The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-24
I IATF, REPORTS.
A Summary Of --latest Cablegrams
and Telegrams.
Latest Events.
PEDEsTRIANIsM is on the wane.

PEDESTRIANISM is on the wane.
Ex-Governor WAsnBURN, Of Wiscon-
sin, has left La Crosse for the Hot Springs.
Hon. JACOB CARTER, the oldest knight
Templar in New Hampshire, died recent
ly at Concord.
SMALL-Pox has broken out in Washing
ton: ILL.,, Squire Parker being the victim,
and the streets have been barricaded.
AssEMBLYMAN BRENNAN was found dead
at Malone, n. Y, on the 10th inst. hav-
ing poisoned himself.
THE government pensioners on the 10th
inst received $33, 600 from Miss Sweet, at
Chicago.
THERE are said to be six well-developed
cases of smallpox at Fort Wayne, three
of them being catholic sisters connected
with St. Joseph's hospital.
CONTRARY to general expectations the
bill to establish the whipping post for the
benefit of wife-beaters was favorably re-
ported to the Pennsylvania house.
CARL ScHURz has been sued for 5000, 900
by Charles d. Gilmore, Washington
claim agent, for being disbarred from
practice at the interior department.
GEN. MANUEL CASTRO has been granted
forty leagues of land in the province of
Sonora, Mexico, which he intends to colo
nize with emigrants from California.
HANLAN says he will give Trickett or
Courtney fifteen seconds start in five
mile race for any amount, or Wallace Ross
ten seconds start in the same distance.
EDGAR W1CKs. of Mount Clemens,
Mich, and John T. Rich. OF Lapeer, are
the leading candidates for Conger's seat in
the house Of representatives. The con-
vention has already taken thirty-eight
ballots, without result.
THE national board of health has
awarded contracts for floating hospitals to
be stationed off Cairo, Memphis, Nicks-
burg and Bayou Sara. The boats will be
eighty feet long, and accommodate twelve
patients each.
On the llth inst. sale of fancy stock
was made in GAINESVILLE, Wis. 1t was the
matched mares Calamus and Jeannetse,
sisters, which went for something over
$4,000 The former made 2::245 at Min
neapolis and 2:19a at Rochester, N. Y.
Miss FLORA ToRREY, step-daughter Of
w. r. Wagstaff, of Paola, Kan, has just
been admitted to the bar. after a search
ing examination She is handsome
blonde, highly educated, and accomplish
ed in music and painting.
a COMPANY has been organized in New
York to be known as the United States
Cremation Company Qimited), to cremate
human dead in the quickest, best and
most economical manner. The capital of
the company is $4,000, divided into 200
shares
GEN. GARFIELD has appointed Mr..
Henry G. Pierson as postmaster at New
York He has bees. in the Office of which
he is now the head for many years, rising
from the position of distributing clerk to
that of assistant postmaster, and has been
the very efficient aid of Colonel James
for several years.
ENSECRETARY RAMSEY, of Minnesota
who has great deal Of property in his
own state, will return there immediately,
give up politics, and attend to his private
business. Ex-Vice President Wheeler has
also withdrawn completely from politics.
He is now making tour of the south,
and will spend the coming sumner in
Europe.
The governor of Minnesota has appoint
ed General A. J. Edgerton, of Dodge
county, United States senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon.
VIM. Window, now secretary of the treas
ury General Edgerton was a prominent
officer in the western volunteer army in
the southwest during the war, and has
been state senator and state railroad
commissioner. The term to which he has
been appointed will expire in March, 1883.