The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-01-23
News OF tho Week Condensed.


About five million dollars worth Of
property was destroyed by fire In
New York city last week.
Lieutenant Dodd has gone to the
Pine Ridge agency to get the assist
anc OF some Of Red Clouds Sioux to
hunt the fleeing Cheyennes.
The secretary Of the treasury on
Saturday called for the redemption
OF twenty millions Of fve-twenty
bonds Of 1865 and consols CT 1897.
Mr.. Edmunds, Monday introduced
relief bill In the senate to grant
amnesty to those now living IN the
bonds Of Mormon wedloek.
Six cotton mills at Preston, En-
gland, running 1873, 144 spindles, have
given notice OF a reduction OF wages
from five to ten per cent.
Weston started Saturday morning
from the Royal Exchange at London.
to walk over the highways2.000 miles
in 1000 hours and deliver fifty lee
lures.
1t begins TO be evident from the
delay OF the house committee on ap-
preparations, that the Democrats are
determined to force an extra session
OF congress.
The sales of provisions La Chicago
on Saturday last aggregated $4,000
barrels OF pork, $4,000 tierces OF lard,
and 100000 pounds OF meats, val
ued at s2,5O0,0Oo.
Henry Morrissey died few days
ago at Halifax, aged 81. He fought
on the Victory at Trafalgar, saw Nell
son fall, and afterward had his own
leg broken by splinter.
Martin Bergen, the nineteenth
Mollie Mcguire hanged for murder,
met his sentence at Pottsville Last
Thursday in cool matter of fact way
and died without fiinohing.
The Occidental Hotel, at Omaha,
Neb,, with A. Sohultz's cigar factory
and other frame buildings, burned
early Monday morning. Total loss
$1,000; Insurance, 81 500.
Bismarck has sent Privy Counselor
Finkelenburg TO Vienna to arrange
with the Austrian sanitary authori-
ties common measures against the
spread OF the plague westward.
The trial OF the directors OF the
City Of Glasgow Bank is proceeding
at Edinburg. The prisoners are
charged with fraud, theft and embez-
Element. The court room IL densely
crowded.
The house committee on printing
Will report favorably on Mr.. Single
tons bill to reduce the expenses oil
public printing and binding. 1t Ia
expected that 100000 will be saved
annually.
Lieutenant Governor Hull, OF
OF Florida. has been indicted by the
United States grand jury on a charge
OF conspiracy with others In obtain
ing false returns OF the election in
| Breyard county.
The house committee on coinage
weights and Measures has authorized
Mr.. Muldrow to prepare bill for the
resumption OF the trade dollar at par
ami to prohibit Its further circulation
in the United States.
The President Is guarding against
any necessity OF an extra session oil
Congress by forwarding nomination.
for offices whose occupants commits.
sions expire before the next regular
meeting OF Congress.
Boil, the houses at IndIanap-
oils were beset Saturday with swarms
oftramps.applying for temporary shell
ter, the sudden resumption OF the
cold weather having driven then
from their lurking places In the sub
urbs and river bottoms.
The evidence has accumulated thai
Mrs. Stewart to her intimate friends
has had no hesitation In declaring
that her husbands remains are re-
covered; that they have been under
tho control OF Judge Hilton for some
time past, and that with six hour.
notice they could DO removed to Gar
den City and delivered at the palac,
sepulchre which, Is ready for them
1t is said Mrs. Stewart told a frient
that it was not likely she would hav,
consented 10 her neice's marriage be
ing celebrated with great publicit,
while her husbands body was still il
the hands OF the robbers. Judg,
Hilton, however, still declines eithe
TO affirm or deny the report OF thu
recovery OF the body.
| President Brown Of the Northern
Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso
reads paper at the recent teachers
association in which he dwelt on the