Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
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city, and. the Opera House at wilkesbarre,
Pa, have been DESTROYED by fire.. The M
fortunate Spanish steamer Arapiles, which Is
been blockaded so long in the Brooklyn dock
BY q sunkeu barge, succeeded IN getting out
the other day, but while being towed to an
othsr secsSsy to take or her armament; she
ran fast into the mud, where it is stated she
WI remain, for the present. :. A thousand
workmen were discharged from the Brooklyn
navy-yard ON the I'd inst. Plymouth (Henry
Ward Beecher's) church has formally and en-
phatically declared itself an independent or
ganization. and given those who interfered in
Its affairs very explicit intlmatlon to attend
to their own business and leave Plymouth
church to attend to it's own affairs
A DAsTArDLY attempt was made the other
day, to kill Judge s. T.. Merris of Brooklyn,
N. Y. with an internal machine which was
sent to his house The Judge opened the
box. but fortunately the matches did not
strike in such manner as to explode the tor
pedo contained in it. Judge Morris is all
active prosecutor of the corrupt Brooklyn
ring ~ .-s7.s
FIRE in Springfield, Mass, ON ne 5th inst,
destroyed 100000 worth of property.
Henry Clews & Co., of New York, have re-
sumed business, and viii pay all their obliga-
tons in full
MATTHEW T. BRENNAN, late Sheriff of New
York, and his deputy, Shields, are serving a
sentence of thirty days in Jail fer contempt of
court in allowing the convicted Tammany thief,
Genet, to escape. e ~ -
The West.
THERE we're $500 births and 1851 deaths in
Chicago last year. A four year-old daughter
of George Alderton, who keeps grocery store
in East Saginaw, Mich, tho other day threw a
q lighted match into q ten-pound can of powder
which was sitting in the store: The explosion
that followed blew the building to atoms,
killed the child, and badly injured its mother
and Young man who was clerking in the
store Paris, Mo-, was visited by destruc-
tive fire on the I'd inst. There is extreme
restitution among the farmers of Northwest
ern Iowa. The Inhabitants are suffering for
the necessaries of life, and many hundreds al !,
almost dying Of want.
THE Board of Trade of Keokuk, Iowa, has
passed resolutions. denouncing the st. Louis
bridge as serious obstruction to the naviga-
ton of the river, and called ON Congress to
abate the nuisance. Two miners we've killed
by an explosion of giant powder at Austin.
Nevada ON the 4th inst :. Twenty-seyen
lives were recently lost by the wrecking of the
schooner Elida, near the mouth of San Fran
cisco harbor.
RIcHLAND county, Ohio, is the latest victim
of the emotional dishonesty so fashionable
among custodians of public moneys. It's
Treasurer has fled, leaving his accounts more
than hundred thousand dollars short. A
shocking domestic tragedy has enacted at
West Jefferson, Ohio, few days ago. While
Clinton Knauf. aged IL, son Of widow, was
playing the violin, ne Was interrupted by his
sister, an esteemed young lady, who jerked
the bow from his hand and entreated him to
cease playing ON the Sabbath. The young
man became enraged and seized tie fire-poker,
striking her on the head and inficting
wound from which she died almost instantly.
- The case of ex-senator Pomeroy, in which
that dignitary is charged with bribery, came
mp for trial at Topeka, Kansas, last week. He
did not appear in. person. but his attorneys
made application for . continuance for thirty
days, which was denied by the Court and his
william %EMsn and George Smith, Of
East Saginaw. Mich, got adrift on a cake of
ice on the 31st of December, and drifted about
on the lake for six days The cake of ice on
which hey had taken refuge foated ashore at
Penconning on the 9th of January, and the
men were rescued from their perilous position
in an exhausted and almost dying condition
An awful catastrophe is reported from Tus-
cola county, Mich The residence of Mr..
McMonagle caught fire during the night and
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husband, wife and child, perishing The
st. Louis Globe has purchased the Stats
Zeitunq, German paper. for SAG, 900. The
Globe, by this means, becomes member of
the Associated Press. Last August the city
of Portland, Oregon. was almost destroyed by
an incendiary fire. Suspicion rested on a man
named ST. Clair, and he has been closely
watched The other night be was detected in
an attempt to burn the remaining portion of
the city, and is now under arrest "A party
of six men who went out from East Saginaw,
Mich, to search for two fishermen. since res
cued, that were carried away on an ice-hoe,
are believed to h&vs been drowned, as their
boat has been found bottom up near the shore.
- Resolutions have been introduced in both
houses Of the California Legislature request
ing Congress to put stop to Chinese immi-
grafton .Ex-Treasurer David A. Gage, of
Chicago, has been unanimously indicted by
the Grand Jury for the felonies Of perjury and
embezzlement Of the public funds
THE sentences of Williams and Fefee (col-
ored), who were to have been hung at Pinck-
peyvil1e, H., jan. 8. have been committed by
i, Coz. Bsssidge to imprisonnent for Hfe
The South.
A nvnR1BLE domestic tragedy was enacted
at Louisville, KY, on the I'd inst. A man
named Cook murdered his wife and mother
~e>- W
ear He suspicioned his wife of inidelity.
Two LEGISLATURES are in session in Louisi-
ana, representing theKellogg and the McEnery
Governments. go ~
COY. KELLOGG, Of Louisiana, in his message
to the Legislature, says the debt of the State
is $24 2S3, 336, and recommends the repudia-
ton of 40 per cent of the amount by funding
the debt at 60 cents OF, the dollar. The late
election in Texas is invalid, as the Supreme
Court of that State has decided that the law
81 under which. it was held is unconstitutional.
. This law directed the polls to be kept open
but one day, in contradiction Of the provisions
of the Constitution, which requires them to
be open for four days. Under this decision
the sitting State officers hold over till the
.uXeGislature orders new election in consti-
tutional manner.
EHox. JONI B. THopsoN, formerly United
States Senator from Kentucky, died at Har-
rodsburg, in that State, last week.
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1T is stated that Senator Morton has pre-