Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Fact

The Directors of the Erie Railroad Company
have authorized the Issue of $40, 900. 900 seven
per cent. convertible bonds, for the purpose of
laying double track along the line of theroad.
Matilda Heron, the once celebrated actress,
is almost hopelessly demented. She is being
treated in New York hospital.
The New York Typographical Society has in
dorsed the proposition to erect monument to
Horace Greeley, of type metal, and requested
printers to contribute the pay of 1000 ems
each, on the Sd of February.
All the conductors on the Harlem railroad
have resigned, consequent upon being obliged
to use books with coupons for tickets, to which
they contend that no person with manhood can
submit
A large force of laborers is engaged on the
New York underground railroad.
B. c. Calvin, New York banker, has COM
menced suit against Mr.. Boutwell,, Secretary of
the Treasury, to recover 81 000, 600 alleged to
be due to plaintiff for certain plans furnished
the Secretary for the purpose of enabling him
to equalize the price of gold and paper cur
rency.
Ambrose E. Lynch, of Pittsburgh, is to hang
or the murder Of William Hatfield.
There has been great freshet on the HUI =
son, Mohawk, Susquehanna, Allegheny, an |
other streams in the East. Many bridges were
swept away, causing much damage to railroads
and seriously interrupting travel
Senator Sherman's specie resumption propo-
sition is the subject Of widespread interest
and discussion among New York bankers and
merchants, whose opinions are widely at vari-
ance on the feasibility of the plan.
The daily illustrated newspaper which has
been contemplated in New York it is now stated
will be published by Goodsell Bros, late of
Chicago It will be an evening paper, with
two editions, called the Graphic. In size it is
to be smaller than the Sun, but it is to have
eight pages, with illustrations in four. The
process of illustration will be by photography.
W. H. Bumstead, the Boss Tweed of Jersey
City. has been psrdoned out of the peniten-
fiary.
The trial of Boss Tweed, at New York. is
dragging its slow length along.
The latest New York murder was committed
by a printer-Marshall McGruder-who burst
open the door of ferlow-compositor named
Clarence Lockwood, and proceeded to empty
the contents of revolver into the body of the
defenseless typo. The murderer was arrested.
woman was connected with the tragedy.
Boston is suffering t rribly from smallpox,
5000 cases being reported last week.
The report of the existence of new horse
epidemic in New York is canard.
Foster, the New York car-hook murderer,
has failed to obtain new trial. and will be
hung.
The West.
The accommodating reports of fatalities by the
recent storm in Northern Minnesota, says the
Chicago Times, intensity the horror of that
dread calamity. The storm seems to have
been unprecedented in its suddenness as well
its severity, and for travellers who encoun-
tered it death seems to have been the rule and
escape the exception, very few of the luckless
wayfarers surviving to tell the story of then
sufferings. Whole sleighing parties frozen to
death upon the roed, the horses standing stark
upon their legs and the drivers sitting bolt
upright; the farmer dying while hurrying to
the succor of his stock husband, leaving his
wife in the agonies of childbirth, dying by the
roadside while fastening for assistance, the
mother consigning the newborn infant to the
icy grasp of death only to follow the husband
and child-these are among the narrowing re-
citals. Death has few shapes more horrible
Similar reports come from all parts of the
State. and the statement that the loss to life
and property exceeds that by the Sioux massa
ere of 1862 is probably not an exaggeration.
A New York jeweler was robbed of 0,00t
worth of jewelry while stopping at the Ire
mont House in Chicago, last week.
The First Congregational Church, one of the
finest and most costly church edifces il
Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000; insured for S118,000.
Perfect, the Chicago colored wife murderer
has been found guilty, on his second trial, ant
again sentenced to be hanged.
The employees of the Southern Minnesota
railroad have seized the road for non-paymen
of back pay.
McNulty, the ChilGcothe, H., wife-murderer
is to be hung.
The thermometer at Sparta, Wis, til
18th of January, marked45 degrees below zero
An airline railroad is projected betwee
Milwaukee and St. Louis.
Advices from California state that a sever
battle has been fought between the troops I'LL
der command of Gen. Wheaton and the Modo
Indians. The troops fought the unseen 70
from a. N. to dark under terrific fire, dul
ing which scarcely one Indian was seen. TIL
loss of the troops was 40 killed and wounded
The loss to the Modocs is unknown. TIL
troops were finally obliged to retreat to the
camps.
K. Graves, President of the Iowa Pacif
and two other railroads, has succeeded in oil
tanning the necessary funds to pay off tt
companies Indebtedness incurred in the COZ
struction during the fall, and to commend
operations in the spring, when it is the intel
ton at once to build the road from Dubuqe
Fort Dodge.
A nephew of George Francis Train has bee
sentenced, at Council Bluffs, to thirty day
imprisonment for swindling rural gentlems
out of $40 at three card monte
Two ladies-Mrs. Rosa DUance and Miss L
Majors-were suffocated by coal gas, at
Cleveland boarding house, last week.
man named Kidder was recently killed ne