Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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appeal from the decision of the court refusing
to order Tilton to file bill of particulars can
be argued. This will probably carry the case
over till next year, as the laws delays viii be
taken advantage of to their fullest extent by
both parties.
The funeral obsequies Of the late Catholic
Bishop Bacon were celebrated with unusual
splendor at the Portland (NIe.) cathedral.
Seats we're reserved for the city government
and other prominent citizens. Archbishop
McClosky, Bishops Williams. Mclaughlin,
Lynch, McWade, enroy nd McNierney, and
some fifty priests, clad their robes, par
ticipated in the services. The requiem mass
was celebrated by Bishop Williams, and Arch
bishop McClosky preached the funeral SER
mon- The remains were deposited in the
vault beneath the church.
The assay Office at New York recently re-
ceived three and half tons of silver bullion
from the San Francisco refinery, being the
largest amount ever received at one time.
It VIII be coined into 50-cent pieces, and sent,
it is supposed, to South America
1t is estimated that 10000 poor men and
women are now out of employment in New
1ork city, and In need OF charity.
Efforts are being made to arrange for the
disposal by lottery of the grand Opera House
at New York. This would be in keeping with
the history of building in which the Black
Friday conspiracy was concocted, and where
American judicial ermine was so long be-
smutched before the eyes of the whole world.
Three murderers were hung in Pennsyl-
vania in one day last week. Among them
was the famous insurance conspirator, Udder-
zook. He died without making any CEN
fession.
The Women's Temperance Convention Of
Massachusetts, met in Boston last week.
Chas. Whitman, a clerk, who entered the
Pacific Bank in New York in 1S49, began in
1870 to make fictitious entries in the book Of
which he bad charge, and when he was de-
tected this week it was found that the bank
had lost $4,000.
E. L. Adams. the dramatic critic Of the
Rochester On. y Democrat and Chronicle,
having written of Mrs. Harry Ryner, in the
character of Elizabeth, THAT her queenly
carriage was far from perfect and her intona-
ton and expression very poor" thst lady
cowhide him. She was disarmed and elected
from the office, together with her son, who
accompanied her.
The West.
fro Springfield to Freeburg, in st. Clair
coun,y, H., where the coal-miners are on
strike and threatening violence.
An authorized agent from the grasshopper-
plagued district Of Kansas is personally So
letting aid for his people from the citizens of
Chicago.
Receipts Of hogs at Chicago one day re-
Gently exceeded $1,000. Prices are good
about S6@7 per 100 lbs.
Some of the losers by the recent severe fire
at Greencastle. Ind, are suffering, and an ap-
peal for their al. las been issued.
Gen. Sheridan recommends the establish
ment Of strong military post in the Black
Hills country, to the end that better control
mag be maintained over the Indians.
Gen. Ord has received notice that the Com
missary- General decides that the supplies are
barely sufficient for the subsistence of the
army therefore no rations can be issued to
the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Ne
braska.
A party lately arrived at Kansas City, No.,
reports that hunting party, among them
some newspaper men from Ohio, who went
out in the conductors excursion, were chased
by Indians about thirty miles from Hugo, on
the Kansas acifc. A thousand Utes are
hunting buffalo by permission of the govern
ment, but are peaceable and their chase Of
the quill-drivers is probable scare on the part
of the latter.
Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has had the
time of his trial postponed for six months, at
the end Of which, he affirms, he viii be better
prepared to meet the charges Of bribery pre-
ferred against him.
A dispatch from Camp Supply, in the Indian
Territory, tells the story of fight on McClel-
Ian creek between twenty-eight men of the
9Th cavalry, under Capt. H. J. Farnsworth,
and 100 Cheyennes The United States troops
lost one killed and four wounded, and the In
dians lost fifteen killed
Charles L. Murray, late clerk in the Treas
ury Department at Washington. and CORE
spondent of the Danbury NeUs, has purchased
the South Bend, Qnd.) Union, and viii as
sumo control of it next week. It's politics will
be Bourbon straight
case Of cremation-murder, quite as re-
voting as the Cincinnati case, is reported
from Monroe county. Ill. farmer named
Barney McMahon, in August last, murdered
his wife and burned her body in brush heap,
keeping the fire burning for two weeks till
every vestige of her remains were consumed.
The affair has just been discovered, and the
6end arrested. he denies his guilt, but the
circumstantial evidence against him is so
strong as to leave little doubt but that he is
guilty.
As the express train on the Great Western
railway was leaving Port Credit, station a
few miles from Toronto, Canada, about
o'clock p. M, Nov. Is, FIVE masked men
boarded her. After unfastening the bell
cord, they bound and gagged the baggage
master. They then entered the apartments
of the American Express Company, whose
messenger they gagged, blindfolded and hand
cuffed. They took the keys Of the safe from
him and secured from $50, 600 to $40. 900. The
robbers remained on the train until it reached
Queens Wharf, in .he western part of To-
ronxo