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Eight or more persons were killed and two hundred people thrown out of employment by the explosion of the boiler of Harlin & Orendorff's agricultural implement works at Canton, Ill., on Saturday...
Yesterday, at a baptizing near Canton, a bridge fell into a river, and precipitated 200 spectators into the water. No lives were lost, but quite a number of legs and arms were broken...
Plautus' comedy of the "Captive" was given last Friday by the students of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., with appropriate scenery and costumes...
...Spirit of November 19 appears an article headed "Collegiate Amateurs," which conclusively proves that the records of 10 sec. for 100-yards, and 50 1/4 sec. for the 1/4-mile claimed to have been made at the Spring Meeting of the St. Lawrence University of Canton, N. Y., on May 29 last, were made by a professional, named Fitzgibbons, who it appears is, or at that time was, a member of the University. As there was some doubt expressed at the time in regard to the records, we did not see fit to allow them as the best college records...
...writing from the land of the East. America is a large country. A son of the heavenly empire, should he divest himself of his club feet, could walk from one end of the country to another in no less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some...