Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-03-07
Indiana Items.

days since which she had evidentl
swallowed years ago.
The Fowler Herald proposes Judg,
Hammond for Congress in the lott
district.
The prospect for bountiful whea
crop in the southern part of the Stat
are flattering.
Fifteen tramps undertook to cap
ture an inn at Francisville. Dearborn
county last week, but were demon
allied and driven off by the pluck.
landlord with revolver
Gen. Sheridan lectured at Win
chester recently. The city hall was
packed to overlooking, and the
speech is said to have been the
finest ever delivered in the city.
A new five column folio to be
called the Temperance Union is soon
to be started at Charlottesville.
The extensive Touring mills Of
Geo. Esfhond, located one mile
southwest Of Fit. Wayne, were de-
stroyed by fire Feb. "a. The fire
was the work of an incend!ary.
Alexander Robertson was shot and
fatally wounded at Shelbyville, Sun
day morning, by Edna Mayfield, a
notad cOurtesan.
The Blue Ribbon tidal wave has
struck Valparaiso.
The Superintendent Of Public In
struction has decided that a trustee
may locate township library in q
pubic school house, but that it can
not be consolidated with a public
school library.
The body of Miss Neal, daughter
of a respectable farmer of Evansville,
was found Sunday of last week, sus-
pended by the neck by shawl to a
tree. She had been missing from
home about two weeks, and was
no doubt insane when she committed
suicide.
The supreme court of the State has
decided that medical experts connot
be compelled to testify as such until
they are paid for their services.
Daniel Mcfarland, the murderer Of
Albert d. Richardson, it is said has
been at work during the six months
past at the Studebaker shops in
South Bend.
Commodore d. Curtis, a farmer,
so years old. was shot through the
heart and killed. at his home near
Mount Vernon, Thursday last. by his
stepson aged ID. Curtis was trying
to murder his wife in drunken row,
and the boy got gun and shot him.
The State Superintendenthas about
completed his revision OF the school
law, and will soon have it ready for
distribution.
Andrew Wincer, who attempted
rape on the person OF Mrs. Ruth J.
Robinson, an aged and respected
Quakeress, was sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the penitenti-
airy, at Winchester, Thursday last.
State Superintendent Smart, be-
lieves that the new law regulating
elections of school trustees Is so in
definite as to make it doubtful
whether trustees who have been in
Office continually since the election
previous to 1874 can be reelected.
General Joseph Orr, who ccm-
manded the Indiana troops in the
Black Hawk war, and who was for
many years president OF the State
Board Of Agriculture, died at La
Porte, Friday morning. aged eighty
four years.
Fleming, the Democratic candidate
for State Treasurer is quite ill at his
residence in Fort Wayne.
A laborer at Evansville tried to
kill his wife with butcher knife, be-
cause she added another child to the
family.
Albert A. Sipe has retired from the
Union City Times, and it will be
hereafter controlled by his former
partner, G.. w. Patchell.
On Thursday last John Gritty, liv-
ing two and half miles north of
Rushville, in a fit Of dependency in
duced by chronic disease, cut his
throat with a razor.
Mrs. Saletta Evans, of Evansville.
has presented the red ribbon tenn
perance club with a lot valued at
$4,000, for the erection OF a public
hall theron.
The fate OF Rev. Mr.. Hood. OF Flat
Rock, near Madison, Is still a mystic
ry. The report that his body had been
found pierced with bullets is untrue
and the search for his remains still
goes on
Articles OF association OF the Fort
Wayne Market and Southwestern
narrow gauge railroad company were
filed with the secretary OF state
Thursday. 1t is proposed to build
the road from Fort Wayne to Terre
Haute, via. Indianapolis. w. G.. HoI-
man is president of the company.
Boone township, Harrison county,
is terribly excited. The grand jury
found bills of indictment against six
persons for arson and larceny. Fiji
teen houses and barns have been
burned recently, numerous thefts per-