Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-23

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ABOUT midnight on Saturday, William
Bowles, an engineer of the Great Eastern
railroad, was crossing the track at the corner
of Kinzie and Carpenter streets, Chicago,
when he was caught between two cars and
crushed to death instantly.
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Mumford, Of
Chicago, about 50 years of age, was murdered
at Kenosha, Wis, on Monday morning. His
skull was found broken in by heavy, bent
instrument, probably bar of iron. A young
German is the suspected party. About $3.50
in money and a watch were taken....A
fire at Wabasha, Mimi, early Monday
morning, destroyed the large elevator
of H. W. Holmes & Co. Loss about
S22, OO0...... Labor riots are occurring in the
Lake Superior mining region. Gov. Bald
win, of Michigan, has received dispatch
from the Sheriff of Houghton county asking
for two companies of troops. The Governor
has telegraphed to Washington asking tina;
detachment may be sent from Buffalo to
Lake Superior. Lake Superior men in De-
troit are inclined to believe that Sheriff Shea
is in needless state of excitement.
The South.
SPECIAL from Richmond, Va, dated May
Z, states that nothing has been heard from
Step hen Lowry or Andrew Strong since
the murder of Col. Wishart, III North Caro-
lima. The same special brings to life again
Henry Berry Lowry, chief of the Swamp
Angel" gang, who has been reported dead
for months.
Four stores were destroyed in Selma,
Ala, by fire Wednesday morning. Loss
$4,000; partially insured.
OK Saturdnv, negro in jai! at Carthage,
Tenn, charged with rape on white lady.
was taken out by five men and hung to 8
tree and afterward shot with pistols.
Washington.
A COMMITTEE of workingmen from New
York had an interview with Secretary
Boutwell, Wednesday. The Secretary re-
ceived them kindly, and agreed with the
committee that there had clearly been an
evasion of the eight-hour law, and stated to
the Chairman of the Committee that proper
action would be taken in the premises. The
committee then waited on the President.
| The President said he had instructed the
Attorney General to prepare an order fol
the immediate enforcement of the eight
| hour law on all Government works.
TIE President has written a letter fully
indorsing the Supplemental Civil-Rights
bill of Sumner, which was defeated on
Thursday, but was reintroduced again in
the Senate on Friday.....A report was in
circulation Friday that telegram was re-
ceived from London stating that there is no
promise of an arrangement between the
United States and Great Britain respecting
our claims for consequential damages, both
countries adhering to their respective posi-
tons. 1.-The President on Friday approved
of the following bills: To regulate cleo
tons in Washington and Idaho Territories
for the relief of Robert Williams, Jr., Col
lector of the Third District of Ohio; for the
relief of the purchasers of lands sol d for di :
rect taxes in insurrectionary States for re-
lief of G.. S. Baker, Mayville, Mo-. for the
reissue of certain bonds; to extend the
time of payment for their lands by persons
holding prescriptions en- public lands in
the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan, and the Territory of Dakots to
perpetuate testimony in the courts of the
United States; to change the time for the
holding of Circuit and District Courts in
the Western District of Wisconsin, at La
Crosse.
PETITIONS have reached Washington from
Minnesota and other Western States, com
planning of the heavy exactions of private
parties who have control of the bridge across
the Missouri river at Omaha, and asking the
interposition of Congress. President Graut
issued proclamation extending the provis-
ions of the act allowing consular iurisdic-
ton over the crews of vessels in American
ports to the Consuls of Sweden and Norway.
1.-THE President, it was officially an
nounced Sunday night, asked and received
the resignation of his brother-in-law, Col
lector Casey, of New Orleans, and that of
the Deputy Collector of the port.
Mr.. CAsEY's successor as Collector of Gus
toms at New Orleans will not be appointed
for several days.. The action of the House,
on Monday, in ordering all debate on the
Tariff bill finally closed at four o'clock on
Thursday, and assigning sessions for every
evening till the middle of next week, is con-
sidered as equivalent to resolution for final
adjournment......The President en- Monday
transmitted to the Senate the correspond
ence between the United States and Great
Britain relative to the Treaty of Wash
ington, accompanied by a brief message.
The message and documents were ordered
printed in confidence, and referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. There is
scarcely question that the Senate will ad-
wise the acceptance of the additional article
to the treaty.
Foreign.
IT is admitted by La Union newspaper
that the main body of the Carlists in Spain
was surprised and lost 700 men, and that
Don Carlos fled to the mountains, but denies
that he was pursued by the Government
troops The Germans are about to expend
seven million pounds sterling upon the for
tihcations at Strasbourg. .....Advices received
in London, England, by telegraph from
Australia state that heavy foods, which
caused a terrible loss of life, had occurred in
Melbourne. Four hundred persons were
drowned, and the growing crops were greatly
damaged.
OFFICIAL dispatches received at Madrid,
Spain, from the North, state that the in
surgents have disappeared from Guipuzcoa,
and only small band remains in the pro-
vince of Saragossa. Of the Carlist forces in
N aware, 429 have surrendered to the Gov
eminent troops, and the remainder have
dispersed..-..A telegram from Bombay
brings intelligence of most disastrous foods
in the southern part of British India. The
town of Vellore, in the Presidency of Mad
ras, has suffered terribly. Many of the in
habitants were drowned, to the number, it
was stated, of thousand. Fifteen thou
sand of the inhabitants of the town lost
everything they possessed, the water hav-
ing washed away their homes, and left
them perfectly destitute.