The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-10-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The Mormon troubles are increasing.
Kansas City had baby show one night last
week.
New York sent six new fire engines to Chi
cago last week.
Augusta, Ne, was visited with a. shock of
earthquake on the 18th.
Snow is three and four feet deep in Wyo-
ming Territory.
The citizens of Masslllon have sent $50 tons
of coal to the Chicagoaufferers.
Snow tell to a depth of two inches in Ulster
Co., N. Y, on the 18th inst
The Society of the Army of West Virginia
met at Wheeling on the 10Th inst.
Hawkins, the Mormon adulterer, was found
guilty of adultery on the Goth inst.
Fisk, on the witness stand, admits that he
is worth 100000, and owes only $4,000.
1t is estimated that there are now between
$1,000 and 5000 Chicagoans in New York.
The father of John B. Cough died near Lon
don, last month, at the age of ninety-fOur
years.
H. t Sweetser has been appointed General
Manager of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway.
The Canadian Red River expedition. num-
bering three hundred men, has started for
Manitoba.
Bolts, the murderer of Holstead of Newark,
n. J., has been convicted of murder in the
first degree.
1t is estimated that the loss in the shoe and
leather trade alone in Chicago will amount to
slO,OOO,OOO.
A German in Cleveland, named Charles
Remie, fell into the river and was drowned on
Saturday last.
Gen. Sheridan has sent 500 army blankets,
200 overcoats and 100 wagons to the Wiscon-
sin sufferers.
William Brooks, young man, was murder
ed in the suburbs of Ironton, Ohio, while out
walking on the 18th inst.
Mr. Berg has invented new style omnibus,
which does not imperil the lives of women and
children in getting in and out.
Sedan celebrated the anniversary of its bat
tie by closing up all places OF business, and
holding services in the churches.
General Trochu is one of the most unpopU-
lar characters in France. His reply to Roche
forts letter is severely condemned.
One of the coats sent to the Boston Young
Mems Christian Union to be forwarded 70
Chicago, was labeled, "My wedding coat"
1t is rumored that King George, of Greece,
is quite anxious to abdicate his throne, his
brigand subjects being too powerful for him.
The lands along the Texas Pacific Railway
line in California, from Fort Yuma to San Di-
ego, have been Withdrawn from the market.
Charles Wilson was shot dead at San Diego,
California, on Friday, by A J. Frick, who is
alleged to have previously corrupted Wilson's
wife.
MaxweI's Northern Pacific Railway survey
ing party have discovered rich gold and
silver ledge near Soqual. Mier river, Washing
ton Territory.
Thompson, Smith & Co.'s lumber mill at
Brandford, Ont, was destroyed by fire on Sun
day last. Loss $4,000.
1t is said that the Akron stone withstood the
fire at Chicago better than any other material
used for building in that city.
James E. Kelly, the murderer Of Charles
Rosenfaldt, was sentenced, at Buffalo, on Mon
day last to be hung December 10th.
Mahanoe Bank, at Great Darlington, Mass,
was robbed of $4,000 on the 22d, by William
S. Hine, the teller, who fed.
Mrs. VIM. Safie of Cleveland, committed
suicide on the 18th, by taking laudanum. She
leaves husband and four children.
Henry Wagner, German of Ann Arbori
killed his wife and four year old son on Mon
day night last. Jealousy was the cause.
A freight train on the D. dG NJ. railroad was
thrown from the track near Dayton, on Sun
day last, seriously injuring engineer Craig.
A man named Ageter, was murdered on the
10th, near New Philadelphia, o., by German
named Bridecoffer, supposed to be insane.
Three thousand dollars in bonds were sto-
len on the night of the 10Th, from the sfesi-
dence of John Evans, at Venice, Butler Coun-
ty, Ohio.
The State Insurance Commissioner of Massa-
chusetts, has called upon all Insurance Com
panies in the State to make returns of their
condition.
The fire proof vault in tho building of the
Chicago Tribune was opened on the 10th and
the contents, even to box of matches, were
found intact.
Wilson, the murderer of Warden Willard,
was executed on the gallows, in Hartford,
Conn, on the 1Sthin He attempted suicide,
but failed.
Rev. C. J. Hinsdale, for twenty-five years
pastor of the Congregational Church at Blan-
ford, Mass, was thrown from carriage on the
18th inst and instantly killed.
Samuel Willard of Chagrin Falls was at
tackled near his home, on Sunday night, by
two men, dragged from his buggy and robbed
of $780, The robbers escaped.
The wealthy ladies of Chicago, it is said, are
sending what remains of their rich wardrobes
to New York for sale. The proceeds will be
applied 20 helping the sufferers by the fire.
James Hildebrand was run over by car at
the Cleveland freight depot, at Columbus, on
Friday evening, and his right leg mangIed and
left arm broken, and is not expected to live.
The Herald gives an account of party of
Clevelanders who went into the Michigan for
ests hunting, and were surrounded by fire, aud
had it not been for rain, must have burned to
death.
William S. johnson of Lake Forest, offers
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kee, for three years, for the purpose of erect
ing upon them cheap houses for the homeless
in Chicago.
The residence of Hon. S, S. Warner, at
Wellington, Ohio, was entered by burglars on
Saturday morning last, and valuable gold
watch, together with other jeweIry and some
money stolen.
At Pittsburg, on Friday night, Daniel Gra-
ham, policeman, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself. The deceased has been drinking
a good deal of late, and his mind had become
somewhat deranged.
For once the weather prophets at Monroe,
Michigan, don't know what to make of it
On Wednesday evening they had three rain
bows all visible at once, and no two of them
showed" in the same direction.
The Governor OF Indiana has refused to
commute the sentence of James Brooks for
the murder of A. W. Slater, in Logansport, in
May last, and he will bo executed on the 9th
of October, at Logansport.
The handsome house of the late Benjamin
Nathan, in New York, has remained tenant
less since his murder. Before that it was
worth $4,000 year, but now can not be rent
cd for half that sum.
The European and North American Rail-
way magnates gave banquet at st. John, on
Friday, to American guests, among whom