Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The East.

The East.
The Office of the President of the Pennsyl
vania and Western railroad was robbed in New
York, recently, of s16s, 900 in bonds.
The famous New York prison. known az tn.
Tombs, is to be demolished and replaced by I
new structure.
The medical commission appointed at New
York to examine the mental condition OF
George Francis Train, report him to be a mar
of good education and brilliant intellect. bu,
undoubtedly of unsound mind 1t is probable
he Will be turned loose, as he is not regarded
as a dangerous man, and therefore not a fiji
subject for commitment to an asylum Trains
latest assertion is that in 80 DAYS not one stone
IL the bastile shall be left standing upon an.
other, and that the streets of New York are n
run with blood
The lower house of the Massachusetts Leg
islat1re has refused, by e vote of 40 to 1877
to rescind the resolution oensrring Senator
Sumner
A man named George Mcdonald was arrest
ed at New York the other day, on landing from,
the English steamer, who is believed to be the
principal in the great forgeries on the Bank of
England Papers were found on him which.
II is SAD, reveal the whole plot, and criminate
- NJ - rvu1uon In New York,
The Bulls Head Bank, of New York. has col
lapsed.
New York furnishes an instance of swift
Justice. On the 18th of March two young
hlghwaymen-John Coughlin and John Green.
aged Is and II respectively-attac and rob-
bed citizen in the street. On the 18th they
were indicted by the grand jury, on the Goth
tried and convicted, and on the Dist sentenced
to fifteen years each in the penitentiary
William Foster was executed at New York
on the 21st of March, for the murder of
Avery d. Putnam in a street-car on the goth
OF April, 1871; and James McElhaney suffered
like penalty at Boston for the murder of his
wife.
Brooklyn is excited over a mysterious MUIR
der. Mr.. Charles Goodrich a wealthy citizen.
was found dead in his bed, having been shot
through the head and robbed by some unknown
assassin.
Foster, the murderer of Putnam, who was
hung in New York recently, was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery, which is in direct viola
tom OF the cemetery regulations, which say
that no person who has died in prison, or has
been executed for any crime, shall be buried
there. DR.. Tying performed the Episcopal
service. Only few male relatives were pres
ent. no ladies attending.
New York city owes gas bill of nearly a
million dollars, and the authorities have been
told that if it is not paid forthwith, the gas
company will cease to supply the streets and
public buildings.
Commodore Vanderbilt gave half million
dollars. few days ago, for the endowment of
Southern university, and now follows this
liberal charity with half million dollars for
the erection of female seminary on Staten
Island, to be managed on the plan of the
seminary at New Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania
The west.
Emma Hale, waiter in the Fisher House.
Three Rivers, Mich, committed suicide last
week by taking strychnine.
A German. named Albert Goetz WAS muir
dered in dance-house in Chicago, on ST. Pat
rick's day, by a party of roughs, who literally
cut his throat from ear to ear.
The farmers in the vicinity of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, report that at least one-half, if not two
thirds, of the honey bees have been killed by
the severe winter just past
The strike of the locomotive engineers in
Missouri has ended in the submission of the
strikers
little four-year-old boy was killed in Chi
cago, the other day, by a wooden figure of an
Indian in front of cigar store falling upon
him.
Lieut.. Frederick Grant, son of the Presi-
dent, has been assigned to duty on Gen. Sheri-
dams staff, at Chicago.
Judge ]. G. Bowman, a prominent lawyer of
Vincennes, Ind, committed suicide recently,
by stabbing himself with a carving-knife.
Temporary insanity.
A sod cabin was burned few DAYS age. in
Calhoun county, Iowa, and the inmates. con-
sisting of a poor woman named Halleck and
her two little children, were burned to death
In Jackson county, Iowa, the other day, a
young man named NcAlIster, not satisfied
with the ordinary method of splitting logs
with AK and wedges, concluded to facili-
tate his work by the application of powder.
Accordingly he drilled a hole in a large oak
log, filed the cavity with powder, applied
fuse, and touched it off. The explosion fol-
lowed before KcAilister could get out of the
way, tearing the log into splinters, and almost
literally beheading the unfortunate man. His
brains were scattered in all directions and the
body mutilated in horrible manner
A citizen of Chicago has sued the Inter
Ocean, of that city, for libel claiming damages
to the amount of $500, 900.
Another fight with the Apaches is reported
from Arizona, in which six savages were
killed
Capt Jack, the Modoc chief, is negotiating
for an alliance with the Klamath Indians. a
formidable and numerous tribe He declares
that as soon as the grass grows he will leave,
the lava bed, burn the ranches and murder the
settlers.
Alexander J. Fenwick, under sentence of
death at San Diego, Cal, cheated the gallows
by taking poison.
The South.
Through trains are now run from Galveston
to st. Louis by the Texas Central road
The Tennessee Legislature has decided to
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