Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30

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| About 4, 900 persons participated.
A LAD fourteen years of age, son of Patrick
Grady, resident of Davenport, Iowa, was
struck by lightning at about one o'clock
| Thursday afternoon, and was instantly
| killed. He was standing ct a street corner
| at the ti1ne...... The boilers of the Springfield
| (I1.) city water-works exploded Thursday
morning. No damage was done to the other
machinery, nor was any person injured......
At Lansing, ILL.,, Wednesday, young man
by the name of McCracken shot his father
three times. The father was abusing his
family. The son interfered, and the father
| tried to kill the son with fish spear, with
| the above result. He was still alive at last
accounts, but there was no hope of his re-
coyery.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy occurred in
Chicago on Friday morning. A carpenter
named Edward Simonds shot his wife, the
bail lodging in the brain. He then blew
| his own brains out. At last accounts Mrs.
| Simonds was alive, but was not expected to
| recover. Jealousy is the alleged cause......
| A report has been received giving the de-
tails of massacre by Indians, Mexicens,
and negroes combined, of persons in charge
of train of supplies en- route to Fort
Stockton, at Towards Wells, near old Fort
Lancaster. All the people with the train,
seventeen souls in all, were killed or
wounded, except one woman. Words fail
| to convey an idea of the sickening atrocities
committed by the demons who overpowered
the train. The men, several of them, were
| taken alive, tied to wagons, and burned.
| An old woman was carried some distance
| from the place of attack and then shot and
scalped. Her grandchild had its ears cut
off, was scalped, and had its brains dashed
out.....A prominent and wealthy citizen of
| Kansas CITY, Mo-, named Wilkes B. Brown,
was called to his door Thursday night by
some unknown person and shot dead. 49,. One
of the boilers in the rolling mill at Joliet,
| ILL.,, exploded at four O'Clock Friday morn
| ing, seriously injuring two of the fremen,
one of whom, John Leonard, died about
| three hours after the accident.
Ar Peoria, H., on Sunday evening, a
man named Henry Fleetmeyer became in
volved in quarrel with neighbor named
| Wolf, when the latter drew a knife and
stabbed him FIVE times in different parts OF
the body, inficting dangerous wounds......
A fire at Flint, Mich, early Sunday morn
ing, destroyed S150,o00 worth of PROPERTY.
At Chicago, Sunday morning, two men
named Maloney and Foley were shot while
| attempting an outrage on the person OF a
German woman named Schultz.
A MAN named Kirkham was killed by two
rowdies at Rose Claire, ILL.,, on Saturday..
At Peoria, H., on Monday, German work
man named johnson, employed in the To
/ ledo, Peoria and Warsaw machine and re-
pair shops, met with fearful and fatal &C.
cident. He was elevating car from the
| track with lot of jacks when the car sud-
| denly slipped from its place and fell on
him, crushing him into an almost unrecog-
nizable mass, and causing instant death.
The South.
AT the Lexington, KY, races, Tuesday
the fastest time in mile and a quarter dash
ever made was by four-year-old bay colt
named Frogtown. Time 2:O94.
A FIRE at Sacramento, Mclean county
Kentucky, last Fridsy, nearly destroyed the
village.
A DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ark, Mon
day, says: "The river is twenty-six feet
at this point and still rising. 1t lacks but
| four feet of being as high as in 1874. The
| town of Argenta, opposite this place, is over
| flowed, as also the depot and tracks of the
Memphis railroad. The damage already
done to plantations near here is estimated
at $50, 900. Thousands of acres of cotton
| are under water, below as well as above. In
] jefferson, Ark, and Desha and Chicot coun-
ties large part of the farms bordering along
the river are covered with water"
Washington.
THE correspondence in relation to the
Treaty of Washington has been published.
1t is very voluminous. The following is
Earl Granville's proposition, as telegraphed
| by Minister Schenck: Whereas, The Gov
eminent of her Britannia Majesty has con-
tended, in the recent correspondence with
| the Government of the United States, as
follows, namely: That such indirect claims
as those for national loss, as stated in the
cases presented on the part of the Govern
ment of the United States to the Tribunal
of Arbitration at Geneva, to have been sus-
tanned by loss in the transfer of the Ameri-
| can commercial marine to the British flag
| enhanced payments of insurance a pro-
| longation of the war, and the addition of q
large sum to the cost of the war, and the
suppression of the rebellion, firstly, were
not included in the Treaty of Washington
| and secondly, should not be admitted by
particular vessels alleged to have been en-
abled to commit depredations upon the
shipping of belligerent by reason of such
want of diligence in the performance of the
| neutral obligation as that which is imputed
| ny the OQlGeQ states 10 OI0at brlUalQ anu
whereas, the Government of her Britannia
Majesty has also declared that the prin-
ciple involved in the second of the conten-
tions, herein set forth, will guide their con-
duct in future; and whereas, the President
of the United States, while adhering to his
contention that sale claims were included in
the treaty, adopts for the future principle
contained in the second of said contentious
SO far as to declare that it will hereafter
guide the conduct of the Government of the
United States, and the two countries are
, therefore, agreed in this respect. In consid
Grafton thereof the President of the United
States, by and with the consent of the Senat,
thereof, consents that he will make no CLAIM
on the part Of the United States in respec
of indirect losses, as aforesaid, before tn
Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva.
The House agreed Thursday, the Senat
concurring, to finally adjourn on Monday
the Sd of June.....Col. Geo. W. Dougal, o
,, Califoru ia, took poison and died at Wash
ington Thursday night.
Foreign.
A SCHOONER arrived at Copenhagen, Don
mark, May IA, from Iceland. She reports
| series of violent earthquake shocks at Has
wick on the 10th, 18th, and 18th of April
, Twenty houses were destroyed, and severa