Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05
MEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


The East.
AT Pittsburgh. recently, John and Jacob
Ehresman were fined $50 each and costs for
killing old horses aud selling the meat to sau-
sage-makers.
The New York coopers have refused to
abandon their trade society, and have been
locked out in consequence.
A RECENT fire destroyed the buildings Nos.
50 to Sc Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, and
damaged property to the amount Of S75, 600.
The sufferers are: Adams, Hallock x Co.,
manufacturers Of silverware, S45,000 F. G.
and G. W. Fowler, owners of the building,
500, coo; aud American Cork Cutting Com
pany, $4,000 Eastern Chambers Of ON
MERGE are taking measures to secure a re-
vision of the tariff on wool and other prod
ucts, and are bringing influences to bear
upon the members of the Ways and Means
Committee to that end.
THE fourth annual convention of the North
American Bee-Keepers' Association meets at
Pittsburgh, Pa, On Nov. IL.
The West.
THE Secretary of the Nebraska State Aid
Society states that there are from 1000 to
10, 900 people in that State who will need to
be fed the coming winter a telegram from
Topeka, Kan, says Late advices from the
Indian country ere very encouraging. The
Indians are thoroughly demorslzed and flee
ing to their agencies, leaving behind them
everything but their ponies arms, and cloth
- Cate nd
other leading chiefs. demoralized all hostile
parties, and it is believed that they do not
contemplate further resistance.
THE Chicago bar is interested in securing
consolidation of the Supreme Court Grand
Divisions
IT is expected that when tho report of Gen.
Sheridan is received from Fort Sill, the Chiefs
Satanic and Big Tree will be delivered over
to the State authorities of Texas, by whom
they were released, to be hanged for murder,
a. they have violated the conditions of their
release and have been found in armad hos
tiiity TO the government. The various rail-
road companies of the West propose, among
other measures of retrenchment and econo-
my, to reduce the wages of their locomotive
engineers. The latter had q meeting at st.
Louis, last week, and resolved that they will
not submit to the proposed reduction. :. DIR.
Edmund Stoughton Kimberley, one of the old
settlers of Chicago, died at his residence in
Lake county, H., short time since, aged
seventy-two years.
THE Acknowledgement of Illinois has de-
cided that the State Hospitals for the Insane
are charitable institutions, and that all per-
sons resident in the State are entitled to their
benefits, free of charge. The reports of des-
titution in Nebraska and Kansas, caused by
the grasshopper plague, are daily becoming
more distressing. An Associated Press dis
patch from OMAHA intimates that the whole
truth has not yet been told. Death By ex.
posure starvation is the immediate prospect
of thousands in the devastated region unles;
relief is speedily extended to them from some
quarter. Bloomington, H., is to have new
water works.
THE population of Chicago, according to the
school census just completed, is S95, 226. :.
The First National Bank OF Salt Lake has sus
pended payments. Stage robbers are nov
said 70 infest Nevada. Three men stopped
the Hamilton coach one night last week
bound the driver, and robbed the mail an(
Wells & Fargo's trunk, containing 20. 600. A.
there were no passengers, and the driver
conduct being deemed suspicious, he was ar
rested Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois. has ad
dressed letter to the Mayor Of st. Louis
calling the latter's attention to the fact that
dyke constructed by that city, and extending
into the river has been the cause OF grea
damage to the owners of lands on the Ilinoi
side of the Mississippi, and asking that tn
matter be corrected.
OSE-HALF of the business houses of Green
castle, Ind, and twenty dwellings were burne'
on the night of the 28th ult. The fire begal
by the work of an incendiary, and spread be
fore stiff wind destroying everything in it
course until it reached the open country an,
ceased for want of fuel. The place had NJ
fire department, and many of the building
destroyed were very compu stible. The los
is about S40O, 900. =. The grand jury of tn
United States District Court at Des Moines
Iowa, has denounced the grand jury system
as unnecessary, expensive and oppressive,
and recommends its abolition.
The South.
A NEW ORLEANS telegram says: "Tw,
thousand registration frauds have alread,
been discovered, and the investigation con
tinues. The location of residences
given by ten persons was found t,
be an unoccupied lot. One coloret
man had registered fourteen times."...
Maj. George B. Chamberlain, United
States Marshal at Atlanta, Ga, has accepted
the position of Chief Of the Southern Brancl
of the Secret Service Department Ex-Gov
Harris Flanagan died at his home in Arkadel
phia, Ark, last week. He was Governor O
Arkansas during the war, and one of the mos
prominent members of the Constitutions
Convention.
THIS is what happened 20 a party of dee
hunters in Pamela county, Miss, Last week
One Of them, Ben Mitchell, while pursuing
path through a canebrake, observed a can.
shaking ahead of him, and, thinking it was
caused bv deer fired the contents of double