Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-17
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

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IN South acton, Mass, few days ago,
George Curtis, aged years, took boy named
Lanes years of age into the woods, and there
beat him with club in most shocking man.
ner. Lane was soon discovered, but died of his
Injuries four hours after. The child-murderer
fed, but was subsequently arrested. "A young
man and young lady, accompanied by an in
FAINT brother of the latter, went out on the
Niagara riyor on the Fourth for a boat ride, and,
getting in the current, were carried over the
falls and dashed to pieces The man and woman
were to have beeen married the next day..
Buffalo has been shaken by an earthquake.
No damage, but considerable scare. Frank
H. Walworth the young man who shot his
father at New York, and was convicted of
murder in the second degree, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. The youth
full parricide listened unmoved to the dreadful
sentence, and walked from the scene of the
trial with a firm step, and in an apparently
cheerful frame of mind On his way TO the
Tombs, after sentence, he said: II am glad
did not have to endure the long lecture l
had anticipated Judge Davis would infiict
ton, and did not desire any instruction in re-
lation thereto. l simply wish time to arrange
my affairs, and 1 shall then submit myself to
my fate with all the equanimity can COM
mand."
THE young parricide, Frank Walworth. has
taken up his quarters in Sing Sing Prison.
The repairs to the steamer Tigress at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard has proved such bung-
ling job that the vessel is less seaworthy
than when she entered the docks. in conse-
quence of which the search for the Polaris is
indefinitely postponed. 1t is probable that
the steamship City of Washington will be
foated and repaired Had she struck 200
yards farther to the left, ON the Little Gull
Rock, her 700 souls would beyond a doubt,
have followed the victims of the Atlantic. At
the time of the disaster she was running at
the good rate of nine knots an hour, notwith-
standing dense fog prevailed and the Cap
tain evidently had not the least idea of his
whereabouts.
PooRs Railroad Manual for 1874, just
issued at New York, gives some statistics that
possess considerable value in connection with
subject of great present interest. being de-
tailed statement of the returns from 425 rail-
roads of the United States. These lines have
an aggregate length of nearly 10000 miles,
and cost over three billions of dollars. 1t is
shown that the total earnings of all the rail-
roads in the United States during the past
year were $40 600 700. being more than the
receipts of the Ctuted States Treasury and
the net earniD IS. S48, 0Q0, 900, more than the
interest accouG. of the Government. A man
named King made a balloon ascension from
Morristown, Vt. on the Fourth, and when
which covered his balloon an inch thick, and
sent it down rapidly. He descended in a for
est, where he wandered about for 48 hours
without food He was finally discovered
much exhausted from cold and hunger. but
otherwise uninjured E. Laura Keene is dying
of consumption in New York.
The West.
A Two-sToRY house fell in Mt Carroll. H..
the other day, and three persons were injured,
it is feared, fatally Capt. Randall, of the
Twenty-third Infantry, and command, with so
Apache scouts, recently surrounded camp of
Apache Indians in Arizona, and captured
twenty-five warriors. with squaws and chill
dren. The next day, Delchay' camp was sur
rounded, and he, with the remainder of the
once formidable band, to the number of 131,
surrendered Delchav saws it is impossible for
the Apaches to evade their own traitors. They
follow night and day. Sickness is reported
among the Modoc prisoners at Fort Klamath.
Close confinement is commencing to tell on
Capt. Jack and Curly-Headed Doctor. The
former is weak, gaunt. and complaining.
At Green Lake, Wis, on the morning of the
Fourth. picnic party went out on the lake in
the sailing Yacht II. B. Harshard on fishing
excursion, and had proceeded but short dis
lance when a squat struck the boat, capsizing
it. The following persons were thrown into
the water and drowned: Mrs. A. P. Carman,
Mrs. Geo. Harding, Miss Jennie Ola, Mrs. NJ.
G. Russell and child, Vim. Bloxham, wife and
child. Mrs. John Baird, and child of the Rev.
Mr.. Allen. The number of Modoc captiyes
has been Increased by the surrender of three
more braves, with their women and children.
"A vast amount of property was destroyed
by the recent storms in Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri, Ohio and Indiana. Houses fences and
bridges were demolished and in some sections
serious loss of life is reported. The grain
fields have suffered serious injury the dam
age in Ohio alone being estimated at upward
of S2000,000.
A COMPANY with $500, 600 capital has been
organized in Cincinnati for the establishment
of geological garden in that city. AT
Phoebe, Nevada, the other day, desperate
named Harrington shot and killed four men
because one of them killed his dog W. H.
Hazleton, a prominent Indianapolis lawyer,
has squandered the funds in his hands belong
ing to various trusts, and sloped for parts I'M
known, leaving his friends and bondsmen IN
the lurch. A lively contest is going on for
the Pacific terminus of the Northern Pacific
railroad. Seattle offers, by way of donation,
land and money estimated at $1,000, 600, and
is still adding. Taco offers the entire control
of the waterfront of the city, and large
amount of land in case Seattle does not get the
terminus. Gen. Stanley, in charge of the
military expedition escorting the engineers of
the Northern Pacific railway, reports that the
survey of the road has been made to point
seventy miles west of Bismarck, Dakota. The
route traVerSeS nnely-Watered ana fertile
country, and cuts through ample coal deposits
twenty-seven miles west of the Missouri
river.
LORD GORDON. who was lately robbed of
s41, 900 in bonds, supposed by detectives to
lure him over the border, seized re-
Gently near Fort Garry, by two officers from
Minneapolis, and brought to disputed terri
tory near Pembina, where he was rescued,
and the officers arrested by squad of troops
from Fort Dufferin. 1t is said Gordon was
made drunk and gagged by his eaptors. The
plan for Gordon's arrest was laid at Mime
apolis, where Marshall O.. Roberts. of New
York and representatives of the estate of
Horace F. Clark have been for s.me time.
Roberts and Clark some time ago gave bonds
1881, 0O0) for Gordon's appearance in the
suits with Jay Gould Gordon is also wanted
by New York parties on other accounts.
A half mile of the Missouri Pacific railroad
track near Kickapoo, Kansas, dropped into the
Missouri river few days ago. 1t sank out
of sight in. the flooded stream in one lurch,
and without any warming 1t seems that the
river undermined the track without the knowl-