Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

S5.O 600. The prompt manner in which this
matter has been settled is worthy of common
dation. The extensive brewery of Valentine
Blatz, in Milwaukee, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500, 000-
THE assessed valuation Of all the property
100, 6s4. AT San Jose. CAL, the other day,
a Young Chinaman shot Miss Alice Dubois
three times because she refused to marry him.
Alice's steel corsets turned the bullets and
saved her life. The maddened Celestial then
blew his own brains out.
YOUNG, the money-order counterfeiter, was
recently arrested at Arcola, ILL.,, and now lies
in the Chicago Jail, wounded in the shoulder
by bullet from the revolver of Government
detective, for which there appears to be little
cause. He was accompanied by his wife, who
clings to him in spite of the disgrace which
has come upon her husband. The night
clerk of the Briggs House, Chicago, recently
became enraged at one of the bel-boys of
the house, and threw him out Of win
dow, breaking his leg in two places.
Supt. Washburn, of the Chicago police force,
is about to prefer charges against every de-
tective officer on his force, except one. The
| DeGollyer pavement has been denounced as a
a failure in Milwaukee and Chicago. One
thousand men employed at the Milwaukee
| Rolling Mills are thrown out of work by a
strike of the heaters of those mills, against a
reduction of wages. The Territorial Peni-
Tertiary at Laramie City, W. T., was recently
destroyed by fire.
The South.
SERIOUS political troubles are reported from
| Perry county, Ark. Satanic and Big Tree
have been taken out of the Texas Penitentiary
and sent under guard to Fort Sill, where a
conference is to be held between the Kiowas
and Comanches, and Secretary Delano and
| Gov. Davis.
THE first bale of cotton received at Mem
phis this season was sold for thirty-fiye cents
a pound Memphis experienced an earth
quake shock on the 22d of August . "A col
ored family, consisting of mother and four
children, were burned to death in an old
shanty in which they were living. in the SUBJ
urbs of Louisville, last week. Nevin Palmer
and James West, both colored, were hung at
Baltimore ON the 22d of Augustine former
for rape, and the latter for murder.
THE steamer George c. Wolf blew up on the
Mississippi river, twelve miles above Helena,
on the 22d of August. Twelve persons were
Wolf was from Shreveport, bound for st.
Louis. The spot where she blew up is known
to river men as the 80 Graveyard, being the
same place where the Penn sylvania and st.
Nicholas blew up, and the I. L. McGill was
burned Judge Colvin, of the st. Louis
Court of Criminal Correction. in test case
brought before his court has decided that the
so-called .Social Evil" ordinance of that city
is unconstitutional, and that the General AS
sembly had no power to grant to the city the
right to license prostitution. The case will be
appealed to the Supreme Court.
THE steamer Belle Vernon, Capt. James
Remission, en- route from Cincinnati to Men,
phis, with full cargo, struck the wreck of the
Jennie Howell, few miles below Shawnee
town. ILL.,. on Wednesday, and sunk quickly in
20 feet of water, and is lying across the river
Some lives were lost, but the number
and names were not ascertained..
Tuesday night the steamer Ruby. with 1872
head of cattle for New Orleans. swamped her
cattle-pen below Shreveport. The boat is a
total loss. One hundred head of cattle were
drowned. The cattle stampeded when the
larboard railing was cut. and the cattle on that
side jumped ashore, leaving all the weight on
the other guard, which swampsd her. No in
surance on the boat. None of the crew were
lost. but several injured. A piize fight came
off near Jonesville recently between Luke Fay
and David Jones, in which the former was ter
ribly used up.
Washington.
WASHINGTON dispatch says the proceed
ings of the Military Commission have been
sent to the Secretary of War by Judge Advo-
cate General Holt. he having completed his
review, and it is understood that he approved
the findings of the court. The Secretary of
War has issued a circular that III all cases
where an officer recommends the advertising
Of any official matter. he must suggest only
the names of newspapers that, from their loca-
ton or circulation, are apt to do the greatest
service to the department.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL HoLT. in reply
to the petitions against the execution Of the
Modocs on the ground that their trial by
military court was not constitutional, has de-
cided that Indians not taxed are not citizens
of the United States. and are amenable to no
other than military tribunal Two Treas
ury clerks fought duel the other day about a
female clerk. Weapons, cavalry swords.
Neither was seriourly injured. The Signal
Service officers claim that the predictions of
probabilities for the first year were verified in
about sixty-nine cases out of hundred and
their accuracy may be expected TO increase
with increasing experience. The point lis
raised with reference to the recent regulations
Of the treaty with the Grow Indians, that the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs has overlooked
q section in a recent law which prohibits the
recognition of an Indian tribe as treaty-mak-
ing power.
VERY positive information has been received
at Washington to the effect that, nowith-
standing tine official denial on the part of that
Government, the Grand Duke of Hesse con-
tInues to pardon criminals upon the condition
that they shall emigrate to the United States
IA Washington telegram says: The Inte-
rior Department has information that force
will be necessary to remove the Winnebagoes
from Wisconsin to the reservation assigned
them in Kansas. If they refuse to go, it is
understood. that troops will be ordered from
Fort Smelling, to compel their departure.
The State authorities of California have
asked that the Modocs who are charged with |
grave offenses committed prior to their cap
ture, other than those sentenced to be
hanged, De delivered to them. :. The WASH |
ington Chronicle publishes communication
from Judge Advocate General Holt, denying
the oft-repeated assertion that he wilfully |
withheld the recommendation to mercy for |
Mrs. Surratt offered by the military commits |
sion which tried her and the other Liucoln |
conspirators. Gen. Holt contends that Presi- |
dent johnson received the whole of the rec
ords, and that his refusal to act ON the recon- |
mendation Of the court, and to see tbs daugh- |
ter of Mrs. Surratt when she applied at the |