Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
County Republican
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


In the course of the investigations that have
followed the collapse of the Brooklyn Trust
Company it has been developed that Rodman,
the cashier of the concern, and Deputy City
Treasurer of Brooklyn, has stolen about $3.50, :
900 belonging to the city. He has been ar
rested. and Will be prosecuted. The citizens
of Newburg. n. Y, are improving the appear
ance of the old headquarters of Gen. WASH
ington, in that town. Secretary of War
Belknap is cooperating, and has ordered
thirty cannon to be sent there, to be placed on
headquarter grounds. Two bank officers
have recently committed suicide-William r.
Boyce, President of the First National Bank
of Lynn. Mass, and j. III. Rosanquest, Cashier
of the First National Bank of Tarrytown, N u
LEGAL investigation into the affairs Of the
Philadelphia Morgue has developed the fact
that the Coroner has for long time been in
the habit of ceiling bodies intrusted to him
for burial DIR. Hodges, of the Medical Col
lege, testified that he was in the habit OF buy
ing these unclaimed corpses, and could see
nothing reprehensible in so doing. Michael
A. Mcfarland, who spent his whole fortune in
securing the acquittal of his brother Daniel
for the killing of Albert ID. Richardson, has
just died in q New York hospital Having no
friends, he was buried in the Potter's field.
At Montpelier, VT, Joseph Daniels shot Carrie
jealousy.
JoHSw. HORTON, the Lancaster pa forg-
er has been arrested in Providence, r. I. 1t
turns out that he is an old svindler. In 1860
he was in the employ Of Philadelphia bank
err and mysteriously disappeared with s41, 900
belonging to his employer, and it was sup
posed until recently that he was murdered and
robbed. Walter Snowden, Philadelphia in
surance clerk, the other day robbed his en-
ployers safe, then struck himself with dumb
bell and simulated Inconsistencies, to make
believe he had been robbed. The trick was
discovered and he confessed to the theft. A
boat containing two men and woman was
swept over the falls at Reading, Pa, the other
day, and one of the men and the woman
drowned . Williamson, the principal in the
bond forgeries which have brought transac-
lions in New York Central bonds to stand
still in Wall street, has not yet been arrested.
So far, SO, 900 worth Of the forged securities
have been discovered, and 1T Is rumored IN
Wall street that one bank has been swindled
to the figure of S500,000
THE bond forgeries in New York grow more
formidable every day. 1t is now believed that
81, OO0, 900 worth of false securities have been
put on the market by the counterfeiting gang.
-. Edward Patterson. clerk for Keep & Gross.
New York bankers, has decamped with over
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SEVERAL well-executed $500 counterfeit
greenbacks have been received at the Sub
Treasury in New York. Experts pronounce
them the best counterfeits that they have ever
seen. Few of them are in circulation in New
York. and it is believed that they have been
issued mostly in the West. An old man named
Sweet has been arrested at Titusyille, Pa, for
passing one of these counterfeits.
GLOUCESTER. Mass, the famous fishing
port, lost IS lives and $50, 900 by the late gale
on the Nova Scotia coast Ten of the coun-
terfeit $500 notes have been received at the
New York Sub-Treasury. 1t is thought that
1t will De fornd necessary to call in the whole
genuine issue Of s35, 000. 600. There is
law In Massachusetts, which permits the Gov
ernor to grant conditional pardons that is, to
provide that if the prisoner be convicted of
crime committed after his release he shall be
required to serve out the remainder of his
previous sentence. A prisoner who was de-
tanned under these circumstances recently ap-
piled to the Supreme Judicial Court BY writ
of hdbeds corpus for release, and that tri-
bunal has just granted the application, hold
ing that the law is unconstitutional.
The West.
THE land of Illinois is assessed by the State
Board of Equalization at an average of s22.SS
an acre improved, and Ss.47 unimproved. .
Several of the Iowa railroad robbers are said
to be in Lafayette county. No.. and that the
citizens Ire afraid to arrest them. A sailor
named John L. Irving, and claiming to be a
relative of Washington Irving, now in San
Francisco, has confessed himself the muir
derer of Benjamin Nathan. of New York. and
says he was hired to do the job by the son of
the murdered man. The fellow is believed to
be finsane. The Texas cattle fever has
broken out among the cattle in the st. Louis
dairies. Beane. the conductor of the coal
train which colided with the passenger ex-
press on the Chicago and Alton railroad, caus-
ing frightful massacre, has at last been ar
rested in viii county, H., where he has been
skulking ever since the disaster occurred.
His captor was Simon L. Miller, merchant of
Monee, and an old friend of the prisoner, who
was tempted by the 81, 600 reward to betray
him into the hands of justice. Beane is now
in jail in Chicago. and will be tried for his
crime. "A wonderful magnetic spring has
been discovered near watertown. Wis. Re-
markable cures of rheumatism. kidney COM
plants, and other evils to which flesh is heir,
are reported.
ANOTHER railroad slaughter is added to the
frightful list Of recent disasters-this time in
Michigan. The accident occurred on the De-
troit and Milwaukee road near Muir station.
and was occasioned by freight train running
into the rear of q passenger train Result
six persons killed and some twenty wounded,
all emigrants. Freiburg and Workum, re-
Gently expelled from the Cincinnati Chamber
Of Commerce. have appealed to the courts for
redress. Various portions of California were
visited by earthquake shocks on the 29th ult
Near Cairo, ILL.,, the other day, q bank
cayed In at gravel pit. killing and wounding
. number of railroad hands Three have died
and 9th . are not expected to recover.
William Campbell (colored) was hung at Cairo,
Ill, on the 10Th ult., for the murder of the
mate of the steamer Grand Tower. ON the
oath Of last April. The culprit was obdurate
to the last, repelling all attempts at converse
ton and all religious offices, snd died protest
ing that he was hanged unjustly. 4.
dispatch from Clinton, No., states that
skirmish had taken place in st. Clair county,
between the Iowa sheriff and the Rock Island
train robbers, il which one Of the sheriff 8
posse ana one Of the robbers were wounded
The eherih and his posse were in hot pursuit
at last account -. Near Gallon Ohio last
week. train ran into farmers wagon, con-
tanning himself, wife and two daughters. kill
ing the children outright, and severely injur-
iog the father AID mother. :. .Advices from