Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-07

Instructions have been issued by the Chief
Signal Officer of the Army, to all observers
at stations upon Western rivers, to make
special reports by telegraph Of any sudden
or unusual change in the rivers. This will
enable steamboat men to take precautions
against loss of property by tie breaking up
of ice.
CHAs. D. SMITH, the gift enterprise swind.
Ter, who was arrested at Milwaukee on
for parts unknown......After nearly three
months partial or entire suspension Of navi-
cation from ST. Louis south, the ice-eorges
broke up and ran out on Friday, and the
river is now open to all Southern peints......
The famous Flagstaff mine, at Little Cotton
wood, Utah, has been sold, with the Bucl
furnaces, for 81 500, 000..... The brig Lawler
has sailed from San Francisco for the Cocos
Islands with pirate treasure seeking expe-
dition. Extensive mines of copper, coal,
and marble are reported to have been dis
covered near Los Angeles, Cal. A gambler
named Bob Smith assaulted ]. Nichols, city
editor of the Indianapolis EUening Journal,
on Friday afternoon, for noticing his arrest
in gambling den. Smith shot at Nichols,
the ball passing through his coat, where
upon Nichols knocked him down, and was
giving him sound thrashing, when the po-
lice interfered and lodged Smith in jail, his
bail being placed at heavy amount. The
gambler says he intended to kill the report
er....On Friday, a passenger train on the
Central road, when near Cedar Fails, Iowa,
struck and instantly killed man named
Jno. 0'Brien, who was lying on the track
intoxicated. He was about so years OF age,
and unmarried.
EIGHT freight cars, belonging to the In
dianapolis railroad, with their contents,
principally dry goods, were burned on the
track at East St. Louis early Saturday morn
ing. Loss about $25, 00O...... The covered
bridge on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and st.
Louis railroad, near Cambridge, Ind, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday night The
bridge was about 800 feet long......The ice in
the Missouri river has broken up at Fort
Benton, and the water is rapidly rising......
At Fort Madison, Iowa, on Friday, Frank,
son of James Layton, a well-known citizen
hanged himself in his fathers barn, with the
reins of a bride. He was bright and in
telleetual boy, and highly esteemed by ali
of his associates. No cause can be given for
the sudden attack of insanity.
THE japanese Embassy arrived at Chicago
on Monday, and left for Washington on
A. Badger, for many years the clerk of the
in the river in that city on Monday. Mr..
Badger had been missing for about six
weeks. 1t is supposed that he committed
suicide. The steamers J. R. Lockwood and
Silver Bow, lying at the Red River wharf
boat at st. Louis, were crushed and totally
wrecked on Monday night by an immense
field of ice from the gorge in the Missouri
river. The wharf-boat and the steamer
Minnie were also somewhat damaged. Loss
$4,000; insurance $4O,OO0......The men ar
rested recently at Van Vert, O., have been
fully identified as Scott and Charest, the
Windsor Locks Comm murderers......A Salt
Lake dispatch of Monday says: Snow fell
yesterday again and blockaded the Union
Pacific railroad. Western bound trains were
seventeen hours late. The storm is likely
to close communication for some time as the
cuts are walled with drifts of the last snow,
and must be removed by hand. A man
shot himself at the National Hotel, wauke-
sha, Wis, on Sunday night. A letter found
on his person, signed "0skar Hamlet" gives
as the reason for taking his life disappoint-
ment in love......At McIntosh's Camp, on
the St. Joe and Denver railroad, near Fair
bury, Kansas, two or three days ago, des-
perado called Kentucky Jack shot and killed
two men, one of them McIn tosh's clerk, the
other his cook. The inmates of the camp
tied the murderer to a stake, and were about
burning him alive, when he was rescued by
the authorities.
The report of the Kansas Bribery Inves-
tigat!ng Committee hardly bears out the
statement that the President of the Kansas
Pacific railroad offered to pay $50 900 for
CaldwelPs election. Caldwell demanded
that amount, but only got $4,000. He
claimed that such promise was made,
which was denied by the President of the
road......Edward B. Bingham, Post Assistant
Surgeon, United States Navy, a native of
Philadelphia, who served in the North At
lantic squadron and on the James river dur
ing the war, died instantly, of paralysis of
the heart, at Oakland, Cal, on Monday.
On Tuesday morning, boiler il the brewery
of Philip Best i Co., Milwaukee, Wis, ex-
ploded with terrific force, demolishing the
engine house, carrying away large portion
of the side wall of the main building, and
wrecking machinery and brewery fixtures.
The root of the main building was lifted
and crushed in several places. 0ne-half of
the shell of the exploded boiler was thrown
into yard on First avenue, upward of
block distant from the brewery. Fortu-
nately no person was inj ured. Loss about
10000. Before leaving Chicago the ia
panese Embassy donated S. ,o0e to the relief
fund.
The South.
A WOMAN named Mcaanus, while walking
on a platform at a blast furnace, in Ben
wood, near Wheeling, W. Va, stepped on
loose board and fell to the ground, a distance
of Is feet. She was carrying her little boy
in her arms at the time the accident oc-
CURED. The woman died soon after. The
boy had leg badly fractured. 1890 The suit of
Fred. Breitzman against the st. Louis Packet
Company for false imprisonment and mali
cious prosecution in 1869, was decided in the
First Circuit Court at Memphis OF Tuesday,
by awarding Breitzman $4,000.
A "a ST train going west on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, while running at high
rate of speed, on Wednesday morning, ran
into heavy fall of rock, sixty miles east
of Parkersburg, Va. The engine and bag
gage car were hurled down an embank-
ment, and several passenger cars were
thrown from the track. J. D. Dorsey, the
engineer, was instantly killed, and the fire.
mar severely injured. The passengers es.
caped with slight injuries.
The Alabama Legislature has passed a
bill to provide sinking fund for the re-
demption of the liabilities of the state......
]. H. Hackett, the confidential clerk of H.
G. Il D. NJ. Lowenstine's dry goods estab-
llshment, Memphis, Tenn, was arrested on