The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-10-29
NEWS ITEMS.

the 10th of November.
The Vermont legislature has adopted tn,
fifte enth amendment.
Ground was broken for the new Lunatit
Asylum, at Columbus, on Wednesday.
! The Democracy of Indiana, are to hole
their State Convention on the sth of Jan.
uary, 1870.
The second annual convention of the U
S. Railroad conductors association, met al
Columbus, on Wednesday the Doth.
The propellers Comet and Hunter collided
near Detroit on the 2lth and both sunk
No lives were lost.
The official vote of Pennsylvania gives
Geary a majority of 1886, and Williams,
for Judge of the Supreme Court, majority
s,7O3.
Prof, Wise, the aeronaut made an ascen-
sion from Orville, on the 18th, and landed
in Brooke county Va, near Mellsburg the
same evening.
A seem from eight to ten feet wide was
opened at Marlborough, Me-, by the late
earthquake. Residents of the neighbOrhood
were greatly alarmed.
The Cleveland Herald completed its fifth
eth year, on Tuesday Oct. 18th 1863, the
first number of-the paper having been issu-
ed on Tuesday Oct. 18th 1913
Earl Derby died on the 23d Faged seventy
years. Earl Derby was prominently known
as the leader of the conservative opposition
party, during his latter days.
Conrad Meier, who killed Feltenheim the
peddlar, near White House, Lucas county,
and who was to have been hung November
5th, has bsen reprieved for one month.
Two of the parties arrested on suspicion
of having been implicated in the attempted
assassination of revenue officer Brooks. in
Philadelphia, have after trial, been convicted.
Slas Wells, light-c1lo mulattO, obtain
ed verdict for $275 on Saturday at Spring
field, Ohio, against the Trustees of that town
ship, for the refusal of his vote at the late
election.
DR.. Mary Walker is lecturing on the neces-
sity of law compelling men TO marry be-
fore they reach the age of forty. There will
be On exodus of bachelors from the State
which passes that law.
Near st Clairsville, on the 9Th, brute
named Foster beat his wife nearly to death
and left her lying in fence corner. He
was arrested and held for trial, but bailed by
his attorney and then ''lit out"
The Tennessee Republicans residing in
Washington, on receiving the news of the
defeat Of Andy johnson, held meeting and
adopted resolutions coDgratulating the people
of the Stats on their safe deliverance.
The total saving in expenditures, by the
general government during the past six
months over the same period in 1868 is S96.
86I, Ol4,59; and the total increase of reven-
ue from both sources of S5b.OS4, 967 so.
A few days since, in Sheffield, VT, while
a man was saving in his mill, the saw going
at the rate Of l6O cuts minute, a squirrel
ran into the mill, on to the log and up the
saw teeth into the loft without injury.
A call has been issued for a convention TO
I
form State organizations in behalf ofwomen
suffrage. The convention Is to be held at
Cleveland, NOv., 24th and 25th. The call
IS signed BY Representatives from nearly
avery state.
An extensive fire broke out in State street
Chicago, on the morning of the Doth, con-
'uming property to the amount of S35, 900
destroyed. Insured for $4,000. One or
.wo lives were lost and several persons ss-
rerely injured.
The body of a man named Cornelius Bar
ett was found in the Ohio river, about thir-
y miles below Louisville, on the 18th inst
he had been cirizen of Cincinnati and it is
supposed that he was murdered and his body
brown into the river.
zTbe town of Ohacas, in Peru, is said to
ave been destroyed by an earthquake on
he 25th September. The people of Peru
ireading the expected tidal wave and earth
quake which have been predicted, had fed
o the mountains.
The receipts from customs and internal
evenue during the present month, indicate
further reduction in the amount of the
'ublc debt at the end of the present month
rhe Secretary expresses himself confident
hat there will be steady decrease iu the
lebt.
Alexander Roberts, Of shelbyvilIe, Ky,
hot and killed Marion Bohanpon. of Con.
olation, on the train for Lexington, on Sat-
rday lest, They had law suit before at
be result Of which neither were satisfied
'ohannon attacked Roberts in the cars, and
ne shooting was the result,
An unknown man was killed near Colum-
us, on Monday last When found his
lothes we're on fire, and blood was flowing
rom cash in his head made by a large
tone which lay at his side He had been
n Columbus the day before and said he
anne from Liverpool, England.
The great fire in Cincinnati on the goth,
saYes the College Building a complete
neck. The rooms above the mercbantile
lbrary and chamber commerce, were burned
ut entirely. The damage to the lower por-
ion of the building Is not as great. The
Otal loss is shout SIS, 900 nearly covered by
A man named John Walber, an employee
the trunk establishment of Simoc Wild
'srg Co., of Cincinnati, fell from the
lith story window, on the Doth, striking up-
N trap door, on the first floor, breaking it
'ut not passing through it. He received
Internal injnries which it is thought will be
atal
a young man named Jacob Haslop, de.
cended into we'll to make some repsirs.
lear Bellair, on the 18Th, was overcome
With foul air before he could be drawn out
nd fell to the bottom Ofthe well. His father
vent down after him and brought him out
'nt he was so badly injured by the fall that
le died a few minutes after.
A freight train on the Dayton d Michigan
Dad, was thrown from the track by running
ver several COWS which were caught in the :
attle guard, on the 18th near Ottawa. s
Ieither the locomotive nor the tender we're
t all injured, or the engineer or fireman
'ruised, but two freight cars were totally {
demolished.
At the seventh district Republican cOnven-
ion, which met at Concord Mass. on the
d, GeOege M. Brooks, was nominated as l
andidate for Congress, to fill the vacancy '
aused by Mr.. BOutwell'S resignation. The '
Omination was made unanimous.