Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

injured by the explosion of the tug Epsilon
at New York, on the 9th ult.....A terrible
triple tragedy occurred at New York on the
18th ult. One Trefsy, a baker, stabbed his
wife fatally with dirk, and then stabbed
her paramour, Franz Linderman, winding
up by cutting his own throat. All three
will probably die..... Lyman Tremaine, John
D. Townsend and Henry Daily, Jr., have
been retained as Stokes counsel."... Over
10000 workingmen are on strike for eight
hours, in New York. They are quiet and
confident of the ultimate success of their
movene nt...... Bids for supplies for the In
dian Department were opened in New York
on the 2stn uit. Bids for q, 900 ,00e pound s
of beef on the hoof, delivered at different
agencies during the year, ranged from $1.S4
to 81 per leo pounds. An award will be
made at from 81 IS to Shopper 100 pounds.
Bids for 100000 pounds of -four, delivered
at the agencies, range from $2.S5 to 81 per
100 poun ds...". Capt. Samuels' famous yacht
Drea6naught, which originally cost SOS, 900,
was sold at New York, the other day, for
1880.
The Brooklyn Schutzen corps will start
on June 90, for Hanover, to take part in the
German National Schutzenfest, in father
land....Two mines of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, one at Carbonate and
the other at ELEPHANT, Pa, suspended oper-
ations in order to reduce the production of
coal. The two mines throw out of employ
msnt 700 men and boys, and decrease the
production of the company 5000 tons per
day......Faber & Co.'s lead pencil m&nufac-
tory was destroyed by fire, in New York, on
the Goth ult. Loss, S200, 900.
THE Democrats of Pennsylvania have
nominated Hon. C. R. Buckalew for Cover
nor.....Strikes among the workingmen of
New York still continue, with no prospect
of a speedy settlement of the troubles...
Brick Pomeroy has mandamused each
member of the New York Board of Audi
tors, to compel the payment of his bill for
city advertising. The claim amounts to
between $40, 600 and S5O, OOO.. While some
workmen were roaming an oil well, near
Oil City, Pa, last week, there was a sudden
flow of oil and gas, and an explosion occur
red in the derrick, blowing the men outside
to considerable distance, and setting them
on fire. Two of them were killed, and two
seriously burned.
SEVERAL employees on the Delaware and
Lackawanna railroad have been arrested for
embezzlng the company of large sums of
money during the past two years.. The
great strike OF the New York workingmen
still continues, with every prospect of sue
cess......L Late advices from New York state
that Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, the founder
and proprietor of the Herald, is hopelessly
i'll. His death may be expected at any
moment.....The first jury impanelled under
the New York State law providing that the
reading of newspaper shall not be capital
otfense in a lror, has been drawn at Pulaski,
in that State.
THE strikes in the Eastern cities for eight
hours labor and ten hours pay have been
practically successful. The effect upon the
employers will be less serious than was at
first expected, since but few contracts have
yet been made without reference to the pos
sible advance in wages......The New York
Court House Commissioners, on Saturday,
discharged all the workmen employed on the
new courthouse building. The men had
not received any wages for the past nine
months The Daily Register has been
sected as the official paper of New York city,
at So 500 year. The successful bidder was
never heard of before DR.. William Pitcher
died at Hudson, N. Y, on the 1st inst, from
poison introduced into his system while at
tending an erysipelas patient.
GEO. LAyERY, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing officer Lambrecht,
has been sentenced, at New York, to the
State prison for life...... VIM. n. Wadleigh,
discount clerk in the Merchants National
Bank, Boston, is defaulter to the amount
of S87, 0O0...... Fred. Douglass residence, at
Rochester, n. Y, was burned On Sunday,
June 2.
The West.
A YOUNG man named Woods was killed at
Marion, Ind, on the 9th ult, by the falling
of a tree; and on the 26th near the same
place, youth named Caleb Boots was
crushed to death by large stone falling on
him, in stone quarry ......Joseph Staverly,
an Englishman, committed suicide at Joliet,
ILL.,, on the 2Sth ult., by drowning himself
in the canal. The Houghton (Lake Su-
perior) mining troubles are over, and the
military have been The agi-
tation among the mechanics has extended
to Cleveland, Ohio, and number of the
trades are on a strike for an advance of
wages.
MAN named Charles Sackrider commit
ted suicide on the 29th ult, by jumping into
Lake Huron from the propeller Winslow.....
S. Myers, travelling agent for Boston jew
elry establishment, was robbed of 81 600, at
the Plankenton House, Milwaukee, on the
29th ult...... The Masonic Grand Codge of In
diana, in session lrst week at indianapolis,
was largely attended, and good deal of
business of interest to the order was trans
acted....-.T The labor agitation continues to
spread, having extended to Cincinnati. The
tailors and shoemakers of that city have
struck for an advance of wages, and other
trades will soon follow.
CAPT. HENRY DEXTER, one of the oldest
steamboatmen on the Western waters, died
at Evansville, Ind, last week, from an
overdose of morphine--....The Indianapolis
Journal has passed into the hands of new
stock company, headed by Mr.. Redmo0r,
late of the junction railroad Philip D.
Banks, mail robber, of Des Moines, Iowa,
has pleaded guilty to ten indietments..-..
The annual report of the State Insurance
Department of Ohio shows 70 life insurance
companies in the State, and the total amount
of life policies now in force to be about
$3.50, 600 ,Oe0......A Mrs. Brady, wife of Hon.
Alex MitchelPs coachman, suieided at
Milwaukee last week, by cutting her throat.
......John Barclay has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree, at Columbus,
Ohio, for killing Charles F. Garner. Hon.
J. n. Camden, of Petersburg, has been
nominated by the Democrats for Governor
of West Virginia.
JOIN Softer is under sentence of death, at
Pontiac, ILL.,, for the murder of William
Rollings..-..P- D. Banks, of Page county,
Iowa, has been sentenced to ten years in the