Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-15
eMlarshall county gepuhlitan
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

No AAOb1lOA, VI IOCu6SI0I, N. L, lIl-
PEELED by the green-eyed monster, shot
Jacob Goetzman dead, and then committed
suicide.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has sued the New York
Times for libel, for reporting that he (Kil-
patrick, when acting as Minister to Chill,
:" tried to force al abandoned woman on
Gillian society and was recalled"
The Mayor of Yeddo, Japan, and number
of Japanese ambassadors, attended the
launching of the steamboat Keiveda, which
has been built for the Japanese Government,
at New York, last week.
Henri Drayton died in New York on the
31st ult. By the death of this eminent artist
the dramatic profession is deprived of it's
finest singer and the operatice stage of its
best actor.
A. general meeting of the Roman Catholic
clergy and laity is to be held in New York city,
the object being to protest against the en-
fo*ement of the British law of 1929 expell-
ing Jesuits from that Kingdom.
The Dean Academy, at Franklin, Mass. has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $780, in
surance, 100000.
Gen. Fitzpatrick is on the war path After
instituting his libel suit against the New York
Times he forthwith went for the Bangor WHO
to the tune of $4,000. The chiefs of both
journals have been held in bonds to appear
and answer
The city of Titusville, Pa has been lighted
with gas from the Newton oil well, located five
miles from the town.
J. NJ. Majorga, General Agent of the Cubans
in New York, has advised the Governor of the
Republic of Cuba to remove Gen. Ryan.
John Gaffney has been sentenced to be
hung, at Buffalo, for the murder of Patrick
Fahey.
Charles NARROW was hung at Millville, Y,
on the I'd inst, for the murder of VIM. Bach
man, in August, 1872.
Eight stores were burned in Elmira. N. Y,
on the I'd ult. Loss, $4,000.
gang of river pirates recently forced an
entrance to the Hamburg dock, at Hoboken,
n. Y, and stole $685. worth of watches.
The Cuban privateer Pioneer, lying in the
harbor of Newport, has been seized by the
Government. Her commander, after protest.
ing against the seizure, with true Spanish
bravado, fired off one of the privateers guns,
nailed the Cuban flag to the mast, threw his
sword overheard, and, with his crew, left the
vessel in high dudgeon.
Gerrit Smith is using his personal influence
toward the release of some of the Ku-Klux
confined in the Albany On. Y.) Penitentiar,,
who are evidently victims of circumstances,
Horace Greeley is ruralizing in his native
heath, in New Hampshire.
S. L. NJ. Barlow has been elected Grand Sa-
chem of the Tammany Society.
Gen. Grant and Phil Sheridan have been in
dulging in little piscatorial sport on the st.
Lawrence. The pair are reported as having
whipped out a canoe load of bass and pickerel
one day.
Two boxes of diamonds, rubies and sap
phires from the Arizona diamond fields have
been on exhibition in New York. S. L. M.
Barlow, one of the trustees of the recently
formed Diamond Mining Company, states that
they have pre-enpted 5000 acres, and have so
men at work. He states, also, that the dis
covery was made eighteen months ago. and
that as far back as year ago 100000 worth
of Arizona diamonds were received in New
York.
Forty thousand dollars worth of Struggled
silks were seized in New York the other day.
new oil well took fire at Titusville, Pa.
recently, and fatally burned four men.
Simeon Leland, one of the well-kpown I,e-
land brothers. hotel proprietors, died at New
N. Y, last week.
The West.
Another raft-tug explosion has occurred on
the Mississippi river. near McGregor, Iowa.
involving the destruction of six lives and the
mairaing of some dozen more.
By railroad accident on the Kansas Pacific
in Kansas. recently five passengers
were killed and several injured.
The First National Bank of Council Bluffs.
Iowa, has been robbed, in very mysterious
manner, of 500, 0UO
Burglars and highway robbers havo become
SO bold and numerous in Dubuque, Iowa. that
the citizens have organized vigilance COM
mittee, and propose to deal summarilv with
the scoundrels.
The wife of John McGregor, of Storm Lake.
Iowa, while driving a reaper, fell from her
seat and was cut to pieces by the machine
August Bader, of Milwaukee, aged II vears
was drowned the other day, while bathing in |
the river.
While Barnum's show was parading the |
streets of Terre Haute. Ind, the other dav.
the officers and employees of the Prairie Civ |
Bank rushed out to see the procession. About |
the same time an adrolt thief slipped in the |
back way and bagged about $4,000 of the |
banks funds.
News from Fort Sully, Dakota, is to the eff |
feet that the Yellowstone. expedition, which |
at Fort Rice for the purpose of |
guarding the surveying party of the Northern |
Pacific railroad, was ready to march on the |
morning of Tie 26th ult., and undoubtedly |
left at that time. The Indians are very hos |
the. and it is almost certain they will attack |
the party. ~.
A diamond mining company has been |
formed in San Francisco, with capital of
$1,000, 600. Samuel Barlow and George B.
of New York, are among the trus- |
tees. The mines are said to be near the head |
waters Of the Colorado, and are reported to |
be very rich, the company now having in the |
Bank of California $780, 900 worth of cut dia-
monds, and one in the rough weighing 1902 |
carats. A large number of rubies and |
have been obtained in the same |
locality.
II. K. Whittlesy, money receiving clerk in
the Adams Express Company, at Cincinnati. |