Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

ANOTHER scene in the contest for women's
Mass, where the estates of the women who
refused to pay taxes, because they were de-
MED the vote, were put up for SALE But one
of them was purchased. and that by friend.
Land taxed without representation is about as
unstable as tea was in the same State about
ITS. The Massachusetts, Supreme Court
has decided that women have an equal right
with men to sit on school boards. The
Maine Senate has voted in favor of the aboli-
ton of the death penalty.
A FRIGHTFUI. accident occurred the other
day at Union Dale, Pa. A locomotive leaped
the track, going over an embankment seventy
five feet, killing instantly the engineer, the
conductor, the fireman, and the brakeman
A SHOCKING tragedy was recently enacted in
New York city. A party of drunken detec-
tives in pursuit of a man for whom they had
a warrant. broke into the house of a reputable
citizen named Mcnamara, who resisting the
outrageous intrusion was shot down by the
intoxicated officers. =. The perpetrator of the
New York Stock Exchange hoax has been ar
rested and held to bail. He is young man
by the name of Mccoy.
A New YORK police spy reports that there
are 800 Communists in that city, and that the
German and Irish organizations are organizing
with the Frenchmen The medical commits
sion which conducted the autopsy upon the
Siamese Twins, at Philadelphia report the
following as the most important of their dis
coveries: They found that the two hvers,
which were supposed to be joined only by
blood-vessels, were really one body the pa
renchymatous tissue being continuous between
them. so that When they were removed from
the bodies and placed on the table they form
ed one mass. The so-called tract of portal
continuity is therefore liver tissue. 1t will be
remembered that Chang was said to be pos
sessed of one moro pouch than Eng. When
the liver was removed. however. an upper
hepatic pouch was found, also, proceeding
from Eng. so that the band contained four
p uches of peritoneum, besides liver tissue.
These disclosures show that any attempt dur
ing life to separate the twins would, in all
probability, have proved fatal
The West.
Two rabid dogs made terrible raid through
the streets of Chicago, few days ago crea-
ting the widest CONSERVATION. Seventeen
persons and sixty CANNES were bitten before
the brutes were dispatched.
THERE has been serious rioting in st. Clair
county, ILL.,, between the striking coal-miners
and the negroes who had taken their places
in the mines Gov Beveridge at the call of
the Sheriff of the county, has sent arms and
ammunition to be used in suppressing the
rioting Hostile Indians recently appeared
a. Julesburg ond Chappen stations, on the
Union Pacific railroad, stole several head Of
horses. and fired into the station-houses. F.
The National Crop Reporter publishes esti-
mates in relation to the percentage of the hay
Feb. /, in the States Of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Ohio. and Wisconsin. These
States produced last yeas over 5000, 900 tons
of hay, of which there was on hand Feb.
little over As per cent, about SOC, 900 tons.
Illinois retains the hghtest percentage. a
trife less than As, and Wisconsin the heaviest,
nearly 81 The States named produced last
year about 20, 900, 900 bushels of Irish pota-
toes. Amount now on hand 10000 600 BUSH
els. =. The prospects for fruit in Southern
Illinois and Southwest Missouri are fiattering.
The freight war which has for some time
been going on between the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads has gradually
spread, and fierce battles are now fighting be-
tween these two corporations in nearly every
city of the Union. The result is a general re-
duction of rates and universal rejoicing
among the travelling and shipping pubic. This
battle, which has now lasted for several
months in the East, has moved westward I'M
til nearly every Western road is on tie war
path.
GENERAL SHERMAN is now at Fort Laramie,
Wyoming Territory, where he and General
Ord are organizing an army to operate against
the murderous Sioux, General John E. Smith
will be in command of the troops in the field.
Three hundred men went adrift in East
Saginaw Bay, Mich, on the morning of Feb.
%. on q cake of ice upon which they had built
a fishing village, and which was driven away
from the shore by strong southwest wind.
The cheerless craft bore them out into the
lake till change of the wind to the west
brought them up to the erstern shore of the
bay, where 200 of them managed to escape at
different points. About 100 were still on the
ice at last account, and their escape from the
perils of the breaking ice and the freezing
weather can hardly be hoped for. A call has
been issued a for convention Of delegates from
the Northwestern States to be held at Rock
Island, ILL.,, on March "a, On the subject of
cheap transportation
DISPATCH from Saginaw Bay of Feb. "a
states that IS or 100 men were still on the ice
foes. about ten miles from shore. Little ap-
prehension was felt for THEN safety, as small
parties we're constantly making their way to
shore, although the passage was very perilous,
having to be made over broken cakes of ice.
THIRTY-sIx valuable circus horses and other
property of Montgomery Queens circus were
consumed by fire at Msrris, Ill, last week.
The Government has recovered judgments
against the whole batch of Pekin, (Ill.) dis
tillers, the total amount being 1915 900. =.
The Vogel Excise law, which repeats the Ora
ham Liquor law, together with all restrictions
upon the sale of liquor on Sundays or election
days, has been passed by the Wisconsin As
sembly. Il. NJ. Haverstick. editor of the
Rock Island Qll.) Union, was recently cow
hided by J. p Chopper for an alleged insult to
Mrs. J. P. C.. Some excitement is caused in
San Francisco by serious charges against the
Mayor and City Treasurer touching their man.
agement of the city's financial All airs and
broad hints are thrown out that big steal has
been going on. Tue Grand Jury will ventilate
the matter.
A DETROIT dispatch Of Feb. IS says: "No
definite information has been received in re-
gard to the ice-fioe at Bay City, but the gen.
eral opinion is that all have escaped. If any
remain, the north wind which has prevailed
to-day. has probably driven them to
their former position, thus enabling them
to land. There can, therefore, be
no doubt of the safety of the men
who have not escaped to the west shore"
-. Dispatches from Cheyenne report that the
military preparations continue Gen. Sheri-
dan has returned to Chicago but Gen. For