Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-07
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NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Ar Jersey City, the Grand Jury have
found no indictments, most of which are
against the ringites of that city and county
for peculation of the public funSs.... United
States Attorney Davis has not vet taken any
action upon the orders of the Attorney Gem
eral to prosecute the New York Custom
House officials who are guilty of bribery,
but states that at the next term of the
courts he will take steps to have the culprits
indicted. rorsr aa-
A PASSENGER car on the Delaware and
Lackawanna road, near Binghampton, N. Y,
was thrown down an embankment Is feet
high on Tuesday morning, by reason of a
ously injured......The Coroner's jury at
Hempsted, Long Island, on Tuesday rem
dered verdict charging Hannah M. Fowler
and Geo. Fowler, younger brother OF her
husband, with causing the death of the lat
ter by arsenic, large quantities of which it
is said were found in the liver and kidneys
of the deceased. Foster, the car-hook
murderer, of New York, has been sentenced
to be hanged March 22.....The oil manufac-
tory of D. c. Beggs, in New York, was
burned on Tuesday morning. Loss Sc, 600.
......On Friday morning, at Brownsville, Pa,
a fire destroyed Wilgers's shoe and hat store,
Deyere and Co.'s clothing store and build
ing, Gummerts building, Duncan's furniture
store, Story's saloon, and barber shop.
Loss 1000; insurance $4,000.
TX New York city on Wednesday an octo-
genarian named Margaret Watson, while
INDUCING in her habit of smoking in bed.
get the bed on fire, and was burned to DEATH
1.-THE indicted Ringites of Jersey City,
comprising three Police Commissioners,
three Fire Commissioners, and the Chief of
Police, were on Wednesday arrested and
held to bail, some in $4,000, and some in
$4,000......R. A. Streets cotton knitting
mill and Coffin & Simpsons -four mill, at
Kenwood, near Albany, N. Y, was burned
on Thursday afternoon. Total loss about
$4,000; partially insured......A fire at Selin's
Grove, Pa, Thursday night, destroyed
twelve dwellings, FIVE stores, Baptist
church, and twelve stables and barns. Loss
100000.
HENRY QUAoKENBusH, lately on the staff of
the New York Evening Ne1cs, committed sui
eide at Central Park on Thursday during
mental alteration. 49,. 1t is stated that Col
lector Arthur, of New York, has rendered
his resignation, and that the place has been
offered to Treasurer Spinner, who delin ed it.
1.-THE Republican printing Office, three law
offices, drug store, and other buildings, at
Monticello, n. Y, were burned on Friday
morning. Loss So, 600.
OK Saturday night, the American Iron
Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, owned by Jones L
Laughlin, were partially burned. The
upper rolling mill, with six trains of rolls,
the spike, bolt, and nut factory, pattern
shops, pattern storehouse, and foundry were
entirely destroyed. The loss will be from
5000, zoe 10 $S0o,oe0 The works were the
most extensive in America, afording en-
ployrnent to $500 hands. BeIlefont mills,
Crarstoc, r. l., were burned on Saturday.
Loss $50 poe; insurance $4,000.
TIKI house of Henry spinney, Yarmouth
county, n. S., was burned on the 18th inst,
and his five children persisted in the flames
Mr. and Mrs. Spinuey were absent on a visit
1.-THE large sugar refinery of Bartol &
Barker, at Marcus Hook, Pa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Loss
$4,000; insurance $1O5,000... On Sunday
night last farmer named Daniel Kramer
residing about nine miles west of Auburn
Schuylkill county, Pa, was brutally muir
dered and his wife left for dead. Mr. Kra-
mer's son, on entering his fathers house on
Monday morning, found his mother in bed
with her skull fearfully fractured, and still
living, but unable to speak. The father
was found about one hundred yards from
the house with his brains beaten out and
frozen to the ground. No trace of the muir
derers has yet been discovered. The muir
derer robbed the house. Mrs. Kramer can
not recover.
A RESOLUTION has passed the Maine Legis-
laturs, requesting the delegation in Congress
from that State to urge the construction of
the Niagara Ship Canal. Very Rev. Henry
Benedict Coskey, Vicar-General and Ad-
ministrator of the Archdiocese of Balti-
more, died in that city on Tuesday evening,
of pneumonia, after an illness of several
weeks, in the 64th year of his age......The
New York city charter of the Committee of
Seventy passed the Assembly en- Tuesday,
SO to 28.....One of the storehouses of the
Harmony Mills, at Cahoes, N. Y, was
burned on Tuesday. Loss $4,000; insured
for $32, 900. The fire was caused by spon-
taneous combustion.
The West
The eleventh and last span of the Union
Pacific bridge at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
completed on Tuesday. an 1
TIE National Labor Reform Convention
met at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday One
hundred and Fifty delegates were present,
representing seventeen States. Arkansas
and Mississippi were the only Southern
States which sent delegates......The bodies of
Michael MeCaigue and man named Cavan-
augh, inmates of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee, Wis, were found in
a ravine near that institution on Wednesday
afternoon. The unfortunate men had been
missing about. a fortnight. They were in
toxicated when last seen, and, both being
partially blind, it is supposed they lost their
way while returning to the asylum and per-
iehed from cold 49,. Mrs. CARLY and child of
Merchandising, o., were burned to death on
Wednesday, in attempting to start a fire
with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hotel, at Grand
Rapids, the largest hotel in Western Michi-
gan, was partially destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night. The loss is estimated at
nearly 500. 900.
Tar decision of the Supreme Court of
Nsbraska is that the present extra session of
the Nebraska State Legislature is Illegal, the
Court holding that the proclamation of Act
ing-Govefnor James, revoking the call of
the President of the Senate was authorized.
THE spoke factory of Birnell & Co., and
an adjoining dwelling at St. Mary,s, Ohio,
was burned on Wednesday morning. Loss
$50, 900, with no insurance on the factory.
......A fre~at Leavenworth, Kansas. on
Wednesday night, destroyed the Brevoort
House and several tenements. Insurance
5lght.....The National Labor Reform Con-
vention, in session at Columbus, o., closed
its 1abors on Wednesday. Judge David
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