Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-07-25
News Of the Week Condensed.

| A grandson OF Gen. Shields died OF
yellow fever in st. Louis Saturday.
A fire at Defiance, Ohio, Sunday night,
destroyed $500 worth of property.
1t is rumored that Simon Cameron will
be candidate for United States Senator
in Pennsylvania.
Nearly the entire business portion Of
the town of Catlettburg, KY, was de-
stroyed by fire Monday.
The wheat crop In Minnesota is be-
lieved to have been damaged from twenty
to forty per cent. by the recent rains and
hot weather.
Dispatches from various points through
out the West. state that the fish in all the
rivers and creeks are dying by thousands.
The cause is unknown.
Hot weather prevails at London, and
on the continent the heat is very severe.
In Paris and some parts of the exposition
building the heat is uncomfortable.
A baloonist named L. ID. Atkinson,
while making an ascension at Elmwood,
ILL.,, last Saturday evening. fell a distance
of 200 feet and was killed instantly.
A cyclone at Albany, New York, Sun
day blew down houses, scattered the con-
tents of lumber yards. damaged the gas
works, and inflicted loss of about $780,
900.
The Directors of the Mint received a
dispatch from the Superintendent Of the
mint at San Francisco saying that $780,
600 in silver dollars had been expended at
that mint at par for gold coin since the lst
of July.
Another shipload of Mennonites, 724 in
number. arrived at New York on We'd
nesday. They came from the southern
part of Russia. One hundred and six left
the same day for Dakota and the remain
der will 60 to Kansas.
The Galveston Nep's special says
"Sam Bass, the notorious train robber
died Sunday, and was buried Monday
His last moments were easy. He refused
to inform on his accomplices, saying that
it was against his profession,
directly or indirectly with all kinds oil
ammunition, and that their stores, under
the management of the Mormon priest
hood, are located along the Indian Dor.
der, and in all the towns and hamlets In
the territory of Utah, and also in Idaho.
The yellow fever has broken out quite
violently in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The presence OF the disease is supposed
to be owing to the fact that germs Of the
fever have been retained in refnse dis.
charged from ships in quarantine, where
men have been employed in dregging.
From summary of over 200 report.
received by Z. p. Bacon & Co., commits
sion merchants of Milwaukee, from point.
in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, in
the past three weeks. the damage to the
wheat crop by the late storm and exces
sive heat averages II per cent. in Wiscon
sin, 81 per cent. in Iowa, and "a per cent
in Minnesota.
A Washington special to the Cincinnati
Commercial says: at has long been {
subject of uncertainty and conjectur,
where the indians obtained their ammu
milton during hostilities with the whites
A letter received by Secretary Schuri
from the United States commissioner a
Salt Lake City, dated the 10th instant
sheds some light on the subject. Thu
commissioner says that the Mormon co
operative stores throughout Utah and
portions of Idaho supply hostile Indians
The Russian unofficial press is more o.
less dissatisfied with the treaty, Before
its conclusion, Akaskoff. Panslavist agi
tator, made such a violent speech at Mos
COW against the Russian concessions IL
the congress, that he was warned that IL
repetition would be regarded as persona
attack on the Gear. The Liberals would
have been willing that q state Of wa
should continue, because they hoped GU
Of its results to gain the basis of constitu
tional liberty, but an immense majority
of the Russian people as well as the mer
camille community, and wealthy as wei
"a lower classes want peace