Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
SStlarshall County gepublitan
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The woody region of limestone north of
Pittsburg, Pa, has been much damaged by
a sweeping fire. The farmers dug trenches
to keep off the storm of fame.....At Am
sterdam, N. Y, Tuesday, the knitting mil
of John Maxwell was destroyed by fire. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
THE preliminary arraignment of Edward
Stokes for the murder of James Fisk look
place in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at
New York, Wednesday. After a motion
for further time to afford opportunity for
special plea, the Court adjourned the hear
ing for a day, and Stokes was returned to
prison. . Greenwood's wooden mill, in Phil
adelphia, Pa, was totally burned Wednes-
day morning. The fire originated in the
pickers' room. Loss $40. 00o.....The Gala
tin National Bank, New York, has received,
through the mail, commercial paper, drafts
and notes, to the amount of $4,000, of
which it's messenger was robbed on Satur-
day last, the thieves profting only 500 by
the transaction.
EIGHT-HoUE strikes continue in New York.
The men employed on Government build
ings are on strike, and delegation has
been sent to Washington to see about it,.
One thousand emigrants passed through
Pittsburg, on their way to the West, on the
lssss
postponed until October next.....The Gus
tom House Inspectors recently seized, on
board the steamship Moro Castle, 5000
Havana cigars, which were slowed away in
India rubber bags ready to throw overheard
to men in small boats, who were on hand to
pick them up. The owners would not claim
them THE death sentence of Libbie Gar
rabrant will probably be committed to i'm
prisonment for life, for the reason that her
conduct is such as to warrant the belief that
she is pregnant.....The Red Stocking Base
Ball Club of Boston defeated the Forest
Citys of Cleveland, en- the Esd inst, 10 to 2.
The game was played at Boston.
DURING fire at Ithaca, N. Y, recently, a
bridge upon which a steam fire engine was
placed, gave way and precipitated the en-
CINE and some fifty persons into the river
below. Many of them were seriously in
iured, though none killed outrigh Sew
eral vessels have arrived in New York dur
ing the past week with smallpox prevailing
among steerage passengers. The captain of
one of the vessels seemed to think the dis
ease was fostered by the dirty habits of the
emigrants, who were chiefly Poles. Nothing
short of physical violence could induce
them to wash, and the men deliberately ate
soap furnished them, thinking it cheese.
A skiff loaded with six men capsized on the
Monongahela river, near McKeesport, Pa,
on the oath inst, and four of the men were
drowned. They were all emigrants who
had just arrived from Europe......It is esti-
mated that over 20 600 men were on a strike
for eight hours of work in New York the
2Sth inst. Many factories are closing up
rather than yield to the demand.....The
German brewers of the United States will
hold their twelfth annual congress in New
York, conn encing the 4th of June and ex-
tending four days.
TwENTY-THoUsAND emigrants arrived in
New York the week ending May 25. This
is the largest weekly arrival on record.
The steamship AdrIatic made trip between
New York and Queenstown recently in
seven days and sixteen hours. This is the
fastest time ever made between those two
places......A man named Crawford, brother
in law to Commodore Vanderbilt, shot a
policeman in New York on the night of the
oath inst, because he would not release the
Commodore's colored coachman, whom he had
in custody ...... Dibble, Worth & Co., cotton
brokers of New York, suspended on Satur-
day, having been cramped by the withhold
ing of large amounts of cotton by Southern
dealers. 1t is said that other cotton mer-
chants, who have contracted to deliver in
time. are EN- barrassed, and more suspensions
are expected The peril to life by working
in the East river caisson, at New York, was
1OIClDlH llIuSbIdteQ OA n 4dOOIOI,
named Daniel Pearson, went to work, and
though he felt the i'll effects of breathirg the
powerful -condensed air, he continued
until the close of working hours, when he
was seized with paralysis of the limbs, ac-
companied by intense pain in the head and
abdomen. His death followed the next day,
and the Coroner was called upon to investi
gate whether such sacrifice of the mans life
was legitimate.
THE tug Epsilon exploded her boiler in
East river, New York, on the 9th ult., kill
ing six persons, including the captain and
engineer.....T The strikes among the working
men in New York still continue. The
piano-makers, cabinet-makers and pattern
makers are the latest strikers for the eight
hour system. ..... DIR. Andrew J. Lynn, of
Boston, has been held to bail in $4,000,
charged with procuring an abortion, result
ing in death, on Sarah Brown, young lady
belonging to Fitch burg. 1.-THE boiler of the
Gordon Company's Bleaching Works, Phil
adelphia, exploded on the 9th ult., killing
the engineer and wounding five other per-
sors.....A riot occurred in Jersey City, on
the 9th ult., b etween body of eight-hour
strikers and men who had taken their
places. Three men were wounded. The
riot was suppressed by the police.
The West.
A FIRE at Hudson, Wis, Monday night,
burned Coon & Platt's large warehouse and
wheat storehouse, also Mr.. Powers wheat
warehouse, and several other similar adj
joining buildings. Some $4,000 bushels OF
wheat were burned. Loss over $50, Co.,.
Indian Agent Risley telegraphs from Fort
Laramie on the 18th, stating that on Friday
evening, four miles from Red Cloud agen-
CIV, John Richards killed Yellow Bear, and
was, in turn, killed by Yellow Bears
friends. The excitement over the affair was
intense, and there were threats of destruc
ton to the agency, and against the whites
and half breeds. A company of cavalry has
camped near the agency. Richards had tn,
agency official mail, which was destroyed
......A dispatch from East Saginaw, Mich.
May 81, says: A Mecklenburger named
Chas. Bosse, who lived IN the suburbs, thi
morning about o'clock attacked his wife
with Ratchet, inficting a terrible wound
on her head, and then run ten-incl
butcher knife into his own stomach, liter
ally disemboweling himself.
THE ticket nominated Wednesday, a
Springfield, ILL.,, is as follows: Fer Cover
nor, Richard J. Oglesby; for Lieutenan
Governor, John L. Beveridge; for Secretary
of State, George II. Ha low; for Treasurer