Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-20
NfWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.


route, but the prospect of favorable
result is slight.
The Erie railroad, May 1st, will re-
duce the running time between New
York and Buffalo two hours, by the
lightning express train for Chicago.
In making an excavation for q new
building on the corifer of Fifth and
Plumb streets, Cincinnati, the work
men, when eighteen inches below the
cellar floor, came upon a skeleton, which
appears to have been that of a young
girl, with rusty, sharp-pointed knife
near by.
LOTTERIES and gift concerts on q
mammoth scale are being run in nearly
all interior counties of California, in
direct violation of law, but are justified
on account of the action of the legisla-
ture permitting the Mercantile Library
lottery last year. The same is also the
case in Wisconsin
I A TELEGRAM from Washington says
there is no longer reason to doubt that
the Joint High Commission have ar
rived at basis of settlement mutually
satisfactory. The protocol was sent to
London 10y mail. The friends of the
Administration seem confident that the
terms will be satisfactory. Nothing is
yet known of the details.
The West.
A sNow-sToRM occurred N the Rocky
Mountains and the Upper Platte Valley
on the 9Th.
L ID IT'D A
ward. Many colonists are settling in
Nebraska.
HE thermometer at Sioux CITY,
Iowa, on the 9th, stool ninety-six de
grees In the shade
QUINCY, H., went into ecstacies over
Com. Davidson's new steamer. City of
Quincy, on the 7th. A stand of colors
worth $500 was presented to the boat.
A PARTY of Sonora scalp hunters
killed a party of 80 hostile Apaches,
near the border of Arizona. The Mex
lean Government pays 5000 for each
scalp.
Crimes and cnsuaities.
The rioters at Scranton, burned tn
house of miner on the 9Th, but since
then have been very quiet.
A CASE of sun stroke occurred in New
York on the Sth-the earliest ever re-
corded in that latitude.
The ST. Louis police made descent
upon the gambling houses, Saturday
evening. Some two hundred gamblers
and citizens we're arrested and about
81, 900 worth of gambling implements
confiscated.
- EDWARD THORN, Michael Trembler
and William HI. Webb, alias Buck, con
victed of rape, in Philadelphia, have
been sentenced to pay fine of $1,000
each, and fifteen years each in the pen
itentiary.
TIE body of August III. Paul, who
has been missing for the past ten days,
was found in the canal at Indianapolis
on the Sth. His head was bruised. 1t
is feared that he has been foully dealt
with.
JOHN ID. REILLY, Postmaster at Gov
ington, Neb., has been arrested fer
robbing the mails of registered letters.
He had purloincd twenty -four letters,
containing upward of a thousand dol
lars.
a YOUNG MAN named Richard Fitz.
gerald was shot through the neck, and
probably fatally wounded, in Chicago,
at late hour last night, by one of a
party of young men with whom he had
been spending the evening in a saloon.
DR. S. E. ScANLAND, a young physi-
clan well-knOwn in Chicago, was shot
dead in front of his residence, No. 142I
West Jackson street, at z 7o'clock last
evening, by his brother-in-law, P. A.
Leonard, young man employed in the
Registry Department of the Postoffice.
Domestic dillicultie5 led to the trage-
dy.
X. b. TREADwAY, prominent citizen
and merchant of Chicago, fell through
the hatchway of the storehouse 80. 100
kinzie street, last evening, and was in
stantly killed. Deceased was widow
er, and leaves six children.
Fires.
THREE small fires occurred in st.
Louis, on the Sth, involving a loss of
$4,000 or $4,000; insured for about
$1,000.
AT Cincinnati, on the 29th, the dwell
ing of Lewis Brockman was destroyed
by fire. Mrs. Brockman and a son
twelve years old were severely if not
fatally burned.
LIGHTNING struck in eight places at
Bangor, Me-, on the 7th Several
houses were damaged, but nobody in
jured. In Newburg the barn of James
Smith was entirely destroyed.
A FIRE at Louisville, on the Sth, in
w. 3. Williams extensive paint-shop,
on Third street, near Main, inflicted
loss of about S20, 900, including about
81, 900 damage on small factory ad-
joining. Insured.
The Revere House, at Decatur, ILL.,,
was burned at 4 c. M. on the 9TH. Al
Mr.. McReynolds and Mr.. Humphrey
were seriously injured, Mr.. Mercy |
nolds probably fatally. It is rumored
that one man perished in the flames.
obituary.
JUDGE OLIVER B. MoRR1s, the Oldest
man in Springfield, Mass, and the SEN
ior living graduate of Williams College,
died on the 9th, aged SO.
Foreign.
Two earthquakes recently occurred
in Central America.
AT Buenos Ayres about thirty deaths
occur daily from yellow fever.
ADvIcEs from the Argentine Repub-
lie say the war is almost ended. The
insurgents have been completely routed
in the interior.
FROM Brazil, it is reported that an
insurrection has broken out against the
Emperor, and that Republican ideas
are extending.
ADvIcEs ffom the United States of
Colombia state that the national mail
has been robbed of half a million dol
lars IN gold between Carangvella aud
Sarita Moetha in Bovaca.
CUBAN ndvices state that Leopold
Villages has been executed at Cienfue-
gos.
A FLorILLA of gun boats has been
sent from Havre up the Seine to assist
in operating against Paris. Siege-guns
have also been dispatched from Havre
to CherbOurO for nm attack on tho forts