Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-18
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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


HE election in Connecticut on Monday
llted as follaws: For Governor, Jewell
p.), 1886; Hubbard DEM J, A ,446; Gil
(Temperance), 1,526; Harrison Labor
orm), 364 JEWELS majority over all, 80.
Republicans have majority of 80 on
ballot in the Legislature, being gain
over last year......John Kemp, who
stabbed last Sunday night by John
colaus, died at Pittsburgh on Tuesday
Irning. This is one of the most singular
riders ever committed. The men on the
mentioned quarrelled, when Nicolaus
de & lunge at Kemp with an umbrella,
point of which penetrated his eye and
tered the brain, causing his death......P Pro-
ssor ST. B. Morse, inventor of the electro
magnetic telegraph, died at his residence in
New York on Tuesday evening, aged ST..
Over 1000 900 bushels of coal have been
shipped South during the present rise in the
Allegheny river.....Joseph White was
badly torn by lions at Frankfort, Pa, on
Tuesday, during a circus performance. He
cannot recover.
THE dwelling of Charles ". Felt, in Cam
bridgeport, Mass, was burned on Wednesday
night, and his three year-old son was suffo-
Gated. Mrs. Felt was Frustrated by her
child's death, and her life is despaired off,.
The railroad bridge at Topsham, Me-, was
burned on Wednesday morning. 1t cost
about $780, 00.....Sylvander Johnson's cot
ton mill at North Adams, Mass, was de-
stroyed by ire on Wednesday night. Loss
estimated at $4,000 insured for $75 geo.
1.-THE Northern Central railroad bridge,
which spans the Susquehanna at Dauphin,
Pa, was burned on Wednesday evening.
Loss 100000; insurance SI50,000... The
Western Union Telegraph Company Direct
ors have voted to issue 81, 100000 in bonds
for the erection of the new buildings on the
corner of Broadway and Dey streets, New
York......The Office of the Lycoming Fire
Insurance Company at Munice, Pa, was en-
tered by burglars on Tuesday night, and
one of the safes blown open. Over 900
of registered railroad bonds and stocks Were
distracted, SI0 900 of which belonged to the
company and the balance to private indi-
Viduals.
CREDITORS of the New York and Boston
Express Company have accepted the offer of
the company to pay rs cents on the dollar.
......John F. Whitaker, New York jour
nalist, died on Thursday from injuries sus-
tanned by being run over by street-car......
Joseph White, who was almost torn to
pieces on Tuesday by a lion at 0'Brien's
circus and menagerie, died on Thurs
day.. Maria Van Mort, of Paterson, n. j.,
on Wednesday evening surpassed all her
playmates in jumping the rope 400 times in
succession without stopping for breath. She
scored the 400 jumps, but died the next day
......John Givenen's house in Rockaway,
Morris county, n. j., was burned on Sunday
morning, and his wife and three children
perished in the flames. The father only
escaped by jumping from second story
window.
FULL returns of the State election in
Rhode Island show a majority of 1,176 for
Padelford, Republican candidate for Cover
nor, and 40 majority for Cutler, Democratic,
for Lieutenant Governor. Some scattering
votes, not returned, may possibly throw the
election of Lieutenant Governor into the
Republican Legislature. The remainder of
the Republican State ticket has about ., 100
majority Stewart Barnes, watchman st
the Knickefbocker Company's ice stables,
in Philadelphia, burned to death on
Thursday. He went into his burning dwell
ing to save his boots, and was burned.
A SCRANTON, Pa, dispatch states that Ed
ward Sullivan was fatally and three others
seriously burned by an explosion of fire
damp in the Pine Brook coal mine on Fri
day......Some 500 French immigrants from
Alsace and Lorraine have arrived within a
week, all destined West, and all in apparently
good clrcumstancez......D Daniel D. Hunt, a
lumber merchant, committed suicide by
hanging, in Newark, n. J. on Sunday.
ANOTHER explosion of fre-damp occurred
on Monday morning in Pine Brook, Pa,
shaft, killing a laborer named Campbell and
seriously injuring Patrick O'Hara and James
Stone. Daniel D. Hunt, prominent Free
Mason of Newark, n. j., hanged himself
on Sunday, owing to financial embarrass-
ment.
The West
MRs. JEcKs, wife of Joseph Jecks, crimi-
nal lawyer of st. Louis, committed suicide
on Tuesday. Cause George
Hoffman, brewer at Foss & Bremer's
brewery, in Cincinnati, was killed in sim
gular manner on Tuesday. He was near a
huge beer cask into which air was being
forced, when it burst, and one of the slaves
struck and killed him instantly
A FIRE at Milwaukee on Tuesday night
destroyed Geo. Dyer & Co.'s entire stock OF
saddlery goods, and the greater portion OF
Messrs. Zellner & Bonn's stock of clothing.
Loss $4,000; insurance $3.50, 00...... Three
prisoners confined in the Jail at Sioux CITY.
Iowa, escaped on Wednesday by knocking
down the jailer. Two of them were after
ward recaptured.....A lady named Wright
committed suicide at Evansville, Wis, on
Wednesday, by taking arsenic and NOR
phine. Domestic trouble is said to be the
cause.
ISAAC c. DAY, of the firm of Day, Allen &
Co., Chicago, one of the heaviest wholesale
grocery firms in the country, committed
suicide at his residence in Chicago on Thurs
day afternoon, by shooting himself in the
head with pistol. He had for some time been
much depressed in consequence of his heavy
losses in the great fire.....At La Sale, Ill
at about o'clock on Thursday morning
Joseph Monroe Ounce, Is years old, one Of
the night hands employed in Mathusson &
Hegeler's zinc rolling mills, in somnam-
bulc state fell to the bottom of the deep pit
in which the great fy-wheel was rapidly re.
volving, receiving injuries which is thought
will terminate fatally Mrs. Sweely, VIII
was injured some time since by fall on
defective sidewalk in Ottawa, ILL.,, has OBJ
tanned verdict against the city of So 800.
OK Thursday night a train on the Rock
ford and Rock Island railroad ran into an
other on the Chicago and Alton road as i
was crossing, instantly killing fireman an,
wrecking both engines......At Gold Hill Ne
vada, on Friday, Johnny Williams called
Willie Miller liar" and the latter sho
him through the head with revolver. Boil
are under twelve years old...... Wilkinson,
San Francisco barber, on Tuesday nigh