The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-10-20
NEWS ITEMS.

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train for Findlay reached the cribbing at the
west end of town, a displaced switch threw
the locomotive from the track into the bay,
where it lays, bottom side uppermost. No
one was injured.
During the month of September, the money
order business at Sandusky City consisted of
23O orders issued representing s3,769.59. In
the same time Ill orders were paid, which re-
presented s3,299,S7.
The citizens of Sandusky, alarmed by the
heavy fire at Chicago, held meeting at the
Mayors Office on Monday. The Mayor was
requested to have ali The cisterns about town
Rlled at once, and see that the fire department
was in working order. They resolved to sup
port him and the officers Ofthe fire department
in all prudential measures.
A young lady by the name Of Carman, fired
a pistol at DR.. W. Estep, on the St. Clairsville
fair grounds last week, wounding him severe
". The cause may be imagined.
The Post Office Department will receive
bids for carrying the mails in Ohio until
March lst, 1872, for conveying the mails of the
United States, from July lst, 1872, to June 80,
1879.
The news we get from oosr the water comes
,ader the waterl Nevertheless, it is frequent
ly dryi Another curious fact in this con-
nection is that although the wateris notorious
" salt, the news is generally fresh. Beat
thunder, don't it. Wen, it ought to, because
it's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Near Greenfield, Highland country, on Sat-
urday, daughter Mr.. John Moiners acci-
dentalIy shot her sister with what is called a
pocket rife, which she did not think was load
ed. The victim was shot the lower part of
the abdomen, and the wound is supposed to be
mortal.
1t is reported that Eugene, youngest son OF
Barron Rothschild, viii visit Charleston, South
Carolina, in a short time, for the purpose OF
comforting with those Israeltes here who may
wish to remove to Jarusalem, under the plan
looking to the election of that site as home
Ct the race generally.
A railway train in passing burning mass
of wood near Cridersville, on the Dayton and
Michigan road last Monday afternoon, was
thrown from the track by the spreading of the
rails, and taking fire was entirely consumed.
The train was composed of an engine and ten
freight cars loaded with grain bound for To-
ledo.
1t is now said that Dutch Cap Canal, about
which Gen. Butler has had so much fun poked
at him, is turning out to be an enterprise Of
great practical utility, being now used in nav
igating James River, and shortening the route
to Richmond some seven or eight miles.
The large manufacturing corporations in
Lawrence, Massachusetts,, have changed their
basis of wages, and each employe viii hereaf-
ter be paid for his work by the hour instead of
the day, receiving pay for each hour and part
of an hour labor. 1t will be at the option Of
the employe as to the number OF hours he
shall work. This is intended to settle the
question of '.short time' between the corpora
tions and the men.
The American House, at Oak Harbor, has
been purchased by D. NJ. Day, OF Elmore, and
re-opened.
A man named Smith, employed by Haynes
& Bro, near Locust Point. was shot and
killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in
the hands Of one Stark weather, on Friday the
9th inst. Starkweather was wounded in the
hand by the same ball that killed Smith.
Both were residents of Dunkirk, New York.
Quite number of new buildings are in
progress of erection at Genoa.
Mr.. Alanson Cleveland, an old resident of
Norwalk township, died suddenly on the 9th
inst, aged 65 years.
Aman named Robert Dutohman, living in
Norwalk, was wounded by the accidental dis
charge of his gun while out hunting, on
Wednesday of last week.