Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Tho East

Tho East
A recent fre Destroyed the building Nos. $
to Sc Coiumt,H Heights, BROOKLYN, and dam
aged property 70 the amount Of $4,000. Tn
sufferers are: Adams, Hallock Il Co., manu-
LECTURERS OF silverwsre, $4,000; F. @. ani
O. W. Pewter. owners of the building
$4,000; and American Cork Cutting Com
pany. $1,000
Eastern chambers Of commerce are takins
measures to secure revision of the tariff OF
wool and other products, and are bringing in
nuenoes to bear upon the members OF the
ways and Means Committee to tina. end.
The fourth annual convention of the North
American Bee-Keepers' Association meets al
Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. IL
There is . prospect that in about six months
the creditors Of Jay Cooke 4 Co. will receive
ten per cent Of their accounts
George II. Kingsbury, the assistant re-
ceiving teller of the National Bank of Re-
demPtion, in Boston, has been arrested.
charged with embezzling 81, 200 Of the bank
funds within the last two years. He has re-
funded $1,000
The Milford On. I'D Five Cent Savings
Bank has suspended Liabilities, $500, 900.
dwelling house at Allegheny City, Pa.
was entered By BURGERS one night last week.
and robbed of considerable silver ware. The
miscreants then set FIRE to the house, and one
OF the slumbering inmates, Margaret Lynch
was overcome by smoke and sunocated.
Ex-Gov. Enos 7. Throop, Of New York,
died At his residence, Willow Brook, near
Auburn, thst State, on the LIST inst.
The West.
Inc Aseorne5-Gen eral ef Illinois has de-
cided that the State Hospitals for the Insane
are charitable institutions, and that all per-
sons resident in the State are entitled to their
benefits, free Of charge
The reports Of restitution in Nebraska and
Kansas, caused BY the grasshopper plague.
are daily becoming more distressing. An
Associated Press dispatch from Omaha init
mates that the whole truth has not vet been
told Death By exposure or starvation is the
immediate prospect of thousands in the de-
vastated region unless relief is speedily ex
tended to them from some quarter.
Bloomington, Ill, is to have new water
works.
The population of Chicago, accordi, g to the
school census inst completed, is 1896, 226.
The First National Bank of Salt Lake has
suspended payments.
Stage robbers arc now said to infest Nevada.
Three men stopped the Hamilton coach one
night last week, bound the driver, and robbed
the mail and Wells q Fargos trunk, contain
ing $4,000. As there were no passengers. and
the drivers conduct being deemed suspicious.
he was arrested.
Gov. Beveridge, Of Illinois, has addressed a
letter to the Mayor of st. Louis, calling tie
latter attention to the fact that dyke con-
strueted By that city, and extending into the
river, has been the cause Of great damage to
the owners of lands On the Illinois side of the
Mississippi, and asking that the matter be
corrected
One-hak Of the business houses Of Green
castle, Ind, and twenty dwellings were burned |
on the night OF the 18th ult. The fire began |
by the work Of sn incendiary, and spread be- |!
fore still wind, destroying everything in its |
course until 1t reached the open country and |
ceased fer want Of fuel The place had no |
hre department, and many Of the buildings |
destroyed were very csmbustible. The loss
is about s400, 900.
The grand jury Of the United States District
Court at Des Moines, Iowa, has denounced |
the grand jury system as unnecessary ex-
pensive and oppressive" ard recommends its
.bolitioo-
We learn from the Chicago papers that the
Tribune Of that city is about to change its
editorial n'anae ment, Mr.. Joseph Mediu
having purchased Of Messrs. Horace White
and Alfred Cowiss controlling interest and
Eaking chief charge as editor. The pur-
chase was made on the basis Of 81, 900, 900 for
he whole establishment
The State Baptist Association OF Indiana bas
Just concluded An interesting session at Fort
Wayne. Sabbath school statistics were pre-
'eated showing 512 schools in full operation
lumber OF teachers, $500; number of pupils
=, 900; number Of sunday school papers dis
ributed during the year, 20, 1000; number of
'ooks in libraries, $4,000; total amount ex-
'ended, s12, 900. A heated discus sion took
Mace m regard to the proposed endowment of
ne State University at Indianapolis. The
natter was referred to the committee for re-
'ort next year.
An exciting raee came on at San Francisco.
>ct- 81, between the celebrated trotting horses
udge Fullerton and Occident, which was won /
y the latter-best time, 2:lS; $4,000
Hanged hands on the result. 9
An inquest was held at Detroit last week in
egard to the reesnt explosion Of the steamer
'rooHyn, By which calamity eighteen lives
'ere lost, and verdict returned placing the ,,
ssponsibflity on the captsin, Harvey Brown.
nd the second eng;aser, who was one of the {
He'd
At Chicago, during tie month of October.
$3.50 carloads and I22 canal -boat-loads of
rain were inspected into store, sggregating
6sl, 999 bushels, and 1881, 500 bushels
ere inspected out of store; grand total of a
ashels grain Inspected during the month. 6
!; AS, 4Se. 8
Bishop Acooskuy, Of Michigan, has sum-
oned the hitiasory Meeting to organize the
w Western Diocese Of the Episcopal Church
that State, 70 assemble at Grand Rapids D
ecenbef q n
At St. Paul, MINI, one night last week.