Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-10-31
News Of the Week Condensed.

The famous racer. Harry Bassett, is
dead.
Snow to the depth of six inches fell at
Rock Island, Ill Sunday night
The yellow fever reports continue to
show the decline of the disease.
The offic al figures of the Iowa election
show Hull's majority over all TO be 6,6s9.
A dozen persons have been arrested in
South Carolina for interfering with Re-
publican meetings.
James f. Anderson Is reported as say
ing that the authorship of the Sherman
letter lies between Senator Kellogg and
Conquest Clark, and that Mrs. jerks
never saw it,
They are making strong effort to
shorten the seven years terms of the Eng
fish Parliament to five years. The Liberals
are likely to adopt il. as one of the planks
of their platform.
1t is stated by the Washington Star
that there is ground to believe the Presi-
dent will enforce justice in South Caro-
lima with the aid of the military If it is
found absolutely necessary.
The United States commission at Salt
Lake, which is investigating charge of
bigamy, finds the witnesses indispcsed to
answer because of their primary obli-
CATION to the Mormon Church.
B. Goldman & Cos slipper factory at
Milwaukee, was destroyed by fire Satur.
day. The loss is about $1,000, covered by
insurance. Seventy-five men and women
were employed in the factory.
A burglar was captured in Chicago on
Saturday who had in his posse ssion an
apparatus with which he could melt off
the putty and remove pane of glass from
a window in about five minutes
A singular double wedding occurred at
Maiysville, Ind. Thursday Two old
people, aged so ands1 were married, and
at the same time the gay old girls grand
son was reunited TO his former wife, who
was divorced from him recently.
News from Bulgaria is alarming. The
Notables are organizing movement for
the determination of the Mohalnmedans.
and Russians encourage the secret com
mtiee in procuring arms. A great strug
gle is likely to take place during the
winter.
Prairie fires have been raging in differ
ent parts of Nebraska, sweeping every
thing before them, and destroying grain,
fences, houses and machinery A large
number of persons have been rendered
homeless, and the pecuniary loss will be
very great
The conductor of the freight train on
the Old Colony Railroad. charged with
causing the. Woolaston disaster, by which
so many lives were lost has been held in
$4,000 bail as guilty of manslaughter,
The engineer is adjudged guilty of gross
negligence, and the passenger conductor
is said to have been untitled, by reason OF
insufficient acquaintance with the road, to
run a train.
Attorney General Youmans, of South
Carolina. has been at Washington max
ing an unsuccessful effort TO induce the
President to rescind Attorney General
Deven's letter. The President thinks
that Republicans should be allowed free
dom of speech and the BALLOT even in
South Carolina, and does not propose to
give the Red Shirts" his permission to
break up Republican meetings.
1t is now thought that the wealthy
stockholders of the great Scotland Bank
of Glasgow will have to bear the heavy
burdens of the failure. A dispatch from
London Saturday says:
1T is believed the call for $4,000 per
share will exhaust the means of the small
er shareholders of the city of Glasgow
Bank, and throw the burden of the assess
ment upon the few wealthy. The assess
ment will be farther increased as the bank
itself held such an amount of its own
shares that about four and half millions
of the present call would have been
assessed thereon. The first installment
of the present call is made PAYABLE the
22nd of December and the second the 24th
| of February. Ii seems inevitable that il
will be followed by further and far larger
calls on those not bankrupted by the
present one"