Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

MICHAEL HAYES was arrested IN New
York or Tuesday for a murder committed in
a Roosevelt street bar-room row, fifteen
years ago. Somebody then in the District
Attorneys Office took $4,000 and pigeon
holed the Indictment, and the assassin fled.
.....At Pittsburgh, on Tuesday, little son
of John Scott, aged about four years, struck
his brother, aged fourteen months, on the
head with a poker, killing him.....A fire at
Port Leyden, N. Y, on Monday night, de-
stroyed Sylvester & Riggs block. Loss
S26 900; insurance $21 900. 49,. The New York
World says Jay Gould netted a profit of
So ,240 900 in the rise of Erie stock on Tues
day.. Elias Magnin, of New York, has re-
covered $244 ia in suit against the Adams
Express Company, for the value of a box of
watches shipped to Memphis, Tenn, in
1868, and lost.
THE Executive Committee of the Centen-
NAL Commission met in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, and elected Hon. Daniel Nor
rell permanent chairman......T The excite
ment in the New York Stock Exchange on
Wednesday eclipsed that of any previous
time since Black Friday. Four hundred
thousand shares changed hands. The stock
fell from 20 to SIS.
ALEX. REAvEY,a New York lawyer, has
been committed in default of bail in $4,000,
on charge of forgery, in obtaining the sig
nature of lady to sheet of blank paper
and filling the page so as to obtain her
property. The family of Col. c. ]. Jack, a
lawyer of Br ooklyn, N. Y, were asphyxi-
ated on Wednesday night by the fumes of
coal from defective furnace. Miss Nor
ton, visitor, was found dead. The remain
der of the family, eleven in number. will
probably recover.....J John Quinlan has been
awarded $4,000 damages from the Sixth
Avenue Railroad Company, New York, for
injuries received from collision of horse
car with a runaway team. No negligence
on the part of the company was shown.
THE steamship City of Galveston took fire
while lying at her dock in New York On
Thursday. The vessel and cargo was dam
aged to the amount of $30,000.....A bill
passed both houses of the Pennsylvania
Legislature on Friday consolidating the
boreughs on the south lie of the Mononga-
hela river with the city # Pittsburgh......
Weikel & Smiths spice mills, at Philadel-
phia, were burned on Friday night. Loss
$S5 900; insurance $40 ,000..... Pearson Broth
ers & Co.'s rope works, at Boston, were de-
stroyed by fire on Wednesday. Loss $4,000 !;
fully insured.
ONE thousand six hundred and eighty-six
immigrants arrived at New York on Thurs
day......On Thursday afternoon, diver at
New York, named George Leaman, 40 years
of age, one of the most expert divers in the
country, lost his life while following his
ayocation. He was operating on a wreck,
ard having been down longer than usual
without giving the signal to haul up, the
attendants became alarmed and he was
drawn up. 1t was then found that his
breathing tube had burst, and he was dead
before reaching the surface.
The dwelling house of John Givenan, in
Rockaway, N. j., was destroyed by fire on
Sunday, and his wife and three children
persisted in the flames Charles Volmann
died in Hoboken, n. j., on Sunday, from the
effects of bleeding produced by the extrac-
ton of five teeth on the Tuesday previous.
......Cary, Nash & Ogden's paper mill, and
George 0. Morris's Touring mill at Port Dick
inson, n. Y, burned on Saturday night:
Loss $4,000; insured for $21 ,000.....The coal
oil works of ]. L. Stuart, at Schuylkill, Pa,
were burned on Monday. Loss $4,000 /;
insured for $4,000.
The West.
WoLF's brewery, saloon, and two dwell
ling houses were destroyed by fire in Still
water, Mimi, on Monday night Two men
the barkeeper in the saloon and laborer in
the brewery, whose names are not given
persisted in the flames. Two others barely
escaped. The loss is about $4,000 partially
covered by insurance.
The Republican State Conventions of Ohio
and Iowa were held at Columbus and Des
Moines on Wednesday. Both conventions
adopted resolutions favoring the renomina-
ton of Grant, but differing in their choice
for Vice-President-Oh putting forward
Ex-Gov. Dennison, and Iowa preferring
James F. Wilson 1.-THE Los Angeles anti
Chinese rioters have all been convicted o.
manslaughter......The lottery advertised in
the East for the benefit of a charity hospita
in San Francisco is, says dispatch from
that city, fraud. There is no such institu
ton or lottery there......The Annual Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church o
Northern Indiana met at Muncie on Wednes
day. new feature of the present Confer
ence will be the introduction of $50 lay dele
gates......At Milwaukee on Wednesday after
noon, girl named Mary Rudinski, eigh
years of age, was startled by passing team
and sprang into the Phoenix mill, where sh,
fell and instantly expired. She was fright
ened to death.
Two young men named George Barber anc
Michael McGarry got into dispute about
dog, at Middlebury, O., on Thursday morn
ing, when Barber shot and instantly kille,
McGarry.
MAJ. GEN. HANCOCK, commanding the De
partment of Dakota, has addressed lette
to the Sioux City (Iowa) Times, for publica
tion, announcing that, as the Black Hills re
gion is an Indian reservation, he will pre-
vent, by the use of troops, if necessary, an,
prospecting parties from entering it. Il,
adds that an official letter from Gen. Stanley
in command in that region, says that L,
gold has been found in the Black Hills.
August Smith, a lad of fourteen, was rul
over and killed by street-car in Chicag
on Friday evening.....A German named
John Vogel committed suicide in Milwaukee
on Friday, by hanging himself in a wood
shed. He was fifty-fve years old, and leave
a wife and two children .....A huge engine
weighing forty tons, while making her fir1
trip on the Pan Handle railroad, on Friday
broke down the trestle bridge a few mile
from Steubenville, O., wrecking the eHgin
and injuring the fireman seriously, also tn
engineer Paul Zimmerman, an old resi-
dent of GAINESVILLE, Wis, committed suicid
on Thursday night by hanging. He had in
vested all his funds in 5000 bushels of tur
nips, and hung himself because they frozs
A HEAVY rain storm passed over st. Loui
about O'Clock on Saturday night Durin