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


Arhls the story OF his sufferings, as published
trough the American press. 1t is the inten-
ION of DIR. Houard to prove his citizenship,
nd then compel such reparation from Spain
a 8 is due an American citizen so long and bar
arously outraged.
Prof. Charles D. Balch, a prominent New
Yorker, has just died from & he effects of an
overdose of morphine, taken to relieve neu-
ralgia.
Some time ago the plates from which the
bulls of the Spanish Bank of Havana are pro-
duced were sent to New York city, with or
ders to print So, Oe0, 900 worth of bills, in lieu
of So, 100000 that had been destroyed. 1t has
just transpired that over Sc, 600, 900 have been
printed, the Spanish officials in Havana and
their allies in New York sharing equally in
the surreptitiously issued 5000, 600, and it is
said the clandestine issue OF the notes still
continues.
The bruisers Mace and O'Daldwin had an
other meeting on the 21st, in West Virginia,
just across the Pennsylvania line. Being I'M
able to agree upon a referee, the mailing
match was again postponed
Tennie c. Clafin and Victoria Woudhull are
after the Springfield (AIass. Republican with
n libel suit.
George Kingsland, paying teller of the Hud-
son County National Bank, of Jersey City,
who absent ia Europe, has been found to
be defaulter to the amount of $4,000. Wine
and women were the impelling causes.
Mark TWAIN, the humorist, has sailed fer
Europe.
The New York Stadt Theater has been sold
for S122,G00
Alarge meeting of oil producers and refners,
comprising representatives from all districts
IN the oil regions, convened at Parkers Land
ng, Pa. last week. The object was to devise
measures to curtail the production of oil so
rs TO enhance prices, as it is claimed that pres
ent rates are too low to allow any profit to
producers, and to this end resolution was
adopted binding operators to suspend work
for six months, which. it is believed, Will be
generally aequiesced in.
The Spanish frigate Numancia. which re-
emily arrived at New York with yellow fever
on board, has been condemned by the Health
Officer as plague snip. Fumigation is use
less, and new cases of fever break out daily
Applications of her commander for coal and
divers to clean her bottom have been refused
Comptroller Connolly, of the New York
thieving Tammany ring, has disappeared. and
1t is believed he has fed the country, and left
hls friends to pay his forfeited bond, amount
ing to over half million dollars.
A pleasure barge on the Connecticut river
was recently struck by lightning and two per-
sons killed.
The Executive Committee of the Boston
jubilee set FORTH their liza 8 at 100000,
and receipts at SAC, 900 leaving deficit of
s21o, ooo- It i. proposed, of meet
ing this deficit, to give monster concert and
ball, with 100000 50 tickets, six of which,
drawn by lot. will draw the Coliseum.
The most determined and desperate case of
self-murder on record was that of Thos. H.
Dunger, an English lace importer, at New
York, last week, while Iaboring under an at
tack of delirium tremens. His first attempt
was with large needle. A few hours after
ward he went to drug store, in state of
deshabille, seized bottle of poison, and at
tempted to swallow it. Three hours later he
made an Intellectual attempt on his life by
stabbing himself in the breast with carving
knife, and shortly after this he DRIVE a cooks
knife into his side to the depth of four inches.
The desperate man was then taken to Bellvue
Hospital. and about 8 o'clock On the same
evening he jumped from fourth story win
dow of that building, and By the fall both
legs were driven into his abdomen, producing
instant death
OF the forty members of the Irish band
which visited the great Boston Jubilee, only
eight returned home, all the others having
obtained employment in New York and Bos-
ton.
Pref. Peters, of the Litchfeld Observatory
(Hamilton College, IN. V, announces the
discovery of another new planet-the 124th
of the group of asteroids-which he describes
as bright, shining as a star of the tenth
magnitude"
Hon. A. G. Curtin, our Minister to Rus
yania.
The bonded warehouse of Charles Zust was
burned in New York, the other day. entailing
loss of S25O,0
Hon. r. J. Ingersoll, Minister to Russia I'M
der President Polk, died at New Haven, CT,
last week, aged 81.
Another bloody tragedy, growing out of the
Philadelphia volunteer fire company troubles,
has been enacted in that city. James Dough-
erty and James Kane, members respectively
of the old rival Moyamensing and Hope Com
panies. got into an alteration about some
question connected with the organizations,
which terminated in Kane disemboweling the
unfortunate Dougherty with a bowie-knife.
Both were hard characters.
The West.
There we're 324 deaths in Chicago for the
week ending Aug. II.
Jefferson White recently shot and killed
Henry Houltz, near Olney, III. Both were
farmers, and near neighbcrs. Subsequently
White was taken from Jail by an Infatuated
mob and hung to the limb of a tree, in the
courthouse yard, at Olney.
Rockford, Iowa, has had horse-whipping
sensation. Rev. W. C. Archer, Baptist min
lister. was the victim, and Mrs. Hill ard, a
member of the Rev. Mr. AS congregation,
welded the lash.
The great corner in wheat, at Chicago,
which has agitated the whole commercial
world, both East and West, for some time
past, suddenly collapsed last week. The ex-
cltement in that city, in consequence, was
most intense the scenes on 'C'hanoe heipe. do