Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-13
INDIANA NEWS.


Kokomo.
The Changers of Clay county vii,
organize a company and open a store
house soon.
The Greensburg Standard wants it
to be understood that Decatur is equal
to any county in the State, and Greens
burg, as far as it goes, to any city"
The building firm of Williams,
Giger & Durfee, of Noblesville, has
been awarded the contract for building
the bridges on the route of the Ander-
son, Lebanon and st. Louis railroad.
-Fox-hunting pays in Bartholomew
county. A party killed twenty in the
neighborhood of Columbus last week,
and collected bounty of So for each
scalp.
Last Thursday night the Catholic
Cathedral at Fort Wayne was broken
open by some unknown parties and
the alms-box robbed of its contents.
The amount taken is not known
Jennie Hall, of North Manchester,
sues j. II. Shively, of the same place,
for breach of marriage contract, laying
her damages at $50, 200. The case will
be heard in the Mama Circuit Court.
The Prairie City. one of the best
steamers on the Wabash, was burned at
Terre Haute recently, with part of
cargo of grain. Total loss, $4,000,
Capt. William Beckwith is the owner.
The election at indianapolis, contra
~ to expectation, passed off very quiet
ly, and resulted in victory for the Re
publicans, giving them the Mayor, Clerk,
Treasurer, Assessor, and seven out of
thirteen Councilmen.
DR.. H. w. Cloud, distinguished
druggist, and proprietor of special COM
pounds, died at Evansville last week,
from the effects of choral taken to miti-
gate pain. He stood high as chemist
and citizen.
-Sallie Taylor, of Evansville, had
presentiment that something would hap
pen to her brothers, who were in the
saloon business at Vincennes, and wrote
a note urging them to come home. Louis,
the elder, fell dead of heart disease,
and the note was found in his pocket.
AT Indianapolis, on election day, as
the Vandalia switching train was backing
up to the Vandalia freight train, man,
whose name cannot be ascertained, was
run over and instantly killed. The only
papers found on his person were Dem
ocratic and Republican ticket.
"A farm hand named McCord was
killed at noon on last Friday on a
farm two miles above Milton, Jeffer-
son county. McCord was seated under
large tree eating his dinner, when a
large limb, broken off by the wind, fell
upon him and killed him instantly.
The beam of an elevator in the fur
niture factory OF G. Armstrong 81 Co.,
at Evansville, broke while it was being
loaded at the third floor, Saturday, let
ting the cage fall to the basement.
Joshua Sadler, who was ON the elevator,
was killed. Mr.. Armstrong also received
severe injuries, and Mr.. Frock had his
arm broken.
The Elkhart Reuiew says "The
new paper mill is going up with all pos
sible speed. About fifty men are at
work ON it, and the walls are some ten
feet above the foundation. The COM
pany hope to get all the pits completed
this week, and expect that they viii be
able to make paper by the LIST prox.
Burglars effected on entrance into
the Jacksonville Pc re Wednesday
night. They took all lhe letters in the
private boxes and general delivery, and
left several money orders scattered on
the floor. The exact extent of the loss
cannot now be determined. From NJ.
81. Whites stationery and news depot
showcase they stole SIS worth of prop
erty, mostly gold pens and pocketknives.
"A few days since an unsuccessful
attempt was made to rob the County
Treasurer's Office, In Perry county.
Tho safe doors were blown open, but
the robbers failed to get into small
apartment where the money of the
county, some SIS, 900, was safely slowed
away. 1t was a botch job, and the burg
lars must have been greenhorns in the
business This is the third attempt to
rob the same safe.
The Evansville Journal says the title
to the remaining parcel of ground COM
posing the site of the proposed govern
ment ediice is now satisfactory and vii
soon be complete In the United States.
The site is nearly clear of buildings. The
plans and specifications are in progress
and it is expected that advertising for