The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-07-09
NEWS ITEMS.

D. troyed and many persons drowned.
le OhaPman's Greek, thirteen miles from Jun
d tion City, thirteen lives were lost, and mar
h more in other portions of the State.
r A man named Schleritt who with tv
others was working over furnace in an ire
% works at Lancaster, Penna., on the 3Otl
+ fell into the furnace and was instantly COZ
+ sumed.
3 Five men fell eighty feet down shaft
the HOosac Tunnel, on the 3Olh. Two wer
instantly killed, and one mOrtally wounde,
A Torpedo factory exploded at Frankli
5 Pa, on the SOth. Building demolished, an
? one man killed.
The Baltic Base Ball Club, Of Wheeling
West Va, were numerically dealt with b
the Red Stockings. on the Both. Game wa
called at close of first half of fourth innings
and stood Red Stocking "A, Baltic none. Al
unbrOken list of triumph is carried back {,
Cincinnati, by the Red Stockings.
Seven cOnvicts from Sing Sing, captured
vessel and showed off, on the 3Oth. Tn,
alarm was instantly giver, and shower o
bullets brought down their leader and the
vessels sails, and put an end to their es.
capade.
A severe hail storm visited Woodstock
Conn., on the SOth, doing great damage to
windows and gardens.
Madame senyeah, the flying trapeze per-
former, who travels with Yankee Robinson's s
circus, while making her leap for life" at
Kent, o., few days ago missed her balance
and fell thirty feet stricking on her head
and shoulders, injuring her severely.
A remarkable discovery has Just been
made by man at Grenoble; France, BY
which it is calculated that cemeteries and
graVeyards will become sperAuous. At the
decease of an individual the body is plunged
into liquid invented by man of Grenoble,
and iu about five years the individuals is
turned into stone. The secret of the petri.
faction is known only to the discoverer.
While the amount per capita of our nat
iOnal debt is 500 O5 in gold, that of Great
Britain is $I26 IS, and that of Holland SIO9
80; while France and Spain average more
than $50 of debt for each inhabitant.
The man Bailey, charged with the murder
OF Laird, his Wife's psramour, was yesterday
acquitted at Wheaton, Illinois. 1t is alleged
that Laird was in the act of criminal inter-
course with Bailey's wife at the time of
the homicide, and the jury held the killing
to be the result of temporary insanity and
justifiable.
Miss Eta Hanna, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
had narrow escape from drowning in the
Maumee river. She had been driving near
the river, and her horse becoming unmanage-
able, got in the river, and she was with diff
Guilty rescued by some bystanders.
Chief Justice Frazer delivered the opinion
Of the supreme court of Indiana June 3Otb,
on the legality of the specific appropriation
bill passed at the last session of the legisia-
ture. The decision sustains the opinion of |
the attorney general, recently delivered on
the constitutiOnality of the law. The court
say they cannot go behind the record of the
which does not show that there
was less than quorum present when the
bill was passed. The court did not con-
slider it proper or necessary at this time TO
discuss this question.
A dispatch from San Francisco saws ex-
periments have been recently made in that
city with a working model of an aerial navi-
eating machine. 1t not only ascended into
the air, but was propelled in any required
direction by machinery. A machine of a
capacity to carry eight or ten persons is be-
ing constructed for the purpose of making a
trip to New York. The inventor is conf
dent that the trip can be made in twenty
four hours.
The Texas Republican Convention warmly
indOrsed the Government and enlogized the
18th Amendment in its platform. 1t also
censured the application of the term carpet
bagger to new cOmers from the North. The
ticket nominated is strong one, and the
candidates are all old and influential resi-.
dents of the State. They are Governor
General Edward ]. Davis, of Nueces. Lieu
tenant Governor-OolOnel J. W. Flanagan,
Of Rusk. Commissioner of Land Office
Jacob Keuchler, of Parker. Treasurer
William D. Price, of Travis.
At ZaDzeville, Ohio, recently two boys,
aged about twelve years, discovered the body
Of boy AOating down Licking creek, face
downward, and swan out into the stream
and brought it ashore. Finding the body
yet warm, they used the proper means and
succeeded 1t restoring respiration. The boy,
after being restored, stated that be had fallen
otf log hundred yards or so above the {
place where he was rescued, and being un-
able to swim, he could not regain the shore. l
In the course of an hour be was able to walk
% his father, Mr.. Kavanaugh's house, over
4 mile distant.
The Pittsburgh Gazette says that recent
contract has been closed between the COM
1lned lines representing the Central or
PennSylvania trunk-line of railway, and the I
Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw road, by which l
0 ANA-"~J NHiNJ 40 PoiACCOcu W Lne mlSSl6- | l
'iPpi at KeOkuk. More than that, it is also
determined to put the road through thence c
o the Missouri River, over what is known q
IS the Southern Iowa route. The Gazetts
rows over the success of the Pennsylvania c
company in distancing their competitors in /
he race towards the Pacific, China, Japan. a
md SO forth.
The question having been anxiously asked. {
What shall we do with our Cinnamon spd t
lewly arrived Japanesei California answers a
t by producing silk. There is no reason S
Fhy certain portions of our country should /
lot abound in silk-culture and nov, after ]
lecades Of experiment it seems that this
has come to fruition. Our i'm 4
'Orted silk comes originally from China and o
Iapan. If Japan AID China come to US, and 5
ear the silk-worm for US, we have effected i O
saving, This is the case in California. t
Fhich Chipamsn lately said was the best I
country in the world, because b
he blunderers at the cOcooneries had not 2
'een able to kill half the worms. v
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