Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-10


first and second pilots.
The-seeend trial-of Edward Stokes, the
slayer of James Fisk, DR., viii commence
shortly in New York.
Enoch L. Fancher succeeds the Infamous
Barnard as Judge of the New York Supreme
Court.
number of oreide watch swindlers have
been arrested in New York.
Michael Gering, of Jersey City, recently
murdered his wife by stabbing her, and then
cut his own throat from ear to ear.
The trial of Tweed and others of the Tam
many thieves will commence shortly in New
York. Connolly is yet missing, and it is
pretty certain that he has fed the country.
The wool wareh ouse of John McInnes, in
Boston, was burned last week, involving a
loss of s175OO0.
Johnny O'Keefe, the New York newsboy
who won the appointment of midshipman in
competitive examination, has successfully
passed his examinations, and been sworn in
as cadet midshipman at Annapolis
Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, has pardoned
out of the Penitsntiary the notorious Mercur,
Infamous broker, Charles A. Yerkes, who
we're convicted last winter of embezzling the
city's funds.
The propeller Dalhousie, from Montreal to
c icago, was recently destroyed by fire in
Lake Ontario. The passengers and crew
were taken off by the propeller City of Con-
cord.
The suspension of Spencer. Via Co., the
well-known Boston bankers is announced.
At midnight on Saturday, Sept 2s, three
fourths of all the oil wells in the country
were stopped, in accordance with the plan of
the oil producers to raise the price of petro-
leum by diminishing its quantity.
The official vote for Governor of Vermont
stands: Converse, Republican, Al, O48; Gard
ner, Democrat, 1858; scattering, IA. Ma
jority for Converse. $3.50.
The movement in the oil producing regions
of Pennsylvania to stop the pumping wells in
order to raise the price of petroleum has met
with very general success. Advices from the
oil districts represent that nearly all the wells
have stopped. In some localities violence
was resorted to in carrying out the order, we'll
rigs being burned, engines destroyed and oil
tanks tapped.
bridgeport. Ct, has been visited by de-
structive fire, involving the loss of s15O. 900
worth of property.
The West.
The venerable Rev. Peter Cartwright. one
on the Oldest warriors of the church militant.
died recently at his residen ce in Sangamon
county, H., at the age of SO years. He was
Frustrated by stroke of paralysis several
months since, and remained in an almost
helpless and speechless condition, though
With his mental faculties clear until death
came to his relief. This venerable and Won
derful man of God was for more than sixty
years an incessant and most arduous laborer
In the cause of his Master, and few divines
of America were SC widely known, and none
whose death will be more universally
The Northern Ohio Insane ASYLUM near
Cleveland was destroyed by fire last week.
The institution contained about 600 insane
persons, all of whom escaped, and some of
them are at large. Loss about $3.50, 900.
A wonderful discovery is represented to
have been made recently, in Colorado of an
enormous silver ledge or system of lodges so
locked and woven together as to be practical
ly one lode. 1t is said to measure sixty-three
feet in width and can be clearly traced over
five miles, carrying ore the entire distance
that assays from $75 to 81, 900 per ton 1t is
the sensation of the whole mining region.
The barge Iron City, bound from Cleveland
for Buffalo, foundered and sunk recently,
near Sturgeon Bay. All on board, six per-
sons, it is thought, are lost
Philip Z. Smith, the Mormon ex-Bishop
who recently made the revelations concerning
the Mountain Meadow massacre, has signifed
his readiness to go to Utah and give testimony
in person relative to the horrid butchery.
More Indian murders are reported from
Utah.
Near Terre Haute, Ind, recently. Andrew
j. Miller murdered his father-in-law, over so
years old. The weapon used was an axe.
Six of the inmates of the Northern Ohio In
sane Asylum lost their lives by the recent
burning of that institution
The crew of the wrecked barge Iron Civ.
to have been lost, have arrived
safely at Buffalo.
William Forester, the notorious burglar
and bank robber, and who was until recently
thought to be implicated in the Nathan muir
der, at New York, has been safely Gagged in
the Joliet CID Penitentiary, to which institu-
ton he owes thirteen years penal servi-
tude.
Tower Grove Park, at st. Louis, contain
ing 200 acres, donated to the city by Henry
Shaw, proprietor of the famous Botanical
Gardens there, has been formally thrown
open to the public.
NJ. c. Mitchell, Republican, has been elect
ed United States Senator from Oregon.
San Francisco is justly indignant at the ae-
qulttal and liberation of the notorious Mrs.
Laura d. Fair. 1t is stated that no such ex-
ctement has existed in that city since the
days of the Vigilance Committees operations.
1he feeling very naturally is that the Jury
was brlbed and that Justice has been out
ragged. The circumstances of this case are
wen remembered. Mrs. Fair, who, it is al
legged, was the mistress of Hon. A. P. Critten-
den, met him in the presence of his own wife. 1
and denoerately shot him dead She was
tried In the summer of 1871. convicted and
sentenced to be hanged. A new trial was
granted, the plea of emotional insanity cot