Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-29
Ntarshall County Republitam
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


THREE young sons of Mr.. Miller, of Sha-
ron, Mass, were drowned in that town on
Tuesday by breaking through the ice...
Governmentlhas commenced an action to
recover $22, 900 deficit in the accounts of A.
NJ. Wood, late Internal Revenue Collector of
Brooklyn Bedford, of New York,
has sentenced garroter named McLaugh-
lin to twenty years hard labor in the
State Prison ...... Charles Gleason and Daniel
Dougherty, the Grafton, Mass, bank rob-
bers, have been sentenced respectively to
fourteen and thirteen years confinement in
the State Prison. Last Friday evening, at
Puce River, in the township of Madison, / s
miles from Windsor, Ontario, Wyett Stuart
killed Samuel Hamilton by striking him on
the shoulder with an axe, and cleaving him
entirely through the body. He afterward
smashed two ribs in with the axe. The
murderer and his brother, Green Stuart, are
in Sandwich Jail, and will be tried in April
for murder.
ELIPHALRr A. BULKLEY, President of the
Etna Life Insurance Company, died at
Hartford, Conn, on the 18th inst......A ship
canal between Newark, N. j., and New
York, costing $4,000 900, is projected......
The City Sanitary Inspector of New York
reports the death of five members of the
Brown family occasioned by the occupation
of rooms entirely closed at night, ventilation
boing entirely INSTRUCTED, the inhalation of
poisonous sewer gas, from the use of defec-
tive earthenware pipe, and want of proper
nourishment.
JUDGE WooDRoFF, of the United States
Court at New York, has sustained the de-
cision of the United States Court in Connec-
ticut, adiudicating the Boston, Hartford and
Erie railroad bankrupt......O On the night of
the 18th, locomotive boiler exploded at
the Susquehanna depot on the Erie road
instantly killing Patrick Mccoy, and Sc
verely scalding or injuring six other per-
sons......A FIRE at Toronto, Ont, on Thursday
night, burned nine out of eleven wholesale
stores in the Iron Block" one of the finest
in the city. Loss estimated at $500, 900 !;
insured for $3.50, 000... The dry goods house
of Byers Burnett, at Middlesex, Pa, was
entirely destroyed by fire on Thursday
night. W. A. Henderson, clerk, barely
escaped with his life, he being very badly
burned.
BUcKHoUr, the murderer, was executed at
White Plains, n. Y, on Friday. He be-
trayed no fear of death, and said he was
content to dieA woollen mill at Peter
boro, n. H, caught fire by spontaneous
combustion on Thursday, and was wholly
destroyed. An operative named Mrs. Ellen
Upton was burned to death. The mill and
stock were insured for $2O,00O......In New
York on Tuesday W. J. Pollock was arrested
and held to bail in the sum of $4,000 for al
legged smuggling operations IN linen and
jute goods...... Richard 0'Gorman has been
reelected President of the New York Board
of Commissioners of Immigration......A col
ision occurred on the Connellsville rail-
road, at Layton's Station, Pa, on Thursday,
by which two freight trains were telescoped,
j. Nurtenny, the engineer, was fatally in
if1ro nd of
killed.
CARR. LEONARD HENN1NG, of Elizabeth. N
j., was accidentally shot. on Friday, by his
son, IL years old, PrVbably fatally The
challenge of the Atlanta for a four-oared
shell race on the Thames is accepted by
the London Rowing Club. Six men will he
taken to England by the New Yorkers......
Henry Hepner, of New York, who recently
shot his son and then attempted to kill him
self, died of his injuries on Saturday IA.
B. Bartholomew killed Charles F. Storer, of
Chelsea, Mass, on Sunday, by stabbing him
twice in the breast with large knife. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
AUTHORITY has been received from the
Treasury Department for an investigation
into the affairs of the exploded Eighth Ma
tional bank of New York.....In the Pitts
surgh breach of promise case, Mrs. Vankirk
u johnson, the jury has given verdict fol-
$500. Both parties appear to be sat sized
The receiver of the Lorillard Fire In
suranv~ company of New York, has declared
hrst dividend of go cents on the dollar
payable on demand THE Pennsylvania
Democratic State Conversion will be held a
Residing on May 30.
The West.
THE residence and barn of Mr.. Julius
Hand, near Winona, Mimi, were burned
about o'clock on Tuesday morning. Thre
young children lost their lives in the flames
THE steamer Nashville sunk at Cincin
She was heavily loaded with grocer
les and furniture, valued at $4,000
....Rysn's marine elevator, at Milwau
kee, Wis, was burned on Tuesday. Los
$4,000. Partially insured. ..... Thos. Cornell
who was to have been hung at Jefferson City
Mo-, on the 18th, has been reprieved b,
Gov. Brown until April Is, to afford an OBJ
portunity to examine his mental condition
it having been asserted that he was insane
MCDONALD Geek, recently found guilty Q
the murder of Harris, at Brookviile, Ind
has been granted new trial on the groun
ef the incompetency of two Jurors. Boil
houses of the Illinois Legislature hav
passed bill providing for the appointment
OF guardians fer habltual drunkards......O1
Wednesday the lower house of the Wiscon
sin Legislature adopted a memorial to Con
gress for the repeal of the Bankrupt law b
a vote of 73 to 6.
oSE span of the iron bridge over the Bi
Muddy, On the Illinois Central railroad
near Cashondale, gave way on Thursday
and four cars of wrecking train fel
through. Three men were injured, non
fatally. The will of General Il. W. Hal
leck has been probated in San Francisco
His wife is appointed the sole executrix an
guardian to cir son. The property
shared between them, except $4,000 to b
paid to his mother, and the use of the home
stead in Oneida county during her life....
A young man named Good, while adjustin
the belt on the fy-wheel of a saw-mill q
Willow Station, on the Indianapolis and S
Louis railroad on Thursday morning, wa
caught by the arm, and revolved about tn
wheel at rapid rate until he was LITERAL
torn to pieces.
The California Assembly (Republican)
vote of 81 to II, has passed a resolutio
asking Congress to permit the levying of
special mining tax on Chinese. The Senat
70 (Democraticl has passed the same to engros.