Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
NEWS SUM MARY.
TIE East.

Ire East
A HALIFAX dispatch says the wreck of the
Atlantic has been almost blown to pieces with
gunpowder, and large quantities of goods
have been recovered. Many bodies are being
brought up. The most of them are frightfully
mutilated. About $40 bodies have thus far
been recovered. The autopsy of James
Brooks showed that he died of an extensive
cancerous disease of the stomach, which has
probably occupied several years in its develop
ment.
g. accident occurred on the morn
ing of the Cd inst. on the Grand Trunk rail-
road of Canada, near Montreal. Three cars
of the Portland express train jumped the
track. broke the coupling, and rolled down an
embankment thirty feet high. Thirty-two
persons were more or less injured, some of
whom will die of their Wounds. Mrs. Reddy,
living near Brussels, Ontario, recently drowned
her three children, and then attempted to
drown herself. Temporary insanity. Re-
ceiver Strong, of the Atlantic National Bank
of New York, reports 1904, 600 securities miss
ing. The liabilities are set down at S1,037, 800.
TwENTY-sEvEN Congressman have returned
their back pay to the United States Treasurer,
the amount thus refunded a~ggregsting SILL
900.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has been pronounced
sane by a New York jury.
THE few remaining timbers of the hulk of
the Atlantic have been blown up. This action
brought fourteen more bodies to view, but has
not resulted in the recovery of any of the val
liable parts of the cargo, which the waters re-
fuse to give up....Hon. Salmon P. Chase,
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, died suddenly at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. William S. Hoyt, in New York,
at 1870 O'Clock on the morning of the It'll
inst. He was in unusually good health and
spirits up to within a few hours of his death,
which was produced by an attack of apoplexy,
which seized him on the morning of the 9th.
The West.
The reports of Indian troubles in Manitoba
and Oregon are without foundation.
Mrs. MARY NJ. ScoTr, of Crawford county,
Ind, in taking a portion of her head-dress
from a drawer, dislodged her husbands re-
yolver. which discharged in falling, and the
ball entered the back part of her head, killing
her instantly. -. During the progress of a ball
in Dubuque, Iowa., a young man named Byron
Clark raised one of the windows of the hall,
lost his balance and fell headlong to the
ground, a distance of thirty feet, from the eff
fects of which he died. Reports have
reached Virginia City, Nevada, from the
north. to the effect that the settlers at Noun
tain City. in the Cape district, are greatly
alarmed at the threatening attitude of the In
dams. Snakes and Piutes are pouring in from
all directions, all in their war paint. The
Carbon silver mine and reduction works,
situated in Boulder county, about forty miles
northwest of Denver, considered one of the
best silver mines ever opened in the United
States, has been sold to the Mcfarland Mining
Company, of Holland, for 49, 00, 000....
A Yreka, Cal, dispatch of the I'd inst. furnish
es the following news from the Modoc seat of
war: Capt. Silver and Mr.. J. W. Johnson ar
rived from the front this afternoon. leaving
Gen. Gillem's camp OIL Tuesday morning. Mr..
johnson says there has been nothing done
since the battle on the 26th of April. Every
thing was quiet. No future policy for fighting
the Modocs had been settled upon. An opinion
prevailed that it would be perfect folly to at
tempt to whip the Modocs in the manner thus
TAR pursued. No scouting had been lone.
Nothing had been heard from Cranston and
the missing men, who have probably been
burned. Eight bodies are known to still be on
the field of battle. Lieuts. Harris and Egan,
and Surgeon Semig, wounded in the last fight
at the lava beds, are getting along well, and
will probably recover. President Grant re-
ceived a fatterlng reception on the occasion of
his recent visit to Galena. The reception was
entirely void of party manipulation, all his old
neighbors and friends, without distinction of
party, joining TO do honor to an old neighbor
and the high Office he holds.
An excursion train on the New Albany and
Chicago railroad jumped the track near Mount
Carmel, H., last week, and, plunging over an
embankment. the cars were turned bottom up
ward. Some thirty or forty passengers were
injured, some of them very seriously. The
New York Herdlds correspondent attributes
the great loss of life in the fight with the
Modocs of the 26th of April to the desertion
of Company I, of the Twelfth Infantry, and
some few OF the artillery, who, when ordered
by Capt. Thomas to fall back and hold a bluff
In the rear of he troops to cover the retreat,
continued to fall back until they reached the
camp. The Modocs, meantime. secured the
position they we're to hold. 1t is said that
only twenty-three Modocs were engaged. and
that only two were killed and two badly
wounded.
A RAILROAD bridge in process of erection
near Sedalia, NO., gave way the other day,
precipitating twelve workmen into the stream,
instantly killing three and w%ounding eight
others, two Vi whom are not expected to re-
cover. "A theatrical actor named Vance re-
Gently made all attempt on the life of George
C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Sunday
Herald. firing two Intellectual shots at him.
James Ray, a young man of Platteville, Wis,
being suddenly seized with a fit of frenzy, at
tackled two friends in whose company he was,
and, before he could be captured, wounded
them fatally by stabbing in the breast.
ARENDERING tank in Schoeneman's packing
house, on Archer avenue, Chicago, exploded
with frightful effect on the morning of the 6tl
inst. -Four men were instantly killed, and
three others seriously injured. "A private
letter from Oregon states that Mrs. Candy is
greatly Frustrated by the death of her hus
band, and is not expected to recover. The
dead body of William York, brother of Senator
York, who figured so extensively in the Pom
eroy bribery matters last winter, whose mys
tericus disappearance some weeks ago caused
so much excitement, has been found buried Oh
the claim of a man named Bender, six mile
north of Cherryvale, Kan. The remains bea
ms-ks of violence. Other dead bodies were
found under Bender's house. e. .Indianapoli
has elected a Democratic Mayor.
The South.
MISS SUSAN EBEsgART, an accomplice o
Spawn in the murder of his wife. was hung Oh
the I'd inst, at Preston, Ga. Her last word
we're: 81 am ready and willing" She wa
perfectly unmoved, and had no dread of death
brown Brewer, colored, was hung a
Searcy, Ark, on Friday, May 2, for the murde
of another negro some months ago.