Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The East.
FIRE destroyed an oil-cloth factory a
Columbusville, Long Island, New York, on
Tuesday, with loss Of 900. One fireman
was run over by machine and killed.. A
fire Tuesday morning destroyed the car
house of the Worcester and Nashua railroad,
at Nashua, N. H., with its contents. A train
of cars was also destroyed, and the rolling
mill of the Nashua Iron and Steel Company
The loss te the latter is $4,000; insured for
SIS, 900. The railroad loss is not ascer-
tanned IRA very destructive fire broke out
in the village of Penn Van, New York, on
were ordered from Elmira and Canandaigua
to suppress the flames. The fire originated
in furnace. The losses are very heavy.
A DARING attempt was made Wednesday
morning by a gang of burglars to blow open
the safe of the Erie freight house at Buffalo,
n. Y, in which several thousand dollars in
currency were deposited. The burglars en-
tered the building and gagged the private
Waterman. They were in the act of blowing
open the safe when disturbed by the police,
but made good their escape......The large
wooden mill of William G. Case, at Column
bia, Pa, was entirely destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
THE Franconia Iron Company's works, at
Wareham, Mass, were destroyed by fire on
Thursday. Loss 100000; insurance
$4,000. About $50 persons are thrown out
of employment......M Mrs. David R. Porter,
wife Of Ex-Governor Porter, and mother of
Gen. Horace Porter, Private Secretary of
President Grant, died at Harrisburg, Pa,
Thursday night. New York San of
has Laa
tatively received at the Office of District
Attorney Garvin that Messrs. Graham and
Gerry have withdrawn from the defense in
the Stokes case"
PETER O'KEEFE murdered Peter Kinny, in
South Boston, Mass, Wednesday night
They were brothers-in-law, and partners in
the liquor business. O'Keefe was arrested.
......Gov. Hoffman of New York has signed
the Jury bill which allows newspaper-read-
ing people to sit on jury.
NIBLo's Theater, New York, was burned
on Monday, with loss of 900 on it
and surrounding buildings. While The fire
was in progress an explosion of gas occur
red IN the theater, severely injuring Captain
Clerichy, eff the Fourteenth Police Precinct,
and nearly suffocating four fremen.
The West.
DURING severe thunderstorm at Ackley,
Iowa, on Sunday night, lightning struck the
house of Patrick Cassidy, about four miles
northwest of the town. The current passed
down the stove-pipe and instantly killed
Cassidy and Peter Burns, who were sleeping
near the slovenian East Saginaw, Mich,
dispatch says Camp, Brooks & Co.'s saw
mill was destroyed by fire Tuesday morn
a ie cfi tod ,@l,
an insurance of SIS, 500.."..A man named
Alexander Woodward, while engaged in re-
moving some old buildings to make way for
new ones in Dubuque, Iowa, was killed al
most instantly by falling wall.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, the jury in the case
of Harvey, indicted for the murder of his
wife in March, 1868, who has since been at
large, but was arrested in Ohio short time
ago, returned 9 verdict Wednesday of con-
viction, and sentence of ten years in the
State Penitentiary...S STANLEY, the murderer of
Patterson, who was under sentence to be
hung April u, was lodged in the State
prison at Fort Madison, Iowa, for life, BY
reason OF communication of his sentence.
Ar Chicago, on Thursday, Gregori Peri,
the murderer of Daniel O'Brien and Michael
Ready, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree. The penalty fixed by the jury
is death by hanging.
A DISPATCH from Omaha, dated Nav 8.
says: i" party of Indians, supposed to be
Cheyennes, attacked mail escort from this
post, at Labonti creek, twenty miles west of
Fort Laramie, on Wednesday, killing the
Sergeant in command. The party returned
to Fort Laramie with the body. 49,. During
the prevalence of heavy wind-storm at
DeIphos, O., Friday afternoon, fire broke out
in the drug store of Schenck & Lang. About
fifty buildings were entirely destroyed; esti-
mated loss, $3.50, 000....H. c. Reid & Co.'s
machine works and foundry, and John
Clements dwelling house, were destroyed
Loss upward of $50, OOO......About noon Fri
day, fire broke out in the basement of Chaplin
Hall House, Hudson, Wis, burning between
ten and fifteen buildings. The t, tai losses
will foot up about $l25,OOO. An old man
named Connolly was burned to death.
A FIRE at Cleveland, O., Saturday even
ing, destroyed large portion of the Stand
ard Oil Company's works. About $1,000
barrels of distilled and refined oils were
burned......The Meridian Street National
Bank at Indianapolis, Ind, was mysteri-
ously robbed on Saturday, during bank
hours, of about $25, OO0.... From April "a,
the time the convention news began to be
transmitted, to the night of Nav 8, the to-
tai special and regular reports transmitted
from Cincinnati by the Western Union
Telegraph were 81 ,511 words.A man
named George Wright was shot by Lizzie
Gardner in house of ill-fame in Detroit.
Mich, Saturday night.
A DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich, gives the
particulars Of a disaster which befelI the
Leland Iron Furnace, situated at Leland.
in tie Grand Traverse region, on MAY l.
1t seems that from some cause or other an
explosion took place, which set the furnace
on ire, and it was totally destroyed 1.-The
loss is estimated at about 500, 900. Some
workmen in the furnace were seriously in
Jured ION Friday night, ten frame dwell
ing houses, stone store and dwelling,
church and many barns and other out
houses were burned at Grand Rapids, Mich.
over hundred persons were rendered
homeless. Five horses persisted in the
flames. Total loss $40, GOO.
The South.
OK Monday afternoon, about 2 O'Clock.
hVe men, mounted, dashed into the town of
Columbia, Adair county, KY, and stopped
and dismounted at the Deposit Bank. Two
WIN pistols in their hands held the horses,
and three with revolvers entered the bank
ohe OF the scound1els shot the cashier dead
ana the party pillaged the bank of all the