Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho East.

Tho East.
THERE are in New York 40, 600 people COM
pulsorily idle-people who would be glad to
work and earn food, clothing, Goals and
shelter So says the New York Herald. The
creditors of A. & W. Sprague have accepted
the proposition of the firm for an extension,
and the affairs of the immense corporation are
now in the hands of three trustees. Center,
the Stokes juror who, while the case was
pending, made q practice Of rambling about
the city nights in the care of Deputy-Sheriff,
visiting dranl-shops and talking pretty freely
about the case, has been sentenced to thirty
days imprisonment and to pay fine of $3.50.
-. Laura keene, the famous actress, died in
New York, last week, at an advanced age.
A man named Wade was hung for murder at
Williamsport, Pa, on Friday. the 5th inst.
wretch met his death: The rope being too
long. his feet struck squarely on the ground.
In this position he remained, shouting, '.Oh
Lord, have mercy" The rope came off his
neck and his body fell over heavily on the
ground He carried upon the scaffold,
and after long delay in arranging the rope,
the drop was again pulled. He fell this time
less than three feet His pulse continued to
beat for seven minutes. After hanging TWEEN
ty-seven minutes he was placed in coffin and
taken charge of by his friends. Many pieces
of the rope were cut of and carried away as
to .. hurry mp as he had an appointment to
dine in hell with the devil at p He said the
only thing troubling him was whether the
people whom he murdered were In heaven or
hell"
UPWARD OF $4,000 workingmen have
been thrown out of employment this fall
in Philadelphia alone. "A Grange has been
established in Elizabeth. n. J =. AT meeting
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Directors, the
other day. five per cent. scrip dividend. re-
deemable in March, 1875, was declared. Tom
Scott, yice-President, rendered his resigna-
ton. but it was not accepted.
THE strike of the bricklayers in New York
has seriously embarrassed building opera
tions. =. Six hundred men were discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard last week. -.
The trai OF the man Undertook, at West
Chester Pa. has resulted in a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. 1t will be re-
membered that this is the case where man
was murdered 20 secure the large sum for
which his life was insured, the circumstances
constituting criminal romance that the most
daring writer's of fiction have scarcely sur
passed The evidence against the accused
was purely circumstantial. A horrible double
tragedy was enacted at Monongahela City,
Pr, few days ago. An old man named
John Clemens made viii disnheriting his
son James, which so enraged the young man
that he went to q butcher-shop, obtained
knife and murdered his aged parent COM
pletely disemboweling him. The parricide
then plunged the knife into his own breast,
severing his heart in twain -. The Kelsey
mystery continues to agitate the people of
Long Island, n. Y. The grand jury has in
dicted number of persons for the murder OF
Kelsey, and some of them are IN prison, bail
being refused
A FIRE at Springfield, Mass, on the 10th
inst, destroyed $3.50, 900 worth of railroad
property. :. Boston has been celebrating the
anniversary of it's great fire. Much of the
DESTROYED part of the city has been substan-
italy rebuilt. .Bettershall * Co., heavy tea
merchants of New York, have failed. jay
Cooke 4 Co. have made proposition to pay
Is per cent. in money and the remainder in
Pacific railroad bonds. Tom Scott declares
that no more bills of the Texas and Pacific
Construction Company will be allowed to go
to protest.
THE singular Kelsey case of Long Island, n.
Y. is as far from solution as ever. The par
ties arrested on charge of having murdered
the missing man have been discharged, the
grand jury having failed to find any bill
against them Two Pittsburgh banks sus-
pended last week 1t Is said depositors Will be
paid IN full. . A boiler exploded with fright
full effect at the corner of Fourth avenue and
One Hundred and Twentieth street, New York,
on the morning of the 18th inst. Seven per-
sons were instantly killed and several wound
ed. All of the killed had either the whole, or
a portion, of their heads blown of. The boil
er was in charge of boy Is years of age, who
had been allowed to act as engineer to the
peril of scores of lives The boiler ex-
ploded with terrible noise. and an instant
afterward. as the dust and debris cleared away,
the ground was seen to be strewn.with bodies
of the dead and wounded horribly torn and
Ilutilated.
THE bankruptcy proceedings against Jay
Cooke 4 Co. have been postponed to Nov. a.
The West.
THE Chicago Industrial Exposition closed
on Monday, the 10th inst. In every respect it
has proved grand success. -. A branch mint
will probably be established at Chicago.
John W. Young, the money-order forger, has
been convicted at Chicago, and sentenced 90
three wears in the Penitentlary. Vast de-
posts of iron and coal have been discovered
in Southern Utah. .Ex-Gov- James, of Ne
braska has been indicted for malfeasance III
Office .. George Hopkins and Mr.. Bailey, OF
Henry county, Mo-, met by chance, the other
day. and settled an old feud by killing each
other. Both were respectable Citizens.
The extensive livery-stable of James III.
Thornton, in st. Louis has been destroyed
by fire. Loss. 800, 900. -. AT Detroit, few
nights ago. young man, named Henderson,
ON his way Jme from q nights carouse.
stopped at the house of Widow Lavine and
demanded adj alliance. She fired a pistol
through the window and shot him dead
A severe shock of earthquake was felt in
portions of California aud Nevada on the 9Th
inst.
SERIOUS charges are made against Indian
Commissioner Smith in connection with his
sale of the Leach Lake pine lands, in North
ern Minnesota. Owen O'Conor, of Dixon
III will spend the remainder of his life in
prison. il not released by Executive interior
ence. as . penalty for having murdered Dem
mis- Alien. The Chicago and Alton road is to
be prosecuted for violation Of the Illinois
Railroad law :. Col. H. d. Cook, President of
the Illinois Board of Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners, died at his residence in Nor
NAL on the 9th inst, aged Sc years. Fifty
thousand dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed by . fire in Fort Wayne, Ind, ON the
9th inst
Two men charged with robbing the train on
the Rock Island railroad, in Iowa, have been