The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-21
The Ohio House was expected

The Ohio House was expected
to vote upon the fifteenth amend
ment yesterday
The Editor ofthe New York
FTorld came near being COOKED alive
for intermedling with the elopment
Of the Rev. Cock with Miss Matte
! Johnson.
Frederick Wallace the Cleveland
Forger who started for New York
was intercepted at Meadville, by a
telegram from Cleveland, and return,
ed to that city.
-A coal oil lamp exploded in
barber shop in VAN Vert last week
So . 4g fire to the furniture but was
! leedily extinguished. Too great
/ care can not be taken in the use OF
coal oil.
The telegraph strikers, after an
a idle time, in which they have
looked necessity in the face, have
yielded, and gone back to work, SO
| far as they could obtain their old sit
uations. The league has been prac-
ticably disbanded, and every member
advised to do the best he could for
himself.
AT q marriage lately consumat-
ed at Ottawa, Canada, two thousand
dollars were distributed to the poor.
That was a bridal gift worth max
ing. How much better than TO pile
up the silver and gold iewehy and
dry goods that make the poor bride
a slave il the care ofthen, and make
her honeymoon nights wal1eful eyes
through fear her presents will be
burglarized.
The committee on the gold con-
spiracy are actively engaged in bring
ing to light the workings orthe gold
gamblers in New York. The com
mittee is strongly supported by
some Of the best men in the city,
who are urging them to use every
means to unearth the operations Of
the ring. Spies and detectives are
employed by the ring to watch every
movement Of the committee.
The most disastrous conlagra.
ton Indianapolis has ever known
occurred in that city, on the night o.
the 18th. The loss viii not be les.
than $2O0000 The fire originated
in Morrison 5 Opera Hall, and wa:
caused BY a defective fue. At thc
time OF the discovery of the fire
there were about 1900 persons as
sembIed, listening to the lecture O
john B. Cough. The fire WIS frs
discovered by the Rev. Crawford,
who walked quietly down the aisles
and whispered to the people OF
either side to get up and go out
quickly, BY this means the hal
was halfemptied before thp exisfencr
, of the fire was known. Two brick
buildings adjoining the Opera house
j., were totally destroyed,
Frederick T Wallace, Esq, a pro.
minent citizen and business man, il
Cleveland, was arrested for forgery
on Monday last On that day, a nott
bearing IIis signature, and with the
name ofH. B. Payne, endorsed, was
protested at the Ohio, National Bank
The protest brought the knowledge
to Mr.. Payne, who knew nothing ot
the existence ofsuch note. MrWal-
lace was,at once arrested, and guard
ed in his room, by a sheriff. Neal
morning the officer fell asleep, and
1the prisoner made his escape to the
depotofthe Atlantic and Great Wes
ternR r., and. took the train for New
York. The amount obtained by hi;
forgeties are now known to amount
to $2AG60 In every instance, the
forgery is that of the name Of H. B
Payne, as endorser. 1t is known
that he has been forging this name
forever year, but he has always ia
ken care ofthe paper, when it became
due until now.