Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-03-29

Samuel Cary Ball, late cashier of tn
Hatboro, Pa, National Bank, has beeI
convicted of embezzlement and sentenced
to ten years. Imprisonment.
John, alias Cooney Welsh, age 20, wal
fatally stabbed on the night of the 18th
at Philadelphia, while he and two other,
were garroting and robbing Pat. Davis.
The hardware store of N. d. McCer
mick & Co., together with contents, wa.
destroyed by fire, at Wellsboro, Ind, on
the Goth. Loss, $1,000; insurance, 81 800
Nathan G. Greenfield, convicted OF
the murder of his wife, in Orwell, N. Y,
October 2lst, 1875, was, on the 23d, sen.
teneed TO be hanged May 11th. A stay
was granted.
Two young men named Campbell and
Bailey, finished political discussion at
Antrim, N. H.. on the 10Th, by the for
mer striking Bailey, and Bailey shooting
Campbell dead.
Ft. Wayne Sentinel, 90: John Bell, a
conductor on the Ft. Wane, jackson aud
Saginaw Railway was crushed between
two cars at Auburn Junction this morn
ing and tadlv h~-s
A letter from Red Cloud, says
some 400 hostiles have arrived at
Spotted Tail agency during the present
month. There are no advices from Chief
Spotted Tails Mission to Crazy Horse.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company sold
225, 900 tons of Pittsten coal at auction on
the Goth, in half an hour The prices,
compared with February sale, show fall
ing off of from 10 cents 10 80 cents per
ton.s
Ex-Governor Emory Washburn died
Sunday, the 18th, at his residence, %
Quincy street, Cambridge, Mass, of
pneumonia, after an illness of about four
weeks. He was born the 14th of Febi uary,
1900.
Major Reno, on trial at St. Paul by
court martial for shameless conversation
and writing concerning the wife of Capt.
j. NJ. Bell, will, it is generally believed
in army circles, be found guilty and dis
missed the service.
Two motions, which had been pending
ing in the Circuit Court for several days,
asking for new trials in the case of the
city of st. Louis against the st. Louis
Gaslight Company were overuled by
Judge Gottschalk.
AT Shelbyville, KY, on the 2lst, Ben.
F. Mickey, regarded as the worst desper-
ado in Kentucky, was convicted of the
wilful murder of John P. Wilson, of Old
penal servitude for life.
The Executive Committee of the Right
Worthy Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Good Templars was in session in
Chicago, last week, considering import
ant business. 1t has been decided to hold
the annual meeting of the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge in Portland, Maine, in May
next
In the case of Susan jackson, of LOU
isville, against the Mound City Life In
surance Company, of st. Louis, the jury
found a verdict for the plaintiff. George
N. jackson, the plaintiffs husband, COM
mitted suicide and the company resisted
the payment of the policy on that
ground.
telegram from Rome says that later
version of the pope's utterances at the
consistory Is that while he inveighed
against the desire to deprive him of the
liberty OF speech, he encouraged resist
ence thereto, saying the time had come
To employ force.
A sharp battle was fought at Kagosh
ina, the capital of Satsuma, a few days
before the sailing of the steamer, the
news being received at Yokohoma on the
90 linn Aau Rcnnrfo NH kaf ho
imperial forces captured the place after
q short and severe conflict. The con-
spirators were routed at every point.
The award of the contract for military
during the coming season
of navigation on the Upper Missouri and
Yellowstone rivers, for the military depot
at Dakota, was given John b. Davis, OF
Davidson. His bid was fifteen cents for
the Missouri transportation. and fifty
seven cents for the Yellowstone.
The Poneca Indians will be removed
( ON their reservation to the Indian ter
ritory in about two weeks. II Is reported
that they pretend they did not know
what they wen doing when they signed
the paper rehnquishing their rights tn
their reservation; that they supposed they
were signing apaper 10 draw their annu-
ities, and that theywiil forcilby resist any
attempt by the government to rmove
them.
The cabinethas not accepted the Rus
sian notifications, aud requires, be fore
considering them, distinct pledge of
demoblizatioi. The government, it says,
is asked not oily To submit To the amend
ed version Of the protocol TO which it is
disposed to agree, but also to concur in
arrangements by which they would ind
themselves alter signing the protocol
bound to ast Turkey 10 disarm before
Russia would demobilize its army. This
condition has seemed inadmissibfe.