Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

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Susan B. Anthony and eight other females
voted for President at Rochester, N. Y.
Sarah Huntington was denied the right OF
suffrage at Norwalk, CT, the court having
decided adversely to her suit against the
Registers to allow her name to be placed on
the lists as an elector, and declared unlawful
the action of the Selectmen who had pre-
yiously admitted her to the franchise.
Several iron-mills in Pittsburgh have sus-
pended on account of the scarcity of COAL
Manton Marble, of the New York World,
has resumed editorial control of that paper.
His health is completely restored.
A frightful railroad accident occurred last
week. near Scranton, Pa, on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad con-
struction train, with about 30 laoorers on
board, struck large boulder which mad
fallen upon the track. The engine beng at
the other end of the train, the engineer could
not see the trouble, and pushed caboose
filed with laborers over an embankment, and
il fell distance of 100 feet. Ten men were
instantly killed, and some Is others danger
ously injured, several of whom will probably |
die.
Three persons we're killed and twenty-five
wounded by train running off the track OF
the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad. near
Scranton, Pa, a few days ago.
yirtuous and law-abiding Boston is agitated
nv the preparation of crime out of the
usual order. Two barrels were found floating
IN the Charles river, and upon opening them
The body of man. cut in several pieces, was
revealed The murdered man had on his
clothes. which we're of the best quality.
Everything seemed to indicate that he was
wealthy, and that he was murdered for
money.
IT is stated that Mesdames Woodruff and
Claim, the New York free-love agitators have
become alarmed at the prospect of the Penl-
Tertiary They admit the falsity of the pub
Isbed statements concerning Beecher, Tllton
and Cha,lis. and offer to retract everything
and abandon New York, provided the rrosecu-
ton is withdrawn. The injured parties how
ever. will not compromise, but are determined
to press the case until the libelers are lodged
within the strong walls of the State Prison.
The financial disasters resulting from the
Boston fire have been less marked than those
following the Chicago calamity. Stocks de-
clined an average of less than five per cent
Int soon recovered one-half of the deprecia
ton.
High mansard roofs served as distributing
reservoirs for the flames at the Boston ire
and are believed to have cost that cit
s25. OOO. 600. New York has the good sens
and the good fortune to learn lesson tron
this experience of others, and through he
Common Council has forbidden any furthe
erection of Mansard roofs unless built OF fire
Droof materials.
The funeral pageant of Gen. Meade, a
Philadelphia, was very large and lmposln
one. The procession occupied one hour
passing a given point. President Gran
Gems. Sherman and Sheridan, Secretal
Robson, and other distinS uished gentleme
were in the line, and immente crowC
thronged the line of march. No snC
funeral demonstration has been made SIM
Llncoln's death.
The Etna Insurance Company, of Hal
ford. lose over million dollars by the Bost'
fire.
The West.
ALVIN Wilkins, an old and well-known L
trois broker, has failed for 100000. Exte
sive forgeries are charged against him.
Vice-President Colfax rises to explain tt
he does not aspire to Senator Morton's seat
the United States Senate, or any other pol
cal position. He writes to the lndlanapc
Journal: "Even at the risk of subject
myself to more cheap wit by the opposit
papers about retiring ask the privilege
restating, in your columns, what have s
to tens of thousands during the past mon
that am not candidate nor aspirant for
position Senatorial or editorial, State or
tional, and am of course, for the election
the Republican nominee for the Senators
by the united vote of the Republican nj
bers of the Legislature"
Some malicious sooundrel placed planl
the Indianapolis and VlnceEnes railroad. 4
Sanborn, Ind, last week, By which t
was thrown from the track, instantly xii
the engineer and fireman.
George n. Prick, an estimable citizel
Keithsburg, H., was killed by the prema
discharge of cannon, while celebrating
late Republican victory.
Miss Virginia T. Minor, daughter of Fra
T. Minor, prominent st. Louis attorney.
brought suit against one of the Regist ar
Election in that city for refusing to reg
her as voter, laying her damages at $40
The great trespass suit of the E
Mining Company of Utah, against the III
Tunnel Company, has been decided in
of the former. with nominal damage
$4,000, thus practically settling the que
of title. The issue involved millions of do
Ex-Gov. Fairchild, of Wisconsin,
newly appointed Consul to Liverpool, ha
for his post of duty.
Dr. Samuel Ashnnore, of Topeka, Ia
in drunken frenzy, recently shot and
his wife, and then cut and mutilated
body in horrible manner, in an insa1
deavor to take her heart out. 1t toe
men to arrest and convey the mailman t.
SO desperately did ne struggle.
lafayette W. Graves, editor of the LIE
ton CMo.) I,stelligencer, was shot and ms