The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-29

Blossom Rock, California, was utterly de-
molshed in the recent explosion, and thrown
in all directions. soundings give thirty-eight
feet of water over its site at low tide.
A locomotive OF the Toledo Wabash & Wes-.
tern Railway, exploded, while standing on
side track at Toledo, on the evening of the
2lst.
4 woman named schaefer, was RIM over
snd killed, on the Cleveland and 3iahoning
Railroad, near Warren, on the 10Th inst. She
was supposed TO be intoxicated.
Petrlisset, the lion killer gian: in form
and strength, is one of the curiosties OF Paris.
He has p chamber carpeted with the skins of
lions slam in Algeria. His gun can hardly be
lifted By IN ordinary man. ta7a
The first match game of Base Ball in Gleve-
land, this season will be played on the Forest
City grounds between the Forest City, of
Cleveland, and the Resolutes, of oberlin, on
the 18th of May. aa at
The paper makers had a meeting in New
York, on the Goth. There object was to es-
tabish union and govern the production,
and as consequence, the price of paper.
They are to meet again, May, 2Oth.
The ship Thomas fireman, from New Or
leans, for Constadt, was struc,; by tightening
on the 18th inst, in latitude 2j, q, longitude
u, and burnt The crew was saved by the
brig owego and brought 10 New York.
Mr., Thorton, the British Minister at Wash
ington, protests, m behalf of his country,
against the building of the Darien Canal by
this Government He insists that such en-
undertaking is forbidden by somo existing
treaty.
The House Committhe on Territories agreed
tc a bill granting an enabling act TO provide a
State form of government for the Territory of
New Mexico. Mr. Cullum, chairman, was in
structeG 70 introduce the bill as early rs prac-
t;cable ,..
The Board of Managers Of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Homo, met at Columbus
and organized, on the 2lst, with Gen II P
Bucldand, OF this city as President Col H G
Armstrong, OF Cincinnati, as Secretary, and
Major II 5 Guncle, of Dayton, as Treasurer.
A young man in Toledo, suffering from IN
attack Of cramp collie, attempted 10 quiet his
pains by taking chloroforn. In z short time
his condition was such that the utmost efforts
Of physician were necessary to restore him.
He came near quietting his collie permanently.
Tho engine was standing perfectly still, and
without any warning, was blown into thou
sand pieces. The engineer and fireman were
both killed, and brakeman seriously injured.
Whether the explosion was the result Of care
Iessness OF from some defect in u Aua is not
known. s-
The ooopers Of Cleveland, who struck about
one year ago, undertook to run some Of the
establishments themselves, by renting Of the
proprietors and paying per cent. Their
policy and management has proved ruinous,
and now the working coopers are on strike
against the managing coopors.
Rev. Andrew Henkel, Minister Of the old
School Lutheran Church for over fifty years,
died in Germantown, near Dayton ON Sunday
after short illness. He was leading men,
ber OF the Ohio Synod, and was we'd known
n the church, east and west
On Sunday night and Monday morning.
two unsuccessful attempts were made by
burglars to enter the residence of Holmes
Brown, at Lima, Ohio. The first attempt
was made about eleven O'Clock, which aroused
the family, and the burglars left but returned
again at two in the morning, when Mr.
Brown fired at them through the window, but
without effect Mr.. Brown is absent in New
York, which fact the burglars were probably
aware Of.
It is by no means certain that the United
States will remain passive observer Of the
little campaign tais summer in Rupert's Land
Senator Chandler, on Wednesday, offered q
resolution directing the President Of the Uni.
ted States to appoint two or more commission.
ecs, or other diplomatic agents, to open nego-
tiatioDs with the people of the Winnipeg
country. with view TO the annexation of that
district to the United States, either as a Ter
ritory or g Stale.
The Fifty-ninth General Assembly has en-,
acted "that male persons Of the age Of eigh
teen years, and female persons OF the age o
sixteen years, not nearer of kin than second
cousins" may be joined in marriage provided
-"Shat male persons under the age Of twenty
one years, and females under the age Of eigh
teen years, shall first obtain the consent Q
their fathers respectively, on in case Of tn
death or incapacity OF their fathers, then o
their mothers OF guardians
Mansfield, it may be noticed, hes succeede,
in organizing the Michigan and Mansfel
railroad company, which proposes to build
railway from Mansfield to the Michigan Stat
line, passing through Williams, Henry, Han
cock, Wood, Seneca Crawford and Richlsn
counties. The capital stock is s6OO,0OO, an
the incorporators are: H. H. Strges, Wi
liam BUSHNELL Hubbard Colby, Willard {
Hickox, James II. Cook and Henry C. Hedge
Of Mansfield, William Slough and E. G. FAY
OF Bryan, Ohio, and Charles Foster of Fosto
ria, Ohio.
The Grecian Banditta have been creating
sensation in that classic land, BY capturing
number of distinguished foreigners The
were pursued by the government troops wh
came up with them near Marathon, and kille
thirteen of the thiefs, dispensing and pursuin
the rest. During the pursuit Lord Munchaste
made his escape, but the bandits murdere
an attaehe of the English Mission named He1
bert, Count Boyd,of the Italian legation, Lord
Loyds and vyner, who, becoming exhausted
could not keep up with the rufBans in thei
fight.