Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-23

1t is said the Erie Railway Company is about
to sue Drew and Vanderbilt for the restitution
of money of which it is claimed they defraued
the company.
Henry c. Bowen of the Brooklyn Union,
has sued the New York Tribune for large
amount because the Tribune copied from the
Brooklyn Eagle an article alleging that Bowen
was responsible for the scandal about Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher in regard to the Wood
hull Clafin publication against him.
Stokes, the New York murderer, has been re-
moved to his old CELL 1t is said this is the first
instance in 81 years in which prisoner
fined in the Tombs and convicted of murder
has been allowed to occupy any but con-
demned cell.
A diaboical attempt at wholesale incendiarism
was discovered and frustrated in New York the
other day. A twine merchant named Kidd had
carefully prepared train Of fuse connecting
his premises with adjoining buildings whereby
they could be set on fire. He was arrested,
and his Office boy testified to seeing him max
ing the fuses. Three large warehouses were
involved in this attempt, and but for the dis
covery heavy confagration would have en-
sued, as trains of fuse were nearly all laid in
the upper stories and from roof to roof.
meeting of old soldiers of the war of 1912
was held in Philadelphia the anniversary of
the battle of New Orleans. Only twelve
answered to roll-call.
Petitions are circulating in New York for sig
natures, praying Congress to annex the Sand
witch Islands to the Uuited States.
The war among the New York newspapers
wakes warmer daily, and some sanguine per-
1,,o1S in,
It is said the Times is about to bring libel
suit against the World, for a recent pubica-
ton in which the private life of parties con-
nected with the Times is freely ventilated
Bowen, of the Brooklyn Union. threatens half
dozen suits against the Tribune.
The compositors of the New York Tribune
at meeting the other day, approved the
proposition that the printing offices in the
United States give one or more pounds Of old
type each for the purpose of making a statue
of Horace Greeley, to be erected over his
grave in Greenwood, and ask the compositors
of the country to give the proceeds of 1000
ems, set up on February next, the sixty-sec-
ond anniversary of the birth of Mr. Greeley,
the money to be forwarded to the President of
the New York Typographical Union No. 6, at
% Duane street, New York, of which Union Mr..
Greeley was the first President.
The billiard match for the championship of
America played at New York on the 9th inst,
between Cyrille Dion and Maurice DAILY, was
won by the former, by a score of 500 to /, 147.
Largest runs: Dion, 156, al, 125 and 105
DAILY, 159, 15s, lit, 124 and 108. Fifty-nine in
nings were played.
Napoleon, it is said made several invest
msnts in New York during the past year, and
owned nearly million dollars worth of prop
erty in that city.
Mrs. Carr and her three children were burned
to death, in Delaware county, Pa last week
by the explosion of lamp.
Woodruff and Clalin have again been confn
ed in jail at New York, in default of bail.
The statistics of enormous dealings on the
New Stock Exchange last year have been pub
ished. The registered sales of the twenty
seven most prominent stocks amounted tt
5000, 900 shares, valued at nearly double tbs
bonded debt of the United States The larges
transactions were in Pacific Mail, their extern
covering ffty-fve times the amount of it
capital stock.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut Bor
gia, has been sentenced to Imprisonment TO
MT dt New I1dVen. ou6 uaS Hlduo d lun COu
fession, in which she acknowledges to hayin
poisoned eight persons, three of whom wer
her husbands.
Thomas c. Durant, in behalf of the Unto
Pacific Railroad Company, has commenced SUI
in New York against Cakes Ames and Jane
Brooks to recover shares of Credit Mobile
stock alleged to have been fraudulently oil
tanned s-lN ua
The debt of New York city increased 81, $50
600 last year.
Ex-Mayor Daniel C. Kingsland, of New Yorl
is dead, aged rs years.
The trial of William M. Tweed is in progre
in New York. The Boss expresses himse
confident of acquittal.
The widow of ex-President John TYLER
about to sell her estate on Staten Island. al
Tepurchase the old Tyler estate in Virginia
The West.
Two children were scalded to death at d
catur H., recently, by one of them pullil
over coffee-pot filed with the boiling fluid.
-Four persons were recently killed.by the c
plosion of the boiler of steam mill, in Hill
dale county, Mich.
Advices from Arizona state that Gen. Gro
is MdS1H6 d wal u cAtoIlluuAtlOn against I
murderous Apaches.
Joseph Rogers, Of Hazel Green, Wis, "
recently blown to atoms by the explosion of
can of nitro-glycerine, which he was careless
handling.
The Home Wooden Mills at Jacksonville, 1
were recently destroyed by fire. Loss 800, o
Charles Ducharne, one of the most pror
nent and active business men of Detroit
dead, aged 81.
Advices from Arizona state that battle
been fought between the command of NJ
Brown and band of Apache Indians, last
five hours. Fifty-seyen of the red devils W
sent to their happy hunting grounds 6
twenty-three captured. Maj. Browns o
loss WAS one Lima Indian.
An explosion of gas which had leaked &
filed the space between the ground floor
plastering below the Office of the West