Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-23
sNlarshau County Rspublitau
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

from st. Johns, Newfoundland, announces
that by the explosion of the boiler of the
steamer Tigress, Of the late Polaris expe-
dition, two of the engineers and twenty of the
crew were killed. Heavy fires are raging in
several coal mines of the Wyoming region Of
Pennsylvania. These fires have been in prog
ress over three months, and upward Of
goo. 900 has already been expended in efferts
to extinguish the flames, vast quantities of
water have been poured into the mines with
now determined to abandon the water-oure,
and try the experiment of subduing the fire
with steam.
SOME ugly jobbery has been unearthed in
connection with the building of the new Capt.
toll at Albany, N. Y. Among other items, $50
per ], 200 has been paid for bricklaying, while
private builders charge only s15.. Williams
port. Pa. has been visited by disastrous
Der, several saw and planning mills, and fifteen
other buildings were burned. involving loss
of half q million dollars Mayor Havemeyer,
of New York, has written a letter to the State
Senate Committee on Commerce, protesting
against the construction of The East River
bridge as Z" entirely impracticaEle."
THE iron-workers in the Lehigh, Schuylkill
and neighboring regions of Pennsylvania,
having lately been refused an increase Of
wages to the rates obtaining before the panic,
have struck. 1t is estimated that 10, 600 or
1000 men are in the combination.
The village of Hilltown. in Bucks county,
Pa, is terribly excited over shocking MUIR
der that has been committed there. The VIC
Tins were Mrs: Roering and her little three
year-old boy. The murderer, one DIR. Otto,
subsequently, committed suicide by taking
poison
TWELVE printers belonging to the Titusville
(Pa) Typographical Union have been sem
fenced to "a hours in jail each, $40 fine and
costs, on a charge of conspiracy against the
Daily Courier. The conspiracy consisted in
striking against reduction of wages.
The West.
THE Chicago Clearing House Association
protests against further increase of currency.
The Michigan State Woman's Suffrage
Convention will be held in Lansing on May 6.
-. Gov. Bagley has presented to the boys of
the Reform School, at Detroit. a box of balls
and clubs, with an appropriate caution to
dodge a hot ball In making first base. The
Supreme Court of Michigan has granted the
petition of the homeopathic requesting that
cause be show why two professors are not ap-
pointed in the State University. :. "A dispatch
from San Diego says that Lieut.. Bache has
attacked an Apache camp in the Penal noun
tains, in Arizona, and killed twenty-five war
riors and captured about fifty women.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cheyenne Leader
states that the United States Indian Peace
Commissioners have returned from interviews
with the chiefs Spotted Tail and Red Cloud,
without having accomplished anything. They
refused to consent to the removal Of the
agencies. and Spotted Tail wants his words
written down "this time" to the effect that
he has been pestered SO much by these flies
from the Great Father that he won't talk to
them any more"
In the Ohio House of Representatives
bill has been introduced to amend the code
of civil procedure so as to exempt editors
and proprietors of newspapers from testify
ing as to the identity Of persons from whom
they receive communications. The total
destruction by fire Of the Wisconsin Blind
Asylum building. at Evansville, is announced.
The loss is about $3.50, 900.
ACCORDING to the Indian Peace Commission
ers, there is no disposition sn the part of the
tribes visited by them to engage in war. The
Commissioners assert that the warlike reports
forwarded during their absence at the agen-
cies were in the interest of certain Spectators
and contractors. An important meeting of
vessel-owners from all points on the lakes
was held at Detroit last week. to protest
against the bridging Of the Detroit and st.
Clair rivers in the interests of the rail-
roads.
The Lakeside Monthly, of Chicago has sus-
pended publication until September next.
The South.
A SHOCKING quadruple tragedy is reported
from Orange, Texas, on the Gulf. An Italian
named Ardazal entered the residence of Mr..
Jet, during Jets absence, and murdered
Mrs. Jet and two children, daughters nearly
grown. When Mr.. Lyons and other citizens
arrived they found Ardazal endeavoring to
burn the bodies. He was Immediately arrest
ed The following night, soon after the Sher-
per. q crowd of armed men rushed in and
overpewered the officer, took the murderer
outside of the prison, and literally riddled
him with bullets Prague Bryant was hung
for murder at Pulaski, Tenn, on the 10th
inst. For two weeks the condemned man was
granted daily allowance of quart of whisky,
and was so drunk when the hour of execution
arrived, that he had to be supported on the
scaffold while he made the customary ha-
rangue without which hemp matinee is vo-
ted dull and uninteresting affair in many To-
calities.
PARTY of minute men lately routed band
of Indians in San Saba County, Texas, killing
several. Lone Wolf, the Kiewa chief, is on
the war-path, bound for Texas to avenge the
death of his SOD.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, was recently visited by q
terrific tornado, demobshing and damaging
buildings and doing much other damage.
Loss over 100000.
THE recent food in the Cumberland river
destroyed large amount of property in Nash
vile. Delegations of planters from the par
ishes bordering on the Mississippi, Red and
Ouachita rivers recently waited on the Gov
ernor of Louisiana. stating their cattle and
stock had all been drowned, their lands and
houses inundated and themselves and their
laborers reduced to restitution by the unpre-
cepented food. They ask that the United
States military authorities be requested to is
sue rations to the sufferers.
Washington.
The Committee on Privileges and Elections
of the House has agreed upon the sixteenth
amendment to the Constitution, which pro-
poses to change the present mode of electing
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