Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-15
NEWS SUM M ARY.



of..the breaking out of the flames there was
heavy wind blowing, and it was with difficulty
that the Grand Union and Congress Hotels
were saved. At one time the whole village
was seriously threatened. Through fortu-
nate change Of the wind and the aid of fire
engines from neighboring towns the con1a-
grafton was finally brought under control
The Grand Hotel was estimated to be worth
$500, 900. and was insured for about $500, 600.
Mr.. BEECHER's vacation having expired, he
resumed his pastoral ministrations in Plym-
outh Church at the regular Friday evening
prayer meeting held on the ID inst. Ar i'm
mense throng of people greeted his return
with much enthusiasm. Among those present
were Mrs. Beeche-, Charles Beecher, DIR. Ed
ward Beecher, Col. Beecher, Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Assistant Pastor Halliday,
all the members OF the late Investigating
Committee, Prof. Rossiter W. Ray
mond, and the trustees of the church. The
room was handsomely decorated with flowers
and banners, on which were inscribed
"Love," His Banner Over Us Was Love-
and similar inscriptions. After a prayer by
Robert Raymond, Mr.. Beecher had his usual
fifteen minutes talk, in which he alluded to
the troubles of the church, and counseled his
hearers to take the same as one Of Gods
wise measures of discipline, after which
he took the Bible, read few verses, and COM
mented upon them at some length. At the
close of his remarks, young lady sang
Home, Sweet Home" to an accompani-
ment, which was followed after brief intervals
by the song "Auld Lang Syne," " The Las.
Rose of Summer" THE Marseillaise." and
other well-known airs. Mr.. Beecher then
promenaded through the room and held brief
conversations with those present which
brought the proceedings to termination.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER went before the
grand jury of Brooklyn on the Sd inst, and
procured the Indictment Of Moulton and Til
by the foreman of the jury Beecher swore to
the falsity of Tilton's aud Moulton's accuse
tions as made in their statements, and that
he believed them TO be maliciously intended
to defame him. Tilton, however reiterates
his charges, and in letter to the New York
Herald calls attention to the fact that in the
spring of 1878, when W. F. West, men,
Ter Of Plymouth Church. preferred
charges against him (Tilton) for SLAM
derins Mr.. Bsecher, the latter gentleman
declared to his congregation that he had no
complaint to make against Tilton- Again. in
the Gaynor libel case, r.B eecher had an op-
portunity to prosecute, but did not and now,
as the report of the Plymouth Investigating
Committee has failed to command popular
credence, District Attorney Winslow. who was
the author Of that report, procures this in
dictnent, hoping to load him with obloquy by
putting him in the position of an indicted
witness. Tilton concludes his card by demand
ing immediate trial. The verdict of the
Coroner's jury on the Fall River disaster is
given to the public. Nobody to blame. =.
The shooting in the Bennett long-range
championship rifle match at Creedmoor last
week resulted in the first prizs being won by
Rigby, of the Irish team; the second by Full
ton, of the American team the third by Capt.
Mason, of Canada; the fourth and fifth By
Msssrs. Millner and Hamilton, of the Irish
team.
FIFTY persons were more or less injured in
the streets of New York city, few evenings
since. by stampede of Texan cattle.
A FIERCE war is impending between the oil
men and the Pennsylvania railroads. The re-
cent conference of railway magnates at Sara
toga increased the freight rates on petroleum
to the seaboard about 46 cents on the barrel
The trunk lines not only stringently enforced
this new arrangement but induced the pipe
lines. the companies that conveyed the crude
from the wells through pipes to the railroads,
to join the combination, which thus presents
the unbroken from. of q huge mo-
nopoly. Suit is to be brought at once
against the railway companies and their allies,
the pipe lines, and will be prosecuted to the
bitter end. The charge is conspiracy and the
Constitution Of the State, it is claimed.
affords the producers ample grounds for re-
dress. .Beecher's counsel in the indict-
mem against Tilton will be Roscoe Conkling,
VIM. NJ. Evarts, B. F. Tracy, J. K. Porter,
W. o. Bartlett, John Graham and T. G..
Sherman. Among Tilton's counsel are men,
toned Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin
Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, and David
Dudley Field.
The West.
THE venerable Judge Andrew G. Miller died
suddenly, in Milwaukee, last week, having
just completed his seventy-third year. He
was born in Carlisle Pa, in 1901, and re-
ceived the appointment of United States Dis
trint Judge of Wisconsin in 1915. On the 1st
of January last, under the law lately passed,
he retired from active service.
ALL the railroad companies operating lines
in Wisconsin are now complying with the Pot
ter law. The great land case of B. F. Allen
ct al. rs. The Sioux City Railroad Company
and the County of Cerro Gordo, Iowa. has
been decided in favor of the plaintiffs. 1t in
volved the title to $4,000 acres of land and
has been in the courts number Of years.
GEORGE II. BAKER, of Peoria, has brought
suit for damages against the Chicago. Bur-
hngton and Quincy Railroad Company, he
having been roughly handled by some Of the
company's employees while eadeavoring to
board train without showing his ticket
The railroad company some time since adopt
ed rule to compel passengers to show their
tickets before getting on trains. This regrla-
ton was for the purpose of heading of certain
parties who were in the habit of tend sring
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