Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Roanoke, Ind, on Monday night, from ex-
cess;ve indulgence ia drinking. He
was a married man, about As years old, and
leaves several small children Hon. Thos
NJ. Brown, distinguished attorney of New
Albany, Ind, while returning home from
his Office in that city, on Monday evening,
suddenly fell on the pavement and expired
almost Immediately. ....A freight train on
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad was thrown from the track by
broken rail near Clyde, Ohio, on Monday
morning, and twenty cars were wrecked. A
section man, standing near the track, was
struck by the cars as they left the track, and
killed.....L. Carper, Esq, Division Superin-
tendent of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railway, was killed in railway ac-
cident near Burlington, Iowa, on Tuesday
afternoon. No others injured. The acct
dent was caused by the engine of the freight
train running off bridge on account of the
rails being taken up for repairs. The en-
gineer and fireman saved their lives by
jumping off.
In the New York Legislature on Wednes-
day statement was made by two speakers
mat members from the rural districts were
selling their votes at $40 per head. No ac-
ton was taken...... Patrick ]. Bannon has
been sentenced to pay fine os $500 and one
matter through the New York Postofice......
The carpet-yarn mill of the Wilton Manu-
featuring Company, of Wilton, N. H, was
burned on Wednesday. Loss, $500; partly
in ;ured.
AN Eastern bound express train on the
New York Central railroad was thrownfrom
the track on Wednesday, about six miles
east of Buffalo, and fourteen persons were
injured, but none seriously ..... On Thursday
Michael Mccoy, conductor on the Con-
nelsville railooad, Pa, while attempting to
Jump from one car to another, missed his
footing, was precipitated to the track and
cut in two pieces 49,. The wooden mill of j.
D. Nichols & Son, in Burrillville, L. l., was
burned on Wednesday. Loss 100000.
John Harrison, Jersey City carpenter, IN
able to obtain employ in Chicago, ar
rived home on Wednesday, nearly frozen to
death, having concealed himself in a grain
car and having been six days and nights
without food or drink. Andrew j. Carney,
the ring" plasterer, of New York, who has
been missing for some months, appeared on
Thursday as q witness in the trial of Mayor
Hail. Startling development is are ex
pected.
In the trial of Mayor Hall at New York
on Friday, Garvey testified that of a fraudu
lent bill of $S66,OO0 he only received thirty
FIVE per cent. The remainder was distribu-
ted as follows: To Tweed, $4,000; to the
Americas Club, 500 zoo; to Woodward, clerk
of the Board of Supervisors, $4,000; and
smaller amounts to several other parties.
His turning States evidence so endangers
the safety Of Tweed, Connolly, Sweeney and
the rest it is believed they will all flee from
the city..... George A. Purdy, at Newburg, on
Thursday, during fit of insanity, attempt
ed to kill his mother and two sisters, MAIN
ing them with fre-shovel, and cutting
them with a razor. He was finally secured
by the nighbors, end sent to the hospital......
The house of Captain Bryant, at Machias-
port, Me-, was burned on Thursday morning.
Captain Bryant, together with his wife and
two grand daughters, persisted in the fire.
Mrs JANE MADDEN at New York on Satur
day recovered $4,000 against the Staten
Island Ferry Company for the death of her
husband BY the Westfeld explosion. In
the harbormaster's investigation at New
York on Saturday one of the witnesses stated
that he would give $4,000 for the privileges
enjoyed by one of the harbormasters, of
whom there are eleven in the city.
AT meeting of the Directors of the Erie
railway at New York on Monday, Gen. Dix
was elected President and Gen. Mcclellan
Vice President of the road. Eight new d.
rectors were also chosen, thus completely
routing Gould and the remainder of the
thieves...... Carlo Vogt has been arrested at
Philadelphia, charged with numbering
Chevalier Dubois de Bianco, in Brussels, last
October, setting fire to his house and stealing
securities valued at 10000. A portion of
the stolen property was found on Vogt.....
The fine residence of Mr.. D. J. Reekie, at
Montreal, was burned on Saturday night.
Loss $50 900 "A farmers child near Bid
deford, Me-, last week died Of cold and
starvation while its parents were away
drunk, and famished hound horribly mutt
lated the corpse.
The West.
THE steamers Altoona, Kate Robinson, St.
Charles, Argosy, Maj. Anderson, and Cham
pion were burned at Cincinnati early on
Thursday morning. Loss, S25O,O0O....
Johnny Devino, alias the Chicken" has
been convicted Of murder and sentenced to
be hanged at San Francisco on April 26......
At Detroit, Mich, colored man named
Ferguson, his son, and Mary Morvan were
so badly burned they cannot live. They
started the fire with kerosene......The North
Pacific railway was on Wednesday opened
to BED River for business. A fsticuf fight
occurred on the floor of tho House of the
Missouri Legislature on Tuesday, between
H. J. Latschaw, member from Kansas City,
and Sergeant-at-Arms Grafton, but neither
party was hurt......Part of the La Grange
County Infrmary, at La Grange, Ind, was
burnt on Wednesday. One of the inmates,
whom it was necessary to keep in close CON
fnement, was burned to a crisp. He was a
middle-aged man, named Abraham Ma
gundy.
TIE saw and Touring mills of Ralph Wad-
hams, on Black river, near Port Huron,
Mich, were entirely destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. Loss $4,000; insured for
$4,000. The Calumet feeder dam has been
for many years bone of contention be-
tween the States of Indiana and Illinois.
The turning of Lake Michigan into the
Chicago river makes the dam unnecessary
as a feeder for the Illinois canal, and Gov.
Baker, of Indiana, has appointed Commits
sioners to call the attention Of the Legisla-
ture of Illinois to the matter. The interests
of large portion of Northwestern Indiana
will be subserved by the removal of the
dam, and it will facilitate the draining of a
large bodyof now wet lands that would be
the most salable in the State if they were
drained.
CAPTAIN BRENNAN and four sailors, of the
schooner Minnie Bell, were drowned lately