Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-30
News OF the Week Condensed.


The health of the new Pope is said
to be declining.
Four hundred Mormons. for Utah,
sailed from Liverpool SATURDAY..
The Globe planning mills at Mime
apolis were burned Thursday.
The Vermont Republican Conven-
ton last week endorsed President
Hayes.
A row Of coal sheds. containing
thirty thousand tons of coal, burned
at Detroit last Sunday.
A coal oil train was wrecked on the
Baltimore g. Ohio railroad Sunday.
The oil ignited and five cars were
burned.
The Senate has confirmed the NOM
ination OF Stephen b. Packard, of
Louisiana, as United States Consul
to Liverpool.
The result Of test case indicates
that Allegheny county will have to
pay for all goods destroyed by the
Pittsburgh rioters.
CALIFORNIA; favorite running mare,
Mollie Mccarthy, passed through
Chicago this week, on her way to
Louisv lille, for the great race with
Tenbroeck.
Accounts received from every capt.
tai in Europe concur 10 the opinion
OF an amicable adjustment OF the DIFF
ficulties between Russia and Eng
land.
The Hessian fly is said to be max
ing damaging inroads in the wheat
of Allen. Rush and adjoining coun-
ties. Many fields are already injured
to the extent of at least one-third.
The heavy snow storm, two weeks
ago in the Black Hills, was followed
by warm weather and rain last week,
which caused a flood in the vicinity
of Deadwood that did considerable
damage.
The trial OF the Coal Greek muir
derers commenced at Covington, Ind,
last Monday afternoon. The best le-
gal talent in the county is employed
on one side or the other, and every
inch OF ground will be contested.
The Potter investigating committee
met Monday, but so far. has ad-
journed from day to day without ac-
ton. The Republican members are
said to be surprised at the unaccount-
able delay manifested by the Demo
Gratis.
About six o'clock last Thursday
evening a tornado struck a settle
msnt three miles from Darlington, q
Chicago suburb, and desolated the
country for a radius OF about two
miles. One man was killed and an
other had his legs broken.
1t is said that a consolidation Of
Indian agencies has been agreed
upon between the House Committee
on Indian Affairs and Commissioner
Hoyt, by which the number of reser-
vations will be reduced from thirty
six to nine, and the number of agen-
cies from twenty to eight.
Latest reports from Wisconsin
show that the damage done by the
storm of Thursday last was terrible.
Everything in its track was demol-
ished aud many lives were lost, and
hundreds Of persons seriously injured.
The towns OF Primrose. Montrose,
Perry, Mount Vernon, Phillips, and
several other places were almost en-
tirely destroyed.
A horrible affair took place Sunday
at the little town of Arlington, nine
miles west of Mendoza, Ill. A young
man named Sam Carney had been
paying his addresses to a Miss Gull
lenbine, Of that place, but some diff
Guilty occurring between them, he
shot her, killing her almost instantly,
then fired at her father, wounding
him in the hip, attacked the mother
with a butcher knife, and fired on a
man who came to the rescue Of the
family, and then deliberately cut his
own throat with razor.