Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Began and Wilson, who committed the bold
and outrageous robbery on Mrs. Hardy, a
New York clearinghouse keeper, on the 18th
of July, have been sentenced to twenty years
each in the Penitentiary. Nettie Wilson, an
accompice, received five years.
At Cory, Pa, last week, James Donnelly
hrd his head literally severed from his shout
ders By an insane man named Nevills, whom
he was converting to an asylum. The weapon
used was an axe.
The house of John G.. Whittier, the poet, at
Amesbury, Mass, was struck by lightning re-
Gently, prostrating him to the floor. His inju-
ries were slight
James II. Ingersoll, the Tammany chair
maker, has been arrested in New York, and
held in S500,0 bail.
Two more vessels infected with yellow fever
have arrived at New York, and the Gothamites
are considerably exercised lest the disease
may spread into the city. One of the vessels
was German bark, from Jamaica. The hor-
rors of the voyage are described as fearful,
only three living souls being left on board
when she arrived at New York, all the others
having died with the fever.
The Office of Henry Ward Beecher's paper,
the Christian Union, in New York, has been
damaged by fire and water to the extent of
$4,000.
Wheeler 81. Peckham, counsel for the New
York Committee of Seventy, says that he can
collect the whole s6,OOO,OOO stolen by the
Tammany ring, despite their transfers of
property. He is also satisfied that he can
send Ingersoll to the State Prison. A strict
watch is kept over Tweeds property sales, and
every man who buys of him is told that he
risks being compelled to turn his purchase
over to the city, or pay for it again. Tweed
has baen selling property ever since his az
rest. Andrew J. Garvey, the ring plasterer.
has voluntarily offered to restore to the city
every cent that he acquired through the
frauds
The Clinton Wooden Manufacturing Com
pany's Mills IN Elmira, N. Y, have been de
stroyed by fire, involving loss of $3.50, 600.
Another horrible wife-murder has been per-
petrated in New York. One Flanagan, in a fit
of insanity, stabbed his wife seven times with
butcher-knifs, and then kicked her face out
of all human resemblance.
The Pittsburgh workingmen have been hold
ing meeting to protest against the introduc-
ton of the . Heather Chinee'' into the labor
market of the Smoky City.
Commodore Macomb, of the navy, died at
Philadelphia last week
The trial Of Judge Barnard has resulted In
his conviction on nearly all the charges
brought against him.
There were last week six ships with yellow
fever on board at anchor in New York Bay.
Stokes, the slayer of Fisk, occupies hand
semely carpeted and papered cell in the New
York Tombs, and is provided with fare equal
to that of any frst-class hotel.
DR.. Maynard, official apothecary of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, died, recently, from the
effects of dose of tincture of anconite. taken
IL mistake for ginger.
Two young women have been drowned at
Long Branch, while bathing.
Two bold hlghwaymen entered the Office of
Blees d Co., at New York, while a party of
employees were being paid off, and, pointing
revolvers at the workmen, coolly seized and
walked off with large roll eff money, making
good their escape.
H.,
other day, while bathing
A wealthy widow belonging to Chicago, who
recently arrived at New York from Europe. has
mysteriously disappeared, and foul play is
suspected.
Two hundred feet of street causewav in
Jersey City recently sunk. Loss 5000, 900.
The West.
The Indians have been making raid into
San Peto county. Utah. The settlers turned
out, had fight with the redskins, and drove
them INTO the mountains
Rich lead mines have been discovered in
Butler county, Kansas.
The total number of deaths in Chicago for
the week ending Aug. IA reached AT, an in
crease of IS over the preceding week The
principal causes of death were Accidental.
IL cholera infantu1l, Isl; consumption, Is !;
commissions, 30; diarrhea, 20, typhoid fever,
"a. Two-thirds of the deaths we're children
under two years of age.
John h. Bradley, an old and hon ored citi-
zen of Indianapolis, Ind, is dead,
Peshtigo, Wis, has been visited by the
most terrific thunderstorm she ever expert
enced. Odd-Fellows Hall was struck by the
electric fluid, completely demolishing the
building.
The Red River Indians are not disposed to
receive the annuities provided by the treaty
with the Dominion. but demand better terms.
and threaten to stop the surveys if their de-
mands are not complied with.
Capt. Leroy, of the Colorado Steam Nayiga-
ton Company, was shot dead at Fort Yuma
recently, by a Chinese hotel-keeper, from
whom he had ordered liquor and refused to
pay for it. Leroy fired first, but missed.
The Chinaman then fred, breaking LEROY 8
right arm. The latter then took his pistol in
his left hand and fred twice more before he
was killed.
A general outbreak among the Indians in
Utah is threatened, and Gems. Ord and Nor
row are taking measures for an active cam
paign against them
Council Bluffs, Iowa, has had S35, 900 fire.
Milwaukee has been excited over a hotel
poisining case. All the guests were taken
violently i'll about the same time, and all pre-
scented the same symptoms. 1t is said to have
resulted from drinking adulterated coffee.
J. D. Page, telegraph operator at Mount
Pleasant Station, Utah, was attacked by In