Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-22
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.


MUCH excitement prevails in Buffalo, N. Y,
over the arrest of forty students of medical
college who were found in the act of dissect-
ing four corpses which had been missed from
q cemetery. The students were released on
parole to appear when required.
THIRTY buildings, comprising nearly the
entire business part OF the village OF Ovid,
N. Y, have been burned. The loss is
$4,000. Rev. Henry Ward Beecker is lee
turing in New England on Compulsory
Education and other subjects. Reports says
his audiences are slim and lacking in en-
thusiasm. DIR. A. G. Murdoch, a prominent
citizen of Pittsburgh, was found dead last
week, under circumstances indicating suicide.
THE Excelsior Salt Mill, at Syracuse, n. Y,
was destroyed by fire last week. Loss, $685.
0c0. .Demss Barnes. OF the Brooklyn Argus,
has been indicted for publishing ibels on
Henry c. Bowen. This is another suit grow
ing out of the recent scandal.
The West.
THE Chicago papers of the 9th inst. (the
anniversary af the great fre) contain review
of the building operations in that city for the
past year, from which it appears that 1889
brick and stone structures were erected at an
aggregate cost of 81, 694, 200.
DIED at Woodstock, ILL.,, Oct. Q, Mrs. Ellen
Quinlin. aged 1O2 years. :. The insurance
question still agitates Chicago. :. The
Western railroads are about to abolish the
custom of making excursion rates. Accord
ing to reports in the State Auditors Office,
there are 2,O4O 500 cattle and g. AGO. 166 hogs in
Illinois.
A GRAND JURY in Salt Lake has indicted one
% its own number for lascivious cohabits-
ton. The man under Indictment has five
wives One OF his daughters is the principal
witness for the prosecution.
GEN. MACKENZIE, during a recent raid
against the Indians in Northern Texas, sur
creek, near Red river. The troops destroyed
over 100 lodges and their entire outfit, and
captured / ,424 horses and mules. of which
1,04S were at once killed The bodies of four
Indians were brought in. One soldier was
killed and one wounded. Gen. Mackenzie, at
last accounts, was in hot pursuit Of the re-
treating savages. Near Colborn. Tppecanoe
was instantly killed by the bursting of q
boiler attached to 3 steam threshing machine.
A number of other persons were more or less
injured.
The reunion of the Army OF the Tennessee
was held at Springfield, H., on the 18th of
October. Gen. Sherman presided, and Gen.
John Tillson read poem The monument to
President Lincoln was unveiled on the 18th
with appropriate ceremonies. Among the dis
tinguished gentlemen who attended were Gen.
Grant, Vice President Wilson, Secretary Bel
KNAPP. Gems. Mcdowell, Custer, Redrick, Force,
etc.. The firm of E. s. Edger & Co., grain
dealers and millers, OF Burlington. Iowa has
suspended. ,iebiiitie-, S4UO, 0O0-- The Gov
ernor Of Pen nsylvania has issued warrants fol-
the executio of William E. Undertook, Daniel
O'Mara and Patrick Irwin on Nov. -.
inc south.
ANOTHER stage robbery is reported from
Texas. The brigands claimed to be the came
party that robbed the Hot Springs stages and
the Gad's Hill train. Hon. Bland Ballard.
Judge Of the United States District Court fol-
the district of Kentucky, delivered remark
able charge to the grand jury at the opening
of the court in Louisville, last week, instruct.
ing them that the United States Court has nc
jurisdiction in Kentucky to punish Ku-Klux
outrages under the Enforcement act.
SIXTEEN Petersburg (Vs.) election judges
have been indicted for violating the Enforce
menl act. A dispatch from Brownsville
Texas, Gays: "The organization Of bandits
to invade Texas has been partially suspended
on accour. of high water on this side and the
almost impossible condition of the country
Information received from undoabted source.
states that the plan Of operations is to strike
the detachment Of troops stationed to prevent
the crossing of stolen cattle, and then murder
and rob generally. Gen. Cortins heads the
movement. TIE people on this side are or
ganizing to defend themselves The militar,
are in possession of the facts, and are on tn.
alert. Mounted men are held ready to NOV,
At short notice"
washington.
The Washington correspondent Of the Chi
cago Times is authority for the statement tina
the postal telegraph project advocated b,
Postmaster-Genera Creswell will not be rec
commended by Mr.. Jewell in his next report
nor by the President in his message to Con
gress. .. A dispatch from San Francisco en-
= nounces the suicide of James T. Eckfeldt
Appraiser Of the Mint, and superintendent o
the construction of the machinery for tn
mint in that city. Temporary insanity is as
signed a. the cause of this act
THE receipts and expenditures of the Post
Office Department for the fiscal year endin,
June 80. 1874 were s2s, All, OH 80, and the ex
penditures $50, &c, IA So.
ALE-TKR addressed to the President by
prominent Conservative politician in Missis
sippi, argues that the only true way to restor
peace and prosperity to the South is for Con
gress to pass an act to pay for the quarter
masters and commissary stores taken by tn
Union army in the South during the war, an
to refund the cotton tax. The letter ha
been referred to the Attorney General. 4.
1t is rumored that the agency 70
the negotiation of the new fundin
bosds has been ordered by the Pres
dent to be siven to ex-senator Cattell :.
Foroey's Sunday Caronicle states that Ger
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