Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-17
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.


The East.
THE brig Castillo, from Havana, came il
sight of Cape Henry, last week, and reported
her captain and several of the crew dead from
yellow fever.
EVAN MORRIS, of Pittsburgh. has left fol-
st. Joans, n. F., to row single-scull race will
George Brown, of Halifax, for the champion
ship of Americs and purse of -, 600. The
race will take place on the Kennebeckasii
river. Sept. %.
WHILE christening party were passing or
Duee street, Brooklyn, last week. German
named George Lutz saluted them by firing his
pistol in a very reckless manner. One bal
passed through the arm of Lena ChumarS
and lodged in the head Of the child in hei
arms. Physicians pronounce both wounds
fatal. Lutz was arrested. "A New York
dispatch of the 18th inst. says: The answer
of Henry Ward Beecher to the complaint of
Theodore Tilton was received to-day by
Beecher's attorneys, and was at once served
on plaintiff, together with the answer De-
PENDANT answers to the complainant: /.
plant contained, except that plaintiff and
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Richards were married
on Oct. 2, 1855, and lived together as husband
and wife up to 1874, is utterly false 2. That
this defendant never had. at any time or at
any place, any unchaste or improper relations
with the wife of the plaintiff, and never at
tempted orsought to have any such relations"
The New Haven Wheel Factory, at New
Haven. CT, has been totally destroyed by FIRE.
Loss, 500, 900.
At Hackensack. n. j.. last week. Frederick
Stuart was sentenced 10 twenty years impris
onment in the penitentiary for horse-stealing.
The LIST of November has been fixed as the
time for running the first train through the
Hoosac tunnel. Steel rails are to be laid
through the tunnel. The Boston and Ath-
letic Baseball Clubs have arrived home from
their European tour. james 4. Coestele, a
Boston street broker. has been convicted Of
forgery in raising the figures on stock GER
tifcates, and sentenced to eight years i'm
prisonment in the Massachusetts State Prison.
His total forgeries are estimated at over
$500, 600.
The West.
THE recent National Camp Meeting at New
Lsnox, H., was very largely sttenend. -. An
item marking the progress Of trade is the pur-
chase in Chicago, and shipment to Liverpool,
ria Montreal, of 800 head of cattle. A steam
or has been fitted up at Montreal with stalls
and other conveniences, and it is proposed to
make the trade in beeves between Chicago
and Liverpool a permanent one. This is a
new outlet to the enormous cattle-trade of
Chicago.
EDWARD Dw4E. died near Cincinnati, the
other day, from the effects of bite from a
man named Michael Casey, with whom he had
q fight mile a minute. That was the
rate at which train travelled from Clinton,
lows, to Chicago, few days ago.. An in
vestigation into the affairs of the Minnesota
State Land Office, as managed by Charles Nc
Ilratb, who has been Auditor for twelve years,
has resulted in the dicoyery of the
act that McIlrath is defaulter to the amount
of about $4,000. The unascertained loss
cannot be estimated under hundreds of thou
ed sales of lands and timber to favored per-
sons, business associations of McIlrath, or
of Munich, then State Treasurer, at less than
value, without chance for competition, and on
terms not allowed other buyers In one in
stance McIlrath is directly charged with
receiving bride of $500 for making private
sale of mineral lands on the north shore of
Lake Superior.
The St. Paul papers are filed with reports
ard editorials on the alleged swindling trans
actions of ex-Auditor McIlrath The amount
Of money lost to the State is variously eeti-
mated at sS7, 900, 100000 and $500, 900. Nc
nrath has published a card asking suspen-
sion of pubic opinion until he can have an
opportunity torefute the charges made against
him.. The town of Mokelumne, CAL, has
been totally destroyed by fire. :. Gov. Osborne
of Kansas. has sent second letter to the
President renewing his request for arms to
protect the frontier from Indians. He states
that sixteen citizens of Kansas are known to
have been murdered by the Indians
since the 10th day of June last,
and 5tasabno one of the murderers has been
punished, or even apprehended, and urges
that, as the United States military force in
that locality is not sufficient to prevent OF
punish such outrages, means be furnished the
settlers. to protect themselves. :. The Black
HiIls expedition organized at Sioux City,
Iowa, has been postponed in consequence Of
Gen. Sheridan's prohibitory orders against in
fringing ON Indian reservations.
RICH gold discoveries are reported in tho
Muscleshel1 river, near Carroll. Montana Ter
ritory, and Carfollis almost wholly deserted
for the mines The gold yield is from one t.
seven cents per pan. "A dispatch from Bis
mark says party of fifty men will leave tina
place in about thirty days for the Black Hills
The party viii be composed of experienced
miners and hunters, who not only know tn
color of gold and the habits of the Indians
but are sharp enough to evade the military
and who. once in the hills, can live asfed mel
live, and consequently win not bother them
selves With supplies to any great extent.
,--TwsLvE carloads of Mennomtes from
Ruseia passed through Chicago one day las
week.. They were bound for Nebraska. wher