The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-12-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Thirty-six deaths in Cleveland last
week. -a
Colonel Lewis Zahm has sold his
farm of 14O acres on the Ridge road
to Monroeville, to w. L. Latham, for
$105 per acre.
A half-breed girl, said to be the
daughter of William Mowry, OF
Pittsburg, is announced as heiress to
about 81, 100000.
Twenty-one bills to repeal the
increase Of pay, were introduced in
the house on the 4th. Did any body
vote for the increase?
There seems to be disposition in
the present Congress 10 eurtail
appropriations for internal improve
ments to the lowest possible points.
Toledo had an influx of visitors
Hast week, and the residents along
the line of the Eel River Valley
Railroad, enjoyed the occasion very
much. 3r
Ingersoll, one of Tweed's partners,
has been sentenced to penitentiary
for 1--WE years. Harrington, another
partner, has been sent up for eighteen
months.
The activity at the Navy Yards
continues, Notwithstanding the Vir-
ginius is to be delivered over, Pos
sibly when that is done the activity
viii cease.
Three indictments have been found
against W. S. Hickox, President of
the First National Bank of Mansfield,
for embezlement, by the Grand Jury
of Richland county.
General Fremont has a cancer of
the stomach, but has, until lately,
kept the matter a secret from his fam
lily and friends. His physician says
that he cannot live q year.
Rev. ]. B. Forbush, of Cleveland,
takes the grounds that church prop
erty should be taxed, and on Sunday
evening last preached a sermon on
the subject sustaining that position
ably.
The Loeb Erne officers don't think
highly of the courageous behavior
of the officers of the Willie du Hayre,
but think the great loss of life was
occasioned by cowardice and inef-
ficiency.
Bishop Cummins who notified his
withdrawal from the Episcopal
church, has organized what is called
the Reformed Episcopal church, and
Bishop Cheney of Chicago, has been
chosen q Bishop in it.
The Supreme Court of New York
has decided that a man can pick all
the fruit from a tree growing on his
own land, though it hang over on a
neighbours land. The question is an
old and oft disputed one.
Capt. Halls death is still subject
of speculation. The latest is that
friends of the mutiHeer whom Hall
had shot in previous expedition,
enlisted in the last, and were in
some way responsible for his death. |
A Cleveland girl of good family
and well educated, having left her
home, was traced to Reading. Pa,
where she was found in house of i'll |
fame. She was induced to return |
home. She was known as Clara Bell,
in Reading.
A Paris dispatch says the resig- |
nation of Minister Sickles was based |
on the fact of the Washington gov
ernment negotiating directly with
Spain and overlooking him. He
claims the government failed to
protect him.
Six miles south of Bucyrus, Satur-
day, little son of Benjamin Stump,
aged 5 years, while watching men at
work placing rings in hogs noses, was
terribly lacerated by an old SOW
which became infuriated. The boys
is doubtful.
Two female conVicts in the Pen
tentiary attacked one of the female
guards, on Monday last named Miss
Finney, an would have killed her but {
or the interposition of third convict