Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-18
SStlarshall County 8epublitan
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.

The East.
In the case of Charles II. Calendar,
charged with receiving brides from the
Ocean National Bank to make false returns,
the President and Cashier of the bank have
testified that the accused made thorough
and searching examination into its affairs
that his report was in accordance with that
examin alton, and that the $4,000 loan had
nothing whatever to do with either the ex-
animation or report. calendars friends
fell confident of his acquittal......Th The frigate
Congress sailed from New York for Havana
on Wednesday, to remain until further or
ders 1t is said tn lat other vessels are to go
to the Cuban coast, and their commanders
are ordered to give special protection to
such Americans as have incurred the dis
pleasure of the Spanish volunteers......A
special from Wilkesbarre, Pa, states that
quicksand broke into a coal mine at New
port, few days ago, but the miners were
warned in season, and had just time to save
themselves. A mule team was buried, and
the slope of the mine is filed sixty feet in
width and depth 1.-THE Philadelphia Led
GER says that the Susquehanna Canal has
been leased by the Reading railroad for 999
years, with the intention of making Havre
de Grace large coal depot for Southern
shipping, and supplying Baltimore and
Washington with cheap anthracite......A
man named Billings, his wife and another
woman, whose name is unknown, were
found murdered at Windso1 locks. Conn.,,
on Tuesday night. There is no clue to the
perpetrators.
TEE Clifton Springs IN. " Hotel was to-
tally destroyed by fire on Wednesday morn
ing. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by incendiarism. Loss, 100000;
49, ~11
the little girl, and about which such excite
ment has been caused in Rochester, N. Y,
was secretly conveyed to a courtroom,
Thursday evening at half-past nine o'clock.
He was arraigned on the Indictment, and,
pleading guilty, was sentenced to twenty
years hard labor in the Auburn State
Prison. The prisoner was Immediately re-
moved and quietly taken from the city.
New YoRK financial circles were excited
on Friday by private cable advices that the
Rothschilds had made proposals to this Gov
eminent to take 5000, 900 900 of the new
loans on condition that an equal amount OF
the 1852 bonds should be called in during
the year 1852 at such time as the Roths-
childs may designate. 1t was also said, in
the same dispatch, that a refusal for eigh-
teen months was required to be granted the
same house to accept $500, 600 of A per
C0UtS..s.A messenger DON was TODDSu Ol
$1,000 in checks and coupons while in the
Central National Bank, New York, on We'd
nesday.....The Russian frigate SHETLAND will
remain at New York for some time, the
Car having ordered new boilers. This will
prolong the Grand Dukes stay, and he will
visit every part of the United States.
THE gas works connected with the Glas-
cow gin CHAM mill, at South Hadley Falls
Mass, exploded on Monday morning. Mr.
Nicholl and Charles Benway, employees
were severely iniured......A man named
Boner was picked up by an enormous fly
wheel in the rolling mill of Packer & Co., a
Pittsburgh, on Monday afternoon, and ia
ken cut dreadfully mangled corpse.
The West.
MRS LAURA FAIR, the murderess, died in
prison at San Francisco on the 30th ultimo
The event created considerable excitement
and rumors were current that her death wal
induced by barbarous treatment during he
incarceration. .....A passenger on the Nortl
Missouri railroad jumped from the cars OF
Monday, near st. Charles, fell beneath tn
wheels, and was instantly killed, his heaC
being completely severed. Cash and note
amounting to 81 900 are said to have beer
found on the person of the deceased, but tn
name could not be ascertained......W.
Smith, an old and prominent citizen of In
dianapolis, committed suicide Wednesda.
afternoon on account Of business Difficult
ties. He hung h mself with bed cord, an
to make sure the job, he soaked the corr
before using it. He leaves wife and on
child His property had been locked up b
lawsuits so that he could derive no incom
from it.
PAT MCGEE, Chief of Police of Fol
Wayne, Ind, was shot dead by DR.. J.
Thacker in that place on Thursday. Niece
had assaulted the doctor with heavy car
and knocked him down, when Thackt
fired....A young man named T. D. O'ConnC
was found on a vacant lot in st. Louis c
Tuesday, with a pistol shot in his head. Z
was taken to the hospital but soon after die
He was resident of Leavenworth, Kansa
but had been in st. Louis some time f
medical treatment. Failing to obtain relic
be ended his troubles with revolver.
Or Thursday evening Robert Blair,
Kawkawlin, while attempting to get on Il
cars while in motion, at the jackson, La
sing and Saginaw railroad depot, at Detro
fell under the wheels, receiving such mi
ries that he died shortly after......A mi
named Stephen Wilcox was fatally injur
by an explosion of the boiler of the heath
apparatus III TIC OCtlOlt Odi VI Nd VI
day afternoon. The explosion also demo
ished moderate sized brick building.
The store and goods belonging to W. J. &
Dell, at Lakeport, Mich, were consumed
fire on Thursday morning. Loss, $500
partially insured.
A GERMAN named Peter Roeder was sui
Gated at Chicago on Sunday by the fumes
coke was burning in braziers for the p,
pose Of drying the newly plastered walls
his house...... Alexis and suite gazed upon
display of legs by the Lydia Thomps
troupe at st. Louis on Saturday night, a
attended a grand reception ball on Mond
evening at the Southern Hotel.-...Great
terest is felt at Salt Lake City in the NJ
mines recently opened in the southwest CT
ner of Idaho, one hundred miles from
Central Pacific Railway. tits reported tt
veins of solid mineral, from ten to sixty f,
wide, and ranging between 500 to $3.50 |
ton, are developed 49,. Contracts have be
let for the construction of the Rock Islar
ILL.,, water works. Seven miles of pipes q
to be laid, the cost of which, with buildin
etc., is estimated at Sis ,000...... Female co
positors are considered success in |
Moines, Iowa. One woman there clears
week on book-work, which leads the r
lister to remark that "There is one vocatit
at least, where woman's right to ent
equality Of labor and wages is ackno'
edged. fire at Mount Carmel, ILL.,,