Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

morning killed his roommate, Michael
Trim Dur, by striking him on the head with
an iron plate.
mittee met in New York, Wednesday after
noon, at the residence of August Belmont
Eight States were represented: California,
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Baltimore was selected as the place, and
the 9th of July as the time, for holding the
National Democratic Convention. .Jud ge
Pierrepont declines to undertake the de-
tense of Stokes in place of Grab AMI as.
Smith shot Eliza Brown fatally in Green
street New York; bagnio Wednesday, and
was arrested.
TIE warehouse of Samuel L. Tompkins,
No. Y West street, New York, filled with
cotton, was destroyed by fire on Thursday.
About $50 bales of cotton were burned.
Loss on building and contents 1922 ,OOO......
William Tsggart, of Paterson, N. j., COM
mitted suicide Wednesday, by leaping into
the Passaic Falls. He is supposed to have
been insane...... Fires in Ocean county, N.
j., last week, burned over $4,000 acres of
township at 100000. Several farm-houses,
barns, and sawmills were destroved......
Thursday morning at Verona, Pa, on the
Allegheny Valley railroad, eleven cars
loaded with oil took fire and were entirely
destroyed...... While the buildings on the
corner of Wall and Broad streets, New York,
were in course of demolition Thursday even
ing, work being done by night to hasten it,
a portion of the wall gave way, burying
Thomas johnson, Martin Cox, and Daniel
Leary in the ruins. All were badly in
i11rad Tohp CON will rroha hIv die
THE body of man was found in the
East river, New York, Friday, with his
hands and feet strapped together. 1t is
supposed that the man was murdered. His
remains were unrecognized. Mrs. Abbie
Christian was thrown from car and in
stantly killed, Friday afternoon, while on
her way to Calvary Cemetery, New York, to
visit her husbands Engineer Jas
Wood ran a special train from Roc hester te
Syracuse, n. T., on Friday, distance OF
eighty-one miles, in eighty-two minutes.
Emma Couch has been held to bail in the
sum of $1,000 for blackmailing Rev. DR.
Carter, at New York.
SATURDAY morning while party Of engi-
neers were examining the disused gangway
of Pine Ridge colliery, two miles from
Wilkesbarre, Pa, an explosion of fre-danp
took place. Thomas Morgan, David Morgan
and Evan Davis were killed, and another
badly hurt, but will recover.......The Equal
Rights Convention, at New York, after vol
umes of persifage, on Saturday voted to
enter the canvass with the goddess of liberty
on their banner, and authorize $4,000 in
bonds to elect Victoria Woodruff to the
Presidency. The lead works of Fahne-
stock, Hazlett Swartz, on Liberty street,
Pitts burg, Pa, took fire at o'clock, Sunday
afternoon, and were entirely destroyed, to-
gether with dwelling adjoining. Fahne-
stocks loss is very large, and will probably
reach $5000e0; insurance $50 900 IT.
Buchanan Reid, the poet, died at the Astor
House, New York, on Saturday Reports
from Chester, Ulster county, n. Y, say that
the mountain fires there are three miles in
length. The united efforts of $50 mon alone
saved the village of Chichester.
A FIRE at Williamsburg, n. Y, Monday
evening, destroyed sixteen houses, and rem
dered 1872 families homeless. No lives were
lost. The dwellings were worth $50, O0O......
The Grand Trunk railway bridge, at South
Paris, Ne, burned Monday morning, having
caught fire from embers dropped py the en-
gine..... Richard Keefe, Dennis Shea, Geo.
Briggs and Thomas Franklin were capsized
in a sail-boat off Erie, Pa, on Sunday
night. Franklin got an oar and
padded the boat ashore with one of
the others on it, who died soon after
The others drifted off and their bodies have
not been recovered..-..The propeller Chi
cago, of Chicago, laden with -four and gen.
eral merchandise, sunk about twenty miles
from Buffalo, N. Y, on Monday. The crew
were saved.. The body of a man named
Ward, clerk in A. T. Stewards, New York,
who disappeared on March l, has been
found in North river. Ward had evidently
been murdered and robbed.
The West.
Ok Tuesday, about two miles east of Ross
Station, Mich, a man named P. Reynolds
murdered his wife and tried to kill his step
son. The boy was cut and bruised badly,
and is not expected to live. Reynolds after
ward committed suicide with razor.......
Arizona dispatches say the Apaches are
swarming about Prescott. B. White was
murdered in Williamson's valley. The In
dams attached Aqua Fria Station, and
killed G. ". Smith and Joseph Akerman,
both well-known citizens of Prescott, and
captured all the stock. The bodies of the
N murdered men were stripped and disfgured.
The station has been abandoned. The body
of Osborne P. Clarke, from Texas, was
found one mile north of Mint valley, shot
in the head and breast. ]. Gallagher was
seriously wounded by the Indians at
Beaver creek...T The Marvin House and
a large livery stable at Sedalia, Mo-, were
burned yesterday. Loss from $4,000 to
$4,000.
GEORGE TATEHAH, one-armed gambler,
was shot in the body by Charles Chamber
lain, fellow of the same kidney, at about
O'Clock on Wednesday afternoon, on State
street, Chicago......A fire at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Wednesday morning, destroyed
Squire's Opera House building and an ad
joining mill, with their contents. The to-
tai loss is about $4,000.
IRA REED, of Salt Lake, Utah, was struck
by lightning on Thursday evening while
standing in the door of his dwelling, and
instantly killed...On Thursday morning,
a young man about twenty-one, named
Lewis M. Leyden, an employe in the wooden
mills at New Albany, Ind, got his left arm
caught between loose belt and a revolving
shaft, and his arm was torn from the shout
der, making sickening spectacle. He will
probably not recover.
A FIRE at Chicago on Friday evening de-
stroyed the three-story frame planning mill
and sash and door factory of F. J. Rowell &
Son. Loss about $2O,OOOMr. Joshua
Dye, of Arlington, Ind, was almost instant
~ killed at Richmond, Ind, by being
knocked down in drunken fight at Ben
nets livery stable, Friday afternoon, by a
colored hostler named Sol. Davis, who was
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