Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-08
@larshau County Dtpublitan
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

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children.
Fire insurance was not profitable in the year
of the Boston fire. The President of the
Convention of Underwriters at New York says
that the companies of this country lost
Sc. 800, 1865 in 1872. The total loss in the Bos-
ton fire was $40, 600, 0o0, of which $50, 875, 343
has been borne by the insurance companies.
Usury laws are not likely to last much longer
in New York State. The Grand Jury of New
York city, who learned the utter i~nutility of
the laws in the effort to enforce them, recon-
mended the Legislature to abolish them, and
this suggestion has resulted in the introduc-
ton of a bill for their repeal which has passed
the Senate by a vote of II to -.
At Albany, N. Y, Collector Bailey has seized
% locomotives and 36 passenger and three
baggage cars of the New York Central and Hud-
River Railroad Company for non-payment of
taxes.
Albert W. Smith is under sentence of death
at Springfield, Mass, for the murder of
Charles D. Sackett.
Another enormous bank defalcation has
been brought to light in New York. F. L..
fainter, the Cashier of the Atlantic National
1aI1h, uds DoOA pDCCuldtAh6 ~ eAO AuAANo -
the institution for over five years, during
which time he has succeeded in squandering
over 5000, 900. Being hopelessly involved, he
delivered up the keys of the safes and vaults,
confessed his crime, and aided the Clearing
House Committee in investigating the affairs
of the bank, pointing out the evidences of his
crime with a GOODNESS that was most extraor-
dinary under the circumstances Altogether,
F. L. fainter is the most self-possessed rascal
in the annals of crime. The bank is hope
lessly bankrupt, and has been stricken from
the Clearinghouse list.
A heavy defalcation is reported in the New
York Postofice.
The Purchasing Committee of the Board of
Indian Commissioners have just purchased in
New York 49, 900 butcher-knives and 1900
skinning [scalping p knives for the noble red
men of the far West. A few thousand rifles.
revolvers and tomahawks will probably be
added to the LIST.
It is rumored in New York that the Atlantic
and Great Western and Erie railroads are to
be consolidated.
Carl Schur sailed from New York for Eu-
rope last week.
The formidable league which was to have
been formed in New York for the enforcement
of the Eight-Hour law has assumed the
shape of q secret session of twenty-seven
delegates from vaIious tr~ades-unions, which
resolved to do nothing until next year.
fainter, the d~efaulting cashier of the Allan
tic National Bank, of New York, has been con-
lined in jail. He is a nephew, by marriage, Of
August Belmont.
The West.
party of four persons-William and JOSEPH
Falkington, and John and Thomas Mitchell
from Macoupin county, m.-were recent,
murdered by Indians in Southwestern Kansas
Cincinnati's manufactures last year amounted
TO $143, 600, 600, a gain over the preceding yea
of 81, 500. 600
The borax mines in Southern California ar
being extensively worked, over 200 claim
having already been located. The first ship
ment of crude borax, 4, 800. pounds, has jus
been made.
A report comes by way of Denison, Texas
that a Government train of eight wagons fo
Fort Griffin had been captured by Indians 6
miles from Denison, and four of the eigh
teamsters murdered.
One of the Modoc squaws captured by Ger
Gillem states that in the first fight an India
picked up a shell and chewed the fuse, whe
it exploded, blowing his head off, emitting job
Schonchin in two, and killing another.
John ]. Murphy has been hung at Stockton
Cal, for the murder of Patrick Murray, fly
years ago.
A general outbreak of Indians in Easter
Oregon is threatened.
Business in San Francisco is seriously int
rupted by the epizootic.
A terrible calamity happened at Otis, Ind
a few nights ago. The house of a man name
Klees caught fire and burned SO rapidly tn
an old gentleman by the name of Kreist, wi
his daughter, Mrs. Klees, and five childrt
were burned to death. Mrs. Klees could har
escaped alone, but vent into another room e
deavoring to save her children and was loE
Mr.. Kreist was lying with a broken leg pc
fectly helpless, and could do nothing but aw;
his fate. Mr.. Klees and his brother-in-la
Mr.. Kreist, escaped, but were severely burne
So great was the heat of the fire that t
bodies were burned to ashes, only q few bon
being found.
chicago UaQ uV6 SUICIDES OuIIQS the we
ending April %.
Arthur Arnold, aged 16, son of Hon. Iss
N. Arnold, of Chicago, was drowned in Re
river, near Dixon, H., a few days ago, by Il
eapsizing of a small sail boat.
The horses OF the cavalry at the lava be
are disabled by the epizootic. Without cava
the Modocs cannot be surrounded, and if tt
break up into small, struggling bands, as it
thought. they will do, they cannot be pursr
until the horses recover.
The City Council of Chicago has passed, 8
The Mayor approved, an ordinance requir
all liquor ealoons to be closed at II o'clock
the evening.
A report comes from Fort Garry, via
ronto, that there has been severe fighting
tween the United States troops and Blackf
Indians, and that large numbers of the forI
were killed. It is feared that this If the
ginning of a general war with the Blaekf
tribe, who number several thousand, and
well armed and equipped.
The STAGE between Hamilton and Pioc