Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


Congressman p. B. Roosevelt, of New York,
has put his nomination for West Point up for
competition among 1900 scholars in the two
public grammar schools in his district in New
York.
Boss Tweed, while reading the evidence of
Cakes Ames in the Credit Mobilier investiga-
ton, thu other day, said 'Thank God I am
not Congressman. AS bad as they say 1 am,
they have never accused me of selling my vote
rs Senator
George Francis Train has caught fever and
in living on prison fare and repelling all offers
of bail. He says he will not quit the prison
until the merits of his cause release him.
The Gilbert Elevated Railway Company, of
New York, has contracted with the New York
and Boston Iron Company to build five miles
of road, at 81, 600, 900 per mile.
1t is announced that Commodore Vanderbilt
has abandoned his underground railroad pro-
ject. at New York
A monument has just.been placed in Green
wood Cemetery, New York, to the memory of
the gifted Cary sisters. The ideao the monu-
ment originated with the late Horace Greeley,
The Pennsylvania Senate has instructed, by
a vote of 25 to 1, Senators Scott and Cameron
to vote against the Postal Telegraph bill when
it comes before the United States Senate.
The trial of Boss Tweed, of New York, re-
suited in a disagreement of the jury who stood
II for acquittal and for conviction.
o. Love- of Boston, recently shot his little
daughter and then killed himself. Cause
domestic trouble.
Ben. Butler has written sympathetic letter
to Mrs. Woodruff.
A telegram from White Plains, n. Y, of the
Sd inst, says: At the opening of the Greeley
will case, Judge Hart stated that he had re-
ceived note from Miss Ida Greeley, which
had been approved by her sister, in which they
begged to withdraw from the contest, which
their opponents we're determined to wage over
their fathers grave. The contestants then
proceeded to prove the will made by Mr..
Greeley in 1871 without further opposition.
1t was stated that Mr.. Greeley left property
estimated to be worth S206, 000 which, with
the estate of Mrs. Greeley, would amount to
1926. 900.
Four boilers in the American Iron Works,
Pittsburgh, exploded on the Sd inst. with
frightful effect. The conclusion was so ire
mendous that three sections of the building
were completely shattered, the roof being
carried entirely away and scattered in all
directions. There were about 5000 laborers
employed in the mill at the time of the ex-
plosion, and for a time it seemed as though a
very large number had been either killed or
wounded by the steam or by fragments of the
boilers that were sent flying in all directions.
Seven persons were killed outright. and over
thirty seriously injured, many of whom will die.
New York has had another horrible double
murder. Stephen Haas, a letter-carrier, quar-
relied with and murdered his mistress, Mrs.
Barbara Schatfer, and then cut his own throat.
1t is stated that evidence has been obtained
showing that the frauds under the old New
York Board of Audit will amount to fully &c.
OO0, 900. Fresh frauds are continually coming
to light.
The boiler of Woods rolling mills, at Norris
town, Pa, blew up on the Sd inst, killing eight
persons, and woundiRg thirteen more or less
dangerously.
John 81. Selwyn, the well-known theatrical
manager, died at Philadelphia last week.
The West.
The Sddts-Zeitung, daily German Repub-
ican paper at st. Louis, has been sold under
the Sheriff's hammer for S12 500.
VIM. Lawn, q sewing machine agent, was
lately murdered by Perry county CO., saloon
keeper, because he refused to pay for drink
of whisky.
John ]. Ingalls,, the new Kansas Senator,
vice Pomeroy, is lawyer, a native OF Essex
county, Mass, and is SO years old. He resides
In Atchison.
Negroes from the South are being introduced
into the coal mines at New Lisbon, Ohio, to
supply the places of the striking white miners.
This being the first attempt to solve the diff
Guilty of the miners strikes in this manner. the
result is Stocked upon with considerable interest.
Advices from California state that Capt.
Jack, the troublesome chief of the Modoc In
dians after having been shelled by United
States troops, has been shot and wounded by
some of his own treacherous tribe, who were
dissatisfied with his want of vigor in the con-
duct of the war. It is added that, at his in
vitation, two officers have gone to hold big
talk with him.
Senator Pomeroy, by counsel, appeared be-
fore the Judge of the United States District
Court, at Topeka, Kansas on the LIST inst, and
gave bail in $4,000 for his appearance at the
June term of the court. rumor has been
prevalent that the fallen Senator is raving
maniac, and that his life is despaired of.
Three incendiaries were recently hung by
yigilants at Arrow Rock, Mo.
Hon. Joel A. Matteson, Ex-Governor of Hi
nois, died at the residence of his son-in-law,
r. E. Goodell, in Chicago, on the 31st ult.,
aged 65. His death resulted from injuries re-
ceived more than year ago by being thrown
from his buggy.
Mrs. Boyce, of Chicago, has been sentenced
to five years imprisonment in the Illinois
Penitentiary for the murder, by poison, OF
Calvert Johnson.
Three laborers were killed, the other day. by
the caving of an embankment on the Milwaukee
and st. Paul railroad, near Chicago.
lot of Cinnamon, at Carson, Nevada, re-
Gently engaged in a fierce encounter with
knives and pistols about woman, in which
fhFep were killed and nuy,,har ,vonndo5