Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-14
The West.

1hE 1drn6TS OF Kansas, at Ine1f recent state
Convention at Lavrence-called to reorganize
their State Grange-censured the action of
the State Board of Agriculture for encourage
ing racing at the coming State Fair by offering
eXOrbltanG premiums . Chicago commercial
circles have just been agitated by stipend
GUS : corner in wheat which resulted sue
cessfully to those concerned in it. their profits
footing up about $3.50, 600. The affair was
engineered by Milwaukee men,. . 1t is pretty
certain that the Iowa railroad robbers have
made good their escape. Cyrus McCarty, of
Fulton county, Ind, the other day fatally shot
his mother-in-law fired five times Intellectually
at his wife, and then shot himself through
the head. Cause-domestic troubles aggra-
waited by too much mother-in-law There
are $50 Oranges in Nebraska. They resolve
to take no direct part in politics.
RICH gold deposits have been discovered in
Alaska. Two coal-mners at La Sale, H.,
were precipitated down the shaft of a mine, a
distance of $50 feet, while standing in
bucket Strange to say, they were not fatally
injured. Virginia City, New, is rejoicing
over the completion of her water-works The
aqueduct is eighteen miles long. A special
to the Kansas City Times from Cherryville,
Kan, says Col. A. NJ York has received intel
hgence that more bodies have been discovered
at the Bender graveyard, and that clue to
the whereabouts of the Blenders can be made.
-. The Ohio Constitutional Convention has
voted to adjourn until Dec. 2, when they will
meet in Cincinnati. The late Jesse r.
Grants household furniture was recently sold
at Covington, KY, for 500. Mrs. Grant will
hereafter live with Mrs. Corbin at Elizabeth
town, n. J.
The magnificent new dry goods house of
Field, Letter & Co., in Chicago-erected by
the Singer Sewing Machine Company at cost
of $780, 600, and almost ready FOR occupancy
was partially destroyed by fire on the I'd inst.
1t will cost about 800 600 to repair the dam
age. Transportation item 1t costs Sc to
ship two tons of spelter from LaSalle to Men
dota, ILL.,, by wagon, and IS to ship the same
weight by rail-. -. In Nodaway county, Mo-.
$1,000 head of stock have been destroyed by
the Texas cattle plague. Other counties have
suffered nearly as bad. . Portland, Oregon,
was visited by destructive confagration on
the I'd inst. Twenty blocks in the bust
ness portion of the city were burned. The
less is estimated at 81, 100000. Three foun-
dries. four mills, five hotels, 100 stores and
$50 dwelling houses were destroyed. The fire
was evidently the work of incendiaries, as the
flames started in several different places at
the same time, and one of the fire-bugs was
caught III the act of setting fire to build
ing.
THE total loss by the Portland Oregon con-
fagration is 81, 15s, 675; insurance, 1921 900.
-. Senator Ramsey has returned to st. Paul
from Washington, feeling entirely satisfied
that his efforts to induce the State Depart
ment to interfere in behalf of the Manitoba
prisoners will prove successful. Bancroft
Davis the Acting Secretary of State, gave him
assurances that he believed the Canadian au-
thorities would promptly respond to any reas-
enable request on the part of the American
Government for clemency to these prisoners
and release them on bail. -. Mrs. Brigham
Young No. II, who has petitioned for divorce
and alimony, has been approached by her hus-
band, who offers to buy her off for So, 900,
but she refuses to compromise. and Will
press the suit to a legal conclusion. .
Madison, Wis, has suppressed Sunday liquor
selling :. The fast train on the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western railway makes the run be-
tween st. Louis and Toledo in IS hours. The
time between New York and the Mississippi
river by this train is 48 hours. The sixth
annual report of the Ohio State Insurance
Department shows that the aggregate number
of policies issued in Ohio during the year end
ing Dec. 81, 1872 was Is, 304 amounting to
S3.O18, 7O4: the aggregate number of policies
in force in Ohio at that date was 60, O43,
amounting to S141, 925, 40; the aggregate
premiums received during the year was
"a, 943, 260.7O; aggregate losses and claims
paid during the same time was 81, 481, 538 81.
Mrs. POWELL, of Olney, H., is said to pos
sess the power to heal and cure all kinds of
disease. She is reputed to have performed
some miraculous cures The Iowa wheat
yield, it is generally believed, will be larger
than last year.
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred at Negau-
nee, Mich, on the 9th inst. A trestle-work
over which heavily-laden train of cars was
passing gave way, precipitating the train upon
a party Of workmen beneath. -Four men were
killed, and several others seriously wounded.
=. Jennings King, Grand Chief Patriarch of
Minnesota. has been expelled from member
ship in the order of Odd Fellows, for embez-
Element of the Widows and Orphans fund,
amounting to $780, John W. Young, the
Western money-order forger, has been ar
rested in Boston and taken to Chicago.
George W. Cass, brother of the late Gen.
Lewis Cass. and father of Gen. Gorge W.
Cass, of Pennsylvania, died recently