Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06

named Porter Gildersleeve, was killed
Wednesday morning, while coupling cars,
by being caught between the bumpers.
Private advices from Richard Grove,
Mercer county, Ill state that on the 10th
ult. a fire broke out in coal mine near
Waugh's mills, owned by Alexander Con-
vile. Although a stream of water had been
turned on from ravine, no perceptable eff
feet is vet obtained...... Patrick Callahan was
arrested in Chicago, recently, on a charge
of having murdered a man named You
man, in Minnesota, six years ago. He was
sent to Rochester, Mimi, for trial.. Dis
patches from various parts of the State re-
port that fears are entertained that the corn
crop in Iowa will be very light this year, as
not over one-half of the corn has been
planted, and the weather is still cool. The
season is about month behind that of last
year. Many fields of corn will have to be
replanted in consequence of the seed rotting
in the cold, wet ground. Small grain of all
kinds is in good cond tion...... Reports re-
csived at Springfield represent that the
showers of the past week have been very
favorable to the growing crops in Illinois,
and it is thought will stay the ravages of
the cut-worms, which insects have been
DESTROYING the Katie Kroe, a Ger
man woman, aged 81, suiciaed recently, at
Davenport, Iowa, by hanging. Temporary
insanity is assigned as the cause.
PROF. HENRY s. MOVES, of the Northwest
ern University, at Evanston, ILL.,, died re-
Gently at that place......John Reeves, of
LYONS, ILL.,, died on the oath from the eff
fects of pommeling at the hands of Valen-
tine Hoffman,. One million three hundred
| and forty four thousand dollars will be re-
! ouired to run the county government of
| Cock county, ILL.,, during the coming year.
THE schooner Robinson was run into by
the propeller Manistee, on Lake Michigan
! on the oath inst, and sunk in ten minutes.
She was loaded with 16, 900 bushels of corn.
The crew was savad.....A terrible tornado
passed over a por ton of Adams county, H.,
on the oath inst, unroofing houses, barns,
| trees, &C., and doing serious damage. A
| severe gale also occurred about the same
| time near Burlington, Iowa, which caused
much injury. Land Commissioner Ed
munds, of Michigan, has been acquitted by
the State Senate of that State. he viii
lage of Hayesville, near Ashland, Ohio, lost
| its entire business portion by fire on the
Oath inst.
| A MAN was found dead, hanging in q
small window of barn in Chicago, on the
oath. His head was covered with blood
and badly bruised. The fingers of the left
| hand were gone. 1t is supposed that ha
attempted to crawl through the window
when drunk, and that he was attacked by
a horse inside the barn and suffocated in
his effort to release hims elf.....J. T. Wes-
well, book keeper in the Chicago, Burning
| ton and Quincy Railroad shops at Aurora,
| Ill, was run over by the switch engine at
| that place and instantly killed on the 25th
| inst Two trains collided on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad at Joliet,
| ILL.,, on Sunday, by which several passengers
were seriously injured-none fatally.
Mr.. John J. Champion was thrown from his
buggy, at Springfield, ILL.,, on Saturday, and
fatally injured.
Two BOYS named Mann and Hight were
drowned in Catfish river, at Rockdale Mills,
Iowa, on the 25th ult., while in bathing,
making seven drowned in that vicinity in
as many days.. Wheat in Northern lndi-
ana has been greatly improved by the re-
cent rains. Flax is being devastated by
cut-worms....A little three-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. Tobias, of Springfield, III, fell
into a cistern and was drowned, on the 9th
ult Edward Plan was ran over by a
| freight train at Peoria, ILL.,, on the 9th
ult., and instantly killed. Martin Flynn,
of De Moines, Iowa, left on the 9th ult,
with a large force of men, horses, and imple-
mems, to commence work on a mammoth
| contract which he has taken on the Wiscon-
sin Central railroad. His contract is for 80
miles of read bed, from Duluth to Stevens
Point The time for fulfilling the contract
is two years.
The South.
THE greater portion of the business part of
Warrinton, Va, was destroyed by fire on
the 23d Secretary Delano was in St.
Louis on the oath inst, on his way to Wash
i L. IN
| of West Virginia met at Grafton, on the
| 23d, and after passing resolutions, among
which was one declaring that no office
| holder should be delegate to the Philadel-
| phia Convention, elected its delegates and
| instructed them to vote for Grant.
NJ J. HEATING, the Catholic priest, who
was arrested as vagrant a few days ago,
died at the hospital at :. Louis, recently.
An attempt was made to assassinate lady
named Mrs. Carrie Robinson Pierce, at
Newport, KY, on the oath. The whale
| bone in her dress saved her life.
FREIGHT train on the Orange, Alexan-
dria and Manassas railroad ran over COW
about eight miles from Alex andria, Va, on
the 9th ult., throwing the engine and cars
off the track, killing two brakemen, and
seriously wounding the freman......The Ma
| tlonal Agricultural Association ana N2tloLai
Agricultural Congress commenced their
Joint session at st. Louis on the 9th ult
Over 800 delegates were present.
Washington.
THE President on Tuesday signed the
following bills: To authorize the issue OF
bonds to the authorities of the Territory OF
Montana to enable the city of Denver to
purchase certain lands in Colorado for a
cemetery; to grant American registers to
the Hawaiian bark Florence; to regulate
the mode of making private contracts with
the Indians tr reduce the military reserva-
ton at For. Stanton, New Mexico......A
Washington special says: "The Foreign
Relations Committee are quietly engaged
in investigating the circumstances connect
ed with the premature publication Of the
| Washington Treaty correspondence. Ex-
, perience has proved the futility of attempts
, to get information fro2s newspaper cores
pondents; hence the committee have nil
upon the novel plan of investigating the
) Senate itself. They began with members O.
3 the committee, and will soon examine each
member of the Senate and call upon each
one to produce his copy of the correspond
ence as proof that he has it in his posses
sion" Although theHouse has passed tn,