Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-08
NEWS SUMMARY.


borers engaged in making an excavation for
the bed of new boiler, at the back part of a
house on North Third street. Some of the
coins are very ancient...... The jury in the
suit for $4,000 damages brought by the widow
Margaret Sanders, in the City Court of
Brooklyn, against the Staten Island Ferry
Company, for the loss of her husband, who
was killed in the Westfeld explosion, after
a half hours deliberation, returned a YER
dict for the plaintiff in the full amount
claimed. The jurors expressed their regret
at not being legally empowered to award
larger amount. This is the first of 100 cases
which are pending against the company,
growing out of the explosion.
In New York on Wednesday Judge Bar
rett granted an attachment on the peoperty
of Henry R. Conklin, Secretary of the Mar
ket Savings Bank, on application of the re-
ceiver, who deposes that Conklin distracted
$125, 200, and has absconded . "A verdict
has been rendered against the Knickerbocker
Life Insurance Company of New York in
the case of policy of $4,000 upon the life
of suicide...... Gen. Cadwallader's summer
residence at Fenton, New York, burned on
Wednesday morning. Loss $4,000 in
sured......On Saturday morning the United
States Quartermaster's Department and COM
missary store, at Madison barracks, Sackett's
Harbor, N. Y, were destroyed. Loss
100000.
The Staten Island Ferry Company are
going to bring before the Court of Appeals
the claim of $4,000 recovered against them
by one of the victims of the explosion of the
Westfeld, still contending that no liability
accrued against them for ferriage on the Sab
BATH. Tweed still remains in New York
city despite the summons of the Legislative
NM too r1 -
erence to the contest of his Senatorial seat
by ODonovan Rossa...... Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher, Whitelaw Reid, VIM c. Bryant,
Bayard Taylor, Bret Harte and others have
gone to Havana, on the steamer Moro Castle
by invitation of the Atlantic Mail Com
pany.
GEORGE BORIS, the murderer of Pet Hal
stead, was hung at Newark, N. j., on Friday
......All the property of the New York Print
ing Company is now sold, aggregating $780,
600. This, with the sums due the company.
VIII be sufficient to satisfy the Ocean Banks
judgment of 500, 000...... George W. Watson,
Williamsburg hair-dresser, was shot dead
at his own establishment in New York on
Thursday by Mrs. Fanny Hyde, aged IS,
who says he has been in the habit of insult
ing and accusing her of unfaithfulness to
her husband.
BRICK PoMERoY has been sued for $25, 1000
damages for breach of promise of mar
riage, by Sadie Wilkinson, of New Haven,
Conn, she charging that he promised to
marry her in 1866.
AN infant son of Henry T. Clarke, of
Troy, N. Y, was killed on Sunday by his
brother, aged years, who threw piece of
slate at him. The child killed was 9 months
old......A fire occurred at Belleville. Ont.
early on Sunday morning, in the Bows
Home The building was totally DESTROYED,
and one boy was burned to death The night
was intensely cold, and the inmates barely
escaped In their night clothes. Loss, IS, 900
49,. David Barry was killed by locomotive
at crossing at Kingston, near Scranton, on
Saturday afternoon. Joseph B. Lyman
agricultural editor Of the New York Tribune
died on Sunday.
A SERIOUS accident occurred to the Erie
mail train east, on the PHILADELPHIA and
Eric railroad, about two miles east of Lock-
haven, at half-past 10 CLOCK on Tuesday
night, caused by broken rail. The engine
and tender passed over in safety. The rest
of the train passed over an embankment.
and took fire instantly. The baggage car
two passenger cars, and sleeping car were
burned Two of the passengers, James Ly-
saught, OF Williamsport, Pa, and Charles
patterson, of Troy, Pa, became entangled
IN the wreck and were severely burned......
A ire at Scranton, Pa, on Monday night
destroyed $4,000 worth of property. In
susance, $2O,OO0.......A fire at Goshen, N. Y,
Saturday night, burned fifty head of choice
cattle aud six blooded horses, the property of
Abraham Rierson.
The West.
THE Rough and Ready Touring mill at
Littleton, near Denver, was burned on Tues
day. Loss over $50, OOO....Julius Frisko.
while at work in the saw-mill of Mowrv.
Clinton Co., at Menasha, Wis, on Wednes-
day, fell upon circular saw which was in
motion. and had his right leg cut off. He
died the same night......Near Golden CITY.
Col, on Wednesday, number of laborers
were engaged il attempting to dry box of
Hercules powder at camp fire, when the
powder exploded, killing two men, John
Hughes and Barney Bloom, and seriously
wounding several othors. East Sapi
nav, Mich, on Tuesday, Mrs. WITT having
occasion to make a visit about a square off, |
locked her three children, all less than four
years old, in the house. Soon after she left. |
the house took fire, and two of the children
were burned to death. The eldest escaped
by jumping through window IA promi- |
nent manufacturer of woodworking ma
chimes at Cincinnati has received orders |
from the Japanese Government for single |
and lath machines, turning lathes, and |
other machines for wood working, with all |
the gesring necessary to run the same, all to |
be shipped Immediately via San Francisco |
....John A. Hancock, aged ffty-fve wears. |
residing with his son in the town of Pelt. |
Wabash county, Mimi, while the son and |
his wife were absent, burned the house and |
barn, and hung himself in the woods, in a |
fit of insanity.
BAKER, one of the witnesses for the prose-
cution in the Robinson murder case, at Salt |
Lake City, has made an affidavit that his |
testimony before Judge Mexican IN the pri-
mary examination was wholly untrue and
false. On this affidavit Baker was arrested
for perjury, and is now confined at Camp
Douglass.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has sus-
pended the execution of DR.. Medlicott, who
waste have been hanged for poisoning Mr..
Ruth, until the ed of March. Six per-
sons, confined two in a cell, escaped from
the Jail at Cadiz, Ohio, on Thursday, by dig
ying from one cell to another with iron rods
rom the masonry Of the jail, then making
their way to the upper story, escaped by
means OF bed cord from Window. Mrs.
reynolds, wife of Ex-Governor Reynolds, of