Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-03
The West.

The Cheyenne village where troops had
been quart cred several days, was burned
on the Goth ult, involving loss of
100000.
The losses occasioned by the great over
flow on the Missouri river bottom are esti-
mated at over S2O,OO0,0OO The flood, at
last accounts, still continued.
Advices received at the office of Indian
Affairs state that General Custer, who was
in pursuit of fifteen hundred retreating In
dams, had failed To overtake them.
John Guedcl, convicted at the fall term,
1866, of the st. Clair county Circuit Court,
of the murder of Adam Zimmerman, in
Madison county, in October, 1864, was ex-
ecuted at Belleville, Ill, on the Goth
The Quartermaster at Omaha has nOti-
fed the Superintendent of the Union
Pacific railroad that he should require
transportation for 100000 pounds of
Government stores during the season.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a law
prohibiting the publication of advertise
ments of secret drugs and nostrums pur-
porting TO be for the exclusive use of
women and also the sale of the same
Saturday, the 9th, was day of casual
ties in Chicago. In the forenoon, lad
living in the North Division was kicked
by vicious horse and MORALLY wounded.
In the afternoon q lad was drowned in the
river, near the Van Buren, street bridge.
A telegram from San Francisco on the
29th, says Since the decision Of Judge
Deadly that Gen. Mcdowell is liable for
damages for arresting and imprisoning peo-
pie using reasonable language, in eXulta-
ton over the assassination of President
Lincoln, suits are being CONNIE need
throughout the State by those arrested
during the war.
Mr.. McGrorty, the Gentle candidate for
delegate in Congress from Utah, "expects
to worry brother Hooper " for the seat. 4
Salt Lake correspondent calls the election
of February 4th huge farce, and
promises interesting developments He
says the Bishops who were chiefly the
Judges of election, did all the voting eX-
cept for the Gentiles-voted for the broth
ers absent i'm England and Wales preach
ing; for those in Norway, Sweden, and Den
mark; for those in the Sandwich Islands
and elsewhere abroad for those whotame
to the polls as well as for those who didn't.
The demonstration in Chicago OH May
day of the Workingmen and Trades
Unions, in honor of the Inauguration oi
the new Eight Hour law, was one of III,
. most imposing affairs ever witnessed in that
city. The procession numbered over five
J thousand laboring men, and required more
than an hours time to pass given point
Dispatches from Springfield, Peoria
Aurora, Quincy, and st. Louis, give ac
counts of eight-hour demonstrations, o
, more or less magnitude, which occurred in
those cities In every instance the affair
passed off in an orderly manner.
About 3 o'clock p. m, on Wednesday
the 24th, an earthquake was felt with NOR,
or less severity nearly all over Kansas anC
Missouri. 1t was reported as extending a:
far cast as St. Louis, and as far west a
Junction City. The Leavenworth anC
Kansas City papers are full of incidents o
the great shock. Dishes were shaken from
shelves, and in one or two instances build
ings opened with large seams or fissures
A man on the Missouri River Road Wa
, nearly thrown from the cars. The eneInee
: turned down steam and jumped from Tia
train, thinking the engine was bursting
3 The vibration was felt as far north as Nil
| waukee and extended into eight States.
: At Quincy, Illinois, on the morning O
the 23d, Rev. j. c. White attempted +
; lecture on "Romanism," but the hall wa
: taken possession of by some rioters of op
, posing sympathies, and upon his attempt
ing to open the meeting, he was hustle,
down. and finally compelled to leave with
| out speaking at all. He appealed TO th'
2 ! Mayor, but got no satisfaction. On th'
: night Of the 18th, however, free speecl
triumphed and Mr.. White delivered hi
t lecture with only one interruption, which
! was promptly silenced. The "sovereigl
2 people" were on hand, ready to see the Law
, enforced. The excitement was intense
f and exaggerated reports were telegraphe'
throughout the country.
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