Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


ton, as the penalty for illegal voting. The
colored men of New York are clamoring for
places on The police force. :. The Maine Re-
publican State Convention nominated Nelson
Dingley, Jr., for Governor, passed resolutions
protesting against the granting OF the pubnc
lands to railroads and canals, denouncmg the
salary grab, and condemning all Credit Mo
bilier transactions.
THE election officers who received the vote
of Susan B. Anthony have been fined $50
each. !. Horace F. Clark, President of the
Michigan Southern and Union Pacific railroads,
died in New York, last week, after a brief ILL
ness Mr.. Clark was a son-in-law of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. He was So years old. .Ex-
Police Superindent Kennedy, of New York. is
dead. Joe Burton, colored, was hanged at
Georgetown Del. on Friday. for the crime of
rape Somebody at Louisville, Ky, forward
ed to President Grant, at Long Branch for
his son Jesse, live alligator, four feet long.
Je sse declined the present and the President
paid the express charges (S14), leaving the
alligator with the baggageman. The monster
soon afterward became detected and died.
PAssAIc, N. j., and Pottsville, Penn, were
each visited by disastrous confagration last
week. Forest fires have been raging in
Central Pennsylvania and Northern New York
Thousands of acres of valuable timber have
without Senate, or a constitutional provision
for one the Legislature at its late session, by
a bungling piece of legislation, having at'ol-
ished the Senate altogether. Stokes trial
has been postponed to October.
Ben BUTLER is making lively canvass for
the Governorship of Massachusetts, and is
confident of being elected. Two stables,
one near Philadelphia, containing twelve val
liable trotters, and the other at Buffalo, filled
with fifty horses, were destroyed by fire last
week, the horses perishing In the flames.
Lewis Tappan, one of the early pioneers of
the Abolition movement. died last week III
New York, aged S. In hurdle race at
jerome Park New York, last week, one OF the
horses fell killing the rider.
THE trial of young Walworth for the murder
of his father is in progress at New York.
The Juniata has left New York in search of
the Polaris and the missing Buddington party
Her crew numbers 100, and her equipment
contains everything that is needed for Arctic
navigation.
The Connecticut Legislature has fixed the
rate of interest at per cent. The effects
of the Alden Type-Setting and Distributing
Machine Company were sold at New York, the
other day, at auction. for $500 1t is said
that the inventor sunk at least $500, GOO in
perfecting his invention. 1t is proposed to
have a grand reunion at West Point, next
year, of all the living graduates of that in
stitution.
The West.
ALBERT KEEP, of Chicago, succeeds John F.
Tracy as President of the Chicago and North
western railroad The wheat crop of Califor-
MIA this year is expected to exceed 22,0000 900
bushels - Burlington, Iowa, was visited by a
terribly destructive confagration on the morn
ing of the 18th of June. The Palmer Opera
House, Courthouse, two hotels, and large
number of stores were destroyed, four blocks
being burned. The loss is about $500 600.
half of which. it is thought, is covered by in
surance. =. Two men were sleeping together
IN a store at Santa Rosa, Cal One dreamed
that burglar robbing the store and he
took his pistol from his pillow and shot his
bedfellow, killing him. The town of Mays
vile. Mich, has been almost totally destroyed
by fire.
IL Chicago, the other day. two men had a
dispute about the ownership of 25 cent
measuring rule. One struck the other in the
forehead with his fist, from the effects of
which he died in few hours. Destructive
forest fires have been raging in Northern
Michigan.
The managers of the principal railway lines
running into Chicago have signed paper
-,
Iner own enlployes anu tieIr laililiies IIasel-
ing on tner Own roaus. an passes w" e ou'-
standing VIII De aho%eu &c, collt9iue ~ lorce
untll thsir g9ptatl1n, Zee o. anu VIZ nos o5
!ene"eu. ne loilo"inS ioaus Ia S NJ
Hlto Tue asIeeniensi OntIaso AM Will
western, OnIcago ana iowa Gnlcaeo' pnMauhee
ana 81 faul, hoch island CnIca99 DurilhSto u
ana quincy; lineage anu ALTON, Ii iI1 Zen
dral: .Nlchlgalnnll; a mining seItlemen1 OF
ooO lnnaolta1ts on the shore OF Lake superior,
TOOK nre last week from lne burning WOODS 1Sl
winch surrounaed IL, , ana was desIroyea' Inc Ii
peopfe TO save thelr nves sought refuge IN the
lake, put NUMBER were oVertahen py une
LANES, ana aUzen OF 5lore we're roa9seu ~
death. Inc Omca9o, Purnngton anu S Snlhc y
rairoao HAS ProintliSateu IT'S h1M eoneuuIe VI
law. The principle has been adopted of fixing
a certain rate per mile for the various classes
on 1relgnt, ana men aPptyilig Clils raee py sec.
,n;ias snS 70 sect;ons Of five f miles for dis.
fsnces exceedino twentv-iye miles. The
snnjication of This tariff will test the