Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-13

toned at Leavenwerth, Kansas, was foully
murdered in that city, by some unknown
parties, on the ri ght of the 31st ult.
THE vicinity of Springfield H., was visited
by an unprecedented rainfall on the night
of the I'd inst, doing a vast amount OF
damage.....A terrible thunder storm, &C.
companied by rain and wind, passed over
| Terre Haute, Ind, last week, doing immense
! damage. The Office of the Gazette was un-
| rooted .....1t is announced that the muir
derers of Hon. Sharon Tyndale, at Spring
field, ILL.,, have been discovered, after u years
ceaseless search by shrewd detectives
| Charles Cunning and James Kennedy, at
present serving out sentences in the peni-
Tertiary, are said to be the guilty parties.
......Joel T. Griffin, Postmaster at Omaha
Neb., has plead guilty to the charge of appro-
| prating to his private use mail bags belong
ing to the postal service...... Auburn, H.,
was visited by destructive fire on the 31st
ult. Loss about $4,000. No insurance.
A LARGE portion of the village of South
Scion, Madison county, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire on June 1. Loss, $40 200; partially
insured. ..... On the 22d of May the Apaches
murdered Theodore Pritz, herder, almost
within sight of Prescott, and ran off with
200 sheep. Pritz formerly reported for the
press of st. Lonis. His body was horribly
multi ated .. Hon. Ben. J. Stanton, a promi-
nent politician and formerly Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, and for eight years a
member of Congress, died at Wheeling, W.
Va, on Monday, June 8, aged 63......h dis
patch from Gen. Howard to the Secretary of
War states that at council held with the
Mexicans, Poppagoes, Pimos, and Apaehes,
in Arizona, peace has been agreed upon,
the Indians agreeing to stop further raids
and aid Gen. Crook in capturing incorrgible
Indians. Gen. Howard says that success
now appears sure......A most daring and sue
cessful burglary was committed in Chicago
on the night of Saturday, June l, the store
of G. A. Morse, 223 West Madison street,
having been robbed of iewelry and silver
plate to the value of $25 900. The store was
completely Quilted of everything except the
clocks. Strange to say, the burglary was
not discovered till Monday morning. No
clue to the perpetrators had been discovered
at last accounts.
The South.
AT St. Louis, on the night of the 2sth ult.,
three negroes got into fight at dsreputa-
BILE dance house, resulting in the killing of
one and the serious wounding of two others.
THE Southern portion of Louisiana was
visited by severe tornado on the 9th ult.,
doing much damage to the growing crops,
and destroying considerable property......A
terrible tornado passed over NJ organ county,
NO., last week, playing havoc with barns,
orchards, fences, ETC., besides involving a
sad loss of life. Jacob Blosser and child
were killed, and some twenty persons more
or less in ured. The wind was accompanied
by one of the most terrific and destructive
transforms ever witnessed in that region.
Hon. JOHN GILL SHORTER, prominent pol
itician and former Governor of Alabama,
died in Evfala, Ala, on the 29th ult.... Thos
j. Hill, young lowyer of Forest City, Ark,
was shot and instantly killed by VIM.
Schan, deputy marshal, who was attempt
ing to arrest him, on the goth ult...... On the
29th ult., John Branham, living in Owen
county, KY, split his wife's head open with
an axe, killing her instantly. The murderer
is in jail.
Mss ELIZABETH H. PATTERSON, of Louis
vile, Ky. has instituted suit against the pro-
prietors of the United States Hotel, in that
city, for $50 900 for alleged Islander. The
porter of the hotel told the proprietors he
saw men going into Miss Patterson's room
at unreasonable hours, and they refused TO
allow her to remain in the house. She was
also discharged from a lucrative position on
account of these damaging reports
......Accounts of the freshet few
days ago; in Southwest Missouri, say that
whole farms were completely washed away.
leaving nothing but rock and gravel. Live
stock of all kinds were drowned in large
numbers, and hundreds of yards OF the At
lantic and Pacific railroad track were
swept from its bed int adjacent fields. A
wall of water five feet high rolled down
Spring River Valley, leaving only devasta-
ton and ruin behind.......John Branham,
who murdered his wife at Owenton, KY,
by splitting her head open with an axe, was
taken from the Gwen county Jail by mob,
on the night of the goth ult., and hung to
the limb of tree.
GEORGE F. CLARK, attached to Noyes' cir
Gus, in making an ascension in balloon, at
Memphis, on the 31st ult., struck against the
Jockson block, when the ropes supporting
the trapeze on which he was seated parted,
letting him fall to the ground, distance of
so feet, cutting and bruising him in hor-
rible manner. Little or no hopes of his re-
covery are entertained. His parents reside
at Columbus, o.