Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-25
NEWS SUMMARY.



inflicted by ball, or balls, from a pistol r
the hands of Edward S. Stokes DISCHARGE
Dy MN IN deliberate manner at the person
OF said Fisk, at the Grand Central Hotel. /,
....A railroad war has broken out in Hemp.
stead, l.. l. The Brooklyn Trust Company
1oreclosed the mortgage the Hampstead
Branch railroad, in behalf of the bond
holders, who had not received overdue cou-
pons. Disputes as to who should have pos
session of the trains resulted in the wound
ing of several persons...... VIM. lotion II
years of age, was accidentally killed, at New
York on Tuesday, by barber named Wal
den...... Charles J. Perry, ex-Mayor OF
Hoboken, shot himself in the head on Mon
day afternoon, inficting a mortal wound.
Dependency is supposed to be the cause
A BILL has passed both Houses of the New
York Legislature providing for the payment
of the Indebtedness of the city of New York
falling due this month. 1t authorizes the
raising Of $e,500, 00O......It is rumored that
zen. Mcclellan will be the successor of Fisk
as Vlce-President of the Erie Company
The father of James Fisk has gone crazy
from the assassination of his SON.
The Nail Manufacturing Convention, at
Philadelphia, has advanced rates to $475
per keg for ten-penny nails. The brigatine
Phebe Ellen was eapsized and dismasted off
the coast of Nova Scotia on tbe etb ;rst
selves to the wreck, which on Monday struck
ledge. Captain Dill was drowned in the
surf while attempting to get ashore. Three
OF the crew when taken from the wreck
w were frozen to death. The mate and two
men were rescued..... Stokes was visited in
PRISON on thursday by his father. The in
terview lasted two hours, and was yerv
affecting,....An Albany letter states that
Iweed has notified his friends that he is not
gong to claim his seat in the New York
Senate......The New York Yacht Cluh is
making preparations for cruise to Russia
next summer, by invitation of the Grand
Duke.
HE Delaware and Lackawanna railway has
been indicted by the Grand Jury at Pater-
son, N j., for killing fireman and engi-
neer by collision of trains Also for oh
structing the highways by allowing trains to
remain at railroad crossings. ..Jas Hunter.
nquor dealer, fatally shot Mary Brown, his
mistress, at his store on Fulton street Brook
lyn, on Friday. Hunter was arrested "a. The
grand jury has found an indictment against
stokes for wllful murder. Alexander Del
mars paper, The City Of Brooklyn, brings to
Hgnt an alleged extraordinary financial
transaction affecting the LIVERPOOL London
and Globe Insurance Company It charges
that through financial manipulation the
managers have pledged $4,000, 600 of assets
In trust to secure to themselves $500 900 per
annum forever inviolate and that the for
mer immense sum is falsely advertised
among the company's assets The article
creates sensation in Eastern insurance cir
cles. VI
TArLoR's oil refinery at Wyoming, NY
was destroyed by fire Sunday morning.
Loss, $4,000; no insurance.An upsuc
cessful attempt was made on Friday nipbt
to rob the Great Falls i ational Bank at Bos-
ton..:..Ihe amount of defalcation in the
Rhode Island National Bank is about
$22O,06O. The amount recoverable NAV ner
haps reach 500, O00......A tenement bonsa
was partially burned in Boston on Sunday.
and Mrs. Neelan, one of the OCCUPANTS
smothered to death. Nine others were rem
oered insenslbIe by smoke, but recovered |
IA ire at New York on Sunday morning |
destroyed two saw and planning mills. var |
nlsn factory, and an immense quantity of |
lumber. The principal losers are: Pbvnb |
Arffy, $4,000; PATTERSON & Co, $25 900 =: |
VIM. F. Blodgett, $4,000; w. II SAGE Z |
Co, $3.50, OOO..Th oil cloth factory @ # c |
NJ. Baiiy, at Winthrop, Mass, burned on /
Sunday. Loss, $4,000.
Postmaster SMITH n. JAMES, of Lon o Island |
set trap on Wednesday night for burglars. |
but forgetting the gun, went to the office for
a package, and was shot, diving the next
morning. ....Joseph L. Steele, a negro. has
been arrested at Jamaica, L. l. for pa rtialIv |
roasting his wife a red hot stove. By |
The burning OF a dwelling at Bradford, Ont, |
lOSL,-2
named Tenier, her two children, niece and |
a man who boarded in the house. Mrs
Wood, wife of the manager of the Museum |
but better known Eliza Logan. once a |
famous actress, died suddenly in New York |
on Monday morning of congestion of the |
heart. Wy
The West.
The semi-annual report of the Illinois |
Central Railroad Company, Just issued |
shows the gross earnings of that road. for
the six months ending October 3Ist. 1871. TO |
have been S3,595,540, seven per cent of
which, or s2sl, $3.50, has been paid into the |
state treasury IN pursuance of law Ex |
Governor Matteson, of Illinois. who bed |
three ribs broken, few days ago, by being
thrown from cutter, is improving rapidly
...Flelshman Co.'s distfllery, at River
SIDE, Just outside of the Cincinnati city
limits, burned Tuesday evening. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $50 900. On TUESDAY
morning Delos Burtch, employed in saving
wood for the Sheboygan railroad at Fond dSS
Lac, Wis, fell against circular saw. cuttino
ms rignt leg on IN two places, and splitting
ms night arm from the wrist to the shoulder
He was taken home and died in two hours
after his wounds were dressed m The dwell
ing and tannery of M. D. Gardner, of Moh;-
canviile, Ohio, valued at $4,000, was en-
tlrely destroyed by fire on Tuesday NIGHT.
supposed to be the work of an incendierv.
insured for S9,000......A joint Republican |
caucus of the Iowa Legislature on Wednes-
day evening nominated Hon. VIM B. Allison
for United States Senator, by majority of
twenty three votes over Harlan
TIE Pacific House at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was partially destroyed by fire on Thursday
night. Loss $4,000; covered by insurance
"A well executed counterfeit 500 bill Oh the
Ohio National Bank of Cincinnati is circu-
lating in Cincinnati. Three highway rob
bers, named Peter stoff, Olifson ToIifson
and Andrew johnson, escaped from the JEFF
ferson County wis., Jail on Wednesday bv
saving through the roof. The Lower
House OF the Illinois Legislature on Thurs
day passed stringent temperance hill bv
vote of 100 to 49,. The bill provides that no
person shall be granted license to sell in
toxicating liquors without first giving bond
IN the sum OF $500 TO pay all damages re- {