Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

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THE National Temperance Society, in session
last week in New York, elected William e.
Dodge President. The society ask the General
Government to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors throughout the
United Srates.
THE Brooklyn gas men have been on a strike,
and a considerable portion of the city was
without gas in consequence, many houses
being dependent on candles and kerosene. -.
Marin. the New York lawyer who slapped jay
Gould's face, was fined 81 and eosts.-..ln the
Court of Boston, Senator Charles
Sumner has been granted a divorce from his
wife, Alice M. Sumner, on the ground of five
years desertion.
WILLIAM M. TWEED is the most extensively
prosecuted man in America. Fifteen fresh in
dictments have recently been found against
him by the New York Grand Jury. "A guest
at q Rochester, N. Y, hotel was the other day
relieved of his satchel, containing SIS, 00G
worth of diamonds. ...B. f. Camp has sued
the New York Tribune for libel, claiming
$50, 900 damages.
A VEIN of silver one to eight feet thick has
been discovered in Pike county, W. Va....The
steamer Remand struck a rock in the Lachine
rapids, st. Lawrence river, afew days ago, and
went to pieces. The passengers all escaped.
"A convention of Jews, at which delegates
were present from leading cities of the United
States, was held in New York last week, and it
was resolved to encourage the emigration of
Roumanian Jews, who, it is alleged, are at
present subjected to bitter persecution.
TwEED's Broadway New York; property,
consisting of five lots, has been sold under
foreclosure for S4s3, 900. Tweed paid 1925, 900
for it,. The New York Legislature has re-
fused to repeal the usury laws....A citizen OF
New York gave the United States in his will
half a million dollars toward the payment of
the national debt, but the courts Of that State
have deelaredth bequest invalid. ..Stokescase
has been taken to the Court of Appeals on a
writ of error from the decision of the Supreme
Court refusing him a new trial. "A prominent
member of the Boston Board of Brokers, a
Young man 36 years old, who has hitherto
borne an unsullied NAME, has been arrested
for forgery. His method was to alter the
figures of stock-certificates, raising certificates
for one, two, and three shares, to one hun
bred, two hundred, and three hundred, re-
spectively. By these operations he has WIN
died various parties out of 5000, 000. The
375, 900 penny postal-cards sent to the New
York Postofice were sold in two days, and
another batch of 1000, 600 has been called
for by the Postmaster. Most of those which
have appeared in the mails bear advertise
ments-
LUIGI LUsIGNANI was hung at Morristown,
N. j., on the 18th inst, for the murder of his
wife and on the following day Michael Nixon
suffered a like penalty in New York city for
the killing of Charles Pfeifer. Rev. DR.. Ben
jamin 81. Paddock has been elected Episcopal
Bishop for the diocese of Massachusetts,.
The West.
A sNow-sToRM in Wyoming Territory on the
9Th of May. The remains of Bishop Nc
nYaine, of the Episcopal Church, having been
brought from Florence, Italy, where he died,
were inferred at Cincinnati, last week, with
mournful and impressive ceremonies. The
American Medical Association has been holding
an interesting session at st. Louis, a large
number of delegates being present from every
section of the country. A resolution was III
troduced by DR.. Homer, of the navy, declaring
that alcohol should be classed withsother pow
erful drugs, and that when it is prescribed
incidentally it should be done with conscien-
tious caution and 8 sense of great RESPONSE
bility. IN resolution further declares that
alcoholic liquors, as a beverage, are productive
of a large amount of physical and mental dis
ease. that it is the cause of a large percentage
of the crime and pauperism of our cities anC
and country. The resolution was referred
to a committee, who will report q
the next meeting of the Association. E.
The Modocs made a sortie from the lava bed
on the 7th inst, attacked a Government suppl,
train, and captured eleven mules and tire
horses, and burned three wagons. Thre
soldiers we're wounded in the fight, the Indian
escaping without a scratch. A %reconnois
sance of the lava beds on the 0th by a party O
Warn Spring Indians revealed the fact tina
the Modocs have abandoned their late posi-
ton, but whittier they went or whenthey depart
ed is a profound mystery. The party foun
the bodies of Lieut.. Cranston and three o
our soldiers, and also two dead Modocs, dun
ing their explorations. A San Fran
cisco dispatch of the 9th says Williar
Fenning met Bogus Charley and his squaw o.
the road, thirty miles north of Yreka, the da
before. Fenning advised him to give up hi
gun. Charley refused, and did not say wher
he was going, but said he was tired of fight
ing. Other persons report having seen thi
warrior. "A terrific tornado passed owe
Belle Center, Ohio, Oh Saturday, BLOWN
down eight dwellings, five stores and on
church. Strange to say, no loss of life ID rt
ported. D.. Richard Wallingford and his wife
living in Van Buren, county, Iowa, deliberatel
committed suicide a few nights ago, by takin
poison. They have been having excitin
times in Labette county, Kansas. Ten grave
in all have been found on the Bender farm
and it is thought more will yet be discovered
1t is supposed the numbering has been goin
on for years, and the utmost horror has bee
produced by the awful revelations of Grim
A man named Brockman was hung by an e.
cited mob. to make him confess the know
C0SO l. 10 hO POOoOCoOo 4O6oAoh-0 VI
whereabouts of Bender and family. and ws
released, being at last dead. Sixteen Il
dams, in charge of E. E. Barnum, agent for
t. Barnunl, passed through Kansas City +
Gently. They are bound for Vienna, and re-
resent the Kaws, Comanches and Cheyenne
Others will follow from other tribes.
In Winona county. Minnesota, John Heffe
man, aged 65, attacked his son with an a
The latter, in self-defense, smote his aged P
rent with a billet of wood, from the effects
which he died. The little town of Wetmor
Kansas, on the Central Branch Pacific RAJ
road, was recently the scene of a horrible al
revolving tragedy. A man named Erricksc
went to the house of a neighbof named Ma
auette. whom he shot dead in his own doc
III wretch then entered the house, and, aft
outraging the wife Of the murdered ma
killed her by shooting her seven times with
revolver. He then wound up by shootil
himself twice, once in the abdomen and on
through the head. When found he was lyil
across the dead body of Mrs. Marquette, WI
was in a state of nudity, with a pistol still
his hand. 1t turns out that Capt. Jaci
Modocs have not abandoned the lava beds,
renorted Int have taken up q position TO