Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

series of incendiary fires during the past two
or three years, involving the destruction of
over a million dollars worth of property. A
few days ago five members of the volunteer
fire department OF the town were arrested on
suspicion of being the incendiaries, and they
haze confessed to the crime.
The West.
JAMES LICK, a very wealthy Californian, has
decided nearly the whole of his vast property
to the public He gives 800, 900 to the con-
struction of the largest aud best telescope in
the world for the observatory at Lake Tahoe !;
S420, 900 for public monuments $3.50, 500 for
public baths in San Francisco 800, 900 for
the Old Ladies' Home $500, 600 for the en-
dowment of the School OF Mechanical Arts Of
California, and various sums, ranging from
$4,000 to S30,000, to other public charities.
Judge Drummond, of the United States
Circuit Court heard arguments for granting
an Injunction against the Wisconsin Railway
Commissioners, and further hearing of the
case was postponed for two weeks.
KILOGRAMS received at the War Depart
ment in Washington report that the Indians
in the neighborhood of the Cheyenne Agency,
in Southern Dakota, have gone on the war
path.
THE Wisconsin railroads have adopted the
ractice of requiring prepayment of fares be-
fore admitting passengers upon their trains,
the object being to prevent the 3-cents-per-
mile rides, which were becoming too frequent.
The village of Tampico, Whiteside county,
ILL.,, WAS visited by terrific tornado on the
night of the 9th inst. Twenty-one dwellings
were totally destroyed, and every house in
town more or less damaged. 80 lives were
lost, though number Of persons were in
jured, several seriously. A horrible tragedy
- ~ l. I'll ~ n.
of June. A saloon-keeper named John Nc
Derrick. while laboring under fit of tempo
rary insanity, murdered his wife and child by
shooting them with revolver, and then blew
out his own brains.
THE storm of wind and rain on the Sth
inst. seems to have been general throughout
the Northwest, traversing q wide extent of
territory. and was very destructive. Illinois,
Wisconsin. Iowa and Michigan especially
suffered, the damage to property in those
States amounting to hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
The Matt onal Anti-Slavery Reunion was
held in Chicago, commencing on the 9th
inst. The meeting was largely attended,
many prominent old-line kbolitionists being
present, including Vice-President Wilson, who
was elected Chairman of the meeting. ..Ad-
vices from the West represent that the Com
anche and Cheyenne Indians are preparing
for raid into Texas The first train of cars
passed over the bridge at st. Louis on the
9Th of June. The hog cholera is playing
havoc with the swine in jackson county, Ill.
Gov. CARPENTER, having been applied to by
the Iowa Changers as to his action relative to
the Railroad Tariff law, replies: 'Should the
railroads attempt to overthrow it by appealing
to the courts, shall not. hesitate in the duty
which will then be upon me, to see to it that
all the authority possessed by the Executive
is invoked to secure its enforcement. In the
performance Of this duty, the law associates
with me the other members of the Executive
Council, each of whom is entirely in sympathy
with me in respect to the line of our duty in
the case Of resistance by the railroad COM
panies."
The South.
FROM Louisiana word comes that hundreds of
people are without either food or shelter,
thrown out of house and home by the flood.
The entire amount thus far contributed to
their relief is about $40, 600. Cholera has
made its unwelcome appearance in New Or
leans Fears are entertained there that in
dition of the country, it may spread and be-
come unusually virulent.
Washington.
The conference committee on the currency
bill on the 4th inst. agreed to a report recon-
mending the passage of measure which is
substantially the House bill, with minor
changes. and provision that the retirement
of greenbacks on the issue OF the national
bank currency shall be at the rate of 37l per
cent =. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Sawyer has rendered his resignation
Adolph Cluss has brought suit for libel against
Shepherd and other members Of the Washing
ton Board of Public Works, by whom he was
officially charged with having committed per-
jury.
OK account of the Incorporation of clause
In the Indian Appropriation bill recently
passed by Congress, requiring all the accounts
of the Indian Commissioners to be audited in
Washington. the members of the Board have
resigned in body. :. A Washington dispatch
of the 9Th inst. says the Currency Conference
Committee have agreed to report a bill ia the
form agreed upon and made known TO the
President before the publication of his views
that is, one for free banking, with the re-
tirement of thirty-seven and one-half pei
cent of greenbacks, the abolition of reserves
In circulation, except five per cent. deposited
in the Treasury to redeem mutilated notes
and fixing the time for redeeming greenback:
In gold bonds in January, 1878.
The Pension EiE has passed both houses Of
Congress. The principal features of the bill
are the increase Of the monthly allowance Of
those totally disabled in the army to $50, and
. slight increase of the pensions of those who
have lost one leg or erm- These changes viii
not pereeptibly increase the appropriations
Washington correspondents state that al
hopes of the passage of the Civil Rights bill
ut the present session are given up. The
Senate Committee on Railroads have agreed tc
postpone the question of the terminus of the
Pacific railroad, as between Omaha and Coun.
Gil Bluffs, until the next session of Congress
After due elaboration, the committee
appointed to investigate the affairs OF
the District Of Columbia have prepared bill
abolishing every vestige of the existing local
government, and committing the affairs of the
district to commission Of three persons, to
be appointed by the President and confirmed
by the Senate, but the Commissioners are re-
strained from exercising any of the functions
of government save to keep the streets in re
pair Ali the public improvements projected
by the Board of Public Works are to be DIS
continued for the tine being. The First ant
Second Comptroller; of the Currency are di
rected to ascertain the precise amount of the
public debt, and to take measures for the pay
ment of the inherent. committee to si
during the recess of Congress is to prepare