Marshall County Republican., 1872-09-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


he is native of Denbigh, North Wales.
Senator Sumner sailed from Boston for
Europe last week.
A whole family, consisting of five persons,
while crossing the track of the Long Island
On. Y. railroad in carriage, recently, were
run over by a train and instantly killed.
Nearly ten thousand German immigrants
arrived at New York during August.
Signor Mario, the celebrated tenor, arrived
at New York the other day.
The exact number of lives lost by the sink
ing of the steamer Metis, in Long Island
Sound. can never be ascertaned. Thirty
bodies have been recovered, and fifteen TO
twenty persons remain as yet unaccounted
for.
Over a quarter of million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by the recent destruc-
tive fire at Erie, Pa.
John Gregory Smith having resigned the
George W. Cass, of Pennsylvania, has been
elected to succeed him.
Aiken, the New York policeman who was de-
tected in the act of committing burglary
while pairolling his beat, and who confessed
to q series of similar crimes, has been SEN
fenced to twenty years in the Penitentiary.
A New Haven, Ct, brute the other dav
Drained his wife and child with an axe, and
then cut his throat from ear to ear. Rum and
jealousy impelled him to the horried deed.
Patrick Morrissey was executed at Buffalo,
last week for the unnaternal crime of numbering
his mother. The culprit read a confession on
the scaffold, acknowledging his guilt, at
tributed it to rum, and warned those present
to beware of Intoxicating drinks and shun
evil associates,
DR.. schoeppe has just been acquitted, on
of numbering Miss Steinnecke. The first trial
resulted in conviction and death sentence.
In Portland, Me-, the other day, an infant
child of Mrs. Herrick lost its life by cat
sucking its breath while sleeping.
Bill Forester, the suspected murderer of
Mr. Nathan, the New York banker some
three years ago, was arrested in Washington
last week.
The New York Tribune, referring to Senator
Summers departure for Europe, says his ill
ness, while serious, is not reported as danger
Gus. Among the incidents of his injuries in
1856 was an Inflammation of the spinal cord. the
effect of blows on the head Out of this grew
an abnormal affection of the heart, which re
ours with overwork, and is only cured by rest
and by restoration of general health"
John V. Gerlach was found drowned, at
Philadelphia, the other day. He leaves fou1
disconsolate widows to mourn his death
Tho Poord Of Ed,,ooY;oy Do;,,4
Long Island, has ordered the Bible to be read in
the public schools every morning, children
whose parents object to the Bible to be allow
ed to remain from school until after the read
ing.
The General Council of the International
Society will hereafter have its headquarters in
New York city, and Karl Max, the most prom
inent among the International leaders, will
henceforth reside in that city.
The feeling is strong among the New Yorl
detectives and reporters that Forester, re-
Gently arrested at Washington, is the rea
murderer of Benjamin Nathan and that chain
of evidence will be worked up that cannot but
result in his conviction.
The statue of Sir Walter Scott, designed fol-
Central Park, has arrived at New York.
The West.
A son of Isaac Estow of Homer, Mich, dice
the other day, after one days illness, from
the effects of rattlesnake bite received {
year ago. which never affected him before.
Mrs. Kent, of Canton, Ohio, killed her child
recently, and then destroyed her own life by
drowning.
No -.@f laa+ +1si w fo,r4 41s
week ending Sept. was 299-a decrease of 5;
over the preceding week.
The San Franciscans are beginning to seri
ously doubt the genuineness of the reported
diamond discoveries in Arizona.
At Oshkosh, Wis, last week, an old mar
of 65, named Stevenson, murdered his wife
by shooting, and then cut his own throat.
A collision occurred recently between TIVE
passenger trains on the Lake Erie division O
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near Inde
pendence, OHIO, resulting in the death of fiv
persons and the wounding of twenty-eight
several of whom will probably die of their in
juries.
An affray occurred last week in Virginia City
Cass county, H., between c. F. Diffenbacher
Circuit Clerk, and Mr. Edward Milsted, il
which the latter received a mortal wound iron
pistol shot
Moses W. Field, Republican candidate fo
Congress, has sued the Detroit Union for S25,
900 worth of slander.
A report comes from the Indian Territor
that two rival factions Of the Greek Indian
had fight recently. in which seven were kill
ed and large number wounded The diff
Guilty, it is said, grew out of the election of
negro Chief of the nation by one of the fac
tions.
Great excitement has been produced i,
Salt Lake upon the reported discovery tina
the entire soil of Farm valley, near that cit,
is auriferous, averaging 500 per ton. TIL
Journal says the whole section of land is ric
with precious metals.
Mr.L. B. Drew died at San Francisco. a fe,
days since, from the effects of cancer rrc
duced by friend pinching his arm eightee
months ago. He had submitted to three an
putations without avail.
The news from the West is full of account
OF Indian depredations. Sioux CITY tele
gram states that band of Indians who wer
cyod ir1f he c<~l>