Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-02

/ ready. lneTo Is no mOIc utnnlte eNlOenCo
than there was month ago as to what is
actually the prospect of a SESSIONS Indian out
break. "A plan has been perfected at Des
Moines Iowa. for the purchase of the late resi-
| dence of b. f. Allen for a State University
under the Presbyterians. Mr.. A. will donate
800, 900, and endow Professors chair
serious lumbermen's riot is reported among
| the booming companies on Flat river, in Mont
calm county, Mich. Mill gates were forcibly
opened and several dams carried away. The
military had to be called out to suppress
the riots. The Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railway Company has completed mort
gage of all its property and franchises to
Russell Sage and Levi p. Morton. trustees.
The road was previously mortgaged for $780,
600, 600. The present mortgage is for $780,
600, 900. the proceeds of which are to be de-
voted TO the discharge of prior mortgages, to
build three bridges, and complete the equip
ment of TIE road.
NEARLY 800 persons were in attendance on
Island, Ill. On the recommendation of
the Committee on Credentials. all persons
present interested in the subject before the
body were admitted as delegates. Mr.. J. NJ.
Allen was chosen President. Ex-Lieut-Gov
Bross, of Chicago, addressed the convention
at length in favor of the Rock Island and
Hennepln canal, and made a thorough review
of the transportation question and the needs
of the West for an adequate outlet for its pro-
duce. The resolutions of the convention, while
particularly asserting the benefits of the
proposed canal, are favorable to other practi-
cable transportation routes by water, and rec
ommend the improvement of the mouth of
the Mississippi. Mr.. Hawley's bill, now be-
fore Congress, for a canal to connect Lake
Michigan, the Illinois and Rock rivers was in
dorsed. committee of thirteen, with Mr..
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alize Congress in favor of the canal. and the
State of Illinois was advised to cede the control
of the Illinois river and the Illinois and Michi-
gan canal as navigable highways to the Fed
erai Government, If, in return, it would as
sumo the construction of this new waterway.
THE Grange Agricultural Implement Fac
tory, in Plattsmouth, Neb., is turning out fifty
cultivators day. A dispatch from Tucson,
Arizona, states that Maj. Randall had a fight
with the Apaches fifteen miles from Florence,
and killed eleven Indians and captured thirty
women and children. Three soldiers were
wounded: ;. Episode of the whisky war in
Xenia Ohio: "Wm. Harris was passing
band of women with a jug Of whisky. when
they beset him and urged him to abandon it.
He resisted awhile, and then drew the cork
of the jug and handed it to Mrs. Connable to
be poured out, which being done, he dashed
the jug on the ground and broke it. After
ward he signed the pledge and knelt in prayer
with the women"
NET results of the temperance crusade in
Dayton, Ohio: Four saloons closed and three
hundred and two in full blast Still the
women are not discouraged. aud the work OF
PRAYER goes bravely on. Mrs. Cordley of
Alton, H., suicided the other day by
throwing herself into well.
THE second indictment for perjury against
David A. Gage, ex-City Treasurer of Chicago,
has been quashed. The Senatorial Bribery
Investigation Committee of the California
State Senate has reported that no improper
influences were used to secure the election of
Messrs. Booth and Hagar to the United States
Senate, but that improper advances had been
made to the Legislators by certain persons.
who acted wholly on their own authority and
with no other responsibility.
The South.
THE greatest CONSERVATION exists in the
Bald mountain, N. c.. in consequence of SUBJ
terranean commissions. The people for miles
around assembled in I. vacant house and en-
gagged in devotional exercises for sixteen DAYS
and nights. Apsut ly0 made profession of
religion. The closing scenes of the meeting
are represented . most peculiar and won
derful
ARKANSAS par ers give the particulars of the
killing of Hon. John N Fox, Judge of the
Eleventh Judi,la. District, the slayer being J.
r. p Aldridge, practicing lawyer. The diff
Guilty grew out of some remarks to the muir
derer by the Judge, while the latter was on
the bench. Aldridge stepped out of a store.
armed with a double-barreled shotgun. and
accosted Judge Fox, who was passing along
the street, with the words, "Now, Judge
Fox" at the same time firing on him. The
first shot took effect in his stomach. He sank
on the ground exclaiming. ''Oh Lord, am a
dead man, and after he had fallen Aldridge.
to make sure of his work. emptied the other
barrel at him, it taking effect in his bowels.
Death ensued shortly afterward. AldridGe
surrendered himself to the Sheriff . Mrs.
William Scance, of Scott county, KY, while
laboring under fit Of temporary insanity,
carved and mutilated her two children in
frightful manner and then cut her own throat.
The mother is dead, but the children may re-
cover.
POSTMASTER CLARE, of Galveston, is
"short' in his accounts some $4,000, and
wants to resign. . The printers of New Or
leans a strike against a reduction of
the price of composition from 65 to 80 cents
per 1000 ems.
THE towboat Crescent City, from New Or
leans for st. Louis, with tow Of five freight
barges, one fuel barge and trading boat
laden with thirteen tons of sugar, blew up at
the foot of Montezuma Island, ten miles
below Memphis on the path of March. Every
part of the boat was blown to atoms, and she
sank in three minutes. The barges were con-
sumed by fire. The car tain, mate, both pilots
aud the Waterman. ALSO Mrs. Ostrander, the
cabin boy and three colored fremen we're
killed outright. while Geo. Van Hanton,
| Patrick Bacon, VIM. Duncan and Peter Hall
were badly injured. A Memphis dispatch
says the Mississippi river below Napoleon is
higher than ever before known. Chancellor
| Turner. of Selma, Ala, has decreed the sale
of the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad and
all the property of the company, including
4O0, coo acres of public land.
THIRTEEN lives we're lost by the explosion
of the steamer Crescent City, in the Missis.
sippi river. The pecuniary loss is about
$500, 600. The New Orleans printers have
succeeded in carrying their strike A fire
! at Brownsville, Tenn, last week, destroyed
property to the amount Of $50, 00G
AT Jackson, Miss, last week. COL Robert
Miller. a prominent vicksburg lawyer, shot
and killed, without any apparent provocation
r. J. Speers. another lawyer. Miller drove tt
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