Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-14
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

The East.
ERNEST LOVE, the supposed author of the
atrocious quintuple murder at Homestead, Pa,
is young, stout, hearty German, some 20
or % years of age not long in the country.
and had been IN the employ of the Hammetts
for some four months. Nothing calculated to
fasten suspicion upon this man had taken
place previous TO this awful occurrence, and
only recently. during the visit on the part of
John Hammett to a neighbor. the former had
expressed his satisfaction at having in his
employ so sober, industrious and honest
lad. Joe Waltz. murderer sentenced
to be hanged at Catskill, Y. Y, killed
his keeper, Charles Ernst, in his cell on the
Both ult., by striking him on the head with
piece of iron. smashing in bis skull.
JOSEPH WALTZ was hung at Catshill, n. Y,
on the 1st inst. Waltz was one Of the most
depraved wretches that ever dangled from the
of three men. and on the day before his exc
cution added another to the list by brutality
Staying his keeper, from whom he Lad re-
ceiyed the kindest treatment.
THE village of Shawangunk, n. Y, the
Waikiki Valley railroad, was the scene of
terrible calamity, resulting in the death of
eight or ten persons, ON the Sd of May.
As the dav hands employed in Condit's large
paper-mill were leaving the shop, just before
8 o'clock in the evening, the large rotary
boiler exploded, nearly demolshing the
building and burying in the ruins many of the
laborers. Seven of them were taken ont dead,
and three fatally wounded. The killed were
horribly mangled, as the force of the explo-
sion was terrific. The trade societies in
New York city, IN convention the other day.
resolved toresist any attempt of the employers
to make ten hours, instead of eight days
work.
SERIOUS charges of fraud and corruption are
made against the Reform Commissioners of
Charities and Correction of New York City.
The West.
THE Straits of Mackinaw are free from ice
the lower fleet having passed up on the SOth
ult.
OK the night of April 81 the house of
William Thatcher, of Princeton, Ind, was rob-
bed of a package containing $4,000. No
clue to the robbers or money has been had
since, until, a few mornings ago. Thatcher
found the same package, with all the money,
living ON the sidewalk in front of his house.
-Four Missourians. while route to Texas,
lately quarreled. while encamped in the Indian
Nation, about the ownership of wagon aud
horses. and one OF them killed and two
MORALLY wounded, the fourth escaping with
slight injuries.
EIGHTY-oNE students of the Michigan Uni
vers.ty at Ann Arbor have been suspended for
hazing and general INSTRUMENTATION.
ALL the saloons in Ann Arbor, Mich. have
closed. There was no crusade in the mean
ing of the term elsewhere, but the law has
been so vigorously enforced that the owners
declare they cannot longer bear up against it.
They advertise their places for sale.
The South.
Episcopal Church South assembled at Louis
vile, ky., on the LIST inst. About 200 dele
gates representing every Southern State ex-
al. of the six Bishops. The Rev. DIR. Paine,
as senior Bishop, presided. DR.. 7. o. Sum-
mers, of Nashville, was reelected Secretary.
SHOCKING story of inhuman barbarity
comes from Howard county, Md. Two negro
men SCARED and branded the limbs of a
colored boy with q red-hot iron, and after
ward saturated his body with spirits of tur-
pentine and set him on fire. His back and
legs were roasted to a crisp, and at last ac-
counts he was not expected to recover. The
fends who committed the deed have been ar
rested. The execution of Ann HINT for the
poisoning of Eliza Brawner took place at
Elberton, Ca, on the I'd of May. The quad
rennial exhibit of the Southern Methodist
Publishing House. presented to the General
Conferenceat Louisville, says the credit of the
house is excellent, it's affairs in a prosperous
condition, and its capital largely increased in
the last four years. difference of S125-
6S4-66 in favor of the house Is reported for the
past four years 1t has now a capital of
S314, 037 over and above all liabilities.
CONSIDERABLE excitement exists in Men,
phis on account of the refusal of the City
Council to donate aid to the sufferers from
the overflow The appeal of that city says:
" Anything more discreditable to us, ANYTHING
more disgraceful anything so little and con-
temptible. has never yet blurred and blotted
the official record of orr city. We hang our
heads for very shame, and take refuge behind
our hberal-hearted business men, our
merchants, orr policemen, and firemen,
whose labors in behalf of the immediate
sufferers alone relieve us of the indelible dis
grace"
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch of May says:
"There is no abatement of the crevasse over
flow. The Relief Committee report officially
to the Governor that up to date they have
been distributing $1,000 rations day. and
that in their judgment, so. 600 rations daily for
sixty days will be required to relieve the press
ing wants"
An appeal has been published for TIC urgent
relief Of sufferers by the floods in the South
ern States, which Gays that over 142, 900 peo-
pie have been driven from their homes, and
are now without food or shelter, and that to
furnish these with provisions alone will cost
5000 day. A representative convention
of all the cotton exchanges in the United
States has been called by the New Orleans Ex-
change, with a view to forming organiza-
ton for the collection of statistics, the inter-
change of opinion on questions of interest to
the trade, and the promotion Of social inter-
course between members. An interesting
bill relating to the development of fruit and
nut culture in tho South is now before Con-
gress. 1t provides that where nut-bearing
tress are planted and cultivated for five years,
patents shall be issued to the extent of ferty
acres TO each occupant and where orange and
lemon trees are cultivated for three years on
five acres CT land, patents shall be issued for
forty acres
Washington.
The consideration of a private bill involving
patent extension in the House, a few days
ago, developed the existence in that body of q
strong opposition to extending patents apply
inc tn, sewino-rn achines srrlpOsed tn he owned