Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26

the United states, New 1Ork DelnS the great
central entrepot. These children are sold daily,
at private auction, at prices varying from 800
to $400 for boys, and from 500 to $500 for
girls. Where the girls are exceptionally pretty,
the prices rule higher.
The trial of Susan B. Anthony for illegal
voting has just been concluded at Canandai-
qua, N. Y, and resulted in a verdict of guilty.
President Wilson is rapidly recover
ing his health. He is rusticating in the suburbs
of Boston.
The West.
THE Pitt River Indians have turned over to
Gen. Davis eleven Modoc refugees. 1t is said
there are now bat three or four of the tribe at
large. If Gen. Davis had been let alone
Capt. Jack and his confederates would have
been hanged two or three weeks ago. Ropes
and scaffolding were ready, and the murderers
had been formally warned that they were to
expiate their crimes on the morrow, when on
the very eve of the execution Government
courier arrived with instructions from WASH
ington to hold the Modocs until further orders
Gen. Davis explains, IN a very straightforward
way, his reasons for the prompt justice
he meant to deal to these assassins. To
try them by military commission
would have consumed fully six months
to say nothing of trouble and expense. 1t did
not seem advisable to turn them over to the
of war; the murders with which they were
charged were committed while they were in
arms against the United States and took place
both in Oregon and California, raising trouble
some questions of jurisdiction between the
courts of those States The most remarka-
BILE game of billiards ever contested IN the Uni
ted States was played in Chicago, last week, be-
tween Mons Ubassy the French expert, and
a local player named Bessunger. The game
was the French or three ball, and Ubassy
Onn .z.f., 0,,1
made an average of nearly eighteen, the
largest on record.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL railrc "a stock has fallen
since April from 100 to iii. This decline the
Wall street operators declare to be occasioned
by the farmers movement. There is a rumor
that the stock of the road is to be increased
by an addition of IS, 900, 900, making its total
stock $35, 900, 600. John F. Tracy has re-
signed the Presidency of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad. .Modoc items: Judge
Steele and number of civilians visited Gen.
Davis camp, few days ago, and had talk
with Capt. Jack and his companions. Jack,
the account states, 'had an ugly, sullen lock,
and was apparently displeased at being brought
forth for talk. The dark lines about his
eyes, which are bright and glittering. indicate
confinement, and it is evident that the restric-
tion of liberty has greater effect on him than
the suspense concerning his future fate" He
said that % his Indian heart was dead, and his
body cold" Jacks friends are terribly in
censed against those Indians that betrayed
him, and vow they will kill them, or have them
killed, If it takes years to accomplish the job.
Gen. Davis has sent body of men to hunt up
and arrest the persons guilty of the massacre
of the Modoc captives. Photographs have
been taken of Capt. Jack and the whole band
of warriors. Mrs. Nancy E. Glenn, the al
legged murderer of Jacob Young of Indian
apolis, has been granted a new trial by the
Indiana Supreme Court =. .Advices from the
troops moving into the Sioux country indi
cate general engagement with large forces
of Northern tribes of Indians at an early day
MRS A. W. DRAKE, of Macon county, Ill.
died last week, from the effects of dose o
poison which she had prepared for her owl
son. and took by mistake. Before dying sh
made the horrible confession that she had, a
different times in the last eight years. poisone
her husband one of her daughters two of he
grandchildren, and two other relatives, all o
whom had died suddenly. Prof. Watson, o
Ann Arbor, announces that he has discovere
another new plant, of the eleventh magnitude
Near Springfield, ILL.,, the other day,
negro named Taylor shot and killed his neigh
Dor, Monroe Brown, also colored. When til
officers attempted to arrest the murderer, b
shot himself, infiicting wound froI
which he died in a few hours. =. TIL
total number of Modocs captured, incluG
ing men, women and children, is 156. =.
Further accounts are at hand of the torrer
which deluged Blackwood Valley in Nebrask
last month. Without moments warning th
Blackwood river became flood, and SUI
merged the whole valley, which is As miles lon
and mile and a half wide, under seven fee
of water. A camp of United States soldier
was swept away, and those of the soldiers VIII
escaped saved their lives by chnging to I'll
branches of trees into which they were carried
The settlers in the valley lost horses, cattl
and all their accumulations. Six of the soldier
and twenty-six horses were drowned.
DESPERATE fight occurred in the stree
of Chicago, few days ago, between thre
policemen and three desperate thieves who
they were attempting TO arrest. The desper
does were all severely wounded by pistol sho
and clubbing, the officers escaping unharme'
The Chicago Times prints crop repor
from various sections of Illinois. which presae
good yield of wheat and oats. The col
prospect is reported as Encouraging :. .TN
children of William Lewis, aged respectively
years and months, met their deaths at Jacl
sonville, H., the other day, by the explosio
of kerosene while the elder was engaged
kindling fire with the fluid. At the time
the accident the mother insensible fro
liquor, and could not realize the situation
The father was absent at the time, but, whe
informed of the accident, was in a like cond
tion.