Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-06
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PLYMoCTH. INDIANA
NEWS SUM MARY.


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Tho East.
THE Register in the bankruptcy case of jay
Cooke Il Co. Is ready to paw per cent, and
viii do so as soon as directed to pay by the
court "A Philadelphia dispatch states that
another child, aged 4 years, was kidnapped
July % by two men, one colored, who pre-
vailed upon the little fellow to enter
q wagon in which they were riding.
Pomeroy, the boy-murderer, has confessed
that he murdered the boy Miller on the 22d of
April last, describing in detail how the murder
was committed. An application for the ap-
pointment of q Receiver to the Erie Railway
Company has been considered BY the Attorney
General of New York, and he finds n it suf
ficient reasons for bringing a case into court.
The allegations in regard to corruption and
the wilfuLviolation of law are rejected utter
ly; and the application viii be based on the
charge that the company has transcribed its
charter-powers. The specifications under this
head relate to the making of illegal leases.
especially in the case of the Atlantic and
Great Western read, and to the division of Il
dividend out of capital stock.
PROF. DONALDSON and five journalists have
made balloon trip from New York up the
Hudson river, landing several times, without
accident.
The numbef of lives lost in the recent del
uge at Pittsburgh Pa, is over 200, and the
estimated value of the property destroyed at
about s5OOO,OOO.
THREE men attacked mining boss at the
Jermyn mines, in Wilkesbarre, Pa, in the
upper part of these coal fields, on the morn
ing of July 90 and intended to murder him
One of them " as killed. These men demand
ed work. and baing refused. attacked the
boss and fired len shots at him in rapid sue
cession, some of which took effect on his
body. He fell to the ground as they sup
posed, dead The clerk in the mining store
heard the firing and took q gum ran to the
door and fred upon the assassins as they
started to run off, the bail taking effect in the
head of one and killing him instantly.
The West.
A TERRIBLr tragedy was enacted at Bull
City, town on the Solomon river, in Osborne
county, western Karsa on the 18th of July.
A merchant by the name Of Chas Cook. who
has been cut of his right mind for some time,
thrust a knife through the brain of his infant
child. and then seized Ratchet snd struck
himself several times in the forehead. pene-
trating the brain. The Peoria Ill.) base
ball clubs have arranged for grand tourna-
ment in that city. beginning August IL and
continuing four days. The grasshoppers
have destroyed SIC, 900 bushels of wheat in
Minnesota
THE following Gel, directed to the Railroad
Commissioners, of Iowa, Wisconsin and Min
nesota has been issued from the Office of the
Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commits
Aioners:
SIR: Upon consideration BY this Board Of the in
formal correspondence had with the several Rail-
road Commissioners Of the Northwestern States
concerning proposed joiat conference, 1t has been
decided by this Commission to call a convention at
Dubuque. Iowa, Aug. II, next at O'Clock p. m, at
the Julian House. Your participation therein is
respectfully requested. am, very respectfully,
yours, JOHN PEARSON. Chairman.
$3.50 An organization called the Citizens As
sociationhas been formed in Chicago, :" to pro-
mote the general welfare OF the CITY," 1t is
an outgrowth of the feeling created BY the
last great fire. John L. Carlisle suffered
death by hanging at Marshall, No., July 81
for the murder Of George Micker two years
ago. A terrible tornado visited Milwaukee
ON the oath Of July. causing considerable dam
age to houses, trees. fences, circus tents. etc.
"A boat was capsized on the Wabash river
near Grand Chain, Ind. on the 22d Of July,
and six out of fifteen men drowned.
DISTRESSING accident befel the town of
Eureka, Nevada, on the oath Of July. rain
cloud burst on the mountain just above the
town, releasing an immense volume of water
which rushed down the canon in which the
city is situated, sweeping all before it. Some
thirty houses, mostly of the poorer class, were
swept away, aud twenty or thirty persons
drowned On the 26th of June another
lamentable and probably fatal accident oc-
CURED in the coal nine of the Mclean County
Coal Company in Bloomington. ILL., John Ar
buckle, Goa, miner, while working in a room
in the pit. WAS crushed beneath mass of
roof rock. and received injuries from which he
will probably die. man named John Rey-
nolds. who rushed to his assistance was also
crushed but will probably recover.
THE most diabolical ard cunningly plotted
attempt to commit arson ever brought to the
lightin Chicago was discovered recently in a
two-story frame, owned and occupied by
Nicholas Staaden, hardware dealer at No
219 North Clark street. The premises were
soaked with Kerosene and tram laid to three
kegs of powder. The alarm of fire was given
and the designs of the criminal frustrated
There was an insurance of SIS, 900 ON sc, 600
worth Of property, which is supposed to be
the cause which led to the attempted arson.
...Juc &c Williams of Chicago, has decided
that the SONS of Stephen A. Douglas are en-
titled to e100, 600 each, as their share in GER
tain Chicago property, and that Daniel
Rhodes, Thomas s. Dobbin, and Richard
Gregg, executors Of the Senator'S will, must
make the amount good
The fre-fend, Nicholas Staaden, whe at
tempted to blow up his store in Chicago, in
order to get an enormous amount of in
surance, has been held in S14, 900 bail in de-
fault of which he has been committed to jail
DIR. Earll. the notorious abortionst is on
trial for his life in Chicago, for the murder of
Rosetta Jackson. There were eight cases
all fatal-of sunstroke in st. Louis on the
18th of July.
THE Chicago fre-bug. N. Staaden, was in
dcted by the grand jury of the Criminal
Court of Cook county, H., on the Goth of
July. Mrs. Glenn, of Indianapolis, Ind. is
going to remodel her house and live in fine
style.
TIE Hon. N. B. Bradley, NJ. c., from the
Saginaw (Mich.) district. presided over
meeting Of representatives of lumber and salt
interests and all opposed to the pending reci-
procity treaty, on the 29th Of July, at East
Saginaw.
DUPLICATION Of the celebrated Swing
case. which disturbed Chicago society, is on
the carpet in. Indianapolis, except tina. it is
the Methodist Episcopal Church that is to lie