Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

lofZ was 1l0S, allu Tic lOMo5t 1Uo
John A. Brown, an old and wealthy banker
of Philadelphia, is dead, aged IS. 7-,T
The buildings of Colts Willow Ware Manu-
featuring Company, at Hartford, Ct, were re-
Gently burned. Loss, $1,000.
Susan B. Anthony refuses to seek release
from Imprisonment by giving bail, and has
been sent back to Jail. Her companions gave
the bail asked, and are at liberty until their
trial for voting begins at Albany.
In New York, during 1872, there were S,445
marriages, and II, 1893 births of living children
The deaths exceed the births by nearly 1900
The total death roll is %, 941 being 5000 in
cess of last year.
The new scheme for the Rapid Transit road
in New York proposes to make the building
thereof the province of the city. The road is
expected to cost $40, 200, 600.
The loss by the burning of Days Fifth Ave
nue. Theather, in New York, on New Years day,
will reach 100000. For time the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, adjoining, was in immluent
danger, and wild panic seized the guests and
employees, who rushed helter-skelter in every
direction; but by the strenuous exertions OF
the firemen the flames we're restricted to the
theater building, which was consumed In an
incredibly short time.
passenger train on the Pittsburgh and
Erie railroad ran off the track near Movarla,
Pa, the other day, and was precipitated down
an embankment thirty feet high. Two of the
coaches were burned, but all the passengers
succeeded in getting out alive. Twenty OF
them were injured, but none seriously.
The trial of Stokes for the murder of James
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on the 4th inst, and resulted in verdict OF
guilty of murder in the first degree. On re-
firing, the jury stood ten for murder and two for
manslaughter. They were absent three hours
On the announcement of the verdict the
prisoner was visibly affected. He turned
ehastlv pale, and threw his arms in the air
with gesture of utter despair.
Financial advices from New York and the
East express the belief that the ruling none
tary stringency must soon give way to an easier
feeling.
Stokes was brought into the New York Court
of Oyer and Terminer, the other day, to re-
ceive his sentence. The prisoner was asked
what he had TO say why sentence of death
should not be passed upon him. Stokes SAID
that he had not violated the law Intentionally;
that the testimony upon which he was con-
yicted was manufactured and perjured. Judge
Boardman, then, in a feeling address, in which
he alluded to the prisoners youth and social
surroundings, sentenced him to be hanged
on Friday, the 2Sth day of February next, be-
ing the longest time that could be legally al
lowed the convicted man. The prisoner looked
gentlemanly, and bore the scrutinizing gaze OF
the thousands of spectators led by morbid
curiosity He was ashy pale. The sympathy
of most of the spectators was with Stokes, and
it is believed Gov. Dix will exert executive
clemency.
bitter and exciting journalistic war is rag
ing in New York. A dispatch of the 9th inst
saws: ALI the papers in the suit of the 1rab-
atrae against the Times and the Brooklyn Union
have been served, and the Tribune will press
for trial as early as possible. There is a pros
pect of lively row among the newspapers IN
the next few weeks The Tribune and the
Herald are making common cause against the
Times. and savage compliments are exchanged
daily The Herald is not in the fight at present
but . Ill probably take hand on the side of the
Tri ,tne and World. The Journal of Com
qnerce approves the Tribuaes course in bring
suffered from stories similar to that which
causes the present row.
Deaths in Brooklyn the past year numbered
1868.
Mrs. Sophia NJ Hiltsman andsWilliam J. N
Sheppard we're foully murdered at Moravia
NY, by John Hiltsman, husband Of the for
mer.
Stokes has been taken from his luxurious
quarters in the Tombs and confined in the
murderer's cell. One ground on which The
verdict will be attacked by Stokes counsel ii
the remark said to have been made by one o
the Jurors, between the first and second trials
that he would be juror next time then yo'
will see what will happen to Stokes"
The West.
A fire at Galesburg. H., recently, destroye'
an entire block of buildings, involving los
of 100000.
The damage to .steambca;s and barges a
Cincinnati, by the breaking of the ice gorge, i
estimated at 100000.
Milwaukee shipped, last year, wheat an
-four to the amount of 1858, 821 bushels. 1t
manufactures are claimed to foot up $40, 600
900, of which iron and lager beer are the lare
est, the former yielding "a, 100000; the othel
100000.
The works of the Northwestern Fertilizin
Company, South Chicago were destroyed b
fire recently, involving a loss of S175,000.
The fine residence of ex-Goy. Dewey, 8
Cassyille, Wis, was burned recently. Los
S75, 600.
The coal-miners' strike at Springfield. Ill
has ended, the workmen having accepted tt
old rates. t
Two brothers, named William and Davi
Clarkson, both butchers, aged respectively
and II, were found frozen to death in the
beds in Pike county, ILL.,, recently. They WEI
known to be extremely misery, and it seen
that, notwithstanding they were wealthy-beir
worth $4,000, had money in their pocket
and an abundant supply of fuel at hand-th'
froze to death because they we're too stingy
burn their wood Their deaths were certain
most extraordinary.
A Morgan county, H., farmer has broug
suit for $4,000 damages against the Chical
and Alton Railroad Company, for commur