The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-05-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Congress will adjourn July 4th,
The Alphabetical Baber is out for Congress
| in the Columbus district.
Mark Lemon, editor of the London Punch
died on Monday, in his sixty-frst year
The business houses OF Cleveland will be
closed on Monday, it being Decoration Day.
Rev. o. Allen, a prominent citizen of Co.
lumbus, died suddenly in that city On the
10Th.
Six hundred houses were burned in Quebec
Canada, on the 24th, and two ships shared the
same fate.
Urbana prides itself on the beauty OF its
ladies and the richness and elegance of their
dresses.
The Democratic State Convention meets On
Wednesday next to place candidates in nomi-
nation for-defeat.
A man in Rhode Island was sent to Jail for
ten days for sleeping in church. Nothing was
done to the clergyman.
Six hundred and ninty. five thousand pounds
of butter was made and sold in Medina county
at a profit of $4,000
W.S. Thatcher, of the City Mills, Barrel
Factory, Cleveland, had his hand caught in
the planer on the 18th, and badly lacerated.
Morehouse, Freeman Is Cru1n's oil ware
house, Cleveland, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the Dist.
The German Theater, at Chicago, was burn
ed on the morning OF the Goth. Loss $4,000,
insured for $4,000.
The shingle factory at the corner of Leonard
and Sumner Streets, Cleveland, was destroyed
by fire on the night OF the 2Oth. Also foun-
dry adjoining. Loss $4,000.
A sea serpent ninety feet long, and with a
head like lager beer keg, has been seen in
the Hudson river, near Grants Islsnd, in the
Highlands.
The storm on Monday last, was very severe
IN Cleveland, and did considerable damage.
At Berea, small house was blown down.
Hail fell in several places.
A fire has been raging in the woods between
Lakeland and Smithtown, Long Island. An
area of ten miles in length and six miles across
is burned over.
OAl4IAAf A4LO SOANA4Abuo oGAAASNL anu lu1dllLl-
eide who was arrested short time since for
murder, was indicted by the Grand Jury
on the 10th for murder in the first degree.
The certificate OF incorporation of the Nedi-
na Building Association was filed at the Sec
retary of States Office on Saturday. The cap
ital stock is 100000.
At Fullertown, Geauga county, young
man named Kinney was driving cow, on
Monday last, during the storm, and as they
passed under a metallic clothes line both were
struck dead by lighting.
VIC White Stockings Base Bail Club, of
Chicago. starts on a Professional tour, June
10, and plays the Forest City, at Cleveland on
the Doth. They then visit Buffalo New York.
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other prominent
places.
Near Crestline, on Saturday evening last,
a rail having been removed from the track of
the c. C. X C. r. r., the locomotive of the
express was thrown in the ditch, and the bag
gage car jammed against bridge. One man
was killed and one badly injured
Several youths, tired Of this life, trid TO find
an entrance to the other world through the
waters of Lake Erieyat Cleveland on the 18th,
but finding the passage not as desirable as
they had expected, they returned demoralized,
and concluded ty try it a while longer.
A sad event occurred at Toledo on Saturday
evening last, by which John Albert Carpenter,
son of John Z. Carpenter, Esq, Paymaster of
the Toledo and Wabash Railway, lost his life.
In company with several boys he went to the
river for the purpose OF bathing. Soon after
entering the water his companions discovered
that he was in peril, and two OF them went to
him to render assistance. Every effort was
made by the two TO rescue him, but he grasped
them in such manner that they were unable
to manage him and were forced to abandon
him to his fate. As soon as the sad inteIli-
genee reached his friends immediate steps
were taken to recover the body, which was
done the following morning, The immediate
cause Of his drowning is not known with GER
tainty, but it is supposed that entering the
water in heated condition he was seized with
cramps He was about seventeen years Of
age, and is spoken c as boy of great
promise.