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

"A man at Stratford, Conn, killet, eat
recently, and buried her, but when ~
went to the grave short time afterw 2ros
he found her quietly seated upon it. S.
did Lot give her murderer chance to take
another of her nine lives, but took speedy
and final leave of the neighborhood.
The Raleigh On. c. Sentinel reports
that two freedwomen, named Mary and
Becky Collins, mother and daughter, re-
Gently burned to death child of four years,
the nephew of one, and grandson of
the other, because as they alleged, the
child's mother had come back and made
him devil.
Albert n. Davis, the clerk of the Mas
sasoit House, Springfield, Mass, who re-
ceived pistol wound i'm the knee, last
December, died on Sunday April 18th
The wound was received from pistol
which dropped from the coat pocket of
traveller, and exploded as Mr.. Davis was
handing the coat over the counter.
"A drunken fellow lying on the track
near South Paris, Me, last week, had an
entire train of cars pass over him without
his knowledge. He was caught by the
ash-pan and rolled about thirty-six feet,
when he dropped between the sleepers and
so escaped death. He was somewhat
bruised, and his clothes were torn into
ribbons.
-"Damages $4,000" seems to be the
prevailing figure at San Francisco. BY
late papers we see the San Jose Railroad
Company has been sued for S25 900 dam
ages for a laborers arm crushed the Dctttg
1ha is sued by an aggrieved house carpen-
ter for sos, 600 damages; and the owner of
a runaway horse is sued for So, 900 by a
man whom said horse knocked down and
injured
"A servant girl In CovingtOn, Ky,
living in the family of a doctor, filled the
pepper castor with horse-powders which
the doctor had left loose. The unsuspect-
ing sawbones, being greatly addicted To
pepper, used large quantity of the con-
dition powder at his next meal. He is now
in fine condition, has rented a all in
livery stable, and talks about running for
Mayor
AT Junction City, Kansas, on the Sth
instant, a man named William Moore,
while seated at the breakfast table with
his wife and children, drew a revolver and
shot his wife dead. In about two hours
after shooting his wife, he obtained pill
low, laid his wife's head upon it. laid down
on the floor beside her, and deliberately
shot himself through the head with the
revolver and died in Il few minutes.
This note came with baby to the
doorstep of a house in San Francisco:
" Dear Mrs. Chamberlin, am little
motherless child. My father is poor, but
honest lie has four other children To sup
port but my Heavenly Father has sent me
unto you, To be daughter to you. i have
no name; therefore, please give me what
name you may choose. | bring with me
my bottle. Feed me only on one cows
milk. Yours, affectionately, BABY
Last Friday afternoon, the City of La
Cross, Wis, was furnished with a genuine
A Liederman, livery stable
keeper, was shot by woman named Mrs.
a milliner, formerly of WinOna
(where she was known as Mrs. Darrow),
while walking with her in the street. The
bali entered the back part of his head, and
has not been extracted. lie IS, however,
out of danger. Cause, alleged
injury of reputation.
The "bell man" at the Hoosic tunnel
was standing at the bottom of the shaft,
on the 20th-when drtll, five feet in length,
rolled off the platform, and falling dis
lance of three hundred and seventy feet, its
sharp end struck the man in the side, and
the instrument passed entirely through his
body, and then some distance into a heavy
plank, completely impaling the unfortunate
man, who lived about twenty-four hours
AFTER the occurrence.
The Racine Journal reports the drown
ing a little daughter of Mr. Horn, about
four years old. She was play ing wit n snnno
other children when she fell headtoremOst
into a barrel which had been sunk into
the ground, and which was full of water at
The time Her playmates were too much
frightened TO render any assistance, but
ran away screaming for help. and the little
girl was dead before any one came TO her
rescue.
On Sunday night, the 21st, 81 Mount
Norris, Greene county, Pennsylvania, an
old man named Martin Cane, aged about
30 years, his wife having retired to bed and
fallen asleep, procured an axe and dealt her
a blow on the head, from the effects of
which the doctors say she cannot possibly
recover. A short time after the commits
sion of the bloody deed, the lifeless bloody
Of the old man was found suspended from
the limb of tree near the house, he hav-
ing hanged himself
AS locomotive on the Pennsylvania
was crossing the beautiful bridge
near Gray's Ferry, on Thursday of last
week, with two cars loaded with coal oil III
barrels, the combustible material took fire.
The engineer put all the steam on the en-
CINE, and cleared the bridge before the
burning oil bad commenced TO lun down
IL, 4 4. 90.
the land near the Arsenal wall,
he detached the locomotive. The oil and
cars were entirely consumed.
AT Calf, Canada, on the 18th instant,
a woman while in the basement of flour
mill, was caught by her dress in some cog
wheels, and had one arm torn from the
one leg nearly torn off, hand
badly mangied, and her body much mutt
lated. The first intimatiOn of the acct
dent that the miller had was the cracking
of her bones among the cogs. She con-
tinued revolving with the wheels and ut
tering agOnizing screams, until the miller
assembled flight of stairs to the next story,
and stopped the machinery.
1t is now remembered as probable
explanation of the skeleton dug up in a
shop at Jenksville, Mass, the
other day, that forty or fifty years ago
a Belchertown man named Hannibal,
who had been to Hartford to sell some
wagons, mysteriously disappeared, and the
horse which he rode was found near Lud-
low City. On his return he crossed the
Chicopee river, and it is supposed that he
stopped To have horse shoe set, and ex-
posing his money, never left the shop. The
most dillgent search was made, and at
one time as many as three thousand
people Joined in it, but no clue TO his fate
has ever been obtained till now.
Religious and Educational.
"A new Hampshire clergyman attended
three funerals the other day, the united
ares of the deceased being $40 wears.