Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-05
NEWS SUM E7ARY.
The East.


Ak invention has just been tested at Titus
vile, Pa, by which, it is claimed, the speed OF
locomotives and ocean steamers can be in.
creased threefold, at less cost than at present
It is called the New Double-Exhausting
Steam Engine. The Pennsylvania coal min
ers and operators have adjusted their troubles
and all Is serene once more. A shocking &C
cident occurred in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
. few days ago. number of men were at
work on the roof of building for the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works, when the wind took
it of, carrying with it some ten of the work
men. Eve of them were fatally and two seri-
ously injured
PITTSBURGH is enjoying a genuine sensation
out of the usual order. A quack named Smith
is under arrest for poisoning his patients,
having administered arsenic for magnesia-
Seven persons are known to have been killed
BY his prescriptions. 1t is believed the man is
crazy 1t is understood that the physicians
of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other
cities have combined to secure the bodies OF
the Siamese Twins, a. s2y price, for al
autopsy.
CRY TREASURER Az. d. HAMILTON, of
Jersey City, is missing. tits alleged that he has
fed with several thousand dollars of the city 8
money, and 500, 900 in water bonds. The
former cook of the Steiner family, four men,
bers of which were burned to death in tiie Z
house recently. has been arrested. Silver
plate, known to have been in the house, and
jewelry belonging to the dead, cannot be
found since the fire, and robbery and murder
are now insinuated in connection with the ter
rlble affair.
SEVERAL attempts have been made recently
to burn Roman Catholic churches in New York
city The Commune is said to be thoroughly
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churches and school-houses are freely made.
The suits of the heirs of Capt. Calvocoresses,
who either committed suicide orw murdered
in Bridgeport, Conn.,. against the several life
insurance companies for $50, 1000, have been
settled, with one exception, by an agreement
by the companies to pay one-haf- There Is
much excitement and indignation in New York
over the revelation of the manner IN which
the pauper dead are disposed of. Some time
ago Nathaniel French, prominent Mason
from the Bahamas, was murdered II that city
and buried in the Potters field Recently his
brother craftsmen have endeavored to reclaim
the remains and give them decent interment,
when the startling fact was discovered that they
lie at the bottom of a pit with 600 other bodies,
and as no record has been kept of the row in
which the body was placed it is impossible to
identify it. The Olympic Theater. in Phila-
delphia. has been destroyed by fire. Dur
two fremen and injuring several others.
The West.
The Chicago Commercial Bulletin Of Jan.
"a, publishes report of the pork-packing
in the West for the present season, showing
that the number of hogs packed sums up
1904. 345, against 5. 526, $40 last season. The
average weight this season is 141 pounds,
against 166 pounds last season. The pre-
hminary trial of John E. Corwin, for shooting
Col. T. Y. Stlllwen at Anderson Ind, has re-
suited in verdict of justiiable homicide -
John johnson, the well-known Western
steamboat builder, was accidentally killed.
few days ago, by being crushed by hotel ele-
vator at Cincinnati
THE town of Martinez, Cal, was the scene
of CHASTITY judicial murder on Friday, the
sd of January. A man named Morton was
hung for the murder of Valentine Fischer,
and confessed to the crime on the gallov'e
When the drop fell, to the horror of the
spectators, the head of the culprit was COM
pletely severed from the body, and the lifeless
trunk fell to the ground The Directors of
the Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad have de-
cided to consolidate the debt of the road, which
amounts to S26 265, 900, held in different kinds
of bonds, in one mortgage for s35, 00o,000
JEROME PHENNEY, of Cleveland, O.. aged 8 |
years, in quarrel stabbed another boy, Peter
Snyder, with pocket-knife. Being told that
the wound would result fatally, Jerome took
his fathers revolver, went to the barn, and
shot himself dead. A terrible accident oc-
CURED at Madison, Wis, few days since by
which Miss Minnie Phelps, niece of Hon. w.
p. Lyon, Judge of the Supreme Court, was in
stantiy killed, and G. wilkins MORALLY wound
ed A party of students young ladies and
gentlemen, were coasting and, by some mis-
hap, one of the sleighs ran against tree, with
the result stated.
THE report of starvation and suffering from
want of clothing among the Indians of YER
million Lake, Mimi, are fully confirmed, but
the shocking story of cannibalism had no
foundation. John F. Harper ex-Collector
of Internal Revenue for the Springfield (Ill.)
district has returned to Springfield from Can
ada On guarantee of the Government, to
testify in certain cases against the Pekin dis
tillers wherein it is sought to recover money
aggregating nearly S3O0,00c.
THERE is much excitement at Aurora, Ind
caused by the ravages of trichina spiralis.
Seven or eight persons are said to be lying at
the point Of death with the disease. An ex-
animation of the pork of which the afflicted
families had partaken revealed the fact that
it was literally alive with trichina. A letter
from Cheyenne mentions that " q son of
Lone Nof was recently Killed while raldlng
in Texas. This news occasioned much excite
ment among the Kiowas. Lone Wolf showed
his grief by cutting himself frightfully with a
knife. He killed his horses and burned his
wagon and lodge with all his effects. . John
Harper. the ex-Collector of Internal Revenue
at Springfield, ILL.,, refuses to be interviewed,
and says he will make no statements till he
goes on the witness stand, when he will testi-
fy under OATH 1t is said, good authority
that he was offered $4,000 by the Perkins
distillers to remain in Canada.
THE Illinois Railroad Commissioners have
ordered suits to be commenced against the
Toledo, Wabash and Western railway and the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific for viola
ton of Law. The Illinois Legislature having
passed a law for compulsory education. other
States are considering the matter. A bill to
compel the attendance Of children at school
has been introduced into the Iowa Senate. -.
The jury in the case of Coo the murderer, on
trial at Palmyra, H., brouf ut in q verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree. On the
jury being polled, as the fourth name was
called, Coe tainted in his At. Aurora, ILL.,,
has bad lot of boys. Recently the City
Marshal made raid On the rendezvous of the
street Arabs capturing Is of their number