Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-24
OF II WEEK.
The East.

York have been visited by serious floods, in
volving great destruction of property, and, in
some cases, of human life. At Rochester, an
incident of the overflow resulted in a sad
calamity. A large number OF persons were
standing on an unfinished wall by the side of
the river watching the rise Oh the waters,
when the wall was swept away, and ten or ff-
teen persons precipitated into the stream.
Several of them were carried over the falls
and drowned.
The election in Connecticut resulted in the
success of Ingersell, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, by a majority of 1909 votes,
over the Republican and Prohibition candi-
dates. The Congressional delegation stands
exactly as in the last Congress, namely: First
District, Hawley (Rep.); Second, Kellogg
CRep.); Third, Starkweather (Rep,); Fourth,
Barnum Oem.) }; while the Democrats have a
majority in the Legislature.
Peter Gilsey, the largest real estate dealer
in New York. is dead.
A building in course of construction at Mid
dletown, Ct, fell the other day, killing six
workmen and injuring twelve others.
Frederick A. Lane, of Erie notoriety, and a
wel-known Wall street operator, has been
ANONYMOUSLY expelled from the New York
century CluD 1Or QlSnOneSC practceS.
The New York striking gas men had a sharp
conflict with the police the other day, in which
the former were put to rout, many of them
with broken heads and belabored bodies.
One hundred skilled English farmers, bound
for Minnesota. arrived at New York last week.
The insurance on Horace Greeley's life,
$100, 600, has been collected. This policy is
the largest paid in the last decade.
The strike of the New York gas men has
proved a failure.
John Hanley, the youthful hero of the At
lantic disaster, visited the New York Stock Ex-
change the other day, and received 1898.
While the English detectives now in New
York, engaged in the Bank of England forgery
case. were seeing the city the other night. one
of them was robbed of his watch and pocket
book and papers for the extradition of Bid
well, of Havana. The papers were returned.
The Goodrich murder, in Brooklyn, still re-
mains a profound mystery, and it is believed
the author of the crime will never be dis
covered.
Two cotton mills belonging to the Dwight
Manufacturing Company, at Chicopee, Mass,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss, upward of
a million dollars.
The Government has brought suit against
Cakes Ames for $500, 600, said to be due on an
old cotton transaction during the war.
The West.
Died, recently, at Aurora, H., Mrs. Knapp,
aged 101 years. Could read the newspapers
without glasses up to within a few weeks of her
death.
Brigham Young told the Mormon Confer
ence at Salt Lake that he was getting old. and
wanted a young man to carry out the work he
had commenced. He has retired generally
from business, spiritual and commercial. and
1t is said he viii join the new Mormon colony
in Arizona.
Twelve hundred hogs two hundred cattle,
and a large number of sheep were smothered
to death on a train between Chicago and Pitts
burgh, a few days ago. Nearly every train
that arrives at the East Liberty yards is said
to contain more or less stock smothered.
Chicago has been honored by visit from
the world-famous Boss Tweed.
Thirty-fve of the survivors of the Inflated
Atlantic have arrived in Chicago.
It is said that the Mormons are preparing to
leave Utah and settle in Arizona. Brigham
Young will lead them, and the new colony will
be located in the valleys bordering on the San
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paradise all Gentiles viii be excluded.
The Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapahoe In
dams are preparing for war, and the forts in
Western Kansas and south of that section are
being reinforced.
Charles S~anguinet, the Oldest native inhab-
liant of ST. Louis, has Just died. He was born
in that city in 1881.
A bill is before the Illinois Legislature appro-
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pleted monument to Stephen A. Douglas, in
Chicago.
At Chicago, last week, Antonio Aldexs killed
his brother by stabbing him with a pocket
knife. AS usual, liquor was the incentive to
the unnatural crime.
The Modocs tried to induce Gen. CANDY to
let them stay in the lava-bed, but, as he saws
In his dispatch to Gen. Sherman, this meant
license to plumber and a stronghold to retreat
to, and was refused. They ask now that thew
be allowed to pick out a place for themselves.
If they would do this in good faith, all trouble
would be over, but Gen. Candy fears they are
lnsincere in this as in their former proposals.
Jesse Apologize, late one of the Indian Peace
commissioners, authorizes the statement that
the band of Modocs numbers just ffty-three
Indians.
A fire in Detroit, last week, destroyed the
offices of the Detroit Tribune, Commercial Adj
~uerttser, Michigan Farmer, and Calvert Iith-
e~graphing Company. Total loss about
1926, 900.
Chicago has made another move in the in
terest of law and order. Her Common Coun-
Gil has decided, by a vote of two to ole, that
liquor saloons must be closed at half-past
2 eleven O'Clock at night.
A party of four Nebraska drovers were re.
Gently robbed in a Chicago hotel of money and
papers valued at $40, 700.
Washington.
The rush of travel to Europe is extraordi
nary. Judging from the applications made tc
the State Department for passports, which ex.
coed in number those granted for any core
spending period. They average about 100 pei