The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Half an inch OF snow fell at Brunswick, Me-,
on the 4th inst.
Buffalo Bill is a member of the Nebraska
Legislature from Lincoln County.
ST. Louis has the small pOx at the rate of
fifty deaths week.
The coal miners OF Pomeroy, o., have made
another strike for an increase of wages.
The inundation of the country adjoining the
River Po, in Italy continues, and the desOla-
ton is frightful.
Governor Baldwin, of Michigan has issued
a proclamation appointing Thursday Novem-
ber 2Sth, as day of public thanksgiving.
The Cleveland Leader continues to expose
the doings of the employment agencies in that
city, and they appear to be nothing but the
meanest of swindles.
The horse epidemic still continues its raw
ages in the larger cities: In Cleveland, Thurs
day of last week, the street cars were COM
PEELED to quit running.
Torrance Horan, a switchman in the employ
of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railway, at Toledo, lost his big toe by the fall
OF an 1IQu Idu U pun AbJ OA L A4uay Aelos.
The Philadelphia mint has commenced
melting one million one dollar gold pieces, to
be converted into pieces of larger denomina-
ton. Twenty millions of these pieces are to
be used.
Mr.. Robert Boggs, of Washington township,
Muskingum county, has on his farm the stump
of an oak tree which was cut down in 1907, to
make clapboards for the first log cabin in that
vicinity.
Fannie Gully, a school teacher in Ashtabula,
while laboring under an alteration of mind on
the Path ult, disappeared, and her absence
created quite an excitement; She was found
after diligent search, some distance from the
village.
On the 1st inst, the floor of the session
house, at DarristoWn, Scotland, in which
large meeting was being held, gave way, and
the crowd was precipitated among the falling
timbers, &c. Two were killed and about for
ty badly injured.
The Third Annual reunion Of Battery D,
First o. V. L. A, will be held in Hudson, Nov
ember l5. A number of questions relative to
bounties, discharges, etc, will be dicussed.
Comrade Alfred Spery will deliver an histor-
icaI sketchof the battery.
The Steamer Victor was lost OFF the Florida
Coast, Oct. 20th. She struck and broke a
shaft, occasioning leak from which she rap
idly filled, stranding near the shore. The pas
sengers and crew were all saved, although
three of the small boats were swamped in the
effort.
young man named Fogwen was assasinated
Wednesday evening near Xenia, by VIM.
Ritchison, near neighbor of his, who lay in
wait by the roadside, and shot his victim with
double-barrelled shotgun. The murderer
is now in jail The affair has caused intense
excitement in the Vicinity.
The people of Neguanee, Michigan, were
little bit exercise, few days ago,by ascertain
ing that there had been FIVE cases Of small pox
in their midst, in one family, but that the dis
cretion of the physical having them in charge
prevented the people of the town from know |
ing about it. They have all recovered, and all |
danger of contagion is passed.
A great outrage was recently committed in |
ths Astor Library of New York. One of the |
persons admitted to seat within the alcoves
and to free recess to all the books, has com
mitted the triple crime of cutting out of a rare
magazine an article which he re-wrote as his
own, and then sold as original to the publisher
of another magazine.
Western Windfalls are becoming mora num-
erous than ever. Simultaneously come the re-
ports OF an Indiana farm laborer who has in
herited nearly 100000, and of an orphan girl
in Missouri, charitably adopted from the Home
for the Friendless, who Unexpectedly turns out
10 be the rightful pcssessor Of an English estate
worth 100000
A boy of tender age came to his death cui-
ously at Champion, Marquette county, Mich
gan, few days ago. He was sitting upon
JtuEp with knife In his hand-such knife
IS is often found on the kitchen table of coun-
ry people. The boy lost his balance, and in
aIEiDg backward, while raising his arms to
ave himself, brought the knife in contact With