The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-11-17
NEWS ITEMS.

Inc CnOfeCa IS increasing IN OOilsGantLlOPAS'
The Republican majority in Minnesota is
1900.
The Yellow fever has susided at Charles
ton S. @.
The MOrmons are preparing to give up their
extra wives.
The net earnings of the Northern Ohio Fair
was $4,000.
Saint Brigham and orson Hyde are just now
invisible or ubiquitous
Cincinnati is to have q union depot that Will |
be used by six railroad companies.
Miss Anna L. Dickinson lectured in Colum-
bus, on Thursday evening of last week.
The Akron Beacon Company has been in
corporated with bapital stock of $4,000.
Incendiary fires at Newark, \. j., are max
ing the people Of that locality feel nervous.
The committee investing the election frauds
in Brooklyn, has made startling discoveries.
A company of Mormon Missionaries was to
leave Salt Lake for the Eastern States, on the
18th.
New York is troubled about small pox and
Tweed-the latter has been the most ezpen-
sive.
The Republicans of New York have elected
ninety-e1ght members of the Assembly-the
Democrats thirty.
Senator Carpenter estimates the number of
lives lost by thewisconsin fires at from twelve
60 eighteen hundred.
Prince Pierre Bonaporte, the assassin OF
Victor Noir, was married in Brussels, on the
llth, to Mile Riflu.
The health of Queen Victoria is said to be
improving, and the project for establishing
4egency has been abandoned.
Geo. o. Chase, book binder at Fondu Lac,
Wisconsin, has established his claim to for
tune of sl,5OO,OOO left him in England.
The Dramond Mills at Peoria, Ill, were
destroyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon
last. Loss heavy, with $4,000 insurance.
Since November Both, 1863, there has
been received at the Treasury Departmet
and credited to the conscience Fund" $780,
I47.
A disastrous fire broke out in Geneva, ,Switz-
erlsnd, on Monday morning last, end many
buildings were destroyed before the fire could
be checked.
Fifty persons were injured by railroad
accident on the North Missouri Railroad, at
wellsviIle, on the 10th. Six persons we're
killed outright.
The spar and block works of Thomas J.
Burrin, at Cleveland, were destroyed by fire,
on the evening of the llth. Loss $4,000.
Insured for $1,000.
An indictment was found against VIM. B.
Stokes, at Washington, on the 18th, charging
him with receiving fees while Represents
tive in Congress.
Thomas E. Norwood, Of Savannah, Georgia,
was elected to the United States Senate, on
the l4th, by the Legislature He is said to be
moderate Democrat.
1t is understood the Pope will shortly issue
protest in which he will deny the right ofVIc-
tor Emanuel to be King of Rome, and claim
that honor to himself
Jim Fisk, Jr., was arrested in New York,
on the 10Th, on complaint of Miss Mansfield,
one of his female friends, and placed under
$1,000 bonds to answer.
Small pox is raging in Chill, and has broken
out in Buenos Ayres 1t is prevailing in All
rica, on the west coast, and one out of every
five cases are SAID to be fatal.
The Cleveland Lake Tunnel is progressing
rapidly, and it is expected that it will be com
pleted inside of two months The tunnel has
already been driven over 1000 feet ?.
G1lmore's new coliseum viii be s22 feet
long, 422 feet wide and $50 feet from the
ground to the top of the dome, and will cover
an area of nearly eight square acres.
Clevelanders were entertained by company
of colored singers from Fisk University,
Nashville, Tenn, on Sunday last, at Plymouth
Church. Their proficiency is highly spoken of.
Any information of Isaac Roosa, who left
his home in Shalersville, in Portage county,
last August, will be thankfully received by
bis brother, Joel Roosa, at the above named
place.
A square and half Of the business portion
of Chattanooga, Tenn, has been destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss s75OOO-insured $50
900. The fire is charged TO desperadoes from
Chicago.
At Providence, R. L, on the 18th, Mr..
watfeld took her young child into shed and
chopped its head to pieces. She is thought
to have been insane, as she had made two at
tempts to drown herself.
The deplorable famine in Persia still con-
tinues, and the suffering is uuabated. Thous-
ands are perishing, and the country is becom-
ing rapidly depopulated. The drought has
continued now for three years.
| A g. 49,, =, ;I1s--. ALL
fled in Medina recently. 1t was given by the
Lake Shore and Tuscorawas Valley Railroad
to the Union Trust Company of New York,
anil required $4,000 in stamps.
A poor Lo, out West attempted to block
up the railroad by building wigwam over it.
A freight train transported him and his squaw
TO the happy hunting grounds soon after his
building operations we're completed.
Tweed, the Tammany thief, is about to ab-
scond. At least such is thought to be his in
tention, as things are getting too hot for him
and ne don't relish the thought of hard labor
in the public service. his disease was Infat-
ed Democractic.
One reason why the Tammsny vote in New
York was not larger, was because of the dis
charge of so many sinecurists from the city
pay roll since the appointment of Deputy
Controller Green. Finding their pay cut off,
they couldn't repeat as often.
The decapitation of useless Office holders in
New York continues under the reform move
ment. Twelve clerks were discharged from
the Board of Health, last week. The city's
financial health will be improved by these ex-
cissions.
The Ohio river is 50 low at the falls at JEFF
fersonville that gentleman drove across with
horse and wagon, unperturbed and un-
harmed, laughing the great bridge and ferries
to scorn. The river has not been SO low at
that point since 1856.
Spanish vessels are blookading Port au
Prince, to prevent the escape of the Hornet,
vessel flying the American flag. If the vessel
should Re seized, it may lead to serious com
pications, and our government has SO notified
the Spanish authorities
Judge John S. May, of Woodfeld, Ohio,
Judge of the Belmont and Wayne Circuit, was
found dead in the street, in Wheeling, Va,
early on the morning of the 18th. He is sup
posed to have died from exposure, as no marks
of violence were found upon him.
Eleven new cases of cholera, among passen-
gers by the steamer Franklin, were developed
on the 18th. The Sanitary Commission at
New York, recommend to the city authorities
the thorough execution of precautionary
measures, and claim that the streets are yet