Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-12-28
OTTAWA COUNTY.

The Ottowa county Union gives the follow
ing account of the burning of Mr. John Detlefs
Mills at Port Clinton on Saturday of lat week:
OF the origin of the fire nothing is known.
Mr.. CLARK, who passed the mill, gcing to his
cooper shop, about 3 A. NJ, saw small light
in the engine-room of the saw-mill, but sup
posed it was some one at work about the en-
CINE, and paid 10 attention to it. The -four
ing-mill was a. large, well-built structure con-
tanning three run Of stone, and doing very ex-
tensive business. Every thing connected with
the mill went to ruin--lumber, engine, grain,
wood, &c. The destruction of the Touring mill
is a very serious public, as well as individual
loss; because the people of this section depen-
ded chiefly upon it for their supply of flour.
The loss is about /: 8 500; insurance, 81, 500 in
the Security Insurance Company, of New York
Much sympathy is felt toward the owner. We
are informed that it is the intention of Mr..
Detlefs to have the mills rebuilt as speedily as
possible. -s.r.c eso4r,
/ WOOD COUNTY.
From,the Perysburg .lourHGl.-M William
Houston, one of the leading citizens and mer-
chants of Perrysburg, aged probably 50 years
or upwards, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with razor, from TO ear, on the after
noon of the 18th. He ale his dinner as usual
and shortly after went TO his room, an up
stairs chamber fer the purpose of lying down.
After being up there an hour or more, be came
down stairs, went to the pantry, got his razor,
and Immediately returned to his room. A brief
time only elapsed, when heavy fall was heard,
and little daughter, running up to ascertain
the cause, found her father lying on the floor a.
the foot of the bed face downward, and the
carpet stained with blood. The little girl gave
the alarm, and an elder daughter ran up and
endeavored TO raise the body of her father, un-
r 1. al. 1.
enacted The wife of the decea: ed was not in
the house at the time of the dread occurrence,
having stepped into neighbors. &
HURON COUNTY
From the Norwalk Reflector on the
New Hotel Building has been suspended for the
winter 1t will be resumed in the early Spring.
The second quarterly meeting of the
Firelands Historical Society for'the current year
was held at Centerton, on Wednesday, the 18th
day of December, ls66.---J Among the an
tiquities, curiosities presented to the society
were the folowing:-B the heirs of Capt. Colt,
a steel for striking flint, used by him while
voyaging around the world. By Asa Haines,
of Norwich, a large collection of flint arrow
heads and stone ba.tle-axes. By B. G. Briggs,
of Norwich the skin of the last wolf but one,
caught in Huron County. 1t was caught in
Norwich by Mr.. B. in 1910. By the same.
wine glass over one bundled years old, and
large arm chair, OF which the spreading ant
lers of an elk caught in Wisconsin, composed
the arms. By Mr.. Nathaniel Mills, silver
buckle over one hundred years old, a razor over
one hundred years old, and hone over one
hundred years old. The society after passing
resolutions of respect to the memory of Platt
Benedict, appointed the Rev Alfred Benton of
Norwalk to prepare and deliver at some future
time before the Society, an address commem-
orative of the life. Of Platt Benedict Esq the.
late President of the Society, and of the history
of Norwalk