Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
county Repablitan
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East,

of the train passed over an embankment
and took fire instantly. The baggage car
two passenger cars, and a sleeping car were
burned. Two of the passengers, James Ly-
saught, of Williamsport, Pa, and Charles
PATTERSON, of Troy, Pa, became entangIed
in the wreck and were severely burned ..
A fire at Scranton, Pa, on Monday night
destroyed $4,000 worth of property In
susance, $40, 000.......A fire at Goshen, N. Y
Saturday night, burned fifty head of choice
cattle aud six blooded horses, the property Of
Abraham Rierson.
HALIFAX dispatch says the fate of the
Tariff bill now before the United States Con-
gress, proposing reduction of the duty on
coal to fifty cents per ton, causes great anx-
iety among dealers Observation-Disclosures suit has
been commenced against ex-Collector Muir
ply, of New York, to recover the amount of
political assessment paid by an oficeholder
in the Custom House......A warrant has been
issued for the arrest of the husband of Fanny
Hyde, as an accessory to the murder of
Watson......The Commission of Appeals, in
the case of Rawson against the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, has decided that
the limitation of liability to 800 for loss of
luggage is not contract, and awarded the
plaintiff 81, 900 damages for her luggage lost
by the defendants.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred on Thursday
morning on the Lehigh Valley railroad, near
Rockport. As the Buffalo express train was
nearing that point, a rail broke, precipitat-
ing the train over an embankment about
thirty feet high, wrecking the cars, which
were set on fire by the stoves Four of the
passengers were instantly killed, and four
died of their injuries, and some eighteen
others are more or less injured ...... Professor
Wilson, principal of the Union School at
Wachiput0n oh NJ aaJ
ously wounded on Thursday by Thos. Nc
Giffen. The professor had refused to deliver
a note from McGiffen to one of the young
aides, and n being ordered from the prem
ises, McGiffen shot him, the ball entering
about the hip. McGiffen is ABOUT II years
of age......The will of James Fisk was ad-
mitted to probate in New York on Thursday
The estate was sworn to as not exceeding a
million dollars. His widow is the sole exc
cutrlx, Mr.. Jordan acting as co-legatee.
THE New York Yacht Club has reelected
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Commodore.
Charles and II. E. Markson have been ar
rested at New York for smuggling III gold
watches and nearly 800 articles OF jewelry,
on the steamer Siberia, valued at SIC, OOO......
In the investigation of the printing frauds
at Albany, Parsons, one of the State Print
ers, testifies having given Ed. Phelps $10-
600 for lobby services. 1t had been the
habit, he said, to give the clerks percentage
on work carried to the firm, and in this way
Terwilllger's percentage was paid, regard
less of whether he read proof or not....T The
revenue officers raided on several illicit
distilleries in the Fifth Ward of Brooklyn,
on Friday afternoon, destroying several
thousand dollars worth of whisky mash,
machinery, etc. The officials were aided by
the police......The Newcastle pa Agricul-
tural Works were destroyed by fire on Fri
day. Loss $1,000; insurance S25, 000.
The warerooms of Bouchard & Sortie and
Thompson's bookstore at Quebec were burned
on Thursday night. Loss $4,000.
HORACE GREELEY held reception on Sat
urday evening at New York, on the occasion
of his 61st birthday.
TIE house of Henry McLellen, near Erie.
Pa, was burned about o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and Mr.. McLellen persisted in the
flames. He was IS years of The
woolen-mill and boarding-he house of C. c.
Aldrieh & Son, at CRANKY, Mass, burned on
tuesday morning. Loss $4,000; insured
for $l5,000.....At New York, on Monday,
while the Brooklyn Ferry Company's boat
Fulton was crossing the river loaded with
passengers, she sprung leak in mid-stream.
The alarm signal was given, and two other
boats came alongside and took off her pas
sengers, after which she sunk. The vii
layers of Whitehall, N. j., refused to allow
the burial OF the remains of Bolts in their
cemetery, and the minister declared that no
services could be held over the body of the
murderer. After an excited parley, COM
promise was effected by which the BODY was
allowed to be inferred in grave that had
been opened temporarily.
The West.
JoHN Opr7pr oornpo;tta5 s,,;o;do - N.
ILL.,, on Monday, by shooting himself with a
shot gun. The shot took effect in his heart,
causing instant death. The deceased was a
very Incorporate man, and leaves a wife
and six children in destitute circumstances.
ION Monday night Frank Grice. citv
editor of the Kansas City Neaos, shot Charles
Whitehead, city editor of the Times. Both
had previously INDUCED in newspaper per
sonalltles. The latter sought the former all
evening, and finally found him at the Neaos
office, and in the darkness grappled with
him. Grice finally drew Derringer, and
shot Whitehead in the hip. The latter will
be laid up month. Grice gave himself up, |
and was released on bail.
ALDERMAN BUssE, of Chicago, was on |
Tuesday, found guilty of accepting brides, |
making the third conviction in the Common |
Council of that city ~ The planing-mills of |
Rudy, Hilton & Co., at Mattoon, ILL.,, were |
burned on Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000; |
no misunderstanding steamer Mary Taylor |
sailed from San Francisco for Ecuador on |
Wednesday with divers and machinery for |
raising the treasure sunk on the Spanish |
rigate L'Acadie in 1902.
THE Missouri State Senate on Thursday
passed the resolution to pay the State bonds
in greenbacks over the Governors veto by a |
vote of Il to 10......The woman engaged in
passing counterfeit $40 notes in Wisconsin
has been arrested, and large amount of
counterfeit money fourd in her possession.
She goes by the name of Madam Decrease. |
and has two male accomplices who have not
been arrested.
The planning mill of Harvey Jones, at
Cincinnati, was destroyed by FIRE on Thurs
day evening. Loss $ll 900; insurance
81, 900. -------~
On Friday evening, as the Treasurer of
Santa Cruz cennty was turning off the gas
in his Office, he was seized by armed and
masked men, who had been concealed in the
office, bound and gagged and threatened with
instant death unless he unlocked the vault.
which he did, when the robbers took out
S2o,000 in gold coin, locked him in, and left /