IS,
son of prominent merchant, in whom
she has long taken great interest. She
borrowed of various persons nearly $500,
and left board bill of $50. She has been
regarded as one of the most trustworthy
instructors in the city.
GEN. SHERIDAN and the officers of his
staff discredit the story from New Mexico
that the Apache Indians attacked wagon
train and massacred thirty persons. No
such intelligence hes been received at
headquarters, where it would
naturally be known first, since the Indians
make their raids from point near Fort
Cummings, from which post any hostile
would be instantly telegraph
ed to Chicago.