Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-09
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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

AUGUSTUS BISHOP, son OF Dir ID. y. Bl9nOp,
the English composer, and Madame Anna
Bishop, the well-known vocalist, was found
dead on Tuesday morning, in his room in
his mothers house in New York.. During
services at st. MichaeDs Church, New York,
on Tuesday night, three men who had
climbed to the sill of window, fell out q
distance of twenty feet. Two were badly
injured intern ally, and it is thought they
will die, and the third had ais arm broken.
THE rope and Irvine works of A. 81.
Hart & Co., New York, were burned on
Tuesday afternoon. Loss $150,O00, including
81 600 on machinery, which latter is COW
cred by insurance......E. I. Seward, brother
of Secretary Seward, died on Tuesday, OF
apoplexy, at his home in Florida, New
York.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS sailed from New
York on Wednesday afternoon, and will
proceed to Geneva to join the Board of Arbi-
tration The New York Times publishes
letter from st. Pierre, New Greenland, under
date of April Is, giving intelligence OF Cap
tain Halls Arctic Expedition up to the 1st
of March. The Polaris had been compelled
to return to Greenland in consequence of
springing aleak, caused by collision with an
iceberg. It required the exertions of the
crew, officers and all the members of the
scientific party to keep the Polaris afoat.
The disaster occurred in the middle of Feb
ruary. The health of all on board has been
good. She returned to Disco.
In jersey City, n. j., on Wednesday even
ing, a German car conductor, named Kent,
made desperate attempt to shoot another
conductor named Kock, after the latter fell
feigring death, though unhurt. Kent then
shot himself, inhicting mortal wounds.
Family troubles were the cause......W VIM. G..
Clark, Attorney General for New Hamp-
shire, died at his residence in Manchester,
on Thursday night, of congestion of the
lungs, aged 81.
A SHOCKING affair occurred in the town of
New Scotland, N. Y, Friday morning A
family consisting of Mr.. Volmer, his wife
and FIVE children, Volmer's mother and his
wife's step-father, occupied a two-story
building, which took fire. Volmer, his wife
and one child, who occupied the first floor,
escaped, but all the others persisted in the
flames. ..Samual Windler. the brother of
Mrs. Hyde, who was jointly indicted with
her for the murder of Watson, as accessory
before the act, and disappeared, was brought
to Brooklyn, n. Y, on Friday, and COM
mitted to jail He will probably be tried
with his sister in june. The trial of Lydia
Sherman, the husband murderer, was con-
cluded in New Haven, Conn.,, on Friday.
AIteT an aOSSECO Oh MY bHo
declared Mrs. Sherman guilty of murder in
the second degree.
On Saturday evening a fire occurred in
the building Nos. q and. 26 Wooster street,
New York. Two tailors named John and
James McCherry were burned to death.
Several persons had narrow escapes. VIM.
Fordman leaped from the rear window into
the yard beneath. Fortunately he alighted
on the roof of a shed, and miraculously es-
capped unhurt, although he had fallen dis
lance of fifty feet. Loss about S70,0O0......A
man named John Hallonan was shot by the
Mayors Marshal, James L. Burns, in a
gambling saloon in the Bowery, New York,
on Sunday morning. Burns was arrested.
49,. Edward S. Stokes, the murderer of
James Fisk, Jr., has prepared a letter for
publication denying that he was in league
with Miss Mansfield to extort money frem
Fisk
THE Sauhegan mills, in Milford, N. H.,
were totally destroyed by fire on Sunday
night, with the fryhouse connected there
with. Loss 100000; insurance $75, OOO......
The fires on the mountains near Kingston,
n. Y, continue. Fires are also raging
along the Rondout and Oswego railroad,
and considerable amount of cordwood and
railroad ties have been consumed. Every
great rapi dity......A fire at Warren, Pa, on
Monday afternoon, destroyed the Union
school house and the Germania Hotel. The
school house had $40, 900 insurance, and the
Germania Hotel $4,000.
The West.
PARTIES arriving at Portland from Sitka,
Alaska, report great excitement in that
place on account of the discovery of rich
silver mines within half mile of the town,
and rich gold and silver mines in other To-
calities adjacent to the coast. The excite
ment was at high pitch when the steamer
left......All the buildings on the west side of
the plaza at North San Diego, including the
Franklin House, Colorado House, and
Schiller & Manassas building, were burned
on Saturday. Loss $4,000. The ice in
Lake Pepin, on the Mississippi river, has
broken up, and navigation is now open.....
The warehouse of Besley & Burdett was
burned at Lake City, Mimi, on Tuesday.
Loss $4,000; mostly insured..-..A lie ter
from Texas states that the Supreme Court of
that State has affirmed the sentence of
death, pronounced by the lower court, upon
Stephen B. Ballou, the murderer of James
P. Golden, of Adams county, ILL.,, fixing the
time of his execution for Friday, the Path OF
May-....A man named Cluck shot and killed
his wife in Indianapolis on Tuesday. After
firing six shots, and making sure OF his vic
tim, he cut his throat with knife, inficting
a severe but not fatal wound...... Mr.. Shrews-
bury, Mayor of Madison, Ind, one of the
oldest and most wealthy men in that place
fell dead from heart disease on Monday
evening as he was stepping out of his door
to go to the Council Chamber.
A MOB stopped the esst-bound train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad at Gum
City.in Cass county on Wednesday after.