Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The match game of billiards played at New
York, between GARNER and Ubassy, for the
championship of America and =, 900, resulted
459.. The steamer Glaucus was recently
burned in Boston harbor. Loss on vessel and
cargo. S450, 600.
The jury in the case of Evans, the Pennsyl-
vania defaulter, has rendered a verdict of
S1s5. Sos. so in favor of the State A grand
jury in Philsdelphia has advised the licensing
of houses of il-fame.
THE First National Bank of Connersville,
Pa, was robbed of $4,000 few evenings
since by two masked men, who first bound
and gagged the cashier Philip Allen &
Sons print works at Providence. r. l., have
been DESTROYED BY fire. Loss; $500, 600 :
The wooden mill of Harrison. Bliss x Co., at
MillvilIe, Mass, has been burned Loss,
S250.00 to $500, 900.
LIQUOR raid by the State Constabulary was
made the other day on the Boston hotels, and
the largest haul of liquors ever known since
the enactment of the statute was effected.
The house of Isaac Wharf, at Guilford Me-.
was destroyed by fire on the 4th inst Wharf,,
his wife and son were burned to death.
The West.
A BILL is pending before the Ohio Legisla-
ture subjecting railroads to forfeits for ex-
tortion- Under it's provisions any person who
has been overcharged for passage or freight
NAV mulct the company for double the over
charge, but the company is never to forfeit
less than 500. In addition, the State may
sue for forfeit ranging from 500 to q, 900.
"A fire in Cleveland on the 30th ult. de-
stroyed the Wholesale WOODEN house of Koch,
Goll e. %ha nuto hIsah-
ment of George WorthiDgton Co., and the
clothing store of Adams & Goodwillie- Total
loss about $500, 600. The fifth trial of Mrs.
Glenn. of indianapolis, for murder, is in
progress at Lebanon. Ind. The members of
the Order of B'nai Birth have just finished
six days session at Chicago. The Chicago
Tribune has this complimentary allusion to
them: - convention has seldom been held
in this city where qualities Of head and heart
were shown equal to those of these worthy
Israelites- From the first to the last, their
deliberations have been in admirable taste.
and it will be the judgment of all who have
watched them that they have elevated their
race as well as their order by their conduct"
MOST daring and successful robbery was
committed on the Iron Mountain railroad, at
Gadsh1l Station, 40 miles south of st. Louis,
on the 31st ult.- AS the southward-bound ex-
press which left the latter city at $50 q. m.
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nailed to STOP The switch was turned, and
the train run on Q side track. As the train
stopped, Conductor Afford stepped of to as
certain what the matter was, whom he was
confronted by man in . mask. pistol placed
to his head, and he marched OF under guard.
The engineer, fireman. mail agent, express
messenger and other train men were then
seized by five masked, heavily armed men, and
also placed under guard. The robbers then
went through the entire train. took from the
passengers about g 900 and q large amount
of jewelry. from the Adams Express messen-
ger over 81 900, and rified the mail. The rob-
beers then left in q southerly direction. and
after the release of the train men the train
started southwark. The bandits offered no
violence to any one on the train, and did no
harm TO the train men. The jewelry store
of Bernard Speyer. in st. Louis. was recently
robbed Of diamonds valued at $50, 900, by an
employee of the house, who has absconded. -.
Elijah Cowles, the Iowa mail robber, has been
adjudged insane by a Council Bluffs jury.
The crusade of the women of Southern
hio against the liquor saloons continues to
Increase in extent and Importance. In many
towns the women have formed themselves
into bands, with leaders, and begun a sys-
tematic attack Of prayer on all the rum-deal-
ers within reach. Their efforts, in many
cases. are meeting with considerable success.
- John Lynn, Edward Erickson, and Oscar
lsaacs were killed. few days ago, byt' ex-
plosion Of a boiler in John Graysr N
Marathon county, Wis.,
THE Mormons and Navajo Indians are at
war, and several on each side have been
killed. A reign Of terror exists in Lincoln
county, New Mexico Some twenty persons
have been murdered within few weeks,
and the civil officers have fed from the
county.
A SERIOUS accident occurred last week on
the Wisconsin division of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad. A train was thrown
from the track by Q broken rail. near Wood
stock, ILL.,, and all the cars burned. Fortunate
" there was no loss of life, but q number of
grocery store of Chris. Mehr, at Evansville,
Ind. was destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 5th inst. Mrs. Mehr, her two youngest
Children, and . bartender named George, per-
ished in the flames. A negro who was ar
rested for muI 1ering and robbing woman in
jackson county, in Southern Illinois, waa
taken from the jail at Murfreysboro, the
other day, and summarily hanged by mob.
Previous to being strung up he confessed his
crime.
The South.
NJ E. SMEIzER and Charles T. Robinson,
two belligerent Memphis newspaper reporters,
engaged in . lively shooting ARRAY the other
evening. in the course Of which. seven shots
were fired Fortunately, either from bad
Workmanship or nervousness, both came OF
unframed While attempting to cross the
Ouachita river at Rockport, Ark, few days
ago. the skif upset and three young men were
drowned.
The Kentucky Senate has passed bill pro-
viding for the education of colored children.
1t taxes the property of colored people 20
cents on each 800.
THE Memphis and Louisville railroad shops,
in Memphis, we're recently destroyed by fire.
Loss, $3.50, 900.
washington.
THE annual report of the Board Of Indian
Commissioners TO the President has been pub
hshed- 1t inaorses the peace policy of the
Administration, states that the supplies for
the department have been purchased at a much
lower price than in any former year, recon-
mends that no territorial government be
adopted for the Indian nations without the
consent of the Indians, and that the territory
should be reserved exclusively for them, un-
molested by white intruders.