Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


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The East.
THE remains of Senator Sumner were
taken from New York to Boston on Satur-
day, March IA, in q special train. Ten
thousand people were at the depot in Bost IN.
The body was received by committee APP
pointed by the State and municipal authori-
ties. and escorted to Doric Hall in the State
House, where it lay in state. Saturday noon
public meeting was held in Faneuil Hall In
honor of the deceased statesman. The
Mayor of the city presided. Among the Vice
Presidents were Wendell Phillips, Robert c.
Winthrop, Richard III. Dana. B. r. Curtis,
Sidney Bartlett, and William Lloyd Garrison.
Addresses were made by r. H. Dana, j. b.
Smith, A. II. Rice. the Rev. f. E. Hale. ex-
Mayor CASTOR, Ralph Waldo Emerson, n. 7.
Banks, and others. Appropriate resolutions
were offered and adopted The funeral took
place at 8 o'clock on Monday, the 10th.
IT appears, according to the result of an
autopsy made of the body of the late Senator
Sumner, by DIR. Brown-Sequard and other
medical and surgical experts, that his death
was not caused, as has been supposed. by the
lingering effect OF the assault made upon him
eighteen years ago by Preston 5. Brooks, OF
South Carolins. Christian Sharpe, the in
yentor of the famous Sharpe rifle, died recent
ly at Vernon, Conn.,, aged 6S.
A NUMBER cf conductors on the Erie Rail-
way have been arrested on suspicion of de-
frauding the company The steamship City
of Picking, Just launched at Chester, Pa, is
the largest vessel ever constructed in this
country She was built for the Pacific Mail
Company. and is second only in size to the
Great Eastern. The Dimensions are as fol-
lows: Length over all. 400 feet; length on
load line, 399 feet inches /; length of beam.
moulded, AZ feet inches; tonnage. 5000 TONS
BIZ the defalcation of the absconded book
keeper of the importing and wholesale fruit
firm of Bodeau, Lockwood 4 Co., New York,
that house has been obliged to suspend-at
least temporarily. The amount of the defal-
cation is stated at $3.50, 600.
burgh to forward the interests of the great
Trans-Allegheny canal project. Resolutions
were passed asking the West to cooperate In
the enterprise, and urging upon Congress
the necessity of appropriating 5,0OO,0OO to
trapeze-performer was killed while perform
ing in New York theater the other night.
The West.
CHICAGO packers, duIng the season of
1873 a. packed 1.520,OA hogs and 2l,712
beeves The Wisconsin Legislature has adj
iourned after a session of 40 days during
which $40 bills were passed.
THERE was an increase of 4-10 in the area
sown with winter wheat last fall in the States
of Illinois. Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Missouri
ard Ohio. according to the information of the
National Crop Reporter. In Illinois the IN
crease is % per cent. Iowa shows q decrease
If 10 per cent, to be attributed to the severe
drought last summer. The condition of the
fruit trees is good, and q fine yield is expected
THE Michigan Legislature has decided not
to strike the word male" from the Constitu-
ton. has refused to submit the question OF
regulating the liquor traffic to the people, and
rejected a motion to forbid members to take
free passes from railroads during sessions of
the Legislature.
THE Indians on the Fort Sill reservation are
reported to be preparing for formidable raid
into Texas, under the leadership of Lone
Wolf, whose brother was recently killed by
whites while on a scalping expedition.
CHICAGO lie contemplating an underground
railroad to facilitate intramural Transports
ton. The Catholic See of Milwaukee is to
be raised to an Archbishopric, and Bishop
Henni will be promoted to the Archiepisco-
pate.
A DESPERATE conflict is reported to have oc-
cured in St. Clair county, Mo-, between
party of detectives and the Iowa railroad train
robbers, in which one of the latter end two OF
the former were killed A movement toward
abolishing the free lunch system has been set
on foot by the Chicago Acknowledgment The
news from the Indian Agencies is Of peace
full nature, and all fears of an Indian war
have disappeared
CAIRO, H.. was recently visited by severe
hurricane, which did considerable damage to
buildings. The Michigan Legislature has
decided to submit to the people of the State
the proposition to so amend the State Constr
tuition as to permit women to vote. The
County Commissioners of Marion county,
ind. have decided not to employ counsel to
assist the prosecuting attorney in the case OF
Mrs. Glenn This is considered next to an ac-
quittal.
THE Legislature of Iowa has adjourned sine
die . The Mississippi river is clear of ice to
Dubuque The fine residence OF ]. c. Save
nv. in Des Moines, has been destroyed by fire.
The influence of the women was clearly
shown in New Albany, Ind, few days ago.
A man entered saloon and shouted: The
women are coming." Instantly cards were
showed out of sight, drinking was suspended,
and the crowd of hangers-on went out OF back
doors. windows, and into the cellar in jiffy.
The women were not coming, but the men
uaQ gone. dud tue ediOOu " 90 oiicus &c 81 oso
yard. Daniel A. Dwight has sued the Gin
cinnati and Indianapolis and Cincinnati and
Lafayette railways, and Judge Hoadley, trus-
tee for $500, 900, alleged to have been receiv-
ed the last years to secure the 81, DOC, 900
bonds of these roads
TENPERANcK-wAR notes: In Toledo, Ohio,
four or five meetings are being held daily
At Whitehouse, Q village near Toledo, two
saloons have been closed. At Defiance, Fos-
toria. Norwalk, Henia, Bucyrus, Dayton, and
other Ohio towns the crusaders are carrying
ON q vigorous war against the saloon-keepers.
In st. Louis q series of temperance meetings
are being held A temperance league has
been formed in La Crosse, Wis, and the agi-
tation is spreading to other towns The tenn
perance wave has reached Minnesota, and
meetings are being held in Minneapolis.
Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and other Michi-
gan towns have become infected with the con-
tagion The crusade has been fully inaugu-
rated in Springfield, III. All the saloon
keepers in Frankfort, Ind, have closed their
saloons and signed the pledge. The proprie-
tor of the largest saloon in Richmond, Ind,
has also surrendered, and there is great re-