Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

10 The LAST.
EMANEUL SHAFFNER, of Morrisburg, Pa, who
has been tried for the murder of his first and
second wives and John Sherlock, by poison.
ing, has been convicted of murder in the
first degree. The packing room of the
Meriden Mslleable Iron Works, at Meriden
Conn.,, was burned on Monday evening
Loss $50,000......At Greenbush, N. Y, on
Tuesday, Samuel Fargue shot his wife dead
fred at his daughter without effect, and cut
his own throat with jagged, rusty, jack
dence has been given before the New York
Senate Committee that $5,000,000 full paid
stock of the Beach pneumatic tunnel, New
York, has been issued, mourning an indebt-
edness to that amount for no other considera-
ton than the purchase of its charter and
patents, and no part used in the construction
of the road.
TIE lumber yards of II. R. Deacons, Hun
sicker i Co. and Patterson &
Co, at Philadelphia, were damaged by
fire on Tuesday night to the amount
of 500, 900; insurance 54,0O0......A complete
change in the direction of the New York and
Mahopac railroad took place on Wednesday.
The road comes under the control of Van
derbilt. b"
A. T. STEWART has arranged for the con-
struction of 100 houses at Jamaica Plains,
L. l., this spring, at cost of $3.50, 0OO......
The number of firms in New York engaged
under false names in swindling persons by
means of lottery, counterfeit money, and
other schemes, is over five hundred. The
Post Office authorities have an alphabetical
list, and are showing increased activity in
fighting the evil. The Iron City Brewery,
of Pittsburgh, owned by Fraunheim L
Feilsch, was seized by the revenue officers
on Thursday for making false returns anu
other ofenses against the government. The
seizure embraced the entire stock, machine
ry and other personal property found on the
premises, amounting to about $4,000.
ANOTHER boat of the Staten Island Ferry
Company was seized at New York, on Fri
day, for judgment against the company.
The Sheriff will lay the boats up, or collect
the passenger fares, unless the judgments
are shortly paid......At White Plains, New
York, an attempt has been made to poison
family named Alderman, composed of
eight persons, by impregnating 8 spring
with arsenical poison......T The official report
OF the new Directors of the Erie railroad
states that the earnings of the company
from November, 1871, to date, were S21,-
100000, against SIT 100000 the year pre-
and girl named Longuard were run over and
the former instantly killed by train on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, on Friday
night. They had been sitting on the track
talking.
NEAR Springfield, Mass, on Saturday, a
train was thrown from the track by bro
ken rail. The smoking car went down an
embankment fifteen feet, and twenty per-
sons in it were more or less injured, but
probably none fatally.
The West.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has set
aside the verdict in the Medlicott case, and
ordered q new trial, mainly on the ground
that the lower Court admitted as testimony
the dying statement of Ruth, the murdered
man.....The West Hotel, at Mendon, Mich,
was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn
ing. Loss $4,000; insured for 5,000......A
young man named John Wallace was shot
and killed by a Mr.. Harvey, in Saline, Kan
sas, on Monday night. Wallace was on
spree, and made a noise before Harvey's
door, whereupon the latter shot him.. The
Secretary of War has ordered the removal of
certain distractions in the Chippewa river
at Eau Claire, Wis......G. W. Kirk, a citizen
OF Clark county, Indiana, com mitted suicide
at Jeffersonville, on Monday, by throwing
himself under a moving freight train.
Geo. W. Fishback, one of the proprietors of
the st. Louis Democrat, has commenced suit
against his partners for a dissolution of the
hrm and valuation of the property.
Christian Fribolin, German music teacher,
living at Mascontah, a short distance FROM
Belleville, ILL.,, charged with an attempt to
commit rape in October last, blew out his
brains on Saturday last, in consequence of
an intimation from his bondsnen that they
were about to deliver him up to the Sheriff.
TIE Wisconsin State Republican Conven-
ton met at Madison on Wednesday. The
delegates to the National Convention were
instructed to cast their united vote for re-
nomination of Grant......SamuelC C. Landry,
resident of Flint, Mich, employed as
brakeman on coal train, was run over On
Tuesday morning and fatally injured
David l.. Taggart was run over by train of
cars at st. Louis on Wednesday, and in
stantly kiIled......W. II. Rittenhouse, con-
ductOr of the Belleville and Sout Eern Hi
nols railroad, was run over and killed at
BelIeville. Ill, on Wednesday. His head
was horribly crushed.
PETER SMITH shot and killed Michael
schaffer, his brother-in-law, in drunken
quarrel at Gross Point, near Chicago, on
Wednesday The murderer was arrestcd......
The Calumet feeder dam of the Illinois and
Michigan canal is to be removed immedi-
ately. Thousands of acres of land now
overfowed will be reclaimed in conse-
quence......D. o. Cole, for several years Sec
rotary of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Com
pany, is discovered to be defaulter in the
sum of S25s0J0. Cole has fed, leaving his
young wife, and two children behind ...
Willie Bradley, 16 years old, was killed at
Shelbyville, Ind, on Thursday, while trying
to couple cars......The Globe Insurance Com
pany of Chicago announces its readiness to
pay all its losses in full. 1t is the first Chi
cago company to resume business since the
fire.
Mrs. ANNA C. RUTH was released on writ
of ha5eGs corpus at Lawrence, Kansas, on
Friday. The Prosecuting Attorney an
nounced that since the decision of the Su-
preme Court against the admissibility of
Rdth's letter, written the evening of his
death, as evidence, her conviction under the