Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-11

and the steamer Northwestern was blown
across the river. Chas. W. Dwyer, young
man from Toledo, o., who had just arrived
in the city, was struck on the head by a
piece of the metal roof of the market and
Instantly killed. Some ten or twelve per-
sons were more or less injured. The part of
the market house destroyed was about $50
feet long, As feet wide, rs feet high. 1t will
cost probably $4,000 to rebuild it.
THE rain of Saturday and Saturday night
raised The Illinois river a foot at LaSalle.
and there is now seven feet of water from
that port to the dam at Henry......C. G. Cole,
one of the Supreme Court Judges of Iowa,
who rendered his resignation to Governor
Carpenter some time since, has withdrawn
his resignation at the request of the Gov
The first train crossed the railroad
bridge at Leavenworth, Kansas, on Monday.
The test was highly satisfactory young
man named Benjamin Tallmadge, aged "a
years, committed suicide at the Pattey
House, Fond du Lac, Wis, on Sunday morn
ing, by shooting himself through the heart.
He was to have been married shortly to an
estimable young lady of that city. No
Pacific Railroad Company is making sur
vey for narrow gauge road from Julesburg
up the South Fork of the Platte river to
Greeley, Denver, and Golden City, to con-
meet with the Colorado Central railroad,
which they are extending to Central City.
IAN alteration occurred on Monday
morning occurred between Barney Kane,
laborer, and Thomas Russell, Superintendent
of some public work in the western suburbs
of St. Louis, when Kane struck Russell
terrific blow on the top of the head, splitting
his skull from ear to ear, killing him in
stantly THE convicted anti-Chinese riot
ers at Los Angeles, Cal, have been sentenced
to from two to six years each in the Peni-
tertiary.
The South.
JOSEPH W. JOHNSON, brakeman on
freight train on the Nashville and Chatta-
day, near Nashville, and was instantly
killed.
THE Kentucky Legislature on Wednesday
passed resolution providing for the sale of
the Portland Canal to the United States......
A number of South Carolina delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention are about to
go to Washington to demand the re-
moval of several Government officers, in
Guiding the Collector and Postmaster of
Charleston.
HENRY BERRY LowEeY and Boss Strong,
the North Carolina outlaws, are certainly
dead. The confirmation of the news comes
simultaneously with the escape of the
Herald correspondent from the swampy
suburbs of sylvan Shoe Henry Case
was run over by locomotive and instantly
killed at Louisville, on Friday.
On Sunday afternoon the whole of the St.
Thomas street front of the New Orleans
water works reservoir gave way, releasing a
bulk of water covering half square half a
foot deep, doing much damage. Loss esti-
mated at $50, 900. The lower floor of many
| houses in the vicinity were almost instantly
| flooded, causing great alarm among the oc-
| cupants. The center walls of the reservoir
| remained firm, so that only half the supply
of water escaped...... Stephen Gibbs, engineer
of the locomotive which run over and killed
Henry Case at Louisville on Friday, has
been indicted for murder.
The runner of the Citizens Bank of New
Orleans was robbed at the Canal Bank on
Monday morning of his money book con-
tanning $4,000. The runner placed the
| book on the counter. Some one asked him
| a question, and while answering, his book
was taken and another substituted. No
| arrests.
Foreign.
MARSHAL BAzA1NE has received permission
to publish a pamphlet justifying his conduct
al Metz...... M. Jules Favre, in his testimony
| before committee of the French Assembly
| on Tuesday, broadly intimated that Minister
Washburne and some American officers
oil ba
| war.
| THE Pope on Tuesday gave long audi
ence to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
He desired their Royal Highnesses to con-
veY to the Queen of England his thanks for
| her constant evidences of sympathy, and
praised the people of Great Britain for their
| piety.
| AN explosion occurred in coal mine at
Anterior, near Balton, England, on Thurs
day afternoon, by which % men were
killed outright. Eleven men were rescued
but they are fearfully burned, and nearly all
| will probably de-. European mail advices
state that the town of Shamaka, in the eau
casus, was almost entirely destroyed by a
recent earthquake. The number of persons
killed was 1877, and the destruction Of
property very large. A considerable por-
ton of the country was converted into a
desert, and the inhabitants are reduced tc
great misery by the destruction of then
crops THE bark N:mrod was burnt of
Bermuda on the 10th ult. Of seventeen
persons on board, only ten were saved. The
vessel was loaded with naphtha and kero
sene, and an explosion from some unknown
cause took place in the hold, behind the
main hatch. 1t is believed that the Cap.
tain, wife, and daughter, a young girl
were in the cabin at the time of the explo
sion. When the fire was seen from the har
Dor of Bermuda, it was too late to render as
sistance.
AN explosion occurred on Saturday in ,
safety-fuse mandatory at Cornwall, Eag
land, where number of females were EN-
ployed, causing a sad loss of life. Sever
women were killed, one is missing, and sew
eral others were injured. 1t is feared SOM
| of them may not survive.
SPECIAL from Cairo, Egypt, says tina
General W. T. Sherman was splendidly en-
tertained by the Khedive. A state breakfas
was given in his honor, he was invited t,
reviews, and a special train was provided
for himself and suite. A palace was tend
cred to him for his residence, but he de
clined it. He leaves on Tuesday for Con