Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-14
cNarshall county gepublitan
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Wilkinson VS.. Brick Pomeroy, the defendant
has fled an answer denying that he ever
solicited plaintiff in marriage; that she is
unchaste, habitually Incorporate and of
violent disposition; that she repeatedly
threatened his life with deadly weapons,
and that she was an unfit person to marry
anybody......Fisk'sh horses and carriages were
sold at auction in New York on Wednesday,
A large crowd was present. The chestnut
horse Butcher, rode by the Colonel on
parade, brought only $3.50, less than one
eighth his cost His favorite carriage team
of blacks brought 81 600. clarence that
cost $4,000 brought $1,000. The total re-
ceipts of the sale were about $50, O0O....
Statements are published in the New York
papers showing that the officers of the Guer-
riere, while bringing the remains of General
Anderson to America, INDUCED in. a general
carousal, lasting for weeks.....In the first of
the fifteen suits against the Atlantic Mail
Company, for aggregate penalties amounting
to $4,000, on allegations that cigars have
been landed from its vessels without pay
ment of duty, Judge Woodruff, of New York,
has given decision in favor of the United
States...... Ex-Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, has
sued the Brooklyn Eagle for $40, 900, for al
legged hbel...... Eight roughs, of the Nine
teenth street gang, who nearly murdered
Officer Tully at New York on Sunday, have
been held for trial. One of them, named
estate in the city, but his mother declined to
go bail for him. Officer Tally is still in a
dangerous condition .....At meeting of the
depositors of the Bowling Green Savings
Bank, New York, on Tuesday evening, a
proposition from President Smith, to pay
$4,000 as compromise with the depositors,
was accepted. The amount of the deficiency
in the bank is $4,000.
Mrs. REMsEN sues the Brooklyn Board of
Health, claiming $4,000 damages for losses
of the services of her son, who was removed
from her house in January, 1871, to the
smallpox hospital, where he died.. Brad
ley Grant, the Binghamton, N. Y, farmer,
who had resolved to starve himself to death,
died on Wednesday, having eaten less than
three ounces Of food in six weeks. The man
had overworked himself to the point of
insanity.
On Thursday morning Mrs. Welsh, living
near Scranton, Pa, went to a neigh boris,
leaving two children, aged two and four,
asleep in the house. During her absence
the building caught fire, and the children
were burned to death.
JOHN VALENTINE, an eccentric bachelor and
miser, of East Meadow, L. l., was missed a
few days ago, and his neighbors bursting in
his door found his remains lying in the
fire place terribly burned The head was a
crisp, and the hands entirely consumed. On
turning the body over a bloody axe was
found beneath. a tin box kept on a shelf,
supposed to contain about two thousand dol
lars, was gone. The perpetrators are un-
known......The Sigourney House, a large
family boarding house in Hartford, Conn.,,
was found to be on fire about o'clock on
Sunday morning. When the flames were
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had been set on fire in five different rooms
and on three different floors. The author of
the fire has not yet been discovered. The
lessee is said to have an insurance on the
furniture much in excess of its value. Over
forty persons were sleeping in different
parts of the building.
AT New York on Monday passenger on
Jersey City ferry boat, who went into the
engine-rcom to warm himself, approached
too near the engine, and was crushed into
an unacceptable mass......Dr. Jayne's
splendid eight-story granite building on
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, was totally
destroyed by fire on Monday night. The
loss by fire and water is estimated at ST.
000, 0OO..... .Brooklyn's new Comptroller has
reported to the Board of Aldermen de-
fcieney of 100000 in the late city and
county officials accounts......M Mrs. A. c.
Monday, charged with arson, in firing the
Sigourney House.
The West.
JOACHIM GE1sr, of Chicago, for causing his
wife's death by pouring boiling hot coffee
down her throat and otherwise maltrea ing
her, was on Tuesday sentenced to sixteen
years imprisonment......B Bernhard Lasler, a
saloon keeper at Hamilton, o., on Wednes-
Ill
Miller, in the act of tapping his till......A
bill has passed both houses of the Ohio Leg
islature fixing upon 900 as the maximum
of damages that may be recovered from rail
road companies as compensation for causing
death by wrongful act, neglect, or default
1.-THE Lower House of the Kansas Legis
lature has passed a bill abolishing capita
punishment......Ja James Hallen, life convict
in the Michigan State Prison, committed
suicide on Wednesday by hanging himself
in his cell by cord taken from tobacco
packae e. The jewelry store of Henry G
Piper & Co., at Romeo, Mich, was entered
on Sunday night by burglars, the safe blown
open with gunpowder, and about $4,000 il
watches and jewelry taken......C Chicago re
joices in a southwark current of seven
eighths of an inch per hour in its sweet
smelling river......The Kellogg Touring mill
at Battle Creek, Mich, was destroyed OF
Tuesday morning by fire. Loss $4,000
partially insured.
A FARMER named Wills Williamson, living
near Muncie, Ind, followed his daughter Il
Dalesville, where she had gone to marry on
Laundry. He found the daughter in tn,
house of a relative, and cut her throat
killing her instantly. He then shot him
self twice in the mouth with a revolver
He is not expected to survive. Williamson
has a large family......Two inches of SNOW
fell at st. Louis on Thursday night.
Frederick Scaddin, boy of Is, living il
Eagle, Iona county, Mich, shot himself witt
a pistol, few days since, as a consequence
of remorse at having stolen some thing
from his stepfather.....On Sunday night
block of frame buildings, five in all, wer
destroyed in Atchison, Kan. Among then
was the Nelson House. A German musician
persisted in one of the buildings......Th libe
suit of Spencer Ball against the EUenin
Dispatch, of St. Louis, for $4,000, on accoun
of the publication of police item, was de
cided on Thursday, with a verdict of on
cent damages for the plaintiff.
A DISPATCH from Wyckenbourg, Arizona
says the Apaches attacked two trains be
tween that place and Phoenix, and murdered
Samuel Cullember and Thomas Harris. A
Martinez Rancho they ran off the stock ant
pluadered the station of all movables. Cul
lember and Harris were employees of tn,
stage company. The station is but foul
miles south of Camp Date Creek, where ar
posted three companies of regulars, two 0